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  1. Re:He's got a point, though futile on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you ignore the fact that the reward is no loger on offer.

  2. Wow on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 2

    And you thought someone keeping $500,000 in bitcoins on their windows machine was an idiot...

  3. Re:Market liquidity? on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    It's two days volume, so not without pushing the price down a fair chunk.

  4. Re:Why? on JavaScript Gameboy Color Emulator · · Score: 1

    The same reason they have three-legged races.

  5. Re:Is hacking spate supporting internet lockdown? on LulzSec Hacks the US Senate · · Score: 1

    How so?

    The "Government knows best", "big government" party would be expected to be all for the government trampling over the rights of the people.

    The "state's rights", "small government" party is the one you would expect to be against it - so why would having a Democrat President make the Republicans less likely to criticize it?

  6. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    They do float (I guess depending on what is in them, I'm not sure what their max weight and hence density is).

    And hence other smaller ships hit them and sink.

  7. Re:Don't forget everyone else! on How Journalists Data-Mined the Wikileaks Docs · · Score: 0

    So are you claiming the US should have publicised that they were pretty sure where Osama bin Laden was instead of keeping it secret until they acted on it? Or that they shouldn't have been looking?

    Are you claiming the US should call the Chinese Government right now and tell them the names and locations of every Chinese dissident they know about? Or that they shouldn't know on the first place or provide any assistance?

    Are you claiming the US should just publicise and, maybe run some training seminars on, how to build a hydrogen bomb? Or that they shouldn't have done it themselves in the first place, and just let the USSR have them?

    Are you claiming the US shouldn't campaign and negotiate for its own interests?

    Where is the line on what is OK to keep secret? And on what is OK to do even though it won't make everyone else in the world happy?

  8. Re:Nothing is stopping you on Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union · · Score: 1

    True. And nothing is stopping you from negotiating with your boss for better pay/conditions. And nothing is stopping you from trying to organize your fellow workers into a group to negotiate with your boss for better pay/conditions.

  9. Re:fencing on The Science of Lightsabers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, except that said duels are between people who can see the damn future. So yes you can slide them in half with a flick of the wrist, but they knew that flick was coming 5 minutes ago.

  10. It does actually make sense on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    Sure, making life difficult for those asking is one motivation, but it's not as ridiculous as it seems.

    The lawyers had to review it all. They will have done so by having it all printed out and then going over the resulting documents.

    You can't now just use the original electronic versions since you risk adding back things the lawyers removed, and converting those pages back into electronic format would cost more money and time for the state. So use copies the paper documents that the lawyers spat out and call it done.

  11. Re:A-PPolice State. on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    That's what privately owned means in that context.

    Private as opposed to Government owned.

    Not private as opposed to publically traded.

    Yeah, yeah. Same words, different meanings.

  12. Re:so DUI checkpoints are 100% on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    And as a condition of carving out a chunk of the consitution the Supreme Court requires that those DUI checkpoint locations be publicised, making it a rather large stretch to label an app doing so "Illegal".

  13. Re:What is the the Copyrights holders solution on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They need to show that the people they are suing are under the jurisdiction of the court. Which should be pretty trivial, though of course in reality would mean filing a lot more suits in various courts instead of one big one.

  14. Re:Identification please on Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms · · Score: 1

    Bullshit

  15. Re:Meltdowns are impossible? on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 4, Informative

    That German AVR reactor is also the most heabily beta-contaminated reactor site on the planet. And it contaminated both the soil and groundwater, and better yet in the form or radioactive dust.

    Melting down is not the only possible problem...

  16. Re:Is is settled this time? on Siemens SCADA Flaws To Be Disclosed At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Because the researcher in question agreed with them.

  17. Re:Great, there goes my weekend. on Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3 Launch Dates Announced · · Score: 1

    Surely they just want to charge you extra for Genesis?

  18. Re:You won't get useful answers on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    No, clearly that's not possible.

    It should be possible to get a few reasonable answers thrown in the mix though.

  19. You won't get useful answers on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 2

    Since you're misusing genres, given Diable is not an Adventure game.

    Hence no one knows if you actually want adventure games and hence they should recommend things like Monkey Island, or if you actually want an action-RPG and hence they should recommend things like Torchlight.

    And of course the jerks just point out you mixed up the genres instead of answering at all.

  20. Re:Why do we still need strong passwords? on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Because the crypted passwords never get grabbed for cracking offline.

    Never all in all of computer security history.

  21. Re:This is the ONLY compensation I need... on Ask Slashdot: Compensating Technical People For Contributing to Sales? · · Score: 1

    Wow, you have the shittiest job in the world.

  22. Re:Applications? on Collatz Proof Proposed: Hailstone Sequences End In 1 · · Score: 2

    No.

  23. Re:Anonymous Coward Comment Ratio on Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI · · Score: 1

    Which is completely irrelevant to the ratios being different in a particular item.

  24. Re:In other news... on Is Identity Theft Overwhelming the IRS? · · Score: 1

    And of course for smoking pot.

  25. Re:IE6 on Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers · · Score: 1

    1 person is not "people".

    The other moderated worked out it was a joke...