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  1. Re:I wonder... on Lawmakers Try To Block Black Box Technology In Cars, DVR Tracking · · Score: 1

    We have a few people who complain, but the bloggers and media call them racists and the federal government uses the IRS to intimidate them.

  2. Re:Test it in Washington on Sagita Displays Hot Air Powered Helicopter · · Score: 1

    The FBI just pre-ordered a dozen.

  3. Re:Have you checked your player(s)? on New Technique For Optical Storage Claims 1 Petabyte On a Single DVD · · Score: 1

    A Sony purchased in the last six months doesn't do this.

    Panasonic, like many others, cheaped out on the CPU and software. I went with a Sony BDP-s590, after avoiding them for many years, because of the praise heaped on them for their performance. I haven't been disappointed. Hopefully the BDP-S390 I got for my deck system will be as good.

  4. Re:Optical media sucks... on New Technique For Optical Storage Claims 1 Petabyte On a Single DVD · · Score: 1

    Try another DVD player, because the only time I ever had trouble with a new, undamaged DVD was when my DVD player's laser was starting to fail. I thought the DVD was shot, but it was probably just minor, easily corrected glitches as my other players all handled the disk just fine (and the DVD player in question died entirely a few weeks later).

    DVD-R and CD-R are another matter ...

  5. Re:Seriously? on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whoever runs this Twitter account has better grammar and spelling than 99% of Millennial Americans

    FTFY

  6. Re:Given the UN's track record in Africa... on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 1

    You're kind of a "one issue guy", aren't you?

  7. Their statement on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 1

    a merchant of death & a satanic force of evil, has a long inglorious record of spreading nothing but poverty, dependency & disbelief

    That's probably true, but killing peaceful workers probably isn't going to spread the message to the right people.

  8. Re:Cool on Latest Target In War On Drugs: Google Autocomplete · · Score: 1

    You have no idea what the Tea Party is.

  9. Re:He's a moron on Latest Target In War On Drugs: Google Autocomplete · · Score: 0

    Thanks for trivializing a sensitive issue by making it hateful and partisan.

  10. Re:The fail is your monkeyboy. on 21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache · · Score: 2

    No-store is standard and, in this context, would have the same effect as no-cache. Go home, Ballmer, you're drunk.

  11. Re:Reboot every few days on 21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache · · Score: 1

    Unlike Windows security updates, Ubuntu security updates don't wait until the operating system is on its period to correct known defects.

    From the article to which you linked.

    Sometimes there is an extraordinary Patch Tuesday, 14 days after the regular Patch Tuesday.

  12. Re:"Despite Using SSL" on 21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache · · Score: 1

    It's not arbitrary if a browser has an option to not cache any data received over SSL. Using SSL implies some or all of the information is sensitive-- it's just a tool to help the browser and the end user decide when to not use cache without reducing performance the rest of the time. I would like that feature, since we can't trust the site to protect this information.

  13. Re:Why Your Sysadmin Hates You on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    I once was contracted out to a company where the IT peon absolutely hated his boss, and probably his job. The guy smelled like booze every morning. Once I saw him called into her office, and he came out with a piece of paper. It must have been a written warning. He looked at me with a Manson-like stare, furiously crumpled the paper, stuffed it into his mouth and began to chew.

    Fortunately, that gig was up a few weeks later.

  14. Your comment is strange because we're deploying fiber far faster than in Europe. xDSL seems to be receding.

  15. Re:What!? on ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Akamai published the Q4 2012 edition of their State of the Internet report yesterday, and it's pretty much as expected: the trends that have been evident since 2010 are continuing. Globally, Internet connections are growing incrementally faster, and we see this trend in the U. S.

    The U. S. has picked up one place in the "Average Peak Connection Speed" that's the best measurement of network capacity, rising from 14th to 13th as the measured peak connection speed increased from 29.6 Mbps to 31.5 Mbps.
    In terms of the "Average Connection Speed," widely cited by analysts who don't know what it means, the U. S. remains in 8th place world-wide. but we're no longer tied for it as we were in the previous quarter; Sweden is right behind us on this one.
    In terms of "High Speed Broadband Adoption", the proportion of IP addresses with an Average Connection Speed greater than 10 Mbps, we remain in 7th place, but now we're tied with Sweden.

    http://www.hightechforum.org/u-s-broadband-speed-slightly-better-in-latest-akamai-report/

  16. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    We need to really start to recognise that profit isn't all

    Let's see how you feel about that when the company you work for is short on cash and decides to withhold your paycheck in the interest of "long term stewardship" of the institution. I think you'd find your profit to be everything.

  17. Government strikes again on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    The number of shares traded via high-frequency trading are down

    So the market is correcting itself, right? Common sense is slowly winning out.

    and politicians want to roll out a tax to serve as a speed bump.

    Never fear, government is here to make things worse. Always a day late and $10 billion wasted.

  18. Re:So the correct action is... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 2

    You mean like this?

  19. Re:So the correct action is... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 1

    Only if you objective is to be a griefer, rather than discourage rhino poaching.

  20. Re:Average Temp = -1.3 Celsius on Facebook's Newest Datacenter Relies On Arctic Cooling · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit is based on a brine solution of water, ice, and ammonium chloride at 0. I'll assume your comment was based on some notion that a dairy cow's body temp is 100 degrees, which is also false.

  21. Re:New Media Boom? on Greek Government Abruptly Shuts Down State Broadcaster · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd say unless you have a government bent on controlling the news

    That's like finding a hog not bent on rolling in mud.

  22. Re:New Media Boom? on Greek Government Abruptly Shuts Down State Broadcaster · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part where you have to let the brownshirt into your house to confirm that your TV is incapable of receiving broadcasts.

  23. Re:But... *COMPUTERS*! on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 1

    The supremacy clause prevents states from violating rights protected in the Constitution. In practice, they do it all the time anyway.

  24. Re:so many things on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 2

    I'd wire up the speaker to the trigger for an IED. Having the poor, unsuspecting device do itself in would be deliciously ironic.

  25. Really? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    Wait.... what? Are you gloating? Time is the most valuable commodity in the universe. Travel the world and try new things. If you don't have enough money to do that, take on some side work until you do. In fact, now would be a pretty good time to look into starting your own business.