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  1. Re:Flood the market on Software Patents Good For Open Source? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quick patent every silly software idea you have so the big corps cant!

    How's that supposed to happen when most is clone of software that already exists?

    FTFY.

  2. Re:What's wrong with tiered? on Comcast To Remove Data Cap, Implement Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    gah, that would be $440 (not a good week for math).

  3. Re:so? on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits · · Score: 1

    I've honestly never heard of that, do you have a link of some kind I could use to research this further?

  4. Re:What's wrong with tiered? on Comcast To Remove Data Cap, Implement Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    Yep, you're right. I still call high-way robery when their plan is *literally* "200GB = $40, 400GB = $400"

  5. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 2

    Forget the door, it's easy to see if someone is looking through the door. What *really* amazes me is how many office buildings have completly glass walls and computer monitors in each office FACING THE OUTSIDE (or even at a 90 degree angle). Any teenager within 10 blocks with a telescope could nab hundreds of passwords (and god knows what else) in a single day.

  6. Re:What's wrong with tiered? on Comcast To Remove Data Cap, Implement Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    We already have this in Canada. Shaw has a 200GB limit with $2/GB (that's 100X Comcast's overage) after that.

  7. Re:so? on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits · · Score: 1

    Just hit the first one in the lense with a paintball gun (or slingshot for the hardcore guys), then take a 10-pack of AA's in series and hook that to the ethernet port connected to the back, that ought to take care of the rest of them (or at the VERY least the switch they all connect to.

  8. Re:long distance deleting on RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD · · Score: 1

    Just put your encryption keys on an IronKey drive and call it a day. Why destroy a perfectly good SSD when you can just render the contents unreadable?

  9. Re:Perfect for Children's Toys on RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD · · Score: 2

    Mine will sing "Daisy Bell" and a logarithmically slower pace.

  10. Re:Anyone know which subways they compared? on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 1

    Well it sure as hell doesn't describe Vancouver's skytrain even the slightest! (not counting bus routes)

  11. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess that rules it out seeing as Java doesn't have any code conventions that developers are expected to adhear to or an easy to use tool to check for them.

  12. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Why use an elif after raising an exception? Just use if!

  13. Re:Junk food is the problem on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    I also know a guy who *litterally* almost died because of the crap that guy was telling people to eat (yes, the cause was confirmed by his doctor!).

  14. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want to get all technical and shit, everything we accept as "known" is little more that useful models that fit the evidence. That's why we still call it the theory of gravity even though 99.999% of the population has never even considered questioning it.

  15. Re:Is that really bad? on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    If any of these politicians manage to convince the public that they can do their part to fight this "enemy" by updating their software and anti-virus definitions, I'll call it a success.

  16. Re:But on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 1

    So where were all our voters when the Electoral Reform vote was done? http://www.fairvote.ca/

  17. Re:Ohh JOY on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    At this rate I can soon be totally free of rights, which means I should be absolutely safe the same way that people in the countries the US are "liberating" are perfectly safe.

    FTFY

  18. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And the minute they have even a shred of physical evidence, we'll reconsider the matter. Until then, it can be kept in the phylosophy and debate classes along with all the other religions that catholics seem to think don't deserve to be taught in schools and we'll keep science class limited to things science related..

  19. TABLE! on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you've already stated that you are tired of holding the laptop next to the crib for 40 minutes. Did you know they recently invented this REALLY cool and very easy to use device for holding laptops for indeterminate amounts of time? They call it a fucking TABLE. Just stick one a couple feet outside the crib and put the blooding thing on top of it! The only problem is trying to make sure the kid doesn't climb out of the crib and destroy it, if only there were some kind of audio/visual monitoring device built into the laptop.....

    To all the people suggesting plexi-glass windowed super-duty wooden boxes made of Ikea tables, here's a hint. Just use one of the freaking tables!

  20. Re:Awesome! on Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret · · Score: 1

    He left out the part where all the troups are being outfitted with paintball guns loaded with full of pink paint. This not only improves their stealth capabilities, but also reduces the weight they must carry.

  21. Nuclear on UK In Danger From Electromagnetic Bomb, Says Defense Secretary · · Score: 1

    Electromagnetic Pulse devices mimic the result of ... a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, creating a storm of electromagnetic radiation, which can break mobile networks and satellite systems.

    Does carl's junior sell nuclear devices now? I swear, politicians must get a bonus every time they find a way to sneak that into a speech.

  22. Re:Non nuclear on UK In Danger From Electromagnetic Bomb, Says Defense Secretary · · Score: 1

    explosively pumped flux capacitor^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hompressor. DAMNIT, so close!

  23. Re:It's a shame this couldn't be mutually resolved on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    *Nobody* in this ENTIRE conversation said that GPS was better than the other tools in all circumstances. It was YOU that said that they don't use it at all. The others are not trying to say that the other tools have been replaced by GPS (as you did in your initial post), but that GPS is still used in CONJUNCTION with other tools.

  24. Re:It's a shame this couldn't be mutually resolved on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Or even easier, monitor the Odometer!

  25. Re:helpful suggestion on Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? · · Score: 1

    Who would pay $300 for a 5 year old phone with a non-replaceable battery that will probably last 2 hours on standby?!?