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  1. each bit being a 1 or a 0 on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    The message was only 16 bits long, with each bit being a 1 or a 0

    This is nothing impressive if they are limiting each bit to only 1's and 0's.

  2. Re:Spoofing on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I haven't tried it yet but I think the Xposed module XPrivacy module can do that.

  3. Re:Why single out Whole Foods? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 2

    Well, according to the sea salt I find at work in the kitchen it is ANCIENT SEA SALT that was once part of the sea back in ANCIENT TIMES.
    It has been preserved underground and under volcanic ash and is carefully dug out of the ground in Utah!

  4. Re:who cares on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    Same reason I stopped using it.
    Oh, you want to draw a circle around something? Here, select an area with the ellipse tool, fill it a solid color, then go to some menu options and shrink your current selection, then delete what is in you now smaller selection!

  5. Re:IPV6 is BROCCOLI!? on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    While we're at it, raw cauliflower dipped in ranch dressing is wonderful.
    Cauliflower has always reminded me of broccoli.

  6. Re:Probably wide spread on Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires · · Score: 2

    In that case you should also know that pidgin stores the passwords in plaintext in the settings file(at least last time I checked).

  7. Re:policies on Wikimedia Treats Their Operations Like Their Projects · · Score: 1

    I'm lost here... what's "an analog"? Do you mean a diagram?

  8. Re:Learn X in X hours/days on Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development · · Score: 1

    As others have pointed out, there are 24 one hour chapters, it's not meant to teach you in a 24 hour period.

  9. Re:Hopefully on DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115 · · Score: 1

    The difference is want and need. If you steal a bread to feed your children (and yourself) is a want. To steal an xbox to entertain your children is a want.

    I think you meant "need" for the first example?

  10. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    It's the required car analogy, what more can you ask for?

  11. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    You have just revealed that you are not an old fart.

  12. Re:Samsung Again? on More Windows Phone Update Problems · · Score: 1

    So am I the that is seeing this MOTD at the bottom of /.?

    Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software? -- Matt Welsh

  13. Re:Only half as good as Chome on Firefox 5 In Aurora Channel · · Score: 1

    It DOES affect the software when they start adding bloat just to get a jump on their competitors with a new version number.

  14. Re:Sure on Salt Lake City To Launch Mobile Payment System · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Mobil and their Speedpass?
    If I remember correctly they even had one that you can glue onto your window so it activates the pump when you drive up.

    I haven't seen a Shell/Texaco station with that but maybe they just weren't in my area.

  15. Re:Ah, I get it on Does the Moon Have Military Value? · · Score: 1

    Go switch to classic discussion style, it still looks mostly the same other than the side bar.

  16. Re:Films? on The Hobbit To Be Filmed In New Zealand After All · · Score: 1

    ($15m US) tax rebate

    US$7.5m per film

  17. Re:Let me be the first to say to Microsoft... on Windows 8 To Be Released In October 2012 · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly, I only first used Vista it on a new system last year and don't see what all the rage was about.
    From what I've heard, the main problem was with the lack of device drivers right after it was released.

  18. Re:Had This Problem Myself on AVG Update Breaks iTunes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I tried Avira on two computers two months ago, and on one it was constantly trying to access the floppy drive, and that seems to be a known problem.

    I'm not going to bother installing it on my other computers to see if it works, I'm going with NOD32.

  19. Re:Mod parent up on Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do you think this is, some kind of generic news aggregation site?

    When was the last time you read Slashdot?

  20. Re:And... on Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Naturally since you support 100 times as many users as I do your going to experience many more problems then I would, but the only time I had a problem that couldn't be fixed without reinstalling Windows was back on Windows 98 when I installed two firewalls at the same time.

  21. Re:And... on Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And then there's the lovely day that a program simply... stops working. Why? Who knows! Time to format and reinstall!

    I don't think I've experienced anything like that in the last 7 years on Windows 2000 or XP.
    On the other hand, after updating my Ubuntu box some time ago BackupPC stopped working, and it took few hours of digging to find out that the updated version of BackupPC needed a variable set in the configuration file, only the update didn't take care of that, and the error message was rather cryptic.

  22. Re:Who reads those things anyway? on Malware Spreading Via ... Windshield Fliers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And that's before you notice that your local government is using a website like: http://qlmbix.ch/parkingticets.html

    How is the average person supposed to know that a suspicious address? For all they know it could be some sort of acronym, and would the average Joe actually notice that the alleged government site doesn't have a .gov TLD?

  23. Re:Standby? on Fujitsu To Show Off "Zero-Watt" PC At CeBIT · · Score: 1

    Yes, if I was going to replace the hard drive or memory I would very much prefer it to be off rather than on standby.

  24. Re:Executable that's not an executable? on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    I did not RTFA, I was talking about Virtumundo, not anything this guy wrote.

  25. Re:Executable that's not an executable? on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    You're lucky, I had to make a BartPE cd with Spybot, and even after that had to manually find the latest random-character files is system32 and deleted them, and then boot back into Windows and run Spybot again to get rid of any left over registry entries.