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  1. Re:The issue has moved to the Internet on A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? · · Score: 1

    And then that was the deal with tapes and DVDs, but now some movie and TV DVDs have unskippable ads for other movie and TV DVDs. Ech.

  2. Hachachachacha! on OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein · · Score: 1

    Encryption scheme names have always been strange. Blowfish, triple-DES, RC4... Now take this new cipher's name. Please!

  3. Re:Solitary Confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why allow a suspect to build a good defense by any possible (legal) mean? The suspect is clearly guilty due to the arrest.

  4. Brought to you from the creators of karma. on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 0

    I know it's not the real definition of karma, but it's a better subject line than "neener, neener, that's what happens when you sell out to Microsoft!"

  5. Re:Sounds familiar on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    "The shop closed in 1909 and they started their aviation company." -Wikipedia
    Seems their bicycle repair competitors might have been happy for their success with aircraft.

  6. Re:Pressure to conform? on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The best is when the non-conformists non-conform in strongly defined ways and view "conformists" with disdain.

  7. Re:Why are you spying on your ex-girlfriend? on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Imagine how that could be abused to swing elections. Counter strategies. Embarrass or blackmail donors. All because the technology is in place with weak protections that a determined agent (or cabal) could easily bypass. Just the "metadata", knowing who these people talk to, can be seriously abused.

    But that takes a conspiracy, doesn't it?

    It may take a conspiracy to occur in a coordinated fashion, but it only takes the possibility to cause a chilling effect. There should be better checks and transparency in place. If a lone employee can keep tabs on love interests, then a lone employee can commit political blackmail.

  8. Re:It's all complicated shit out there on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    The native browser has a compass needle on it which might induce to think it's a Map software.

    Or the compass software, which also has a picture of a compass.

  9. Re:What Internet? on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 2

    Of course, businesses will install the Bluecoat certificate locally on all PCs within the building so no such error will surface, and ISPs could sneak their own version into their AOL style install discs.

    Or your latest firefox/chrome/etc http download.

  10. Re: Theft is theft, but... on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    If I had a magnum I wouldn't need a gun.

  11. Re:Mysterious quantum mechanical connection? on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 5, Funny

    The observation effects the outcome. So in your example, the envelopes were sent with blank pieces of paper. You use scissors to open one letter, resulting in a nice snowflake design on the piece of paper. The other paper is now a dead cat, poisoned by the vial broken by your hubris.

  12. Re:In exchange for privacy? WHA? on Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy · · Score: 1

    requestpolicy isn't too shabby either.

  13. Re:If you've got good signal, digital is better, b on Final Days For Australia's Analog TV · · Score: 1

    The worst is when you almost lose signal for a fraction of a second. No pixelation, just a slight screen freeze, but now the video and audio are desynced by that fraction until you reboot your television.

  14. Re:Zombie nutrition on Mathematical Model of Zombie Epidemics Reveals Two Types of Living-Dead Strains · · Score: 1

    Not true with magical zombies like from night of the living dead and army of darkness.

  15. Re:Self Determination on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 2

    Personhood implies social responsibility.

    Not where I live. There is no tie between personhood and self-sufficiency or social responsibility. A mentally retarded serial killer rapist neo-nazi quadriplegic with lyme disease is still a person. He's a bad person who may not understand the difference between right and wrong, and he can't take care of himself, but he's still a person.

  16. Re:because on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Then has it with a salt and use the hash as your password. Unfortunately password character limits always rear their ugly heads.

  17. Re:Illusion shattered on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 2

    The object in the lottery is not just to pick the winning numbers, but also to share the jackpot with as few others as possible. 1-2-3-4-5-6 is, in fact, the worst possible choice.

    That's why you buy 100,000 tickets marked 1-2-3-4-5-6 every lottery. When it finally pays out, you'll get half of the winnings.

  18. Re:Honesty is never treasured in corporate world on The Best Way To Blow the Whistle · · Score: 1

    This is why when I hire someone, I bring in the candidates two at a time, and make one of them wear a red sash (doesn't matter who). We've all heard the puzzle, so you can figure out the rest.

  19. Re:Why don't they just use technology? on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Passengers are allowed to text. And phones can be set to auto-text. In fact, phones send SMS messages a lot; very few of them are "texts" though.

  20. Re:Read section (I) of the law for the whole story on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    I really DO like to hide my prescription medications in hard to access places, because I don't want people breaking into my car[...]

    Don't keep your prescription meds in your car. A little time in the sun on summer days and your medications can degrade faster than normal. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/health/16consumer.html

  21. Re:Tire compartment on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    That can't be illegal.

    It would be ridiculous for it to be illegal, but it can easily be illegal. All it takes is a law on the books.

  22. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    Everybody's every move being tracked in the name of lower premiums

    is impossible because everyone can't get lower premiums. What will happen is some select people who opt in early get lower premiums, then eventually the tracking becomes part of any new policy without a discount. Some people will try to fight it, but with all the tracking stuff already being set up, "reasonable expectation" of privacy will be skewed for future courts.

  23. Scratchy on Beer Drinking Networks In Amazon Tribe Help Explain Altruism · · Score: 1

    The answer from studying these beer drinking events is that the favor is quickly returned by the guests in the form of another beer drinking event.

    You mean I scratch your back, you scratch my back? That's not not altruism, that's trade.

  24. Re:Sure, as long as the monarch is a computer. on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    As long as the monarch is a computer and not a person, that is programmed to run a small number of tasks

    I'm imagining Congress coming up with laws, and getting them all vetoed with a text response of "Our words are backed with Nuclear Weapons!"

  25. Re:Not the same... on The US Now Faces the Same Dilemma Over Drones As It Did Over Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 3, Informative

    But they weren't killing machines. Reaper Drones, while having many autonomous functions, can't pull their own triggers.