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Pardon me, but I'm going to go watch Firefly now, as it appears none of you make any sense. Bye.

But.. but... how can you watch Firefly when Nielsen and NPD confirm that people buy cellphones? :O

This NPD? "NPD is a large polling company that that helps other companies report information about public. occationally they mess up really bad"

Wow. There is one hole hell of a lot of "FAIL" in there.

I need a new wristwatch... one with a stockmarket ticker... so I know with which mp3 player i"ll father my next child..

I believe you just proved my original point.

I think I'll go look for willing clitorises to pleasure now, toodles. [I believe the world would be a much better place were my tounge pleasuring more clitorises (but that's just my opinion).]

You realize that the Hummer is out of production? Not even the Chinese wanted to buy the company.

Finally, some beneficial side effect from high gas cost.

What does that mean "pawn" the legislation? They left it at a second hand shop as collateral on a short-term loan?

See definition #3, in common use among multiplayer gamers.

Bicycle is good, using it for commute to stay in shape.

And I'm just going to assume that having a gay brothel run out of their house lowered property values because... of all the jizz on the sofa or something?

Jizz? Oh it's much worse than jizz. It's santorum. (words NSFW)

Certainly the Apple execs have thought about this and have made certain that they get compensated regardless.

I believe this is where the concept of fuck you money comes into play. On Wall Street, or in business, it is possible to make so much money in such a short time that it literally doesn't matter what happens afterwards. You've already got more than you can ever spend.

The statement about America's problems not being Apple's problems indicate precisely that mentality. Whoever said it knows very well that Apple's rise in America rather than Mogadishu is more than mere coincidence. Obviously they have profited greatly from the system here. But does that oblige them to help perpetuate the system? Oh, hell no. Like you said, they'll meet the minimum legal requirements, while actively striving to have those requirements reduced all the while.

was not entirely dismissing the idea or thats' what I felt.

Santorum was just mouthing his usual santorum.

1. Cory Doctorow. It wasn't his best book, but wasn't too bad either, and did give one food for thought. Almost required reading for this topic; it's available at your local bookstore, or for free at BoingBoing.

I loved some other books from Cory Doctorow, but I honestly thought this one was not worth the... oh well, it was free, so I cannot complain. But I would not really recommend it. I thought that the only thing interesting about the book was its setting - otherwise, it's just quite a boring story, with forgettable characters and a surprising (but not particularly enjoyable) lemon scene at the middle. The books starts up nicely, but really winds down afterwards, up to its end which is quite a grind. Of course, this is only my opinion - you are very well entitled to have another one.

Actual logic would make Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer MCSE though... I think the point is to make it a FFLA because they're superior to a TLA

Actual logic would make Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer MCSE though... I think the point is to make it a FFLA because they're superior to a TLA

We attacked Iraq because "they tried to kill my dad." That's the short of it.

The short of it is that you aren't bringing any useful facts to the discussion, just buckets of nonsense from the fever swamps.

The marketdroids pretty much gave up slashdot, they were too noticeable and tended to lose. They have resorted to offtopic postings flooding the first page of any story.

Any government agency that monitors social networks for critical postings about how it functions is obviously hunting down traitors within the ranks. Those that divulge the corrupting affects of political appointees, of criminal collusions with various corporations and, of blatant failures within the organisation.

DHS so far is most well known for the colour of terrorist bullshit scale to drive political polling in favour of then Republican Government. Of some really distorted privatisation contracts to flood the pocket of ex-insider political appointees with pointless security apparatus. It seems to have become the US agency were the worst of the worst for political purposes investigations are dumped, terrorist investigations for publicity, attacks against peace protesters, threats from environmentalists, colluding with corporations in attacks against individuals protesting those corporations, global warming activists and pretty much pro 1% and anti 99%.

DHS more like Shitheel Inc. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitheel.

Words change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism

Ironically, it was the Urban Dictionary's word of the day 2 days ago. Coincidence?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=santorum&defid=369371

>Don't be so hard on yourself. With tens of thousands of security cameras across your cities, That is mostly the brits. But I grant you the point.

