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  1. Re:Laywer fight on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 1

    It will be fun to see this go up against the Americans With Disabilities Act (et al) in court in a few weeks/year when citizens rely on digital devices to augment their biology.

    https://www.vsp.com/google-gla...
    Done.

  2. Re:how is this news on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other recording devices have not had perscription lenses.
    "I am sorry but you have to take off your glasses to see the movie."
    "If I take off my glasses, I can not SEE the movie!"

    Yet another reason to watch movies at home.

  3. Re:Common Carrier on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 1

    No help as they can work around that. What is needed is to allow local last mile competition. Right now the incumbents are paying off or suing cities that try to allow it. But look at the cities that got Google fiber. Suddenly, all of the incumbent carriers got so much better...

  4. Re:Sigh... on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 2

    Someone needs to file a Sherman Anti-trust Act case here... It covers most of the egregious stuff, like paying cities not to lay fiber.

  5. Re:Figure out which ones are rare and/or special on Slashdot Asks: Appropriate Place For Free / Open Source Software Artifacts? · · Score: 1

    Many landfills also do recycling. It allows them to fill less land...

  6. Re:Time to "stock up" from NewEgg ... on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 2

    You get the same kinds of issues accross various versions of Office. And now that installing Office involves setting up a Microsoft online account ad beating your head into a wall for 30 minutes, I am seeing these little issues as less and less of a problem.

  7. Re:Hungry in Italics, Fuck Kickstarter on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 1

    Tor does not and was not designed to prevent ease dropping.

    But it sure prevents finding the person to eavesdrop... So, again, good enough.

  8. Re:Hungry in Italics, Fuck Kickstarter on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 2

    If you want to anonymize your traffic, then use someone else's connection, changing your MAC every time you do so. Try to use multiple different connections in different locations. Try to use locations away from your house. Do not travel to said locations in a way that can easily be tracked (your cell phone, your car, etc.).

    You solution is difficult, and not always needed. Sometimes you do not need perfect security, just enough to stop casual eavesdropping. TOR does this. And does it better that the current baseline, the laughably insecure SSL.

  9. Re:It alerts the user on Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode · · Score: 1

    Auto correct and spell check... You are the bane of my life and you cause more problems than you fix. Before you, people just thought I was illiterate...

  10. Re:How about a battery that doesn't explode? on Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode · · Score: 1

    That's where the money needs to be spent.

    Because whe have been so scuessfull in making perfet things with no faults so far...

  11. Re:It alerts the user on Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode · · Score: 1

    via ticking sound, and a countdown timer. It's expected to be a big hit.

    No... Please make an option with Muriel Roddenberry's voice!
    "The battery will self distruct in ten seconds..."

  12. Re:Excuse me while.. on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 1

    Why not? Because nudes are bad?

    Well, the prison time for possession of some of them is bad...

  13. Re:Excuse me while.. on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it may be true that most people are borderline mentally retarded, but not everyone 15 year old is an idiot.

    And those are not the ones using snapchat for nude selfies...

  14. Re:2 Girls 1 Cup on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    Nah... They will just re-market it as a health video.

  15. Re:Excuse me while.. on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 2

    A lot of the people falling for it were not here in 1999...

  16. Re:Fewer candidates to draw from... on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the plus side, this will eventually make for a smaller FBI. :)

  17. Not a bad business on Vax, PDP/11, HP3000 and Others Live On In the Cloud · · Score: 2

    Take a handful of emulators of very old hardware and open a cloud that host laughably small instances. It will probably work too.

  18. Re:Cost of video on demand on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 1

    But no skips... None.

  19. Re:Real news on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 2

    R.I.P., Saturday morning cartoons. I guess it's all real news for the kids of today...

    You found real news on broadcast or cable television? When is it on, and what network or channel? I must view this beast, formally thought to be utterly extinct!

    It is a reality show next season. They will take a CNN and a Fox newscaster and lock em in a cage until only one is left reporting.

  20. Re:Cost of video on demand on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Just download instead of stream. Actually, that is a better answer for places with broadband too with all of the throttling (we don't throttle! Really!) going on... Sure there is the legal thing about it, but it works.

  21. A little late on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 4, Funny

    After 2 days of discussion I am kinda done with this topic. So much for leading the pack.

  22. Re:Can't let anybody but the NSA have the GOOD toy on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Don't blame me. I voted Kodos.

  23. Re:LAX has this solved. on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once you have passed this point you cannot return".

    I think the voters are finding this out...

  24. Re:The terrorist won. on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 1

    He believes he is...

  25. Re:No he didn't on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 2

    The next big upgrade in airports world wide; Small fountains in the exit lane to prevent those sneaky smartphone zombies.