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  1. Re:why couldn't the instructions come from whiteha on Conficker Worm Asks For Instructions, Gets Update · · Score: 1

    It's as if they are leaving their fingerprints all over the crime scene.

  2. Re:What I want to see in worm development on Conficker Worm Asks For Instructions, Gets Update · · Score: 1

    Cosmic rays have been a constant force of mutation worldwide, certainly one of these viruses has been created via random mutation. It's just silly to think someone *created* these.

  3. Re:Why not use Satellites? on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 1

    Oh forgot:
    3. Have absolutely no other way to accomplish something.

  4. Re:Why not use Satellites? on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Satellites are cost effective if you are either:
    1. Reaching a broad audience with the same transmission.
    2. A large government with cryptic and voluminous bookkeeping designed to hide that you are at a loss.

    Just ask the satellite phone companies what happens when you have to listen to that broad audience too.

  5. Re:Cool on Finnish Guy Gets Prosthetic USB Finger Storage · · Score: 1

    I dunno, everytime I ask him to boot linux he gives me the finger.

  6. Practical applications on Scientists Use fMRI To (Sort of) Read Minds · · Score: 1

    Employers are already looking into early-stage prototypes they can fit on their employees to predict their position and movement within buildings. This will save them time and money since they will never again have to ask, "where did Tom go?"

  7. Re:So why would one "cheat" in the first place? on Valve Engineers Weed Out 'Lying' TF2 Game Servers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If this is the problem (I think it's more complicated than this one factor), it could be solved another way. A "Quick-play" button, steam takes an empty server and puts the next 24 players into it. Steam could regularly cycle through servers, or just pick empty ones at random.

    Anyhow, I think the root problem is too many people have servers up. It's so easy, valve is basically a victim of their own success. Now they have a bajimmillion(10^13.5) empty servers for players to filter through.

  8. Re:Um, start simple with older Steam games? on Valve Engineers Weed Out 'Lying' TF2 Game Servers · · Score: 1

    This mechanism can be used for all their steam-based games.

  9. Re:"Safe from surface-to-air missiles" on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the tech tree is long and costly. By the time they are ready to launch, they'll have spent so much on the rocket they wont be prepared for the zergling invasion.

  10. Re:As safe as a satellite... on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    I think the article meant to say it was too high for radar to reach, so it was effectively invisible.

  11. Re:No comments....... on A Veteran GM's Preview of the D&D Player's Handbook 2 · · Score: 1

    Normally we work very hard to conceal our love for D&D from the masses. But given that there are no women on the internet...

  12. Re:He's Headed to That Small Moon Over There on ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky · · Score: 1

    Moon: I hear you're moving up in the universe
    ISS: Yeah, no more venus between us

  13. Re:boy am I glad on Verizon Wants To Share Your Personal Information · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the meantime, here's how to opt-out (taken from the mouth of FredicvsMaximvs from the article comments)

    - Sign in to the Verizon website.
    - On the red bar near the top, hover over "My Verizon." Click on "My Profile." (Don't go over to the sub-menu that pops up.)
    - In the second section down, under Phone Controls, there's a link to "View/Edit Privacy (CPNI) Settings." Click on that.
    - Voila! Click on the button that says "Don't share my CPNI." Remember to hit the save button before you leave.

  14. Re:boy am I glad on Verizon Wants To Share Your Personal Information · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If congress didn't lock these companies in place with huge piles of money, we might have some entrepreneurs entering the space with words like, "customer", "service", and "helpful" in their dictionary.

    Anyhow, I hope this presents an opportunity to end my contract with Verizon, I missed the last one they never mailed me.

  15. Re:c'mon, too easy on UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your first post may be your last if you play vgs.

  16. Re:lol on Symantec Support Gone Rogue? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you turn 180 degrees, you will be right where you started too.

  17. Re:lol on Symantec Support Gone Rogue? · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris can turn 360 degrees and face the other direction.

  18. Re:Who-lu? on Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back · · Score: 2

    Americans care because they can use Hulu.

    The rest of earth cares because Americans are doing it. Earth shattering title still secure.

  19. Re:Foldable solar charger on Solar Power Pre-Deployment To Afghanistan? · · Score: 1

    You skipped this part:

    but it needs to be ... effective

    Your best option is to save a ton of money and buy him a couple years worth of batteries.

  20. Re:Withdraw it all. on Bank Error Gives Woman $1.13 billion · · Score: 1

    If they give it to you, even on accident, isn't it theft for them to take it back?

  21. Re:But CER is government control on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    But but, this will stimulate the economy by...
    well by...

    anyone?

  22. Re:OH ..Well... on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 3, Funny

    And now you will witness the power of this fully operational helicopter!

  23. Re:Buzz vs. Non-buzz on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's only so much matter, after enough time, we don't have to worry about anymore collisions.

    I vote we wait it out.

  24. Re:CO2 causes Global Warming? on Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires? · · Score: 1

    I'm not ruling out global warming, but if the guys behind global warming are the same guys saying the GDP benefits from clean energy, well I'm a staunch skeptic.

  25. Re:CO2 causes Global Warming? on Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires? · · Score: 1

    That's not true. Increased CO2 causes global warming which causes an earthly imbalance which causes climate change.

    So:
    if CO2 levels rise and something in the climate changes, global warming is true.
    if CO2 levels don't rise, than we can make no predictions.

    There is no possible way to disprove global warming.