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  1. Re:Attack surface on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    They are preparing the Acrobat 3D Reader for future mass 3D printing.
    Everything goes 3D these days anyway. Even JavaScript goes 3D at Adobe 3D!

  2. Re:A lack of diversity... on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    'KPDF is not developed anymore, if you want to develop new features you should have a look at Okular, that is the succesor of KPDF in KDE 4.'

    Unashamedly quoted from KDE website while trying to find the source code for the goddamn thing, how long does it take to fix a zero day exploit for an open-source project?

  3. Re:iPhone 5? on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 0

    I bet they will name it just iPhone, it's time to get rid of the version number. Then you will be buying the latest iPhone every time they release a new version and that's it.

  4. Re:That's an easy one! on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 0

    So we can travel back from Sunday to Friday night? I'll take two of these!

  5. Re:Heretic! on A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly · · Score: 0

    Surely someone who can code will make a superior manager! Meh... Fixed that for you. Knowledge might become power, but power doesn't have to serve a good cause, most of the time it's definitely used only for your own benefit.
  6. Re:Not the Turing Test on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test · · Score: 0

    You cannot allow flipping a tortoise! We all know that "it's turtles all the way down", flipping one of them would destroy the Universe.

  7. Re:I must be desperate on JotSpot Relaunched As Google Sites · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's nothing... I read that as 'JobsPot' and imagined Steve rolling a blunt. Wait... why are you calling me a pothead?

    I think that Google is going to merge this with Orkut and Blogger sometimes in the future to boost their social networking business.

  8. Re:Yeah, well on The Dying PC Market · · Score: 0

    The phone companies use Excel 2007, wasn't this obvious?

  9. Educate them! on One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies · · Score: 0

    Educate the employees instead of creating more rules and restrictions. Force them a few Intertubes security lessons and even scare them by telling some horror stories about phishing, their anonymity loss and how easy it is for everyone to find something about them if they keep using social networks. There are a lot of things you can do to make them change some of their bad habits if not all.
    Most of them probably also have a computer at home so this will be a winning situation on the long term for everyone.

  10. Re:Airport experience on Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying · · Score: 0

    I can't speak about the Frankfurt airport since I wasn't there, but I was at the Dortmund airport twice this year, and at Koln (Cologne-Bonn) once. The first time I was at Dortmund and when I was at Koln there was no problem with the metal detector so I passed quickly. Yesterday at Dortmund the metal detector started buzzing for almost everyone who passed through it. But the officers who used the hand metal detector were extremely polite with everyone and spoke with me in English since I don't know German. So the situation is not like that everywhere and all the time in Germany.
    I was this year at Nature One, a large electronic music outdoor event in Germany with a 50 000 person camping and I can tell you that the German police was extremely relaxed, you could barely see them and there wasn't any major incident.

    TFA says that they will secretly plant these Trojans in the suspect computers, but as far as I know a Trojan is something that exploits the user trust to execute any piece of crap on his system so it won't be very efficient.
    Sounds like too much noise for nothing, I would be glad to eat their government money for some years programming this magic Trojan until they realize it is a stupid idea and cancel the project.

  11. Re:Why? on Google News Launches Facebook Application · · Score: 0

    It's a big trend on the Intertubes to create 'mashups' using different webservices.
    People who spend a big part of they browsing time on Facebook will appreciate the fact that they can share and comment news with their friends.

  12. Re:Help! on Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes · · Score: -1, Troll

    you don't have a girlfriend.

  13. Database Goddess on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 0

    And replacing flat text files with an actual honest to god SQL database made performance screamingly fast (for at least a few days anyway) until traffic increases squished us again. Evolution - Creationism: 1 - 0.
    So which was this database goddess you've chosen? It isn't mentioned in the article.
  14. Re:Why all the hate? on Microsoft Offers IE7 to All, Pirates Included · · Score: 0

    has a totally different GUI
    From TFA:
    "The IE7 update also sports a few tweaks: The menu bar is now visible by default, for example"

    If you were talking about tabs, nobody forces the user to open more than one. :)
  15. Re:Polio, Asthma & Allergies on Purpose of Appendix Believed Found · · Score: 0

    I could infer from watch the Deadliest Catch that crab fishing must be a pretty safe line of work because there are no one-armed guys working the crab pots. The reality is there are no one-armed crab fisherman because the one-armed guys do not sign-up for a job that they know would be extremely hazardous for them to do with just one arm.

    There are no one-armed crab fishermen because the one-armed guys lost their arms in the crab claws. :-S
    Fixed that for you.
  16. Re:Define your thread's purposes on Learning High-Availability Server-Side Development? · · Score: 0

    Hey, did you wrote Napster? :)

  17. Re:People hate my gotos on Beautiful Code Interview · · Score: 0

    Hey! I write spaghetti code when I'm hungry.
    Now where's that fscking phone number from the Italian food delivery service?

  18. Re:The guy has a point and a 1/2 on On the Widespread Misuse of the Mouse · · Score: 1, Informative

    Idea 1: Hide the non-essential icons/user interface tools behind a control key F11 - Full Screen mode. Available in most browsers out there.
  19. Re:Penrose on Team Claims Synthetic Life Feat · · Score: 0

    Maybe we should start by adapting humans to live in other Earth places. Since >70% of the Earth surface is water, start populating the oceans. I for one welcome our new Human-With-Gills Overlords.

  20. Re:Don't use this one on Censoring a Number · · Score: 0

    I'll use these as my numbers for the next 6/49 lottery.

  21. Re:Ingris Featherstrom on Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware · · Score: 0

    This domain is available for sale!
    You can buy it HERE.
    So do you mean that I can use goatse.cx as a smiley icon?
    Does this smiley looks like this? you got a point, it is a big smile.
  22. One thing... on NASA Engineers Work on New Spacesuits · · Score: 0

    ...they shouldn't forget: a tinfoil hat.
    this will strip the suit a hundred of pounds and it will look retro.

  23. Re:Captchas - decoding on PHP 5 in Practice · · Score: 0

    I think that decoding captchas using PHP would have been a more interesting chapter.

  24. Heuristics use vs. False positives on Are AV False Positives Hurting You? · · Score: 0

    From my experience I can tell you that enabling heuristic detection increases false positives for a lot of AV software.
    I can't recall how many times I had to exclude some Javascript files I wrote from virus scanning because those we're reported as exploits.
    But I don't mind manually enabling access to the trusted files as long as I also have protection for the real malicious files.

  25. Human Photosynthesis on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 0

    Reverse some genes in the human DNA so that the humans breath CO2 and expire O2. It is as easy as writing !true in a programming language.

    I for one welcome our Photosynthetic Human Overlords.