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  1. easy solution on Raytheon's Riot Program Mines Social Network Data For Intelligence Agencies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just don't post location data or activities if you're engaging in protests... disable location services on your phone. You're giving data to a public database and then crying about privacy... just don't give them information.

  2. Secrecy on The Paradox of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The secrecy was designed to protect the volunteers that worked on his project. He was anonymous for a long time, before he was outed. He takes the safety of his volunteers seriously, even if he does work them pretty hard.

  3. Re:MacBook or Dell on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    That is an old page. It refers to products with Windows 8 on it. I was hopeful.

  4. Desktop Computer on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    This definition died with the laptop. We've been on a downward spiral to the smartphone since. If you want to define PC's as Desktop computers and Laptops, computing devices with a keyboard and or mouse like device, it's still a bit shaky.

  5. Re:turtles on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 1

    John Grinder, is that you?

  6. Re:I'm Sofa King We Tod Did on Google Redesigns Image Search, Raises Copyright and Hosting Concerns · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google is acting on feedback from ITS customers. You are not its customers. If you want to protect your context, then do a little research and take care of it. It's not difficult. The information is freely available on the internet how to block hotlinking. And think of the logistics, google will never ask site owners what they want. There are too many of you and not enough of them. That's why you have the option to keep Google off your site. Use it.

  7. Re:does not compute on Google Redesigns Image Search, Raises Copyright and Hosting Concerns · · Score: 1

    This is why this is a non issue. Any admin worth their salt can disable hotlinking. This just means an increase in hotlinked disabled sites.

  8. science and religion on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 0

    Richard Dawkins makes a couple of good points in a recent talk. 1) If God exists, he has to manage a universe filled with billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, and we're located on the outskirts in an ordinary solar system in an ordinary galaxy, only one species of potentially billions upon billions. Why does he care about sin and or our morality? That and 2) Using supernatural explanations for phenomenon is a way to chicken out, so you don't have to do real work to find out the real answer to said phenomenon.

  9. worried on The Mobile App Design Tail Wags the Desktop Software Design Dog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am seriously worried about the future of desktop computers. If the economies of scale shift too drastically, the hobbyist computer and computer gamer will be out of luck. While I think the current shift towards mobile is making computers more approachable to more people, for those of use that use computer for work rather than play, it's detrimental.

  10. Re:This doesn't make sense to me on Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status · · Score: 1

    ahh sneakernet... god I love wifi.

  11. Re:Infrastructure on Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix · · Score: 1

    Yes on every part of that. Even the signature.

  12. My own "hack" (not really a hack) on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 2

    I got a virgin mobile 3g/4g hotspot. I got the 2GB for $35/mo, which comes with unlimited wimax. Now, after 10GB/mo they will throttle you to 2mb/s, so it won't compare to Google Fiber, FIOS, or anything of that nature. In my experience it's more reliable and better speeds than Clear. So what I did was take my service-less Android, set up Google Voice, and downloaded Groove IP for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en . So now I can make outbound and take inbound calls using Google Voice, carry the wireless hotspot in my pocket, disable 4g mode, and basically have phone and internet for $35/mo. As a single guy, this is pretty sweet. The virgin mobile is a little hard to activate, but the investment in terms of effort is worth it.

  13. Humanoid Robots Make People More Comfortable? on Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler In Nine Months · · Score: 1

    someone hasn't read their Asimov.

  14. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    I was taught this at a young age. It should actually be taught in schools, considering.

  15. Re:OS are not browsers on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 2

    so we're going to file the discussion in a FIFO stack?

  16. If it was my company on $200,000 Judgement Against Google In Mokbel Shots Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would stop doing business in countries that don't seem to understand the difference between a search engine that indexes the internet and the original site that hosted the material. Screw them.

  17. there's another word for carbon trapping on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    oxygen production. plankton are the foundation of the ocean ecosystem. i'm a lefty, but this seems like a win win. change will happen. but no more than when we make hydroelectric dams that drastically change the water temperature so all of the indigenous fish die and have to be replaced with colder water species. and these types of changes are justified every day. I really don't see a problem with this. let's do a study to see what happens when we offer fish more food. you get more fish.

  18. Spent Fuel Pool on Bruce Perens: The Day I Blundered Into the Nuclear Facility · · Score: 1

    Um, a kid shouldn't be able to walk in and see a spent fuel pool. Not cool.

  19. Re:And he killed a dragon once with a vacuum tube on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 0

    I was there. I saw it.

  20. Ray on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    Having been an avid scifi fan since 5th grade, Ray Bradbury was up there with my favorites of Heinlein, Herbert, and Asimov. Everytime I hear "Major Tom", I think of a short story by Ray Bradbury.

  21. Not sure this is any better. If someone can guess the password, they can read the captcha. That is, unless the captcha is somehow stored on the local machine, which makes the file inaccessible except from that terminal.

  22. Re:Cant stop a moving train on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 1

    Here's a solution. Once this passes, everyone cancel their internet service. All of it. Use work internet because we don't pay for it, but cancel all of our residential internet. Instead of blacking out the internet, we just quit the internet. An internet not worth browsing is marginally different than no internet.

  23. Re:When exactly on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    HE IS AN ASTROPHYSICIST. That's a good start. Second, he's not the only, he's only the most celebrated on the Internet. Hence all the "We've got a badass here..." memes.

  24. Re:Saving Earth is good... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    There are 100 planets within 30 light years of us. That is an achievable goal. We are getting close to figuring out fusion technology. Then we'll have the energy to travel to the stars. A lot of barriers to entry still exist, but if we really want to, we can overcome them.

  25. why do you have a northern accent? on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lots of places have a north.