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  1. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 1

    It did find only 60 out of 221 fonts installed on my system, but that's still good enough for some serious fingerprinting.

  2. Re:Check your math. on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Except, have you read his holy book? He's doing exactly as commanded, that's why his imam finds it hard to protest. The whole idea that "jihad" might mean something else than murdering and subjugating non-believers is an invention of an 11th century scholar, with no basis in the Koran.

    There's a large amount of people who self-identify as Muslims yet find jihad to be abhorrent. That doesn't make the Koran any better, though -- it just makes those people not evil, unlike what their holy book demands. You're confusing the Koran with the Bible -- the latter is a large collection of often unrelated works, with hardly any internal consistency. Try for example Psalms 82:1 which says "Jahveh sits on the court of the God of Gods, and passes judgmements to other gods in his name." -- it's really interesting how various translations try to wiggle this statement around towards the current religion. The Koran has no issues of this kind: it's a highly consistent work edited by one man (Uthman) (ok, ok, plus a bunch of scribes doing his bidding). It does deliver a consistent message -- and I really don't like what the message says.

    More reading: Skeptic's Annotated Koran, an analysis of references to "jihad" in the Koran.

  3. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is not in fonts (on non-embedded there's no such thing as too many good fonts!), but in letting a random webpage poke that deeply into your system.

    The message "No Flash or Java fonts detected" suggests who the culprits are. Flash belongs behind FlashBlock, Java belongs in /dev/null.

  4. Re:Damned Republicans on 'Revolving Door' Spins Between AT&T, Government · · Score: 1

    Hmm... let's check if there are any democrites on the bribe list. It looks like AT&T has only a small bias towards repugnicans.

  5. Re:The case for not: on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    So set your hinting to vertical, duh. Any OS but Windows supports that.

  6. Re:Compare to... on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 2

    Because JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, WebP and others don't work in browsers without specifically added support, BGP does (via javascript).

  7. Re:This really is a man's world... on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that this test image has just a face and part of a shoulder, without any naughty bits. Not even erotic at all.

    It's a good test image because it catches both distortions of detail and color damage to areas with a gentle gradient.

  8. Re:All for poisioning the well on AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads · · Score: 1

    He will get targeted ads, yes. He'll also click on them again (at least from the advertiser's point of view). All while not being aware of the ads' existence because they're being blocked!

  9. Re:Maybe sony should have on In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite · · Score: 1

    It takes just one of those elite hackers literate enough to read about this.

  10. Re: Cubic gigaparsec ... on Stars Traveling Close To Light Speed Could Spread Life Through the Universe · · Score: 1

    3200 Gpc? Er... how's that possible in a ball of radius 14.3Gpc (4.2Gpc before counting expansion)? Unless you lost ^3 somewhere.

  11. What about a low-food diet? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    You want to lose weight? Stop stuffing your pie hole.

    Both of these diet fads, low-carb and low-fat, fail at providing balanced food intake. An unhealthy diet can make you lose weight fast, but that's not a good idea.

  12. Re:What a moron! on US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He had 20 mil worth of Bitcoins? He should have sold them all himself and then fled the country.

    Unlike the US marshals, Dread Pirate Roberts has a sense of decency.

  13. Separate the hidden service from the tor daemon on Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services · · Score: 1

    Rule #1 that should be enforced: contrary to all popular docs, the hidden service should never, ever, be on the same logical machine as the tor daemon. The latter needs connectivity to arbitrary IPs, which means as soon as any part of the service is pwned -- or just sports a data leak -- the bad guys can learn who you are. If the hidden service machine doesn't know its IP nor other kinds of data that can be used to identify it, it can't leak that.

    This won't avoid traffic analysis, but (most likely) the majority of hidden service breaches so far has been done by exploiting some bug in a http daemon and making it query http://home.spooks.gov/ outside tor.

  14. Re:Gnome3, systemd etc. on Joey Hess Resigns From Debian · · Score: 1

    The GR doesn't override the TC decision, it enhances it.

    The CTTE decision said "systemd is the default init for jessie", without saying whether non-defaults are to be supported or dropped. This is the part the GR is for.

  15. Re:Gnome3, systemd etc. on Joey Hess Resigns From Debian · · Score: -1

    So these days daring to use the means the constitution provides is called "abuse"? Interesting...

    With that logic, trying to use the 1st, 2nd or 4th amendment to the US constitution means you're a terrorist, right?

  16. So you're going to go mass-murdering cats and dogs too? (Intentionally using the wrong word between "murder" and kill", to follow your idols.)

  17. Re:How long will it take slashdot to spin this? on Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 1

    The only shady thing here are claims by the pro-mutilation party that it somehow reduces the risk of transmitting AIDS. The only study that shown this result was Camp Orange, and it: 1. was ran by a group funded by MGM proponents, 2. has multiple claims of scientific misconduct pointed against it, 3. contradicts actually peer-reviewed studies, 4. included the time of recovery from the surgery within study time (a man with a penis in pain isn't exactly going to conduct in sexual contact), 5. gave sexual education to only one of the groups (during the surgery), and 6. destroyed the control group, making any further study on those people impossible.

  18. Re:How long will it take slashdot to spin this? on Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 1

    LMGTFY: "bill gates genital mutilation"

  19. Re:Fallback was GNOME 2, now it's Flashback on Trisquel 7 Released · · Score: 1

    llvmpipe is i386 amd64 only, though. In addition with Gnome's 3D not working with almost any graphics drivers other than Intel, Nvidia and Radeon, this means in practice that Gnome3 is x86-only after they dropped Fallback.

  20. Re:How long will it take slashdot to spin this? on Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 0

    Even his "charity" can be bloody and harmful. The guy put $50M for a campaign to promote genital mutilation.

  21. Re:Actually no... on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 1

    And how exactly will it tell the original author vs a megacorp that stolen the artwork (basically the only case of copyright theft as it deprives the author of his work rather than just potential revenue)?

    Something tells me it will declare the latter as "authentic"...

  22. Re:Someone in the know please explain on Qualcomm Begins Contributing To Reverse-Engineered Freedreno Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    I don't use my Odroid U2 as the primary desktop only because it can't do multi-head.

    Perfectly silent, has enough oomph to run a modern browser, can ssh/ssh -X/vnc/etc to machines used for work just the same as the big noisy clunker I got under my desk. Only difference, big compiles will be done when sshed.

  23. Re:Pros and Cons on Google To Disable Fallback To SSL 3.0 In Chrome 39 and Remove In Chrome 40 · · Score: 1

    For Windows only on Nov 25, but on Linux SSL3 has been disabled for some time. In Debian since Oct 18.

  24. Re:Great Job on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If America was brave, terror wouldn't be the primary focus of the government.

  25. Re:Nah, this is just stage 1 on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Orban's regime borders on fascism, I wouldn't call it a democracy. His policies are a lot closer to those of Putin rather than classical fascism, though.