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  1. Re:Someone please aware me: on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 1

    But if you're sitting in your car with the doors closed talking on that phone you do have an expectation of privacy. How in the hell would the device be able to distinguish between the two?

  2. Re:oh delicious irony on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, that's overly simplistic.

  3. Maybe Apple Will Learn a Lesson on Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's great to drive the a good bargain with your suppliers. But, when you drive your suppliers out of business, particularly a sole supplier, maybe it's better to let them make a little money too.

  4. All Agencies Have Been Hacked on State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies · · Score: 1

    Some just don't know it...

  5. Good idea, BUT... on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    ... it will never happen with a Republican Congress.

  6. Company should insist on license agreement on Ask Slashdot: Handling Patented IP In a Job Interview? · · Score: 1

    If the company doesn't insist on a license agreement then walk away. Any lawyer worth his weight in rice would insist on a license agreement. If the company can't get that right all on their own they don't know enough about intellectual property to work with.

  7. Re:This is about stock price, the rest is bullshit on Symantec To Separate Into Two Companies · · Score: 1

    "They ONLY other option was to become IBM and that's to simply run around BUYING other companies."

    That was Symantec for most of the last ten years.

  8. Re:Is "general manager" the same as CEO? on Symantec To Separate Into Two Companies · · Score: 1

    He likely will be the CEO once the split is complete.

  9. My Car Already Does That... on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    This isn't new...

  10. I don't need to worry about security... on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm behind a firewall

  11. Whitelisting has been in AV products for years on Is Whitelisting the Answer To the Rise In Data Breaches? · · Score: 1

    now. This is hardly a new concept or a new implementation.

  12. All phones? on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1

    Just because they can crack a four digit password on an iPhone doesn't mean they can quickly crack a 24 character password. A four digit password can be easily brute forced. That's not true with a 24 character password (emphasis on "easily"). Of course, few people have 24 character passwords.

  13. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    If what they did is legal, so what?

    Then perhaps some of those things should be made illegal.

  14. Re:What a relief. on Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? · · Score: 1

    Can you write the proposal on how having to clean up malware that's going to infect our network because we're using old unsupported versions of IE is going to save money?

    You can clear that one up...

  15. Re:No you don't. on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google is undoubtedly considering free meals as a business expense and thus it's paying lower taxes (or in Google's case, getting more money back from the government) by providing free meals. So yeah, he - and I - and you - are helping to pay for those free meals.

  16. Different Visions on Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision · · Score: 1

    He had his vision, others had different visions. It doesn't mean he's right and they're wrong.

  17. Re:Off-device streaming on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Amen!

    Cops destroy recordings and "lose" devices all the time. Streaming video is the only real solution and not practical in this case.

  18. Waste of time on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    The cops will just confiscate and "lose" your encrypted memory card.

  19. What a crock! on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 2

    She wants them to quit so she doesn't have to pay unemployment despite the fact that the company is the one changing the rules.

  20. It's been this way for decades on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    Nothing new. At the storage company I used to work at we called the 1,000,000 MB number a "marketing megabyte".

  21. A Couple of Points... on Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update · · Score: 1

    1. Yes, 50 vulnerabilities were fixed but some where JavaFX, not the JRE.

    2. and yes, a lot where 10s, but because Oracle refuses to give out complete information about the vulnerabilities. If it would many would score lower.

    It's bad, very bad, but not as bad as the summary portrays.

  22. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm very sure.

  23. The article is behind the times... on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 1

    The top AV vendors have been using methods beyond signatures (white listing, behavior monitoring) for a while now.

  24. CIA? on Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone · · Score: 1

    On the one hand, the CIA is not likely to admit they've lost a drone.

    On the other hand, Iran has a well documented history of lying about its accomplishments.

    Hard to determine the truth here...

  25. Not only a problem with Github on Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lots of so called open source projects either don't provide a license or provide conflicting license information. For example, we recently looked at a project where the web site says it's MIT, but the code says it's public domain.