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  1. Re:Just Sad on Feds Now Oppose Aereo, Rejecting Cloud Apocalypse Argument · · Score: 1

    Aereo simply picks up signals from the public airwaves. There's nothing that's more "public domain" than something so placed into, well, the public domain.

    ANYTHING which has ever been broadcast should have lost copyright - that the price for building your business on public resources.

  2. Re:welcome to the big time on F-Secure: Android Accounted For 97% of All Mobile Malware In 2013 · · Score: 2

    It's just a matter of how big the target is. Right now, Android is the largest mobile platform, so that's where the malware is directed. It's a crime of opportunity, no different than Windows on the desktop.

    It's not proof that Apple's iOS or MacOS or Windows mobile are intrinsically more secure, but that they're smaller targets. How much malware is there directed to FreeBSD or OpenBSD or vxWorks in comparison? Emphasis on comparison - sure, there's malware directed at anything which might be Internet facing, but the more esoteric stuff is more specifically targeted, like Stuxnet.

  3. Re:Refund on overhearing my pizza order on Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure. Crow.

  4. Re:Refund on overhearing my pizza order on Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    F.U.

    That doesn't mean Fuck You, of course.

  5. Re:Refund on overhearing my pizza order on Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses · · Score: 0

    "Tea Party" (in current terms) is an informal name for a political movement based on the belief that there is over-taxation. It's named after the historical Boston Tea Party. Any claim that it's an acronym comes after the fact, and is incorrect.

    (And that's all it is, despite all the attempts of other people/groups to jump on the bandwagon in an attempt to usurp the message.)

  6. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Are the common plastic/paper layered coffee bags biodegradable? The steel/chrome plated cans? The plastic 3 lb containers? The hermetic aluminum/plastic sealed bags? Why does bio degradable make a difference? Why not chemi-degradable? Does how long it takes to turn to dust matter to the equation? Does something somehow have less mass once it's been bio-degraded?

  7. Re:Refund on overhearing my pizza order on Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tea is not an acronym. Why are you spelling it in all caps?

    Also, WTF are you trying to say? That they don't like "taxing your local business," or they don't like "outsourcing the cost of law enforcement to the private sector," or both?

    It sure seems like your hatred of whatever you think the tea party is, is getting in the way of any rational argument.

  8. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 2

    " it's not like I can go and buy ground coffee, is it? Oh wait ......"

    I hear they even sell it in convenient, single use containers, so it's always somewhat fresh.

    Have we completed the circle?

  9. Color blind? on Book Review: Threat Modeling: Designing For Security · · Score: 1

    "which color was more severe - yellow or orange? "

    Huh? Didn't the author learn ROYGBIV in school? Isn't the order immediately obvious (orange is a combination of red and yellow, so it sits between them).

    Red is universally stop/danger, green go/safe. What possible argument can be made for reversing orange and yellow from their natural order?

    If you want to be critical, pick green/blue, which are bass-ackwards on the DHS scale.

  10. Re:Surprisingly lazy on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 1

    They would have needed court approval to even operate the device, since it transmits on frequencies they're not licensed to use. And, I suspect that would have to be federal court authorization, since RF is under federal jurisdiction.

  11. Re:Abjectly false argument on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Additionally, using one of those boxes would require court approval. Perhaps not for a traditional search warrant, but certainly to allow the police, who are not licensees of the radio frequencies involved, to operate these intentional transmitters. And that probably means federal court approval.

  12. Call center script... on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners · · Score: 1

    "Yes, we have no bananas."

  13. Re:Whoa... on Open Source Brings High-End Canon Camera Dynamic Range Closer To Nikon's · · Score: 1

    "Parody" doesn't mean what you think it means. Perhaps you meant "plagiarism."

  14. Re:Cab driver in Shanghai on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 0

    That's not much different than the summary's author, who seems to think that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health sets standards in China.

  15. Re:What?? on Your Next Car's Electronics Will Likely Be Connected By Ethernet · · Score: 1

    No, QoS is not L7. There's QoS available at L2 (802.1p/q), and also at L3 (diffserve/intserv).

  16. Re:Whoa... on Open Source Brings High-End Canon Camera Dynamic Range Closer To Nikon's · · Score: 1

    You might at least give credit where it's due.

  17. Whoa... on Open Source Brings High-End Canon Camera Dynamic Range Closer To Nikon's · · Score: 3, Funny

    Two different ISOs?

    Hasn't one International Standards Organization caused enough design-by-committee standards harm? Do we really need another?

  18. Re:ahh homeopathy. on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do homeopathic purveyors stay in business? One could buy a single bottle, and keep diluting it, making a both stronger (so you'd use a smaller dose) and longer lasting at the same time. If you bought a bottle, how would it ever run out so you'd need to buy another?

    (...and if one dumped one of those tiny ml bottles into a public swimming pool, would that constitute a terror attack, due to the obvious overdose everyone in the pool would get?)

  19. Re:Because... on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 0

    What brand of homeopathic remedies does Monsanto produce?

  20. Re:Why? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the sake of argument, let's say it was pulled out of the nose. What does your nose smell like?

  21. Re:Legitimization on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin value is based on public image, and it's public image is wrecked.

    In exactly the same way that the USD has been battered by the actions of Bernie Madoff, Charles Ponzi, and Lincoln Savings and Loan. Oh, wait, most people understand that there's a difference between currency and an entity which promises to safely store it (or invest it) for you.

  22. Re:gambling on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    No True Scotsman lost money on Bitcoin.

    So that's what they keep under their kilts - Bitcoins!

  23. Re:Not gonna read this on 'Write the Docs' is a Conference for People Who Write Software Docs (Video) · · Score: 2
    Well, this phrase...

    and developers who want to hook up with writers who can help them make high-quality docs

    kind of brings new meaning to RTFM.

    I'm an old fart, but even I know that "hook up" doesn't nowadays mean what the author thinks it means.

  24. Re:However.. on The Rescue Plan That Could Have Saved Space Shuttle Columbia · · Score: 1

    Uh,

    3. Jack Bauer could do it in 24 hours.
    4. Murphy's and Guinness are competitors. I don't think you're clear on the concept.

  25. Joy of joys! on Tor Is Building an Anonymous Instant Messenger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now I'll be able to communicate with some random, anonymous Internet person.

    Slashdot is doomed.