> rampant hoplophobia, With a murder rate less than a 6th of that rate in gun loving USA, I consider this wise.

Non sequitur. What are your population numbers, in relation to that of the US?
Statistically, there is no causality between gun ownership and murder rates in the US; quite the opposite in many places.

Europe, too.

... Last I heard it was in the [US] a burglar could sue the owner of the house he broke in to if he broke his leg during the heist. And win.

Only in the People's Republic of California.

Mongo is slang for huge or big. Its like a Blazing Saddles reference to a character named Mongo; whereby it was stated, if you shoot him, you'll just make him mad. Beyond that, I'm not sure what's offensive about it.

Its a "big, bad ass database." What's so offensive?

In my language, and apparently in English as well, "mongo" is a rude slang term for people with Down syndrome. Although I chuckled when I first read about MongoDB it's obvious that those who chose the name didn't know about this. Disclaimer: Neither I nor any sensible person I know would ever use this slur.

It should have been polemical (polemic is the noun) but it is English. From Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polemical) :

polemical adj 1: of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial 2: engaged in or addicted to polemics : disputatious

Unfortunately there's no mod for ignoramous so I had to.... oh right, simple English. So I guess that's just "dumb-ass" then (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dumb-ass).

You don't have to be so xenophobic. It was in the quote of the article. /. shouldn't have to simplify/edit a quote every time there's a big scary looking word in it.

Hi, I'm the AC who posted the GP comment ("Game, set, and match.") I'm not sure what you thought I meant, but here is exactly what I meant:

Your "Could you remind me" comment was funny. It was also a very devastating comeback, which as far as I am concerned means you won the game, the set, and the match. "Game, set, and match" is (as far as I know) a very common idiom expressing a complete win in some sort of contest, or often in an argument.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=game%2C%20set%2C%20match

I'm not sure exactly what you meant by your reply to my post, but here is what I think you meant: that I am some sort of idiot. From which I deduce that you thought I was insulting you or something. Or perhaps you thought I was saying that you FORFEITED the game, set, and match?

Sadly, your invoking of the Special Olympics takes my formerly high opinion of you down a few notches. It's not exactly Godwin's Law but it's kind of unsavory to make a derogatory comment that references the Special Olympics. Leave those people alone, okay? If you want to call me an idiot for complimenting you, just call me an idiot.

And for my part, I apologize for being overly terse. I didn't mean to either insult you or to make you think I had insulted you; I thought the "Game, set, and match" idiom was widely known and self-explanatory.

Well, back I go to the AC cave. Have a nice life.

No point for Google reference. Even though I saw the episode, I had to look up the link, so mod me down, o wise ones.

Bad security can actually be worse than no security.

These types of arguments tend to run on one of two lines: people trusting that which they shouldn't and examples of simple broken systems.

There is nothing you can do about people trusting systems they shouldn't. Houses have many ways in that are usually easier to open with tools than the doors. Windows are used for entry because you only need a fist to break most. Walls are just as easy with power tools. It's the social contract between people that prevents this type of security problem. Locks on your doors only keep out lazy opportunists checking doors for easy access. Sadly, the Gabriel's Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory implies that online the contract fails.

The less obvious one is that a faulty and flawed security mechanism actually offers another attack vector.

All security mechanisms suffer from this. Reference: http://xkcd.com/538/

Add a lock and you not only offer a point where an attacker can actually put a hook,

The obvious is to just use a tool that can attach things to doors. Even a harmless looking sharpened thumbtack defeats the 'handle-less' door yet is stymied by the presence of a lock.

I think the equivalent in computer security is pop-up phishing. Such as putting up a webpage popup AD with a similar password requirement and appearance, hoping that some people will try their existing passwords from their existing systems. Or a fake screensaver overlay that kicks in after one minute of idle.

If the lock is now flawed and easy to pick, you actually lowered the security of the door by adding a lock.

