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  1. Idiots are everywhere on What Happens To Bounced @Donotreply.com E-Mails · · Score: 1

    AT least the domain is in the hands of a white hat.

    I've seen all kinds of amazing stuff on fax machines - a similar situation:

    - Construction documents for a part to a Trident nuclear submarine
    - DMV record searches
    - Results of drug tests
    - Not to mention the occasional credit card number

    Remember, kiddies, the law is not on your side. I someone accidentally emails you a credit card number, and you use it, it's still fraud.

  2. MORE electrical tape on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all don't we all have tape over the flashing 88:88's already?

  3. Re:1 TB of memory... on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I look forward to our new "java -Xms1000000000" incompetent overlords.

  4. Media exaggeration on How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The role of religious fundamentalism in the US is exaggerated by the media, and the presence of an evil crackpot in the White House doesn't help.

    The main reason science doesn't get taught effectively in the US is plain old laziness, apathy, and stupidity.

    If the same proportion of secular parents gave a shit about their child's education as the proportion of religious nuts homeschooling their kids about how their grampa warn't no monkey this problem would largely be solved.

  5. Re:federal regulations on Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff · · Score: 1

    Huh? GOOG is a public company - it is subject to the same rules as everyone else.

    They are just doing things are are so weird, and so different, from anyone else, that their IT functions are more tightly coupled to the rest of the company than most places.

  6. The Spitzer Effect on How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong · · Score: 1

    As Eliot Spitzer found out, you can be an asshole, and you can be effective. But sooner or later you will get hung out to dry for whatever trivial reason, and no one will give a shit about your sorry ass.

  7. Re:Polls will give you any answer you want on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1

    >> Only blatantly dishonest ones

    I've wasted a few precious minutes of my life answering pollster questions, and every question I was asked was misleading in some way in the same manner as the parent post, although in a less exaggerated way.

    SOMEBODY has to pay for those polls, and they get to say what questions are asked.

  8. Dear Mr Father-of-Internet on Berners-Lee Rejects Tracking · · Score: 2, Funny

    What kind of parent are you? Your kids are all vandals, taking drugs, driving around drunk, and causing trouble all over town. Please ground them or cut off their allowance or something.

  9. Such a lovely place, that Eastern front on 100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More German troops froze to death and were killed by disease than were killed by bullets. They were riding on horses because Germany was having a hell of a time supplying them and they were getting their asses kicked by the Allies.

    Let's move to the ecological paradise or the early 19th century, people in Europe and America weren't dying too much of disease and cold (at least if you could get clean water.) You were just walking though mud and horse shit up to you knees, or dying of cancer at 40 from a atmosphere constantly polluted by wood and coal smoke.

    I'll take our media cluster-fuck-slash-ecological apocalypse anytime.

  10. Re:Where's the beef? on Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    I don't fancy chewing through 6 inches of blubber to ge to the good part.

    Or hearing underwater "moo"'s when I scuba dive.

  11. Unfortunately on Hacking a Pacemaker · · Score: 1

    .. I see this more like, "Cheney hacks pacemaker to extract confessions from suspect cardiac patients".

    Still, I'd like to see proof of concept. There is no such thing as "guaranteed short range" in wireless. My Bluetooth headset has a 50-foot range in the right locations.

  12. Xmodem! on FTP Hacking on the Rise · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dagnabbit you kids get the hell off my lawn, you're messing up my 2400 baud modem reception!

  13. Well what did you expect? on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q: Please g3ve u5 r00t to m133ile l3nche5!
    A; No.

    Q; You suxx0r!
    A; I love my job! { must ... control ... fist .. of .. death ...]

  14. Anything to avoid rush hour in downtown Nanaimo on Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World · · Score: 1

    People will do anything to avoid rush hour.

    Next thing you know, they can use this tracking information to let me know when the next train arrives on the Nanaimo Metro so I can get to Nanaimo International Airport in time for my flight to Prince George.

  15. Yeah, but you were looking for 12+ years J2EE exp on IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth · · Score: 1

    Picky picky picky.

    Actually, we find it much easier to hire J2EE programmers, since the framework is designed to accomodate those with, ahem, ordinary skills. Make so mistake, a very good J2EE programmer is better than a mediocre one, and there are lots of bad ones, but with J2EE you can do just fine, especially in a large organization with checks and balances and a decent support infrastructure.

    It's the system administrators, "analyst/architects" (for lack of a better term), and people who need to patch up "out of band" legacy and proprietary bloatware that are hard to find. (Although anyone in our organization who dares call themselves "architect" gets slapped down to "gut level coder" for a few weeks as punishment.)

  16. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1
    What other stuff do they have that's accessible, on this site that was obviously programmed by dumbasses? Like credit card sumbers, Tax ID's?

    Nothing! I would be shocked and appalled if it were so!

  17. Re:I'm in the 30% on 70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP · · Score: 1

    No, you're in the 30% that would experience improved throughput and soon be trading just as much stuff as the 30%+70% was previously.

  18. Re:You need 1080 on Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries · · Score: 1

    Well, it's interesting with Netflix. With the incremental cost of renting a movie lowered to virtually nothing, yes, more and more of the movies "I rent" are not "worth watching". So, yes, sortof.

    But I really meant not available yet - oldies, silent, Godard, Ozu, 50s vintage Japanese samurai movies, 70s Hong Kong kung fu, etc. Some of these have just become available in the last few years on DVD. Since most of the DVD availability issues were due to haggling over "reprinting" rights, it's only a matter of time though, since if anyone halfway clever negotiated the DVD release contract it should have included HD.

  19. Free fake Viagra with each router purchase! on Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    Actually, if the factory can make 100% of its run for Cisco in 80% of the time allocated, the crooked factory manager is likely to see no reason why he can't use the 20% of the time he saved to knock off a few copies. See the article below about "cleans". The knockoffs are probably indistinguishable from the real items, except they don't get QAed as thoroughly.

  20. Thuggery on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't phreaking, it's thuggery. The Coast Guard has a BIG problem with phony emergencies on marine radio, like at it's peak 2 or 3 pranks per week in the SF Bay Area.

    When you get caught you are not released to the custody of your parents, they make sure you go to ass-pounding school.

  21. Re:I can build an atomic weapon with a paper clip on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 1

    No, it's the uranium flavored gum MacGyver needs.

  22. You need 1080 on Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries · · Score: 1

    90% of the movies I rent aren't available yet in HD, so "meh".

    Actually 1080p on a 42" TV is pretty amazing - you can definitely see the difference between 720 and 1080 at 42". Right now about half of the 42" TVs I've been shopping for are 1080p. Go see it at a TV store where the staff are sufficiently not-dim-witted and actually connect all the HD TVs to HD sources.

    1024-line laptops are common enough, but to display a wider picture than 4:3 aspect ratio you'll need to downsize the picture to 700 or even less. Only lamers crop off the ends.

  23. Re:I can build an atomic weapon with a paper clip on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissile

    Actually I stand corrected - it won't work. But it would make a mess!

  24. Re:I can build an atomic weapon with a paper clip on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 1

    I would suppose that two pieces of gum, accelerated sufficiently and fired head-on at head other, would result in a fissile reaction. You might have something there.

  25. I can build an atomic weapon with a paper clip on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> "As described in some detail in our paper, the basic attack tool is a paper clip. In order to record and analyze transactions a couple hundred pounds' worth of equipment is required, in addition to some digital design experience."

    OK, a paper clip. PLUS A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF.

    Well, shoot, I could probably build an atomic weapon with a paper clip. PLUS A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF.