rastoboy29 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Messages Are Not Encrypted (Score 1) 141

by rastoboy29 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:02PM (#46538667) Attached to: Gmail Goes HTTPS Only For All Connections

mod parent up. encryption is not magic.

Comment Re:Fear of what you don't understand (Score 1) 334

by rastoboy29 on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:50AM (#46502957) Attached to: Transhumanist Children's Book Argues, "Death Is Wrong"

mod parent up! geezus what is wrong with you people?

Comment Re:Umm.. just as Europe moves beyond chip and pin. (Score 1) 731

by rastoboy29 on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @07:23PM (#46223601) Attached to: Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards

Because biometrics is a terrible idea. How do you change your password? You can't. That's why. Ultimately you have to have something that is only in the brain of the user.

Comment Re:There is no way this is legal. (Score 1) 193

by rastoboy29 on Sunday December 29, 2013 @03:54AM (#45810195) Attached to: Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs

Nobody's making any money from them any more. Legal or not, someone has to give a shit.

Comment Re:Hmm. (Score 1) 653

by rastoboy29 on Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:18AM (#45757993) Attached to: Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California

bullshit story? brother, you need to get out the house more. millions live that way, and it's not because they are irresponsible people. fool.

Comment Re:What the hell is the point of these huge number (Score 1) 366

by rastoboy29 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:29PM (#45721999) Attached to: Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality

They have no *right* to "keep other people from stealing it." That is madness--that means they can shut down the internet. The only "right" creators have to themselves is to try and make money off their work. *Try*. That's it.

Comment Re:Can someone explain (Score 1) 418

by rastoboy29 on Monday December 16, 2013 @09:45PM (#45710423) Attached to: Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers

Is it?

Comment Re:Reverse Santa? (Score 0) 418

by rastoboy29 on Monday December 16, 2013 @09:43PM (#45710415) Attached to: Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers

Your blu-rays are designed to be revocable too, you know. They update the keys on the players from time to time when they can...

Comment Re:Demand is necessary but not sufficient (Score 1) 370

by rastoboy29 on Friday December 06, 2013 @08:19PM (#45623509) Attached to: Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off

You assume it has to be "legal" for no particular reason. If the demand is there, it WILL be met.

Comment Re:Porn browsing? (Score 1) 415

by rastoboy29 on Thursday November 28, 2013 @01:54AM (#45546529) Attached to: NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits

Some people. Many people. Not "people".

Comment Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then (Score 1) 346

by rastoboy29 on Thursday November 28, 2013 @01:35AM (#45546433) Attached to: The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu

which desktop version of Mint do you use? That everybody likes? ie. Cinnamon or Mate?

Comment Re:The real reason for RT? (Score 1) 293

by rastoboy29 on Thursday November 28, 2013 @01:29AM (#45546399) Attached to: Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture

i think you're giving them too much credit for machiavellian intelligence. intel was already working on that, balls to the wall. not worth the fiasco...

Comment Re:They are right. (Score 1) 409

by rastoboy29 on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @04:27PM (#45466877) Attached to: Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS

except that's not going to happen. also, the cops are out of control in this country.

Comment Re:Encrypt everything. (Score 1) 145

by rastoboy29 on Saturday November 02, 2013 @06:49PM (#45314287) Attached to: GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance

Encryption is not the only answer, because it's hardly the answer at all. The metadata they collect would still be exactly the same in most cases. We have to disguise source and destination as well, or it's all almost for naught.

Comment Re:Really? Did we ever really want smart watches? (Score 1) 365

by rastoboy29 on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @09:20PM (#45275481) Attached to: Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned

I think the word you are looking for is "discreet".

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