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  1. Re:a bit sensational headline on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Now, wake me up when the AGW loons decide that nuclear is better than coal, and I'll start taking them seriously.

    I'll never happen, the bogeymen of your imagination are quite set in their ways.

  2. Good on Apple In Trouble With Developers · · Score: 1

    There's still hope for MacOS to remain open and limit the spread of the curation disease onto the desktop.

  3. How do you spend a billion dollars on software? on 6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense · · Score: 2

    When you spend 10 digits on software you should come out with a univeral simulator or a Matrix-like sex game. Anything else is unacceptable.

  4. Re:Not THE answer, but on The Nuclear Approach To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    WTF? Where did I defend such things? Where did I even imply that the gilded age being bad said that the time before it was preferable (maybe you've actually made a false dichotomy)? Do you assume that the gilded age as it happened was necessary as a transitional period? I'm descended from indentured servants so I'm very interested in your reply.

  5. Re:Not THE answer, but on The Nuclear Approach To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Strawman's dead dude, no need for overkill.

  6. Re:Not THE answer, but on The Nuclear Approach To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't sugar-coat slavery by calling it feudalism.

  7. Re:Admitted after being caught on Google Didn't Delete All Street View Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    It's quite understandable that at some point in development they had the software grab bits of wifi data for testing purposes, that way you can be sure you're actually in broadcast range. They were mapping wifi APs with the intention of making some sort of wifi-assisted GPS substitute. They didn't just take data from the open ones.

  8. What's an OnLive? on OnLive Coming To Ouya Android Console · · Score: 1, Funny

    An onion crossed with an olive? Sounds gross.

  9. Re:Political Correctness on Two More HIV Patients Now Virus-Free Thanks To Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 0

    Why did I just have a vision of Chick-Fil-A being a future lobbying-based megacorporation that now runs a chain of churches?

  10. 2 big mistakes on Researchers Beat Google's Bouncer · · Score: 1

    1 - not using random proxies
    2 - not going out of their way to make the VMs look like real machines. This is already a problem with PC viruses, many of them are designed not to infect a VM to slow analysis.

  11. Re:In other news on Two More HIV Patients Now Virus-Free Thanks To Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 0

    *deadly in the same sense as riding a sportbike - unless you're very careful and wear ATGATT :-P

  12. Re:In other news on Two More HIV Patients Now Virus-Free Thanks To Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure the Republicans will move to keep government funding away from this any time now, to keep extramarital sex deadly.

  13. Re:Wait... the UK? on Google Didn't Delete All Street View Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    Best of both worlds right? :-(

  14. Re:As a father on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    All the dogs I've ever had go just as nuts at any wild animal as small as a rat as they would at a person (who they bark at quite uniformly regardless of the threat posed or proximity to property. Only familiarity seems to affect the amount of barking).

    And then they have to bark whenever another dog in the neighborhood barks, so do the other dogs in the neighborhood, and that sets off a chain reaction that continues for a few hours.

  15. Re:Health records/browsing history? on Google Didn't Delete All Street View Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 2

    The street view vans were basically wardriving to create a map of wifi hotspots. There was also some testing code left in that would grab bits of raw traffic. Some of that raw traffic was unencrypted, and some of that unencrypted raw traffic happened to be browsing history and health records.

  16. Re:Wait... the UK? on Google Didn't Delete All Street View Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yet I always hear the British apologists saying that so many of the cameras in London are privately owned? Which is it?

  17. Re:Admitted after being caught on Google Didn't Delete All Street View Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    Yep. Google was also dumb to admit this mistake in the first place (they weren't caught, they admitted it.) Some testing code was collecting bits of traffic. If they'd just fixed the problem and deleted the data, it would have been no big deal, no harm done.

  18. Re:As a father on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A baseball bat is more useful than martial arts training. Gives you some reach and doesn't require any skill. Dogs that aren't professionally trained are mostly just good as alarms, and their false positive rate is horrendous.

  19. Re:News For Nerds??!! on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    Replace gun safe with general-purpose safe and maybe you'll understand? Much irony in this post.

  20. Re:OK more seriously on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    The first post in this discussion.

  21. I'd be shocked if it wasn't handled like a military aircraft already.

  22. Re:Gonna turn up some dirt on Defcon Researchers Build Tool To Track the Planes of the Rich and Famous · · Score: 1

    Hmm modded down. How curious.

  23. Gonna turn up some dirt on Defcon Researchers Build Tool To Track the Planes of the Rich and Famous · · Score: 1

    Janet flights, torture taxis and the secret corporate jets that are run in a similar manner (they keep them secret to keep up public appearances).

  24. OK more seriously on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Clear your browser including flash cookies and cache, clear temp folders, uninstall and wipe the folders of any chat apps you may have been using, and that's good enough unless you think they're going to use a file recovery app on your hard disk.

  25. Nuke it from orbit on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the only way to be sure.