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  1. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 2

    The only thing that will act as a deterrent is the death penalty (I am normally against the use of the DP but I will make an exception with these psychopaths).

  2. Re:I'm not necessarily against the idea but... on Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web · · Score: 1

    As long as I can continue to create exceptions for self-signed certs. I have a bad feeling about this though, from both google and mozilla.

    If the letsencrypt project delivers then I'll gladly use them to create validated certs.

    No question that the current certification system is a scam.

  3. Re:More changes I don't want ... on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, considering how badly they fucked up Google Maps, I think you're right to be cautious.

  4. Re:mainframe is old crap for geezers on Linux Needs Resource Management For Complex Workloads · · Score: 1

    Are you being intentionally obtuse? It would seem so, but sometimes it's hard to tell on /.

  5. NJ seems to be regularly in the news these days on Verizon and New Jersey Agree 4G Service Equivalent to Broadband Internet · · Score: 1

    For all the wrong reasons. Spread your cheeks NJ.

  6. repeat after me on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 2

    Not a threat to Apple(tm). Apple fans are the least likely to leave their chosen brand. We android users are a fickle lot though, and I'll jump ship in a millisecond to Ubuntu if Shuttleworth can get his shit together on the mobile platform. Until the next thing comes along that tweaks my interest.

  7. Re:Useless outside of the USA on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 1

    Free Trade! Unless the media content holders disagree or have some bizarre unwarranted suspicion that you come from a country of copyright infringers, as they obviously believe all Canadians (and all the rest of you) to be.

  8. Re:I'm sure that's good news for Randall on XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller · · Score: 1

    I'm more gobsmacked that people would spend money on any kind of vile utterance by that revolting pile of shit Rush Limbaugh. At least Rob Ford isn't published and his nation is limited to a bunch of suburban rubes.

  9. Re:You can get a 1TB external for like, 80 bucks on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    I'm currently doing this with 2 3TB usb3 backups, and I have a copy of the data that I rsync at the offsite end. But still, it's a bit of a hassle, and there is still a small window of potential data loss that is closed significantly when using the cloud to backup. My biggest problem in Canada (with an absolute maximum upload rate of about 200KB/s max, is the time and cost to sync my data, basically impossible for anything more than about 10GB/day. Fucking ISPs in Canada all suck equally when it comes to upload.

  10. Re:Th real cost on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not really an issue, assuming we can trust gpg et al :)

  11. Re:Now we have an answer to the 20TB backup questi on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    You need two of those 1200 NAS boxes, and you have to replace failed drives, and you have to move storage off site in case of fire, theft, foo, bar. $1200 for 10TB of storage is so incredibly cheap. It was only 15 years ago that we used to sell 100GB NAS boxes for $100,000.

  12. Re:Now we have an answer to the 20TB backup questi on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    Until your house burns down.

  13. Re:Backup = More Disks on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    And then his house burns down.

  14. Re:vi or emacs? on Interview: Ask Eric Raymond What You Will · · Score: 1

    Please don't let his answer be vi, I really have no need to agree with ESR on anything. One thing I do find is that /. sucks for this kind of reddit style AMA

  15. SSH/GPG encrypted text file on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I use a vim plugin that allows me to read a gpg encrypted file to get to my passwords, which lately are random 12 character strings of letters, numbers and symbols generated with pwgen. The system ssh account and the gpg keys should have different passwords. I avoid entering passwords remotely from secured systems using ssh keys (with ssh-add, or in more recent years this is handled by gnome). I do not want to put my trust in other password safes, especially those on smart phones. I do use firefox with a master password to store less sensitive passwords and feel relatively secure doing so but would never store anything like banking passwords there.

  16. Re:Who Cares? on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    Because you're boring and anonymous.

  17. Re:Erosion is a myth on Grand Canyon Is "Frankenstein" of Geologic Formations · · Score: 1

    Obviously. Jesus dug the canyon with help from His dinosaur friends. In a weekend. Without a shovel. Obviously. Praise.

  18. Apparently "is given open access to" == "to steal" on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    I remember when 60 minutes weren't lying media whores. You really think "forbes" would like about this?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/

  19. Get a trumpet, learn to play a very loud note.

  20. Re:I agree... on Why Organic Chemistry Is So Difficult For Pre-Med Students · · Score: 1

    1) organic chemistry is part logic, part memory work
    2) this is something that med students should be able to handle
    3) I am not particularly good at memory related courses, but because I could hack away at it using the logic of reactions mechanisms I did suprisingly well
    4) disclosure: phys chem was my major

    If you want to be a farkin doctor, you should be able to handle organic chemistry. This article strikes me as whinging.

  21. Re:We need more memory on Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 · · Score: 1

    And that's why, as much as I like the nexus phones otherwise, I won't be buying a nexus phone. I want 64GB min, or 32GB and an external storage slot. I'm waiting for fairphone to arrive in North America right now.

  22. Re:John McAfee Media Whoring again on John McAfee's Latest Project: Shielding Against Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Insanely you have to send your email address to JohnMcAfee(tm) in clear text to register for further updates. I'm sure no one will be listening to that end point.

  23. Re:interesting on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide · · Score: 1

    No it won't, because it's still an environmental nightmare. Carbon has to be converte3d to a stable form for any viable, long term form of sequestration. How much you wanna bet that this is a study that is funded by the fracking industry.

  24. Probably not on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    One thing annoys me, on my otherwise excellent LG 37" 720p LCD screen, and that's the fact that it only has one HDMI port. This has caused me some grief over the years when experimenting with media computers running xbmc. Okay, one other complaint is that the PVR I have comes up in 480i mode by default, but the screen doesn't support 480i so I have to jump through a few hoops to configure it for 720p.

  25. Jeopardy on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 1

    A: PayPal
    Q: Why did you not support the Ubuntu Edge Smartphone campaign, Alex