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  1. Re:Cool web site on Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint · · Score: 1

    Setting this option screws up stuff like sports scores/commentary pages which reload periodically. If only Firefox can have this option with a whitelist.

  2. Carl Sagan on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Carl Sagan - the Billy Mays of Science.

  3. Why is college in the US expensive? on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 1
  4. Dogs on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    Why not dogs? A lot of countries are overrun by stray dogs. They sterilize them to reduce the population. Why not just let them breed and eat them. Dog meat tastes very similar to goat meat or beef.

  5. Re:Windows Service on Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace · · Score: 1

    I think the main reason is that there is no standard mechanism to provide automated updates in Windows, unless the software happens to come from Microsoft, so every app that provides that functionality typically installs a service to check for, download, and apply updates.

    That's rubbish. Other than google products, I don't see any other products installing services to check for updates.

    Firefox & Pidgin seem to manage well enough without installing services.

  6. Windows Service on Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace · · Score: 1

    GTalk, Chrome all of them install Windows Services. Why does a browser or a chat application need a Service running all the time? I uninstalled both when I realized this.

  7. Re:How does Apple Decrypt it? on Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones · · Score: 1

    A backdoor by any other name.

  8. Americal Liberal Hyprocrisy on Elon Musk Quits Mark Zuckerberg's Lobbying Club · · Score: 1

    I have noticed that the same American Liberals at Slashdot who want amnesty for illegals also don't want H1-Bs.

    Is this a case of 'I love immigration & diversity as long as it's not in my backyard'. Or is it that they prefer illegal immigration to legal immigration?

  9. Re:How does Apple Decrypt it? on Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones · · Score: 1

    How difficult it is for Apple to have some mechanism to brute force their own passcode or password API? The summary already mentioned it is for unlocking seized iPhones, so those are presumably not remote-wiped, but merely locked.
    How many people use a simple 4-digit passcode vs password? It only takes 10000 tries to brute force the 4 digit passcode. And probably longer for password (how long a password would people use, for a device that you have to unlock many times a day and with usually with your thumb?)

    Yes, that's why I asked - why is law enforcement not able to brute force it without Apple's help?

  10. Yes on Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones · · Score: 1

    Likely just a master encryption key.

    Yes - that's a backdoor.

  11. How does Apple Decrypt it? on Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unless the iPhone has a backdoor - the effort required for either Apple or others should be the same. Does this mean that the iPhone has a backdoor?

  12. 70s on CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record · · Score: 1

    The Earth's temperature cooled very slightly between 1940 to 1970. So the doomsayers were actually predicting an ice age due to global cooling at that time.

  13. Re:Good on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    If you have 28% message loss per year with Exchange - then your Exchange Administrator must be a moron. And not just an ordinary moron, the kind who wins moron contests and stuff like that.

  14. Re:Why wouldn't they work? on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 1

    If it wouldn't have worked, would it have been interesting?

  15. Re:Why wouldn't they work? on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean it's interesting that it worked, but why is that of note?

    If it's not of note, then why is it interesting?

  16. Fix on Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can download a fix here.

  17. GSK on German Court Rejects Apple's Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    USA fined British pharma company GSK 3 Billion Dollars

    1. GSK pays a fine to USA
    2. Everybody in the USA gets a free Obama Phone, with money left for future Obama Cars, Obama TVs etc
    3. US Deficit not solved. No Profit!!!

  18. Re:New Coke was a Flop? on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    Howstuffworks isn't a substitute of double blind tests. As of now, there is insufficient evidence that HFCS is worse.

  19. Type 1 cannot survive without insulin. However, a lot of type 2s also inject insulin. If you get the dosage right, injecting insulin is a much better alternative to oral Sulphonylureas for Type 2s. The main reason Sulphonylureas are preferred is because people don't like injecting stuff.

  20. Took a whole lot of trying - Wheezy on Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fish don't fry in the kitchen,
    Beans don't burn on the grill.
    Took a whole lot of trying
    Just to get up that hill.
    Now we're up in the big leagues,
    Gettin our turn at bat.
    As long as we live
    It's you and me baby.
    There ain't nothing wrong with that.

  21. ship WikiReaders to kids in places without Internet connectivity.

    There is a good chance that those WikiReaders have probably been assembled by those same kids.

  22. I know, I know on Move Over Apple - Samsung Files For a Patent On Page Turn · · Score: 4, Informative

    why do patent inspectors spend more than 2 seconds on dreck like this before denying it.

    Because lawyers then write them nasty letters. This was covered a couple of days back - please pay attention - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/1216254/lawyer-loses-it-in-letter-to-patent-office

  23. Stupid on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    Stupid study and stupid conclusion from the study.

    It's like comparing if shooting your left foot is safer than shooting your right hand. Only a fool will consider these choices.

  24. fraud, civil theft, and breach of fiduciary duty. on Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 0

    Yale won a case against him on a patent and the judge ruled - "Dr. Fenn only obtained the patent through fraud, civil theft, and breach of fiduciary duty."

  25. What does this mean on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    players started noticing widespread piracy of their games in the game development simulator.

    What does this mean? I don't understand what the company did? Can someone explain - I am not a gamer - I used to play Doom Death Match 17 years back, though.