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  1. Re:Really, so explain this: on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    Considering that I've seen MSE max out the processor for minutes at a time on several different machines, I'm not sure I'd dismiss this report simply because it's from Symantec.

  2. Re:Here we go again...... on Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  3. Re:Innovation on What's Next For Smartphone Innovation · · Score: 1

    A digital watch! Wow! That's a pretty neat idea! ...
    Hey, anybody know where my dolphin went?

  4. Re: Innovation on What's Next For Smartphone Innovation · · Score: 1

    Except the iPhone.
    It runs on unicorn shit and fairy farts.

  5. Re: Innovation on What's Next For Smartphone Innovation · · Score: 1

    Is there a reason to have an accelerometer in a phone? Probably not, until some genius figures out he can write a program to figure out 0 to 60 performance of your car by using it.

  6. Re: How would you feel about it? on Eric Schmidt: Regulate Civilian Drones Now · · Score: 1

    Electric fences don't work like that. There isn't a voltage on the line continuously. It's usually only a momentary jolt about a second or so between each one, so you'd easily be able to let go.

  7. Re:Station security today? on Hackers Could Abuse Electric Car Chargers To Cripple the Grid, Researchers Say · · Score: 0

    A match at a current gas station will shut down the gas station and a small evacuation area around it.
      Doing this at an EV station, would take out all the houses and businesses in a massive area around it including possibly the hospital several blocks away..etc.etc.
    Maybe even an entire city, and all the EV stations therein.
    See the problem now?

  8. Re:Misleading Title on Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware · · Score: 1

    Dude, your math sucks.
    You're over one million. He's 39 thousand.
    Sure you weren't looking at his comment number?

  9. Re:Wow..... on Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker · · Score: 2

    Forget the article. My question is, how do the Russians and Chinese as well as the Iranians all manage to fit on my computer? I mean, heck, there's hardly enough room for me to stand on the thing myself!

  10. Re:cheap bastards on Vudu Resets User Passwords After Burglary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe they had a night watchman, and he's the guy that stole the drives.

  11. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Hey, look! An AC who knows jack about enterprise IT, but feels the need to spout an uninformed opinion nonetheless. I don't think I've *ever* seen that happen before!
    Chances are, a good portion of those machines have Windows 7 licence stickers on them, but were imaged with the standard XP image that was used company - or at least department - wide when they were purchased.

  12. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 was RTM in July 2009. That's less than 4 years.

  13. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Weird.
    My circa 1996 Pentium classic 120MHz NT4 box is still running fine. It's usually running 24/7, too.

    Maybe you just buy crap PC hardware for your wife...

  14. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The start menu I'll give you, but it doesn't bother me, as I like the new style better for LOTS of items,which I tend to have. I've had screen overfill issues on older versions, so you can't even see the entire menu. 7 eliminates that.
    The control panel, OTOH, I've got set up as icons on mine, and I didn't need third party software to do it.
    Upper right of the control panel is a "View by" dropdown.. Select small icons in that.

  15. Re:Concerted lawsuits against linux? Who's behind on Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's what the GP meant.
    I think they meant there are people/groups that peruse the source of open source software, find good ideas in it, patent them, and then sue based on those patents.

  16. Re:A laser to the brain on Firing a Laser Into Your Brain Could Help Beat a Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    While I don't have fewer digits than you, I do have a hell of a lot smaller number.
    I think the GP is right, although I haven't done a real study, either. Then there used to be reasoned scientific debates and discussions in just just about every story. Sure, there were troll posts, oft repeated memes about Natalie Portman and hot grits, but now we just get goatse, MyCleanPC spam, and stupid, rambling shit by apk that goes on for pages of unintelligible, psychotic nonsense.

  17. Re:Just Let It Die on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Just Let It Die

    How? It's already dead.

  18. Re:Version 20? on Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager · · Score: 2

    I can't drive 55. I can't run 55 either, but that's an entirely different issue...

  19. Re:Version 20? on Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager · · Score: 1

    Uhhh...what? What do you mean? I'm confused...

  20. Re:Except that Dalvik is NOT A COMPILER on Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights · · Score: 1

    I've built java apps without either. Not sure exactly why you're having trouble with it....

  21. Re:So? on Apple Loses the iPad Mini Trademark · · Score: 1

    How ever one loses something that they never had in the first place is beyond me, but Apple accompished it.

    This is all handled by **AA math, where 1 download=1 lost sale.

    That doesn't make it any less BS, but it's a well established technique in PR....

  22. Re:500GB in the article summary is a typo on T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies · · Score: 1

    You and I, no, but I wouldn't be surprised if some telecom carriers actually tried to sell something like that as an "upgrade."

  23. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    The US has approximately 6 times the population of England.
    1704 knife deaths for 313,914,040 people is 1 death per 184,222 people.
    332 knife deaths for 53,013,000 people is 1 death per 159,678 people.

    Assuming your total knife death figures are accurate, as I haven't looked them up, England's knife death rate is actually over 15% *higher* than the US, not, as you say, "staggeringly less."

  24. Re:And why do you think that is on Ask Slashdot: Getting Apps To Use Phones' Full Power? · · Score: 1

    Thank you.
    At least *somebody* realizes that. With all the other posts about "defaulting to a low power state" and crap like that, I was beginning to think that technological progress would have to stop, because nobody understands a simple formula like I=V/R anymore....

  25. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    The reaction to someone saying that we should do more thorough background/psychological checks on NASCAR drivers, however, would probably be accepted. Similar calls to shore up loopholes in background check laws for guns (like at gun shows) have been met with cries of oppression.

    That's because the constitution doesn't say "A well-regulated race series, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to drive in NASCAR shall not be infringed."