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  1. Re:Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    "He's a lot less of a danger than half the people on the road" kind of assumes he isn't in that half. If he is in the half then dangerous driver + right on the alcohol limit = really really bad idea.

    Naturally you are a perfect driver, its everyone else who is terrible.

  2. Re:Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 4, Informative

    They can take blood if a initial drug test comes back positive (if they test for drugs).

    But yeah contractors doing it is pretty dodgy.

  3. Re:Australia on Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure I DO NOT want to see it's source code.
    That would probably give me nightmares.

  4. Australia on Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Been doing it for years with government provided software.

    Mind you it doesn't say 'cloud' every 5 words, but it submits it all online and even auto fills in a lot of your data from government databases.
    Not sure how long it has been available for but many many years without incident.

    Oh and its free.

  5. Re:How about NEW cars? on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    Wow I need to get a cataclysmic converter for my car!

  6. Re:violation of trust on Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a diverse range of companies. Alternatives include Microsoft or Yahoo.

    Yeah I'm sticking to Google too. Nothing prevents the alternatives from being worse.

  7. Re:Calling China right now on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/540042213/FORGED_PITCH_FORK_SPADING_FORK_IN.html
    $6 each, min order 100.
    This company claims to be able to supply 10,000 per month which isn't bad. Should we shop around a little more first?

  8. Re:The problem is collecting the bounty on Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Oh I disagree. I would imagine the population there would be familiar with the Silk Road.

  9. Re:Apple bought Israel? on Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense · · Score: 2

    Yeah but Microsoft will just buy Hezbollah *cough* sorry I mean Lebanon.

    They'll probably throw Iran in for cheap as well.

  10. Re:Shame on them on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    Why were they freezing random clams exactly? Was it on the dinner menu and they wanted to keep it fresh?

  11. Re:Non-destructive testing on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Clearly not. These climate change scientists are also experimenting with our atmosphere to prove their hypothesis!

  12. Re:Great for CC scammers on Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Quick little dive in to the code with a debugger and watch those limitations vanish in front of your eyes......

  13. Re:No Linux client? on Amazon Jumps Into Desktop Virtualization With "WorkSpaces" · · Score: 2

    I suspect it is more about control.

    And no need to replace computers as often either.
    Doesn't take much (if any) grunt to be a dumb terminal.

  14. Re:Not going to happen on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm pretty sure Youtube self regulates buffering as a bandwidth saving measure.

    It will only buffer a certain amount even in Australia on a ISP which doesn't muck with my connection at all as a rule.

  15. Re:The time has come the walrus said... on Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    MD5 is broken, SHA1 has been weakened slightly but it isn't broken.

    The term broken is only used when it is trivial to crack and/or forge.

  16. Re:Does this replace the kernel? on CyanogenMod Windows-Based Installer Released, With Supporting Android App · · Score: 2

    Yes it does, no it usually isn't the carrier who puts the locks in place. That is the phone manufacturer (which you seem to have omitted).

    I don't think any phone has stopped them for long.

  17. Re:Security? on Google Chrome 31 Is Out: Web Payments, Portable Native Client · · Score: 4, Informative

    Same way they do as JS. They control what APIs it can call.

    C code without any APIs can't exploit a potato. It isn't inherently able to talk to the kernel.

  18. As opposed to my 10 WD Green drives dating back from between 12 months old to 6 years old - all still working.

    Wow! You found failure reports for a hard drive on NewEgg? Really that is incredible!
    That is so damning against the drive - no one ever posts about it still working fine after years of use.

  19. Re:false dichotomy in summary on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Yeah but you were dumb enough to go there to begin with.

    Oh and I'm pretty sure everyone says that after being in prison.
    They ALL hope they don't get caught next time. :P

  20. Re:Give them some credit. on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1

    How is that a defence of anything?

    Probably only took this long because they knew everyone would laugh at it.

  21. Re:lower insurance? on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 0

    No crashes and no natural disasters? Combine them and the premiums should reduce by far more than 80%.
    I didn't mean just natural disasters alone.

    Call it back with your phone? :P
    Or just make it a manual thing so if you know your car is in danger you can order it away if you aren't near it.
    Remember that these things can roam the streets without anyone actually in or near them.

  22. Re:lower insurance? on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah but a car that could self evacuate from a cyclone would certainly lower premiums by a lot more than 80%.

  23. Re:Uhh... on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 1

    The keyword there was "effectively straight".
    There is nothing wrong with having params like that. As long as you escape them properly and have input validation.

    "Effectively straight" in this case means this would work: http://stocksite.com/charts.lol?symbol=GOOG&range=30; DROP TABLE stocks --
    Which is a taboo.

  24. Re:Hold Them Responsible on Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 1

    Every credit card related info leak is in breach of PCI compliance.
    Even if they got audited just a week previously and passed with flying colours.....

  25. Re:The police are passing up a gem on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 2

    Technically it isn't a crime to chat up under age computers.
    No crime has occurred or been proven and there is zero evidence.