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  1. Re:When do we get the ... on Russia Captures Alleged American CIA Agent In Moscow · · Score: 1

    technically, it would be up to the FBI to nab a foreign spy in the U.S.

  2. Re:Crack on An Exploration of BlackBerry 10's Programming API · · Score: 1

    Sold or Shipped? Either are good news for Blackberry (at least in the short term) but developers care more about the actual sales.

  3. Re:Forcing strong passwords in the first place. on Mitigating Password Re-Use From the Other End · · Score: 1

    SplashID

    1. It has apps for most of your OS's (exception being Linux) plus Blackberry, WebOS, and Palm OS
    2. Uses AES and 256-bit Blowfish encryption
    3. lets you synchronize between desktop and mobile apps and also has an export to encrypted file option you can use as a backup

  4. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    And what's wrong with charging an American citizen (pretty sure that makes him "normal") in Federal Court? Since September 11th, almost 600 terrorism cases have been tried in U.S. Federal Courts. They seem to be much better at handling terrorism cases than the Military Court at Guantanamo.

  5. Re:Aiming with your head on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    Some of the games optimized for the Razer Hydra already decouple the camera from the aiming, so it's already happening.

  6. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 May Restore Boot-To-Desktop, Start Button · · Score: 1

    left hand to operate gear shift.

  7. Re:Sanctuary Cities on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    Currently, the Democrats benefit from the voter fraud, nominally through a misapplication of the 1973 Voting Rights Act, predominantly in Florida, but one in eight voting registrations are flawed and/or illegal , while the Republicans benefit from the below market labor costs, so neither party actually wants the practice of illegal immigration stopped. Here is the NY Times article on it from the Pew Center for the States: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/us/politics/us-voter-registration-rolls-are-in-disarray-pew-report-finds.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com]

    What a bullshitter you are. The article basically says there are lot of errors in the registration systems to the point that dead people are still in the roles (not that other people are using those identities to vote), that people that move often end up registered in more than one state (not that they are voting in more than one), that a high percentage of registrations contain data errors serious enough that the voter will not receive a ballot (flawed, but not "illegal" as you insinuate), and that approximately 1 in 4 eligible voters isn't even registered. It then says that Democrats want to make it easier to register people, but that Republicans don't want that because of fear that it could introduce fraud. The last election highlighted several occurrences of voter fraud, none of which being identity fraud that the Voter ID laws Republicans have been pushing would have stopped, and the most serious being perpetrated by Republicans.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/gop-voter-fraud_n_1990104.html
    http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/19/14556980-gop-registration-worker-charged-with-voter-fraud?lite
    http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/gop_voter_registration_scandal_widens/
    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/162176990/republican-firm-tied-to-voter-fraud-allegations
    http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/06/the-real-gop-voter-fraud-employees-admit-forging-voter-registration-forms/

  8. Re:Children, children... on Microsoft: Facebook Home Is a Copycat, Windows Phone Is the 'Real Thing' · · Score: 1

    You must be pretty young ;) Windows 95 had a HUGE ad campaign and I seem to remember a fair number of commercials for Windows XP as well.

  9. Re:FUD summary as usual on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Treo- on Don't Write Them Off: A Palm Retrospective · · Score: 1

    You forgot that Kyocera had licensed the Palm OS for a phone before the Treo from Handspring

  11. Re: So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    yes, because you HAVE to live in SF when you make a SF wage, it's not like there are cheaper communities all around it, well at least not on the ocean side ;) the reason the housing is so much more than where you live is because more people WANT to live here.

  12. Re:Looks legit on Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android · · Score: 1

    My apologies, I see now that Cisco rebranded their Linksys VoIP phone to be named iPhone in 2006 resurrecting the name

  13. Re:Looks legit on Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android · · Score: 1

    than you bought some seriously OLD hardware off the discount shelf at Fry's because the Linksys iPhone was discontinued in 2001 and the first iPhone came out in 2007

  14. Re:What the fuck? on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Except that 2 out of the 3 started as Mac programs first and Windows was based largely on MS experience with Apple's GUI as the largest Mac software developer outside Apple.

