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  1. Any country controlled by religion on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...are bound by illogical and fantasy rules & regulations that only makes sense to a fanatically indoctrinated mind.

    The headline in this post is also typical of the sensationalist kind, yes - it's sad that it's a web developer that got the death sentence, but it would be equally sad that it would be anyone in any other category as well, it's why they're being judged that we should react on - not what status they have in society.

  2. A fart in the wind... on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 1

    ...11+ mill. bucks means nothing, Nike probably earns 100x that much on their slave factories around the world, god knows they've been busted numerous times (just read the news once in a while), c'mon...I love the BTTF Nike Power Laces...shoes as much as any other 80's fan, but don't kid yourselves, business is business, and it's all about Public Relations.

    Remember the Ronald McDonalds fund? Sponsoring a few cents now and then, promotions? Children's hospitals? Raising one or two hospitals for the MILLION of obese kids destroyed by processed food?

    Google? 11.5M..!??! Aw man, my house cost that half mill... Google is a multi-BILLION corporate, they can do way better than this.

  3. I am a Cyber Hippie on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am...

    I was around since the dawn of SX-80, and coded my very first game on Commodore-64 in assembly code, there wasn't any games available to purchase, and I was forced to make my own. Little did I know that was to become a blessing for me in the future, no - I did not get rich by becoming a game developer, I was only 12 and very VERY naive, had NO idea that I could make money out of making video games. I just loved my computer and my artsy pixels on the screen.

    Today I'm all grown up - sorta - I own my own house, fully paid and all, and it's filled with all kinds of gadgets, millions of components and retro stuff as well, yep - you guessed it - I can't possibly be married.

    But that's it - I'm in control of what I do, as I type this - I'm on my own compiled Linux kernel, I'm by no means an expert, I just like to be in control, and the Personal Computer - is ALL about control. I'd rather be dead and buried before anyone controls anything of mine, unless I chose for them to do so...usually for practical reasons. Personally I believe the OpenSource movement will take over more and more, and color me wrong if you can, this has only increased by time, I made my first dollar on Open Source 10 years ago...now I own my own property, have a high paying salary, and still - ALL Open Source, baby!

    So all that "wallet-gardens" did for me was - NULL. It may have lulled the laymen into a steady stream of cash-flow-drainage from their wallet, good for them (the wallet-garden owners, that is)...I'm not going to protest, they can be a part of the darn thing for all that iCare dot com...

    The point I'm trying to make, if you didn't read between the lines, is that the personal computer is FAR from dead, 1000000's of hackers all over the planet have and WILL make sure of that, from here to eternity. Don't worry :) Every single gadget they come up with, essentially came from a hacker, and will be taken over by a hacker.

    And guess who the hacker is? It's either you, or your kid, or someone in your family...

  4. Nothing is quite as random as humans & heat on Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    When it comes to true random devices, I've coded some micro-controllers to add random numbers based on key-presses from humans, picture someone pressing the button when a 24 mhz timer runs mad, no human that I know of - can repeat press the button so accurately that it hits the same number at a 0.00001th of a second more or less.

    When no human interaction is required, I use an insanely accurate temperature sensor, no temperature, not even placed in a professional fridge with 0.01c accuracy can get the same results each time. Mix this with a spinning/running timer, and you've got yourself a winner! ;)

  5. I actually GOT jobs thanks to Open Source on Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it wasn't for Open Source, I'd be bust by now. I'm a graphics artist, and thanks to Open Source I managed to work my way up from poverty to success.

    I could offer cheaper labor and in-house services to small rising companies that needed ad-work due to lower software costs, and that made me very popular. As well as getting much faster help from idealistic programmers that took pride in correcting bugs rather than trying to protect a corporate image (and thus deny every bug report ever given to them).

    3 times HURRAH for Open Source! It's the new way of life.

