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  1. Re:Attach video in kid's 2026 college application on Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw · · Score: 1

    I guessed a superuser account long ago on my high school's novell setup.

    username: a
    password:
    (no password)

  2. Re:$300? on Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw · · Score: 2

    Zero Cool? Crashed fifteen hundred and seven computers in one day? Biggest crash in history, front page New York Times August 10th, 1988. I thought you was black man. YO THIS IS ZERO COOL!

  3. Re:What really worked for tobacco? on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Except if I consume a lot of soda but am perfectly healthy and not overweight I'm going to get taxed.

    Smoking increases your risk of cancer and other diseases which makes sense to tax. Simply drinking soda... does it really mean I'm going to wake up one day and be fat?

    This is really about taxing something because it is being abused, not because it is inherently dangerous.

  4. Wait for it... on Iran's Web Censorship Filters Supreme Leader's Own Statement · · Score: 2

    Irany

  5. Re:Worthy successor? on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 1

    I agree with a lot of what you said, but the fact is that synergies did make more skills useful that weren't before. Your idea to redo "useless" skills is a shitload more work, and I'd definitely take synergies over no change at all. BTW - Grim Ward is useful, for example, I use it to kill enemy groups faster because it lets my barbarian focus fire better.
    The real issue is that a lot of the difficulty of the game was destroyed online by bots. It was too easy to get good equipment and fast experience, which I say because you think the high end sets are jokes.
    The immortal king set is really good. You can pretty much not be stopped when wearing it, and it's possible to do /players8 hell solo with it, as long as you are careful.
    I mainly played d2 on LAN with people I know, enforcing a no-cheating atmosphere via peer-pressure, and I wish they would just make more expansions for d2 instead of an entirely new game.

  6. Re:Nothing like a beating to make a believer. on Indonesian Man Faces Five Years For Atheist Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    Thank you for putting it so well, artor. I'm sick of atheists who are just as dogmatic under the covers as the rest.

  7. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can also weed out many good employers this way. The HR process is just the door to get in at a lot of places, the working environment is usually a totally different beast.

    If you did what you describe when applying to the company I work for, you would not be considered for employment. And even though I may disagree with some of our candidate selection processes, we tend to hire great people and the work environment / compensation / benefits are awesome.

  8. Re:the days of lan play supporting games are over on Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House · · Score: 1

    diablo 2 is very lan-friendly
    also - play icewind dale 2 instead of NWN. (unless you are talking about NWN mods)

  9. Re:Kids want to differentiate themselves... on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 1

    and share their individuality with people just like them.

  10. Re:Solution: Better Protests on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 1

    yes because those protests were so much more effective /sarcasm

  11. Re:Where's my Lucy Liu-bot? on The Science of Human-Robot Love · · Score: 1

    that wouldn't be settling - it would be upgrading

  12. Re:Outsourcing? on The Dark Side of Making L.A. Noire · · Score: 1

    "Must be able to enter hours"

    That is a shit requirement, and you really can't blame the off-shore software group for the end result. I'm not saying they didn't deliver a crap product, but I am saying your example is essentially negative. i.e. that YOUR company was the weak link.

  13. Re:Well that does it. on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    I feel like I just read an early, rough draft of The Lorax.

  14. Re:Creative, but predictable. on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    Well, they aren't actually illegal as far as I know. The US just decided to stop using them for various reasons. Your day may yet come.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower

  15. Re:Creative, but predictable. on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    There IS footage of flamethrowers being used against people. I wasn't there, but I hear it happened a lot during WW2.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD89Z0_Rav8

  16. Re:Press needs to examine its life on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mod parent up. Brilliant turn around to make a point.

  17. Re:ah geez. on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    For my school's system, one of the superuser accounts was "a" with no password. Things ended badly.

  18. Re:I approve of this course of action. on Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills · · Score: 2

    I think AC had that covered with "excellent businessman"

  19. Re:What's a horse? on Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable · · Score: 2

    humanHealth--;

  20. Odd choices on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 2

    Why would a star programmer want to transition to network management?

  21. Re:Well.... on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 1

    Your reply may not convince darkness of anything, but it may interest other readers. I, for one, am curious what your response would be.

  22. Re:Irrelevant. 99 cent iPad games killed the 3DS on Nintendo 3DS Battery Is Quick To Die and Slow To Charge · · Score: 1

    People who want to play good, polished games? I admit; they aren't many.

  23. Re:That must have been _hard_! on 17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize · · Score: 1

    lol that one was actually funny! "my teaching expert system research project" fricken gold.

  24. Re:I'm going to quote an old robot saying on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1

    Let me know when God gets back to you on that decision.

  25. Re:Number of Apple stories in last three days on Quad Core, Thunderbolt In New MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    LOL *high fives* come on dwightk, let's go get Apple tattoos on our foreheads! whooooooooo