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  1. Re:Why should I have trusted these people? on Turkish Registrar Enabled Phishing Attacks Against Google · · Score: 1

    How many of they ones that happened to be based in countries you trust have signed intermediary certificates for people you don't. No way of knowing, even Google/Mozilla/Microsoft don't know.
    The entire concept of security pegged on a few central authorities is naive.

  2. Re:Makes no sense to me on Raspberry Pi Gets an Open Source Educational Manual · · Score: 0

    Non-Commercial licensed work is not 'free as in speach'. It is a zero-cost license with significant restrictions on who can use it.
    LibreOffice is under a 'free as in speech' license, as are many other textbooks, as such it is already heavily used by universities around the globe.

  3. Re:It's Non-Commercial (CC-NC) therefore useless on Raspberry Pi Gets an Open Source Educational Manual · · Score: 0

    Providing learning in return for payment is a commercial purpose, so is explicitly prohibited by the the CC NC license.
    Even if the school is free at the point of use, and run as a non-profit charity, so long as they are eventually paid for the learning delivery it cannot include NC works.

  4. Re:Skype doesn't work on Android on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And Windows users constantly claim that the newer versions of Skype are getting more and more annoying. They may just be assuming Linux customers are more discerning and like the classic simplicity?

  5. Re:Switched to a webclient, never looked back on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with http://getfiregpg.org/s/home

  6. Re:Hotel Safes Problematic Too on Maker of Hackable Hotel Locks Finally Agrees To Pay For Bug Fix · · Score: 1

    It is entity possible that actual authentication happened before he even came to your room.

    They obviously know the serial number of the safe in your room. It may have required physical keys, codes, and biometrics from multiple high-ranking employees to download a single use time-limited code onto that key-pad.

    -- probably not though.

  7. Bluetooth is a standard on Company Turns Your Android Smartphone Into a Game Console · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many Android games have native Bluetooth game-pad support, for though that don't you can use something like: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishstix.gameboard

    You can already get hundreds of far cheaper Bluetooth game-pads, many designed to also mount your phone.

  8. Re:That's what encryption is for. on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 2

    Hardware key-loggers can phone-home the next time the user is on-line, negating the need to access the computer twice.

    However you can still defeat hardware key-loggers in software. Just ask for the characters in a random order, ideally with a extra characters that are ignored.

    The problem always remains how do you know the software presenting the prompt is yours?

  9. Yum, stale bread... on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 1

    If you store bread sensibly it goes stale long before it spoils?

  10. Original Content on DOOM 3 BFG Edition On Github, Timed For Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    Can it (yet) be used with the original Doom 3 content?

  11. Northbridge on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    For most 'Enthusiasts' were are approaching the point where an Intel CPU is effectively an old-style Northbridge. With the GPGPU handling most of the actual workload.

    Weren't most Northbirdges soldered?

  12. Re:bit more dramatic summary than necessary on Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets · · Score: 1

    or more like:
    highly paid legal teams in huge patent lawsuit continue to jockey for to extend the case and their own paychecks.

  13. Re:Microsoft banned GPL in UEFI binaries .. on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This restriction is imposed by the GPLv3 not by Microsoft. They are just being helpful in letting you know, they can't give specifics for all other licensees out there.

  14. Re:Still wondering on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    Android is Linux, it doesn't need any compatibility layer!
    You can just install you distro of choice in a chroot. Debian and Gentoo both work great for me.
    The lack of X11 acceleration is annoying but everything I have tried has run.

  15. Re:OK, stick a fork in them, they're done. on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    The point is you can take typical UNIX applications and run them on OSX.

  16. Re:Other space-flight-sims on Kickstarter on Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3? · · Score: 1

    Or you could just go with the brilliant open-source version of FreeSpace 2 http://scp.indiegames.us/.
    Actually this is several games include a fun Bablyon 5 game and at least two Battlestart Galatica games along with both FS1 and FS2 ($6 each at gog.com) which with modem graphics stand up very well. The is even a really good new Wing Commander game http://www.wcsaga.com/ (still needs Wine at the moment, but they are working on it)

  17. GovCloud on US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time · · Score: 4, Interesting
  18. Re:Is $2.25 FRAND? on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    To get that particular deal required Microsoft winning a massive 4 year lawsuit against Apple, buying a large amount of Apple shares, and threatening to withdraw Office support. It seems to be a very good example of what is going on here.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation

  19. Re:Terms of service? on AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address · · Score: 1

    Google still get to read your email and sell that information to advertisers, which is more then enough to cover the costs of running gmail.

  20. Re:Sad on HTC Profits Drop By 79% · · Score: 1

    The are keyboards with arrow keys that help a lot:

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5

  21. Re:What's wrong with Gmail? on Phil Zimmermann's New App Protects Smartphones From Prying Ears · · Score: 1

    No. Not sure what more the is to say. All it takes is one certificate authority caring more about a government contract then your privacy, or just any one of thousands of people at different stages of the chain making a mistake.

  22. Kelly Link on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 3, Interesting
  23. Re:arg on OS Upgrades Powered By Git · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that you are managing highly interdependent binary files (executable and libraries) which you can't merge in any useful way. With a large percentage of changes being security related so the goal is never to simply role back to previous versions.

    Yes managing the dependencies that result form allowing people to choose different programs and libraries and even the versions they prefer is an incredibly difficult task. Lucky the are several brilliant systems already available.

  24. Re:Google could upend this whole forced upgrade BS on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    Actually both Microsoft and Google would really prefer corporates run MS Office in Terminal Server or the like. This gives the enterprise much more control and the client doesn't even need an x86 let alone Windows/WINE.

  25. Self diving car? on Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats · · Score: 1

    Somehow this would be more poetic if it resulted from a 'GPS Accident' with their self-driving cars.