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  1. And on the Third Day on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    After being out 3 days sick, we need a Doctors' note to prove we weren't 'faking' or we won't be paid for the days off.

    USA: Still Puritan After All These Years.

  2. A new front on the IP war on MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' · · Score: 1

    3D printer users (and the printer manufacturers) are about to get snowed under by lawsuits for conducting (and enabling) IP theft.

    I doubt the just-announced Staples 3D printer service survives until Spring.

  3. Re:The Problem on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    I think most potential Surface customers will just get a touch-enabled laptop running Win 8 (after SP1). If they want a more tablet-y experience, they'll just get one that comes apart or pivots; most of the new touted features plus a real Windows environment in the same pricing ballpark.

  4. Other way around, mate on Report Warns That Censorship Will Not Stop Terrorism · · Score: 1

    If a censored Internet is anathema to a free and open society, the Security Organs are implementing the solution already: eliminate free and open society. After all, if you've done nothing wrong...

  5. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many years ago, I visited the NRA office in Washington DC.

    And hypocritically, you have to check your GE Minigun at the desk!

  6. Fingerprint scanner / twist on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Time to move on to fingerprint scanners for security, but with a twist: they *only* recognize 'dead fingers'.


    Don't know about you, but I'm already set.

  7. Password Resets on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    If a user forgets their password to a website and they go thru the process to have their password emailed to them (or a reset link), are these emails encrypted? Is that even an option? Is any company / community even offering / requiring such a setup? If not, talk of encryption is rather pointless for now.

  8. No CPU is an island on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1

    So what is this to be attached to? A virtual motherboard with non-Nvidia / Intel / Marvel / Broadcom... virtual chipsets? This will be quite a long march to the desktop....

  9. Regardless of party on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    If a congress critter is actively threatening our herd immunity (and oh, look; Whooping Cough is back with infant fatalities!), that critter needs to GO (as in defeated).

    It doesn't matter if it's because you believe in a book of fiction or some air-headed celebrity that has to find blame for an imperfect snowflake;: your crackpot beliefs must STOP WHERE OUR IMMUNE SYSTEMS START.

  10. op cit on Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle · · Score: 2

    The hood is part of the structural strength of the vehicle.

    Citation required.

    I occasionally see vehicles with no hood whatsoever (or having an obviously fiberglass part, pinned down). I have yet to see any of them surrounded by angry tin stars, with the owner on the ground, trussed up like a chicken.

  11. Oh, if only on Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone · · Score: 1

    and Sheriff Joe Arpaio all withdrones

    If only Iran could down Arpaio...

  12. Perchlorate on Mars Rover Finds Complex Chemicals But No Organic Compounds · · Score: 1

    Isn't perchlorate a component of some fuels? Perhaps it comes from the hover stage during the lowering phase....

  13. Silver Lining on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 0

    I honestly don't know if McAfee is guilty or being framed, but I'm sure many of the 1%ers in the US, England, and France are rethinking their plans to escape proposed increased tax rates (oh, the horror!) for tropical climes where they can live like the kings they think themselves to be. Until the local authorities show up, steenking badges or no.

    So swallow your pride and greed and pay your fair share so civilized society AND THE RULE OF LAW shall not perish from the earth.

  14. The ad writes itself on Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures · · Score: 1

    "The chocolate that melts in the heart of the sun, not in your intestinal tract!"

  15. Umm.. on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    If someone wants to eat something that is potentially hazardous, that's their business.

    I guess we're assuming this someone has no dependents and has full medical, life, and funeral insurance?

  16. Destination: Void on Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model · · Score: 1

    Destination: Void is a great Frank Herbert book along these lines; always thought it would make a great play. Admittedly, the last line is a bit too cheesy, though.

  17. Top 5 Sin on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    In the Top 5 sins, I would *definitely* put proselytizing near the top. This issue proves not much has changed on either continent since the Pilgrims got kicked out of Jolly Old (for being too uptight, no less!)

  18. Earthquakes on Grim Picture of Polar Ice-Sheet Loss · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the large areas of land (Antarctic) no longer under the heavy weight of ice will give rise to 'springback' quakes, accelerating the collapse of the remaining glaciers at an even more rapid rate.

  19. The bigger, the better on Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    I think what you're looking for is the 30' tall Lightning Bringer 2000!

    (House) Fire Walk with Me!

  20. Ah, child pron on Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 2

    The perfect, unquestionable reason to justify the right-wing death squad execution of reputation, privacy, anonymity, innocence before proven guilt...

    And as all us compliant soccer moms know, at least 30% of every populace are child pron producers and consumers!

    I'm surprised Orwell didn't write more about such a powerful tool.

  21. Ka-Ching on California Software Maker's Fortunes Track Dispute With Chinese Gov't · · Score: 1

    Literally!


    /One ticket to hell, please.

  22. Right to Repair on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    THIS is why our Right to Repair should be made the unassailable law of the land: abandonware. Whether in your pocket, on your desktop, or in your car dash makes no difference; it is our property and we have a right to maintain, fix, and improve.

  23. That name on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 2

    Good show, old chaps, but change the name. Sooner or later, a Skylon will turn on you.

  24. Layover on TVShack Founder Signs Deal Avoiding Extradition · · Score: 1

    With a 10-year layover at the Guantanimo Terminal...

  25. Buried Lede on US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet the main thrust (what with the R following his name) is to keep the FCC from effectively regulating the Verizon Wireless / AT&T duopolies - especially their usurous data rates and fantasy-based 'some ones and zeros are different than others' policies.