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  1. As Scotty once said... on Feds' Radios Have Significant Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    "the more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

  2. Ok, well I'm doing one better... on DHS Creating Database of Secret Watchlists · · Score: 1

    I'm creating a watchlist of databases of watchlists!
    Take That DHS!

  3. Re:The best invisible ink comes from your body on The History of Invisible Ink · · Score: 1

    You missed the part where it was all an elaborate scheme to get you to suck up several-day-old urine in a straw.

    BINGO! You win.

    I, however, fail, because I meant to submit it as Anonymous Coward... oh well....

  4. Re:The best invisible ink comes from your body on The History of Invisible Ink · · Score: 1

    and finally.... to develop it... and remember, this only works on April 1st... is to use a concentrated Plutonium solution wiped over the surface with an organic cloth like cotton or rabbit skin

  5. The best invisible ink comes from your body on The History of Invisible Ink · · Score: 0

    An old Roman version of invisible ink can be made in your own home. You need to collect your urine for several days and keep it uncovered in the sun so that it becomes more concentrated. keep it inside, like on your kitchen counter so it doesn't become contaminated with windblow stuff. after several days, it will become a dark amber color... this is what you want... for each gallon of urine, add two teaspoons of vinegar, one teaspoon of green food coloring (we're using a oxidized copper ion here), and finally, a half-cup of corn starch... mix it all together with your hands and dip a straw into it and suck it up into the straw....then start writing with it.
    when it dries you won't be able to see it.
    my subsequent post will tell you how to "develop" it so your friends CAN see it.

  6. Re:Multiarch FTW!! on Debian Wheezy To Have Multi-Architecture Support · · Score: 1

    So you can run STABLE on both a TOPS-20 *AND* an 80286!!! :D

    I would so mod you up if I had mod points!

  7. I remember the big jump from DOS 1.0 to 2.0 on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 2

    I remember the big jump from DOS 1.0 to 2.0... They added subdirectories (folders)! what a concept.

    I still occasionally boot up machines with MSDOS v6.22 ... in order to run my copy of WordPerfect v5.1 :-)

  8. Re:really scraping the bottom of the barrel on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    ha ha. You're not a nerd. ha ha!

    shut up Nelson

  9. Well of course! Just like Firefox on Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39 · · Score: 0

    Linux 3 will be much faster than Linux 2. Firefox 5 will be much much MUCH faster than Firefox 4. Windows 7 will be much much faster than... uh... oh... nevermind.

  10. Alternate browsers available on NY Post Goes App-Only For iPad Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    even within the "walled garden", there are other browsers available which will let you spoof the user-agent string.
    I use the "Atomic" web browser on my iPad and iPod Touch

  11. How many frikkin jokes will we get? on Biological Lasers · · Score: 1

    How many sharks with frikkin laser jokes will we get on this story?
    I think it has jumped the shark

  12. Re:I know every single one of my friends on Dozens of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot · · Score: 1

    I know every single one of my friends... but most of my account privacy settings allow "friends of friends" to see my stuff and comment on it.

    I'm just plain careful what I post on Facebook that's all... most of my stuff is throwaway weird random stuff

    Go ahead.... friend me "Thomas Dzubin"

    and when I say "friend me", I mean... hot girl bots... "friend me"
    not random Slashdot nerds. sigh... I already know enough of them.

  13. I know every single one of my friends on Dozens of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot · · Score: 1

    I know every single one of my friends... but most of my account privacy settings allow "friends of friends" to see my stuff and comment on it.

    I'm just plain careful what I post on Facebook that's all... most of my stuff is throwaway weird random stuff

    Go ahead.... friend me "Thomas Dzubin"

  14. Can I avoid Senators with an app? on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    Is there some app that will allow me to avoid politicians?

  15. Re:Hunt the Wumpus on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but only on a slow serial vt100 terminal connected to an HP2000 running BASIC

  16. Ahhhh... so Slashdot is hosted in Syria on Syria Reportedly Back On the Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    That explains all the:

    Error 503 Service Unavailable
    Service Unavailable
    Guru Meditation:
    XID: 258631157
    Varnish cache server
    over the past couple of days.

    This explains everything!

  17. Finally! A way to distract the zombies! on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    I no longer fear the zombie apocalypse. I just need a few "brains in a can" that I can open the pop-top and throw at the zombies whilst I make my getaway! yay science!

  18. Re:Streisand Effect on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    Barbara Streisand personally messaged me this link: http://www.yelp.com/biz/ken-cirka-dmd-philadelphia-2
    It's the Yelp review of some philadelphia doctor named Ken Cirka... people should check it out

  19. call me overly paranoid, but... on Spammers Establish Fake URL-Shortening Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've never trusted ANY of the URL shortening services. in this age of cut-and-paste, for the most part (except for twitter) *I* really don't see the need for them. (note, I said "*I* don't see any need for them...it's an opinion...don't flame me for an opinion)
    I've been goatse.cx-ed on Slashdot too many times, I guess! :-)
    when I see a short URL (even those short valid ones from Reddit's imgur.com), red flags go off in my brain. (yeah that hurts)

  20. Re:It better detect CTRL-V on Verifying Passwords By the Way They're Typed · · Score: 1

    yeah, you're right... better go back to a text file with all passwords in it. because security is binary...all in or all out
    you have a lot to learn, bub

  21. Re:It better detect CTRL-V on Verifying Passwords By the Way They're Typed · · Score: 1

    linuxgeek64 asks:

    Why would anyone enter a password with copy and paste?
    1) Just typing the password is far easier
    2) If you'd have to copy and paste it, you'd have to have it in a text file
    3) Storing that text file unencrypted would be incredibly stupid
    4) What's the point of encrypting it when you'd have to enter a password to get to it?

    There are these things called "Password Safes" which can hold many many MANY passwords... long passwords... secure passwords... passwords to servers or routers that I log into once a year... Password safes keeps the contents encrypted and many work via copy-and-paste... you double-click on the server name, the password safe puts the password in your clipboard and then you move focus to your SSH session to your router...hit control-V and log in

  22. Needs better support for really old tech. on GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until it supports booting from paper tape or punch card, I'm not going to trust it 100%

  23. I think it was Digg taking down Reddit on Amazon Denies Skynet's Involvement In AWS Outage · · Score: 1

    As a Reddit-reader, I'm sure it was caused by a secret tiger team from Digg. :-)

  24. Re:Slashdot's Microsoft Icon on Internet Explorer 10 Drops Vista Support · · Score: 1

    Your right. How about an angry gorilla?

    The problem is, that many people don't have the instant Steve Ballmer face recognition that they had with Bill Gates

  25. Re:That's normal on Comcast's 105MBit Service Comes With Data Cap · · Score: 1

    250 gigs of data is their normal cap across the board.

    Just like "corrupt government".... it's normal. don't complain. accept.