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  1. Re:Still cheaper than employees on Google Multiplies Low-Tier Bug Bounties By Factor of Five · · Score: 2

    Let me call NSA and find out.

  2. Re:Conspiracy Theory on Camels May Transmit New Middle Eastern Virus · · Score: 1

    I am sure there is a joke in their somewhere....

    An arab and a camel walk into a bar... ... ... ... ...
    You got the virus....

  3. Re:Rest In Peace on Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 · · Score: 2

    I can second that, I was in second year Computer Engg and recall the fan fair when this issue was to be released. Our local shop was taking orders with pre-payment to reserve a copy. Got my first intro to Linux with this distribution, at 100 hr total internet access for the entire year, at 14.4kbps dial up speeds, there wouldn't haven been any other way.

    Introduced Linux to my university as well as had an early exposure of this OS that is still paying the bills today in some form.

    Ironic as it may be, I didn't know this person was behind it till now. RIP Atul.

  4. Second that on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 2

    Grade 5, dad gets an Atari 800XL.

    I asked for games, he bought in few books that had code for games in BASIC, 1000s of lines had to be punched in and saved on cassette tapes.

    Soon enough I learned how to cheat with friends where I would get an unfair advantage during game play, the rest is history.

  5. Useless after ballistic trajectory on Watch a Lockheed Martin Laser Destroy a Missile In Flight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2KM is kinda useless once the missile has achieved ballistic trajectory.

    At speed of 2.5km/second, the missile will whiz pass this thing quicker than any damage can be done to it.

    Note both the videos show the missile at launch, when they are not at top speed, may work for Hamas to Israel scenario, won't work for North Korea to South Korea type of scenario.

  6. Re:Just like eating an elephant on How Netflix Eats the Internet · · Score: 1

    Oh just this once I wish they have tons of useless patents preventing the "man" from doing this easily.

  7. Re:It Appears on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 1

    Deliberately buried!

  8. Free Trade up on BlackBerry Looking To Quench 'Insatiable Demand' For New Smartphones · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, looks like you need free upgrades. We did a while back. The new platform manages BB and iOS/Android devices. If you have your BES 5.0 and earlier License CALs lying around, its a free upgrade to their new BES 10.0

    https://enterprise.ecomm.webapps.blackberry.com/caltradeup/home.do

    Considering, going forward you will need to pay a monthly fee and the Trade Up program give you non-expiring licenses, I think its a worthy upgrade even if you don't intend to run BB in long run. At least you will have new CALs if you so choose to continue.

  9. Matter of time on Hollywood Studios Fuming Over Indie Studio Deal With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Film industry is going to go redundant sooner or later, bittorrent as a distribution channel is already mature, stuff like blender is maturing. How long before a talented bunch of individuals are capable of making high quality movies without the industries backing.

  10. Use SMS in emergencies on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 5, Informative

    In such emergencies, its better to use SMS than place a voice call.

    SMS rides on control signal and as long as your cell phone has a signal, it will get queued and delivered.

    Voice calls require acquiring of a dedicated voice channel, these are limited and overloaded in such emergencies.

  11. Depends what you want to do on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    I upgraded from a C2Q to a i7 with 16GB ram and a small 128GB SSD for boot, costed me around $700, a desktop. Later on dropped 2x3TB drives in there with Win 7.

    At this time, this desktop runs my old XP install as a VM, a Mac OS X, Ubuntu and a Scratchpad XP install, all as services in background.

    I don't even notice a hick up. I doubt I could do all this on a C2Q machine.

  12. Re:Derivative Works on You Don't 'Own' Your Own Genes · · Score: 3, Funny

    So a DMCA takedown notice then

  13. Big Devil US of A on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its not going to happen as long as extremist countries like Saudi Arabia are an ally of the world's only super power. Saudi Arabia actually goes out and promotes extremism. Hell, the freaking religious police hits 10-12 year olds with canes if they are out playing soccer during prayer times. Growing up there, thats one of the most vivid memories I have, running from these idiots lest you get hit with canes, money was good so dad moved there for a while.

    They have tons of oil money, you take this oil money and spend it in poor Islamic countries like Afghanistan and this is the shit that happens. There are direction on how to behave in a war in Quran, i.e. fight the enemy, Islam does not tell you to show the other cheek but tells you to stand for whats right. This is what is quoted again and again to show extremism in Quran. This is exactly what Islamic extremist do, point out to drone strikes where countless innocent have died to establish US is the devil. Truth is somewhere in between, on both sides its the necessities of war, US is no more the devil than Islam is extremist.

