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  1. Re:Hey, Chris Hoffman on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    ...then they do things like this which degrade the customer experience.

    You're confusing "customer" and "user".

  2. You opted-in when downloading the distro, I don't see opt-out as unreasonable here seriously, drop the tinfoil hat

    Surely NOT wearing the foil hat would COMPEL opting in?

  3. And this is ethical because...?????

    It isn't. And I'm ashamed.

  4. Re:I don't get it on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea is that you load the public key that will be used to encrypt the images on the camera and you leave the private key back home. This is all fully documented by the camera manufacturer so that if the photographer gets challenged to decrypt the images it's easy to establish that they can't actually do that and there's no point in getting out the rubber hose...

    Apart from making an example.

  5. ...You're going to get ads, does it really matter if they're targeted or not?

    Only the ones that aren't blocked.

  6. Re:So how do we move forward from here? on DuckDuckGo CEO: 'Google and Facebook Are Watching Our Every Move Online. It's Time To Make Them Stop' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Once the majority of organic results on each page of web search results for a given query are sites that you have blocked for this reason, how do you keep web search engines useful?

    DDG is only half useful for me now. Just a matter of where it's less bothersome to stop filtering crap and go to the library for the dead tree version - basically depends on time of day.

  7. Re:He is a massive shithead on Kim Dotcom Sues New Zealand For $6.8 Billion In Damages Over Erroneous Arrest (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    He's a big shithead, but government is an even bigger septic tank full of little shitheads.

    I don't think many people got the rhyming slang.

  8. The iPhone completely changed the game for smartphones. They made it actually useful.

    What, exactly, in the first iPhone made it "actually useful"?

    The rounded corners, of course :)

  9. Clean up brush in the forest? You're fscking insane. It will literally never end unless you take out the whole forest. Then there's no forest to protect so what was the point?

    Regular burning will keep the undergrowth manageable - and it isn't as if OzBush(TM) hasn't evolved to need moderate fires every now and then. But you're right in that it is a never ending job - just like any other forest management chore.

  10. Re:Time to write Australia off on Australian Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests On Fire (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Maybe it's time to just board up the windows and move to a less murderous country.

    Oh come on, toughen up and get on with life. It's only ONE more thing to worry about. And it's really trivial compared to the butterflies, for example.

  11. Re:Meh on Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable · · Score: 1

    So they sucbcribe to the idea of customer churn. Which is to say "Fuck you. we can find plenty of customers where we found you."

    Which really inspires the reply "Fuck you. I can find plenty of ISPs where I found you."

  12. Re:Agencies taking their clients money on Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Dumps Water Data Project · · Score: 1

    How much did you pay for Slashdot?

    Using RIAA/MPAA maths, many billions (if not trillions) of dollars.

    And, since (giving feedback) = (being ignored): fuck beta.

  13. Re:You Know They'll Roll Over! on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    ... International Tribunals are permissible, but Canada arresting an NSA guy because of something he did in Canada that was legal under both US Law and international law is not. ...

    Looking for clarification, are you also saying:

    ... International Tribunals are permissible, but USA arresting a Canadian guy because of something he did in USA that was legal under both Canadian Law and international law is not. ...

    I

  14. Re:You Know They'll Roll Over! on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    It WOULD technically be legal for the NSA to hack their way into these out-of-country systems...

    Under Canadian law? If not, what are the chances that the crackers would be extradited?

  15. Re:Why did they bother? on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Who seriously expected the physics of a marble rolling on a rubber sheet to exactly match the physics of a planetary body in orbit? Who thought the analogy was ever meant to make that statement? It's still a pretty good analogy for giving a layperson the gist of how gravity works, and I seriously doubt it was ever meant to do any more than just that.

    So in class I can still use a room full of mousetraps loaded with ping pong balls as an analogy for a nucular chain reaction?

  16. Re:Um... on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 1

    And there was a spherical cow

    ... in a vacuum.

  17. Re:But Still Only Every 100,000 years on Researchers: Global Risk of Supervolcano Eruption Greater Than Previously Though · · Score: 1

    It would cost a lot more than the Apollo project to get a permanent self-sufficient base on the moon or mars, probably hundreds of times more, maybe thousands, especially is it has to be truly self-sufficient (no external supplies ever, no margin for error). ...

    To put costs into perspective:

    Cost of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects reported as 28.4gigabucks (1.7+1.3+25.4).

    The Vietnam war probably cost the US 600gigabucks and the 2003-2010 Iraq War cost the US 3-6terabucks (this figure is more for interest's sake, because I can't be bothered converting it to 1960s equivalent).

    And the cost of setting up a lunar/martian base could be spread around the world (assuming racial survival trumps political games).

  18. Re:It's for the best on Public Domain Day 2014 · · Score: 1

    Who is John Galt?

    Keyser Soze's equally well known second cousin.

  19. Re:Slashdot linking to Slashdot on No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure · · Score: 1

    there is no need to use Google docs. Using those services is your choice

    I have as much choice about that as people who work in a Windows shop have about using MS Excel and Word.

    None, unless I want to find a new job.

    I worked in a "Windows shop" and had no problem keeping my job while using OpenOffice.org (from the time it was still Star Office).

  20. Re:Feel free to continue the recursion... on No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure · · Score: 0

    The NSA has been trusted with the discrete use of sigint since ww2

    This has not resulted in any widespread misuse of data or emergence of a fascist state

    Snowden's actions on the other hand have made each of us a little less safe

    way to go dumbass

    Only for a nonstandard definition of "misuse", and perhaps you should look at some properties of fascism.

  21. Re:It doesn't work that way on USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year · · Score: 1

    If your 'debate' is out in the open so your advisories know exactly where you are watching or what you can track, then what is the point of debating? The 'civil libertarians' (who lost the last election), get their way. And then Snowden/Glenwald are in control until the NSA comes up with new ways to monitor everybody and keeps their secrets locked up a lot better.

    FTFY

  22. Re:Edward Snowden is a god damned TRAITOR on USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year · · Score: 2

    To all you idiots out there, if you've got nothing to hid then you have nothing to fear. Edward Snowden is a big a danger to the US today as the Soviet Union was 4 years ago. He should be executed without trial.

    Thank you for that brilliant insight into your psyche, Mr. Mussolini - by the way, your black shirts are ready at the cleaners.

    Respectfully fixed that for you.

  23. Re:@$$? Really? on Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? · · Score: 1

    This is a guess I'm pulling out of my @$$

    You can say "ass" at Slashdot, we are mostly adults here.

    And even more, if it's a "personal thing" about profanity, if you are typing "@$$", you are thinking "ass", and so you are just as "guilty" of offending whatever thing it is about the word "ass" that offends you.

    Donkeys are offensive now?

  24. The only real news is... on Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded · · Score: 1

    The only real news is that a politician kept their pre-election promise.

    During the campaign Rupert Murdoch ^w^w Typhoon Tony PROMISED fibre (probably) to the street (or near the street (or somewhere, anyway)) and whatever Telstra had left after a lot of neglect to the home. Not this [sarcasm] unnecessary luxury [/sarcasm] of fibre to the home.

  25. Re:Not an issue, provided... on Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home · · Score: 1

    And you would rather the state nationalising a private asset?

    Like a shot. Vital infrastructure belongs to the country, not just a few shareholders. Privatising was a mistake.

    I'm sorry that is just plain scary. It was privatised and the government got money for it. If you want it to go back into public hands then it has to be bought. ...

    Yes, it does. Just like a house standing in the way of a freeway.