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  1. The reason they don't just open the phone and read the data is that it's encrypted with 256-bit AES, which they can not decrypt any time before the sun explodes.

  2. Re:Semicolons! on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 2

    Making the word "Nazi" plural does not call for an apostrophe. Damned Nazis.

  3. Re:Love camera phones on The Difference Between Film and Digital Photography (Video) · · Score: 1

    "Going through software" is difficult? You mean that software that pops open when you plug in the device and displays thumbnails on your screen? That arcane, inscrutable software with the "share" button to upload to Facebook? What are you, a yak-herder?

  4. Re:Love camera phones on The Difference Between Film and Digital Photography (Video) · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any phone, point-and-shoot, or DSLR that makes it hard to upload photos. Facebook's app is available to you free if you want to do it from your phone, and anyone can plug their camera into their computer, choose what they want to share, and click a couple times on a website. Who exactly is having a problem?

  5. Re:Depends on your hardware of course! on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    Phhht. Stuck with iOS 5? Based on what? iOS 6 ran great on the iPhone 4 and iOS 7 runs great on it, too. The fanciest visual effects that would've over-taxed the hardware are turned off automatically. For me, and for others I've spoken with, it's running flawlessly.

  6. Re:There should be a Cat 6 on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a bit of a difference between "should be", and "they're adding a..." There's no need to reflexively defend Gore. AGW is real. Gore being an asshole is also real.

  7. Re:Google+ is growing on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 1

    It's all who your friends are, of course. My FB friends are my real friends, and they're writers, artists, business-owners, musicians, tech people, and some family. We have quite interesting discussions and share stuff we're all interested in. If you collect random idiot as FB friends, then you get swamped with pets, food, and pseudo-inspirational bullshit.

  8. Re:Actually I wouldn't be surprised. on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 0

    Yep. I've been a Mac user since 1986, and have listened to generations of people who reflexively hate every step Apple takes, only to retreat as they continue to succeed. iOS 7 will look like no other mobile OS, and has an elegant layered design, in my opinion. There is a maturity in letting skeuomorphic and bubbly stuff go. People know about tapping on a screen now, and I trust Apple's designers. If you want to see a real "mishmash," just look at the Android hardware/software landscape.

  9. Re:Suprising how? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 0

    Then it is pure coincidence that the prescriptions to remedy the "problem" just happen to be exactly the anti-capitalist ones the left has been pushing for the past couple generations? Only more government control over industry can solve all the problems perceived by scientists funded by government?
    We recently learned CO2 emissions were way down because of the increased utilization of cleaner-burning natural gas. Will the left get behind the gas industry? Only if they stand to gain money and power, as with anything else. I'm stunned that people still believe that the left is benevolent and altruistic, like some 1960s hippy commune retards.

  10. Re:Freedom of thought? Freedom of speec? Not so mu on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 0

    I think this guy got exactly what he wanted: publicity for the anti-TSA cause. Try "saying" something loud about bombs or terrorism in a security line or on a plane. You're asking for trouble, and you know it. I'm not saying it's good or justified, but I don't walk up to cops on the street with anti-police shirts with "robbery", "assault" or "weapon" on them, even though it's legal.

  11. Re:Location, Location, Location. on Fighting the iCrime Wave · · Score: 1

    Hah! I do the reverse. I use black Sony earbuds with my iPod Touch, and nobody looks twice. I actually felt embarrassingly trendy with the white ones, but still love the iPod.

  12. 16 Megapixels? on Discovery Channel Telescope Snaps Inaugural Pictures · · Score: -1

    Is this something to brag about in 2012? You can get an off-the-shelf DSLR with more pixels than that. Of course, it wouldn't have a 4.3 meter mirror.

  13. Re:I don't get it on Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents · · Score: 0

    This is a patent applied for in 2007, when most "smartphones" had physical keyboards. It is a basic element of the iPhone touchscreen interface, and you can absolutely bet that Apple will use the system to stop their competitors from copying everything they do.

  14. Re:I don't get it on Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents · · Score: 0

    Right. Plus, everyone's jumping on this as if Apple just applied for it. This looks like a basic early iPhone filing which is just recently granted and published. It's not news.

  15. Re:Shelf Life on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 0

    I must agree with you about the family aspect. My mother had never heard of MySpace, but she, my dad, sister, cousins, high-school and college friends are ALL on FB and use it almost daily. Facebook has crossed the threshold, just as Google did (and I used the Mom test for that, too.) Once my Mom said she needed to Google something, I knew that race was over. I have no great love for FB, but it's won.

  16. Re:newsflash on Study Shows Babies Think Friendly Robots Are Sentient · · Score: 0

    People are idiots.

  17. Re:Good and Bad on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 0

    Actually, only the ones pronounced as a word, like RAM, are acronyms. The others are called initialisms or just abbreviations.

  18. Re:mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    Nice article, but totally unrelated. Google influenza. Droplet transmission. See if the CDC considers pig flu airborne. They don't. If they did, there would be headlines screaming AIRBORNE. But there aren't. You're wrong. Accept it. We all make mistakes.

  19. Re:mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    airborne transmission - if the microorganism can remain in the air for long periods.

    droplet contact - coughing or sneezing on another person

    These ARE medical definitions, asswipe

  20. Re:mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    Airborne: "airborne transmission - if the microorganism can remain in the air for long periods" You're as wrong as the day is long, pal.

  21. Re:mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    The word is "absurdity," moron. Something transmitted by coughing and sneezing aerosols is not considered airborne any more more than I'm considered a flying mammal when I jump a few feet. You are mind-bogglingly rude and stupid.

  22. Re:mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    The word is "absurdity" and no, the virus is not airborne. If you are coughed or sneezed on, or are touched by someone who has the liquid droplets of same on their skin, or touch a doorknob, etc... you can be infected. Perhaps you should find out what an airborne virus is before commenting.

  23. Re:mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    Aerosols containing H1N1 (droplets of snot and lung-butter) are airborne, such as cough and sneeze. The virus itself is not airborne.

  24. Re:Yes, it's important that deadly viruses. . . on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    A pig flew? A lot of other things must certainly happen now.

  25. mild v. wild on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 0

    W.H.O. says only about 10 dead. This pig/bird/human virus is said to be fairly mild, for now. Not airborne, and generally not lethal. I think "H1N1" is fine for now. Remember that plain old human flu killed 30,000 last year in the U.S. alone. I'll commence duct taping my doors and windows... NOW.