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  1. There have been a few people who dont sleep at all on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 1

    How to explain those folks?

    (Google it yourself)

  2. This is typical for any Fiscal year on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make it right - it is an artifact of use it or lose it (and then have next years budget cut because it is clear that you don't need it).

    This has nothing to do with budget battles and government shutdown.

    Bureaucratic self preservation at its finest. I am sure this has been pointed out many times above.

  3. Re:Here's the full story. on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    Egads. I think that the money would be better spent on a lawyer, as the child would just lose the phone (or his mom would simply take it away from him).

  4. Re:So what makes this bad? on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    They should start in Albuquerque.

  5. Re:Someone call walter white on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    Walter would just make it pure: he really had/has no idea about the medical side of things.

  6. Re:Gross, but... on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    Tracy Lords made a few films when she was 17 IIRC.

  7. Re:Brother in law works at NIST on Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? · · Score: 1

    >> NSA has two arms: an offensive arm and a defensive arm

    Wouldn't that be CYBERCOM?

  8. So do it already on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 1

    Nobody is stopping them.

  9. Re:The Dumbing Down Continues on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    PS you haven't lived until you have written a Python extension in C++ (which of course lives in a C wrapper). Good clean fun, that.

  10. Re:The Dumbing Down Continues on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 2

    I have been writing C++ for over 20 years. I love it. But I also think Java and Python are decent languages as well (and I have heard great things about Ruby).

  11. Re:C++ on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 2

    >> C++ is a flexible, and powerful language

    Fixed that for you.

    C++'s strengths come at a steep price.

  12. Just becuase a language allows it... on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    ...doesn't mean you should shout "fire!" in a crowed theater.

  13. The phrase "No expectation of privacy" on DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records · · Score: 1

    This phrase is often used as a blind justification for wrong doping regardless if it is true or not. Yet when people hear it, they tend to believe the person that said it. Why?

  14. QF-4 target drones on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 2

    They were flying these years ago. I am sure the F-16 drones are much improved... but it basically the same thing.

  15. I would stay and take the severence on Utility Sets IT Department On Path To Self-destruction · · Score: 1

    On a gamble that it would be good. Try to find out your last day, and start looking for a job that starts the day afterwards.

  16. One word: Transmeta on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ARM SoC hardware designers world wide smile into their hand.

  17. Be wary of your hardware on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    The US government certainly is.

    http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Programs/Trusted_Integrated_Circuits_(TRUST).aspx

    Every wonder why National Semiconductor (now TI I guess) runs a FAB at Fort Meade?

    http://www.trustedfoundryprogram.org/

  18. Stop trusting Truecrypt on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    The suspicions surrounding Truecrypt have never been fully explained.

  19. Trust nothing on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Rebuild from the ground up. It's the only way to be sure.

    I predict a huge increase in use of BitBake.

  20. Re:All phones? on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1

    The crypto is intentionally hobbled.

  21. Re:Belief In Law on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and I have NEVER been in a traffic jam in Europe.

  22. Re: Happy now? on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1

    How is that working out for you?

  23. Re:Happy now? on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1

    That was sarcasm, in case you missed it.

  24. Re:Tumbtack in your shoe, pressure when telling tr on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    When I took a poly, I had to sit on a pad that was attached to a USB cable (no lie!). Also they made me take my shoes off and place my feet on a mat that was also attached to a USB cable.

  25. Seems rather obvious on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    So don't ask why they want the training.

    In fact, tell your customers that you don't want to know why they want the training (for both of your protection). Let them know the this act of keeping their mouth shut is lesson #1.

    Also inform them that if you come to find out they are going to use the training to violate a law, you will have to contact the authorities (and follow through if need be).