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  1. Re:make people click ads on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    because somewhere someone is... and with that person the internet disappears into a small puff of orange smoke.

  2. Re:and yet on Students Claim New Paper Folding Record · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there is some "cure for cancer" equivalent to compiling

  3. Re:While that might happen at University Campuses. on Editing Wikipedia Helps Professor Attain Tenure · · Score: 1
    Without it experienced teachers will be constantly replaced by cheap recent graduates and teaching becomes not a career, but something that you do for a few years after college. The good ones will most likely be able to find work in private schools so the lack of experienced teachers will only effect the poor and middle class who can't afford private schools.

    This in turn leads to less social mobility and increased stratification of society, both of which are bad IMO.

  4. Re:"But they said" on Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines · · Score: 1

    wireshark. problem solved

  5. Re:This really pisses me off. on GameStop Buys Impulse From Stardock · · Score: 1

    Impulse is almost entirely drm free.. so your softwae probably still works. I know mine did after uninstalling impulse and if gamestop trys to retroactivly change the terms of sale at some point down the line to force DRM on products I already purchased I don't think its really piracy to continue using it under the same terms even if cracking is required to do so.

  6. Re:Internet promotes everything on Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism · · Score: 1

    mathew 10:34 among a few other is kind of an excuse for it

  7. Re:Internet promotes everything on Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism · · Score: 1

    you must realize Christianity "won" in no small part because of the willingness of and ability of the church to be an active participant in politics, violence, and oppression.

  8. Re:Not the First Time This Has Happened on Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author · · Score: 2

    never mind... the original source (probably for both) is the films website

  9. Re:Not the First Time This Has Happened on Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author · · Score: 1

    Wow! Its pretty damning when you copy the grammatical errors.

  10. Re:Conspiracy Theory? on Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author · · Score: 1

    hes got the logs to prove it.

  11. Re:What makes them connected to the murder? on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    I would bet money that they already know what it says and they looking for someone who has the inside knowledge to make sense of the parts that don't decipher into anything intelligible. I say this because the cypher comes apart very easily and its hard for me to believe that the FBI lacks the skills to decode it.

  12. Re:digital gram scale as an extra? on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 1

    most of the serious foodies I know are Gen Xers... its the boomers that don't know how to brine, confit, or retard dough.

  13. Re:It can be done on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    its a sad day when people no longer know why "multiple hops" between Libya and Crete might be a problem.

  14. Re:Depends on the specific case, of course on Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered Or Feared · · Score: 1

    HB Gary and HB Gary Federal are essentially the same company. They share(d) office space and e-mail, were owned by the same people, and communicated with each other as though they were on company. Their separation is a legal fiction to prevent the officers of HB Gary from having to get clearance and to protect HP Gary's IP so that they could sell it to the private sector.
    I frankly don't think that Anon is sophisticated enough to fake e-mails and they certainly aren't sophisticated enough to do it well. If anything Anons reaction to (OMG!) stuxnet reinforces this point. I would welcome you to prove your point though. The emails are public and if you find anomalies many people, myself included, will be interested in reading about them.

  15. Re:Again? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they (paypal) are already holding the assets how is this not extortion?

  16. Re:Uh.. no on Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. If things fail you want it to happen when you have control of the situation, not whenever some retard decides to pull the wrong cable.

  17. Re:Two hours? Boring! Try 2:37 (hours : minutes) on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 2

    why stop there? why not get really outside the box and make it fully algorithmic instead of lookup table based.

  18. skeptical on Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering · · Score: 1

    On a Set Top or similar system, there is almost no cost for misprediction. Assuming no bandwidth caps, free electricity, and that the prediction agent "owns" the storage that it is filling. On mobile none of these are true and I would be extremely surprised if they could come up with something useful. About the only thing you could do would be to preload ads, which is trivial and which I don't think users will go for voluntarily.

  19. Re:Well... on Stuxnet Struck Five Targets In Iran · · Score: 1

    that isn't necessarily true. There are lots of bad behaviors associated with viruses and/or rootkits that could be proactively targeted (e.g. SSDT hooking, cross process code injection) I'm sure they are to some extent, but obviously not enough.

  20. Re:1992 is calling it wants its virus back .. on Stuxnet Struck Five Targets In Iran · · Score: 2

    in C# you can manipulate pointers and p/invoke to unmanaged code for performance critical bits of your app... these are just not capabilities that are not needed for most problems.

  21. Re:Debunked on Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date · · Score: 1

    more likely than any of that... they go out of business, shut down their server and all of your images are gone forever.

  22. Re:Net neutrality is not capitalism on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    nonprofits can still have a profit motive, it's just that instead of reporting their excess earnings as profit they get rolled into executive salaries.

  23. Re:another requirement on An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech · · Score: 1

    the problem with this is that the amount of data to be hashed is small enough that brute force is possible, especially if the voter has an incentive to assist the attackers.

  24. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 2, Informative

    The parents are also being sued. What was going on here is that they were trying to have the child removed from the suit because ,they argue, a 4.75 year old is not capable of negligence.

  25. Re:OK, I'll bite. on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that it is at least as likely that the lack of time travelers simply means that we will wipe ourselves out before we get around to inventing time travel. Also its possible that there has to be some sort of device at the destination, in which case time travel to any point before time travel was invented would be impossible.