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  1. Re:Better than National ID card on EPIC Files Lawsuit To Suspend Airport Body Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    I'd rather walk through a body scanner before boarding a plane than be required to give them my name and other irrelevant information that only helps the government and the airline to track my personal travel and also helps the airline to continue to restrict transferring of tickets.

    My experience is they are looking at your ID or passport before you even get to approach the security check. Wouldn't that constitute giving a name?

  2. Re:Anything that gets phone makers to update... on Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack · · Score: 1

    So many Android phones have come and gone one would think that an game AI was trying to find the right product. I just realized Android phones are the Zerg of cell phones. Cheap, mass produced, and die off quickly.

    I'd have to agree with you. I have a Droid Eris that Verizon has declared end -of-life in under a year of its release, and they have also stated it will never be updated to 2.2. I have no choice but to root the phone, since I'm not going to buy a newer, shinier unsubsidized device at $600+ a pop.

  3. Real-time Collaboration on Google Wave Creator Quits, Joins Facebook · · Score: 1

    Real-time collaboration. Sorry about collaboration being 3 syllables over your limit.

  4. If people seem stalkerish.. on Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the worry about your "friends" doing stalker-ish things to you? Didn't you accept their request (or they yours) based on some level of familiarity and/or trust? It's not strangers watching you. It's people you agreed to let into your little online life.

  5. FB cares about privacy on Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    FB cares about privacy in the same way that McDonald's cares about nutrition.

  6. Re:poor guy on Zuckerberg's Side of 'The Social Network' · · Score: 1

    Or we could let them expose us to advertisements... naah that'll never work

  7. saint? naah on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1

    Jesus was a saint.

    Or a fringe-loonie who thought he was G-d. Or a complex historical forgery. No man in that period of time, at that age, would have been unmarried, and walking around like a mendicant monk in a bathrobe. I don't buy the whole divine rebel story.

  8. Re:i don't understand the shock here on Government Admits Spying Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    plain old gum shoe police work against actual criminals

    Against actual criminals? We can only hope.

  9. Re:This is news? on 'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th · · Score: 1

    the biggest non-news story ever posted to Slashdot

    You must be new here.

  10. privacy on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 1

    Because Facebook's version of privacy is like McDonald's version of nutrition. It's not part of their formula.

  11. Re:This is the reason on iPhone Opens Up Bluetooth For Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    game changer.... market share

    BINGO!

  12. the "right" way on Giving the Blind Better Web Access · · Score: 0

    I see what you are trying to say, but the phrase "the right way to..." never sits well with me. The "right way" can be interpreted from many perspectives. Unfortunately the "right way" is typically the way your manager or boss thinks is the "right way" which often means the "fastest cheapest way"

  13. Re:Perhaps it's just me... on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    If you want to see a real ghetto, look at the Palestinians in Lebanon. They aren't allowed to bring building materials into their area (where's the flotilla to break that blockade?)

    There won't be one, for the same reason why it wasn't news to western bleeding-heart activists when Turkey bombed the bejeezus out of the Kurds one week after the Turkish-sourced flotilla was boo-hooing all over the news about how badly they were treated. Hear anything about that bombing? See any protests? You also didn't see westerners marching for the oppressed "palestinians" when Jordan was kicking the shit out of them and occupying the area for decades.

  14. Re:Get The Fuck Off This Site You Racist Piece A S on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If anything he said was untrue, I feel certain you would improve your argument against his statements, by providing information from factual unbiased sources. Just saying. *waits for offtopic mods*

  15. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    If the single alternative in my area wasn't 5 times worse than Suddenlink, I would. I will write them a letter though.

  16. slashdot on Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot: Where You Can Read Yesterday's News... Today.

    I thought everyone knew. :p

  17. Re:Just goes to show... on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    This is true. Just ask the Empire about the Death Star.

  18. Re:Heh on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 1

    They have had a way to collect revenue, in the form of visual ads. What AC is pointing out is they now have audio ads in addition to the visual ads.

  19. Re:GNU/Stallman on Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think Ballmer only has the patent on using a chair as a projectile whilst making a point. Making a fool of oneself has too much prior art behind it.

  20. Re:GNU/Stallman on Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, if he would just keep his mouth shut, not make anyone uncomfortable, and not live out his philosophy, he would be acceptable to you. Get back to us when you've done even _an eighth_ of what RMS has done for software freedoms that all of us benefit directly from.

  21. crops on Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor · · Score: 1

    Iran already blames Israel, for pretty much everything including why the crops fail.

    Brawndo has what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

  22. Re:I see a novel in this on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 1

    As long as it isn't Rincewind who finds the magic sword, it sounds feasible.

  23. somewhat appropriate on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 1

    - "I thought swords had to be straight."
    - "Perhaps they start out straight and go bendy with use. A lot of things do."

    (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)

  24. shoah on Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed · · Score: 1

    many Muslim hardliners frequently misuse the term "holocaust" to define obviously inequivalent events.

    Yes they have, and just for the record, in Hebrew there is a severe difference between 'shoah' (holocaust) and 'ha shoah' (THE Holocaust), and this in itself has been misused as well, in subtle ways that non-Hebrew speakers would not be aware of.

  25. privacy on Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Diaspora allegedly gives one more control over their data, and how it is used, because as we all know, Facebook discussing "privacy" is like McDonald's discussing "nutrition"