Comment: Re:"centuries"? (Score 1) 305
What kinds of devices have we been interacting with for centuries?
Sounds like his mom's a little old for you.
Comment: Re:That and... (Score 4, Informative) 305
I think that's to make it easier to translate the software.
Comment: Pictures (Score 1) 709
I live right in the red zone where this fire was and was forced out of my home on Friday. Here are some pictures for anyone that cares:
https://picasaweb.google.com/111855716135586173530/EagleMountainFire2012
Comment: Re:The value of securing your AP? (Score 4, Funny) 277
Tell me again what the value is of securing my AP? It gives me another legal defense against ridiculous *IAA assaults, I am under no legal obligation to secure an AP, and my neighbors use it, respectfully of course.
Not everyone has respectful neighbors. When their SSID is "WHITEPOWER", and a couple weeks later it is "KILLNIGGERS", that is not someone I'm going to allow to stroll through my connection. Period. No matter how locked down the rest of the network is, any investigation into their weirdness would start with me.
So sniff all their passwords and use their Facebook account to post "Obama 2012" messages.
Comment: Re:And dont you DARE close your eyes or not listen (Score 1) 578
I doubt anyone would actually watch TV if they had to do that.
Comment: Re:Meanwhile... (Score 2) 167
Now I shall patent the mobile version...
Comment: Re:Microsoft Pledges (Score 5, Funny) 426
To sell more Macs.
FTA: "It won't take users long to adapt to a new operating system.
Comment: Re:Apple cares (Score 1) 166
1. Public complains about egregious working conditions at your company.
2. Improve working conditions a little and start a massive PR campaign to show that you care about more than just profit.
3. Profit!
Comment: Re:Goodbye internet (Score 3, Insightful) 188
You don't have to run a Tor relay/exit. In fact, it's off by default.
Comment: Re:Goodbye internet (Score 1) 188
Has anyone had good luck with darknets? I tried Freenet but it was too slow and didn't have very much on it.
It very much resembles the internet of the 90s.
Comment: Re:er (Score 1) 199
In theory they could not even ask for your gender, though it is usually quite obvious.
I hate when it's not.
Comment: Re:if only the parliament had a binding say (Score 1) 53
My civics class taught me that a bill goes to the House first, then the Senate, then the President. What happened?
Comment: Re:sue the carrier as an accompilce in the theft (Score 2) 269
Why not just file a police report when you report the phone stolen?
Comment: Re:Publicity whore... (Score 1) 402
What he proposed isn't going to happen of course.
Of course. And the summary is also wrong in its conclusion: "Is this a good move for security, or just another step towards a totalitarian society that prohibits free expression?"
It's just a step toward all websites using https so that nobody will have a fucking clue what you're looking at anymore. Often these sites have perfectly legit (should we say 'reasonable'?) sections and it's going to be harder and harder to determine which parts the users actually went to.
Pretty soon the government will start requiring new encryption standards that have a backdoor for them to intercept your data. And then it will be illegal for you to use any encryption standards that don't.
Comment: Re:What do you mean by 'tax' (Score 1) 432
If you don't pay any taxes to begin with, of course!