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  1. Re:The NSA is becoming a new God for "True Believe on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well for a start we know that the NSA exists. I can go on but what I've just said pretty much destroys the analogy.

  2. Re:PCs aint expensive on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 2

    The company probably keeps their pens and pencils in a locked cabinet because keeping it under strict control saves them $18 per year.

  3. How much? on Interviews: Ask Bre Pettis About Making Things · · Score: 1

    How much did you pay to get a Slashvertisement?

  4. Re:What the French call la dolce vita? on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 2

    Whoosh

  5. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    I've been working three eight hour days per week for quite a while now. I know it bugs the other people in the office but all you have to do is ask for it when you interview for the job. I make enough to be comfortable with that many hours and I'm sure there are LOTS of people that make enough to be ok with far less than 40 hours too. They're giving up a large portion of their life to work they don't need to be doing. Just think, you could have permanent four day weekends too. There's nothing stopping you.

  6. Re:Whisper on Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Obviously wrong thread.

  7. Whisper on Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. You can't hear her anyway because she's going to whisper through the whole thing.

  8. Re:Idiots. on Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One minute to patch the bug. Two weeks to ensure that every computer system, every server, everything has been patched.

  9. Re:WTF? on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    The payload doesn't cost $25,000. Shooting it does.

  10. Re:unwarranted "cloud" buzzword on Data Storage Pioneer Wins Millennium Technology Prize · · Score: 2

    Without this their main expense wouldn't be bandwidth.

  11. Re:If this were the US.... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a political topic, whether you want it to be or not. It's politics that allows this sort of crap to persist in the US because people should be allowed to do whatever they want, up to and including completely ripping off their fellow man.

  12. Re:Infinite spin in Tetris on Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content · · Score: 1

    Neat. There's a common set of bugs between multiple independent implementations of Tetris. How the hell did that happen?

  13. Coming soon on Sony and Toyota Bring Real-Life Racing Into the Game World · · Score: 2

    An add on for GTA that tracks how many actual pedestrians you run down in your stolen cars.

  14. Re:I'm an OK violinist on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 1

    Pianos can easily be more than $100,000. It isn't uncommon. I'd wager that the majority of pianos used in good classical recordings and performance are worth that much.

  15. Re:uhhh... on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm posting through a time portal from 2035. Windows 22 requires 128 terabytes but you're an idiot if you try with less than 512. All I use the computer for is posting cat holograms and running porn programs on my holodeck. It's ridiculous.

  16. Re:Preaching to the choir? on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    What does 'RAM' stand for? What does a computer have to do with sheep?

  17. Re:Illuminating on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 1

    As long as it's done "over the internet" you can get a new patent.

  18. Re:There is a problem... on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Ha ha. You suck at parenting. Bring forth some real consequences, not just threatened ones, for turning on the light and watch that light stay off.

  19. Re:Why would my oven need to be online? on Security for the 'Internet of Things' (Video) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your toaster needs to be online so it knows the time. It needs to know when its warranty expires so it can break down right on schedule.

  20. Re:don't connect it on Security for the 'Internet of Things' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Having a thermostat that logs temperature and activity online would be fine, so long as the furnace control circuit is physically disconnected from the logging circuits. There should be no way that the furnace could be controlled from the internet. It can't be security in software but a physical limitation of the device itself. There's very little reason for home appliances to be controlled in this manner. Commercial controls, however, are already accessible online and the security is terrible. I know someone who installs these and he showed me how he could login from home and change pretty much everything with an HVAC system. I seriously doubt a hacker would have much trouble taking control but I doubt they could really do much damage to an office building. Maybe they could impact someplace that had a real need for strict temperature control like a greenhouse or refrigerated storage facility.

  21. Easy on Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? · · Score: 1

    Send me a cheque for $300 and I'll send you a Degree.

  22. Re:Diebold on Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Switching to Linux wouldn't solve their physical security issue.

  23. Re:Physical Access = owned on Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash · · Score: 1

    The money is locked in a hardened steel enclosure similar to a safe. Apparently the computer is not. This attack is probably one of the easier ways to get at the money.

  24. Car Sensors Suck on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    I'll bet it works as well as automatic headlights and automatic windshield wipers. Hell, even gas tank level sensors still suck. Engineers may design something that works, but by the time it makes it into a production vehicle it's been hacked up and cheapened and built out of flimsy plastic components to the point of being useless.

  25. Re:Net negative? on It Was the Worst Industrial Disaster In US History, and We Learned Nothing · · Score: 1

    I have read that successively diluting a solution by 100 times will make the medical effects stronger. I've read that a perpetual motion machine has been verified but is kept under wraps by big oil. But fortunately I have more than two brain cells and can spot the bullshit.