    No one ever talks about how quran tells you to behave in normal days, the instructions are "not to sit with those who you disagree with", yah thats it, no killing, no extremism, "walk away". Besides, if any of you picked the quran and did read it, it has tons of stuff on importance of "patience". Again and again it tells you god is with those who are patience. God himself is extremely patience, and yada yada yada.

    Google tells me patience is a noun: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

    This is clearly not what Islam stands for today in the world view as well as those who are extremists, at least they are on the same page. If it suits you to believe in what these extremist believe, then be it, you are NOT better for it.

    Nonetheless, drastic measures are needed to curb Saudi wahabism being spread to poor countries. Its not even so much organized by the Saudi Government, they do make there donations and shit, but its the populace, millionaires will establish religious schools and tell them to teach "whats right", unfortunately they believe "right" is intolerance and extremism.

    Personally, I am tired of explaining this again and again to people, nut jobs have screwed up this religion from discovering algebra to poets and chemists, its come to this.

    Why US let this happens (think Russians in Afghanistan during cold war) is a topic for another day.

  14. Android on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 1

    Is it to hard to come up with Android ROM to kill this thing once and for all. The kind of battery life this has can be easily had on a Nexus 7.

    Put in a custom graphic calculator ROM and let TI RIP.

    I realize there may not be such a ROM and the fact its highschool kids who use it, its unlikely a group with capability to actually customize such a ROM will ever do so.

  15. Re:Good news, we're all safe on BlackBerry TIFF Vulnerability Could Allow Access To Enterprise Server · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm guessing you are still in US where Z10 is not yet launched, however out here in Canada, I am seeing a lot of Z10 with everyone.

  16. Re:Wow. Simply wow. on The Paradox of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    No Goatse.

    Often they took the pictures.

  17. Re:If this can happen ... on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds like Anonymous can have loads of fun with this and point out the ridiculousness of DMCA. Few dozen anonymous activists can create havoc and force congress to think the law again.

    Of fun times.

  18. Re:Too long, didn't read. on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    In theory this works, in practice, with average home user being lucky to have 5-10mbps down 1-5mbps up, this won't be worth it. I do see people talking about fiber to home, once we have and 100mbps internet connections, they we can possible revisit this solution.

    Add to this crappy monthly bandwidth restrictions and you will be able to download one movie a month as rest of the bandwidth will go for proxying torrents for others.

  19. Re:and apparently... on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jokes and media brain washing apart. The guy lives so much more humbly that its hard to think if he is as crazy as western media shows him or is there more going on. The country is making progress in spite of all the sanctions. Not sure if its the Iranian media spin but the guy sits and eats simple foods on a mat on the floor, sleeps on the floor.

    I don't know which one is propaganda, this video or if the western media, or if there is a Jackal and Hyde going on here.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyWul35JnjY

  20. http://f-droid.org/ on Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is your one stop shop for all open source android software. You won't find the f-droid app in the play store, but you can install it from http://f-droid.org/

    Other than that, two of my favorite are AirDroid and Skifta.

    Plex is disqualified as its not free, but its great.

  21. Re:WTB Cisco Switch on Cisco Exits the Consumer Market, Sells Linksys To Belkin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, I have found Netgear to be consistently better than Linksys/Cisco routers for a long long time. Two linksys I owned would hang and reboo often in the 802.11g days.

    Moved to a netgear 802.11n router and has been great.

  22. Re:Enough Already on Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found · · Score: 1

    At this point there is no reason why HTML5 canvas can't do what WebEx is doing with Java. Java is great for server side development, it shouldn't be on any end user machines.

    Disclaimer: 10+ year Java developer, so I am biased in favor of Java for web/server development.

  23. Re:This is wrong. on FBI Responds To ACLU GPS Tracking Complaint · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and then do a about turn once you have become one.

    Unfortunately by then, you have forgotten your original agenda and become complacent with bribes.. um ah.. I mean lobby donations.

  24. And you would be correct.... on Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System · · Score: 2

    ...Microsoft has no plans to change the iPhone.

  25. Re:Layman on What 'Negative Temperature' Really Means · · Score: 1

    or maybe it does

    you will never know until you look inside the box... errr RTFA