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  1. Re:STO, really, again? on Thieves in South Africa Hit Traffic Lights For SIM Cards · · Score: 2

    Well jeez, you don't suppose the boxes in question might also have been, y'know, locked, like the other species of utilities boxes that reside in the vicinity of intersections?

  2. Re:But How Connected is the TV Anyways? on Major Security Flaws Discovered In Internet HDTVs · · Score: 2

    I strongly suspect everyone here will feel much the same way, but TFA and I agree that there are a lot of people out there who are just technically challenged enough to use their web-capable TVs on sites where credit cards might be involved, or perhaps not find it surprising when attempting to purchase PPV content responds with a mysterious credit card prompt they've never seen before. The TFA also mentions scenarios where the TV's functionality could be extended, limited, or denied to the user, in addition to things like stealing browser history.

  3. Re:Hack it. on Microsoft Ready To "Take On'' Google and Apple TV · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't that violate your sig's Microsoft-free lifestyle?

  4. Re:This doesn't sound like a good idea on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    "iPhone makes sniping easier", "Bullet Flight 1.0.0 – the US$15 iPhone app for snipers"... You'd be surprised just at how many ballistics calculators there are! There are, in fact, tons of places in combat where iPhones already have a foothold. And I'm pretty sure that a good bumper that covers the ports would make it sand-proof, too.

  5. Re:Very much this on Intel's Atom To Ship In Over 35 Tablets Next Year · · Score: 1

    It's sheerly a question of the availability of diverse development tools. GP was speaking about chipmakers providing good platforms for OEMs to build customer-attracting products on. If these Atom processors were available 8 years ago, the iPhone might very well have been x86.

  6. Re:Oh wow. on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 1

    Speak (CHEEP C1AL1$ CALL NOW) for yourself!

  7. Re:Strong Bad said it best. on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    Not a thing. Despite the implications of replying, my post didn't attempt to defend such a strange idea.

  8. Re:Strong Bad said it best. on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    The Old English genitive is -es; an "e" is what the apostrophe in the possessive form represents. The possessive pronouns "his", "hers", and "its" lost this "e" before the contraction became common-place.

  9. Re:tweets? Damn on Today's WikiLeaks News · · Score: 1

    You're right! A proper journalist would be more subtle than that. Let's fix it.

    Alleged rapist and terrorist Julian Assange has been brought in for questioning. Extradition by the end of the week? #rape #terrorism #news

  10. Re:I had a hightlight once... on Google Patents Browser Highlight All Button · · Score: 0

    Sieg heitl!

  11. Re:and on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nice backtracking. In your original post you said that to reach the multitudes, you would need to have enough money to buy off the media corporations—not to buy the supplies necessary to run a poster campaign, which is far cheaper. You're changing your position and it's sleazy as hell. Go troll somewhere else.

  12. Re:Horrible Timing... on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the strategy of multiplicity works pretty darn well. And laws are already bouncing off the Wikileaks people pretty hard—they're going to be far harder to apply to hundreds of similar leak sites than just one! It's standard guerilla warfare.

  13. Re:/scoff on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    Well, as Arancaytar said, screwdrivers already exist. We're half way there!

  14. Re:First post, for the umpteenth time on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 1

    As a molecular biologist, I'm aware :)

  15. Re:First post, for the umpteenth time on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 3, Informative
  16. Re:So? on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    Regardless, this method was reckless.

  17. Re:So? on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    It isn't. Obviously.

    We're talking about Assange making a bad thing worse, not about whether that thing was bad to begin with. No one is suggesting that.

  18. Re:So? on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    Civilians who had assisted the US military in Afghanistan. See lgw's post just below this one.

  19. Re:Great on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia to the rescue! Answer: it does! Or at least appears to! Adenosine triarsenide! Arsenylation of proteins! Arsenolipid bilayers! You name it, this thing is currently believed to do it!

  20. Re:Fugly on BendDesk Merges Computer, Monitor and Desk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Respectfully disagree. The prototype's purpose is to show the feasibility of the usage paradigm, not satisfy your arbitrary aesthetic passions.

  21. Re:If you didn't do anything wrong, on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 1

    The definition of terrorism is a lot more consistent than that, methinks: it's not terrorism in the eyes of the people doing it, no matter who those people are.

  22. Re:It is all about resolution on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe you. Wholly.
    This was to be a Haiku,
    but I couldn't think of anything finish up with.
    Refrigerator.

  23. Re:Strong A.I. already exists on Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism · · Score: 1

    Sometimes there's no choice
    but to accept simple means
    to express alarm.

    Japanese formats
    don't even work for poems
    in English, anyway.

    To be real Haiku,
    we would have to use moras.
    (Wikipedia.)

  24. Re:Strong A.I. already exists on Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're either crazy
    or trying to scam someone.
    Maybe it is both?

  25. Re:Oracle of technology? on Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism · · Score: 1

    Your analogy
    Isn't actually clever.
    No one hears our screams.