  6. Sine and Tetra... on Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public · · Score: 4, Informative

    Man...even though I know a lot more about this than the average Slashdot audience, your idiot mods are probably going to mod me out into -1000 troll territory for saying what I'm about to say, but guess what - bring it on mods, you're morons...not techs....so I can afford it...

    Not a single person of you here, know what the SINE or TETRA system is...but I'm going to explain it to you. (gawd knows why...)...but I'm all for information to the public, so I'm going to tell...

    In Scandinavia the police use Sine and Tetra. The radios are developed by Motorola and often called "Spectra". (google it if you must), these have a specific software & hardware encryption system. It works something like this - every unit has a GPS built in, in fact...it's kind of like a 10 year old cell-phone with a GPS, pretty crappy screens, but it does sport TETRA and SINE, an infra-system that is very difficult to crack (but HAS been cracked, with a 32-piece FPGA card...again...google this, I don't care what you know), or you could use an average pc. to crack one minute of conversation in 1 hour if you don't care to have it real-time.

    The thing is...the police wanted a system that was interconnected with the Fire-department, Hospital & Ambulance, and lock out any of the public listeners as they could be drug-distributors, thieves & criminals...but things didn't exactly go according to plans, the system failed numerous times, and they had to revert to their old systems (which...btw...also had an analog&digital encryption option...that still hasn't been cracked...)

    However....this new system had a downside...namely people! People all over the country was used to owning and listening to police radio...you know...analog signals...kind of like your FM or CB radio...for years, like the last 30 years...these where gone now, everything was SINE (tetra) and digital, so no layman out there could listen in (unless they where geeks, and purchased the very expensive 16x2 (32) FPGA cards for their pcs...and installed the geeky software) realtime, so the police didn't get the info on purps...as they usually got from the faithful legal scanner listeners...they used to get information from.

    What do I mean by this? Imagine your average joe out there, wanting some action, purchasing a Scanner...he listens in....hears the police talking about some criminal in his neighborhood...he looks outside the window...discovers the purp...calls the police, and informs..

    Now...he can't do that anymore, because it's encrypted...

    The only people who can do this now...is the Drug barons with a lot of money to buy the Open-Source 32-FPGA cards that are available to the public...and eliminating the average JOE from listening in...helping the police.. ...I bet the authorities didn't see that one coming.

  7. Knowing Apple... on Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network · · Score: 0

    ...this would eventually make the entire Mobile Network privately own by Apple, and you'd all pay a traffic fee, even if you where the carrier of other peoples traffic. That's Apple.

  8. Re:wow on Mixed-Reality 3D Volumetric Projector · · Score: -1, Troll

    Aren't you a cute little America Boy Scout eh? Disney World...good for you...good for you! :)

  9. If it can burn, it can move too! on NASA Wants To Make Tractor Beams a Reality · · Score: 1

    Simple logic!

  10. People don't wear watches anymore on Is That an Android On Your Wrist? · · Score: 1

    and those that do, usually wear some kind of gentleman's watch... not a digital timepiece.

  11. It won't happen, I promise! on UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' · · Score: 0

    Because it really can't happen.

    Doing this, would essentially be as effective as blocking & filtering sites are today. Literally every ISP in Sweden (and most of Denmark) already does this, but it never worked for them, it never will. As long as software is SOFTware, it will be circumvented, rest assured.

    All that it does, is scaring the general public, the average Joe, those that have no clue, those that rush forward and purchase the most expensive Anti-Virus protection package they can get, the very same people.

    It's as hilarious as the Password control in Microsoft, Microsoft Denies all flaws, the government associates believes it blindly, so if a kid at school loses his password, and the Admin password is unknown - for every Windows Ever Made - the support people, Microsoft certified and all, master degree in science & engineering and whatever, are completely blind to the real world - every single password was broken in less than 10 minutes, on every system available.

    Same deal. It simply can't be done.

    Trusted computing my pale white butt.

