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  1. Re:Warning, noobish question ahead. on Is Cyberwarfare Fiction? · · Score: 1

    access to porn of course

  2. Re:Cyber warfare: FUD for vendors. on Is Cyberwarfare Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Any company that has these possibly life threatening/super expensive facilities connected in anyway to the Internet should be hung, drawn, and quartered. Even baddies in Bruce Willis movies are forced to reroute the gas rather than crack the power station. Which makes me wonder why they didn't just reroute the gas in the first place.

  3. And the payback is? on Rubber Boots Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    When's the energy break even point? Are they as efficient as solar panels? If I walk a mile in someone else's shoes then ....................

  4. Re:Lifetime in jail vs keeping quiet, though choic on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the insurgents need to see videos like this to get angry. The oath also covers domestic enemies regardless of whether or not that enemy is the grunt in the foxhole with you or your commander in chief. In my judgement IANAJBTW the US military has its fair share of domestic enemies amongst its ranks. sadly these enemies appear to be dual nationals/owe their allegiances to other states/have high positions (take your pick)

  5. Re:Oscillation and the conservation of energy? on Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Could a real physicist push back the veil of shadows one bit? Pretty please? =)

    What? And show the world where all the dark matter and gravity waves have been hiding?

  6. Re:This crap gives science a bad reputation on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    bullshit is a much better descriptive term

  7. Re:Juries? on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    You were the captain of the debate club weren't you? You are such a merkin

  8. Re:Cops are good at estimating speed on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    He used to be a cop so take anything he says with a grain of salt

  9. Re:Juries? on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    You are only just starting to think this?

    What the fuck do they put in the water in the USA

  10. Re:Yay! finally some accountability for all those on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 1

    Why am I not surprised that a guy that chooses to denigrate 'hobbyists' on /. has to self aggrandize by saying he speaks four languages. What are they TRS-80 BASIC, GW-BASIC, Altair BASIC, and English?

  11. Re:Yay! finally some accountability for all those on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 1

    If you are a hobbyist, you should not sell your software. Leave it for the pro's

    I worked as an AP for many years with no 'meaningful' tertiary qualifications and started my programming as a hobbyist back in the days of 2650 and S-100. I worked with many people back then who would be called 'hobbyists' by self promoting professionals who aren't worthy to wash the majority of hobbyist's grubby feet. The one thing in any working situation we feared was the arrival of some gung-ho fresh out of Uni idiot with professional qualifications because they didn't have a fscking clue and felt that they where the solution to every IT problem that had evr existed. Hobbyists in garages could perform miracles before the professionals got involved. Ask the majority of IT professionals what JNZ means and they will most likely think it's a bank in Jordan.
    Like many IT 'hobbyists' of that era I am glad to now be out of that scene completely living a minimalist life with my wife, dog, and pet chicken.

  12. Re:What? on FBI To Prosecute "Money Mules" · · Score: 1

    I know a guy who drove a bloke home from the pub and got four years in gaol

  13. Re:And this is where the money in processors is on AMD Launches Budget Processor Refresh · · Score: 1

    Being told this stuff usually costs me $200 per hour. Cryacin is just keeping the anal in analysis.

  14. Re:But unfortunately... on Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons · · Score: 1

    It always comes back to Internet porn doesn't it?

  15. Re:Why? on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 1

    I can buy almost any laptop/desktop and install Ubuntu on it

    Ubuntu's popularity proves that geeks just don't care at all about getting a root

  16. Re:And we're trusting you because.... on Hiding From Google · · Score: 1

    so what is this guy selling?

    Maybe he isn't selling anything. Maybe he cares about other people with no thought of personal profit or reward? I understand that if you're from the USA this may make no sense. At last count only around 5% of the world's population were unmitigated bastards with no redeeming features (beyond that glorious to die for accent) so maybe he is just a nice guy.

  17. Encryption makes it hard to read on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    At least that's what the NSA, CIA, TFI, FBI, DEA, ONI, ATF, CIA, NGA, DHS, DIA, DOD, DOE, INR, NRO, ISR, RIAA, BSAA, and the Children's Television Workshop have all said at some stage.
    The DOJ insisted back in 1999 that its agents need the ability to secretly enter private property and disable security on personal computers. Apparently SELinux has a back door built in using NSAKEY as the password.

  18. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    sounds to me like you were pro-active regarding your disability. If it's not a rude question what decade where you born in?

  19. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    You are less than 0.001% of global population. Statistically you are not important.

    Does that mean that the other 99.999% of the population should pitch in to get you a brain?

  20. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    I'm with you. I love audio books. Although mine are on CD, i would have thought books on tape would have been old hat. There is no way that I would listen to 1984 in the car if it was using something like festival. If I was blind I think I would be greatful for festival though.

  21. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the majority of blind people out there would think this is dumb. The only ones not thinking it's dumb are most likely lawyers.

  22. Re:Oh God, not the bourbon. on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    You couldn't mate with a pig, though.

    If you had been me last saturday morning when I awoke hungover you would eat those words

  23. Re:Oh God, not the bourbon. on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    let's not forget that in the 'old way' of genetic modification it wasn't possible to make your potatoes part moth

  24. Re:need a new word on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    It isn't a matter of if, it is a matter of when. There will be a hugemongous "whoops..heh heh heh, guess we missed that" excuse mumbling major screwup, by guys in black suits and white lab coats at some news conference, with the global food supply. This corn might be it, who knows, but it is coming.

    The company liability is limited so it will be the little people who pay through the nose for remediation of the issue. It may not be fixable but regardless those that shoved it down our throats wont care because they will be rich. Anyway, I am pretty sure that corn is too big to be allowed to fail.

  25. Re:In the words of the great Ken Titus... on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    I saw a picture of a British lake that was frozen over with thin ice warning signs everywhere and there were kids jumping up and down on it. Probably should have worn a helmet. A bike on ice would be great fun (I have never seen snow)