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  1. Re:wget on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 2

    Hmm, I think that you are onto something. One could make an obfuscating browser that sends out page requests to random sites to keep the network link full and defeat NSA traffic analysis. It should also log into sites like Slashdot, Al Jazeera and Facebook and post random comments...

  2. Re:You're worrying about the wrong surveillance on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    ...or Gostery

  3. Re:Sandbox the sucker... on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    "doesn't wind up sold to all comers" - Really? There is the Snowdon guy who has some NSA data for sale. Ever heard of him?

  4. Re:Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) R/O system on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 2

    Tor is fine, except that most end points are likely run by the likes of the NSA and FBI...

  5. Re:Internet Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 2

    No, no, Microsoft did not put the backdoor into Skype - Ebay did that. Microsoft just improve and maintain the backdoor.

  6. !Sterilization on Surgeon Uses Google Glass and iPad To Capture Live Procedure and Stream It · · Score: 1

    So how did the surgeon sterilize the equipment? Please remind me not to go to that hospital.

  7. Re:Too much work on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 4, Funny

    why just strip out all the punctuation who needs commas full stops and capital letters anyway everything is still perfectly readable

  8. Re:Isn't this what we would expect. on Ocean Plastics Host Surprising Microbial Array · · Score: 1

    You realize that we have had plastics for more than 4000 years? Yes, that is right, 4000. Sure the selection was limited and some of them took 3 years to cure, but we had them alright.

  9. Re:And the point would be...? on Echolocation For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Hmm, and after the FBI knocked the door down on top of you and then 15 storm troopers ran over said door to try and find you and eventually notice the spreading blood puddle - then I don't see why the medics would then need a cell phone app to visualize your squished body under the door.

  10. Re:And the point would be...? on Echolocation For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    OK, but just using the camera on that same phone would be so much better for remembering what those homes looked like...

  11. Re:And the point would be...? on Echolocation For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Blind people cannot see, but they can hear Siri speak to them. Hand-held Sonar technology can be extremely useful to many.

  12. Re:Popularity on Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype · · Score: 1

    Easy - Saudi already has a national firewall filter thing. They just add Skype and Whatever else to the block list.

  13. Re:Windows users are chumps. on Spikes Detected In Autorun Malware · · Score: 1

    Me fail English? That's unpossible!

  14. Re:In the end? on Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Most will fall in the sea. Then they will get eaten by turtles. Think of the turtles...

  15. Copyright Law always apply by default on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    Copyright law always apply to literary works, whether you make a statement about it or not.

  16. Two year term already in effect on Apple Revises Warranty Policies In Europe To Comply With EU Laws · · Score: 1

    Well, duh. This is just the paperwork catching up with the law. EU citizens already have 2 year warranties.

  17. Re:I don't drink coffee on Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee · · Score: 1

    "As should be obvious, the result of over-roasting is that your beans will give you a burnt ash flavor rather than a rich, nuanced coffee flavor, which is why so many people who have only ever been exposed to Starbucks (or worse) think that coffee by itself tastes bad, when it really doesn't." Finally another person that realizes that Starbucks coffee tastes like burned pine wood.

  18. Re:Missing part? on Google Glass Teardown · · Score: 1

    Mind control - obviously that is what the proximity sensor is for - it senses your brain activity and the projector closes the loop through the optical nerve...

  19. Re:Not very surprising on Scientists Explain Why Chairman of House Committee On Science Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    So, who is this gay broad you are talking about?

  20. Re:windows vm for tax software & work related on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    "no serious personal tax software to run on GNU/Linux" That is very easy to solve. Just move to a state where there is no personal tax.

  21. DDR on Inside PRISM: Why the Government Hates Encryption · · Score: 2

    Honecker called. He wants his republic back.

  22. Improvement? on What Features Does iOS 7 Need? · · Score: 1

    What Apple needs is themes. The default looks are rather blah already and now it will be more so? Nunn

  23. Re:Rank? on Why Chinese Hacking Is Only Part of the U.S. Security Problem · · Score: 1

    No, Captain Obvious was demoted to a Lieutenant long ago.

  24. Ring, ring - alah akhbar on Intelligence Director Claims NSA Surveillance Reports Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    Great. The monitoring of all call records means that all that Al Qaida now needs to do is call people. The NSA, FBI and IRS will then do the terrorising for them.

  25. Re:GNOME Should Copy MS Metro! on One Week With GNOME 3 Classic · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but CDE predates Win95 by many a year.