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  1. Re:...characterized as abusive... on CipherCloud Invokes DMCA To Block Discussions of Its Crypto System · · Score: 1

    Ordinarily, I'd be all like "Aren't there any girls?" but then I remembered where I am.

  2. Re:Put it to good use on Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa · · Score: 1

    You've omitted all of the urban legends that get ((((re)re)re)re)reposted without the "FALSE" that snopes usually adds.

    And the advertising. There will be lots of advertising.

  3. Re:bigass community bid on Blackstone Drops Dell Bid, Cites Declining PC Market · · Score: 1

    The kickstarter community doesn't have anywhere near that kind of money.

    It's **ONLY** $24 billion.

    Control (that magical 51%) is only about $12 billion.

    And yes, it's far easier to do this through NASDAQ than kickstarter.

  4. Re:Still fiddly if you RTFA on Ars Reviewer is Happily Bored With Dell's Linux Ultrabook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the problem here is the razor-thin window edges.

    All the UI's I've used with the thin window edges have been difficult for me to interact with, by mouse, trackpad, or touchpoint ("eraser-pointer"), because of the challenges of hitting a particular very small spot.

  5. Re:IBM should just drop the M on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    Once they get to one and have room to spare the upgrade slow to a halt.

    I think there is a world market for about five computers.

  6. Re:Summary should probably also mention... on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    You want to rent a teleporter from them?

    You'll actually be renting 8 teleporters, but you only get to use one of them at a time if you're on the discount lease.

  7. Re:Is there anything on this planet on Demand for Kopi Luwak May Be Threatening Wildlife · · Score: 1

    The cockroaches still seem to be doing OK, but I'm not aware of any cockroach delicacies.

  8. Re:Gambler? on Prof. Stephen Hawking: Great Scientist, Bad Gambler · · Score: 2

    scientist are wrong all the time and argue all the time

    Exactly. You don't learn new things when you're right.

  9. Re:The obvious next step... on Businesses Moving From Amazon's Cloud To Build Their Own · · Score: 1

    Laugh as you will, but spinning up a VM on each desktop that can contribute to the central processing pool has intrigued me for some time.

    Security is a bit of a hangup, and it would have to be cleverly configured to only use the extra cycles... but for some applications, where you just need "a little more oomph", I think it's got merit.

  10. Re:How Tragic on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    Many fertilizers have ingredients than burn well.

    Many of those ingredients are in a powdered form.

    Common flour - made out of ground up wheat - makes a huge dust explosion, and it's not particularly flammable. Flammable dusts make REALLY HUGE explosions.

  11. Re:20 years passed on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Probably going to be Bitcoin.

  12. Re:Stop taunting us! on Google Fiber To Come To Provo, Utah · · Score: 2, Funny

    The trouble with crowdsourcing naked pictures is that there are a lot of people out there I don't want to see naked.

    Perhaps that's their business model - pay us, or we send you more pictures of 14/f/cali guy.

  13. Re:Coming next on Google Fiber To Come To Provo, Utah · · Score: 1, Funny

    Multi-Mormon Online Real Proselytizing Game?

  14. Re:Hard to say on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    So, if someone says it's not a trap, it is in fact a trap, but if someone says it is a trap, it's legit?

    It's so difficult to keep track of things on opposite day.

  15. Re:Duplicate datacenter on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 1

    Was thinking more like a hidden message, although that's some fine paper folding you've got there.

  16. Re:Duplicate datacenter on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 1

    I won't believe this without a photograph of a cleverly folded $5 bill to back up your claims.

  17. Re:Oy. on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 2

    This.

    Aside from the predicted timing of a few natural disasters rearranging certain urban areas, we're on track.

  18. Re:Well the ultimate value of Bitcoin is on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 5, Funny

    People who say that modpoints have no intrinsic value are just wrong.

  19. Re:while we are at it... on Why French Govt's Attempt to Censor Wikipedia Matters · · Score: 1

    Best guess, linked from Wikipedia page about Rosnay.

    The coordinates match, and the shape of the facility is about right.

  20. Odd arrangements on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 2

    From what I understand, a bartender can get in trouble for overserving someone who then drives drunk and causes mayhem.

    Apparently, this guy who installed custom compartments in vehicles got in trouble, despite (apparently) refusing to build them for explicit drug use.

    Are convenience stores liable when smokers get cancer? They're selling the carcinogens.

    Are firearm and ammunition manufacturers and dealers liable for school shootings? You know those aren't all done with zip guns and reloads.

    We have a legal system that seems to be logically inconsistent.

  21. Re:Stop with the lame April Fool's encryption. on Linus Torvalds To Head Windows 9 Project · · Score: 1

    More like they've thoughtfully been posting the intentionally non-serious stories as ROT13.

    The unintentionally non-serious stories are quadruply protected with QUAD ROT13.

  22. Haven't seen anything in this thread yet about NCX or ubfgf svyrf.

  23. Re:Just going to come right out and say it... on A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative · · Score: 1

    Your hypothesis erroneously presumes that minds were initially present.

  24. Re:Don't carry one on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 1

    Good call on the jurisdiction dependent part of that.

    Honestly, I think they're more worried about (would-be) terrorists and drug dealers than CP, when it comes to phones...

  25. Re:OFF pocket on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 1