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  1. Is Google allowed to do this? on Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is Google even allowed to pursue such an undertaking? What's to stop the NSA from requiring access by design? It's not as if Google could say anything about it if this were the case.

  2. "impenetrable to the government agencies" on Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    Does this include subpoenas and disavowed backdoors for the NSA?
    I will believe it when it really gets tested.

  3. He wants Adobe CREATIVE suite on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    Either the OP wants Adobe Creative suite or is complaining that something like this isn't freely available in a modified Ubutntu install out-of-the box.
    Who else would redefine "creative" in this way?

  4. Pickle Juice on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    Oh, sorry. When you read this, somewhere in the first part of my post I actually mean that "Pickle Juice" means that I am talking about not expressing yourself accurately and you need to read an article just to see how some prat has redifined a word or phrase that most people would assume means something else.

    "Slashdot at it's worst" indeed!

  5. Creative? on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    Since when does creative = audio & visual pursuits only.
    Why isn't the title simply something like "ultimate audio-visual os"
    say what you mean. mean what you say.

  6. What about the pupils? on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    What about the seven federal law-enforcement applicants and two government contractors with security clearances that Dixon trained? What about the two undercover agents that can no longer be trusted, now that they know the secrets of how to bypass polygraph tests (the can no longer be trusted). What are their fates?

  7. Good for the goose... on Microsoft and Google Challenge US Government Gag Orders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why can't MS and Google publish "metadata" on the number of FISA requests and number of accounts requested?
    If it is good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

  8. Tar paradox? on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    Tar Paradox:
    "All living things are made of organic matter, but if you add energy such as heat or light to organic molecules and leave them to themselves, they don't create life. Instead, they turn into something more like tar, oil or asphalt."

    I guess they have never been to a greenhouse? Organic molecules, heat, light....hmmm. Plants love that.

  9. oxidized molybdenum? on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    So, was the molybdenum oxidized BEFORE it streaked through the oxygen-rich atmosphere?
    His pet theory is just that...a theory.

  10. Plenty of oxygen on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Molybdenum doesn't require free molecular oxygen to oxidize. It can steal the oxygen from other sources.
    By the way, when did molybdenum become crucial for life? Did the earliest life require it? I would like to see some proof here.

  11. USPTO cannot change law on Uncle Sam Finally Wants To Hear From Us On Digital Copyright Law? · · Score: 2

    The USPTO cannot change the law of the land. That's what Congress is for.
    This will amount to nothing.

  12. perhaps some good... on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Perhaps some good can come of this---harnessing the power of the authors of the constitution as they spin in their graves.

  13. buffer overrun on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 2

    It's probably just a buffer overrun on the Prism-Google interface.

  14. now they can track...your calls on National Weather Service Upgrades Storm-Tracking Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    If only clouds had metadata.

  15. Re:english already abandoned the thorn character on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Apparently Australian restaurateurs do not do research before proposing the old and worthless.
    Why stop there. How about a keyboard with a key for every commonly used group of characters?

    Where's my damn schwa key?

  16. 15 minutes of fame on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Ok. He had his 15 minutes of fame.
    Can we move on to more important things---like just about anything else?

  17. Unbelievably short-sighted! on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    The people that wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights thought enough of the 5th amendment to include it for a reason---specifically protection against self-incrimination was directly related to the question of torture for extracting information and confessions. Since the time of the founding fathers, the need for the 5th amendment has only increased.
    Maybe the OP should watch James Duane's video about the fifth amendment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

  18. Rogoff & Reinhart != Excel error on Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study · · Score: 1

    I would call this error a "Rogoff & Reinhart", as they were the ones that fat-fingered in the first place.

  19. Why, indeed! on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    That's just sad.
    Did Steve Ballmer have a stroke?

  20. not just tech on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    And you think this is limited to tech companies?

  21. Hooray! Now, about the Windows 8 problem... on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe more rational thinking is returning to the Big M.
    Now, if only they would rethink the Windows 8 mess on desktops.

  22. Oh, please! on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    Elvis is dead.
    Microsoft is not the reason why Linux has problems.
    Mr. Rogers was not a Navy Seal.

  23. Re:It's a drone dammit on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    Why isn't it a UFO? I guess Project Bluebook isn't under DHS's umbrella?

  24. bad documentation is not the only problem... on Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow · · Score: 1

    Bad documentation is not the only problem. I keep noticing LAZY developers and developers that could not write a "hello world" example without the aid of Experts Exchange.

  25. Or... on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 1

    Or a way to show the Board and stockholders that they are making "significant changes".