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  1. Re:"Suspicion-less searches" comes in handy on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    They should update that map; it could easily be decided that that rule also applies to being within 100 miles of an inland foreign embassy or reservation.

    And the Kármán line lies at an altitude of only 100 kilometres (62 miles) above the Earth's sea level, and is commonly used to define the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space. If that is also considered the border, then not even Death Valley is low enough to enjoy Constitutional protection.

  2. Re:NSA gets a copy. on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    Still, there are ways to convey the data electronically without associating it to you at either end, so long as the data you transfer also does not identify you whether it gets decrypted or not, and you avoid surveillance and leaving anything identifying to be recoverable by forensics at either end.

  3. Re:What is the purpose exactly? on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    The money laundering case couldn't proceed without the data suspected to be on the drives.

    FTFY.

  4. Re:"Suspicion-less searches" comes in handy on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 2

    And flag, blacking out the affected stars and what stripes correspond to affected states and original 13 colonies respectively. Or make the stars look like cigar burns and the stripes like ash.

  5. Re:No numpad? FAIL on The New Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Blame the person who decided to put " at 0x22 in the ASCII table, one bit of difference from 2 at 0x32. It was your basic buckybit layout where Shift only had to force one bit high. It's the same reason why & was on 6, ' on 7, and ( and ) on 8 and 9 instead of 9 and 0, and ^ and * were elsewhere.

    Simple designs keep prices down.

  6. 64-bit? on The New Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    I might wait for the 128-bit version with 64-bit compatibility mode to come out.

  7. Re:US Bank on Epsilon Breach Affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One · · Score: 0

    Dear valued U.S. Bank customer,

    Thank you for publicly confirming that you are a customer of U.S. Bank. Your Slashdot ID and pseudonym will now be added to our data mine for association to the other information we have on file, as well as your past posting history to better profile you and your interests.

    Epsilon

    Really, people? Do you know what you're doing when you post these? You're leaking more information about yourself and exposing another on-line identity to being known and associated by Big Data. Are you certain the precise phrasing of the letter you received is not unique to you, or even came from the institution it proclaims to be?

  8. Re:And, it's gone now on Boston College Says Using WiFi Is a Sign of Infringement · · Score: 1

    Why is the campus allowing students to put their own WiFi routers on the school network, anyway?

    When I was in college, you weren't permitted to install any router or hub in your room, wireless or wired. Only one computer per room access port. Of course it happened anyway. You'd only get caught if the RA noticed and ratted you out. Actual audits of IP-MAC associations only occurred at the end of the year unless a problem was detected.

    Surprisingly, when the RIAA came knocking, they disavowed having logged any such information, though it was quite possible they had stopped and deleted the previous records since the last time I worked there. Odd though, considering they were monitoring traffic usage by protocol and considering throttling or completely blocking bittorrent and p2p activity when I left.

  9. antimal-ware on Samsung Keylogger Stories a False Alarm · · Score: 1

    I don't think it will ever be appropriate to remove the hyphen from "anti-malware". "Antivirus", sure, but "antimal" will always be too close to "animal" for easy parsing as a compound word.

  10. Re:the USA needs some of what Egypt and Tunisia di on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 1

    1789 style, throw the rich greedy bastards out of the country...

    That's just a permanent foreign vacation in a tax-sheltering country. They're already doing that voluntarily: "Move to Zug for great tax shelter."

  11. Re:Obama nominee, of course on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 1

    [Utah, 2012]
    "On behalf of all of us, I want to wish you a very happy birthday, sir. And the President called to convey his personal best wishes."
    "The President is ten points down. I want him replaced."
    "I don't think that's very wise, sir."
    "Thank you so much for your opinion; you're fired. Get rid of him. Wipe his memory, put him on the road someplace. Memphis, Minneapolis... somewhere beginning with M. So, the next President. What do you think? Republican or Democrat?"
    "Democrat, sir."
    "For what reason?"
    "They're... just so funny, sir?"

