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  1. Re:DHS CS Expert. on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From reading the article, it sounds more like a routine stop where they ask you dozens of rather pointless questions just to keep you talking. The goal is to see if you have your story straight. They will ask the questions in such a way as to trip you up if you're not telling the truth.

    Chances are they asked about what the guy does for a living and he brought up Cryptocat himself. It was an unusual security-related thing so the officer focused on that for questioning to see if he would say something suspicious.

  2. Re:Ridiculous government waste as usual on Report Says Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1,000 Users · · Score: 1

    $200? Where do you live? The year 2035?

  3. Re:There are good things on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 2

    I apologize for not reading all 4 links in full before posting a thought.

  4. There are good things on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The nice thing about clamshell packaging is that it clearly displays the product itself, and usually so you can see most or all the sides of the product. This is in many ways better than a cardboard box with a couple of printed pictures on the outside.

    I'm sure I'm not the only one who has pried open a cardboard box in a store to get to the product inside to see what it actually looked like. Clamshell designs largely prevent that.

    The fix is to make them possible to open by hand. Many clamshell packages have a perforated panel on the back you can simply pull open. That's a pretty good design.

  5. Re:Hidden censorship on Google Highlights Censored Search Terms In China · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not Google doing the censoring. Apparently China interferes somehow with connections that are caught searching for various terms. Google now highlights certain words and pops up a notice that it has observed these words may break your connection.

  6. Re:English writing? on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Really? That's astonishing.

  7. Re:English writing? on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and so is the "Rescue" label and some other printing on the side of the cockpit. The plate says something like " TOP IMPORTANT REMOVE BEFORE OPERATIONAL FLIGHT."

    Why would they do that?

  8. Schilling. on Curt Schilling's 38 Studios Struggling Financially · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jesus people.

    It's Schilling.

  9. Re:it would work as intended. more resources for f on Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? · · Score: 2

    Companies can't own copyright, only people?

    That would certainly be interesting. You would inevitably concentrate things like highly valuable corporate IP to a single person - and give all of that company's competitors serious motive to eliminate that person.

    Imagine if Steve Jobs held copyright on all the crucial elements of iOS or OS X or whatever. Or if Larry Page was the copyright holder for all of Google's IP. Do you think Microsoft may have had him killed by now?

  10. Re:Jurassic Park on Mini Mammoth Once Roamed Crete · · Score: 1

    In the book, Hammond used to have a tiny cat-sized elephant he liked to show off.

  11. Re:It's not just Yupno Valley - Seattle too on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 2

    The line charts use the x-values as labels only. The scatter plots interpret the x-values as quantities. That's why both exist in Excel.

  12. Re:Why.. India? on Review of the First Medfield Phone · · Score: 0

    Yeah, no one in India really has any money.

  13. Re:Fat? on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well obviously the fats came from animals. Olive trees are notorious for eating squirrels and other rodents.

  14. Re:Fat? on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 0

    Yeah, everyone knows that. What a bunch of retards.

  15. Re:No kidding on Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991 · · Score: 1

    The original iPhone was not 3G. By the way.

  16. Re:Talk about media bias on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    It garnered (not garnished) national media attention because of the way the police and DA ignored it. Zimmerman was allowed to go home, with his weapon, and then the police and DA mostly forgot about it entirely.

    If Zimmerman was a black man and Trayvon a white teenager, do you think that would have happened?

  17. Re:Thumbdrive on Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? · · Score: 1

    This doesn't really make a lot of sense. No, you don't need to copy your music all the time, but when you add three albums what do you do? Mark them as new and then burn just those three to a DVD and put it somewhere?

    No, of course not. You need to sync all your important data, which can easily include hundreds of gigs of pictures, music, video, and documents, to somewhere else. For most people an external hard drive they keep at the office and bring home once every couple of weeks is entirely sufficient. Supplement with keeping smaller important stuff on Dropbox or a thumb drive for real-time cloud backups.

    I recommend to most people a dual strategy. Backup to one location at home (I use Windows Home Server for this) and also back up to a remote location. A 2 TB drive at home plus CrashPlan is a good 2-pronged approach.

  18. Re:How about this? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    You can call BS all you want, it's absolutely the truth. You are absolutely not allowed to ask someone, for example, what religion they are in a job interview.

    The instant that happens, you have broken the law.

  19. Re:How about this? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no. It is in fact completely illegal for a potential employer to ask your religion, age, marital status, sexual preference, citizenship, or race in an interview. Black-letter law.

  20. Re:There was an app store for WinMo? on Microsoft To Shut Down App Store For Windows Mobile · · Score: 2

    It was just being introduced when Android was getting big, back in mid to late 2009 IIRC.

  21. Re:Deleted is a relative term on Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations · · Score: 2

    He means literally. He means finding pics of their genitals.

  22. Re:NOW they develop this... on Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days · · Score: 1

    Well the reason they had to cut into you and screw a plate on was because the fracture was displaced. No amount of putty injections will put the bone where it's supposed to be. They'd still need to do the surgery, but the healing time would be 1-2 weeks instead of 6 (the soft tissue still needs time to heal).

  23. Re:Didn't Android *always* have Chrome? on Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta · · Score: 1

    Those "UI bits" are the important part. Besides "the UI bits" Safari and Chrome are identical except for Javascript engines.

    The UI, memory management, bookmarks, syncing, tab/window handling, password management, addon management, APIs, etc, are all other critical parts of a browser that aren't included in "rendering engine or javascript engine."

  24. Re:Didn't Android *always* have Chrome? on Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Safari is WebKit based.

    Is Safari Chrome?

    A browser is a lot more than an HTML and Javascript engine.

  25. Re:How many Amendments are left ? on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They don't need to "win." The US military isn't going to simply destroy its own entire nation to "win." There only needs to be enough resistance to force the government to significantly change policies, and that would be relatively easy given the level of armament in private hands.