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  1. Re:Customer as Quality Control on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this. My company buys Dells by the dozen and we've never ever received a dud.

  2. Re:OK on IBM Solar Concentrator Can Produce12kW/day, Clean Water, and AC · · Score: 1

    In other places where electricity is many times more expensive than in the US however, it will pay itself off many times faster!

  3. Re: OK on IBM Solar Concentrator Can Produce12kW/day, Clean Water, and AC · · Score: 2

    Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

  4. Re:Full Disclosure can be found on oss-security... on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 2

    I'm assuming you mean "how many phones are vulnerable."

    Only Nokia's N-series phones running Maemo, or Android phones with a Linux chroot are capable of running bash or sshd (without crazy hardcore modding).

  5. Re:Only CGI scripts affected? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 2

    I'm trying to figure out if the OpenSSH vectors are actually remote exploits or just a privilege escalation in a remote access tool. From what I understand, a user has to be authenticated to get access to any of the variables this exploit can run through.

  6. Re:I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Well now he has to do it. And you know he's gonna do it shirtless.

  7. Re:I don't blame China for not giving a crap on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    One car per household may mean one job per household, and that hasn't been sustainable for a loooong time.

    On one hand the US is using an incredible amount of energy and they need to clean it up, the barriers to that are almost purely political. It's economically and technologically feasible.

    On the other hand, China doesn't have to develop itself on coal. Again, clean energy can be just as cheap. Oil is only getting more expensive and renewable is only getting cheaper. And China's heavily authoritarian government doesn't have to be held back by silly political whims.

  8. Re:overqualified on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, had profits :-P

  9. Re:blowing smoke on Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    The commenters didn't file a suit against him, they just said things on the Internet, so the right to face his accusers is not applicable here.

    He's suing for the business to reveal information on their customers, nothing more. He can then try to file a suit against those customers for saying mean things leading to him losing his job, but it wouldn't be smart.

  10. Re:Comparison on CIA Tested Primitive Chatbots For Interrogation In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    Hey now, the analytical engine could be programmed by anyone without signing an agreement with Babbage and paying him $100 per year. No reason the punch cards couldn't be GPL-licensed either.

  11. Re:blowing smoke on Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle · · Score: 2

    That's assuming he didn't simply fuck up as a scientist and deserve to lose his job.

    If the comments came in over the phone, whether they were legitimate criticisms pointing out mistakes you made or harassing calls that lead to you being fired for stupid reasons...you wouldn't sue the phone company or the callers.

  12. Re:Free Willy! on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, you're right 8-(

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...

  13. Re:Free Willy! on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    It's definitely not a monarchy, the head of government is an elected Prime Minister, the Queen's role is almost purely ceremonial.

  14. "Obama has a cutoff switch!" on Putin To Discuss Plans For Disconnecting Russia From the Internet · · Score: 1

    "I want one too!" - Putin

    Hey, anyone think these world leaders got the sudden urge to have these things after seeing the first episode of Black Mirror? XD

  15. Re:Shed?? on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 1

    Lots of great things have been invented in a shed.

  16. Re:Why does this always happen? on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 1

    It's not a commercial product so who cares if some PHB who thinks the name of an application is important doesn't like it?

    And if they wanted to make it a commercial product, they could market it under a different name like SecureVault, or more likely Zitzzers since all the real words are no longer available.

  17. Re:Easy ripping, if it were needed on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    *I meant cracking a modern game...ripping the game is super easy!

  18. Re:Easy ripping, if it were needed on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    Maybe by Average Joe standards, but it wouldn't be a huge challenge for any coder to do...and then release Ripperfox to the world. It would be child's play compared to ripping a modern game for example.

  19. Easy ripping, if it were needed on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    Now you could modify a compliant browser to strip out the HTML5 DRM crippleware and very easily rip videos from Netflix. But that's not necessary, I think everything hits TPB and Netflix at around the same time anyway.

  20. Re:Not a problem... on New Study Projects World Population of 11B by 2100 · · Score: 1

    Unless you're an American, yes :-P

  21. Re: real computer systems? on US Military Aware Only Belatedly of Chinese Attacks Against Transport Contractor · · Score: 1

    The latter is closer, but I think they were so busy setting up their giant McCarthytron and trying to catch the first signs of the coming Western Spring that they forgot to look for *actual terrorists.* Dzokhar Tsarnaev did the digital equivalent of setting up giant neon signs saying "TERRORIST HERE!" and the NSA didn't notice.

    The FBI was probably too busy grooming pissed off young Muslims into "terrorists" they could arrest and parade in front of the media.

  22. Re:Lots of problems with it on Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise · · Score: 1

    I'll have mine with two big hands painted on the sides XD

  23. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    Sorry, first *widebody* plane with outward-opening cargo doors...and also the first widebody plane.

  24. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    Outward-opening cargo doors are standard on airliners nowadays, the 747 was the first to have them.

  25. And just like that... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    Demand for privately-built spacecraft drops by what, 33%? Ouch.