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  1. Re:God damn Republicans on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Was that a joke flying by or was that a surveillance drone? Kinda hard to tell them apart just by the sound signature.

  2. Re:God damn Republicans on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Too bad Flight 93 didn't drill Congress. One set of scumbags taking out the other = win.

    That was the original plan, but Al-Qaeda was afraid of getting sued by Tom Clancy.

  3. Old, but gets funnier after every hack on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 2
  4. Re:ROFLMFAO on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    Obviously Anonymous managed to perform a man-in-the-middle attack between Sony and Congress.

  5. Re:Price? on Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC · · Score: 1

    But I hope the prices are a little less than those of OpenMoko and friends (BeagleBoard, FreeRunner, etc.) have been.

    $150 for a system powerful enough to run desktop linux and you're still complaining it's too expansive?

  6. Re:/b/ on Google Docs' OCR Quality Tested · · Score: 1

    You realize that recaptcha knows exactly which site the captchas come from, right? It would only take a single line of code to filter out all the noise from 4chan.

  7. Re:Class Action on Sony Sued For PlayStation Network Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that one can not seek Class Action status for cases involving Products or Services. See AT&T MOBILITY LLC v. CONCEPCION, Slip Opinion No. 09–893 (PDF)

    So that's why Sony waited a week...

  8. IE6? Crashing? on Punish Bad Users With Drupal Misery · · Score: 1

    crashing their browser if they're using IE6

    For the longest time I thought this was a built-in feature of IE6.

  9. Re:and where's heisenberg? on Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos · · Score: 2

    Too late. We're officially confiscating your Math license.

  10. Re:The Strength of Compressed Graphite? on Graphene Super Paper Is 10x Stronger Than Steel · · Score: 2
    From TFA:

    Graphene offers many advantages over steel – it’s two times as hard, six times lighter and ten times higher in tensile strength.

  11. What if... on Scientist Creates 3D Scanner App For iPhone · · Score: 1

    What would happen if two iphones tried to scan each other at the same?

    Singularity?
    Implosion of the known universe?
    The app author laughing maniacally at the two fools who paid for this app?

  12. Re:Please... on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    The public education system still hasn't improved, I see.

  13. Re:Hm? on Are 625 Pixels Enough To Identify Sex? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you forgot the

  14. Re:Up Next... on Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores · · Score: 1

    Scientist discovers that sun doesn't move around the earth after all.

    When object A revolves around object B, object B is also revolving around object A by definition.

    The disproved geocentric model incorrectly proposes that all objects in the universe revolve around the Earth. In actuality, only the Moon and the Sun revolve around Earth.

  15. Re:Holy Old Story! on Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores · · Score: 1

    Slashdot bars people with high I.Q. scores from becoming editors apparently. Unfortunately the bar was set a little too low.

  16. Send in the drones! on DOJ Gets Court Permission To Attack Botnet · · Score: 0, Troll

    DoJ? Pssh, those guys are too bogged down in red tape.

    We should leave this matter to DoD. Instead of deploying the drones in Pakistan, we should target the botnet controllers instead. If we're gonna do extrajudicial killings, might as well target people who actually harm the country.

  17. Re:the cloud on WordPress Hacked, Attackers Get Root Access · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Care to point out how "the cloud" is involved in this case? Nowhere in the summary or TFA does it mention that the compromised servers were cloud-based.

  18. Re:Something to watch on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    I did a line count on this file, which includes all the java source file processing tools: javac, javah, javadoc. Since they share a lot of code (the front end is the same), I can't tell the proportionality of the javac code in there.

  19. Re:Something to watch on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I personally don't think it's ambitious at all. Their syntax and grammar only differ slightly from regular Java. Plus the fact that they're targeting the JVM means that they only need to patch javac (and javadoc) to make a new language. Despite how humongous the JDK is, the java compiler itself is relatively lean (only 140KLOC).

  20. The legal system is not your private investigator on Sony's Case Against Geohot Has Been Settled · · Score: 1

    What about all the IP addresses that Sony managed to collect? When will a settlement be reached for that?

  21. Re:It's illegal... on TJX Hacker Claims US Authorized His Crimes · · Score: 1

    Pleas allow me to summarize your argument:

    The Government is authorized to commit illegal acts A,B,C
    Therefore the Government is also authorized to commit illegal acts C,D,F

    I'm pretty sure there is a logical fallacy in there somewhere. Unfortunately I'm not well verse enough on the subject matter to name it.

    There is a huge difference between publicly carrying out the execution of a convicted criminal and secretly attacking your own people with a computer virus.

  22. Re:Open source win on Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed · · Score: 1

    But will these techniques be employed in a product that costs $20 to manufacture and retails for $100? Probably not.

  23. Re:We can get to Mars and back. on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 1

    civilian reactor.

    Off-topic, but does the military even run any reactors anymore?

  24. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never even heard of Greek being taught in high school...

    I heard Greek is mandatory in Greek high schools.

  25. Re:Would they do the same exams again? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, there weren't exactly a whole lot of science back then.

    Do you really believe that?

    I didn't mean to belittle the scientific community back then, but I really do believe that scientific knowledge grows exponentially. It wasn't until the 20th century that things really started to take off.