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  1. Re:Which is why we disguise cell towers on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that a Republican or a different Democrat would have cared more about our [ha ha ha] rights?

  2. Re:Which is why we disguise cell towers on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, sigh.

  3. We need a replacement for tor that's hardened on WikiLeaks' Anonymous Leak Submission System Is Back After Nearly 5 Years · · Score: 1

    against the NSA, if that's possible.

    It may not be possible, since the NSA could just buy themselves most of the bandwidth on any onion-router or similar system, and as long as they have all of the links in any connection, the connection is revealed. And as people have pointed out, watching all of the nodes gives them the paths.

    Also if they compromise a master key, that's another great attack that I haven't heard discussed before.

  4. Re:Suicide mission on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 3, Funny

    'One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.' - Oscar Wilde

  5. Re: The Perfect Bait on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Naw, the difference between them and us, is that they have countries where they LYNCH apostates, and the lynching parties are legal.

  6. Re:The Perfect Bait on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Nah nah. How many people shot at piss-jesus showings?

    If you want to get Christians shooting, show gay porn... well, they'll shoot if they aren't trying to sneak in with a tub of lard and a backpack full of kleenex.

  7. Re:Those terrorist sucks on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Surprise? Surprise? The whole purpose of this contest was to attract a Jihadi to shoot. Why else the extra extra guards?

    Perfectly Texas entertainment. I'm calling this a success.

  8. Re:Now we finally know: Paul Hudak was born. on Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died · · Score: 3, Funny

    (lazy moderation, funny)

  9. So the middle east is a radiation poisoned on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 1

    graveyard, it will have been American parts that put it there.

    Yay?

  10. Yeah, one thing Microsoft does well - the only thing - is their anticompetitive strategy.

    Which is why Edge has to be horrible beyond the imaginings of mere mortals.

  11. How many years has it been since anyone here on Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge · · Score: 1

    opened IE. Web devs don't count.

    For me it's been at least a year.

  12. It can be worse than IE. Can it? Can it? on Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge · · Score: 1

    Sob!

    I wonder how thoroughly they will f*ck it up. If it's as bad as active X then the pit of despair has no bottom.

  13. Re:The alternative is... What, exactly? on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1

    Ban historical revisionists from Google ads. Simple.

  14. Re:It is an ad. on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ever watch political ads sway an election or referendum? People are really stupid.

  15. Restarted several times per week isn't that bad on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I restart my samsung a few times a day just to prevent problems from occurring in the first place.

    If you can prevent problems, then you don't have problems. Stop complaining.

  16. Re:weinstein? in pakistan?? on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 1

    elephant in the room question: why is a jew (I assume) hanging out in a country that does not accept his way of life as valid?

    Like France or England?

    I was just reading that, due to Muslim students, it's no longer possible for someone to be a teacher in France while being openly Jewish.

    The British branch of Amnesty International just refused to look at violence against Jews. And on and on and on...

  17. Re:Shit happens. on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 1

    If they want to live in some place civilized or safe they should escape, yes.

  18. Hold on, 3.xxx had terrible bugs in the optimizer. on GCC 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't even want to go into how one company I worked for mandated that we always compile with full optimization (management didn't understand the concept) and this made our set-top-box software for the transputer NOT WORK, even though it worked on lower optimization levels.

    I complained about that decision and was fired within an hour.

  19. "Remix" is also an excellent word for break-up, on Yahoo Called Its Layoffs a "Remix." Don't Do That. · · Score: 1

    divorce and adultery.

  20. To make it clear. on New Javascript Attack Lets Websites Spy On the CPU's Cache · · Score: 1

    This is just detecting which cache lines are in heavy use at a moment in time, not WHAT'S IN THEM.

    Very useless.

  21. Not very useful. on New Javascript Attack Lets Websites Spy On the CPU's Cache · · Score: 1

    at most you could use this to have an infected process communicate indirectly with a javascript process by tying up cache lines - and the javascript could detect that.

    But so what? If you've already installed malicous code, why does it have to communicate indirectly?

    You're not going to be able to tell much useful about a machine by getting a very low quality of image of what cache lines are in heavy use at the moment when you DIDN'T write the programs being used.

    This sounds like a useless fingerprinting technique.

  22. c++ 14 eh? on GCC 5.1 Released · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    c++ is now officially more complicated than Starbuck's menu.

  23. Isn't the most likely hack on Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA · · Score: 2

    Not of the code but of the keys?

    If they have the private keys of the master keys then can play man in the middle and control the list of servers you see, and what keys you see for them too.

    Of course you'd only use that on an occasional target, not on a whole population.

    To target the whole population they would simply supply a majority of the server power to Tor. Then if you were unlucky enough to pick all compromised hops they've got you.

  24. There is a method of execution that is perfect, on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    time.

  25. Re: Proxy or VPN on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    Good point.

    But the only important thing is, does the NSA have a copy of the dick pic he sent to the entire world? If so he's gonna move it to Ireland...