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  1. Re:Brother PT65 label maker on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? · · Score: 2

    It grants this wonderful ability to be organized and to know what is what and that is what keeps the rest of my lab working.

    I prefer self-organizing chaos. I use hashed buckets . . . Least Recently Used stuff sinks to the bottom of the buckets. Stuff I need a lot floats on top. Plus, I have a concept of RAID . . . since I can never find stuff, I have at least two of everything.

    And when I really need to dig deep . . . it's like Christmas! I find all kinds of stuff that I never knew I had or used! Wow, I should try out that PCMCIA Token Ring card, or that USBVGA adapter cable!

  2. Re:But their bid was lower! on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 1

    A quick google search tells me Michelle Obama graduated from Princeton in 1981

    Michelle Obama '85 . . . graduated from Princeton in 1985 . . . that is what the '85 behind her name means:
    http://dailyprincetonian.com/tag/michelle-obama-85/
    https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/volume98/issue10/obama/
    http://globalcomment.com/michelle-obama-princeton-do-the-hard-work-yourself/
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/27/michelle-obama-skips-mile_n_553125.html

    Your link, please . . . ?

    "Just the facts, Ma'am . . . just the facts . . . " -- Sgt. Joe Friday

    Oh, and as to them not knowing each other . . . they were both very active members of the Third World Center at Princeton, a group for minorities . . . and when they say minority at Princeton . . . they mean it with the full sense of the word. The university let them use an old boathouse for their meetings.

  3. Re:But their bid was lower! on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What bid . . .?

    Revealed: Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is top executive at firm that that built disastrous Obamacare website after being awarded no-bid $93m contract

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477403/Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-built-Obamacare-website.html

    . . . it just shows you where the real value of a good education is . . .

  4. gather and post data and provide a platform on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 0

    Oh, so like, create a Website, like college.gov.

    What a splendid idea! Another government Website!

    "If you bite your current education plan, you can eat it."

  5. Re:Can we import these into video games? on Smithsonian Releases 3D Models of Artifacts · · Score: 1

    Actually . . . if we could convince the game industry that it would be a good idea . . . then maybe they could provide the funding for it . . . ?

    Image Grand Theft Auto, with a character with "President Abraham Lincoln's face during the Civil War" stealing "a woolly mammoth fossil from the Ice Age"!

  6. Re:Well crap... on EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes · · Score: 0

    being fondled and stripped before entry

    . . . just think of it as "TSA Foreplay" . . .

  7. Re:No. on EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some trains in Germany have "no cell phone" quiet zones. Maybe airlines could introduce them, as well?

    But, given the current business models of airlines at the moment, they will charge extra for a quiet zone!

  8. Re:Daniel Tosh was right on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In poor countries, only the rich can afford to get fat.

    In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin.

  9. Re:Why those vegetables? on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 3, Informative

    . . . because you can make a popular Middle East meal with them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0mam_bay%C4%B1ld%C4%B1

  10. Can't a bunch of old farts get together and drink on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 4, Insightful

    . . . without everyone making a international political fuss about it? War is terrible for all . . . and these lucky few just want to celebrate that they managed to get their hairy asses out of that shit alive.

    Leave 'em alone.

  11. Re:Could this story please die on Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data · · Score: 1

    If you think about this technically, there is absolutely zero useful info one could get from such data (other than using it as a source for randomness and even then...).

    That depends on who the one is. Given a Kismet trace of a neighborhood, I can tell you which router models people are using to check for vulnerabilities for that model. Or I could use Wash, which is packaged with Reaver, to see which routers have WPS enabled and are vulnerable to the Reaver cracker. The NSA boys probably have neater toys.

    It was actually a brilliant plan. Google drives around the world claiming to take cute pictures of neighborhoods. "Someone else" in the car collects and hacks away.

    And it all would have worked, if it wasn't for those damn kids . . .

    Now every country in the world is wondering what else Google was doing in those cars, and who else was riding in them. I guess we'll have to wait for yet another Snowden leak. But Snowden will probably wait until Google and the government deny it first. Then release it, catching them lying like rugs again.

  12. Re:Brazil aims low, film at 11 on Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data · · Score: 1

    $500,000? . . . Go big or go home, Brazil. :)

    Ok, 500,000 million billion dollars!

