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  1. Re:Fear of guns making my head spin on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    I'm no lawyer but it's probably not a crime to carry plastic space weapons in the USA.

    How about teaching "educators" such as that simple principal to recognize basic Constitutional rights, eg. freedom to bear arms? Or did they repeal that in Massachewiesetts? And if you can't carry guns'n'shit WHY would anybody want to live there?

  2. Re:My two cents on LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? · · Score: 1

    Non-technical people don't need to run custom roms either. Buyers of LG's G2 got what they paid for and probably inspected it first in most cases. I'm quite certain there was no Lollipop at that time so there was no reason to expect Lollipop years later.
    That leaves the technically informed who run custom roms. They knew better. It's a problem that solves itself: ignorants keep buying LG, not knowing any better and no worse for it; technophiles learn a lesson and move on to better options next time.

  3. Re:My two cents on LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? · · Score: 1

    Or just realize that idiots who buy carrier-polluted devices deserve the shit they end up with. We have bazillions of bootloader- and carrier-unlocked phones to choose from, from cheap Nexuses and Onepluses to Moto G's and more. There's no reason to get an iPhone or LG or Samsung these days.

  4. Re:Google is as evil as Apple nowadays on Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode · · Score: 2

    You either consent to wifi passwords etc being backed up or they don't get sent to Google afaik. It's during initial setup of Google services. If you chose it, your fault for not reading some extremely well labelled checkboxes and plain text descriptions.

  5. Re:Fuck Dice.com!! on Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the theory behind that shit is, if you've already got infected by Windows, what's a little more malware gonna hurt?

  6. Re:It's actually surprising... on Microsoft Bringing Cortana To iOS, Android · · Score: 1

    With the amount of potential information mining that could be done with these apps, I'm surprised they aren't all cross-platform.

    You'd be surprised how little malware is truly cross-platform.

  7. Re:Auto-play video ads on Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android · · Score: 2

    apt-get remove --purge safari

    Should do the trick. I can guarantee no autoplaying video adverts and other nuisances if you don't have the root problem installed.

  8. I'm no lawyer but pretty sure it's ok to upload if you're using the cloud as backup. It's the cloud. What could be wrong with that?

  9. april fool's on Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    sad if it's true, but G is known for their two fetishes: user experience, tempered/trumped by making money. therefore twitting our search results is probably a sad joke.

  10. Re:Is it on the main download page? on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    Tried to confirm, apt-get install putty grabbed a good binary. Checksums match. This article is blowing smoke.

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

    They are due for being disbarred.

    ...and disabled. I bet Tonya Harding could use the dough.

  12. Re:Pretty cool on Google, Developers Demo Impressive Gaming and VR Apps For Project Tango Tablet · · Score: 1

    Or Daemon (2006). Each book in the trilogy improves on its predecessor.

  13. Re:Necesary Censorship on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    They started by blocking all US Gov't web properties. LOL.

  14. Re:Drama queen on Firefox To Mandate Extension Signing · · Score: 1

    You'd have a massive revolt if Adblock were to be pulled or disabled. Not gonna happen. Hopefully this move will increase the snr among competitive categories like Youtube downloaders (about 54000 fake pieces of crap and 3 good working addons) etc.

  15. Re:Now what's Tyyrone going to do for a living? on Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    It's laden with philosophical musings and empathy for a guy with two babymamas. Are you a racist player hater?

  16. Re:Simple solution on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not the cash-cow speed traps and Officer Dickweed hiding behind your neighbor's azaleas with a laser gun that I'm worried about. It's the mindless, shoot-first cops that are determined to become a leading cause of death to unarmed civilians despite supposedly safe weapons.

    Maybe cops need a sensible, community-minded mission in a media friendly format? "Serve and Protect", maybe, or "We're tackling real criminals now instead of the harmless pot smokers".

    We have plenty of reasons to hate cops, from racially-motivated shootings to blatant theft and rage murder, these incidents happen many thousands of times every year. If they want to change I'm all for it but in the meantime let me know where these trigger happy fuckers are so I can avoid them. I believe believe in personal safety, freedom to possess property and the inviolable rights of every human being. That's why I feel justified in helping highlight gang members with badges on Waze. Think of the children (AKA collateral damage) please folks.

  17. You haven't used it. I know this because the latest FF is actually quite good. I switched from Chrome to Firefox on Lollipop and there's no going back unless Chrome gives me custom search engines (Yandex, Baidu, DDG at a minimum) and better privacy options like rejecting third-party cookies. And performance is roughly the same. Desktop-wise Chromium is slightly better but the extensions are worse, like Youtube downloaders and things that Google hates.

  18. Re:Tree of liberty on UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet · · Score: 1

    I find the queen and her arbitrary, controlling bitchy ways to be quite offensive. It's probably that smarmy, shit-eating "sit on my face" look that she's always got on.

    Can I file suit against Her Ugliness or all those nasty spawn of hers?

  19. Re:Offense: on UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet · · Score: 1

    Well THAT is fucking offensive, the way you said "codifying" it sounded like "codpiece". Elizabeth II wants to bash your codpiece with her size 6 tasseled slipper for giving non-verbal offence.

  20. Re:"Ultimately, our users will decide" on Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox · · Score: 1

    So true. Now I'm stuck trying to figure out why this abortion called "Inbox" is being touted as for power users. Seems more like it's aimed more at ADHD kids on meth.

  21. Re:Does anyone here on /. plan on taking this offe on BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 · · Score: 1

    If I had an ipoophone I would totally take 'em up on it. It would be a neat feeling to be the only person in a country with a Blackberry passport, whatever that is.

  22. Re:Well... no. on Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card · · Score: 4, Funny

    The lucky sod with the 0.5 VISA card is probably immune to this scam.

  23. Re: personally, i like this method better... on US Post Office Increases Secret Tracking of Mail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pigs at the trough, the whole lot of 'em. Who gives a fuck whether they're eating from the left or right side it's all the same.

  24. Re:Total nonsense on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    No customer wants to punch in a PIN but we do it anyway. Using a credit card vs debit card is no different. So there's Apple with a niche system that only works with a few iPhones, vs these CurrentC bozos with a convoluted scheme that should work with many devices yet requires jumping through hoops.

    A handful of iPhone users vs an enormous base of merchants. I predict nobody wins this one.

  25. Re:Checksums on Researcher Finds Tor Exit Node Adding Malware To Downloads · · Score: 1

    Just torrent it FFS, come on people. Then start an exit node on your network.