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  1. Re:Insight on Xbox One: No Always-Online Requirement, But Needs To Phone Home · · Score: 2

    That's sharp!

  2. Re:A camera in every living room on Xbox One: No Always-Online Requirement, But Needs To Phone Home · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does?

    Turn it off, put it back in the box and return it to the retailer - tell them you'd like your money back because you're too stupid to own a computer.

  3. Re:No iTunes for the Windows Store on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 2

    Lotus Notes.

    I win!

  4. Re:Seriously considering it on Debian + Openbox = CrunchBang Linux (Video) · · Score: 1

    Or Debian with the mate repositories in your sources.list, as per http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download

  5. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    What is this "European" system of which you speak?

    It makes as much sense to try and lump all European countries together as it does to try and lump all the States together, for the purposes of making comparison about cultures or "systems".

    You may live in the "United" States, but from an outsiders perspective there certainly seem to be many differences from one area of the country to another.

  6. Re:Better Question: on Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker? · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that skype does "just work". My son lives abroad, so we use skype to talk. I'd much rather use a "free" solution (using openly defined protocols and open source software if at all possible).
    I'm sure it's possible, but he also uses skype to chat with his friends and it wouldn't be easy to get all of them to use a different solution.
    So, he uses multiple clients, or we all just use skype - unless we can find someting worth the hassle of converting to, which would have to work on Linux, Android & Windows.

  7. Re:Wayland? on NVIDIA Open-Sources 3D Driver For Tegra SoCs · · Score: 1

    , but not without any actual output.

    what does that even mean?

  8. Re:Guest wifi... on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 1

    No, it's not about stuff, it's about respect.

  9. Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly believe these botnets are made up of thousands of otherwise diligent users who fell prey to a zero-day attack?
    The millions of those who can't be bothered to update their systems have been bloody lucky not to get caught up in it then haven't they?

    And just because somebody might get caught out by a zero day doesn't automatically absolve everybody from taking some responsibility for the security of their systems.

  10. Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 1

    "unknowingly" being the operative word here.
    How many of these infections are caused by the user not having up-to-date AV software and blindly clicking on links in random e-mails?
    You have to take some responsibility.

  11. Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 2

    Ok, yes, if the owner has left the keys in the ignition, the doors unlocked, and walked away leaving a big sign on the car saying "please steal me".

  12. Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's like saying home users should be made personally liable if their PC is infected with a virus that adds it to a botnet and is used for a DDOS attack.

    Or like saying a car driver should be responsible for the damage he causes if he crashes into another vehicle.

    Oh.. wait..

  13. Re:tough encryption on CERN Gives Away Higgs Boson Particles To 10 Lucky Winners · · Score: 1

    Gee, a +13 shift. That was tough to crack.

    Rotate, not shift.

  14. Re:Kali Linux on Ask Slashdot: Do-It-Yourself Security Auditing Tools? · · Score: 1

    http://www.kali.org/official-documentation/

    It's a link on the top of the home page. I bet you couldn't find your arse with both hands and a mirror.

  15. Re:Don't change it... on Shorter '.uk' Domain Name Put On Ice · · Score: 1

    non-free porn ?

  16. Re:Don't change it... on Shorter '.uk' Domain Name Put On Ice · · Score: 1

    Why not xxx.[country_code] for porn? No need to add an extra level just for that.
    I like the idea of a separate porn tld, makes it easy both for those who want to find it, and those who want to avoid it.

  17. The older I get ... on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life? · · Score: 1

    ... the better it was.

  18. Nope on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    Create three pages, one of which contains only links to the other two. Now "click" from one of the child pages to the other. On a more serious note - Google may well be a massive generator of links to other sites, but I fail to see its usefulness in being able to click through it to other sites - it does rely on textual input.

  19. Re:Best use for it on Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server · · Score: 1

    Try measuring its terminal velocity by dropping it off of a very tall building. Preferably, drop it on a building owned by Oracle.

    FTFY

  20. Re:It would be fair... on Unlocking New Mobile Phones Becomes Illegal In the US Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not what the article says, in fact it specifically says

    (Note that unlocking is different from "jailbreaking," which opens the phone up for running additional software and remains legal for smartphones.)

    so I read it as referring to sim unlocking.

  21. Re:Shocker. on What's In Steve Ballmer's Inbox? · · Score: 1

    He should have pointed the university admin to RFC2142 then - abuse@[anywhere] shouldn't be available for anybody other than the network admins.

  22. Re:By not using SSH on Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Dear Apple on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1

    Well that's just being "clever" for the sake of it. Why can't they just use a simple, keyed, connector - I mean, apart from the obvious?

  24. Re:i think your uncle is right on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    It could, but that would be wrong.

    There's nothing in the standards that says the sending server has to be in the same domain as the mail client.
    I can use a gmail server to send mail from a hotmail address, or my ISP's smtp server to send mail from my domain, which may not be big enough to justify it's own infrastructure.

  25. Re:Digital signatures are too complex an idea on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    Use OpenPGP, there's the Enigmail plugin for Thunderbird, and a plugin for Outlook. Pretty sure there'll be something for Mac.
    Certainly Enigmail can be configured to automatically fetch other peoples public keys.