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  1. Re:Measures Willingness to Express Denial Response on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    Thanks... And I was focused on making sure I spelled the long words correctly :-)

  2. Re:Measures Willingness to Express Denial Response on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    Work on you reading comprehension... "not incompatible".

  3. Re:I'm a Libertarian on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Alcohol & ammo are better things to stockpile for trading "after the fall" than gold.

  4. Obviously a lie... on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Windows is still available and widely deployed.

  5. ChromeOS on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 1

    Let google maintain it for you.

  6. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    People were willing to fight and die to gain their rights as gay americans.

    I'm sure some people still are.

  7. Re:Time for Gun control in US on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    Sure you can. You can fly with a gun on the plane. No ammo, and the gun has to be an approved situation (I forget if it's a locked box, or just a lock), and in the luggage you are checking, and you have to declare it. But you can certainly take a gun into an airport in CA.

  8. Re:Major shot at Microsoft, too. on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 1

    at $3K, it's got 4 cores, but you an get 12 for an unannounced price.
    Still, the box is probably 1000x more capable than the NeXT Cube I bought ages ago for $6500...

  9. I can't imagine... on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine setting up something like Silk Road without a 'burn it all' setup like Mel Gibson had in Conspiracy Theory.

  10. Re:But.... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 2

    No, but all your base are belong to them anyway.

  11. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    That assumes the fiber travels in a straight line. This is not the case, though people have been blowing holes thru mountains to straighten the routes to make trades faster...

  12. Re:More secure. on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Yeah, or turn the screen bright white... but the software would have to 'work harder' (and probably make it less secure) with wildly variable lighting.

  13. Re:More secure. on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 2

    Also, the phone could use the accelerometer to determine it's movement and compare it to the expected change in photos given the 3D model of your face stored in the phone.

  14. Re:More secure. on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    No, not just a photo, but rather a video/series of photos from different angles, so you'd need a fairly realistic 3-D bust of the person's face.

  15. Re:More secure. on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    I don't know why they don't let you use the camera. I should be able to unlock my phone by holding it up so the camera can see my face. Maybe from a couple of angles, or a swipe around from one side to the other...

  16. Re:Also it stands to reason on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    Heh, I adopted a kid, so I'm already in the FBI database, all 10 fingers.

  17. Re:Also it stands to reason on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    I recently went from a 4-digit PIN to a password that takes about 11 keystrokes to enter. I do notice that it's more of a pain when driving, but other than that, not so much... Now if my iPhone had NFC and I could unlock it with my Yubikey Neo, that'd be cool as I'm unlikely to lose my phone and keys at the same time, unless I also lose my pants. And if that's happened, I've got bigger problems...

  18. Re:Still a hack, but closer on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    And the FreeBSD that runs my BluRay player I use for Netflix...

  19. Re:Uh huh on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    IIRC, SunOS was based on BSD, Solaris switched to System V (at the user-interface level anyway, not sure about the kernel and programming APIs)

  20. Re:Uh huh on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 2

    It's so closed-source that they make it available on git-hub: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu

  21. Re: get a mac. on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    Ah right, Mtn. Lion is out though (according to the Apple website).

  22. Re:Extensions needed! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    _I_ was the "gmail customer end", and it dropped in my Inbox with no indication that it was spammy at all...

  23. Re: get a mac. on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 2

    My Core-2 Duo Macbook is EOL at Snow Leopard, but I'm fine with that. In fact I'm still running Leopard on it, since I want to do a clean reinstall instead of an upgrade but haven't made time to do it. Besides, once I upgrade to snow leopard I won't be able to run the "AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow.app" to admin my original Airport base station.

    I don't understand the whining about 'planned obsolescence'. My gear continues to run just like when I bought it. Besides, I consider many of the "enhancements" of recent OSX upgrades to be steps backward...

  24. Re:Extensions needed! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 2

    Fucking Google ignores SPF records. Just the other day at work we were checking on the viability of spoofing from our cloud based servers into our Google hosted-domain email (to make it easier for an internal automated system to assign issues to the correct customer). So I spoofed the "From:" header. No problem. Yay, it'll work! :-)

    Then, curious, I spoofed the envelope sender for my personal domain which specifies a hard-fail. Google nicely logged the hard-fail and delivered the email anyway. It's nice to know that people should have no trouble joe-jobbing me to Google email customers. Fuckers.

  25. Re:Uh oh.. on Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks · · Score: 2

    Yep, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, your coffee is ready.