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  1. And a loss for the open, free-sharing internet culture we've enjoyed so far. Perhaps we should revert to the one-way street that is Television.

  2. Press Release for Profit on Belgian Telecom Becomes First To Accept Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I suspect any time a company/Richard Branson makes a press release validating Bitcoin, they are actually invested in Bitcoin at that moment and hoping to ride the bump of their own news before dumping the stuff. This might also apply to the press.

  3. Re:Time to switch gears on Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too · · Score: 2

    If you can manage without it, that's nice... have a cookie.

    But.. I have cookies disabled :(

  4. Re:Calling for? on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 1

    Not if the NSA/FBI can legally backdoor in ways they don't know about.

  5. Re:Amazon was a hoax on Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone · · Score: 1

    You can already get tacos from an octorotor, so what makes you think this model won't be scalable to delivering other goods in a decade and a half?

  6. Re:Have the legal questions been tested? on Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone · · Score: 1

    Move out of the ocean.

  7. Tactful changelogs on Ask Slashdot: To Publish Change Logs Or Not? · · Score: 1

    I'm of the impression that if something was a problem but is fixed, the changelog pointing out the potentially "ridiculous" problem should be more of a badge of pride for resolving it. That said, there's no reason everything has to be included in a changelog, and even fixes that are included can be carefully stated so as to work around anything capable of being ridiculed or revealing additional holes in security or quality.

  8. It's worth noting that any data sent in plaintext (including non-encrypted chat for any online service or game) is readable by anyone monitoring the traffic directly, potentially including your ISP and the NSA.

  9. Global Trade on Trans-Pacific Partnership Includes Unwanted Elements of SOPA · · Score: 1

    There are some amazing evangelists for global trade because there are some that truly believe this to be the path to world peace (If we all have things we want to trade, we should all be able to get along). Unfortunately, many simply see it as a new means for greater wealth, and it's often hard to distinguish between these different proponents. Since WWII imperialism has been passeé, so now taking foreign countries for all their worth has become a bureaucratic process.

  10. 4th Amendment on Ask TechFreedom's Berin Szoka About Govt. Policy and Privacy Online · · Score: 1

    Signed the petition yesterday! Wouldn't it make the most sense to extend the protections of the 4th amendment to include electronic communication, as it was extended in the 40s or 50s to include telephonic communication, or is that goal too lofty?

  11. Re:Perjury! Piracy! What? on Hotfile Settles With MPAA, Drops Countersuit Against Warner Bros · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They may have just been flexing their legal muscle to achieve a better bargaining position, allowing them to settle for less than they would have had to pay.

  12. Re:In exchange for privacy? WHA? on Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy · · Score: 1

    I don't have any privacy to give up ... as long as I can get my auto-fill app on 'droid to fill out your EULA page automatically.

    If you agree to EULAs without at least skimming them for privacy-infringing conditions, I hope you aren't seriously surprised when your privacy is thereby infringed.

  13. Re: Oh no! on Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio · · Score: 2

    I think it's from South Park.

  14. Only temporary on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If freed, chimpanzees would be unable to follow basic laws and would likely need to be locked up in imprisonment anyway.

  15. Re:Study and practice this in private. on Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? · · Score: 1

    Practice. A coworker once boggled at the brain's ability to calculate the physics necessary to toss a wad of garbage into a wastebasket, but it doesn't really work like that. Neuroplasticity allows the architecture of the brain to strengthen along the most frequently used pathways, so experience shapes your ability to predict the effects of your actions without having to understand the underlying mechanics.

  16. Re:Study and practice this in private. on Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It sounds like the "professional" is sick of his job.

  17. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're the third person who's managed to figure out something I stated quite plainly in the OP. Congratulations. Must one be a parent to question their constant supervision of children? I'm mostly concerned about geo-locational privacy rights for any given person. If there's an exception in the parent/child relationship that warrants such extreme monitoring I'm up for discussing it, but saying I "just don't get it" because I'm not a parent isn't really a valid argument.

  18. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    It's an honest admission to wrap up an honest question, I'm glad to get parents reactions whatever they are. When I was growing up, monitoring your child's location at all times might be considered an invasion of privacy, but judging from most of these responses times have changed.

  19. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    You plan to prevent your child's reckless behavior through constant monitoring? Teaching them good judgment, and then allowing them to practice that judgment on their own seems like the more important lesson. Then again, I don't have kids.

  20. Pidgin + OTR plugin on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? · · Score: 1

    For most of my personal communication I use the pidgin instant messaging client with the Off-The Record plugin for easy encrypted messaging on (nearly) any OS. The tough part is talking friends into using it as well. Of course, the NSA could still break into this stuff, but it would certainly waste their time and resources.

  21. Re:'weather' wizards most dangerous stuff ever? on The Art of Apple, In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Funniest thing I've read on /. all week.

  22. Drill, baby, drill on Detecting Chemicals Through Bone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trepanning always gets a bad rap.

  23. Re:Let's see if I got this, get this.. on Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For GPS Trackers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is precisely why some argue that prostitution and recreational drugs should be legalized. When conflicts arise surrounding these relatively innocuous, yet illegal activities, there is no legal recourse for the parties involved. Only black-market resolutions are available (usually violence).

  24. Re:no ufos on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 4, Informative

    U.F.O. stands for Unidentified Flying Object. Those are the only conditions for being a U.F.O.

  25. Versions 6 & 7 on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Specifically versions 6 & 7, says the article.