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  1. I thought this is a good thing on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1

    I thought this would just generate a public key for the corresponding private one to form a key pair, and is good for security?

  2. Oh I thought... on Spam Flood Unabated After Bust · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. I thought it was because this spam ring was too big to fail and the congress bailed it out

  3. Re:The investigation widens... on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    I like it the parent post capitalizes "National Vulnerability"...

  4. 200 ways to incriminate thy neighbor's canine on City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    Second installment to the popular Holy Land Times bestseller! ...
    #201.
    Step 1 - Pretend you love your neighbour (but still don't get caught)
    Step 2 - Play with his/her dog.
    Step 3 - Get the dog's saliva on your sterile, latex glove wearing hands
    Step 4 - Go home and extract DNA
    Step 5 - Clone your neighbour's dog
    Step 6 - Collect the cloned dog's wastes
    Step 7 - Drop them in as many of those bins as you can
    Step 8 - Profit! ...wait

    BTW, why is this not posted under the "Yo-Dawg Rights Online" category?

  5. Never on Canadian Researchers Say Hard Thinking Leads To Big Meals · · Score: 1

    Never attribute to malnutrition that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

  6. Re:"I think, therefore I'm fat." on Canadian Researchers Say Hard Thinking Leads To Big Meals · · Score: 1

    So what kind of thought makes one develop hunger for insects?

  7. So long on Dolphin Inspired Mini-sub · · Score: 1

    So long and thanks for all the fish...

  8. Re:I think he got a pretty good deal out of it on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    But then again, he married a woman from a foreign country (Russia? I can't remember exactly but I can see some Slashdot meme spin here) without knowing her long enough, and she turned out to be a bitch (to him at least). My point is that he could've avoided the entire shenanigan altogether in the first place, so why stop at the rejection of 3 year plea.

    My other point is, within the joke itself, that one's wisdom does not lie in making the right choice starting from birth, but to make a sound choice locally given the position, even though prior mistakes or stupidity may have carried one there. We are creatures of now, remorse doesn't help much.

  9. I think he got a pretty good deal out of it on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, not only he shortened his potential jail time by producing his dead wife, he also lengthened his life expectancy by producing a dead wife.

  10. Re:Patience on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 1

    You mean librarians should have free food and personal massages at work?

  11. Re:Wow! on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 1

    Luckally enough survived a food that covered the visible landmass. Whiping out thousands of people.

    Holy (pun intended), I wonder if you wrote that Old Testament when drunk?

  12. Re:Yawn.... on The Viterbi Algorithm and Quantum Communications · · Score: 1

    Ah, you mean how engineers steal physicists' research papers and make money off of their ideas? Then yes literally, engineers are indeed "behind" physicists, screwing them over.

  13. But can certainly be recycled on Latest "Green" Power Generation — Your Feet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well the release of humans' methane, however, happens at much more predictable and organized locations, when compared to livestocks. So the collection and recycling should be easy. Now if only I have a permit and £500,000 to build a special lavatory at Victoria Underground...

  14. Profit-seeking animals on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Corporations are profit-seeking animals. If you expect any level of morality from them, you will find it near the stockholders' buy/sell margin or on accountants' govt tax deduction page.

  15. LOG on Predicting Human Errors From Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    LOG STARTS<br>
    24-04-2008 22:20<br>
    Parent makes

    22:21 | ACC activity increase detected | Signal seq #1
    sense intuitively, but there are parts of the brain that are very sensitive to conflict; the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is one of these.

    If you have ever take

    22:22 | Subject commits error | Signal #1 confirmed
    part of a Stroop test, your ACC has been activated. In a Stroop test...
  16. Re:Statistics on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 3, Funny

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  17. Re:The EU May Be Censoring... on EU Views Net Censorship As a "Trade Barrier" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just look at China - they are by no means perfect, but exposure to the free market has changed them drastically.

    Oh, you mean the way the CPC managed to conglomerate fortune for itself at expense of relinquishing very little power, sustain unbalanced economic growth at the cost of environmental degradation and labour abuse, arouse national sentiment to further consolidate conformity and suppress opposition, and best yet, dump products to the largest economy of the world and then become its banker, and in such way gain political leverage against all of western democracies who would now think thrice before speaking about promoting freedom in front of the giant

    Then of course, you have brought a lot of change to the country by exposing it to the free market, a lot of change to the whole world too

  18. Re:funny math on iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in · · Score: 2, Informative

    For a publicly traded, high-profile company, having a less than expected profit is as bad as (or sometimes even worse than) losing the difference This is not about funny math it's about super-capitalism

  19. Don't hug me bro! on Nanowires Allow For Electricity-Generating Clothing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't hug me bro!

  20. You dutch geeks please go get a life on Dutch Unveil Robot Gas Station Attendant · · Score: 1

    "Dutch wives" already perform full service at a much lower price!

  21. Re:Hmm.... on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    Well then the doctors have finally achieved longevity for all of us. This profession can officially retire.

  22. Re:Is a license plate personal data? on E.U. Regulator Says IP Addresses Are Personal Data · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't quite agree... I don't think when you pull into the pharmacy to 'GET' a small-size condom you need to utter your license plate number to initiate a conversation & transaction with the cashier (well, in which case you'd probably avoid any conversation but just have the transaction done).

  23. Smoke screen? on Sun Plans to Have No In-House Data Centers by 2015 · · Score: 1

    So this is all smoke screen?

    Seriously though people, do you think the corporate CXOs are really doing hardcore cost-benefit analysis when planning strategic moves like this? As long as the balance spreadsheet ends up looking good, it's all fashion. When outsourcing is in fashion, everybody do so, when utility computing is the fashion, same happens. It's about what the stock holders expect you to do (especially when competitors are doing something new).

  24. Re:Easily Abused? on Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th · · Score: 1

    Even when you search for Margaret Thatcher? Ewwwwwww......

  25. What about if the centrefold claims on Making a Buck Online - Without Ads · · Score: 1

    that this car maker takes serious actions on Monday/Friday car workers and the car will be a vintage collectible much sooner than any other makes on the market?