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  1. Re:How many? on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    And they are correct. They are following the same cable laws that birthed the cable industry.

    Are you suggesting that cable companies "bled their hosts dry" before the addition of cable channels owned by the networks and then forced into packages? These shows are available for free with ads, you know.

  2. Re:How many? on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    People don't really want CDs or DVDs or OTA, they want streaming. So yes.

  3. Re:Doubt it will shut down cloud storage... on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no difference functionally. The difference is legal. And now they are being crucified for attempting to comply with previous court decisions because by doing so they look "shady".

  4. Re:Anybody know the plate# for each scotus? on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but if you are accused of a crime, you're going to have a bad day (year?, decade?) until it's sorted out. I'm not that worried about a stop. I'm much more worried about DAs grabbing the first guy and trying to plea out a conviction without doing any work.

  5. Re:And yet Akamai deserves a /10 on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Akamai is one of the few companies in the US that is actually using a large allocation they were given. They're the LAST ones you should be complaining about.

  6. Re:Random on NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG From Random Number Generator Recommendations · · Score: 1

    That comment was random...

  7. Re:This approach has gone nowhere for years on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Create a Culture of Secure Behavior? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How many ATM heists and skimmers have their been over the past 10 years? I'd hardly say it's working WELL.

  8. Re:Problems with Electric on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    Fix your CSS, Slashdot

    Ha! We've been waiting decades for that and to be able to type a Unicode character.

  9. Re:Will they make it detachable? on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    Battery trailer rentals for long trips?!? That's genius!

  10. Re:Price on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    And a Mercedes CLA is also $29.9k MSRP. There is no comparison.

  11. Re:Redesign the body too... on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 2

    The Mercedes CLA has a .23, and it's beautiful. You don't have to make an ugly car to get a low coefficient. They just did.

  12. Re:Please change the name! on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    As an American... This sounds AWESOME!

  13. Re:HP48g on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I didn't think about calculators, but my daughter is still using my Casio FX-4000P in high school.

    Mine looks about exactly like this (except in English):

    http://mycalcdb.free.fr/galerie/Casio/casio_fx-4000P.7.jpg

    I also have an HP 28S that still works great (although it has a really bad interface):

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/HP_28.jpg

  14. Re:LaserJet II and LaserJet 3 on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 2

    We have a LaserJet 5 in the office set up. They were supposed to get our department (in IT) a printer but they never did. So I grabbed a LaserJet 5 that was sitting in a pile and fired it up. Prints great.

  15. Re:A million is easy on Survey: 56 Percent of US Developers Expect To Become Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Now getting to $10 million is tough.

    Nah, just put the $21,000 in bitcoin instead...

  16. Re:No. on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our atrocious handling of mental health in this country has far more to do with gun violence than guns.

  17. Re:ACLU on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 2

    "That man molested my daughter." Pretty sure you could effectively end someone's life with that lie.

  18. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    And if your DNA says that humans are 6000 years old, you will believe that?

    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/humanity.html

  19. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They ALWAYS pick 500 years. Because it was at the height of the "Little Ice Age". It's so transparent now it's completely ridiculous, but the GW crowd eats it up time and time again.

  20. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    I'll keep denying until somebody can explain to me why going in and out of ice ages wasn't manmade, but now we should freak out and spend billions over 1 or 2 degrees of "manmade" "climate change" over the last hundred years (when it has been going back down for the last 15 years straight).

  21. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which track record is that?

    • Spontaneous generation
    • Lamarckian inheritance
    • Miasma
    • Bloodletting
    • Aether
    • Java Man

    Be careful putting too much faith in almighty science. They've been wrong before, you know. A lot. And people died because of it.

  22. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    And that would be correct. Perhaps one of his ligers escaped and jumped on his car. He might take the "obvious" car accident excuse, but there is no guarantee that it happened.

  23. Re:It is a Hobby on FAA Shuts Down Search-and-Rescue Drones · · Score: 1

    A typical church of 700 people has an annual budget of around $2 million. Out of that, they have to pay for 5-6 pastors, office staff, janitorial staff, etc. And their bills are huge with electricity, water, printing costs, etc. Nobody's getting rich except for a very small percentage on TV.

  24. Re:Hero ? on GM Names Names, Suspends Two Engineers Over Ignition-Switch Safety · · Score: 1

    No, you make notes from the tape and record those as being, "From your memory".

  25. Re:Details on the exploit? on 'weev' Conviction Vacated · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basically, they tried to put an unlimited iPad SIM card in a PC. They disassembled the driver to find out how it authorized them and realized that there was no security, it just went to a hidden website. They went to the website and it didn't work but then they changed their agent string in their browser to impersonate an iPad. At that point, it showed him his account information. After that, they just incremented the number up and down and realized that it showed them EVERYONE'S account information.