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  1. Re:Too little too late on How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    ...and others will simply add yet another layer of encryption on top of whatever the cloud provider is already supposed to have. Any home/SB user can install Truecrypt and use that to encrypt all his Google and Dropbox storage. Yes, things will then be a little less convenient, but he will also sleep better, knowing that it will be more difficult for a three letter agency to frame him with something. As things are now, any three letter agency can upload child porn to anyone's online accounts and then alert another three letter agency about it for prosecution. Truecrypt will make that rather more difficult to pull off successfully.

  2. Streamtuner, or even iTunes on Real-Time Radio Search Engine From Music Industry's Nemesis · · Score: 1

    There are many free radio station aggregators, even a somewhat cripple one from Apple. I never could figure out why people pay for that kind of service.

  3. Re:How many humans does the farm require? on Robots: a Working Breed At the Dairy · · Score: 1

    "small farm" is the problem. In Europe, small farms are finally consolidating again into larger economic units. For decades, communism forced consolidation, but much of that was undone again after communism. The people that are going to have to change are the gypsies, since the need for seasonal workers will decline further.

  4. Re:Conditioning on NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First · · Score: 1

    It will be like this: REDACTED will REDACTED REDACTED or already REDACTED info, conditioning REDACTED to REDACTED REDACTED release = REDACTED to REDACTED about, REDACTED along.

  5. Re:What was the point of waging wars again? on Military Robots Expected To Outnumber Troops By 2023 · · Score: 1

    A dozen won't help as long as muslim martyrs are promised 75 virgins.

  6. Re:italians on Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud · · Score: 2

    For many, many years, the Italian Premier Andriotti, was actually the chief of the Mafia.

  7. Re:Corporations dodge tax. on Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud · · Score: 1

    Well then why not drag Microsoft and Amazon into it too? Gapple, Mapple and Applezon?

  8. Re:Great work these guys are doing on CyanogenMod Windows-Based Installer Released, With Supporting Android App · · Score: 2

    So just buy an unlocked phone from AlShop.com or Souq.com or hundreds of others.

  9. Beer on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 2

    You should be familiar with the proverb "Free as in Beer". There is also another use for beer: It loosens tongues.

  10. Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Damn, I thought I was getting on in years. Seeing that Nicholas was killed in 1917, you must have been born around 1907 and should be about 106 years old...

  11. Lead on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 4, Informative

    One reason for the almost world-wide reduction in crime is the reduction of lead in the environment, thanks to unleaded fuel.

  12. Re:Why bother with legs? on NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? · · Score: 1

    Madonna said that you got to walk like an Egyptian. Therefore two legs.

  13. Re:Smart people... on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 2

    Hmm, you are a funny card, what?

  14. Re:Size, range and much hype... on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 1

    I salute you my dear sir.

  15. Re:oh man on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 2

    Android/Linux is only free if your time has no value. On the other hand, installing and running all the security updates, antivirus and malware utilities required to maintain Windows is a fulfilling and valuable business experience...

  16. Re:Windows 8.x is horrible! on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 1

    Any version of Windows is perfectly fine if you only ever run one or two MS Office applications.

  17. Re:Windows 8.x is horrible! on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 1

    Hmm, there are billions of Linux netbooks, smart phones and tablets out there - an order of magnitude more than the total number of Windows machines ever shipped. I don't see the long queues of people returning them that you are implying.

  18. Re:Windows 8.x is horrible! on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 1

    The worst? Then obviously you have not used either GnomeIII or Unity...

  19. Re:FTFY on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 1

    And that my friend, is the reason detre for the FSF, the BSD, Apache and Mozilla foundations (and numerous others) too.

  20. Re:What are you smoking on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I think 70% of the population will die due to exageration. The other 99% will carry on as usual.

  21. No electronics in NK anymore on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 2

    Imagine the Dear Leader's reaction when his Samsung Galaxy cell phone, Samsung TV and Samsung laptop computer all stop working at the same time: It is a South Korean plot to sabotage the NK!

  22. Re:Scope of request on Apple Issues First Transparency Report · · Score: 2

    Not maybe. That has already been done with the telcos (and even the little Lavabit) and Apple is just another telco, so it is safe to assume that they will also receive a single request for everything.

  23. Re:Daily Canary Counts? on Apple Issues First Transparency Report · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but as we have seen with the way the telcos are treated, the NSA can simpy include the whole customer base of a few hundred million people in a single request, so it is all quite meaningless.

  24. Re:Body hacking on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 2

    A wet towel around the neck works better. A wet T-shirt also works, but if it is a hot girl then it tends to get the guys all steamed up...

  25. Re:Well, maybe not wrist... on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 2

    You should have tried water cooling. A wet towel around the neck doesn't need batteries...