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  1. Re:I was running one within the past two months. on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or even spend $5 and get a new ARM processor on a Raspberry Pi Zero.

  2. What VPN company was it? I think I saw the same deal and also thought "this is too good to be true" and signed up for ProXPN lifetime.

  3. Re:As long as we're on it on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Language is not religion or nostalgia.

  4. Re:As long as we're on it on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The tradition of religion? You just proved my point.

  5. Re:As long as we're on it on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then tell me, what is the purpose of these words?

  6. Re:As long as we're on it on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, so it's promoting those above the rest.

  7. Re:As long as we're on it on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How can we claim to have a secular government when it promotes certain religions over others? They were wrong to do it then and they're wrong to continue doing it today.

  8. As long as we're on it on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As long as we're updating our currency, can we finally get rid of that wretched "One Nation Under God" bullshit?

  9. Re:I have a better idea on MPAA Wants ISPs to Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate to sound like captain hindsight, but maybe you shouldn't have rented movies from a streaming service that only works in your country. Just because you want to do things legally doesn't mean you have to settle for supporting flawed services.

  10. I hate to be the one... on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hate to be the one defending the cops, but it really sounds like they did things the right way here. They raided a little early, but not in the middle of the night. They knocked on the door instead of ramming it down, they didn't throw flashbangs, they didn't shoot any dogs or anything else for that matter. The cops didn't steal a bunch of unrelated stuff and there were no bullshit charges leveled against the couple.

    The real test will be seeing what they do next. If they learned from this raid and generally leave them alone, I have no complaints. If they do this every other week when someone else uses their Tor node for child porn, then and only then is it harassment.

  11. He was profiting off their ideas, not their property.

  12. I've seen this on First Node.js-Powered Ransomware Discovered (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think I've seen this one first hand. It was emailed to the victim posing as a Firstname Lastname resume.zip, inside was Firstname Lastname resume.js. Inside the .js was what looked like base64 being encoded to something, probably downloading and running the actual exe.

    The biggest shock in all this is that Windows will execute a .js file when you double-click it. How fucking retarded is that? I'm looking at changing the default program for .js files to be notepad instead of the Windows Scripting Host.

  13. "While researching on the subject, I found a previously undisclosed backdoor on ARRIS cable modems, affecting many of their devices including TG862A, TG862G, DG860A."

  14. Streaming is overrated on Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied · · Score: 2

    Streaming is overrated. I live with 3mps down by choice, mostly because I'm cheap. I download videos from streaming sites and watch them all at once. It's great! No ads, no buffering, no proprietary plugins, I can freely skip around without said buffering, and I can save the video if I like it DRM-free. It doesn't go away when I stop paying for a service. I'm also a heavy gamer, but I get good pings, so 3mbps is good enough. I do my bulk downloads and uploads while I sleep and make sure the internet isn't being hogged while I game. Honestly, I don't have a lot of complaints. My friends and coworkers all think I'm weird. They're right, but I think they're weird for putting up with all this other shit that I don't.

  15. Re:Why not clone OS X? on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 1

    Yeah but then Apple fights you every step of the way. Remember what happened with the clones? They'd throw roadblock after roadblock after a team trying to make an open source OSX.

  16. Re:Flash isn't so bad, really on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 1

    Yeah, wake me up when browsers can stream audio and video, play games and do SVG without a plugin! Oh wait...

  17. The other way around on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    It's really supposed to be the other way around: You post your Superman video to youtube, the owner of modern Superman sues you or tells Youtube to take it down, and then they have to prove that they own the copyright.

    Of course, youtube could just look at the law you're showing them also.

  18. Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    Wait wait wait! I had never heard of the Cult of Reason, so I clicked the link you provided. So the Cult of Reason went around and took down crosses (some from graveyards) and converted christian churches into something else. Sure, it's in bad taste to mess with someone's gravestone, but as soon as the Christians got back in power they killed by guillotine the leaders of the Cult of Reason.

    Who is persecuting who here?

  19. Re:i left reddit in protest of bad treatment by mo on AMAgeddon: Reddit Mods Are Locking Up the Site's Most Popular Pages In Protest · · Score: 1

    Here's a tip: use the shift key and period key when you comment.

  20. Re:"Clean Energy Candidate" on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    The crazy thing is that slavery didn't actually end after the Civil War. When the Civil War ended, all slaves were to be freed except those that owed a debt for a crime. Guess who then became labeled criminals? If you answered shitloads of blacks in the South, you'd be right. They also passed laws making it a crime to:
    Be black and Not be able to prove employment
    Be black and raise your voice in front of a white woman
    Be black and and be seen past curfew.

    I say be black because the laws specifically targeted black people in its language.

  21. Re:Can finally make that multi-million$ game on Li on CRYENGINE Finally Lands On Linux · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but what happens if Microsoft actually makes their platform more expensive? Gamers would have the choice of buying the more expensive version or the cheaper Linux version. This assumes that the support is there, which I keep reading more and more about. I run Windows for games, but I absolutely love KDE and Linux and would switch in a heartbeat (on my desktop, I run Linux everywhere else) if the majority of my games ran in my favorite environment.

  22. Re:im not sure what to make of this on The Real Scars of Korean Gaming · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been good at Starcraft. I'm a skinny guy, but I break out into sweats when I'm playing a fast-paced game! It's not so much about strength, but endurance, concentration, and accuracy. I know people might not understand it, but don't write off progamers just because you don't get it.

  23. I don't do video and voice chat a whole lot, so I mainly have experience with Google chat and Steam which both work great and are easy to use. I know there's other stuff out there though.

  24. Sounds to me like Windows Update did you a favor. I feel the same way as you about Skype, therefor I don't install it. Why do you keep torturing yourself like this? You know there's other better software that does the same thing, right?

  25. Re:Why have children? on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit and you know it. People don't reproduce to leave something behind or care for us in old age. People reproduce because they're horny. Not that I'm against them or anything, but we wouldn't have abortion clinics if what you said is true.