  12. Re:Not that bad on Ridiculous Software Patents: a Developer's Nemesis · · Score: 1

    That was invented by Johann Pachelbel in the 1600s. If he had patented it... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MODERN POP SONGS COULD STILL EXIST.

    Not if instead someone else more contemporary did and first-to-file passes, usurping first-to-invent thus making prior art irrelevant.

  13. Programming is like composing. on Ridiculous Software Patents: a Developer's Nemesis · · Score: 1

    Programming is like composing music: you learn from the examples of others and you build upon it to improve the industry.

    Imagine if someone had patented the 4-chord progression used by most pop songs.

    Maybe that's a bad example. How about the standard blues form?

  14. Re:"If we litigate, we have a chance to win.'" on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    I read it as, "But, we haven't kicked and screamed yet! You can't make us do it until we've done our kicking and screaming!"

  15. Let's see it do... on An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress · · Score: 1

    M.C. Escher

  16. Re:You can safely start with the modern run... on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    I've been a fan of Doctor Who since the Pertwee era, but missed out on everything from Colin Baker to Sylvester McCoy due to non-carriage in my area, only catching a few episodes through local fan groups, until the DVDs came out. I've been watching them as close as possible to original order since, but have been making slow progress (I've gotta stop watching the procedural crime franchises).

    I introduced a friend to Doctor Who starting with Eccleston. We watched everything up to Tennant's last specials, then inexplicably he didn't want to see any more of it, nor anything else. I may have managed to get him to watch "Planet of the Dead" but not "The Waters of Mars". From this and other things, I deduce we are unfriends.

  17. Re:Correct on Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? · · Score: 1

    Yep, the one-line answer is:

    My site doesn't offer logins.

  18. T-Mobile where? on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    I had considered going with T-Mobile. They had plans that I was interested in. But then I did a search using their site for retail locations and found they had no stores in my state, only payment drop boxes. Apparently they only wanted my business if I wasn't from here originally.

  19. Re:For or Against? on CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' · · Score: 1

    You do when you don't know what the other person meant by what was said, i.e. whether the comparison was intended to be negative or positive. Otherwise you're in a state of, "I agree with my interpretation of what you said without knowing what you meant when you said it," and may end up regretting throwing support to someone with whom you actually disagree.

    Someone who says, "There's a problem with the amount of child porn on the Internet," should be made to clarify whether they think there's too much or not enough; "I stand by my previous statement," is not an acceptable response.

  20. Re:Damn! on Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis · · Score: 2

    It won't add up to a whole second for about 1711.2 years.

  21. Re:Why many turn to piracy on Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy · · Score: 1

    Dude, if you don't own a region free player (which are certainly not illegal to produce/sell/import/buy and all the big manufacturers make them)

    Interesting that you consider Sony not to be a big manufacturer. I've yet to see a Sony DVD player allow region code changes. (I'd love to have a region-free option on my 400-disc DVD changer and 400-disc BD changer. Instead the DVD player has refused to play DVD-Rs and the owner of an earlier model reported it refused to play CD-Rs.) Has breaking the key on the PS3 made it region-free yet?

  22. Re:What about the 30%? on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    the ultimate and most likely conclusion goes to the tune of "Apple-Time Warner"?

    I doubt Apple would willingly hyphenate with anyone.

  23. Re:Slingbox is your friend, people on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    I was an early adopter of Slingbox. Now my Slingbox is unsupported by the current software. I can only use it with obsolete PC binaries.

  24. Re:They tried. They failed. Here's what's left... on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    So we're stuck with a fancy iPad app that turns your iPad into a small TV but only when you're on your home WiFi. Sure it could work over 3G, but that's not a deal Time Warner Cable wants to write...

    VPN?

  25. Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment???? on Kinect Self-Awareness Hack · · Score: 1

    I can only guess it must be some kind of flash app embedded in the story page. it's completely invisible to me. All that remains is the meaningless summary with no context.