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  1. Re:Smell on Dogs Love Robots, Prefer Humans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dogs respond not just to smell, but to the biological processes of our bodies that they can hear: heartbeat, respiration, GI processes, etc. Purely mechanistic robots that do not mimic such sounds would therefore be less interesting.

  2. Re:Quick hardware hack on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 1

    And to make the spring open thing work, you can use the RFID activation signal from the toll booth right? That way you don't have to open it yourself. Then no one is tracking your transponder, just your faraday cage door opener.

    I pondered that but non-toll-booth signals could trigger it open too, so probably a manual system is best.

  3. Re:Quick hardware hack on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I'll bet somebody has patented the 1836 technology.

  4. Quick hardware hack on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Time to put your transponder into a flip-lid Faraday Cage that springs open only when you require it, then closes by default.

  5. As soon as I saw all those drive letters in the guy's summary I just knew where this was going... very sad indeed when coders don't have a clue about the tools that obviously suit them best.

  6. Re:Considering the buyers of these cars on Cadillac SRX Converted Into Self-Driving Car · · Score: 1

    Page 69 of the owner's manual says: "The Cadillac audio system will automatically blare out Led Zeppelin's Rock & Roll, summoning legions of mullet-wearing mouth breathers to your location in worship, surrounding you and keeping you safe." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIOhgZswp8M

  7. Dangerous Crypto mistake - my testing results on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I saw that this proposal "deprecates all the SSL/TLS ciphers in favor of Double CAESAR’13" (a.k.a. ROT-13) I knew it was going to be great. BTW, a big shoutout to my friends over in the Caesarian section! Okay, so I needed to run some sandboxed tests first. After using Double ROT-13 everything was going perfectly, according to the spec, but I decided to gamble on TRIPLE ROT-13. Big mistake. Don't do it! All I ended up with was a bunch of gobbledegook that I couldn't work with anymore, so I had to just delete everything and start all over again. Don't use TRIPLE ROT-13!!!!!!!1

    I wish I could have been FP to warn everyone. I'm glad this proposal sticks with Double!

  8. Re:19th century HD recordings found! on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 1

    He/She obviously does not know about the Slashdot tradition that at least one person must take the summary of each article either extremely literally or stupendously wrong, whether through stupidity or satire. The George Sand reference was a total give-away that it is satire, for those who are humourously impaired.

  9. 19th century HD recordings found! on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 3, Funny

    They found an old trunk belonging to George Sand and in it were several Blu-ray disks she made of Chopin performing his career works. Awesome find!

  10. Re:Wow! on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Deja vu all over again!

  11. Telepathy on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank goodness that our telepathic abilities are so capable that we can all tell from any distance that the other person is driving.

  12. Re:Weird choice of measurements on NIST Ytterbium Atomic Clocks Set Record For Stability · · Score: 1

    I have read your reply, am reading your reply, and will always read your reply. Hello and good bye.

  13. Michael Dorn Pitches Worf-based ST Series to CBS on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, back in Klingon space, the legend of Worf's further adventures has already been scripted by Michael Dorn for pitching to CBS:

    http://www.tvrage.com/news/7790/michael-dorn-has-written-a-star-trek-series-about-worf-your-move-cbs

  14. Re:Uh huh on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    So Unix is dying *yet again*? I hate that trope.

  15. Re:Wreak Havoc seems a bit overblown on "Jekyll" Test Attack Sneaks Through Apple App Store, Wreaks Havoc · · Score: 2

    You are showing your human bias. Think in terms of clock ticks and the amount that can be accomplished by a computing device in "a few moments" and it becomes clear that "Wreak Havoc" is justifiable even if harm wasn't necessarily found after their analysis.

  16. Carbyne != Carbine on Carbyne: a Form of Carbon Even Stronger Than Graphene · · Score: 0

    FTA: "A new form of carbon, dubbed carbyne"

    Is there a technical reason as to why it was named so similarly to a type of firearm? Just wondering.

  17. Forrester Just Not The Same Without Enderle on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    Ever since the Linux community forced Rob Enderle to quit his analyst job at Forrester over all that SCO nonsense I just can't take Forrester seriously. Hee hee. Heeeeeeheeeee.... ha ha ha ha HA HA HA!!!!!!!1 I'm sedated now.

  18. Re:I'm of a 'certain age' on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 1

    Thanks to George Pal we already know that when a rocketship lands on its tail on another planet a bevy of beautiful space women will attack in their high heels.

  19. Cost-Benefit Analysis on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 2

    Bloomberg: "So let me get this straight... we can make money by just re-using computer time ***AND*** heat the subways? Who thinks up this stuff? I'm in!"

  20. Re:Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    It *is* practical, if you are a narcissistic, sociopathic, self-anointed demigod, bent on showering the world with your Putin-esque, machismo mojo.

  21. So? on Royal Navy Deployed Laser Weapons During the Falklands War · · Score: 1

    What are we supposed to do with this lame, old information? It is no secret that lasers were already appearing in weaponry by then. Lasers were used by British commandos on the ground to designate targets for the free-fall bombs dropped by Vulcan bombers in Operation Black Buck.

  22. Burning Platform on Finland's Upper Secondary School Exams Going All-Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh come on, Finns! Didn't you get the memo that only Windows 8 will provide a future for all students? Clearly the comparatively high quality and level of education of Finnish students is burning, and they must jump. It cannot be sustained, so the existing system must be abandoned. It is time to adopt the Microsoft education curriculum. With this, Finland can successfully, drastically reduce the number of educators, divest huge amounts of school real estate, slash maintenance costs, and give the five remaining students a wonderful head start on their success.

    Yours truly, Stephen Elop.

  23. Re:Who wants a space fence on Air Force Space Fence Being Shut Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Turn it into a space fence to keep out illegal aliens.

  24. Proper Summary on TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript · · Score: 3, Informative

    FTA: 'The vulnerability was patched by Mozilla in later versions of Firefox, but some people may still be using the older versions of the TOR Browser Bundle.'

    Geeez, this is all about running old TOR on old Windows... who knew something could possibly go wrong with that?

  25. Universal survival tool on 10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse · · Score: 5, Funny

    All one needs is a towel.