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  1. Hah. on Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere · · Score: 1

    if the attackers place a network sniffer on a customer's internal network

    ...that customer has much bigger problems to worry about than Symantec applications.

  2. Re:How "An Inconvenient Truth" can it get on Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean · · Score: 1

    Alright, can't wait for my downtown condo to become beach-side property :)

  3. This reminds me of a joke on Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone · · Score: 1

    "During the military action in Iraq, local news networks reported that 2 stealth jets and 3 long-range surface-to-surface missiles have been shot down by Iraqi air force. United States has issued a press-release, saying that the statement was false and all jets and missiles have returned to their respective home bases."

  4. As long as it's optional on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil · · Score: 1

    SPYW should surface results from all social networks, not just Google+.

    As long as you can turn this off - first time I googled myself after SPYW was introduced I nearly s#@! a brick thinking all those Picasa pictures got somehow indexed for everyone to see.

  5. Juicy target on The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh that's a very good investment by the copyright trolls, none of the content available in the US is available in Canada (Hulu, some YouTube videos, Netflix titles, Kindle titles and collections, you name it). You couldn't get it by paying for it, even if you really wanted to, so it's a prime market for piracy. Also, Canadians pay a levy on recordable media, so it's legal for them to create "backups" of things for "personal use"... good place to try to make some money in lawsuits and seizures.

  6. Re:This is a Huge Violation of the Constitution on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    Well good to know that you need to be a senator to receive preferential treatment. A regular citizen would be either arrested or fined through the nose for refusing to go through the security checkpoint.

  7. Re:The lesson here: on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    Dilbert did it best.

  8. Re:Why the Apple reference? on How Much LTE Spectrum Do Big Carriers Have? · · Score: 1

    verizon has the largest LTE network. there are a few small test networks in europe. AT&T is building out as well. most outside of the USA wireless carriers have no plans to build LTE for a few more years

    Citation needed. Rogers in Canada offers LTE in all major cities. Last I checked Canada wasn't part of US yet.

  9. Tail wagging the dog? on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    I can see this ending in a very popular political move against the TSA by Rand Paul.

  10. Or on Adafruit's Open-source Wearable Platform, Flora · · Score: 2

    Or you could just buy a Raspberry Pi and a glue gun :)

  11. Re:Yay! Government funded luxury wanker mobiles! on See the Tesla S at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Unsafe

    Citation needed. In fact, how about I will just post one to the contrary: http://www.iihs.org/ratings/summary.aspx?class=50 http://www.iihs.org/ratings/summary.aspx?class=55 http://www.iihs.org/ratings/summary.aspx?class=110 Now as to practicality - you fit 5 family members, 3 tents, inflatable boat, cooler and 3 days worth of food and water for a camping trip, or bring an Ikea dining room set from the store in your sedan, I dare you.

  12. Re:Waiting for my favorite reviewer on See the Tesla S at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Not saying they do a scientific job of evaluating vehicles. Just that up until this point in the thread this has been the most valuable suggestion in my opinion. I would love to watch one of those Top Gear folks try to endure a road-trip in the back child seat.

  13. Making leaps on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's long past time to face facts: the Earth is getting hotter, and to deny it is an exercise in fantasy.

    Nobody is denying that it got like 0.2 degrees hotter in the past 10 years, it's the fact that some people seem to be making the leap between it getting hotter and humans not trading enough carbon credits, now that is an exercise in fantasy.

  14. Re:Yay! Government funded luxury wanker mobiles! on See the Tesla S at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, unless $60K is a rounding error for you, if you are going to spend that much on a car you would rather get a practical SUV made by a reputable manufacturer, not some science project that has no road experience.

  15. Re:Waiting for my favorite reviewer on See the Tesla S at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Best comment up until this point.

  16. Re:Evidence on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/

  17. Re:Not really on Do Data Center Audits Mean Anything? · · Score: 2

    Laser printer?! Man, you're high-rolling it! Last certificate we got (at something like $15K cost) came as a PDF attachment in email. But you know what, it made customers happy...

  18. Decentralize DNS? on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Why not just decentralize DNS and domain name registration to remove control from the hands of the ISPs. Then the only way they can turn off the internet is to really turn off the internet...

  19. Re:Normally, I oppose botnets and other malware st on Koobface Malware Traced To 5 Russians · · Score: 1

    does anything good ever come out of Russia?

    Ballet? Vodka? :)

  20. Ask for ID on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 2

    In BC they have introduced the legislation that requires recyclers to ask for government-issued identification for copper recycling and record and report sources of the recycled material to law enforcement. Since introduced last year, wire thefts dropped by something like 80%.

  21. Re:where is the video??? on Geek Tool: Slashdot Video of Award Winning 3D Printer From CES · · Score: 1

    The video showed exactly nothing about the device itself. Just some dude who vaguely resembles a cartoon-strip character yapping about how great it is with the device running in the background, with occasional close-up of its moving parts. You didn't miss much.

  22. Re:I'm honestly confused... on LG To Pay Licensing Fees To Microsoft For Using Android · · Score: 2

    Patent office needs no bribing, they're very good at approving stupid patents on their own. I mean come on, patent to IBM for "half-day out of office messages", what?

  23. No they don't on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    My company forces its employees to take vacations, because "banked" vacation time must be paid in full when employee leaves the company, and it can get very expensive to pay out a few month's worth of paychecks on top of losing a valuable resource. Now, having your work pile up while you're on vacation because there is no headcounts to replace you while you're away, is a while other issue.

  24. Re:...and the methane that global warming freeing? on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    Just 13 gigatonnes? So, an increase of less than ~0.5% of total CO2 and ~0.00000025% of total mass of the atmosphere? Is that really enough to change the temperature of something that has a volume of 1.332×10^9 cubic kilometers and a mass of 5.98×10^24 kilograms? Citation needed.

  25. Re:...and the methane that global warming freeing? on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: -1

    First of all, there is no consistent proof that "we have done" anything. For all we know, the earth heats up an cools down every few thousand years... what we have been monitoring the temperature for, a couple hundred? I mean, it makes a cool story for creating another fake currency for trading and making money on (carbon credits), but I wouldn't beat ourselves up just yet over something that may very well be a natural planet cycle.