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  1. Re:My password is printed on the side of my router on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1, Funny

    (class B house)

    Well there's your problem. You should be living in a class M environment.

  2. Re:Well, that is Fucked. on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1

    Where coercion exists (theft, fraud, physical force or threat thereof), freedom cannot. ... Freedom requires voluntary association, and in essence, *is* voluntary association. Coercive association is the opposite, and the two concepts are mutually exclusive (unlike what government teaches you).

    Although paradoxically, voluntary association sometimes requires coercive association to prevent other coercive association (a threat of arrest and detainment to keep a potential criminal from performing theft, fraud, physical force or threat thereof). It's a balancing act, but unfortunately, the government has tipped from using "threat" as the initial step of coercive association on everyone (expression of law and penalties for breaking said law), and has started using "theft" as the initial step of coercive association on everyone (making illegal copies of our copyrighted data, and sometimes breaking encryption schemes to do so. Okay, that was partly a joke. But mass surveillance does feel like theft more than anything else, complete with the sickening feeling of loss mingled with uneasiness).

  3. Re:Consumption vs Creation on Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    That certainly would explain Romita Jr's art.

  4. Re:I hate that word "consumption" on Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps "reception" might be better received as the purpose of the devices? More in line with radios and TVs, but with a few more features that make them like two way radios with board games built in.

  5. Re:Why? Developer Developers Developers. And Games on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 2

    playing them for free, the dark unfortunate secret of Android

    Which used to be the dark unfortunate secret of DOS and Windows' success.

  6. Re:Ugh on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd rather have Ubuntu. That's how much I don't want Android.

  7. Re: Not the first time on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    I think you're thinking of Day of the Tentacle Larry.

  8. Re:Gather 'round children ... on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    If you bill $200/hour, and this machine allows you to do more work per hour, then it's hard to imagine a scenario where you make more money without committing fraud (or drastically increasing your per-hour rate). Charge per job.

  9. Re:First Shot on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try asking EA to develop a game where the US masses rise up against the legitimate authority in Washington DC (that takes place in our time) and see how well that goes.

    They already did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Gettysburg!
    At least twice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Antietam!

  10. Pipes, loops, sed, awk on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 2

    When someone wants to do something on thousands of files or even something repetitive within just one file (replacing all numerical dates with European numerical dates or written dates), then showing them some command line basics can light a fire under them. Until they have a need though, they usually won't care enough to learn further themselves.

  11. an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. on Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 · · Score: 1

    Children have millions of these before they ever use an electronic gewgaw.

  12. What's holding them back? on Why Don't Open Source Databases Use GPUs? · · Score: 1

    Many queries that you write are simpler than TPC-H. Necessity is the mother of invention.

  13. YES on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    My smartphone has more pixels than my laptop, but the same 14yo seems to design the sites where you purposefully select the regular site, and every link you click reverts to the mobile version. Stop it. Let the user choose or just stick with a normal site designed for 1280 pixels wide and let the browser sort it out. Hint: the latter is easier.

  14. Re:The Mice are Thrilled! on Scientists Reverse Muscle Aging In Mice · · Score: 1
  15. It's obviously bedrock on Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Switch to creative mode temporarily to remove it.

  16. It was the one-armed UBR-1! on One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots · · Score: 1

    The Fugitive would have been very different.

  17. Re:Summary is a troll on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    China would love to institute a "claim your Bitcoin" policy. It'd be like a "lost and found narcotics and terrorism training manuals department" for American police; people just walk up and admit guilt.

  18. Re:Mod Parent Article Down. on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 5, Funny

    And knowing /. It will be raised again in a few days.

  19. Re:He's a *LOUSY* president. on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 1

    So that's why Ron Paul never wins!

  20. Re: Time to switch gears on Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too · · Score: 1

    Darth Vader's nephew = Nephew of Skywalker, Anakin.

    GP's point is there's No Such Agnate.

  21. Re:Not only is this entirely illegal, on Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device · · Score: 1

    Most uses of cell phones these days are for non-voice communications, whether SMS, email, web surfing, etc. Compare to five or more years ago when you constantly overheard people talking on their phones in public. And I have a reasonable expectation of privacy from shoulder surfing. I don't expect to be immune from it, just like I don't expect to be immune from someone peeping into a public bathroom stall or glancing to the side at the urinals, but social norms give me expectations of privacy there too. Stingray would pick up SMS traffic easily.

  22. Nine Eleven on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If phone calls would be prohibited on planes, flight 93 would have hit something in D.C. Maybe where these senators are sitting. Time for someone to use 9-11 politically again.

  23. Re:key ingrediant in new car smell... on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 2

    Yup. your new car will no longer be aloud to smell "like a new car"

    That sounds terrible!

  24. Re:optimist on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 2

    My thoughts also. I'm still hoping we don't find any life on Mars so it can be terraformed.

    Why should that stop us unless it's intelligent? Sorry about your luck, microbes. Multi-celled organisms coming through.

  25. Re:Billions are larger than millions on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But the initial comparison was between millions and billions. While methane may be 20x more effective, it's not 1000x more effective.