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  1. Re:Remote Usage? on The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files · · Score: 2

    Research how your client uses magnet links.

  2. Re:I lost track on Daily Sony Hacking Occurs On Schedule · · Score: 1

    Except it's really easy for people to avoid Sony's bullying. All they have to do is not involve themselves in Sony products or services. Ever. That is so easy.

  3. Re:Two routers on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MAC filters, hidden SSID

    Those don't do anything. MACs can be found by outsiders not connected to your network despite how encrypted the network is. Hidden SSIDs aren't anything either. The same tools that will display the MACs will also show all hidden SSIDs within range.

    Sure, they block the average user, but anyone who wants to get in will have no trouble at all.

  4. Re:Instability through Obscurity on Ubuntu May Move To Rolling Releases · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's really only the case if you're installing packages from the AUR that are unmaintained or have a lazy maintainer. With the recent python3 switch, everything not in AUR (since that is user maintained), was updated to point to the appropriate python executable.

    OR, the issue is that you're performing selective upgrades. Which, in that case, of course you're going to run into library issues. ANY rolling release OS is meant to be fully upgraded whenever an upgrade is performed, otherwise you risk breaking everything.

    With Arch, it only breaks if you break it, since you have total control over everything.

  5. Re:It's the advertisements on Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Opera hasn't had ads for nearly half a decade now. Where are you?

  6. Re:Supporter of Web Standards? on Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure Opera had drop shadows far before Firefox. I don't count rounded corners since Firefox did it using -moz... CSS options. That's not really a standard, now, is it?

  7. Re:Why? on Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11 · · Score: 1

    Hm, nope.. Not seeing why I need extensions.

  8. Re:Unionize. on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    You're right. Unions, when done right and behaving in the original spirit of the idea, are extremely beneficial to everyone. The employees get more money and the employers get happier employees. Happier employees perform better.

    The problem is that no one ever hears about the good unions.

  9. Re:Last prize really Ig Nobel? on 2010 Ig Nobel Winners Announced · · Score: 0

    I wish I had mod points...

  10. Re:Only 9%? on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Basically your government is a tyrannical corporation. What's your reasoning for that? Just because you don't like the way things are done there?

  11. Re:Flat Tax on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Learn to refile your W-4 or wait until your tax refund. Either way, you're take-home pay still increased.

  12. Re:The wealthy don't worry about income tax. on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    So if the wealthy love income tax, why are the wealthy fighting income tax?

  13. Re:Next year you would not know. on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    If a CEO wants to lobby for a cause, he can do that as a citizen, since he is one, with his own resources. But he should not be able to use his company and his company's resources to lobby for that cause. He is a citizen. His company is not.

  14. Re:100% on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    It's not the best idea, yeah, but that's not at all what he said. He said 100% above 500k, not 100%. So you're still entitled to earn five hundred thousand dollars a year. Anything ABOVE that will go to the government. So those making a million a year only see half of it, with the other half going to the government. It's not a good idea, no one will go for it, but at least learn some reading comprehension before you berate his idea.

  15. Re:put your money where your mouth is (or shut up) on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    You know, I never thought of taxes as "reinvesting in our country." I mean, I dislike them as much as the next guy, and I'll oppose obscenely high rates, but I understand what they're used for and why they should be paid. But the way you phrased that makes it sound almost patriotic, which it kind of is. Thanks for that phrasing, I think I'll use it from now on if you don't mind.

  16. Re:Tax and spend on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    And what are you? Some sort of anarchist, "down with the man" type? You guys make me sick. Where do you propose the government gets its money if not from the people that it governs? I bet you'd love no taxes at all. That'd be great, I'd have more money. But then good bye public services: no more police, no more firefighters, no more social security, etc. But no, of course, you have no need for that since nothing bad has ever happened to you. I hope you'll still feel safe when the government runs out of money and can no longer provide for its citizens.

  17. Re:Atleast he plans to vote on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    Isn't getting 1/10 of that demographic to vote a HUGE improvement over previous years? I mean, I realize it's still an abysmal amount, but it's growth, right?

  18. Re:Monetization != bulletproof protection on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    Because they're going after the house wife, the downloader, as if she was the original distributor of the content, as if she was the one that ripped the DVD or filmed the movie screen.

  19. Re:I don't care one bit on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    How.... DARE YOU!

  20. Re:Hooray for freedom on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    One can be held in jail (not prison) before their court date.

  21. Re:Change we can believe in? on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, I am so upset that he hasn't undone Bush's eight years of work in a quarter of the time!

  22. Re:Kill all the lawyers! on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's also the fact that she was a moron and didn't think about the fact that "coffee" and "hot" are best buddies.

  23. Re:You know the degree symbol on DNA-Less 'Red Rain' Cells Reproduce At 121 C · · Score: 1

    Assuming a windows machine.

  24. Re:Screw CSS on DMCA Exemptions Don't Matter · · Score: 1

    Each of those points is a separate instance. It applies if you're breaking it for 1) education uses OR 2) documentary filmmaking OR 3)noncommercial videos. How they define "noncommercial videos" is up to them, but it's not all three together, it's any of the three. If this were not the case, the word "instances" would not have been used to describe the list.

  25. Re:Good on School District Drops 'D' Grades · · Score: 1

    You sound a little miffed, but highschool classes are ridiculously easy enough that no one should be failing them.