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  1. Re:As an American ... on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    Vote with your feet. (emigrate) It's probably all you can do as an individual.

  2. Re:How is that legal? on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Because many tacitly agreed with his choice of target/s. Its different when we don't. Re this shit of a reporter trying to undo his tweet, sorry, that doesn't work, this is the internet. Re Times trying to disassociate itself from the reporter, you've employed him as a mouthpiece, the only satisfactory disassociation would be termination. I mean fire him, not with a drone.

  3. Re:Actually not a dupe! on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 1

    I think this is especially important to note. A friggin 10 story tall structure with sloshing liquids and a very high center of gravity was able to land after moving about a half mile away from its starting point laterally and landed back on nearly the very same spot where it started. This is basically the 1st stage of a future Falcon 9 rocket which is being tested right now.

    The only comparable rocket that did something similar was an Atlas 1 rocket which "launched" by going up a half inch then came back down.... with everybody on the launch pad and mission control scrambling like there was no tomorrow and literally praying to God that it wouldn't fall over. More than a few other rockets in similar situations did fall over and blow up (like the N1 rocket in the old USSR that became one of the top largest man-made explosions in human history).

    My gosh, what does it take to impress some of these idiots posting on Slashdot today?

    Praying that Atlas didn't shrug, as it were.

  4. Re:This may work........ on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    In most of the world it'll be a 232 error

  5. Re:So basically surfing net while taking notes on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I never took notes. I found that thinking about what the lecturer was saying was better than trying to write down maybe 20% of what they said (ok, more than 20% if you could do Pitmans) - better lecturers might simply issue lecture notes for those that like that. Taking notes is too much like rote learning.

  6. Re:Is it good pub if it causes you to fail? on 20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event · · Score: 1

    Well, it got you talking about him

    Yes, people are talking about him. So?

    Talking about what? The article is about "a contest gone wrong at LG's G2 release event." So, apparently one two-letter acronym was releasing another two-letter acronym. I don't even know what country this event was in. It does quote "El Reg," so I assume it's Spanish-speaking.

    Stupid acronyms.

    They talk about 950,000 won ($852.54) smartphone - the won, apparently is the South Korean currency (hell, I didn't realise til I googled it)

  7. Re:Arguably lied? on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    Either he did or he didn't, there's no in-between. In actuality he lied, and did it intentionally.

    Technically, I don't think one can lie unintentionally.

    You can tell what you 'know' to be the truth, when it isn't. That's why lie detectors can be fallible. They rely on a physiological response from lying. (not that Clapper thought for a moment he was telling the truth)

  8. Re:Gotta have a plan on The Science of 12-Step Programs · · Score: 1

    You explain the other steps, but you're not explaining the religion ones (3,5,6,7,11,12, possibly more) Looks more like a religion recruitment office from here.

  9. Re:Trust bottlenecks on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    Well, I said single, but it's more likely to be a dozen or more. Frequent fliers aren't completely dead.

  10. Re:Extensions needed! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    Ouch. They normally seem better than that.

    This seems to have spurred some startups

    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-back/x/1234360

    http://www.zdnet.com/mega-to-fill-secure-email-gap-left-by-lavabit-7000019232/?s_cid=e551&ttag=e551

    Doing DCI on encryption sounds interesting.

  11. Re:Trust bottlenecks on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    The way i understand web-of-trust, it would only take one frequent flyer who knew at least one person well in the cities he traveled to, to connect the internally well-connected islands. Think of it like spreading STD. :^)

  12. Re:It's a lost cause on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    Some of them (well, mine) at least makes the effort to handle personal mail correctly.

  13. Re:PGP won't help you on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    What you're asking for here is an inbuilt fingerprint in the email that's unique to the person your sending it too, that they won't notice. A grammatical error would do nicely. (like I've put two of in this mail (ok, at least two))

  14. Re:just be straight up on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    That has the advantage of pissing off the NSA by forcing them to decrypt all email to discover that which has the content which interests them - yes, lets get the spammers on board here, and encrypt that too :)

  15. Re:Extensions needed! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    Or get a defined static IP address from your ISP that isn't on their temp list. It costs (for me) about 5 AUD extra a month. (shrug) But it lets you setup a domain without contrivances like dyndns, good as they are for some stuff.

  16. Re:Extensions needed! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    However, at the gmail customer end, I'll bet it auto-placed that mail in the spam folder, with a phish notation that it wasn't what it appeared to be. Joe User probably doesn't even open that folder :)

  17. Re:Well on Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC · · Score: 1

    ANd where are Apple products made, compared to where Samsung products are made? It'd be almost hilarious is Samsung set up a manufacturing plant in the USA.

  18. Re:Makes sense. on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Who is going to stop them? No-one seems interested in doing anything but chasing the whistleblowers (Assange, Snowden) and quietening the whole issue down.

  19. Re:Well that's just brilliant! on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    He has a clearance of "no-one"

    Recall that old joke - no-one has a clearance higher than the boss.

  20. Re:Amazed the NSA doesn't understand data security on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    So who other than sysadmins sets that database server up?

    Who backs it up? Who tests the backups?

    Who watches the watchers? (I can't be arsed looking up the fancy latin for it)

  21. But... on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Isn't the NSA all about promoting data leaks in others?

  22. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Damn, I just posted, so can't use a mod point on you.

    Some of the logic puzzles go like - "what colour is snow?" - me answers "yellow" - a good site might recognise human humour here.

  23. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people incapable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.

    Fixed it for you. I'm thinking of NewsLimited forums.

  24. Re:How about... on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    But obviously does not predate BskyB's SkyDrive, so it is a me too service.

  25. Re:150 lashes? on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    But what if you enjoyed it? Less lashes in that case?