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  1. Re:Why does Obama keep doing this? on White House May Name Patent Reform Opponent As New Head of Patent Office · · Score: 1

    Each candidate spent more than a billion dollars in the last election. Where do you think that kind of money comes from?

  2. Re:So will he go to jail upon return to the US? on Eric Schmidt and Entourage Pay a Call On Cuba · · Score: 1

    Laws are only for small guys. Did David Gregory go to jail for breaking the Gun Laws on TV?

  3. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    Why the hell should the website guess where you want to go and what language you want to use?

    If I want to go to the Swedish Amazon, I'll go to amazon.se, if I want to go to the Indian one, I'll go to the amazon.in.

    This is already a solved problem.

  4. Re:Any chance at getting one? on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    There are Nokias available for 25$ or lesser in most countries without any plan. Which are sturdy as an ox and have absolutely no problems.

  5. Re:Exception here on General Anesthesia Exposure In Infancy Causes Long-Term Memory Deficits · · Score: 1

    Do you remember if you were given general anesthesia or not for your surgery when you were 6 weeks old?

  6. Re:Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    in 1964, the min wage was 1:15. You could actually live off that with a one income family.

    Because back then, you didn't require a big screen TV in every room, had only one phone whose monthly bill was probably 10% of total monthly bill of a family of 4 with 4 phones paying 75$ per phone, no computer, no broadband bill, no 100$ cable television bill, no expensive vacations etc.

    Min wage has not kept up with the real cost of basic needs. like housing, transportation, entertainment, food, cloths.

    Also, our needs have increased.

  7. Why? on Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store · · Score: 1

    Why does anyone use Chrome over Chromium? I have only used Chromium - so is there anything better in Chrome as compared to Chromium. I use Chromium because Chrome installs services on my machine. I don't see why a browser needs services running in the background.

  8. Chrome or Chromium on Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store · · Score: 1

    Is the blocking code in Chromium or Chrome. If in Chrome, then shift to Chromium. If in Chromium, then someone can fork it and comment out that code and keep merging stuff back from Chromium.

  9. Rural Areas on FCC Gets Go-Ahead For Plan To Expand Rural Internet Access · · Score: 0

    Some people save money by moving to remote areas. Then others have to subsidise them by paying all kinds of fees to that they get access to stuff in their cheap, remote areas.

  10. Re:Not First Amendment on California Bill Would Safeguard Consumers' Rights To Criticize Firms Online · · Score: 1

    Everything is enforced by Govt, so everything is a govt issue.

  11. Brendan Eich opposed this on Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/submission...

    There is speculation that this was the real reason Brendan Eich was kicked off.

  12. Re:Let's reclassify Lobbying as Bribery and on Congressmen Who Lobbied FCC Against Net Neutrality & Received Payoff · · Score: 2

    No, not a good idea. Then the USA will rank higher in all of those lists of most corrupt countries. We cannot then pretend that's it's the middle east, asian and third world countries that are the only ones which are corrupt.

  13. Re:For it on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    2 wrongs don't make one right. Even if what you said was true.

  14. For it on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I am also for pricing based on data used. Why should someone who is using 10 GB pay the same as someone who uses 200 GB?

  15. Re:That's 100k jobs not going to unemployed Americ on Let Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Work In US, Says White House · · Score: 1

    Whoever is paying them. Obama & Romney spent more than a billion dollars each during the 2012 elections. Where do you think the money came from?

  16. Re:Not a buffer overrun on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Read this - http://blog.existentialize.com...

    Will help your understanding. There is no buffer overrun.

  17. US problem on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    This is a US specific problem - being charged for receiving calls or text messages.

  18. Re:ObXKCD: Passphrases on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    The problem with very long passwords is that there is a decent chance that you will type one out of 20 characters wrong (password's aren't echoed on the screen) and you won't know what exactly was wrong. And then you start typing 20 characters all over again and it may happen again.

  19. Yeay on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    I'll choose an impossibly hard password (which doesn't have to be changed for 2 years) & write it down and stick it somewhere convenient.

  20. Re:Not a buffer overrun on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    You have missed the malloc call. See what is being passed as size to the malloc call. That will show you that the it does not cross the size allocated by the malloc call (the malloc for this call - not everything allocated by malloc).

  21. Re:Not a buffer overrun on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's a buffer overread. But if did not go beyond the memory allocated by malloc.

  22. Re:Not a buffer overrun on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    No, it wasn't. Sorry.

  23. Re:Not a buffer overrun on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    It did not read more memory than allocated.

  24. Not a buffer overrun on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Second, there needs to be an emphasis on using languages that are not susceptible to buffer overrunning

    Heartbleed was not really a buffer overrun problem.

  25. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    All this concern over suffering of someone you are planning to kill. It really strikes me as silly

    I think this about people fighting for humane treatment of animals before killing them.

    However, for people - it's different - we have laws to not torture them.