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  1. Re: Why we have a 5th Amendment on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone assume that people driving fast at night will hit someone at all?

  2. Re:BIND, almost the last major pre-database progra on Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects · · Score: 1

    BIND suffers from the delusions of those who wrote it.

    No matter how you feel about the programmers involved though, spend ten minutes configuring and using tinydns and then BIND and ask yourself why anyone uses BIND.

  3. Your tagline has it wrong, you just are a troll. Your post contains no usable argument points whatsoever.

    One's income has no bearing on the good one does.

  4. Re:Generation Y's unusual sense of "responsibility on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 1

    Feeling a sense of connection and responsibility for your fellow humans is a very good thing, and those who don't feel it are called psychopaths for a reason.

  5. Re:Kind of on topic on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose to write the data out then? Shall we create new data streams each time the user rotates? Shall we tell the video that its resolution changed part way through and watch video players cough and sputter? Or shall we write out the bits raw and hope the flash memory can keep up (hint: it can't).

    This isn't as simple as some neophytes think it is.

  6. Re: The are mortal after all on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 1

    The GP was correct - all it does is allow it to evaporate into the intake air by controlling amounts of fuel and air taken in.

  7. Re:NVIDIA -- fuck you! on Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature For Feature Parity With Windows · · Score: 1

    And instead we got NVidia's feet wet in the Linux ecosystem and proved there's money in it for them.

    Now we can push them further toward the FOSS cliff.

  8. Re:How about the nodes on How The NSA Targets Tor · · Score: 1
  9. Re:How about the nodes on How The NSA Targets Tor · · Score: 1

    Anonymity is the penultimate of privacy.

    Might want to reconsider your terminology.

  10. Re:GNU Hurd mobile? on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Says who? Cyanogenmod taking money from the public is fantastic and means more time working on the project we love.

  11. Re: Proposal: on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    More importantly, as a user of person B's package, I have no ability to see those changes or how they achieved those upgrades and am stuck with the original source instead which lacks all those new features to work on my own improvements from.

  12. Re:Why do we even go to these orgs anymore... on Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And he, like everyone else who's reasonable, believes in standards processes to test and check each others' algorithms and pick the best ones. The problem is making sure these standards systems are open and above board.

  13. Re:And the remaining 8%? on Microsoft: We Offer Up User Data To Law Enforcement 2 Percent of the Time · · Score: 1

    Did you forget the part in geography where there were other countries on the planet other than the USA?

  14. Re:Any different from https://google.com ? on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    I watch people every day type "Google" into the yahoo/bing search bar, then search. I've seen people type "Bing" into the Google search bar to then search with Bing.

    When I offer to change their default homepage, they complain their Internet is broken (because the startup page is wrong).

  15. Re:Illusion of privacy on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to understand the point.

    With encrypted connections that aren't in any other way compromised, the NSA has to actually make an overt effort to get data out of Google. Without encrypted sessions, they can covertly glean it from watching the wire at your ISP.

  16. Scientific certainty? on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 2

    Gag me.

    Did someone really just use that term?

    cf. http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-philosophy-of-physics

    The term scientific certainty almost always comes up in terms of the Global Warming debate these days, although evolution has been in there as well. I'm sick of either side using it as a debate point, its unscientific.

    You can almost never be certain of anything. That's not how science works.

  17. Re:How is this news? on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 1

    I remember E-mailing Sony years ago when the PS3 was announced and suggesting (as I'm sure others did as well) that they include HDMI switching because multiple HDMI ports were not common at the time.

    If you're going to include HDMI pass-through, why not have four HDMI inputs and allow quick and easy switching, maybe with picture-in-picture or all four arranged together at once, and offer users something they don't already have as well as the convenience of not needing another switching device?

    This base pass-through feature seems like a gimmick for controlling TV only.

  18. Re:License on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 1

    ... fewer restrictions on usage which many see as more restrictions long-term.

    That argument's old and you probably know it well, but claiming either GPL or BSD is more free than the other is a matter of perspective, not one of facts.

  19. Re: and so meanwhile... on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 1

    Back when I started with MySQL, it was faster to configure, easier to set up, and didn't require nightly maintenance cycles.

    Those all make a big difference for early rapid development.

  20. How is this news? on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is this even interesting? Anyone with a receiver has had HDMI pass-through for ages now. My Yamaha receiver has HDMI pass-through and switching, why on earth would I want to use the Microsoft version?

    Seriously, there is nearly zero benefit to this (and it sucks more power from the XBOne being turned on while not in use).

  21. Re:Yep on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 2

    For those replying, I quote: "The other side of multitasking is the way apps run in the background. Apple added a strictly prescribed form of app multitasking a few years ago, but it is expanding in iOS 7. Apps will be able to update in the background based on intelligent scheduling at the OS level. If you always use certain apps at certain times, iOS 7 could allow them to be ready in the background. That sounds great, if it works.

    Android has always taken a laissez faire approach to multitasking. You want to run that app in the background? Cool, it’s done. Hit the home button? No problem, the app is still there. This has led to some battery life concerns in the past, but more recent versions of Android have improved matters. You definitely have more power with the Android system, but there is potential for apps to abuse this system."

    http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/166828-ios-7-vs-android-4-3-apple-takes-giant-leaps-while-android-stagnates

  22. Re:Yep on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    I specified third party apps on purpose. Just FYI, there is a difference between background notifications and actual background app running.

  23. Re:Yep on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    Really, so my example is now possible on iOS? yes or no.

  24. Re:Yep on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    iOS didn't come with full multi-tasking of apps, and Android did.

    On an Android phone, my third party nav software (Waze) can keep talking to me as it runs as a service in the background while my engine monitor software (Torque) also runs in the background as a service while my third party music app (Meridian) plays music without a problem. If I bring up the web, none of those things stops working unless the phone actually runs out of memory (and then it kills something in the background).

    On an iOS device in general, if you switch from one app to another, the first app is now dead.

  25. Re:I'm Crushing Your Head! on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 1

    I immediately remembered crushing heads from my youth ... we did that on the school grounds all the time after the Kids in the Hall did it.