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  1. Re:Hacking is the great equalizer on BBC Twitter Accounts Hacked By Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean Advertisers like CokaJihada and Taco Hell :D

  2. Re:Assad on BBC Twitter Accounts Hacked By Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army · · Score: 1

    He was already on twitter @oldholborn :D

  3. Re:I for one... on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    My legal defence would be to make the jury watch Battlestar Galactica and claim prior art although I'm sure most of the ideas go back even further.

  4. Re:life-long updates on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 2

    A few questions,

    Do they have a wide screen TV?

    No

    Do they have cable?

    No

    Do they have a pet?

    No

    Did they need three kids rather than, say, two?

    0 Kids

    Did they choose to have the third kid knowing it would push their financial situation to this point?

    0 Kids

    As the man said it can happen to anyone

  5. Re:Somethign smells on WHSmith Putting DRM In EBooks Without Permission From the Authors · · Score: 1

    Thought it was odd when it first came up on the fire hose and had a definition of DRM as Digital Restriction Managment :o

  6. Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sadly Nixon isn't around to answer for this but perhaps a few of his cohorts are. Personally anyone who's still around who knew about this and had access to the evidence but didn't act about it either from complicity or because they thought they could use it as a bargaining chip should be stuck up against a wall and shot!

  7. Re:Could it be true? on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    *Salivates*

  8. Re:And the Bible Bashers pitch it as a Bad Thing on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    I'm just thinking of the logistics I mean will it be R2's, Ewok's or Jawa's for pages? *HOOTINEE!*

  9. Re:Congrats kid on LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video) · · Score: 1

    Personally I thought you nailed it. Why you got marked down gawd knows

  10. Re:Obligatory quote on Schneier: Security Awareness Training 'a Waste of Time' · · Score: 1

    Good old Douglass Adams! What's to stop some idiot who we now force into using a strong password from writing it on a PostIt note and sticking it to a monitor!

  11. Just get an I-Phone on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    Get an I-phone, install what you need to concentrate on it and then pretend you're in a bar with friends! :D

  12. Re:Oh great on Ukrainian Attack Dolphins Are On the Loose · · Score: 1

    Just waiting for Blizzard to turn this into another MMORPG :(

  13. Re:Idle speculation on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 1

    And yes, chimps would nuke each other if they knew how.

    Didn't you ever see Planet of The Apes!

  14. Re:This just in on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 1

    Adds a whole new meaning to Earth Girls are Easy :)

  15. Bitcoin? on Testing an Ad-Free Microtransaction Utopia · · Score: 1

    Why not just run the JavaScript Bitcoin generator on your site the only downside is your end users will be donating some processor power whilst they visit your site.

  16. Re:What If? on Evidence For Comet-Borne Microfossils Supports Panspermia · · Score: 1

    Indeed it hasn't even been officially classified as a meteorite

  17. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Given the number of speeding/parking tickets I've seen where they can't even read the licence plate (as in miss read and sent ticket to wrong driver) and have issued a ticket with a photo where the description of the vehicle in no way matches that on the photo despite them being printed together (Confising a HGV & a Motor Bike???). I suspect the manual intervention is kind of minimal.

  18. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Given the tolerances most radar based speed cameras operate at and the fact that 2 cars travelling side by side can totally screw the results anyway. I'm surprised most speeding tickets don't get laughed out of court anyway. Especially given that most of them are simply employed as a revenue stream for local authorities.

  19. Re:Chaos on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah we've been doing that for years we just changed the name to Taco Bell :)

  20. Re:I don't think the cypher is the problem. on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two cans and a piece of string?

  21. Re:Ironic on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    Indeed :)

  22. Re:Ironic on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually most of the stuff that makes up PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) was invented at Bletchly Park (UK) during the war. Obviously Encryption has a very long history but the encryption used in the F22 is probably loosely based on a Secure PBX designed by Alan Turing.

  23. Ironic on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: -1

    The Brits almost certainly invented the Cryptography involved in the 1st place!

  24. Re:What? on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    I suggest you look at news reports regarding China and Rare Earth Minerals (Most of which are found in China) bear in mind most of the rare minerals that are mined are extra terrestrial in origin having come to earth as meteors/asteroids/comets. As most of them are currently mined in China who is severely rationing them (Quite possibly correctly). Which is cheaper mining asteroids or going to war with a nuclear power?

  25. Re:International traties on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    the federal government can be pretty aggressive in protecting its citizen's interests in the international arena.

    Light Sabre Rattling?