  12. Re:Shatner died for me when... on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 1

    What's bizzarre about loving something too much?

    I can understand if you're an idiot going overboard by visiting some actors house, stalking them and stuff...then you're a freaking nutcase, granted!

    But people, gathering together...to enjoy their series? What's nuts about that? HOW exactly do you need to spit at your fanbase by calling them a bunch of geeks that ought to get a life?

    From a business point of view, that has got to be the dumbest thing you could ever do to your customer base.

  13. Shatner died for me when... on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...he called his fanbase a bunch of geeks who ought to get a life, live on TV.

    http://starshiptim.com/shatner.html

    I've never truly been a trekkie myself, but I loved the series Shatner was a leading part of, and I used to watch it on TV whenever I could find the time to do so, but later on, when I heard (on CNN) that Shatner just thought that Trekkies (essentially his BIGGEST FANS) ought to get a life...then I was thinking, this is a man who doesn't appreciate all the good things his fans have given him (such as a surefire success to millions of dollars), sure...what he does with his money is his business, fair game...but calling his fans a bunch of geeks that needs to get a life, is a TAD bit overboard imho!

    It's not like his life is 100% perfect either, look, he loves to eat...yes ...no secret there, he's gone from 70 to over 100kgs faster than lightspeed, from a thin healthy man to a huge fat self absorbent fan-hater that now even has his own show, based entirely on his own previous fame (sh@t my dad says)...which have failed severely here in Scandinavia...because ...seriously...what does a fat Shatner have that any other has-been hollywood actor can't offer in a sit com?

    Shatner, you used to be cool...but I've lost all respect for you. You fans is what made you big in the first time, now ...you're just "big".

  14. Re:More nostalgia goggles on Who Killed Videogames? · · Score: 2

    +1 one from me 2!

    The quote is from Gauntlet (Wizard needs food...badly), obviously there aren't many real old-skool Slashdotters here anymore...sadly :/

  15. Google WAVE anyone? Yesterday hot, today it's not? on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    I remember getting an invite to Wave. We where excited, we watched the video and ideals behind it, amazing stuff.

    Then I started to use it, I staked my personal reputation on it, I invited lots of people, engineers, locals, friends and professionals.
    BAD MISTAKE, bad bad mistake!

    It turned out to be much more ALPHA than beta, I'm not even sure it got to Alpha, but it crashed more than windows ME, and it crashed so badly that the errors usually where unrecoverable, and my friends...especially the professionals, got real tired of losing their drawings & ideas...albeit just for fun, it wasn't fun when you had to act as a project manager for Google (without pay) and constantly start new channels to inform people that the old ones just died due to errors etc.... ...thats why google wave died imho.

    G+

    I've had it for a while now, not to be a negative ninny, but I somehow get the same vibes I got from Wave, it's not doing it for me. It also have some crucial flaws that Facebook doesn't (or rather - HAD in it's early stages) where you had to filter like mad to avoid endless useless-geek-messages from would-or-wannabee-gurus that you have NO intention of reading the ENDLESS updates from, despite desperate filtering in east & west, it just isn't worth the time.

    And the user interface? WTF? It's like an expanded version of Facebook, except...more like google searches, which btw. sucks donkeyballs because it's more like a 1980's dos-box-with-text-boxes-and-pictures, development stages? Sure....it still sucks, and reaks of "we-re-the-programmers-and-designers-doesnt-count" land... that's what happens when you have a hoarde of coders and zero designers.

    Where's a wannabee Steve Jobs when you need him? The Google team sure could use some design hints. Hey...I don't even have an Apple, and run on my LINUX box, and even I can see that!

  16. Big deal, Deal Extreme have had these for a long.. on India Launches $35 Tablet · · Score: 1

    ...time now, just check this out:

    Since the Indian model are planned to be sold commercially for 60 bucks, with those poor specs...check out these android pads for 79 bucks:
    http://www.dealextreme.com/p/7-touch-screen-lcd-google-android-2-2-tablet-pc-w-wifi-camera-tf-arm-v5-349-79mhz-70053

    I've seen the same tablet, sold for 59$ when they have specials, so it's certainly possible. And this one is feature ladden.

