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  1. Re:Article Confirms kdawson Doesn't Read Articles on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't try to evaluate regexps in your head.

    1) ((To support) || (establish) ) ( (the certainty) || (validity of) ); verify.

    Number one works--to support the validity of.

  2. Re:Logic on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think missing a reference to a the Matrix should only burnish ones geek credentials--it's like the star wars prequels. I've tried so hard to forget.

  3. Re:Developers section red now ? on 64-Bit Java For Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looks blue to me

  4. Re:Sarcasm mark on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    No, that's Mr Bobbitt's impression of goatse. The real goatse would be EO3~

  5. Re:Manga can be anything on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure Japan didn't invade Poland. China, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands yes. Poland not so much.

  6. Re:Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It is always used (if used properly) to mean the number of dead AND number of injured combined.

  7. Re:Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Casualty does NOT refer to deaths. It refers to the number of military members removed from duty due to wounds. This includes fatalities AND injuries.

  8. Re:Left4Dead?! on Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? · · Score: 2

    Left4Dead is definitely not survival horror. Survival horror implies a very real, very high risk of death if you screw up. Left4Dead you can just spray and pray forever. It's a shooter, not survival horror.

  9. Re:Hard to beat economics on Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives · · Score: 1

    Allow me to rephrase:

    GGP underestimates American willingness to attempt to enforce their will on developing countries.

  10. Re:Hard to beat economics on Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives · · Score: 1

    You underestimate the American capacity for enforcing their will on developing countries.

  11. Re:I hope this helps this problem on FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users · · Score: 1

    Well somebody got a baton shoved in an unpleasant place. Is the language really necessary? Did I insult your mother that badly?

    What everyone does and everyone should are two different things, I know that. That's not an excuse though. I now make 3 separate daily backups after losing 6 months worth of work to a mechanical drive failure. I was stupid not to have backups before. I will not make the same mistake twice.

    The rule is that anything you cannot afford to lose, you back up. A hard drive can literally fail at any moment. So you can scream and swear at me all you want, throw all the temper tantrums you like, but it doesn't change that.

    Yes, data ransom is an increasingly popular type of malware. Solution? Frequent backups. Format the problem away and restore. Of course, if data is STOLEN rather than taken hostage this doesn't help with that.

    The problem of data theft is the only scenario where your critique is legitimate. It does not apply to data loss, because data loss can come from a number of other scenarios all of which mandate the need for backups. In the case of data theft however, there is no practical way to limit app access to data. If we adopt your system, an app can still phone home the data put in it's sandbox. Data theft does not require you to lose the data, it just requires someone else to get their hands on it.

    Now, if you would like to continue this discussion, please do so in a more mature, calm manner.

  12. Re:They crypto keys should be off-drive anyways on Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown · · Score: 1

    what happened to just reformatting the encrypted drive and pawning it?

  13. Re:lapjacking on Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown · · Score: 1

    In case you were wondering why your joke failed, let me break it down for you:

    1) You couldn't have decided to type that sentence until after the lockdown.
    2)If you had been cut off you wouldn't have added the ellipsis.

    Thank you, please try again.

  14. Re:Bugs in eve on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 1

    The 'cat' approach as well actually.

  15. Re:Bugs in eve on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 1

    Isn't that line actually from Aliens?

  16. Re:More reasons why it's a bad idea on Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    Nice strawman. What did I say about no one having any income because they already paid it all in product taxes?

    If no one has any income, where does the profit go? Answer is nowhere, it doesn't exist. A system where all income is taxed and distributed and goods are free because they are already paid for is equivalent to a system with no income in the first place where all goods are free. Furthermore, it implies a state mandated allocation of resources (state controlled economy) since the state is the one deciding where the taxes go.

  17. Re:Outlaw encryption on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    Moral of the story: Know more about what you're talking about than they do. It's not hard.

    Also, know for a fact that they lie in interrogations and say nothing without an attorney. Not hard. Now if you're in country where you don't have the right, then just keep your mouth shut. Falling for obvious social engineering tricks is your own damn fault.

  18. Re:Outlaw encryption on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They cannot prove that a hidden volume even exists, that is the whole point.

  19. Re:Outlaw encryption on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    It's a 5th amendment protection actually. See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/15/1459243

  20. Re:Right on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    Define "we"

  21. Re:More reasons why it's a bad idea on Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    which is what I just said.

  22. Re:I hope this helps this problem on FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    Administrator is a fancy term for the guy who logs in as root and can kill any misbehaving processes launched by the user.

    Again, backups. I just lost 6 months of work to a hard drive crash two days ago that will cost me $1200 to recover. Mechanical failures are wonderful things. Now I have backups in my apartment and remote backups setup. Backups are trivially cheap, there is no reason not to use them other than your own stupidity. Yes, I was stupid not to have one two days ago.

  23. Re:I hope this helps this problem on FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users · · Score: 1

    Even though users can have their files easily restored in minutes from a backup? And since the malware can't infect at the system level it is then a simple matter for an administrator to nix the offending files?

  24. Re:More reasons why it's a bad idea on Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    Au contraire.

    An expanding system of product taxes if taken to infinity IS socialism--you receive no income because you've paid it all in music tax, tv tax, game tax, ebook tax, oxygen tax, etc. And you can have what you want because you already paid for it anyway, right?

  25. Re:More reasons why it's a bad idea on Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1, Troll

    Socialism by thousand cuts.