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  1. Re:Xbox Live on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    You have not always been able to cancel XBOX Live service using a webpage.

  2. Re:Don't use Firefox bundled by TOR on TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript · · Score: 1

    That's how I used to run TOR, until I found out about the Tor Browser Bundle a few months ago and made the swtich. That was the "secure" way to do it, they said.

    Now I'm thinking I should have just stuck to modern Firefox Private Browsing + FoxyProxy.

    I'd post anonymously, but oh hell what's the point?

  3. Sold on TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript · · Score: 1

    You missed the most obvious option. Microsoft didn't 'give' that signature away to the state. They sold it at a very hefty price, boosting their bottom line without putting as much as a ding in our defense budget. That corporations would sell our sensitive secrets to a government that promises to protect them from any legal fallout is a given. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, everyone, they're going to sell out that data and trust without thinking twice.

  4. Re:Carrier Lock Not That Big An Issue on Sprint May Have Unlimited Data Plans, But Not Unlimited Customers · · Score: 1

    I agree with you that most people won't care. However, if that were my iPhone 5, I would have sued Sprint immediately had they refused to unlock it.

  5. Adios, Sprint on Sprint May Have Unlimited Data Plans, But Not Unlimited Customers · · Score: 2

    I used Sprint for over 10 years, always with "unlimited" data and texting. That same service over doubled in cost during that 10 year timeframe. They never once updated coverage in my area. One time last year I was stranded in the center of downtown Dayton, Ohio and couldn't even get a signal to make a call!

    Shitty reception, shitty prices, shitty customer service, shitty marketing, Sprint is just shitty all the way around.

  6. Re:Limited cargo use on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Astronaut pudding? My favorite!

  7. Locked Bootloader on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That bootloader is locked and won't allow you to disable UEFI Secure Boot or change the keys on it, so Surface RT (the hardware) is still dead to me.

  8. Re:Simple explanation on Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Want an NSA Clearance?

    That grammar is not incorrect. Phonetically, the "N" begins with a vowel sound so "an NSA" is correct.

  9. Vonnegut on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    You forgot about Kurt.

  10. Re:the way I see it on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    Oh but that's right, we're supposed to be morally "superior" right?

    What is so difficult to grasp about why it's important to be morally superior to a mass murderer? Why do you speak about that like it's a bad thing?

  11. Re:the way I see it on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    as long as he is left lifeless in the end.

    Easy there, ganjadude. Personally, I'd like to see the guy rot in a cell.

    Keeping people alive to make them think about what they've done seems far more just to me than letting them escape their guilty conscience.

  12. GPS? on Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    This could be useful if the robot lady in Google Maps understood to STFU when I started yelling at her.

  13. Philips Hue on Black Hat Talks To Outline Attacks On Home Automation Systems · · Score: 1

    So hackers are gonna change the colors on my lightbulbs?

  14. badg3r5 on HP Confirms Backdoor In StoreOnce Backup Products · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google quickly lead me to the SHA1 of 78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50 and to a publicly available SHA1 reverse lookup utility that already has the match in it.

  15. Re:It's Worse Than You Thought on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Instead of cracking each encoded message they intercept, it would be much easier for the NSA to simply obtain the decryption codes directly from the central authorities like Symantec/VeriSign. This would greatly simplify the problem and would allow the NSA to instantly decode much of the encrypted communication it intercepts

    Symantec and VeriSign don't create the encryption keys. You do. The private key remains private. Their job is to simply add a trusted digital signature to the public key that you've produced.

  16. Bugs & Maintainers on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    I participated in beta release testing for 5.5 and I'm frustrated that it still has old bugs that cause segfaults that continue to go ignored by the maintainers. I even supplied the patch and submitted a Github pull request, but the maintainers continue to ignore it.

    It's no fun having to keep our own custom patchsets for PHP just to keep it running properly.

  17. Re:Hay Guise! on Five predictions for (Bit)coin · · Score: 2

    Unlike the last several Bitcoin articles, this one at least had some meat to it.

  18. Re:Wow, just wow. on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    this is exactly how so many Obama supporters went from being pro-transparency, anti-wars, anti-Guantanamo, anti-torture, etc. to anti-transparency, pro-wars, pro-waterboarding. They have to support their "side" at all costs, even when it means reversing their opinions.

    Yeah, not all of us. Frankly, screw that guy. What a disappointment.

    /disenfranchised American

  19. Piracy on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 1

    The reason Apple cares so much about jailbreaking has always been about preventing piracy of apps.

  20. Coworker Approved on Google Loves The Internship; Critics Not So Much · · Score: 1

    On the way to lunch today, a coworker mentioned this movie to me and said he thought it was pretty funny. An ad for Google? Perhaps, he says, but still worth watching anyways.

    I've never taken up the guy on any movie recommendations before, so I can vouch for his credibility. Yet, anyways.

  21. Re:"Just do it"? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    gewalker's obviously a shoe-selling schill.

  22. Repeat, Much? on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    How many times are you going to post the same comment in this thread?

  23. Re:Purposeful on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    I've always thought iTunes and friends were slow on Windows because Apple has a big fat 80+ MB "compatibility" layer sitting between their software and the Windows OS.

  24. Re:The author has the RAW file. Case closed on World Press Photo Winner Accused of Photoshopping · · Score: 1

    Somebody should write an algorithm that perfectly reverses lossy compression. Brilliant!

  25. Spam Advocates on AMD Details Next-Gen Kaveri APU's Shared Memory Architecture · · Score: 2

    I'm not so sure how I feel about this whole Linux advocacy thing you're trying to promote. But spam, now there's an idea I can get behind! Take my money!