cs96and - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why are you people so worried about this? (Score 5, Insightful) 116

by cs96and on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:27AM (#52847515) Attached to: Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer

"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear". If you had nothing to hide you would be perfectly willing to wander round naked all the time and have no curtains on your windows. You'd be willing to install microphones in all the rooms in your house and let any passer-by listen in. You'd be willing to give me your online banking details. I could go on. Yes I have something to hide. We all do.

Comment Re:And Ireland can't leave the EU... (Score 1) 212

by cs96and on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @07:19AM (#52795031) Attached to: European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report

... because they don't have a catchy portmanteau.

Eirexit

Comment DLNA / uPNP (Score 1) 204

by cs96and on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @01:12PM (#52678425) Attached to: Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions

Are there any plans to fix the DLNA / uPNP client in VLC? It's been broken for as long as I can remember. As far as I can tell there are no decent DLNA renderers on the desktop.

Comment Re:Too Little, Too Late? (Score 1) 320

by cs96and on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:01AM (#50954223) Attached to: Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day

Outlawing encryption will solve nothing. The terrorists are not suddenly going to say "oh shit, we have to use un-encypted protocols now!"

Comment You learn something new every day (Score 1) 64

by cs96and on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:25AM (#49170665) Attached to: Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain

So there are two Steve Jacksons? I always thought it was just one bloke!

Comment Re:Is it just me... (Score 1) 516

by cs96and on Thursday February 26, 2015 @08:16AM (#49135739) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

> So, because you like the 256 color, flat, windows 3 style icons, everyone else is just opposing change? I never said that. All I said is I like the new icons. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, however I would say that people who refuse to use Windows 10 because of the icons are completely overreacting.

Comment Is it just me... (Score 2) 516

by cs96and on Thursday February 26, 2015 @06:55AM (#49135461) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

...that thinks the new icons actually look quite nice? I will reserve judgement until I see them at the smallest size though (i.e. in "details" view).

Submission + - NSA firmware may be on your hard drive (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:17AM

An anonymous reader writes: Sensationalist headlines aside, Kaspersky has recently announced that they have discovered traces of spyware inside hard drive firmware from manufacturers such as Western Digital and Seagate. They said that they "...found personal computers in 30 countries infected with one or more of the spying programs, with the most infections seen in Iran, followed by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria." While NSA spokespeople often cite having targets who deserve their attention, their widespread infection rate might drive one might think twice before granting internet access to a computer that contains any sort of sensitive information.

Comment Who is Will Kibbitz? (Score 1) 105

by cs96and on Monday January 19, 2015 @10:57AM (#48849583) Attached to: President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars

Never heard of him!

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 2219

by cs96and on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:28AM (#46184269) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

The problem I have with the mobile site is that my phone just can't handle it. It is slow slow as to be completely unusable. The desktop site runs fine though. Shouldn't a mobile site be more lightweight than the desktop site? It seems that reverse is actually true.

Comment Re:Not Meaningless (Score 1) 184

by cs96and on Thursday January 09, 2014 @01:35PM (#45907991) Attached to: Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US

I imagine that if you are transferring data from Canada to Mexico, it is 99% likely to travel through the US.

Comment Re:Can't files be cracked, like passwords? (Score 1) 69

by cs96and on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:31AM (#44316071) Attached to: BitTorrent Sync Beta Released

No, the files are only sync'd to computers that you give your secret key out to.

Comment Slashdot mobile website (Score 1) 407

by cs96and on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:55AM (#44248411) Attached to: Why JavaScript On Mobile Is Slow

If this is the case, why is the new Slashdot mobile website so javascript heavy? I simply cannot use it on my phone and have to revert to the desktop version, which runs much smoother and faster. Mobile websites should be lighter and faster than their desktop counterparts, not the other way around!

Comment Re:Excellent! (Score 1) 366

by cs96and on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @03:51PM (#35360608) Attached to: Bing Becomes No.2 Search Engine at 4.37%

Now if only it didn't suck.

I wish someone - even Microsoft - would come up with a decent alternative to Google. Being a monopoly is making them more and more corrupt, and by being the gatekeeper, they now own too much of the internet.

Try duckduckgo.com. It's pretty good

Comment Re:It's an evolution, not a revolution (Score 1) 294

by cs96and on Sunday November 01, 2009 @08:27AM (#29940921) Attached to: The Golden Age of Infinite Music

Well whatever. Because that is me. I evolve, but I don't revolve. Or vice-versa. I suppose what you're trying to say is, you don't want another Chris Evans on your hands.

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