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  1. Re:Best prank on Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup · · Score: 1

    Happened my sophomore year. That was the same year someone else let loose pigeons in the fieldhouse (gymnasium).

  2. Re:Yes. on Neal Stephenson Returns with "Anathem" · · Score: 1

    Wrong crowd for that analogy.

  3. Re:Snort!..... on The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    It was a different government then. Except for the part where they set up camps for Japanese-Americans.

  4. Re:Good for them on Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the other kind of brute force attack.

  5. Re:Accelerometers on Quake-Catcher Aims to be Largest Distributed Seismometer Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Improv Everywhere will have a field day with this.

  6. Re:In many ways it is worse. on Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Wow, I misread your user name, and thought it was Twitter calling out himself. Crazy.

  7. Re:Why? on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not that good at bow hunting. Or would you have me get rid of the sticks with razor sharp broadheads on the end too?

    How about people with swords? This is a geek site, there's probably a bunch of us. Those are dangerous weapons too. Luckily, your kid is probably only going to kill himself mishandling those.

    A gun does not have to be a danger to people around it, it just needs to be respected as much as we teach kids to respect cars by looking both ways. If you have guns, teach your kids about them, show them how to use them safely, and store them securely (trigger locks, gun safes, ammo and gun kept in separate locations). Just remember that education is an important part of that, because it's entirely possible for the kid to run into guns somewhere else, and you don't want that to be the first time.

  8. Re:Mobile phone jammers on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 1

    The kind who is wearing headphones or earplugs, and just gets a kick out of both disrupting the calls of people who are on phones, and irritating the piss out of everyone else when the phone people start shouting.

  9. Re:No, that isn't the next step on Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing · · Score: 1

    Assuming you can hit the right amount of hydrogen sulfide. If, on the other hand, everyone thinks they're going to die, and breathes deep in a panic, the rescue workers can bore their way into the still oxygenated chamber, and find that everyone died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.

  10. Re:Out of water? on The World's Biggest Undersea Robot · · Score: 1

    Huh. Didn't know that. Thanks.

  11. Re:Out of water? on The World's Biggest Undersea Robot · · Score: 1

    Sure it is. 1 ton = 2000 lbs. Weight.

  12. Re:There's a fine line on Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Security professionals can be proven wrong, all it takes is someone listening to them. Suppose a security professional stated that guns were dangerous, and outlawing guns would make people safer. Then someone outlaws guns, and voila, the reverse happens. The security professional has just been proven wrong.

  13. Re:You're damn right, most people don't get it! on Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Someone who should be involved with security issues. Note that this does not preclude terrorism.

  14. Re:Nanotechnology is very interesting. on Self-Healing Artificial Muscles · · Score: 2, Funny

    That sounds like nanotech from Soviet Russia.

  15. Re:You only need 16GB of RAM for this to be useful on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy to test out a system with a terabyte of RAM. Send one over, I'll figure something out.

  16. Re:they need to protect their networks on Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks · · Score: 1

    Huh. That reminds me of the time I got Influenza B, was out sick for a week, and when I got back my voice sounded like I had been gargling gravel. On the other hand, your policy would have denied a legitimate request, which is better than accepting a bad request.

  17. Re:Is this really the answer? on Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks · · Score: 1

    My PS2 only has green and red LEDs. Is this a slim PS2 thing, a typo for PS3, or an incredibly inept troll?

  18. Re:Its a bomb on Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor · · Score: 1

    It'd put evolutionary pressure on hicks to not shoot at them. It's a lesser victory, but a victory nonetheless.

  19. Re:The more I learn about our economy... on JP Morgan's Insider Trading How-To On Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when you're never allowed to take the server down for maintenance.

  20. Re:Secure Platform without Anti-virus on Archive Formats Kill Antivirus Products · · Score: 1

    That's not odd, an OS is easy to replace. Data is where things get difficult/expensive.

  21. Re:Anti-personnel weapon on How The Latest in High Tech Works · · Score: 1

    I'm betting that something that takes a few seconds to go through armor would go through flesh like nobody's business.

  22. Re:Over-reliance on tech on America's Robot Army · · Score: 1

    They could be more tightly focused, giving extra range for the same power. It's not unreasonable to think that EMPs could be used to shoot down planes one degree of airspace at a time.

  23. Re:That's an easy one! on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Because they don't know where we are. They've got some other planet now (then?)

  24. Re:Another AC starting at -1... on The National Cryptologic Museum · · Score: 1

    Is the slashdot moderation system broken or has it been changed recently? Yes, and yes.
  25. Re:Amazon has already done this... on Ads With Your Name On Them · · Score: 1

    It gets even better if you use Tor. They tell me about hot singles in -countries- I've never been in.