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  1. use a burner phone... leave your real one at home. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    Our sales reps take factory wiped burner phones and laptops with them when they go on trips to the USA...

  2. This is an example of patents that never should have been granted in the first place based on the prior art in place.

    all software boils down to mathematics... why the heck is it ever possible to patent it in the first place...

  3. All the more reason to use burner phones and on Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    encrypted drop boxes for setting up contacts with sources...

    really weird when you have to use spycraft to protect your sources from your own government agencies...

  4. it would be nice to know how fscking long it's going to be before this update actually rolls out to people with these phones... Virgin Media is notorious for taking many months to update to new versions and even security updates...

  5. Re: Remember kids! on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it psychologically rigged, yes. Is it mathematically rigged, no.

    but it's amazing the number of times they cheat people out of big jackpots by declaring that the machine had malfunctioned...

    https://newsone.com/3578167/ca...

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  6. Re: The company may be sound on Samsung Proves Its Business Remains Sound Despite Note 7 Fiasco (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, I'm having trouble identifying the 'bloatware' as you call it, on my S7 Edge

  7. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    so nothing about her other career as a script doctor... one of the best in the business... http://www.independent.co.uk/a...

  8. Re:Accidentally? on Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    the hours working for the community are unpaid

  9. Re:Technology isn't advanced enough yet on No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    My digital watch has a pendulum inside that recharges the watch during normal wear...

    Why on earth can't these be used for 'smart' watches? Especially with low framerate e-ink displays?

  10. the laptops may have been destroyed... on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    but with any sense, disc images would have been made...

  11. Re:like what? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    venture? Surely you mean 'Vulture' capital firms...

  12. Re:Be careful of handwaving arguments on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    he didn't take it to 'oversight' officials because he'd seen first hand what they did to any whistle-blower... they buried it and then killed the career prospects and future employment prospects of anyone who had the temerity to blow the whistle...

  13. Re:Goodbye, World Wide Web. on Linking Without Permission Violates Copyright, Rules EU Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    when you click on said link however, a copy of the item is made on YOUR computer in order for it to be rendered onto the screen

    long established copyright law for software was that making an unauthorised copy in RAM was an infringement

  14. Re: 40cm? on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    that means the temperature is all over the shop during normal operation

    Well considering most of the time they're pointing at the sun and are only in the Earth's shade for a few minutes at high orbits... most of the time, there's a pretty constant high flux on the one side and they're thin

  15. Why the heck on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    does it need a flash video (of all things) to show a before and after image of the panel?

  16. far too much clickbait... on Study: 33% of Facebook Users Want Less News In Their Feed (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  17. fsck off...

  18. Pictures OF the planet's surface... on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    not from the surface... this thing is in orbit...

  19. Somebody WANTED to see the Joker scenes? on Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My daughter says they were the worst part of the whole movie...

  20. Not a 'model' rocket... on ULA Interns Launch Record-Breaking 50-Foot Rocket (space.com) · · Score: 1

    A model rocket would have no function and would just sit there on a display stand...

  21. Re:FUD on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    of course not, after all who funded the study? The tobacco industry as they were losing profits to this and they want it heavily regulated with all vape liquids having to be officially tested and approved...

  22. Re:One thing I don't understand on Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    because money...

  23. Re:It didn't have an off switch before on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    the Windows Firewall isn't a real firewall... a real firewall would be able to block everything and let YOU enable the traffic YOU want...

  24. Re:Meaningless on Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    you've obviously not been to Leicester or Bradford...

  25. Re:Pull the plug on TSA on Almost Half Of All TSA Employees Have Been Cited For Misconduct (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm surprised Obama hasn't gotten rid of it.

    because he can't as then the opposition would claim that he was on the side of the terrorists...