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  1. Re:Ssshhhhh on $7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online · · Score: 1

    When you try to directly compare income, it just makes you sound stupid to anyone with a clue.

    While $2 a day is nye impossible to live on in the US, $2/day in this other regions is far more livable because a loaf of bread doesn't cost $2.

    Can they buy an Galaxy or Nexus phone on $2/day? No, but they don't NEED something shipped half way around the world to eat, thats something reserved for the stupid people in well to do countries who think Organic is the wave of the future

  2. Re:Dead hard drive or EOL Windows on $7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online · · Score: 1

    There are read-only capable USB sticks, as well as dual LUN USB sticks that can have a writable partition and a read-only partition controlled by a physical switch on the USB device to allow/deny writing as the user wants.

    Write protected SD cards are just like write protected floppies, its up to the drive/slot you put it into to honor the write protect tab, I.E. theres no such thing as a write protected floppy or write protected SD card.

  3. Re:How is Burying Africa Under PCs Going to Help? on $7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online · · Score: 2

    No, not really, because it will only end up in the hands of warlords and anyone caught trying to make themselves better will be 'punished', which may mean killed, or worse.

  4. Re:Screen size on How Free-To-Play Is Constricting Mobile Games · · Score: 1

    The original gameboy had physical controls that didn't take up screen space, nor did you put your grease fingers all over the screen and smear it up.

    Point and click controls on phones suck ass because you have to put your big fat finger on the screen, obscure your view, hope you touch just the right spot ... and smear up the screen.

  5. Re:Certificate extortion on One Month Later: 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    If $25 per site is a big deal for you, you probably shouldn't be running those websites.

    Your complaint is about as retarded is people who bitch about having to pay $200 for an office upgrade every 3 or 4 years while the employee using it makes that much in a day.

    If you can't afford to maintain your own websites, stop hosting them and streamline your business until it doesn't suck.

    Seriously, $25 per cert? You're doing it wrong if thats even something you think about.

  6. Dear Timothy on Milwaukee City Council Proposal Would Pave Way For Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're job is not to inject your opinion into slashdot posts.

    You are well known to be an utter moron, no one wants your opinion. Seriously, NO ONE wants your opinion.

    Second, if you had half a clue, you'd know why the current implementation of Uber and Lyft is a disaster waiting to happen. I would actually appreciate it if you used them more and got into a car with someone who did you much harm, resolving two issues at once. A) Getting rid of your ignorance and lack of ability to think more than 2 seconds ahead, and B) illustrating why using random people without proper licensing is a stupid idea and why we have cab regulations like we do now.

    On that same note, I think limiting the number of cabs in a city is pretty dumb and just a policy created by corruption and payola (to borrow a term from another industry). However, You (timothy) aren't bright enough to realize that Uber and Lyft can't do what they do and offer ridiculously lower rates while at the same time providing the same level of safety. If you think getting into a car with random people with no vetting or background checks is a great idea, why don't you just hitchhike with lonely truckers, all that'll cost you is a BJ or a hand job.

    Again, keep your personal fucking opinion off of the articles you post and learn what you're job as an editor is supposed to be. How the fuck does someone like you stick around for so long?

  7. Re:EaseUS Mobisaver Freecan download that stuff... on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    I was able to access Photos, Call Log, TXT Messages, etc.

    Thats a configurable option, to allow those things to be accessed from the lock screen.

    Disable access to those and the silly little app you used would't have worked either.

  8. Re:Can't they just push a 'dump' app to the phone? on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    If you have automatic downloads of apps on, they most certainly do.

    All my iDevices always have all new apps on them that I get on any one device, automatically. Means I can get an app in iTunes and my wifes phone will get it automatically, so I don't have to send her searching for it.

    Since its optional, they certainly have the ability to do so, its up for debate as to if they can override the choice you set on the device.

  9. Re:Hmmm some artful Apple misdirection on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    Or in the Enterprise, the calendar data is stored on MY servers. MY caldav, MY carddav, MY imap server.

    People who care about security don't use someone else's servers to store their important data.

  10. Re:News? on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    You should look up JTAG, the whole field is fairly well understood to any hardware developer on the planet, its not even all that complex.

    To think Apple has no JTAG support on their devices is just silly and shows a lack of understanding the hardware development process.

  11. Re:alt: guys who built iphone know how it works. on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    Using the same salt doesn't change anything.

    In order for the salt to be useful, it can't be stored encrypted anyway, so they don't need to use the same salt, it would be very easy to read.

    The system has to be able to read the salt in order to combine it with your password to make the actual key or password hash or whatever.

    Same salt is the same as no salt, it doesn't provide a back door.

