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  1. Back in the real world on China's Politburo Behind Google Cyber-Attack? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If Wikileaks was not an intelligence front then I am sure the US could easily claim copyright/IP ownership of material being distributed by them and block/destroy their presence online. Seriously anyone that believes Wikileaks is the real McCoy is a twit of the lowest order.

  2. Re:Is this where... on Scientists Attach Bar Codes To Embryos · · Score: 1

    That is why I never laugh at the conspiracy theorists that 'smart' people tend to mock as insane. There are an awful lot of things that they talked about decades ago that had them labeled nutters and that we accept as a normal part of life

  3. Re:Make some kids on Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo? · · Score: 1

    That's probably due to a bit of organ farming

  4. Re:Liability on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    Women take one year career breaks and longer all the time.

    Men don't have a uterus so can't as easily claim discrimination due to their gender. Mod me down already.

  5. Re:Liability on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    Was it really sent from your PDP-11? Hope it's a 23

  6. Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    I worked with Vista for six months and aged six years does that count?

  7. Re:vwhat better 2 year degrees + real world work o on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    Rewarding for loyalty stopped the moment the magic "outsourcing" and mass-corporate-takeover scams began.

    Once the term 'Human Resources' came into wide spread use the worker was doomed

  8. Re:Are you nuts, man? on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 1

    vi(m) vs. emacs on slashdot? Seriously? People have lost limbs for less than that around here.

    Only one of them has macros that can replace missing limbs

  9. Re:Hello? What about the dick-waving contest? on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    prematurely ejaculate?

    As a life time sufferer and frequent air traveler I can tell you that PE takes the sting out of airport security

  10. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    when did they measure eating while driving, changing the radio station, changing clothes, dealing with crying toddler in back of car, and even talking to someone else located in the car?
    I bet the majority of cell phone accidents are caused by young people texting too. Like the guy said 'you can't fix stupid'.

  11. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    communism == anti-freedom
    it's really that simple

  12. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Do you actually think this is a good idea?

  13. Re:Should apply to anyone using Twitter on A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp · · Score: 1

    Those guys sure are getting up there with the greats now

  14. Re:And Windows is? on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    You imply that rhetorical questions have no earnest purpose?

    I am implying that they are not earnest questions, as they are not questions, but statements disguised as questions. Nothing could be less earnest than something pretending to be something it isn't.

    biscuits

  15. What is a Mondragon Cooperative anyway? on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    Mondragon Cooperative for those interested.

  16. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. Should those that laughed hang their heads in shame?

  17. A brilliant piece of teaching on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These kids are being shown the 'too big to fail' theory in action. It is a business education after all. If they weren't all cheats, idiots, tossers, and general pricks they wouldn't fit into their chosen career path very well at all. If the University was serious about keeping up the standards of behaviour in the US business world then he would kick out the 2/3 that are demonstrably unsuited for their chosen career path.

  18. Re:WHAT?! They get off!? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with the professors testing practices and people making out that he is lazy, incompetent, etc are obviously not familiar with the workload of the average professor. They work their absolute butts off (mostly) and they don't generally write their own tests up as they aren't meant/allowed to. What amazes me is that the 2/3 of the class will be forced to sit in lectures/classes with cheating useless bastards(then again maybe it is a good simulation of the average boardroom)

  19. Re:Bluffing? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    He didn't actually say he was mathematically narrowing it down to specific names. I would guess by now they know the name of the file passed around, its size in bytes, etc and now it is just a matter of trolling around in the bit buckets for evidence of this file on the network. What this is is unfair on the students who didn't cheat. Any student who can be proved was in possession of the document in question should be shafted immediately. No excuses. If you saw it, where aware of it, and let it happen then you are as guilty as those who cheated even if you didn't. The only thing that doesn't surprise me is that this is Business and they are being shown the too big to fail theory close up and personal.

  20. Re:Smear campaign on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 1

    Im not sure its possible even with unlimited resources.

    I'm not too sure that you are competent enough to make this statement. But I bet you have one 31337 screensaver

  21. Re:no I won't on Want an IT Job? Add 'Cloud' To Your Buzzword List · · Score: 1

    I dunno. Tell that to the guy that auditions new pr0n talent.

    Having had some experience in this area I can assure you that it is not a job all would automatically love. You might think that it's wonderful for a few weeks and people will always buy you drinks but it soon loses its gloss. Having plenty of hot wriggly beautiful woman around you seems great but if you have even a smidgeon of empathy in your soul you go home at the end of a shift feeling depressed and miserable. You end up not wanting to sleep with them you end up wanting to just hug some of them and cry.

  22. Re:I was modded to oblivion when I asked the quest on Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World · · Score: 1

    Is there any way to remove the mod capabilities from the morons that modded me down?

    You will need a backwards time machine to return to a time when the LCD wasn't told how to really spell /..org

  23. Re:Was anyone surprised about the privacy bit? on Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World · · Score: 1

    Once you have agreed to an EULA allowing Whatever Corp. to on sell data they collect governments will be making a beeline to their doors. That's the beeline that goes around the corporate edges of whatever constitutional/legal protections you thought you had but actually signed away when you opened the box..

  24. Re:Whining, Excuses and a Guilt Trip! on Cooks Source Magazine Apologizes — Sort Of · · Score: 1

    proportions? sequence of steps? sounds like an algorithm to me.

  25. Re:Keepalive -packet for friendships on For 18 Minutes, 15% of the Internet Routed Through China · · Score: 1

    That says a lot more about /. in the 21st century than it does about facebook