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  1. Encryption is a human right. on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    Period. End of story.

  2. Re: Good on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact the Greeks voted the Anti Austerity party into power.

  3. Good on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Greeks can't seem to come to terms with reality. It is for the best of the EU they are booted. Clearly they don't understand austerity is necessary, they want their free shit to run on forever. Sadly, their free ride has broken down.

  4. Sounds like a shake down more than anything on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How many years have these plants been running at a profit? How long have they had to improve techniques and cut costs to make this more efficient? Gas is no cheaper than it was 15 years ago (inflation adjusted) so what is the hold up? One bad year and "welp lets fold up shop!"

    Sounds like a shake down of municipalities.

  5. Re:If you can update the software... on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 2

    You can update your cars firmware (chryslers) via the USB port - they have it so you can download it and install it that way yourself.

  6. Re:There I fixed it for you... on How Responsible Are App Developers For Decisions Their Users Make? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Good luck with that. They keep building better idiots.

  7. Re: Competition on Amazon's Profits Are Floating On a Cloud (Computing) · · Score: 1

    Azure is so far behind the curve though. MS keeps reinventing their portal to admin Azure and it just gets more complicated. AWS isn't fancy but it works well through the web side. Azure just is a Ajaxy disaster. Azure isn't bad as a mirror failover for your AWS, but personally it's been painful to primarily host anything on it.

  8. With MVP, security is last feature. on Startups Increasingly Targeted With Hacks · · Score: 1

    Startups, especially those going through some sort of silly accelerator target one thing, a Minimally Viable Product. What does this MVP mean? Everything but security. VCs and these companies only worry about security once they 1) become big enough 2) get hacked.

  9. Especially now that Google uses your SMS as your two factor. So, even if the phone was locked - all you have to do is pop the SIM in another phone and boom, you have the persons 2nd factor.

  10. SDK is lackluster on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Simple things that all the other platforms has Microsoft lacks. Trying to get a stack trace from an Unhandled exception? Nope can't do that. Want to find out what OS build you are on? Nope can't do that. While little things, the list is endless and annoying for anyone that's been doing mobile for awhile.

  11. Re: the samples are resistant to anti-malarial art on Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You totally have it figured out. If there's one thing a farmer wants to do it is waste money on useless shots. They've got all the money in the world so just waste it to make drug companies rich!

  12. Exactly! on Federal Court: Theft of Medical Records Not an 'Imminent Danger' To Victim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because just like a credit card number when that is lost / stolen, they can just issue you a new medical history. They can undo the fact you may have diabetes, cancer, HIV, MS, heart disease all really easily and it won't impact your life at all.

  13. Or the most obvious explaination on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    She was always over eating and due to her gut bacteria being messed up she was simply passing most of it through and not gaining weight. But, now that her bacteria is in check and she eats like a pig, she gained a bunch of weight.

  14. Re:Level3? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 2

    Regulators don't give a fuck. No one does. I've been getting robodialers to my cell phone endlessly. They all come out of blocks of phone numbers provided by one datacenter (they own blocks around the country). They won't do anything. The regulatory bodies in states the numbers call from won't do anything. FCC won't do anything. FTC won't do anything. I've contacted my state AG. I've contacted my senators and congressmen.

    No one gives a flying shit about this kind of thing. It is infuriating.

  15. Re:How about... on New Facebook Update Lets You Choose News Feed Content · · Score: 2

    Twitter is going to start curating your feed for you as well... http://phandroid.com/2014/09/04/twitter-facebook-style-filtered-feed/

  16. Uh what correlation? on Long-term Study Finds No Link Between Video Game Violence and Real Violence · · Score: 1

    Violence as a whole is drastically down the last two decades as a whole - so a meaningless correlation if there is one.

  17. Re:Vote by mail. on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no one could ever tamper with the mail.

  18. Bank of America has had this for awhile on American Express Seeks To Swap Card Numbers For Secure Tokens · · Score: 2

    While cumbersome, you'd login to your account, magically find the tab and you could generate a 1 time credit card number. You could set a one time balance, set a monthly balance for recurring charges, etc.

    Fantastic for any online purchases you make. But, in reality - how many times are CC #'s getting stolen online vs in real life?

  19. Re:More secure than cards on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "can be" is the keyword there... Seeing how easily previous systems were compromised this doesn't have much promise behind it.

  20. Re:Oooh ... formally promised ... on Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter. Acquiring company can just purchase IP and not the corporation - thus invalidating all the cute "do no harm" language.

  21. Re:Lots of things on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 1

    Parent means enterprise consulting "no one ever got fired for buying IBM"

  22. Not a shock people aren't prepared for this on If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? · · Score: 1

    Our SaaS is hosted on both AWS and Azure. It one goes down, the other picks up the slack. It is far from easy to configure, but you want real redundancy you need to do it.

  23. Re: symbols, caps, numbers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean they store the password in plain text? That is the easiest give away there are poor security practices - password max lengths. Once hashed passwords all have the same length, so avoid those sites like the plague.

  24. Re:this aught to be a riot. on Google Takes the Fight With Oracle To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Sadly this is closer to reality

  25. I can't imagine how big of a boner on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 1

    That Wolf Blitzer has at the moment. Between this and Ebola, CNN has the next few months of programming on a silver platter.