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  1. In other news on Sex Drugs and Texting · · Score: 1

    Married men who spend 3 hours or more on Facebook don't get any sex.

  2. Re:The one thing missing on Introducing Students To the World of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Typical /.er, didn't read TFA, but most was meant at most people I have met using FOSS, not your situation in particular.

    Looks like excellent work your doing!

  3. The one thing missing on Introducing Students To the World of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Would seen to be the assumed and inherent responsibility with regards to the use of open source (FOSS). Contribution (Not specifically money, but it helps) to the open source community as a whole, by users just want free with no strings and full (What do ya mean support is only email and you will get back to me when you can! I wont be bothered to read anything and can't figure out how to do something simple). Adding bugs that are found to trackers, maybe even fixing the code if you can do it. Helping in forums with the knowledge that you have. Promoting the use of open source and the responsibility that follows. It would seem that "most" want everything for free and on a platter waiting for them without the contribution part. I have been there in the past and I can see the error of my ways. Sometimes the contribution can be in the most unlikely ways.

    An author I have followed (All of his books are released in digital form for free under CC) is self publishing a book (Dead tree, limited edition) that is a collection of past works and includes all the digital files for the works. E books, audio books, whatever is avaiable for the contents, all licensed under CC. He was looking for some cheap hardware to clone the SD cards that are included in (Yes attached in the cover) and I wound up recomending some hardware and writing the software to perform the cloning. The code is being wrapped up, along with the program and install instructions, for all to take for free later this month once the website is updated for my FOSS contributions, as small and somewhat insignifiant as they are. We are only as free as we help with the free.

  4. Re:first post on USPTO Decides To Lower Obviousness Standards · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was the point.

  5. I patent the "First Post" on USPTO Decides To Lower Obviousness Standards · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pay me!

  6. Hackers tap SCADA vuln search engine on Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security? · · Score: 1

    I might be repeating what others have said, but I found this looking to find out what SCADA is.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/02/scada_search_engine_warning/

    A search engine that indexes servers and other internet devices is helping hackers to find industrial control systems that are vulnerable to tampering, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team has warned.

    The year-old site known as Shodan makes it easy to locate internet-facing SCADA, or supervisory control and data acquisition, systems used to control equipment at gasoline refineries, power plants and other industrial facilities. As white-hat hacker and Errata Security CEO Robert Graham explains, the search engine can also be used to identify systems with known vulnerabilities.

    According to the Industrial Control Systems division of US CERT, that's exactly what some people are doing to discover poorly configured SCADA gear.

  7. Re:Enough Leaks Already on Another Leak Delays Final Discovery Launch · · Score: 1

    To get sponsored by Wikileaks?

  8. Re:Do they taste good with fava beens and chianti? on Miniature Human Livers Grown In Lab · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't fava beans be to big? Maybe a Petite Golden?

  9. Re:Speech to text? on Ergonomic Mechanical-Switch Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Eye had trained mine for coding but eye still had to correct it but could dictate ~70%.
    http://www.codinghorror.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b013484af3871970c-800wi

  10. Speech to text? on Ergonomic Mechanical-Switch Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I haven't done it in a long while but I did have a machine that was very well trained and in a quite room that go about 85% right with code. Maybe the technology has improved to get it closer to 90-95%?

  11. New Obligatory on Robotic Hands Grip Without Fingers · · Score: 1

    Big Bang Theory - Howard's Robot Arm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Us9jIPwMI

  12. Re:Slashdot: Post early, Post often on US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. · · Score: 1

    HEY! I'm from Chicago and we had corruption in politics before Cesar!
    Why do you think the post was modded Insightful?

  13. Obligatory Daley on US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. · · Score: 4, Insightful
  14. Re:Malware warning? on Universal Sends DMCA Takedown On 1980 Report · · Score: 1

    Nope

  15. Reader X? Next Lawsuit on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apple sues for the use of "X"

  16. 2030 HAH! on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 1

    They forgot about 2012! Plenty of room after that!

  17. Re:It's tougher than you think... on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 1

    Windows is ingrained in business culture here, for the most part.

    Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it.

  18. Re:What no spelling? on Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well it is obvious! It found the LOLCats page first!

  19. Re:America on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    To bad I don't have points... would have upped to informative.

  20. Re:Sideways! on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 5, Funny

    But then my neck hurts at the end of the day from turning my head....

  21. Re:For a moment I thought... on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Right next to the Silly Walks department...

  22. Re:Budget? on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 5, Funny

    because outrage at government spending gives Slashbots a hard-on.

    Great free alternative to the little blue pill

  23. Re:Wow. - Extortion vs Coercion on UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Common man difference is the follow through.

    Extortion:
    Pay us or we will break your legs
    No
    Snap, Crackle, Pop
    Pay us or we will break your legs
    OK

    Coercion:
    Pay us or we will break your legs
    No
    OK Bye

  24. Re:Wow. - Extortion vs Coercion on UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a difference!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
    Extortion, outwresting, and/or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion
    Coercion (pronounced /korn/) is the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation, trickery, or some other form of pressure or force. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in the desired way.

  25. Imagine a on Marvell Launches First Triple-Core Hybrid ARM Chip · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beowulf Cluster of...... Never Mind......