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  1. Re:Walked past Security Theatre on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And nice to know we are holding back the terrorists with a security force that can not stop people known to walk into walls, poles, and fountains...

  2. Re:Next Gun Manufacturers on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Next? Where have you been?

  3. Re:They Going to Arrest GM's CEO and Board? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that all you need is a big sign, "Audio In Vehicle Is Recorded."

  4. Re:What about legitimate uses? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Should we arrest hammer makers, knife makers, email software developers, because their software can and is used for nefarious purposes?

    They are working at it...

  5. Re:Not sure about this. on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    I am sure that when he has his day in court, he will be vindicated. Like Megaupload.

  6. Re:Sounds great... on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it keeps saying "City Of London Police."

  7. Re:I bet the NSA offers him a job on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Not until his company hires at least 3 relatives of cabinet members or former congressmen.

  8. Re:Can't let anybody but the NSA have the GOOD toy on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What kind of idiot would approve of someone stalking them?

    Voters.

  9. Re:Cue the TLA jokes... on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The company's only issue was a failure of marketing - they were trying to sell it to the wrong audience.

    Or just that the government hates competition.

  10. Re:These guys seem fairly ill-informed. on Sci-fi Predictions, True and False (Video 2) · · Score: 1

    Exoskeletons? Forget that we're actually having them let the paralyzed walk, we'll just talk about Boston Dymanics BigDog instead of ReWalk or other technologies. Heck, we covered package-loading exoskeletons here in the last few months.

    And people bitch about Slashdot being behind the curve... :)

  11. Re:Can you guys shorten this to the point? on Sci-fi Predictions, True and False (Video 2) · · Score: 1

    I guess I will wait for the BuzzFeed version.

  12. Re:overqualified on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I read a similar story in the Microsoft CompTIA Security+ guidebook. Tthe guy outsourced his five remote jobs to people in China. He got caught when a security specialist for one company conducted an audit and noticed that the VPN token was logging in from China. Opps... He kissed five paychecks goodbye.

    What an idiot. He should have had the subs loging in from a system in his home office. :)

  13. Re: Read Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    How do you then explain the 6 year gap in your resume?

    Midlife crisis.

  14. Re:Good response to the Systemd fight... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    Actually, CoreOS was only mentioned in the article once as an example of a step in the right direction. I am sure there will be lots more, and I am sure a lot of them will be sysV init.

  15. Re:Good response to the Systemd fight... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    There are problems with systemd but clueless detractors like you are just embarrassing yourselves.

    Says the AC. :) Way to stand behind your words!

  16. Re:Good response to the Systemd fight... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm unclear on the udev hatred that has arisen with systemctl.

    Once systemd became a hard dependency. I can see why it might be nice, but it is a bit early to tie in so tightly.

  17. Re:Good response to the Systemd fight... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    And the new systemd friendly ways of doing this are the only possible ways to do it. The ways we have been doing it all along could not possibly work.

    And this sums up the hysterical anti-systemd crowd in a nutshell.

    "Baaaw, things have changed over the years, and it scares me!"

    If I sock you in the jaw, that is change. Not all change is good.

  18. Re:Finally! on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    That I don't already own. :)

  19. Re:Good response to the Systemd fight... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the new systemd friendly ways of doing this are the only possible ways to do it. The ways we have been doing it all along could not possibly work.

  20. Good response to the Systemd fight... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I see this as a response to the systemd war, and a viable one at that. A server does not need systemd... "It boots faster." Why bother when post takes 20 minutes? "It is tied into udev and network manager." Servers generally don't dhcp or hotplug... Since "the desktop" is going full tilt boogie in one direction and damn everyone who disagrees, it makes sense for the server folks to say "See ya!" And soon after someone posts about how to get lxde running on the server. :)

  21. Re:Why wait until i die? on Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You · · Score: 1

    By implementing Obamacare, Obama has saved more American lives than any other person in history. Fact.

    You owe me one thousand US dollars. Fact.

    Hmmm... Just saying "Fact" did not work...

  22. Re:Be careful what you wish for. on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    It is slowly happening. Most of the idiots are leaving the technical forums and mailing lists. Leaving it to the technical and those who wrongfully think they are technical.

  23. Re:Finally! on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    You get what you pay for. It's eight bucks a month. What did you expect?

    At least one movie...

  24. Re:But the movie selection still sucks on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 2

    I guess it would be nice if their selection were better, or if they had an option for $25 for every movie and every TV show in existence, but that option doesn't exist anywhere.

    Yes it does. It ain't legal, but it exists all over the place. And if the industry would get it's collective heads out of it's collective asses (Or the ass in front of it) it would wake up and realize that people would pay a LOT of money for a legal Pirate Bay. And in actuality, a lot of them are. Secure VPNs and seedboxes ain't free.

  25. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    wget is still broken too... Bastards.