  13. Re:Is google even capturing WiFi data anymore? on Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought they abandoned that practice after the last debacle.

    I thought they wouldn't work with the NSA after they said they wouldn't.

    The WiFi data is far too useful to the NSA for Google to stop collecting it for the NSA.

  14. Obviously incompatible with . . . on Motorola Patent Uses Neck Tattoo As Microphone · · Score: 2

    . . . neckbeards . . .

  15. Re:Anything can be used as a weapon on Dutch MEP Petitions To Ban Export of Surveillance Software · · Score: 1

    She has no idea that the tools exclusively marketed as cyber weapons are nothing more than window dressing for existing things.

    Government bureaucrats do not understand technology, and should best leave it alone.

    When a government tries to fiddle with technology . . . you get something like: https://www.healthcare.gov/

    Hell, if you tasked most parliaments in the world with building a campfire, they wouldn't be able to figure it out:

    "I propose a 5-year flame-thrower research project to be funded in my constituency, which would provide a stimulus for the fire industry . . . "

  16. Re:willing to work, for observing time on Thanks to Neutrino Detector, We Might Get a Good Look At the Next Supernova · · Score: 2

    I doubt we'll be able to detect much of anything by 2016...

    The NSA will just hack the detector, and probably have the data before the Japanese scientists.

    No need to spend money on building expensive scientific experiment instruments any more. Let someone else do that. Just grab the data . . . that's all that matters anyway.

    In the same way the NSA could help NASA by hijacking other countries space programs' data. Or maybe that is already being done . . .

  17. It will be great for the California traffic cops! on Google's Barge Is a Marketing Showroom · · Score: 2

    They can just hang out around the barge, and pass out tickets in the barge parking lot!

    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/tech/mobile/google-glass-driving-ticket/

  18. Re:Vermont's Site is Toast on Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Our Gov is finally "out of patience" with Vermont's site

    Out of patience? I'm actually sick of hearing about Obamacare.

    Which raises the interesting medical-philosophical question . . . is illness caused by Obamacare, actually covered by Obamacare . . . ?

    Yeah, I thought so . . .

  19. Re:I carry. on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scaring little kids is easy, I go for scaring the adults.

    One year we lugged around a rubber boat, dressed up like Greenpeace activists, threw the boat on a front lawn, jumped in, and staged a naval assault on the "Greenhouse that was destroying the ozone hole." Instead of ringing the doorbell, we peppered the windows with a hail of fire from airsoft electric machine guns, while yelling, "Nuke the Whales!", and other assorted non-sequitur nonsense.

    It didn't scare any adults, but they would come out of the house with a priceless confused look on their faces, like, "What the flying fuck is going on here?!" and "What in God's Hell is this supposed to be!?"

    The truth was . . . we didn't really know either.

  20. Re:Have they considiered... on Most Sensitive Detector Yet Fails To Find Any Signs of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I was a little too dismissive of the fringe theories.

    So are there theories that propose that there is something, that is not matter, but still creates the gravitational affect? Now that would be interesting.

    I'm maybe not up to date, but I don't think that we've really managed to detect gravitational waves yet either. So maybe this gravity critter is just a little more complex than we have previously thought?

    Only more experiments will give us more insight.

  21. "secure fiber optic cables" on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing is "secure" any more. "Secure" is now a one word oxymoron.

  22. Re:Civil Liberties Issues? on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    It's fired from a fucking cop car

    . . . which will probably itself be enough to cause the driver to crash.

    Despite what you might see on TV or in the movies, most folks get a little jumpy and freak out, when a copy hangs out the window of his car and fires a gun at you.

    I recall that there were similar problems when motorcycle cops started using hand held radar speed guns.

  23. Re:ghost in the shell on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought this was news for nerds dammit?!?!

    I thought this was nudes for nerds.

    Imagine my disappointment.

  24. Re:On the other hand... on Genome Hacker Uncovers 13-Million-Member Family Tree · · Score: 2

    My family tree has routing loops. It drives the case officers nuts when they raid the ranch.

  25. IBM had a tool to do this for a long time already on How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a pretty cool critter, but I don't know if they actually sell it as a product. It might be something that they only use internally:

    http://www.research.ibm.com/da/beam.html

    http://www.research.ibm.com/da/publications/beam_data_flow.pdf