  12. Re:This will end on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 2

    Just use the app, find the spot, then park behind them until they move and refuse any sort of payment, preventing anyone else from having a shot at the parking spot.

    That'll pretty much end the problem fairly quickly.

  13. I don't understand big cities - off topic on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've been to NYC and SF, I really don't understand why you would want to live in such horrible places. They are ridiculously over-crowded, and such over priced, and beacons of inefficiency and how do fuck over nature. You have to truck in everything and truck out everything, I guess you could argue that you're only screwing up one small area of land, but the air and water pollution covers massive areas. Hell, look at how screwed California is in the water department.

    Why would you want to live somewhere that you can't even find a parking spot (assuming you drive a car).

    I realize that geeks unable to survive in nature like living in 'safe' places like cities, and as such I'll get a bunch of replies ranting about how awesome they are and probably several people claiming they are bastions of efficiency ... but ignoring those false hoods, someone please explain to me why you'd want to live in such a massive city?

  14. Re:Simalted? on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    They aren't observing, they're fudging things enough to make a simulation that matches reality. Dark matter is an example of a cheat code used to make broken equations resolve properly.

  15. Re:going off-grid on Tesla Logged $713 Million In Revenue In Q1 and Built 7,535 Cars · · Score: 1

    Guess you like living without climate control. Good luck with that winter with no heat ... which is the only way you're going to run off a Leaf pack for 'a few days'

  16. Re:Down 3%?! on Tesla Logged $713 Million In Revenue In Q1 and Built 7,535 Cars · · Score: 1

    Every public offering makes them money, not just the Initial ... thats what its only the 'initial' public offering.

  17. Re: Pinto? on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Wrong, it was no worse than any other vehicle in rear end collisions.

    Again, get a clue.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

  18. Re:I'm sorry but.... on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    Its hard to claim the high road when you make selfish statements like that.

    If you don't want to buy the book because you disagree with the sales practices, thats great and its the right thing to do.

    If you want to steal the book because you don't agree with the sales practices, you're just an asshole.

    Taking the high road requires you to actually take the high road, you're just making an excuse to be a thief.

    Its not food, water or oxygen that you need to survive, its not something you are entitled to. You have no right to it if you don't agree to their terms, grow up.

  19. Re:This has little to do with copyright law on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    When I lease a car, I pay less than if I were paying off a loan.

    No, you end up paying more in the long term because you never actually have any equity in the car, you're just giving them money for depreciation, and you're paying far more than you would if you were buying the car and then sold it at the end of the of the same time period instead.

    Leasing a car is universally stupid. You lose in every way. If you have more money than brains, sure, have at it, but its never a good deal. You could hire someone to do all the grunt work of selling the used car at the end of the time period and still not waste as much as leasing.

    Leasing is a trick used to con people into buying cars they can't afford or are too stupid to realize they are being ripped off.

  20. Re:Because they can. on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 5, Informative

    heh, do you realize how many professors require books THEY wrote? Conflict of interest isn't high on the list of priorities to worry about.

  21. Re: Pinto? on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    ... Yes, every car has a gas tank or batteries that can cause a fire ... Yet you drive one with the exact same 'flaw' don't you.

    There was no 'flaw' in the pinto, THATS THE MYTH, get a clue

  22. Re:To all who say it's not two-dimensional on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 2

    No, he's not, not even a little. You said it yourself, there is no such thing as 2-d in our universe outside of thought experiments.

    That doesn't mean you get to redefine it so that it magically does exist in our universe.

    Language only works because we understand the meaning of the words being used, when you randomly redefine them to suit your own personal agenda the whole thing breaks down.

    If they can't even use the proper terms, it makes the whole paper suspect.

  23. Re:Two-Dimensional My Ass... on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    An atom is not 2-d. 3 layers of atoms can not possibly be 2-d.

    An atom is composed of sub-atomic particles which are also NOT 2-d.

    2-d, in our universe, does not exist, its a virtual concept used to describe other abstract things.

    They (nor you) get to redefine it to mean something different to suit your sensationalizing agenda.

    Using improper terms brings doubt to the whole paper and everything it says. We use specific meanings of words so that we understand the meaning, if you use your own meaning for things different than everyone else, willingly, you're essentially lying and your paper should be thrown out on principle, someone else who understands the words they are using can take credit when they re-write it using the proper terms.

  24. Re: getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 2

    An orbiting wave.

  25. Re:Linux is not controlling the drones on US Military Drones Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1

    Thats what he just said, but you don't know enough about it to understand that.

    The primary functions are autonomous self contained units that can function on their own and get its general commands from another system. Cut them off from the central controller (your beagle bone black) and they (ABS, ECU, ect) still function as needed.