  15. Re:I got it! on WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney · · Score: 1

    "A Christmas Story" has been a very popular movie since it came out and so a large percentage of us on /. probably do have a clue even if it's not first hand ;)

  16. Re:only 7000 apps? on Trouble For Microsoft Developers With the Windows Store · · Score: 1

    Dude, get back on the meds! ;)

  17. Re:He didn't disclose what he wasn't asked on Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been in Jury selection? While the judge asks preliminary general questions that may disqualify, the lawyers most definitely get to ask questions directly to the potential jurists as well as ask followup questions, and they are each allowed to eliminate a certain number for any reason they want.

    I was almost selected as a jurist for an attempted murder trial involving a firearm so the judge asked if we owned guns, were a member of NRA, related to people that are police or lawyers. When I answered some of those in the affirmative, the prosecutor then asked some follow up questions. Granted this was for a state criminal case and the Apple/Samsung was federal civil suit.

  18. Re:Apple needs to think a bit more... on EU Says Apple's Warranty Advertisements Are Unacceptable · · Score: 1

    I think you have it backwards....

    The Grand Parent made assertions, I made refutations

    1) Apple ships logic boards with sand in the box
    2) "roughly" 2/3 of Macs failing off the line

    3) $200 RAM identical to RAM bought for $50 elsewhere (this is the claim I think the post before you accepted as legitimate, as do I)

    All with no "qualification" other than saying he had been a tech

    I refuted point 1 with my first hand experience and I'll add that since you can declare any board DOA without financial penalty to the repair shop, it's in Apple's financial interest to ship the parts in good order. I used logic to explain how silly assertion 2 is, it doesn't require a business degree to understand. Now please go ASSert yourself away.

  19. Re:They aren't on the internet on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    You have no clue what you are talking about. No General or Admiral with clearance to SIPRNet is then going to turn around and tell a minion to violate every security procedure and hook up a non secure network to a secure terminal. For starters the DoD was burned too badly by thumb drive based attacks on NIPRNet and so security awareness is much greater now, and secondly I doubt most General's with clearance to SIPRNet even access it themselves let alone your preposterous scenario of wanting to watch NetFlix.

  20. Re:Does it really matter on EU Says Apple's Warranty Advertisements Are Unacceptable · · Score: 1

    yes, definitely don't sell your current phone to people more than willing to buy it if you feel the need to have the latest, greatest...

  21. Re:Apple needs to think a bit more... on EU Says Apple's Warranty Advertisements Are Unacceptable · · Score: 1
    Maybe because the lies are in fact "easily spotted"...

    How about receiving boxes of Apple logic boards, filled with sand?

    Apple does not ship logic boards in boxes with sand in them (yes, I'm a former Apple Tech too), the logic boards are in static bags closed with anti-tamper stickers from the factory, and surrounded by inches of stiff foam.

    How about roughly 2/3 new Macs failing off the line and needing to go back for repairs?

    ummm NO company selling computers on the scale of Apple would be profitable with a failure rate like that, use your brain man!

  22. Re:Reading the draft treaty on The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of · · Score: 1

    That a massive exaggeration, over 80% do not even had a passport!

    and that is a massive lie. Now that a Passport is required to travel to Mexico and Canada, about 1/3 of Americans have a current passport or passport card, although it looks like that number is coming down after initially swelling after 2001.

  23. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Did we read the same article??? He pulled out the box of "Mementos" and that's when the kid realized what they were there for.

  24. Re:WP7's two biggest problems... on Nokia Lumia 900 Reviews · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, like my Pre with WebOS did a couple years ago... not the best hardware, but loved the OS.

  25. Re:Soviet Canuckistan on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Charlie comes from the Viet Cong communist fighters in South Vietnam, which were called VC or simply Charlie (Charlie from the phonetic alphabet's 'C'.) The North Vietnamese were generally called NVA for North Vietnamese Army. Jerry is simply an abbreviation for German started in WWI but really came in more popular usage during WWII. Jerry-rigged referred to the poorly maintained equipment the German army was using near the end of the war that was kept together with "bailing wire and gum."