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  1. Re:yet another stupid, incompatible protocol on AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs · · Score: 1

    Uhuh - they are re-inventing the square wheel again.

  2. Re:Space exploration is critical for Africa now? on Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The thing is, they can and do live on 50c a day, but you cannot. The whole situation is different there. I'm not saying that living on 50c a day is pleasant, but if you would try to live on that, you would die of starvation within 10 days or so, but they will still be there and be happily making even more babies to live in even worse conditions later.

  3. The poor will always be with us on Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race · · Score: 1

    Poverty is the oldest profession...

  4. ASCII Art on Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber · · Score: 2

    For the true Linux version, you need to render each individual photo using ASCII Art.

  5. Stone age on Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? · · Score: 1

    Got to carve those pics in stone, in Egypt, else nobody will care about them later.

  6. Reed Solomon FEC on Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? · · Score: 1

    There is also rsbep, which uses Reed Solomon FEC. This is a classic filter, so you can use it together with tar, gzip and gpg to protect archives against NSA snooping and bit rot simultaneously.

    Something like:
    $ tar -cz indirectory | rsbep | gpg -e > out.tar.gz.rs.gpg

    La voila!

  7. Re:Splendid on Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that bitrot is the computer god's way to protect our descendants...

  8. Re:How keys are managed on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 1

    Man, I can see a few holes in that, and I only read one of Bruce Schneier's books...

  9. Re: Dice Strikes Again... on Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the whoosh of the joke flying over your head...

  10. Re:Dice Strikes Again... on Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers · · Score: 1

    So why do they still have pickers? Clearly that is the next level of automation to execute...

  11. Re:Key distribution and metadata? on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 1
  12. The Importance of Metadata on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 1

    The Importance of Metadata:

    It is not Who you know, or What you know, or even What you know about Who you know.

    It is Where is Who, that provides the targeting for the missile.

  13. Re:I personally find this very important... on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 2

    So you don't mind the corrupt PFY contractor at the NSA/GCHQ telling the HR manager at that place you applied for work the results of your last STD test do you?

  14. Excellent news on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    I wish the lot of them resign and find something productive to do.

  15. Re:My rule for SSD on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Ever since my little EeePC spoiled me, I will never use spinning rust again.

  16. Re:Duh on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 2

    Of course. They don't care what you said. They just want to know where to aim the missile at.

  17. Re:Don't foresee much "reining in"... on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1

    ...and seeing that I am not a US citizen, I really don't appreciate the NSA and GCHQ snooping and will do my damndest to resist.

  18. Re:yeah right on Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority · · Score: 1

    Doh - Weazel Piss a.k.a. releasing oil, is fairly common and goes by many names, for example R60 and Castrol Flick.

  19. Re:What a great man on Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You just have no fscking idea do you? How the hell do you use 250,000 hand grenades and 140 tons of explosives for peaceful purposes? If you want to ignore all the people who died because of his callousness, maybe you should think of the children his wife murdered?

  20. Re:All of us who were around back in 1960 ... on Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 · · Score: 1

    Nelson did not exactly live in a jail cell. He mostly lived in the chief warden's house in Polls Moore Prison.

    Anyhow, as Voltaire put it: He was a kind an generous man - provided of course, that he is really dead.

  21. Re:They will, without a doubt, die... on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Cool. At least now we have someone to blame for our inevitable misfortune.

  22. Re:In the name of "Allah" ... on 1.5 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts Online · · Score: 1

    Nope, it was finally destoyed by god himself. The library is now under water in the harbour of Alexandria following an earth quake in the 8th century.

  23. Bibles? on 1.5 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts Online · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Goodness me, don't tell me they could not find more important works to save than bibles. These subversive books should not be lightly discarded, they should be carefully disposed of in toxic waste incinerators.

  24. Sterilization on Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms · · Score: 1

    So how are they going to sterilize it? It is a piece of commercial kit and should not come close to an operating theatre.

  25. That would be perfect for delivery of anything that weighs about the same as a postage stamp.