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  1. Re:Great...now just one more issue.... on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    In amount of actual deaths per amount of effort, I suspect bombing a plane is still the most efficient.

    This depends on how you do it.

  2. Re:why have you been hired... on Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company? · · Score: 1

    ... if you need to ask slashdot how you should do your job... ???

    Oh, you know how these things can go. Relevant bit 1:20 minutes in.

  3. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    It's theft of labor. It's a milder form of slavery. I work; you take.

    I take it you don't work for an employer then?

  4. Re:Who cares? on Woz Says Android Will Dominate · · Score: 1

    We're consumers! We vote with our wallets!

    Customers vote with their wallets, consumers just generate revenue for vendors. Vendors decide, consumers follow.

  5. Re:will a future version of this work.... on New Imaging Method Reveals Brain Connections · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?

  6. Re:time to switch to debian or ubuntu on Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool · · Score: 1
    There's no sqlninja in Ubuntu, but there's sqlmap:

    Description: automatic SQL injection tool sqlmap goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities in web applications. Once it detects one or more SQL injections on the target host, the user can choose among a variety of options to perform an extensive back-end database management system fingerprint, retrieve DBMS session user and database, enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, databases, dump entire or user's specific DBMS tables/columns, run his own SQL statement, read specific files on the file system and more.

  7. An introduction into bomb threats on UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' · · Score: 1

    This is a bomb threat:
    "This is $ORGANISATION. We have placed a bomb at $LOCATION. It is set to go off at $TIME unless you fulfill $DEMAND." Typically called in to a news paper or the police.

    This is not a bomb threat:
    "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!" on Twitter.

    One would think that a country that has decades of experience in these matters would know the difference. The behavior of the folks at Robin Hood and the police would suggest this, too.

  8. Re:DUDE! on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 1

    $ make it so
    make: *** No rule to make target `it'. Stop.

    Sorry, you'll have to wait a bit.

  9. Re:dependency hell is not inevitable on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    Then again, that was around 2000. In computer years, that's the late middle ages.

  10. Re:Party like it's NOT proprietary bloatware on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    Would "anyone" be including my grandmother? If you knew my grandmother, you would know that a citation is needed here.

    Sure. Just give her a note that tells her to type "./configure && make && make install". And if that doesn't work, she can always call you. Just like she does when she doesn't know how to install another program.

  11. Re:go? really? on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 1

    Unladen Swallow, [...]

    That depends. Is it going to be an African or a European swallow?

  12. Re:It's the Larry Ellison Parade on FBI Watching Oracle-SAP Trial · · Score: 1

    STABPRRT

    That's not a column identifier, that's a raspberry.

  13. Re:Family friendly? on TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure · · Score: 1

    People who have a problem with that picture really should move to Saudi Arabia.

  14. Re:I KNEW IT! on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    When that "bitch" is a python, you may have bigger problems.

  15. Re:Chip Allows A Small Fraction of the Blind to Se on Chip Allows Blind People To See · · Score: 1

    It might be earth-shattering for approximately 200,000 individuals.

  16. Re:99% Fi and 1% Sci does not a sci-fi make! on The Science of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    What you want is pulp and space operas. Nothing wrong with that, but "us real sci-fi fans" haven't seen any "real sci-fi" on tv, ever. Caprica was the only show that came remotely close to having the potential to be "real sci-fi".

  17. Bah on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 1

    Charles Forbin beat them to the punch decades ago.

  18. Re:LISP a bad choice as a starter language. on Land of Lisp · · Score: 1

    Emacs has both.

  19. Re:One problem on Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then again, liberal has been conservative since 1848.

  20. Re:Fire Sale! on VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hardly. Only GNU and iOS are acronyms.
    The others are initialisms.

  21. If you find it that offensive, then by all means, take it to court.

  22. Re:not a busy street on The First Photograph of a Human · · Score: 1

    I've taken long exposure photographs with ISO 25 film. Some exposures times were close to a minute. It's remarkable how moving objects like people disappear completely.
    In one instance, a car was waiting to cross a street for quite a while and it only remains as a very faint, ghostly image.

  23. Re:Quick! on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    This is the voice of Unity. We saw what you did there.

  24. Re:No coyotes in Puerto Rico on Mystery of the 'Chupacabra' May Be Solved · · Score: 1

    Well, then it obviously must be wombats.

  25. Re:Back in the days on Where Are the Original PC Programmers Now? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! you just invented the Peter Principle!