It is a simple matter of application of non-obvious force: smack the door with your fist. One that is easier to do than even smashing windows. It not only leaves no trail, but makes it look like you know what you are doing so unaware bystanders will think you should be using that door. Unless it is badly fit to the frame and actually stuck to it, if pushed on such a door will bounce open. Materials are elastic to some degree and forces between joints will be partially reflected just due to the difference in material (the gap that comprises the joint between door material and frame.)

To translate into security speak, this is shoulder-surfing someone who uses the same password everywhere.

Fundamentally, security is about psychology and not technology. The lock should be the hardest part of the door to deal with so attackers focus on it and waste their time. This gives you time to discover and deal with them manually assuming the attacker just doesn't give up and go check other doors. Most people are dumb - well average or bellow - so this works well. You cannot keep the smart ones out - even if they ignore the window you left open they know how to use a battery-powered chain saw to make their own doors.

Get one of the little jobbies and put a Hero cam on it

You want me to put a Hero cam on *what*??!!

Please reference:
Vogon
Also
Lastly

That's because the cake face is a lie.

She might look good from 20 feet away, but get closer than 10 and it's just sad and awful.

I think you mean "frickin". "Frigin" isn't in the urban dictionary yet; if you feel strongly about it, add a definition.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=friggin

Urban dictionary says you're wrong.

I had to listen to the mp3 to understand what the hell this was all about. And, yes, it's just a frigging croak. I've heard a couple of females make those sounds - usually during late night exercises.

What's curious is, that women are beginning to use those sounds as a form of communication in PUBLIC!! What next? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queef in public?

A mondegreen is a misheard song lyric.

No wonder people are unwilling to use OSS tools when they have such horrible names.

I mean, really, when you pick a word like that normal people are going to stay away from it.

Seriously, that's just nasty.

This has nothing to do with that, dude. Anna Hazare is as annoying as RMS. You support him for a while, and then he just starts speaking things that aren't possible.

And I doubt censoring content has anything to do with money in the Swiss banks. Either ways, I don't think this thing is really happening. #IdiotKapilSibal is trending in India (Twitter) and my friend pointed out how "Sibal" means man whore in Korean.

I doubt this page was this way before this nutjob stirred up the controversy: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sibal

Ah, the ignorant replying again. Must be because it's M$, and not the fact that its an underspecced system.
Throw a few more CASs at it ...

Grrr ... >:-(

(0) infidel /home/keeling_ dict cas
8 definitions found

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010) [foldoc]:

    CAS

          1. {Column Address Strobe}.

          2. (channel associated signaling) {in-band
          signalling}.

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Code Access Security (VSTO, .NET, MS)

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Column Address Strobe (IC, DRAM)

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Communicating Applications Specification (FAX, Intel, DCA)

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Computer Aided Selling

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Computer Algebra System

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Content Addressed Storage (EMC)

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:

    CAS
                  Computerized Autodial System

This (see #6 & 7) is pretty funny too.

Back on topic, it seems a bit ridiculous that fscking NYC (FFS!!!) can't afford to buy the hardware & software needed to shore up this system. Wow. And I thought Sub-Saharan Africans and Bangladeshis had it tough.

What a clusterfsck!

MIT? The M in that TLA stands for Massachusetts. I've visited the state and seen the drivers,

They are commonly known as Massholes:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Masshole
http://www.masshole.com/

Further, you spelled the name of the state incorrectly, it's actually Taxachusetts.

Yeah, because that went so well...

Trust is personal and relative. It can't be transferred. Let alone to everyone else on the planet. It has to be earned.. For everyone separately.

"Authority" is somebody you have no reason to trust, but who tells you who to trust and what to do. It is a logical fallacy, used to get you to trust and believe something you should not trust or believe.

If a person starts out with a concept of absolute "authority" (which weirdly [well, actually obviously] always happens to be that person and his friends), he fails before he has begun.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wallah&defid=5824197 That is all.

Please stop running from the subject. We are talking about the harmfulness (or unharmfulness) of marijuana.

If even sugar can be harmful (as you states), what can be said for marijuana? =]

If you can't stay on the subject, please abstain yourself from messing up the discussion.

