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  1. Wow Finland! on Finnish Police: If You See Uber Car, Call 911 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm glad Finland has no other problems for the police to worry about.

  2. Re:Well DUH, on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 1

    In theory yes, in practice, that makes testing an upgrade process exponentially more difficult to test.

  3. Re:Tell me... on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 1

    No, it's the cost of the 'free' book you get to read.

    The NSA tracking the pages of the books people read is a different conversation altogether. Though given your penchant for paranoia, I suspect they already know what you're reading.

  4. Re:Tell me... on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 2

    Mod Parent Up.

    This has to do with ebooks in a particular program where many authors were abusing the system.

    This is a good thing.

  5. Re:Just take it in on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    AC, I completely agree and was simply pointing out the incongruity of the parent post.

  6. Re:Just take it in on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 3, Informative

    So you don't want Comcast to spy on you, but you're okay having Google know every DNS lookup from your IP address?

    You do realize that Comcast can still sniff all your traffic, right? Even the DNS queries to Google...

    Boy I hope you're being sarcastic.

  7. Re:M-16? on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    You mean the guy who changed his political affiliation, but not his policies, from D to R so he could ride Guiliani's coat tails? Not the best example.

  8. Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans on Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools · · Score: 2

    Both?

  9. Re:to pull a weed, start at the root. on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    Cue APK hosts file post in 3...2...1...

  10. Re:I think this is a good idea. on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    We use Gentoo on our production servers. One server is designated as our build server and the others pull binaries from it.

    It's worked well for us for 7 years.

  11. And so it begins... on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 4, Funny

    The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

  12. Re:Lovelace? on The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they mean the "Linda Lovelace" test?

  13. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no "5th Amendment" in the UK.

  14. Bummer on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best aspect of Truecrypt was the cross-platform compatibility. Being able to open an encrypted drive on any platform was the killer feature.

  15. FaceBook Liking does not indicate approval on Should Facebook 'Likes' Count As Commercial Endorsements? · · Score: 1

    In order to comment on the wall of the company's page, you need to like it.

    I've liked many pages just so I could tell the company (or politician) how they can best sod off.

  16. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    If you substitute a salad for the fries & milk for the drink, it's within shooting distance of healthy.

  17. Re:Exactly! on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 2

    Opera does.

    -J

  18. Re:the only insurance anyone needs is catastrophic on How Big Data Is Destroying the US Healthcare System · · Score: 1

    This is exactly right.

  19. Re:More hoax maskerading as "science" on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    You can both have fewer hot days and a higher average temperature.

    Besides, the folk at the airport weather station are in on the conspiracy to bump the numbers to keep the Californians in California.

    -J

  20. Re:More hoax maskerading as "science" on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 2

    So far this summer has been nice. We had a few really hot days, but fewer than normal. We didn't get enough rain from our "monsoon," but that's what I say almost every year. It's going to be somewhere between 103F and 107F today which is on the low side of normal.

    And looking at our electrical use for the summer, it's about 15% lower than last year which means our A/C units haven't been running as hard.

    But go ahead and hype how hot it has been here, especially to anyone in California. We like that, it helps keep more Californians from moving here.

    -J

  21. Re:And thus it begins on MasterCard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pis running VPN Endpoints when not mining Bitcoins.

  22. Re:Huh? on Backdoor Discovered In Atlassian Crowd · · Score: 1

    That image looks more like a cloud version of goat.cx

  23. Re: Archlinux, Slackware, Gentoo on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    I do the same for a 120ish Gentoo VM server install. It works great, especially with Chef managing the whole thing.

  24. Re:Why do we need a desktop client? on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Roundcube (http://roundcube.net/) seems to work pretty well. And it has some nice add-ins for changing passwords & Fail2Ban.

  25. Re:Hotmail was great... on Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown · · Score: 1

    That's the best you got? *pinches cheeks* You're so cute.

    -J