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  1. Re:EXAMPLE TO BE SHOWN !! on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 0

    I'm not your pal, buddy!

  2. Re:Deluded ... on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Continuing to believe that by self-censoring one can evade being the subject of government surveillance is a sign of being truly delusional.

  3. Re: Nowhere near as safe. on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    ISIS headquarters makes fort knox look like a gingerbread house. Only two means of ingress. The first, at street level, impenetrable after six. The second through an access door on the roof, inexplicably unprotected. But even if you ziplined across.. reach the access door, and somehow made it into ISIS headquarters, youâ(TM)d still have to find the mainframe. But wait, it gets worse. Inside there are three countermeasure systems. The first is pressue sensitive, in the floor. Even a mouse triggers it. The second is sound sensitive. Anything above a whisper sets it off. and the third system is state of the art voice activationâ¦

  4. Re: woo on Intel Linux Driver Now Nearly As Fast As Windows OpenGL Driver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft blew its right foot off with Windows 8.
    They went to the doctor to get it reattached with Windows 8.1 only to wake up to find out that a second left foot was attached in place.

  5. Re: History.... learn from it! on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    However, a POTS system can function entirely based on the last mile. Calls can take place between those within a community as long as the central office for that community is still operational. Even in the major flooding issues throughout Colorado a couple months ago, communities that lost the ability to use cell phones were able to resort to land lines to call others including to their 911 dispatch centers despite being temporarily cut off from the rest of the world.

    VoIP is great as long as there is reliable internet connectivity to wherever your service provider decides to locate their servers. For a system that is comparable to and as resilient as POTS, service providers would need to place a VoIP gateway at each of their central offices. While that is certainly doable, the question is whether service providers will do that of their own accord without someone like the FCC mandating it to ensure that there can be reliable communications should a flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, lightning storm, or other form of natural or man made disaster.

  6. Re:Good on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 5, Informative

    Easy... They had the person's full name and address, probably more relevant contact information.

    Think of it this way... a call to Equifax, Experian or Transunion to submit a complaint saying "This person placed a very large order with us, but then reversed payment after the fact. Here is their name, address, phone number, email, dog's middle name, ..."

  7. Re: The promise of the 90s here at last? on The Science Behind the InfinitEye's Panoramic Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 1

    VirtualBoy kicked ass. Aside from the headaches, vertigo, sore neck, cross eyes, ...

  8. Re: Why that name? on Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions · · Score: 1

    Here I was thinking that it was part of Unity, namely the side taskbar. Then I was thinking... Why would a taskbar need it's own storage API? Then I remembered... It isn't the first time that Canonical added some odd cruft to Unity.

    Then I searched it out and scratched my head as to why those things would need to be added to chroot.

  9. Re: Next Version? on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Computers are taking queues from cell phones and becoming cheap, commodity, throw-away items. There are even desktops from the likes of Dell and Toshiba with soldered on CPUs that simply can't be upgraded or replaced. Add to that Intel and AMD saying that the age of year over year performance increases are over for x86. GPUs are seeming to be the only area where massive performance growth will continue. The road maps for the next few years are on power savings, not performance. As such, upgradable components are also becoming less relevant than they were a decade ago when you could throw $150 at a couple year old computer and double performance.

  10. Re: News for Nerds... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 0

    If we are to assume that ten minutes ago, you were created with memories to lead you to believe that you have existed prior to this very moment, isn't it also plausible that your cat (a living being that has knowledge of you) was not formed in the same fashion as you, with memories and knowledge of what it is to have an empty belly, and a belief that if vocalized to you that it would be fed? For the incredibly intricate task of creating that scenario, why does the observation that water can and is currently boiling provide irrefutable evidence to you that this world or even just your part in it has existed longer than 10 minutes?

  11. Re: make jesus a dinosaur on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 0

    Now, sir... you are being absurd! We have long knew that Jesus rode a T-Rex at the moment of Creation.

  12. Re:Wow... on Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    Cocaine and Hookers are expensive.

  13. Re: Who watches the Watchers? on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    Isn't it already the job of dispatch to know where an officer is at all times when they are on duty?

  14. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    Passenger -> Cockpit != Cockpit -> Passenger.

  15. Re: And in other news... on US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dehydrated water isn't anything.

  16. Pirate: "Hunch Hunch!" Parrot: "What, what!" Pirate: "Buh bo!"

  17. Re: Terrorist? on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    To Germany, might the assassination of their leader not be an act that causes some of their population to feel terror?

  18. Different Source Code for Different Versions? on Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am shocked, and frankly a little pissed off that Version 6 and Version 7 aren't identical.

  19. Re: What if Apple.. on No Love From Ars For Samsung's New Smart Watch · · Score: 2

    Believe both.

    The first is an "everywhere, forever" statistic.
    The second is a "United States in Q2 2013" statistic.

  20. Perhaps a Smart Watch. on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    If you aren't looking to make an immediate purchase, the Omate TrueSmart watch works out very well.
    Still a few bugs to get sorted out with the current developer edition, but it is a phone with GPS and a few other niceties in a watch form factor making it difficult for a child of that age to lose.

  21. Re: Compatibility on Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Streaming games to the Nvidia Shield sure seems perfectly capable without any noticeable temporal interference.

  22. Re: Am I missing something? on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Except previous to CCC's proof of concept, there were a number of videos of people programming non-fingers for TouchID, including solely a piece of gelatin, not a thin layer of anything sitting in front of a finger. While the gelatin mold was not reported as a match when compared to a person's true finger, it could be used to program he sensor as itself and re-auth successfully. Hence, Apple doesnt look for blood vessels, temperature or heart beat... Just capacitance.

  23. Re:Am I missing something? on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes, Apple has been confirmed lying due to a gelatin finger being able to program the TouchID sensor to begin with. No blood vessels, well below the temperature of a human body, and certainly no pulse.

    If their technology looked for these things, than a gelatin finger couldn't be used... ever.

  24. Re:And I have a 3 foot long penis on Letter to "Extended Family" Assures That NSA Will "Weather This Storm" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course they aren't an abusive and unchecked spying agency engaged in illegal activity.
    What is all this attention that they are under now if not being checked upon?

  25. Re: ALIENS on Software Glitch Means Loss of NASA's Deep Impact Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.