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  1. FFS America on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Enough other countries have gun control and have less gun crime than you do spree killings and toddlers shooting people. Wake up and smell your bullshit if you believe that everyone should have the right to own a gun then you're as guilty as the losers who go to school and start shooting people indiscriminately!

  2. Re:Live by the sword, die by the sword. on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Agreed, however, for many research orientated universities patents are a vital source of revenue.

  3. Re:Maintaining status quo... on Antineutrino Detection Is About To Change the Game In Nuclear Verification (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Just how will antineutrino detection differentiate between the 5% pure uranium used in electricity generation and the 80% pure which is weapons grade also wont the neutrino club (People who successfully build a Tesla fusion reactor in their basement/kitchen) confuse the shuddering fuck out of this.

  4. Re:Surprise? on New Flash Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought flash was the vulnerability! Isn't html 5 meant to be killing it off anyway?

  5. Re:DRM Thwarted by Printscreen on DRM In JPEGs? (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow people still use JPEG? Surely this will only effect people who are into artifacts!

  6. Re:This is how the Borg get their start on Hi-Tech Body Implants and the Biohacker Movement (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    How much longer before you get your iPhone embedded in your head?

    Funny that you mention that. Last night at the theater, there was a guy who kept getting texts on his iPhone during the movie. I was thinking of how much longer before I embedded his iPhone in his head. His girlfriend finally took his phone away and turned it off. I thanked her on the way out.

    Surely as it's an IPhone there is a default location to embed it

  7. The only real losers in this have been the UK Tax Payers and the poor saps who posted his bail for him. As for Assange himself well he can't leave his 5* hotel/embassy.

  8. Re:damn, first i read 'cynertank' on Japan Leads Push For AI-Based Anti-Cyberattack Solutions (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    If all it does is block pointless first posts and other childish idiocy then I for one bow down before our new robot overlords

  9. Re:Not quite the same thing on How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption · · Score: 1

    Wow moded down because in America no one can understand your irony

  10. Re:"in order to avoid customer confusion" on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    How long before they stop selling DVD's for the same reason?

  11. Pedestrian Deaths on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Hmm I'm guessing that 30 pedestrian deaths per year is a mere fraction of San Francisco's gun deaths per year but obviously motorists are a scourge on society

  12. Re:Limits of Moor's law?? on IBM Scientists Find New Way To Shrink Transistors · · Score: 1

    I believe they are misinterpreting Moore's observation as a limit of you can only double the amount of transistors on an Integrated Circuit every two years. These are probably the same guys who put a cat in a box to test Schrodinger's cat theory (Must have really confused them when the cat died of suffocation every time)

  13. Re:So? on How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back in 2002 Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) were planning to massively re-brand themselves as Intruducingmonday.com, however, they forgot to register the .co.uk! Big mistake as it was soon registered by Rob Manuel of b3ta.com and USVSTH3M who quickly put a flash video largely consisting of Two Fingered salutes and Donkeys and a song with lyrics like "La la la we've got your name" and "We like donkeys". This quickly went viral resulting in PWC abandoning their re-branding efforts (Not sure if heads rolled or not) and b3ta.com getting thousands of new members.

    So yes you can do quite a bit if you manage to purchase an important domain

  14. Inappropriate Removal from the App store on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    I can see it's obvious that Apple had recourse to some legal action as iFixit essentially took their property apart without permission/authorization. However, if they wanted to punish iFixit they should have done it through the courts. Just arbitrarily removing their app from the app store could have legal repercussions for Apple if iFixit decide to pursue them.

  15. Re:Just makes them look even more guilty on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 1

    Making pecuniary gain by false pretenses (AKA fraud) is considered a crime in most countries. As for the Magician you're paying to see the show. If he tricks you into buying anything other than tickets to his show he's liable for prosecution. Obviously this will differ depending on jurisdiction but basically in most parts of the world if you make false claims about the product you're selling then you're liable for prosecution as soon as money exchanges hands. And yes those ISP's are guilty so where are the class actions

  16. Re:Just makes them look even more guilty on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 1

    Surely if they used the results of these tests in any form of sales promotion they are guilty of fraud

  17. Re:Use your toolchain on Ask Slashdot: Building a Software QA Framework? · · Score: 1

    Be careful which tests you use in a Continuous Integration Build as automated functional tests can often be slow and you don't want a CI Build to take much more than 10 minutes. Have a separate build scheduled to run overnight that runs any long duration tests. Also look at your coverage and try to make any existing defects into Regression Tests (Preferably Automated).

  18. Re:Not quite the same thing on How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption · · Score: 0

    Brings a whole new definition for "Eve Online" :D

  19. Re:USA! USA! on US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person that's baud of this

  20. Re:"or at one of the Lagrange points" on Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS? · · Score: 2

    Given that reaching the nearest viable Lagrange Point is going to mean going atleast 150K miles rather that the three to four hundred currently needed for LEO I think Radiation Shielding is the least of their problems given how ridiculously expensive it is getting into space to start off with (Which I know the price is coming down). I think we're going to see a lot of weird & wonderful space stations in LEO from commercial space companies long before anyone goes to a Lagrange point with a manned mission.

  21. Re:Looks like death by being gored.. on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    On the bright side the Darwin Awards are alive and well

  22. Interesting on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is some script kiddies and a feedback loop

  23. Re:Windows? on Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs · · Score: 1

    Sod Linux I have Android running on mine :)

  24. Re:For future reference, on Proposed Lapcat II Hypersonic Airliner: Brussels to Sydney in Less Than 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    Add to this they're talking about trying to get this up and running by 2030! We'll be more likely to see sub orbital passenger flights doing it in 90mins than this

  25. Well DOH!! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 1

    And people keep asking me why I'm not on facebook