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  1. (Not actual lifespan) on Apple iPhone 5 To Flaunt New A8 Processor · · Score: 1

    Lifespan at 5 deg C, 33% metabolic rate.
    Sequence shortened.

  2. Re:So why isn't Kin part of the list? on Cell Phone Industry's Six Biggest Failed Schemes · · Score: 1

    Seriously. I've never heard of Microsoft Kin.

  3. Re:Strike back and delete your account on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you aren't even a facebook user, you might want to add the antisocial subscription to adblock,
    since those little facebook icons are just as useless as the social bookmarking buttons of yore, but more viral.

  4. Re:Freakonomics on Smartphone As Your Most Dangerous Possession · · Score: 1

    Depends on the door.
    A wooden door, with an after market bolt, would only stop opportunistic threats.
    A door designed from the ground up to be secure, would have multiple locking bars which engage in all directions, into a metal frame which would also be part of the overall secure design.
    That would go some way to reduce the single point of failure which a single bolt represents.

    Analogy stands.

  5. Re:Explosive deterrence? on Smartphone As Your Most Dangerous Possession · · Score: 1

    Hardware that was even making a token effort at security, would need to be capable of cold zeroisation.
    To remotely wipe data, it needs a power source AND a signal.

  6. Freakonomics on Smartphone As Your Most Dangerous Possession · · Score: 2

    Semantic quibble, which comes down to people's ability to asses risk. Guns vs swimming pools.
    The point is, the phone is a terrible choice for security related matters, because it wasn't specifically designed to be an e-wallet from the ground up.

    You can never, ever just bolt-on security.

  7. Re:Look out... on How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified · · Score: 2
  8. Re:You can win on How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only way to win facebook is NOT TO PLAY.

  9. Re:first Xmas post on 'Eternal' Solar Plane Stays Two Weeks Aloft · · Score: 2

    Well done. However you're the only person on slashdot today.

  10. Re:I tried... on Pay What You Want — a Sustainable Business Model? · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not how it's done these days.

    You could have removed some key parts of the stuff, and sold them as "unlockable content".
    Otherwise you could have done an advert supported model, with banner ads epoxied to everything.

  11. Re:"Harrowing?" on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 3, Funny

    If that plane had crashed into a building, it would have been like 911 divided by 100

    Yes. Nine point one one!

  12. OH NOES on Solar Dynamo Still Anemic, Magnetism and UV Lax · · Score: 1

    Peak solar!

  13. Re:Very serious this. on Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users · · Score: 1

    Any real twitter story would have the person text a friend who put it on twitter for them.
    That extra level of redirection makes it far more compelling.

    Next: The six degrees of 911 dispatchers.
    "Hello, is that Kevin Bacon? I'm choking on a pretzel!"

  14. Re:Good luck with that on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The really insidious strategy would be to register , and actually run your *sucks site, allowing user generated content, but with subtle manipulation and censorship, making it the number one destination for haters.

    Er, hope I didn't just give anyone ideas.

  15. Top 10 on 10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier · · Score: 1

    I demand a meta top 10. The top ten list of top 10 lists.

  16. Re:Validate their self-worth? on PlayStation App Coming To iOS, Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't that the whole premise behind MMORPG already?

    Next, change the summary to read "...integrate with Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail to make me a sitting duck for targeted marketing".

  17. Re:Why I love Moore's law on IBM To Build 3-Petaflop Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    Moore's law is ok.

    I prefer that law, forget the name right now, that says that as computational power increases, windows will require ALL of it to run, greatly increasing demand for CPU and RAM, and lowering the cost of hardware just behind the curve for the rest of us.

  18. Re:Wrong direction on Microsoft Builds JavaScript Malware Detection Tool · · Score: 2

    var evilbit=new Boolean(true);

  19. Re:Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 4, Funny

    Snape kills Dumbledore

  20. Re:Some background data on Google To Translate European Patents · · Score: 2

    Patent 1010101

    Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all, and method for manufacturing same.

  21. Re:Is this Necessary on Advent Calendar For Geeks · · Score: 4, Funny

    This year you are being visited by three ghosts.

    The ghost of preprocessor directives.
    The ghost of just-in-time debugging.
    And finally...
    The ghost of lazy evaluation.

  22. Re:Good luck with that. on The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting P2P-DNS · · Score: 1

    "The Pirate Bay Co-Founder ... and alleged rapist ... has started a new project which will provide a decentralized p2p based ..."

  23. Re:Bloody idiots on Open-Source Social Network Diaspora Goes Live · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Linux Is Not UniX on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 5, Funny

    A spoon may not be a fork, but a spork is a fork of a spoon.

    Pun intended.

  25. Re:Anyone else... on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. Move away from America
    2. Develop whilst simultaneously not caring about software patents.
    3. Sales and profit.
    4. Get sued in America
    5. Don't turn up
    6. Don't go to America (or South Korea) ever again.