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  1. Simple question on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams · · Score: 1

    Is China's intimate info on the public Internet and laughingly insecure?

    Then why is the US's? I guess one could argue that's the price of a (theoretically) free and open society, but sloth and incompetence shouldn't be covered by the same ideals.

  2. Re:The Acronym Master strikes again on RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    It's like a secret code, just for us: RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5

    DRINK MORE OVALTINE

  3. Ah, yes on New Camera Inspired By Insect Eyes · · Score: 1

    Three-Dimensional Freedom (TM)

    No, wait: the exact opposite of that.

  4. I wonder on Firefox OS Phone on Display at LinuxFest NorthWest (Video) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if FirefoxOS can look up the definition of Balkanization.


    /runs away

  5. Honestly on Belgian Media Group Demanding Copyright Levy for Internet Access · · Score: 1

    How much media content can there be that deals with waffles?


    The Belgians love waffles!!

  6. Re:FSF Implementation on British Telecom Claims Patents on VOIP Session Initiation Protocol · · Score: 2

    Sir,

    We select the 0.3 percent of revenue payment option. We have enclosed a check for $0.00 to cover all past and future expected revenue.

    Signed, The FreeTards

    I can only hope you sent it postage due.

  7. Restricted Use on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Phase-in requirements that oil and natural gas maybe used as feed stock for anything except as a mobility or heating fuel.

    Preserve a dwindling resource for the production of plastics, fertilizers, etc., instead of pissing it away going from point A to point B or heating an apartment building.

    Also: ban any price-per-gallon fuel signage with numbers taller than 8 inches and elevated higher than 15 feet.. With the CAFE levels we have now, there is no need; all those huge price signs do is egg-on consumer anxiety and anger, leading directly to deadly and stupid fucking foreign policy.

  8. Paperless Economy = Paperless Voting on In Canada, a Government-Backed Electronic Currency · · Score: 1

    He who controls the databases, controls everything .

  9. Re:ah the anti-NSF crowd again on SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants · · Score: 1

    ...and by larger things such as automobile.

    True, my car is an automatic, but not quite in the same way you seem to imply.

  10. Re:The WRT54G had a good run, but it's obsolete. on New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices · · Score: 1

    Signal output is very strong--I can pick up my internet in my neighbor's house, without adjusting transmitter output power.

    "Planes and satellites do occasionaly fall out of the sky around here, but hey: TANSTAAFL."

  11. Related Wire Report on Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions · · Score: 1, Funny

    "And in a rare double-whammy decision, the right wing of the court declared the Confederate States of America legal and instructed the Northern Aggressors to cough up war reparations. Most reporters present agreed Justice Thomas hadn't quite thought his vote completely through."

  12. This is what shows the true evil genius of OBL; he knew USgov didn't believe in any of the lofty rhetoric they mouth during their silly oaths. All he had to do was launch one successful domestic attack, then sit back and watch the US government panopticon its own citizens for power and profit - as those selfsame citizens chanted 'USA! USA!' all the while.

    Mission Accomplished

  13. GOP already has a plan on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 0

    "Would you like fries with your cell phone contract and term life insurance policy?"

  14. Single Point of Failure on Linux 3.9 Released · · Score: 2

    An over-the-top subject line no doubt, but as a Linux (LMDE) home user, I am a little concerned about this wonderful OS ecology apparently in just one Torvalds-shaped basket. It seems odd to me that this experience - where community involvement is so beneficial - has a single person that has total thumbs up / thumbs down power.

    Yes, this is mostly Linus' baby, but assuming he's not immortal, how much planning is going into the inevitable transition? History is littered with examples of rapid decline / fall / outright war (aka forking) after the strong, hands-on founder is gone. I don't want something as precious as Linux to be destroyed in interneciene BS as that is just what its many enemies desire and will outright foment.

  15. A simple six-letter word on Should TV Networks Put Pilots Online For Judgement Like Amazon Is Doing? · · Score: 1

    So, my question is, what precisely is it that caused the cost of the service to increase by over 1000%?

    Sports.

    Even if you don't watch or buy the sporto packages, you're still forced to subsidise paying the demands of sports both professional and collegiate (think: March Madness).

  16. I have a Spanish motor bike on Sandia Labs Researcher Develops Fertilizer Without the Explosive Potential · · Score: 1

    "Bultaco"
    "No, I swear it's true!"

  17. No worries on Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship · · Score: 1

    It will probably corrode before it's hacked. They actually designed an ocean-going war vessel _without_ a cathodic corrosion protection system. I think they tacked one on later when real Navy men found out, but it's a damning insight into how this ship was 'designed' in the first place.

  18. Failed Pilot Network on Should TV Networks Put Pilots Online For Judgement Like Amazon Is Doing? · · Score: 1

    I still think all the networks should all go in together and put up a network that only shows unaired pilots, cancelled mid-season replacements and whatever else was swept up off the cutting room floor. Sure, selling ads would be tough; run it at a loss, take the writeoff and maybe, just maybe a hidden gem is finally given a chance to shine. Probably never happen, given that they won't even release the rights to anything they felt unworthy of airing.

  19. Balderdash on New Study Suggests No Shortage of American STEM Graduates · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want my baristas to know string theory or how to rationalize a database, not some horseshit about Renaissance art! STEM! STEM! STEM! VENTI

  20. Betrayal on Lawrence, KS To Get Gigabit Fiber — But Not From Google · · Score: 1

    Putting up with the 'Wizard of Oz' shit from outlanders is bad enough, but when fellow native Kansans do it... When I become Emperor, such actions will be punishable by firing squad.

    Eff L. Frank Baum (who never even lived in Kansas).

  21. Hey, Kelly on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    Take off all your clothes and leave them off for the rest of your life. Also: tear down your abode and build a glass house instead.

    FOR IF YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG...

  22. Humble name suggestion on Amazon Reportedly Working On Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    The Amazon Balkan!

  23. Not falling for that sh*t on IBM Robotic Coworker Will Help Engineers Fix Broken Systems · · Score: 1

    "Dude, I swear it's the AE35 unit!"

  24. Microsoft patent application 19485572001020.z on ZTE Joins Long List of Android Device-Makers Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Formalizing the act once referred to as Brinksmanship into a recognized, legitimate business practice (i.e, threatening to sue but never, ever showing any real proof).

    USPTO: GRANTED

  25. Yes, but on RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In fact, we can make this statement much stronger: There are about 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. There are estimated to be no more than about 10,000 Muslim terrorists in the world.

    But how many of those 1.2B would stop let alone criticize a father 'honor killing' his daughter for some psychotic perception of harlotry?

    Islam is not the only misogynist religion (spoiler: they all are), but they lap the field when exercising their views on the subject.

    To me, that falls well within the definition of terrorism: terrorizing all XXs.