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  1. What is harrassment? on Fired Reddit Exec Launches Competing Site (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As we've learned from the new Social Justice Warriors movement, many people feel "harassed" just by comments or actions that aren't intended to be harassing... hell, I've probably scared at least three people to their safe place just by this post alone.

  2. Hewlett Packard on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    If it wasn't for Carly Fiorina, HP would have been bigger and better

  3. Re:Go ahead, just TRY a buffer overflow on my VAX on 23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    Those hundreds of thousands of people who know VAX machine code are now retired and watching the weather channel on TV... not attempting to 0wn my server so they can get k4rm4 from their 'leet hacker peeps.

  4. Go ahead, just TRY a buffer overflow on my VAX on 23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm running OpenBSD on my VAX. Go ahead. Try to exploit a buffer overflow on my home VAX cluster. If you can, then you deserve a prize because you've learned VAX machine code.

  5. The good old days on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Remember the good old days when everything was just a single -r-xr-xr-x executable in /bin or /usr/bin

    sigh, the good old days

  6. It's too bad we can't do this with Helium on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 0

    It's HELIUM that we really need. that stuff is going to be pretty scarce in a hundred years.

  7. This is great! on A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative · · Score: 1

    I appreciate this extra security since the Cisco "type 7" encryption was broken earlier this year.

    And as a long-time Usenet reader, I can basically de-crypt ROT13 in my sleep.

  8. Re:asteroinauts? on NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget · · Score: 1

    Is this a real word? asteroinauts? really?

    apparently, yes.

  9. Thanks GoPro, I'll check out the Sony on GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll be definitely looking into the Sony AS15 now. I've never heard about it until now.

  10. Re:It's Obama's fault on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 3, Funny

    The polarization is because of the left wing agenda pushed by Obama. You see it when the poor rise up and congratulate the new pope while simultaneously agreeing to farm subsidies for Monsanto

    We have a winner!

  11. This will be the year!!! on Contiki Turns Ten · · Score: 5, Funny

    2013 will be known as the Year of the Contiki Desktop! mark my words.

  12. Well, I guess I'm switching to OpenBSD then on Linux 3.8 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    OpenBSD still supports '386 processors

  13. Re:So on Iranian Space Official: Photo Shows Wrong Monkey · · Score: -1

    Its a 'scratch monkey'

    In case someone (probably young) doesn't get the reference... here you go:

    http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html

  14. oh great. and I have to support it all? on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lovely... so it'll be like automobiles.
    You'll hear about recalls that affect Windows 2015, 2017, and 2018
    but luckily, I'm still running Windows 2014

    people in 2029 will brag about how they wish they'd bring back "classic Windows 2019, but not that crappy POS Windows 2021 that had the noise problem"

  15. According to Vancouver news: wrong address on Teen Suicide Tormentor Outed By Anonymous · · Score: 5, Informative

    The anonymous dox might have the WRONG address

    http://www.cknw.com/news/vancouver/story.aspx?ID=1791555

    there's the danger

  16. Soylent Green on New Zealand Turning Hobbits Into Actual Cash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Personally, I'd grind my hobbits into a paste and sell it as health food. I'd make millions!

  17. Yes, because only the BIG guys can play the game on Are Patent Wars Worth the Price Tag? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After a few years of these patent wars, all the Googles, Apples, Microsofts, Samsungs, etc have big war chests that they can win some battles and lose some battles. unfortunately, battles will kill the smaller companies and keep the existing big companies in place.
    Status quo all the way baby...it's a new world.

  18. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    I thought Wayne's World was more 1990s than 1980s?

  19. What could possibly go wrong? on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see any risks in this whatsoever, no siree bob, this plan is completely flawless....

    NOT!

  20. Remember WordPerfect? ha! on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember WordPerfect? Hell, I'm still using it. I still have an old Toshiba laptop that runs FreeDos and WordPerfect v5.1

    Now, get off my lawn you whippersnappers while me and Bill Gates reminisce about the old days

  21. Amazon pouring cold water on the Kindle? on Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink · · Score: 1

    Yes... Pouring cold water on the kindle would probably be bad for it. Well... I guess not distilled cold water, but cold water from the Amazon river would definitely kill it. The piranhas would also munch on your fingers.

  22. Re:plasma or plasma on Plasma-Filled Bags Could Replace the Petri Dish · · Score: 1

    Highly unlikely, BUT... It could also be referring to the mother of some guy who is named "Pla"

    Pla's Ma

  23. Re:We don't care what was said at reddit. on Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon · · Score: 0

    Look, this is Slashdot. This is not reddit. We do not care what they have to say. We do not care what some 17-year-old pre-college hipsters think about this topic. If we wanted inane, shit-ridden discussion, we'd be over over at reddit instead. But we're not there, because that's not what we want. So please don't bring such utter crap over here. Thank you, and good night.

    ahhhh.... Rob Malda, a.k.a. CmdrTaco ...so you're STILL lurking around. good for you.

  24. Talked about on reddit yesterday on Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon · · Score: 0
  25. No a river, it's called an Aquifer on Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Geesh.... the term "underground river" evokes an image of a continuous flow of only water perhaps going through a long cave or something... not water travelling through rock, also known as an "Aquifer"