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  1. Ordinance Bombers on Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would ... only be limited by the ordinance they could drop on a potential foe.

    Not surprising that it's the United States which comes up with a device to literally drop their laws on unsuspecting nations.

    Oh wait, slashdot, you must have meant ordnance.

  2. Re:Noisy ads on Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option · · Score: 1

    I usually use noscript, but if I've allowed a site, sometimes a noisy ad will start. I wonder if there's an extension to have sound-making tabs light up with a coloured speaker icon!

    While not exactly what you wanted, NoScript can help you here, too.

    Go to the NoScript preferences and select the Embeddings tab. Check all the relevant "Forbid" options that you want (the defaults are likely sufficient). Now Check the box: "Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too". With this, even if you've allowed scripts on a site, it still requires you to explicitly enable (by clicking in the placeholder) any flash/video/whatever nonsense that you want to see.

  3. Re:How does it recognize cancel stemcell? on 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nanoparticles are so small they are measured in nanometers (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter)

    Except that they're off by several orders of magnitude. A nanometre is a billionth (short scale) of a metre: that is, 1/1000000000 (10^-9) metres.

  4. Re:AES-NI on Writing Linux Kernel Functions In CUDA With KGPU · · Score: 2

    3) CTR
        CTR(block(i)) = encrypt(block(i)) xor i

    Sorry, but what you describe is not CTR mode. Using your notation, CTR would look (roughly) like this:

        CTR(block(i)) = encrypt(counter) xor block(i)

    where "counter" is usually constructed by concatenating a nonce value with i
    (the block number). It is critical that the resulting counter never be re-used
    with the same key for a different block).

  5. Re:This is impractical on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Audiophile, noun: A person who listens to the equipment rather than the music.

  6. Re:Wow, really impressed on European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA · · Score: 1

    RTF summary. 369 signatures from the Members of the European Parliament. In other words, a majority.

  7. Re:cool on Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res Displays · · Score: 1

    the current limit in preventing a "realistic" display (i.e. you can't tell the difference between the display and looking out a window) is actually in the contrast resolution (difference between light and dark) which still has a very long way to go before it hits human eye capacity.

    Actually, parallax (the lack thereof) is a bigger issue here. Unless your display can simultaneously show different images to different people based on their position, it will never be mistaken for a window.

  8. Re:good choice on Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, a sort of 'world cup of data sorting' ends in 'cup data of sorting world'.

  9. Re:Microsot on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, what slashdot needs are editors: people who read and correct errors in written works prior to publication.

  10. Re:release it on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work:

    % "rm -rf ~/*"
    zsh: no such file or directory: rm -rf ~/*

    What am I doing wrong?