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  1. Re:Being entertaining is not a requirement. on Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring? · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a warning. Look at how you'll end up if you become a Microsoft certified Developer.

  2. Re:Can they stop them all? on Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl · · Score: 1

    Ok, I might have exaggerated this one a wee little bit. But surely It might as well be correct since the politicians that run the EU are too feeble to call them out on their practices and come over all polite. Last time I heard an EU rep talk about Turkey's accession he was extolling the progress they had made towards politic stability... Really?

  3. Re:Not for the accountless. Requires Google+. Lame on Google Introduces Programming Challenge In Advance Of GoogleIO · · Score: 1

    That stupid thing wants me to create a Google+ account in order to let me play.... Also the idiotic music is the worst thing in the Internet since Pioneer's java appleted page in 1999...

  4. Re:because-ness and the Ascent of Man on Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award · · Score: 1

    Those images even blown up are barely readable.

  5. Re:He's also the father of Daniel Pearl on Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award · · Score: 1

    Well, who could possibly blame him... Holly damp cloth, that link really woke me up a but to roughly.

  6. Re:All I can say is on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 2

    I read something totally different into the title actually.
    "The TSA is wildly out of budget and needs some thinly veiled excuse to make ends meet again so they will allow people to buy their way out of the checking process allowing them, by the excuse of reduced checking volumes, to reduce employees tactically making expense cuts and making the checking process even more unbearable for all the people who don't pay up or pay up and are declined."

    So yes, it I s discrimination. With a bit of imaginataion you could also call it "banning certain nationalities from entering the country". But hey it is so great to live in liberal times right?

  7. Re:Can they stop them all? on Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl · · Score: 1

    Still Turkey is on full speed to become the latest full member of the EU...
    Just to say that Democracy and liberal rights don't seem to count that much
    in the halls that once instituted modern democracy.

  8. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    IIRC the resulting message was quite apt though. "Hell"

  9. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    You may call it telepathy

    Or the Darryl Revok

  10. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    OMG, I can see neutrino politics arising as the new hot international dispute thing aka:
    the "Keep_your_filthy_neutrinos_out_of_our_country's_geodetic_substrates!" Event.

  11. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    You are an AC, that's what you are. But anyway:

    it should be only about a couple of decades before you can walk around with a pocketable, battery powered neutrino I/O device

    So yes it is a wild guess.

  12. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 2

    Scope, my friend. Scope.

    You don't need to change infra, you just implement endpoints. Cable networks need (yes they do) cables. Wireless comms don't. No one suggested ripping out the existing implementation; I'm just saying that - since it can become efficient - in the future high bandwidth connections could be done by neutrinos connecting remote places through the earth instead of around it.

  13. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    I think you just got served :-)

  14. Re:Good can exist without evil on Internet Crime Focus of Black Hat Europe · · Score: 1

    No, what it does is generate two (or more) groups of ethics, one group is concerned about the effects of said danger and one that isn't. That first group spawns sub groups that can eventually be labeled good and bad.

  15. Re:Its worse than that, hes a bot, Jim... on 51% of Internet Traffic Is "Non-Human" · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to randomize intervals on a bell curve depending on content size and the bot's likes (tag mesh you designate and is compared to each page's dictionary). With some fairly basic data mining you can find bots if their jumps are regular and, if you really want to (or if you have been employed to find out) which of the human clients is an executable, you can always build your own uberbots and train ML algos to match them (and in turn the malicious visitors). Tried it once, it can get complicated, especially with traffic networks that change IPs aka bots or networks of them that reset their connection on dynamic IP.

  16. Re:ASTROTURF on Minefold Launches Minecraft Game Hosting Service · · Score: 1

    Java. need more details?

    On a more serious note though, Minceraft (at least the beta's I was playing and I think the server sw was in alpha) were recource hogs. If you had more than 10 active users and a lot of activity you could easily fill 2GB if not more..

    And that is only the server RAM, not OS not JVM.

  17. Re:NOT ASTROTURF on Minefold Launches Minecraft Game Hosting Service · · Score: 1

    But platform agnostic. And that is important.

  18. Re:And vandals too on Internet Crime Focus of Black Hat Europe · · Score: 1

    Ponzi is that you old fella?

  19. Re:Politicians would suffice on Internet Crime Focus of Black Hat Europe · · Score: 1

    Nah, black hats are much better for that. white hats and grey hats are cataloged and very silencable.
    Black hat cataloging exists too but isn't as efficient.

    And for those who consider replying with "But but black hats are motivated by personal gain": So are
    You. At least they can make a point.

  20. Re:Good can exist without evil on Internet Crime Focus of Black Hat Europe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The (inherent) bad guy in this situation is the danger of the street.
    If there is no danger there is no definition for good.

    Same goes for limitations, ignorance etc. You can't have it all so
    in some respect you always are bad and good. It's like Schrödinger's
    feline example with you being the poison.

  21. Re:NOT ASTROTURF on Minefold Launches Minecraft Game Hosting Service · · Score: 2

    Confrontation just makes it worse. Ignore them and they will go away.

    The model is something that should have arrived a long time ago actually. I can see this becoming quite popular for one only reason: it's a modest subscription for the ability to play many multiplayer games (all games they support and you have off course). It is convenience and service in a cheap(ish) packet.

  22. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't know about neutrino generation but the receiving end has its own limitations
    the article talks about submarines and satellites, with the mass of current high efficiency neutrino detectors I'd say more like underwater city and moon colony. Also everything near or outside the atmosphere would have to deal with a hell of a lot noise...
    Still, underground comms. Why not? It sure can become much more efficient than the idiotic cables that build the Internet today. Also judging from technology's progress it should be only about a couple of decades before you can walk around with a pocketable, battery powered neutrino I/O device. then were talking.

  23. Re:again? on German Law To Make Google Pay For Snippets · · Score: 1

    No, but I think it is a trend, right now, for govs to try and wreck the Internet.

  24. Re:Sigh... on TVShack Creator's US Extradition Approved · · Score: 1

    LMAO, that video is a scaled up 240p. Those idiot Youtube youngsters just won't stop at any lie...

  25. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AFAIK all the legal stuff broke out once JRR passed away. Pretty much much the classic story of heirs becoming idiots.