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  1. Re:Dear Mr. TSA: on TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication · · Score: 1

    Some of you have no clue what racism is. Most Nigerian fishing emails I got were written by someone with poor English skills.

  2. Dear Mr. TSA: on TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recent inherited $30 million dollars US that I must hide from local tax collector. If you would kindly allow me to fly for free, I will deposit the sum of $2 million dollars in you account. Pleese allow my assistant to board your flight.

    Thanks you,

    Mujibar Undooku
    Prime Minister of Financial Affairs, Nigeria

  3. Use Sen. Weiner's technique on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Get Through To a Politician By E-mail? · · Score: 0

    Attach a picture of your weiner. You might actually get some sex out of it before she fucks you in Congress.

  4. Re:Greenpeace director splurging on company cc. on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 1

    Power corrupts. Amazing how people at the top of even charitable organizations start with the nonsense. There was a story a few years back about a national sorority chairman who had a $50K statue of herself commissioned.

  5. Re:Greenpeace is not credible on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could've saved yourself a lot of aggregation by just throwing a keg party.

  6. Vegas huh? on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure Penn and Teller know "a guy" who can make this deadbeat...[poof!]...disappear into a hole in the desert.

  7. Re:I wonder about his marriage... on Will Write Code, Won't Sign NDA · · Score: 1

    If he ain't no punk...

  8. The most important lesson in life being taught on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who's right doesn't matter, who has the power does!

  9. Re:And who/what is "Louis CK"? on Paramount Claims Louis CK "Didn't Monetize" · · Score: 1

    Apparently, Dane Cook is infamous for ripping off his jokes. This is a phenomenon I've only become aware of in the last few years. Carlos Mencia and Robin Williams also have bad reps for stealing jokes. It's so bad for those two that comedians would walk off stage if they heard/saw them in the audience.

  10. Re:Why not mass produce probes? on Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Maybe not quite accurate, but I think NASA tried this approach about 10-15 years ago with their "faster, better, cheaper" approach. Just ended up digging a lot of holes with multimillion dollar equipment.

  11. Re:Disabled IMSI search on iPhone Users Sue AT&T For Letting Thieves Re-Activate Their Stolen Devices · · Score: 1

    Yup, you've got to be a total idiot to get one letter in a Slashdot post wrong.

    ...an IMSI and and IMEI.

  12. Really the creepiest? on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 1

    I've always been told it was the "Am I hot?" app I sell to all-girl elementary schools.

  13. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is this modded 5 insightful? This is the mentality of a code monkey buried in a corporate basement somewhere while the world whips past above him. There aren't many industries or careers that exist in a vacuum. Like it or not, lack of outreach is the reason NASA's budget and projects are ripe for plundering in Congress; because a lot of people think of them as expendable until they look up 10 years later and see the Chinese kicking our asses in the space race.

    Hell, even pro athletes are smart enough to know they've got to go out into the communities they live in and do charity work and outreach to build up positive PR for their respective leagues.

    You go on thinking all you need to worry about is that lump of C code sitting in your lap. That's why the damned suits have turned so many IT guys into dissociated lackeys.

  14. Re:Tasty aliens... on Scientists Study Trajectories of Life-Bearing Earth Meteorites · · Score: 1

    But, whoever develops interstellar travel first will no doubt have the technological edge to be the taster and not the tastee. Why was E.T.'s belly so big and were Reese's Pieces a favorite garnish?

  15. The Fifth Element on Data Center Staff Will Sleep Among the Racks For London Olympics · · Score: 1

    Looks like the hibernation chambers on the shuttle.

  16. Needs to be stated again on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What made this case national news is NOT because a light-skinned guy killed a black guy, or that he was 17 years old, or that he was only holding candy. What made this story news is that the local police dropped the investigation like a hot potato (possibly because of Zimmerman's parents job titles), held onto the body without informing the parents when they had ID and his phone (which family and friends called BTW), then announced that there wouldn't be charges based on spurious coverage under their stand-your-ground law.

    All of the false equivalence citations to coverage of other cases where a black guy killed a white guy, how black kids dress, or how Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are "uppity troublemakers" is totally IRRELEVANT!

  17. Re:Sign or Veto on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Because Governor Janus is talking out of both sides of his face.

  18. ZERO sympathy on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Hundreds for text books that sometimes professors don't even assign for your coursework. Plus, I have to lug around these heavy-assed things when an electronic version would be SO much more convenient. Add to that classes like Calculus and Physics that aren't really changing much fundamentally, yet still manage to mandate new textbooks every few years so that you can't even get by w/ used texts.

  19. Re:Most overrated film of the '90s on How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic · · Score: 1

    So, to paraphrase it's overrated because a bunch of guys and girls went to see it and the theme song won a Grammy?

  20. Right wing on fire on F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Virginia Apartment Complex · · Score: 2

    I heard this in an interview from a VERY credible sounding woman on CNN. She must have been some sort of engineer the way she was meticulously recalling details without embellishment or the personal feelings commentary track.

  21. Solar? on Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones · · Score: 1

    Didn't we just see a demonstration of a solar-powered airborne cell tower that loitered for something like 2 weeks? Hope I got the stats right, too lazy to verify my memory.

  22. Re:Doughnut Stars on 150 Gigapixel Sky Image Contains 1 Billion Stars · · Score: 4, Informative

    The sensor is supersaturated due to the star's brightness.

    [If this works, I'm going to become a karma whoring god]

  23. Re:And if we were in the 50s. on US Government: There's Child Porn On the Megaupload Servers Judge! · · Score: 1

    Witches???? Where???? The obvious solution is to throw all the servers in a lake and see if they float.

  24. Hint: You need some salt in your game on FTC Fines RockYou $250,000 For Storing User Data In Plain Text · · Score: 2

    Normal hashing is NOT enough to secure user passwords since anyone getting access will simply compare password fields to common hash values; e.g. MD5("12345"). Add another column to your password table containing a randomly generated string (the salt and it doesn't have to be that long). Then append or prepend that value to the user's password, hash, and store that hash value in the back end. Of course, you need to repeat the process to perform password validation and you will permanently "lose" the password, but your passwords are secure.

    There are other algorithms you can pile on to obfuscate data as you see fit.

  25. Use avsforum.com for the home theater stuff on Ask Slashdot: Shortcuts To a High Tech House · · Score: 1

    It's an earnest discussion forum of owners and experts where noobs can post questions about differ components and recommendations. I built my home theater off of advice from there about 5 years ago and ended up with a nice setup.