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  1. Re:Duct Tape on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    the "hundred mile an hour tape" is actually stronger and much stickier than commercial duct tape. and dark green. but I heard it was called 200 mile an hour tape. as in don't fly your plane faster than that.

  2. Re:Someone had to say it on FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    I know this sounds un-PC and insensitive, but would not -_- be a little more accurate?

  3. Re:Wow on How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System · · Score: 3, Funny

    but Darling it's better, down where its wetter, take it from meeeeeee!!

  4. They are missing some Key information on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can we make some of the parts BIGGER when they are grown?

    I can see a HUGE market for this.

    and maybe a career in PR0N.

  5. Re:Hahahahahahaha! on Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use · · Score: 1

    All US channels with the exception of the SciFi channel are crap. I gave up watching TV years ago and now that the cathode-ray tan has faded I find I have more time in my day and I actually care about things going on, instead of filling my head with "their fabricated dreams".

  6. Re:Surely there's an easier way...? on Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Wouldn't it be easier to place the electrodes on the peripheral nerves that would normally have controlled the missing limb? Surely, that would be preferable to opening the skull..."

    I was a little more focused on the "greater than 80% accuracy bit" especially with the potential strength enhancements...

    Nothing like playing Japanese roulette when you shake the leftover urine from your plumbing.

    " OH GOD, NOT AGAIN!!"

    unless of course you could get a fully functional replacement for it.

    "hey baby, you up for a little interactive machine love?"

    On the other hand, it would probably run linux.

  7. Re:Huh? on Growing Plants on the Moon May Be Feasible · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't matter, I'm still stuck on the smart russian chicks who headed this research. I can only hope they are hot... mmmmm lets see... Skolka anna stoyet?

  8. Re:Damn zeros on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    dude, you can grab commercial plane CBTs off the torrents. and flight sims. and small-blade tutorials. and ESL crap...(did I miss anything?)

  9. Re:Google translation of German source on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    All those satisfied German verbs are probably due to the healthy "sexual deviance" the Germans enjoy (extreme bondage, unbalanced group play, etc) while the English (or American) verbs are left rode hard and put up wet. Sounds like someone should study foreign conjugation.

  10. Re:Gnutella? really? on 1.6 Million PCs Track Popular P2P Clients · · Score: 1

    Bitlord is practically a plug and play torrent client with integrated search and web browser, and I've run it off a thumbdrive on a random computer.

  11. Re:Friday the 13th on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not so, Sir. They EVOLVED into Italians.

  12. Re:frock on Building a 5-Ton Calculator From 19th-Century Plans · · Score: 1

    Look up steampunk.

    BTW, I just ordered several pairs of welding goggles and specific Lee Lighting colored films to make Near-InfraRed goggles. (and NIR spotlight) A little bit of reworking and decoration and they will look dashingly steampunk. Got the idea from Bill B. at amasci.com

    Wish me luck.

  13. frock on Building a 5-Ton Calculator From 19th-Century Plans · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean as a sysadmin that I should start wearing my Frock and Tophat and subscribe to the local Victorian club???? :)

  14. Re:Pure Evil on Monsanto's Harvest of Fear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The parent post is not troll, just because someone feels passionately about something does not make them wrong. Those who would suppress others free speech in this manner are just a bunch of pussies. The world today is based on greed and violence. The Monsanto guys have more money and power than we can ever hope to attain through non-evil means that the only other option to stop them would appear to be the quick and easy violence method.

    Most of the things Monsanto does are vile, like sueing farmers who have never touched their products for having GMO grain when mother nature took the liberty of cross pollinating from another field.

    I am open to disccussion on this.

    I was in almost complete agreeance with the parent post until the last line. What the Nazis did was on a different level; a very different level, and to the best of my knowledge, was not motivated by greed.

  15. FUD on Stolen US Military Equipment Being Sold On eBay · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is all FUD, I did a search on ebay and this is what I got:

    0 items found for: stolen military equipment

    How do they expect us to believe an article if we can't verify the sources ;)

  16. Re:Poor guy on Internet Community Catches a Car Thief · · Score: 1

    Dude!! NEVER give the hookers your real name!

    I always tell them I'm called "Value_Added"!

  17. Re:Just imagine one WALKing into your cube as YOU on Distance Record Broken For a Walking Robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    After looking at the website and the repetitive color scheme, I understand his "sa-shay-ing" into his office.

    I think it would be more efficient and less amusing to coworkers if I simply walked into my office.

  18. Re:corepirate nazis reducing chance of history.... on National Archives Cuts Back On Web Site Archiving · · Score: 1

    for once, this (parent post) dumbass is almost relevant.

