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  1. Re:Apple really? on Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple isn't a fucking punctuation mark!

    It would be if /. would allow Unicode in comments.

  2. Re:Digital Illusions on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 1

    My first thought was "What does a standup comic want with slashdot?"

  3. Re:You Brick My Phone on Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android · · Score: 1

    Amish crime

    Gotta love that the defendant's name is Mullet. Did he cut the beards short in front and leave them long in back?

  4. Re:Fawning Rubbish on Meet iRobot Founder Rodney Brooks's New Industrial Bot, Baxter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We never learn. We're still involved in a land war in Asia!

  5. Re:A word to the wise on Paypal Users In Argentina Can No Longer Make Domestic Transactions · · Score: 1
    I know this is offtopic:

    Might want to grow up a bit and realize politics isn't a fucking sporting event between two teams. Stop your fucking useless pennant waving, remove the giant foam finger from your rectum, and start looking at and voting for or against individual politicians.

    but it needs to be broadcast as a PSA once for every campaign ad that airs.

  6. Re:Better link on Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas · · Score: 1

    I think that parenthetical comment was just NRC's clarification regarding their definition of the term "Medical Event". The scenario you describe wouldn't be called a "Medical Event".

  7. Re:Better link on Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas · · Score: 1

    D'oh! Quite a wide range of events there... Pu-238 pacemaker recovered from funeral home (fortunately before cremation). Y-90 microspheres administered to wrong site. (A Medical Event may indicate potential problems in a medical facility's use of radioactive materials. It does not necessarily result in harm to the patient.)

  8. Re:Like the multi-user features on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 1

    ...the parents can control time spent by kids.

    Wow, they can use the device to make sure kids read?

  9. Re:ScienceDebate.org on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    We'll have to start using R&FCTFA.

  10. Re:Just the obvious on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 1

    2) Get a few credit checks over the next few months. Depending on how much information the father has actually given away (and it may be more than he's willing to admit), he may have given the scammers enough to do a thorough identity theft job on him. Picking up any attempts at this as early as possible will be important.

    Assuming you're in the US, since there's an SSN involved, hopefully you've already reported this as [attempted] identity theft to the FTC.

  11. Re:When will we see it in action? on OSU's Microbial Fuel Cell Could Make Waste Treatment an Energy Source · · Score: 1
    This will take a long time, even if it gets the right support over a long period of time (i.e. across several US presidencies).

    First it has to be scaled up from laboratory-scale to municipal scale, then you have to find a municipality that's already due to build a new treatment plant. The article says this is intended to replace not only the anaerobic digester process and biogas turbines, but also the nearly ubiquitous activated sludge process, it's not going to be so well suited to retrofit as it is to a new plant application. New plants take a long time to plan, fund, permit, design, build and start up.

    One possible intermediate step that could move it along is if an industrial (maybe food processing) plant adds a small scale pre-treatment before discharging to municipal waste systems or reusing the water.

  12. Re:The irony on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    I said mod parent, not mod great-great-grandparent.

  13. Re:The irony on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 2
  14. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Smells like a class action suit to me...

    At least if you believe the anonymous editor who just added "There is currently a class-action lawsuit pending." to the Wikipedia entry on Joyent!

  15. Re:Military on Flexible Robot Can Change Colors · · Score: 1

    After the military funds propel the development forward a bit, then the color-changing sex toys will hit the market.

  16. North Dakota on New Illinois Law Protecting Social Media Rights In the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Actually, Illinois is not the most corrupt per capita. Recent surveys have put North Dakota or Louisiana at the top.

  17. Re:How hard can it be? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should just skip human athletes and watch Formula One.

  18. Money as motivator on Internet Billionaire Creates Huge Physics Prize · · Score: 1

    Before anyone tries to motivate innovation with big cash prizes they should watch this TED talk from Daniel Pink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

  19. Re:Only a planet... (Sqore 200,000), Astromical! on Hubble Discovers 5th Moon of Pluto · · Score: 1

    Must... resist... urge... to make yo mama joke.

    Why you an yo mama so close? GRAVITY!

  20. Re:IP Geolocation is horribly wrong at times on Cognitive Software Identifies America's Brainiest Cities · · Score: 1

    Yes, that. I constantly get web advertising targeted to my employer's corporate HQ, not my office location. Did the study use anything better?

  21. Re:AMD's proprietary Linux driver is secure... on AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is by design... From TFA: "Application crashes that could otherwise be exploited to run an attacker's code are reduced to crashes that may just cause a denial of service. "

  22. A more useful analysis on SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would like to see an analysis of the names compared to the frequency of unauthorized access attempts. What names are likely to generate indifference?

  23. Re:World Responds on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    I've not personally known any other country wide culture that values its own members so highly.

    Probably because cultures with that attitude rarely progress beyond the "isolated backwater" stage.

  24. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 0

    Begins?

  25. Re:In Other words... on Studies Link Pesticides To Bee Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    Since the papers are behind a Science paywall, I can't tell: Do the papers actually mention a connection to Colony Collapse Disorder? All I see is the mainstream press articles making that extrapolation.