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  1. Re:Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    He uses a different finger. He teaches the phone his index finger and tricks it with his middle finger.

  2. Re:old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the bombs can be armed so that they would detonate if the plane broke up mid-air and dropped them. But for the most part you'd want them to survive the crash. Those bombs are crazy expensive, it would be silly to waste them. Not to mention that damaged planes try to limp back to friendly territory and crash, not foreign territory.

  3. Re:or brushing your teeth causes cancer on Tooth Cavities May Protect Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    I recommend not using teeth (with or without cavities) during oral sex.

  4. Re:Terrible Ruling on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    lol, pretty much. I explore public spaces a lot but respect any "do not enter" type of signs. I also routinely use the ladies latrine if the guys is full. The Guy/Girl signs seem more like directions than rules : )

  5. Re:Rockstars are never necessary on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? · · Score: 1

    Now it goes out the door without throwing exceptions every time someone looks at it wrong. That's way better than the normal two week death-march before releasing a barely QA'd product.

  6. Re:Terrible Ruling on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    I use almost all public wifi i can find. If i see an open SSID in my phone, then it is okay to connect and use it. It's also fine for whoever owns the network to peek at the data i'm sending over it : ) If either party puts up encryption then that is where the privacy line was drawn.

    I don't need a silly sign posted anywhere about free wifi. My phone/tablet/laptop will let me know when it's free.

  7. Re: Invisible text in the first amendment on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    And your reasoning is exactly the kind that politicians and high-level employees use to remain safe from illegal activities that they themselves prompted. If you accepted money to teach someone how to do something illegal then you accepted some level of responsibility as well. I would agree with you if it was knowledge presented in a format to be used legally and was perverted by being used illegally. However that is not the case in this story.

  8. Re: Invisible text in the first amendment on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    I get what you are saying but i'd like your take on this hypothetical. You teach some guys how to defeat a bank's security system and provide them with the knowledge they need to rob it. They pay you for your service. Are you in any way responsible for the robbery they are about to commit? All you did was talk (and get paid), right?

  9. Re:Thanks on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    Never had a shitty land-lord, eh?

  10. Re:Not worthy of being front page on Kubuntu Announces Commercial Support · · Score: 1

    You get more pages in the DLC (or if you have a season pass).

  11. Re:There's going to be a lot on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting that how a law is written is not how a law is enforced. They are different branches.

  12. Re:Anyone should be able to fly on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 3, Informative

    The US does, you just don't know s/he is there. They call them "Federal Air Marshals". They've been around for a long time too (since 1969). Though i should also say that there isn't a guarantee you have one. You can't know for sure.

  13. Re:I suspect he's wrong. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    Will it be cutting edge when the first rocket stage returns to the earth by landing vertically instead of an uncontrolled fall into the ocean? Or do you mean frontier as in doing something in space that no one has done before? Because i think that's the point of the argument that Neil is making. That SpaceX will never land a human on Mars. That only a Government can do that. But the creator/owner of SpaceX has said that landing humans on Mars is something they ARE pursuing. The company has so far has been delivering tangible and functional products in that direction. Not many Governments can say the same. Am i arguing in the right direction?

  14. Re:I suspect he's wrong. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, SpaceX is privately owned.

  15. Re:Cool on Inside the 2013 US Intelligence "Black Budget" · · Score: 1

    I'd say it gives you an estimate about how seriously they are pursuing something. Is the program a joke or something that we need to put resources into countering?

  16. Re:Great on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Yes, i was simplifying. But i'm glad to hear that you can see positive effects from helping someone : ) You are certainly right though that what can appear to be help will ultimately harm.

  17. Re:hipocrites on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    In your military experience did you ever see a WP weapon? I doubt it. You probably have seen smoke grenades/shells that contain WP. To create smoke.

  18. Re:Great on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Most of the attacks on coalition troops in Iraq were not by random citizens. They came from militant groups that existing during Saddam's reign. The Mahdi Army being a huge exception to that. But they were crushed quickly and ceased to exist as a military organization and converted into a political one. I think that kind of thing was repeated by many groups. You can form peacefully and argue all day long and the coalition will let you do as you wish. If you shoot someone you will get stepped on, hard. Also a lot of violence was simply the coalition standing between Shia and Sunni. Don't get me wrong, Iraq was fucked up pretty bad. But their memories are long and the gist of it was the occupation produced something better. That is my first-hand experience anyways. Internet consensus and historians may disagree.

  19. Re:Great on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like helping someone will always result in more harm.

  20. Re:As predicted in 2007, U.S. about to attack Syri on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Look at it like this. If war planners only ever planned a war when they had to go to war, they would be terrible planners. You have to practice your craft or you will be terrible at it.

  21. Re:Tell me again on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    lol, on its deathbed? That makes the argument that the country is weak. It is corrupted but still very strong.

  22. Re:Well that's that on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    This really shouldn't have been modded troll. He brought up a good point and should be argued with, not buried.

  23. Re:IP Rights on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 2

    Intellectual Property is something that doesn't actually exist. The copyright to the source code can be considered IP but the source code is not. You can read up on it here: http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/index.html and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property

  24. Re:IP Rights on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    It's not intellectual property. He's auctioning actual source code and gerber files.

  25. Re:Google didn't invent glass... on Google Buys Foxconn Patents For Head-Mounted Tech · · Score: 1

    Glass is a product. Google did engineer that product. Nobody is saying that glass is the first or best HMD.