Street heroin, on the other hand, is very dangerous - I agree. However, I think it's a lot of naiveness credit its existance to prohibition only (can we call it "legal ban" or something? I got some bad press using the word "prohibition" a few posts ago).

Addicts are always searching for the "next stuff", as they got used to the drug of the day. Everybody gets resistance when repeatedly using the same drug - and then feels the need to going to something stronger.

Do you know Skank? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skank&defid=2602206

furthermore, they may want to rethink the name if "diode for light" is going to become DFL

Hopefully it's dfl on their list of names.

They trendsourced it.

Pheww! At first I read it as transsourced and thought, but, but, there is no word such as transsource. A quick search confirmed this.

But OK, if it's trendsource then that's a real word.

Oh, wait...

They trendsourced it.

Pheww! At first I read it as transsourced and thought, but, but, there is no word such as transsource. A quick search confirmed this.

But OK, if it's trendsource then that's a real word.

Oh, wait...

furthermore, they may want to rethink the name if "diode for light" is going to become DFL

Then don't put stuff that would require such measures on your phone. Why would you do so anyway?

My phone accesses many of the same resources my desktop does. Virtually all the online services I use, VPNs, and wireless access points I use,... hell I even remote to my own desktop from my phone.

To be honest, other than a BIOS boot password on my desktop PC, I'm hard pressed to think of a password I'd never have to enter on my phone...

The discussion is about law enforcement whining about cracking encryption, not how to compromise your own security. I guess law enforcement in your area will have no problem discovering whatever it is that will put you in PMITA prison.

Good luck using your phone to log into your desktop from jail. I guess we'll be hearing from you again when you get out.

Heh...much more interested in rocking the little man in the boat!

They are banning the wrong words. They should instead ban "plz", "ppl", "u" (in place of "you"), etc. And not just in SMS; in e-mails too. They are amazingly bad at grammar.

Which reminds me: what if they write "mnky krotch"? Does it count as breaking the ban?

What the BBC does say, however, is that "Some neighbouring prefectures... are partially close to the limit under our upper bound estimate and, therefore, local-scale exceedance is likely given the strong spatial variability of [caesium-137] deposition," the researchers explained in PNAS.

Note a) the abundance of weasel words and other verbal subterfuge to imply that things are really bad and b) the map shows the upper bound estimate of the average (or so I presume, given the reference to local scale exceedance). Which also means that more local measurements would very likely show that there is land suitable for agriculture (with less than 2500Bq/kg) within the evacuation zone. But of course, we all know that this is a radioactive wasteland where no man shall trespass and all evidence to the contrary is an obvious lie.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=space-docking Might have gone with different wording on that headline if I were you.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh

"Code-speak", "cult"? Have you been living under a rock? It's generic slang in the way I used it - well to the same extent that the word "fucking" is in the way you used it.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hater
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fucking

"Code-speak", "cult"? Have you been living under a rock? It's generic slang in the way I used it - well to the same extent that the word "fucking" is in the way you used it.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hater
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fucking

See: Mermaid effect

This rock in my hand keeps away tigers.
How can a rock keep away tigers?
You don't see any tigers do you?

It's called specious reasoning. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=specious%20reasoning The TSA... a rock... neither one is protecting you. If anyone thinks the TSA is protecting them, they are as dumb as someone who thinks a rock keeps away tigers.

There are currently 16 definitions for "professional" in the Urban Dictionary. Care to clarify the ones that apply?

How many of those 16 definitions involve prostitution, oral sex, or alcoholism? You must be able to narrow it down at least a little.

There's a word for this article and it isn't news and I, as a nerd, am not interested. The article and ensuing samsung vs ipad back and forth is debate for hillbillies; we've even got the chap from Missouri who couldn't spell moron taking part.

Complete with Wanker Lights, I'd bet.

What in the world could anyone have against hatters?!

At the risk of appearing mercurial, maybe it's because they're all mad.

But I digress. We're talking about applostles, so maybe this kind is more appropriate.

One more time then: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=germany%20or%20florida

[Slashdot, quit f*cking with my formatting.]