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  1. Don't Look Dorothy on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 0

    Pay no attention to that quack behind the curtain.

  2. Re:Charon Relay? on New Horizons Captures First Color Image of Pluto and Charon · · Score: 1

    Just scan and probe it then get the damn eezo before the ships find you.

  3. He Did That Shtick For 7 Years? on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 3, Funny

    All they have to do is remember how many times a tourney he has really bad IBS and they'll have the answer to whether he cheated a lot or not.

  4. Re:The begining of the Cyber Crusades on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 1

    The Great Revolt that will come shall be recorded in a new Bible, but it shall be the new Catholic Bible and it will be penned in a tome of orange. We shall make war upon all machines and computers that are self aware because they are unclean.

  5. Re:Mass Murder on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 2

    One of my favorite "Fuck you, we're the USA" moments in history is the overthrow and occupation of the still technically sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii, now just nice beach real estate and a leftist paradise.

  6. Re:Redundant measures on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 1

    If you suddenly are in the position where you'll need to be transceiving on the radio spectrum because of a government implemented blackout of cell service, I doubt that whether or not you passed the 35-question Technician multiple-choice test is going to mean jack shit to you if you have to break the law to do it...good buddy.

  7. Maybe this is some sort of new cutting edge format sitcom, this is just the first episode.

  8. Lidar ! = Acronym on Tiny LIDAR Chip Could Add Cheap 3D Sensing to Cellphones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Lidar isn't an acronym, its a compound word from light and radar (radar isn't an acronym anymore either).

  9. Re:Even worse. on After Anti-Donation Executive Order, Bitcoin Donations For Snowden Jump · · Score: 2

    It isn't Snowden who is releasing this stream of information, its the various journalists (Greenwald, Poitras etc.) to whom he gave it that are determining the contents and scheduling of each revelation.

  10. Re:Here's a thought on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  11. Doubtful on Laptop Destroyed Over Snowden Leaks Is Now an Art Exhibit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even though data remanence is merely a widely-believed urban legend, who actually thinks that the GCHQ actually let that hard drive or laptop leave their grasp either at the point of contact/destruction or silently behind the scenes after the fact.

  12. Yeah... on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 0

    ...of course they were.

  13. Problem of Entropy+Computers on Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    1) Computers are, by design, a tool to lessen entropy. Computers sail through an Internet of chaos and disorder like icebreakers leaving a trail of ordered, aligned wreckage in their wake.

    2) Any program or method employed by a computer to evaluate the "entropic value" of a string in the end means absolutely nothing except that it correlates to other virtual "entropic values" of other strings like it using purely ordered, metered and aligned correspondences of information bits.

    3) Computers interacting or evaluating entropy in any way lessens the True Entropy of a system (or password or system of passwords).

    Allowing a computer to determine entropy nessesarilly reduces it and using such a limited symbolic representation like a keyboard will soon not contain enough variables to adequately retain enough entropy to withstand faster, cooler processors. One method I see for future "password" usage uses the old Ars Memoria or Art of Memory, which I think is somewhat touched upon in xkcd's "correcthorsebatterystaple" method.

    In short, letting PCs choose what is random or not is the exact opposite of how true randomness works. We wouldn't trust a randomness engine without knowing how that engine generated the seed of entropy injected to cascade information complexity but knowing how it is done obliterates it's entropic value. In real short, I'm really stoned and I don't know what I'm talking about anymore and this post is too long and boring...I'm hungry dammit.

  14. Re:Let me guess on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 1

    You guys mean Supreme Commander of the New Republic Defense Force Ackbar. Duh. :D

  15. Re:Constitional Rights on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Just get or make a personal or vehicle-mounted binary flamethrower, they are totally unrestricted for owning or carrying in all states and territories.

  16. Re:Constitional Rights on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    An atom bomb constitutes a Destructive Device and doesn't cover the scope of the Bill of Rights.

  17. Re:I hope you brought your toga... on White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA, Says White House · · Score: 1

    Revolts, fires, Nero fiddling...pretty much.

  18. Something is amiss... on ICE Tells Reporter Its Secretive Drone Program Isn't Newsworthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    That the guy said it wasn't newsworthy immediately tells everyone it is newsworthy, any good agent would know this. So what if he's doing a triple-bluff...

  19. Did you hear... on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...about the guy with five penises?

    His underwear fit like a glove.

  20. Re:Could be but, on LAPD Police Claim Helicopters Stop Crimes Before They Happen · · Score: 1

    I think that this was the plot of the show Riptide, except they were private detectives.

  21. John Titor's Chopper on LAPD Police Claim Helicopters Stop Crimes Before They Happen · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, the LAPD's helicopters can't detect their pilots being an oppressive gang of statist stormtrooper thugs worthy of total revilement, so it evens out.

  22. Re:Farmer in the sky on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 1

    I propose the next probe or mission to Ganymede be called Torchship 1.

  23. Aegirocassis Benmoulae? on Newly Discovered Sea Creature Was Once the Largest Animal On Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the most "Why not Zoidberg" scenario ever.

  24. In other words... on YouTube Video of Racist Chant Results In Fraternity Closure · · Score: 1

    Sunday night on the Row.

  25. 3720:1 on Harrison Ford's Plane Crashes On Golf Course · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never tell him the odds.