rastoboy29 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Wutend (Score 1) 280

by rastoboy29 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @05:09PM (#45253491) Attached to: German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010

I don't think we're near that point, yet. Bear in mind, the existence of the EU is due to a continent that had finally had enough after millennia of warfare. That being said, this is bad. But I'm glad it's happened. We do need to do whatever it takes to make them happy though.

Comment Re:Great quote from Ron Paul sums this up: (Score 1) 279

by rastoboy29 on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:21PM (#45146643) Attached to: David Cameron Wants the <em>Guardian</em> Investigated Over Snowden Files

Bitch please: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/during_times_of_universal_deceit-telling_the/193642.html â€oeDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary actâ€ - George Orwell Better said, and more original.

Comment Re:The wrong approach? (Score 1) 105

by rastoboy29 on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:16PM (#45146603) Attached to: Snapchat Search Warrants Emphasize Data Vulnerability

While we definitely must do this, it is a basic rule of security not to trust any part of a system. We should have gotten serious about that a long time ago.

Comment Re:designed to obfuscate actual prices of plans (Score 1) 365

by rastoboy29 on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @05:47PM (#45137047) Attached to: Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy"

Yes, exactly. That being said, I'm quite disturbed that the credit reporting "agencies" are involved in this setup at all. Isn't the IRS real enough?

Comment Re:I've been telecommuting full time for over 7 ye (Score 1) 477

by rastoboy29 on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @02:40PM (#45083877) Attached to: HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You

On the other hand, I clearly see the advantages of being in the same room with people when communicating with them. Face to face is far faster and more effective than any other form. You can just turn around in your chair and ask Bob something. I'm not anti-telecommuting, but for *creative* work in particular nothing beats face to face.

Comment Re:Certificate Authorities compromised? (Score 1) 527

by rastoboy29 on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:09PM (#45029901) Attached to: Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys

Your choice. Assume they have or assume they haven't. Which makes sense? You know computer...

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 133

by rastoboy29 on Monday September 16, 2013 @05:13PM (#44866853) Attached to: 3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum

erm, how are they dangerous? serious question here.

Comment Re:I hearby pledged my oath and rifle... (Score 1) 524

by rastoboy29 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @09:38PM (#44836587) Attached to: Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA

I would have felt that way if they'd resisted, and gotten arrested. But they didn't. But can you even imagine them getting arrested? If they'd had any balls they might have nipped this in the bud years ago.

Comment Re:How to crack RSA (Score 1) 362

by rastoboy29 on Sunday September 08, 2013 @01:14AM (#44787867) Attached to: John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC

I've been thinking this about this, and it may be that open source hardware's time has really come.

Comment Re:This fundamentally a political act (Score 1) 394

by rastoboy29 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @07:25PM (#44603349) Attached to: Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open

I'm afraid that is exactly what they are doing.

Comment Re:"letting you play previously purchased games." (Score 1) 158

by rastoboy29 on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:33PM (#44589001) Attached to: Microsoft Closes Xbox.com PC Marketplace

Yeees. But it doesn't work that way, does it? That's kinda the poster's point, I think.

Comment Re:Web app? What's that? (Score 1) 205

by rastoboy29 on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:30PM (#44588971) Attached to: Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen?

I agree, except when they can make rational use of things like GPS, wifi, etc. to be more useful than they could be as a web app only. It has to be conceded that this exists. I only install apps where this is so. More often it is pointless, as you say.

Comment Re:Dumbing down is out of hand (Score 2) 365

by rastoboy29 on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:51PM (#44492647) Attached to: Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor

mod parent the fuck fuck FUCKITY up

Comment Re:Patents for software will expand... (Score 1) 75

by rastoboy29 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:41PM (#43989283) Attached to: German Parliament Tells Government To Strictly Limit Patents On Software

I don't think that's likely. There would be such an uproar if they tried it that most congresscritters would shrivel and refuse to vote in fear, as with SOPA. The outcry wouldn't be as loud, of course, but it would come from informed quarters.

Comment Re:Try to avoid 9 billion (Score 1) 293

by rastoboy29 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:20PM (#43985849) Attached to: <em>Pandora's Promise</em> and the Problem of "Solutionism"

The one thing that is proven to reduce population, beyond doubt, is increasing the standard of living. Contraception is part of that. But free economic systems are the solution.

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