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  1. Re:Everyone leaves their homes on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    Criminals will still just sit out in front of your house and wait for the cars the leave.

    They might get arrested (or at least harrassed) for loitering if they physically stake out a house. Using non-physical stalking methods is much safer.

  2. Re:"How long until the first actual robbery" on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was due to the snow storm?

    Just looking at 2 years worth of data is far from significant. We need to at least look at the robberies committed per capita for the past 10 years.

  3. Re:Oh - of course its not on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 1

    You must have a lot of hair...

  4. Re:Well in that case on Mozilla Debates Whether To Trust Chinese CA · · Score: 1

    This article is about wiretapping. I'm not sure why you would bring up murder.

  5. Re:I'm pretty sure on Google, Apple Call Workers' Race & Gender Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    No. In Soviet Russia, Sergey Brin gives birth to YOU!

    You just described every google fanboy's wet-dream.

  6. Re:What plant design? on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1

    Russian VVER1000 reactors (1000MW)

    Are these predecessors or successors to the Chernobyl reactor design?

  7. Re:Already there on FCC Proposes 100Mbps Minimum Home Broadband Speed · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, such companies even go so far as to try to trick people into believing that they are getting fiber to the premises. Really low.

    A Canadian ISP recently re-branded their DSL lines as "Fibe".

    It's not a scam if a corporation with lobbying powers is doing it.

  8. Re:fuckfuck on Extreme Close-Up of Mars's Moon Phobos · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  9. Re:Expelled on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    Stealing is a criminal offense.

    Plagiarizing is an academic offense.

    As long as you can prove that you work was stolen, you can immediately file a police report. Then use the police report and the evidence to clear your name. The thief will have both his criminal record and academic record updated accordingly.

  10. Re:Expelled on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, the punishment for cheating at most universities is expulsion. The offense will be kept on permanent records so that you'll never be admitted to another university in the country again.

  11. Re:On The Other Hand on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't catch the subtle hint from the TA, did ya?

  12. Re:who cares about that, on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    All the engineers stopped working on the flying car and went to program the ultimate AI instead.

    They reasoned that the AI can design the flying car in 2 clock cycles.

  13. Let the witchhunt begin! on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    What's stopping people from filling out the form on behalf of their most hated organization? It only costs $5 + postage.

    Ballmer's signature is just one google image search away thanks to "Windows 7 RTM Ultimate Steve Ballmer Signature Edition".

  14. Re:frist on Iran Suspends Google's Email Service · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Great Prophet Muhammad explicitly forbade trolling.

    Wrong. Muhammad was one of the first trolls in the history of humanity. Being a delusional child rapist who pulled a new "religion" out of his ass, only L. Ron Hubbard was able to out-troll Muhammad.

    Which nicely explains why he explicitly forbade everyone else from trolling.

  15. Re:frist on Iran Suspends Google's Email Service · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're were in Iran you would have been stoned to death already.

    I'm pretty sure the Great Prophet Muhammad explicitly forbade trolling.

  16. Re:That'll teach 'em. on Hackers Attack AU Websites To Protest Censorship · · Score: 1

    I am not one for censorship but limiting child porn, rape, bestiality from being easily accessible is a good move.

    You're contradicting yourself here. "limiting X from being easily accessible" is synonymous to "censorship of X".

  17. Re:Yes. on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Also, Porn.

    I believe you're mistaken, sir. Google is the porn central terminal of the internet. 89% of all traffic to porn sites are referred by Google.

  18. Re:Yes. on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the high packet loss rate. They should have chosen something less delicious for the transport layer.

  19. Re:Wrong on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    Since blackberry devices were never blocked, I suspect they successfully loaded /b/, saw some guro, and panicked. Then they fed you the shortest excuse possible to make you hang up.

  20. Re:rebellion? on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    Needless to say, he wishes he had never even found 4chan.

    There are two types of criminals in prison:
    those who regret committing the crime,
    and those who regret getting caught.

  21. Re:I feel split in this matter on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'm a little confused since English is not my native language.

    By "both", are you suggesting that Verizon and 4chan should share a Nobel Prize or that they each get a Nobel Prize?

  22. Re:Lets see the contract on Google and NSA Teaming Up · · Score: 1

    I bet NSA doesn't get paid with money (they can just sudo into Department of the Treasury's computer and print a few tons of Benjamins).

    I bet their hourly rate is 666 LoC worth of emails.

  23. Re:IDK... on Google and NSA Teaming Up · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe the NSA really has better computer experts than Google..

    I don't have enough evidence to counter your assertion due to the shroud of top secret surrounding NSA. But I'd still like to point out two non-classified facts:

    1. NSA is the biggest employer of Mathematic PHDs in North America.

    2. In 1991, the "discovery" of differential cryptanalysis was publicly announced. But then people soon realized that the concept was already guarded against in IBM's DES cipher published back in 1976.

    In 1994, IBM publicly admits that it knew about differential cryptanalysis in as early as 1974, and that NSA was already well aware of the attack back then.

    In other words, NSA was at least 17 years ahead of academia (and thus the general public) in terms of cryptographic techniques. In hindsight this was no great surpise due to fact #1 above - for every researcher in academia, there's two more in NSA. The NSA knows everything the academia knows, but no one else has access to NSA's discoveries.

  24. Re:Conversation between Google and NSA on Google and NSA Teaming Up · · Score: 1

    I wholeheartedly concur. All these NSA backdoor conspiracy theories are nonsense.

    I mean, why does the NSA need a backdoor when the front door doesn't even have a lock on it?

  25. Re:It should have been patented! on Univ. Help Desk Staffer Extorts Over Copyright Violations · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is why we need business method patents!

    The Mafia would have prior art claims over the RIAA and MPAA.

    I thought "Mafia" was just Italian for RIAA?