  19. Re:Larger Pic on Stunning New Pictures of Mars Moon Phobos · · Score: 1

    Damn, "They" edited out the parked cylindrical spacecraft shown in the Russian photos.

  20. Re:maybe different in your city on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    after looking at the link, I see we do not have the SAME cameras, ours are stationary and look more like weatherproofed, hooded security cameras.

  21. Re:maybe different in your city on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    We have the same cameras in Stafford county and I have seen several instances where claims reps from various Insurance companies tried to get the tapes to prove liability in accident claims but the response from the county was that they do not record those systems, they are for sensing cars and traffic flow to better time the lights.

    If thats so, then it means the lights are potentially remote controlled and therefore hackable.

    Imagine linking a program to a GPS enabled phone and getting green lights every where you go.
    (or making a certain Ex's red lights 5 seconds longer on average and her hit EVERY red light in the county, or do that to everyone in "Town Hall")

  22. Re:WTF? on Cybercrime Is a Franchise Model That Scales · · Score: 1

    Damnit, I clicked the link looking for a fullscreen xerox ad, and all I got was this lousy article:

    The Cybercrime Economy
    Posted by Thomas Claburn, Apr 9, 2008 08:33 PM

    Dot-coms daunted by the financial downturn would be well advised to look to the cybercrime economy.

    Cybercriminals "have very sound business models," said Joe St Sauver, manager of Internet2 Security Programs through the University of Oregon at an RSA Conference panel on Wednesday, "better than many corporate business plans I routinely see."

    The conference session, "Deconstructing the Modern Online Criminal Ecosystem," offered interesting insight into the way the Internet's black market works.

    While most of the security professionals I've spoken with at RSA expressed optimism about dealing with future cyberthreats, I find it hard to see where that optimism comes from, given the economics of cybercrime as explained by the participating panelists.

    One of them was Larry. He provided no last name and asked that his picture not be published, presumably for his safety. He's the chief investigator for Spamhaus.org, a site that tracks spammers. "It's almost impossible to take these [spam Web sites] down because the DNS changes every five minutes or so," he said.

    "Almost impossible" is not the stuff of optimism.

    As the panelists explained, a single spam message might be tied to as many as 10 separate organizations and perhaps five suppliers. Every task in the criminal economy has become a separate specialty. Some people sell e-mail lists, others sell lists of compromised IP addresses, there are sellers of credit card numbers, and those who sell access to bot nets. Then there are those who handle product fulfillment for spammers, and those who specialize in laundering money.

    All this specialization insulates the network from prosecution by providing a degree of deniability. "You mean my associate was using the names I sold him for spamming?" a cornered cybercriminal might say. "I told him not to do that." The modern cybercrime economy is a franchise model that scales, explained St Sauver.

    And it pays well. IronPort's Patrick Peterson observed that an IT graduate in Romania might be able to earn $400 per month legitimately, compared with several thousand per month in the cybercrime economy. And I've spoken with security researchers who suggest the difference in pay between being a security researcher and a security exploiter differs by a factor of 10 quite often.

    Cybercriminals make so much money, in fact, that they employ money mules, networks of thousands of people to help them launder money by receiving and sending cash for a commission. Many of them are unaware that they're facilitating crime. And many of them end up being scammed.

    A typical scam: They're wired money and asked to send out a lesser amount via Western Union. Only later do they learn that wire transfers can be reversed, whereas Western Union money transfers are irrevocable.

    And a final factoid from the session: Lawrence Baldwin, chief forensics officer with My Net Watchman, said that in the past few months he was aware of about 30 data breaches at companies and only two have been publicly reported.

    The trend, Baldwin said, was to go after midsize organizations because the big ones have too much security and individuals don't have enough valuable data. Sounds like the recent Hannaford breach to me.

  23. Re:Could've been funnier on Microsoft and News Corp in Yahoo Bid Talks · · Score: 1

    Thats because most IE browsers are set to use MSN as their default search client, when someone gets on a new(to them) PC, or a PC with the history cleared and they type in google and hit , it goes to msn to look up the term they typed.
    Thats a clear message to MSN that they lost the "mindspace" of internet search for consumers, and I'm sure it gets Ballmer's panties in a wad.

  24. Re:obligitory on The Future of Ubiquitous Computers · · Score: 2

    damn, I forgot the D in CARD. I guess I should have proofread.

  25. obligitory on The Future of Ubiquitous Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one am thankful for my PC

    and my laptop, and server and web appliances, and coke^h^h^h^hredbull machine that knows my debit car by heart