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  1. Re:Why does this happen? on HP Spent Over $80M To Get Rid of Its CEOs · · Score: 1

    A good CEO is definitely worth the money. The trick is it's hard to know beforehand.

  2. Re:Only one to protect yourself on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Yes, this advice is as stupid as "don't click on links in unsolicited emails".

  3. Re:This is cool on Windows 8 Roundup · · Score: 1

    Why do you still have to use it now? What's holding you back?

  4. Re:speculating about the real purpose on 5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    What government buys their network infrastructure equipment from small businesses? When you guy a router or switch, you are not just buying the hardware, you are buying services and software upgrades.

  5. Re:Whos name is the internet account in? on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    Yeah? How much would YOU like to donate to the legal fees?

  6. Yes of course this is bubble on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    take out a loan while you still can, and foreclose it when the bubble bursts.

  7. birth control on World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October · · Score: 1

    I think at some point, people will realize China's birth control is a great contribution to the world.

    China's population went from 400 million to 1 billion in 30 years before they adopted birth control in 1978. If they had not done that, we'd probably have 9 billion already.

  8. Re:Spin on Kernel.org Attackers Didn't Know What They Had · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, just admit failure and do better next time. No need to blog about how a trivial issue it was.

  9. Re:Bad Design on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Almost everyone hates change, period.

    Mr Obama respectfully disagrees.

  10. Idiotic summary on Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap · · Score: 1

    It's like saying, Amazon is trying to make you spend more money by providing more attractive merchandise.

    Plus you can always use wifi.

  11. Angry birds on United Pilots To Use iPads For Navigation · · Score: 1

    The plane will definitely see some angry birds

  12. Summary is incorrect on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The time remaining is not gone. See it in the actual screenshots for the detailed view.

    Could we link to the actual source please? Building Windows 8 blog

  13. Re:where is our critical mass of Linux Users? on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Why do you want to kill off Windows anyways? Let people use whatever they want. Isn't this what freedom is about? Choice is always good.

    So put aside the arrogance that you are the one that knows the best, please?

  14. Re:China has the iPhone already. on iPhone Reportedly Coming To China This Fall · · Score: 2

    Yes. Unicom already has it. It's China Mobile that will get iPhone the first time.

  15. Most enterprises plan to deploy IPv6 on Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 · · Score: 3, Funny

    in two years.

    It's been the case since 10 years ago.

  16. Re:MD5 is not encryption on Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Correcting myself, SHA is a hash function too. I got it confused with the public key encryption.

  17. MD5 is not encryption on Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text · · Score: 2

    MD5 is a one-way hash, not encryption. You store the password in this form, you cannot go back to the original form.

    You need the plain text password for interoperating with the email servers (or whatever services that need password). They may support a different transformation of the password instead of MD5. So there has to be a way to go get the original plain text password.

    On the other hand, if you use SHA or other means of encryption, the phone still has to decrypt the password. There are two ways for the phone to get the key:
    1. embedded on the phone, maybe generated randomly for each user. Still the key has to come from somewhere, so theoretically it's possible for any malware to find the key and use it.
    2. ask for the key or passphrase from the user everytime the phone boots, like Firefox's password manager.

  18. celebrities? on Google Trying to Lure Celebs to Google+ · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like this.

  19. So no more 20% personal time? on Google To Discontinue Google Labs · · Score: 1

    How about free lunch?

  20. Finally released on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    Like, after a decade?

  21. Recourse on Apple Chief Patent Lawyer Leaves After Android Loss · · Score: 1

    Samsung also happens to be displeased with Apple using their former legal counsel.

    Samsung should hire Richard Lutton then.

  22. who is to say that it is the code used in the phon on Microsoft Releases Mobile Data Collection Source Code · · Score: 1

    When they are sued by privacy groups or federal regulators, they will be able to show to the court that this is the code being used in their phones.

    Yeah, sorry, they are not going to prove it to some random joes on the slashdot.

  23. Re:Fuck Microsoft Research on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I am not a fan of MS, but how is the posting "insightful"?

    Exactly because they invested a lot in R&D, they don't want others to rip them off (I'm not claiming they are being ripped off, just commenting on the logic).

    It's like saying: if you are so rich, why can't you give your money away instead of protecting it from thieves?

  24. Re:Isn't this a valid question? on Jailbreakme 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    To me, jailbreak is exactly the approach I take to own the hardware I bought.

    So what's your question again?

  25. Re:Different markets ... on Facebook To Launch In-Browser Video Chat With Skype · · Score: 1

    People seem to use Skype with family and close friends.

    AKA people who can see me naked.