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  1. Re:The feds promoting 'hacking'? on US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking · · Score: 1

    More like "stained by idiots who call themselves hackers jacking up other people's systems." The media didn't do it. It's every who gets busted doing stupid s**t with a script they downloaded because they think they're going to get into Jolie's pants.

  2. Re:Am I reading that correctly? on Google Report Shows Governments Want More Private Data · · Score: 1

    This is more like the same girl going on almost 2X as many dates and only giving head to 50% as opposed to 75% of them, then saying she's become a more discriminating lover.

  3. Privacy not a concern for citizens on Google Report Shows Governments Want More Private Data · · Score: 2

    I'm not talking about the lip service. I'm talking about what people actually do. I have a placeholder facebook page (not an active user) and I regularly get spammed with activity updates from "friends." People seem to have no hesitation about what they post. And, I don't just mean kids. Until people show they care, it'll just get worse.

  4. Am I reading that correctly? on Google Report Shows Governments Want More Private Data · · Score: 0

    Requests are up 70%, but compliance is down to 66 percent which still means (napkin math) that Google is servicing 10% MORE requests in total.

  5. Steve Jobs bucking the trend again on Steve Jobs Threatened Palm To Stop Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    Other dead people become more reverential in death. SJ is becoming more and more evil. A few more years of this and I fear a singularity might rip open.

  6. Re:No one really gets it on Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes · · Score: 1

    What I'm saying is, if they register as a regular individual streaming content and find the latest Hollywood release, that still makes them culpable.

  7. Re:Security problems? surely you jest! on Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's content-lifting culture at it again. Always trying to rationalize what they do while simultaneously crying about the job market because people won't pay them good money for their efforts.

  8. Re:No one really gets it on Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes · · Score: 1

    What if they just get someone to share content with them and find out it's a DVD of the latest Hollywood flick?

  9. Preserve Prince's head Futurama-style on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    I don't want to have to listen to the bubblegum pop autotuned remake of 1999.

  10. Hack? Why do you keep using that word? on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    I do not think it means what you think it means (at least by the standards of this community).

  11. Re:This article is bullshit! on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft has being playing this insane whack-a-mole strategy of jumping into any industry they see a potential new tech giant emerging. I wouldn't consider it a terrible strategy except for the way they make it so obvious that all they want to do is contest every layup; and when they've vanquished an opponent they all but quit (see how Window Mobile imploded).

    Of course, that strategy only works so long as you're so flush with cash you can throw billions at all kinds of ventures and not need to worry about the outcome.

  12. Just like the old 80s RPG "Rifts" on Kaspersky Says Cyber Weapons "Cleaner" Than Traditional Weapons But "Much Worse" · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Part of the fall of modern society was caused by so much anti-satellite retrograde shrapnel, that it was impossible to enter space or maintain satellites in space. Might be a silly analogy, but that's always stuck in my head as what's to terrible about space weapons. All it takes is a BB going to wrong way to take out a billion dollar satellite.

  13. Re:What about Lenna? on NASA Achieves Laser Communication With Lunar Satellite · · Score: 1

    I imagine that an environment that isn't all-male wouldn't be so pleased with the idea of "tradition."

  14. I'll believe it when I see it on Australian Scientists Discover Potential Aids Cure · · Score: 1

    I've been hearing about groundbreaking AIDS cures for at least 20 years. Sometimes, they're bold enough to tell us the production cure is a mere 5 years down the road. Meanwhile the researchers get flooded with investment dollars and we slowly forget about the claims. Same thing with cancer cures.

  15. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    You know how I know it doesn't? I'm on it.

  16. Re:The phone books of the past.... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    Oh really? That must explain the 5-10 robocalls I get every day.

  17. Re:Anyone hungry? on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    The problem with food-for-fuel is that it's just not efficient. On top of the damage that ethanol does to vehicles...

  18. It's a practical development on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 2

    I'd rather them raise the cap and actually look at petitions than leave it low and just give lip service to them.

  19. Re:a friendlier game than scrabble... on Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System · · Score: 1

    My parents play scrabble a lot and here's their house rule. You can challenge a word, but if you're wrong, you lose a turn. If you're right, the other player has to withdraw the word and loses his turn. They usually have a challenge dictionary they bust out for the game.

  20. This can't be true on Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, just last week Boeing told us the safety concerns were a non-issue!

  21. Why China sucks on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 2

    * It's communist
    * Rampant pollution
    * The kleptocracy that festers when communism fuses with capitalism
    * One-child policy plus a society that devalues women means women are shrinking as a percentage of the population; translation, China is a sausage fest.

    But, it's a capitalist's eutopia!

  22. Re:What about the headlights? on Students Calculate What Hyperspace Travel Would Actually Look Like · · Score: 1

    From UHF, paraphrasing, if you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights, does your head explode? Cosmo Kramer in a very similar role, BTW.

  23. Re:Forensics: doing it wrong on AMD Files Suit Against Former Employees For Alleged Document Theft · · Score: 1

    That means, "clean off your desk and don't delete shit."

  24. Re:Silicon Prairie on Google Fiber Draws Startups To Kansas City · · Score: 2

    I hope not in Topeka, it's a real shithole. Everything that's bad about living in a small rural town and everything that's bad about living in a big city.

  25. Any announcement of policy changes in Oracle? on Oracle Ships Java 7 Update 11 With Vulnerability Fixes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Their rep and that of Java took a huge punch in the gut. I'm a long time Java developer and I'm fuming at the way Oracle has handled this. When non-techies are associating Java with hacking, this is terrible news for the language and platform. It won't be long before the pointed-headed bosses start calling down to their IT shops making sure "we got all the java out of the computers."