Dr. Charles Forbin - Slashdot User

Comment Incredibly stupid. (Score 1) 296

by Dr. Charles Forbin on Friday July 08, 2016 @09:31AM (#52470319) Attached to: Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet

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Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux)

owE7LZHEEF6/aoVnXnJRakpmUk6lQnFJaUFmChcA
=msIO
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Comment Dump the Facebook App and use the browser (Score 1) 155

by Dr. Charles Forbin on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:48PM (#52250649) Attached to: Facebook Nixes Access To Chats Outside Of Messenger Walled Garden

Their stupid web page still tries to force you to download their messenger app, but if you set Chrome to request the desktop site, it will let you see your messages. At least it did yesterday.

Comment Re:Time to take the men out of the loop ... (Score 1) 322

by Dr. Charles Forbin on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:28PM (#33990044) Attached to: US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months'

Once or twice :)

Comment Re:yet another lawsuit waiting (Score 1) 895

by Dr. Charles Forbin on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:59AM (#11699202) Attached to: Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site

As I understand things, it's illegal for MS to keep office from running under a competing OS - didn't they already get slapped by the court for an ancient Windows version and DR-DOS?

Maybe the lawyer-types can answer this -- is there something in the DMCA that makes it illegal for M$ to look for ANOTHER COMPANY'S registry key as a test?

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