  17. Why not kill the START button on the KEYBOARD... on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    ...while they're at it.

    I'm sure Linux users would be thrilled to finally officially get rid of the daft flag-key on their own hardware.
    I've always seen this FLAG logo on my keyboards...as me...paying for their branding.

  18. Re:someone cracks blackberry security on Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security · · Score: 0

    quote you:
    So stuff your ignorant sarcasm.
    quote end...

    Yep...stuff me, that will solve all issues right there.
    unlike you, I actually know something about it, but then again, would you even care?
    You write...RIM's stuff is by and large, very secure...etc... yep.. you do live in a cubicle of security beliefs don't you? Do I really care? Nope...not really..just trying to inform the likes of ya. Take the information any way you like it. I get my burger edgeways.

  19. someone cracks blackberry security on Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security · · Score: -1

    news at 11...big freaking deal...

  20. I always use prototyping boards because... on Prototyping Boards Make It Easier To Find Flaws in Specialized Hardware · · Score: 1

    ...it makes it easier to get results here and now.

    Sure, I can EAGLE it all, and print a result, 2 weeks later get a PCB and THEN fault find...suuuuure....but it sucks donkeysballs.
    I'm an old guy by kids standards, and I love to get my results here and now, so I use prototyping boards, I've bought a bunch of these from eBay suppliers, and I'm as happy as a kid on christmas or a kid in a candy store about these, it's cheap, it's just solder and go...and I've got instant results here and now!

    Now that...to me...and old SKOOL 300/75 Baud hacker like me...stuff I can relate to!

  21. No wonder America invest so much Agains China.... on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    ...China is getting Super Powerful, the HONEST way (I'm not Chinese btw...Scandinavian), but the point remains... ...logical thinking, quoting Boston Dynamics testing schedule:

    " Boston Dynamics' schedule has the first walk-out of AlphaDog taking place sometime in 2012, when DARPA and the U.S. Marines will begin to put the robot to the test for real."

    Yeah? 2012 eh? Something planned for us there big "old" brother?

    Recapping for the weak of mind:
    1) US. Was strong.
    2) US. Wants oil.
    3) US. Interferes with those countries that has less technology, but OIL. Comply or we support your enemies with weapons!
    4) China has the same idea, just years later.
    5) Buys American debt, little by little....outsourcing etc.
    6) Whooops.... Americas pride is bought by the other superpower? Crap!
    7) Become superior in WAR-tech again.
    8) Threaten less superior countries, get back on track!

    Yep, it's THE American way.

  22. Who f****ng cares? on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dont really care which one is on 1st or last?

    Who uses the no#1 OS in the world? And who use Apple or Linux? Eh?

    What is the point? I use what I like, I happen to like Firefox, I happen to test-run Chrome, IE7,8,9,10,whateverbrowser, opera, Lynx etc...
    And I use whatever I find practical for me.

    My decision is NEVER based on the number of users worldwide.

  23. Die Bold... on Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    It died boldly just like yesterdays votes.

  24. Re:Do NOT use webservices, paid or free! on HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI · · Score: 1

    I can imagine the real penalty of being a criminal would be the mental dissolution of earning a living, actually believing the criminal HAS to be a criminal in order to earn a living. Many criminals automatically see themselves as victims of society, and use that as a continuing excuse to live the way they do, now THAT is a penalty inflicted on themselves BY themselves, and not the single incident that started it all.

  25. Re:This is what you do to truly hide your ASS! on HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI · · Score: 1

    A good thing to do when making a claim like that, is to start by pointing out a few of them. I'm sure there's bugs and exploits, but do you REALLY know, or is it just your average basic assumptions you could technically say about anything?