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  1. Re:They should go on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 1

    you can easily reconfigure those with a simple tool like a screwdriver or a pencil or even your finger.

  2. Re: "nitehawk214"'s on your birth certificate? on A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute · · Score: 2

    and all of them are also registered on slashdot!

  3. Re:Great Knowledge Sharing! on How Device Drivers Are Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    Course, there are companies like, for instance, Autel, which sell ODB readers for cars for only $100 to over $1000, but are too cheap to implement and/or license a signed Windows driver. And it's only a stupid USB serial device, dumping text data from the memory card to the computer. And it SHOULD be more complicated, because it also has software on the memory card that can be updated [to update the firmware, you have to remove the memory card and put it in a normal card reader, which their software will then update].

  4. Re: I call BS... on GoDaddy Accounts Vulnerable To Social Engineering (and Photoshop) · · Score: 1

    Danica, is that you?

    Stuff like this always reminds me of John Candy playing Tattoo from Fantasy Island, lying on a desk, rubbing his thighs with his hands say "Chicks, boss. Chicks!"

  5. Re:I dub all unswitchable hardware: disposable on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    Why would this reimaging fail? Window 7 should be able to play nice with UEFI Secure Boot [not that it affects me].

  6. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1, Offtopic
  7. Re:Confusion on Google: Our New System For Recognizing Faces Is the Best · · Score: 1

    marketing. where a small bezel means you put "has no bezel" in big bold letters on all the marketing materials for your monitor.

  8. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I believe the proper frame of reference to keep in mind when following American politics is the WWE.

    Lots of winning and losing, but you don't go anywhere. And your wallet is a lot lighter at the end of the day.

  9. Re:A turd by any other name on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 1

    Meet the new browser. Same as the old browser.

  10. Re:Oh the irony! on White House Proposal Urges All Federal Websites To Adopt HTTPS · · Score: 1

    Privacy from others. The NSA already has direct access to the data on these servers. He just doesn't want to share the data for free.

  11. Re:WTF? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 1

    Fine. Describe how you can wrest control of Congress and/or the Senate and/or the Presidency away from the Republocrat party.

  12. Re:WTF? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes, it is too late.

    The only method that could possibly result in meaningful change to the current system will result in you being arrested as a terrorist.

  13. Re:Sacred cows? on Interviews: Ask SMBC's Creator Zach Weiner a Question · · Score: 1

    Now you're talking about what Anthony Weiner does.

  14. Re:WTF? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 1

    I believe you are confusing theory and practice.

  15. Re:Something is amiss... on ICE Tells Reporter Its Secretive Drone Program Isn't Newsworthy · · Score: 1

    NSA: We've been doing this stuff secretly for over 50 years. Clearly it's not news anymore!

  16. Re:WTF? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 0

    The people who wrote the Constitution couldn't imagine the technology we have today, therefore the Constitution doesn't apply anymore. Q.E.D.

  17. Re:Nipples and terrorism? on Nipples, Terrorism, and Sexual Descriptions - Facebook's List of Banned Content · · Score: 1

    ...and online video service...

  18. Re: Missionaries on Zuckerberg and Gates-Backed Startup Seeks To Shake Up African Education · · Score: 1

    yay for Nazi's developing greenscreens!

  19. Re:Wind is on US Wind Power Is Expected To Double In the Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    And it pulls the wings off innocent little birds.

  20. Re:Simple solution, really on Obama Administration Wants More Legal Power To Disrupt Botnets · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Tor and Bittorrent also fall under the vague definition of 'botnet'.

  21. Re:Ron Wyden Edward Snowden on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About · · Score: 1

    It'll be a BFF. Busting Feeding Frenzy. Stay out of the water.

  22. Re:At least Microsoft and Slashdot listen to users on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really look like Microsoft was listening. The so-called new start menu doesn't bring up a menu, but instead presents...a big window with all the stupid tiles that people didn't like using. It's one of those "oh, you'll like this, we're sure of it. you're just not giving it a chance because it's new".

    No, people with desktop computers, with a mouse and keyboard and without gorilla arms DON'T LIKE IT.

  23. Re: Happy Tuesday from The Golden Girls on UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies · · Score: 1

    sorry, since the piratebay is still somewhere on the internet, you are no longer permitted to access the internet. have a nice day. and yes, you still need to pay your ISP for the possibility of accessing the internet.

  24. Re:Wow, that's a lot of money on Tor Project Aims To Eclipse US Government Funding · · Score: 1

    When it happens on the internets.

  25. Re:Price Controls? on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    because parks are too dangerous for kids. once they are out of your line of sight, they are in the line of sight of every pedophile in the state...