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  1. Re:See?! on IRS Security Faults Leave Taxpayer Data At Risk · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thanks for sticking in that "posted by oldhack" bit, pal.

  2. Re:Someone enlighten me on Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release · · Score: 1

    Uhh... cuz it takes time to write and test patches and not add more (security) bugs?

  3. See?! on IRS Security Faults Leave Taxpayer Data At Risk · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why I don't pay tax.

  4. Fool! on YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It · · Score: 1

    If you had been privy to the ACTA preceedings, you'd know "evil" has been redefined. Fools.

  5. O Really? on LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV · · Score: 1

    Meh. Wake me up when they hit 4.7.

  6. Re:America has something better on High-Tech Research Moving From US To China · · Score: 1

    AMERICA! FUCKED YEAH!

  7. "Green Revolution"!!! on Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs · · Score: 1

    Astute move. They're named "Green Revolution Cooling". Everyone knows you can't go wrong when you go "green".

  8. Re:Statistical assumptions are often ignored on Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics · · Score: 1

    I do remember this bit. There is an assumption made of the underlying mechanics, represented as the distribution, and you're supposed to loop back to verify the assumption.

    Stats is one subtle beast.

  9. Study says on Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics · · Score: 1

    They're all buncha crap, and I say this with 95% confidence interval, or sum such stat shit that I wish I can remember.

  10. Bullcrap on Solar-Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Get back to us when you have some sorta prototype.

  11. Re:Video analysis on Firmware Hack Allows Video Analysis On a Canon Camera · · Score: 1

    I was conjugating.

  12. Re:Video analysis on Firmware Hack Allows Video Analysis On a Canon Camera · · Score: 2, Funny

    I told you not to waste time on slashdot again. You on my list, now.

  13. Video analysis on Firmware Hack Allows Video Analysis On a Canon Camera · · Score: 1

    Abstraction overload.

    I'm sure "video analysis" means something more concrete to those in the know (or not), but I can't shake off the feeling that it's all blahblahblah with no meaning other than to generate more blahblahblah.

    Guess it worked, too. Blah blah.

    Blah.








    Blah blha?

  14. Accurate summary? on Cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If so, it's interesting that mainstream media is seeing what the Slashdot crowd has seen for some time now.

  15. Re:Poorly conceived idea? on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    Ain't no business like contracting for Fed. Hollywood's got nothing on this.

  16. Re:$1.4 Billion on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    "Couldn't that $1.4 billion have been better spent buying Valium for the rampant xenophobes in Congress? Just trank 'em all out and stop them from worrying about a non-problem."

    Yeah, well, apparently it will cost bit more to medicate all those of us who voted for these douches.

  17. mcc.com? on 25 Years of the .com gTLD · · Score: 1

    Who were they?

  18. Re:At least one byte on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 1

    A-ha! That's where the evil-bit comes in. You look for bytes allocated with the evil bit turned on, and BAM! You found malware.

  19. Re:There's C then there's C written by newbies on Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, I take this back.

    Go with C++. If not, in 20 years, some of these kids will come after you for ruining their lives by seducing them into the nasty painful world of programmers. It's a nasty way of life. Scare them shitless off it - teach them Perl and make them debug each other's code. Tell them all the grownups use Perl.

  20. Re:There's C then there's C written by newbies on Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? · · Score: 1

    And C++ only compounds the problem.

    This is an educational venture, right? You have Python, a reasonably clean yet expressive high-level language to get kids hooked on programming. Kids can write simple procedural programs to solve the problem at hand, without encumbering them with OO baggage that may not be useful. It even comes with an animal icon. Where is the dilemma?

  21. It's like violence on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 1

    "... says it's time to re-think and expand the search for ET."

    SETI obviously is not using enough XML. What you need is...

  22. Re:public relations on What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? · · Score: 1

    But I'd be happy to take any money they throw my way. Yeah, money I said. Man, I kill myself.

  23. Medical device on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Are these thing require FDA approval?

  24. Piled Higher and Deeper on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    This DB is simply tweaking the edge, nowhere near addressing the real fundamental problem of web app.

  25. Re:God damn legal system on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1

    Nuh-uh.