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  1. Re:Welp on Sony Running Unpatched Servers With No Firewall · · Score: 1

    Is there a suit here?

    Given the attitude of most suits on website security, almost certainly.

  2. Re:Macs will be a closed platform in the end on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Apple was never into 'open'

    Yes, they were. But for thirty-five years now.

  3. Re:Where did the lost authority come from? on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    Meh. It's a mechanically stamped serial number. They come out looking wonky all the time. This isn't an all-printed-at-one-time document out of a computer, it's a standard form that been stamped and serialed, as was standard back in the 60s. In fact, there's a good chance it was stamped by hand and not mechanically.

  4. Re:Inconceivable! on Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record · · Score: 1

    But Justin Beiber's not dead...

  5. Re:Where did the lost authority come from? on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    there's stuff like one number being antialiased but the rest aren't.

    OK, I don't see it. Which number?

  6. Re:Where did the lost authority come from? on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 2

    False. Obama immediately released a certificate of live birth. Which his Democratic Primary opponents found sufficient. Which his Republic opponent found sufficient. Which the Supreme Court found sufficient. What does this tell you about the people who *didn't* find this sufficient?

    So now he's released a complete official birth certificate. Guess who's not finding this sufficient either? Three guesses, and the first two don't count. Move forward a few months and the cry will once again be, "Why won't he release evidence? What is he hiding?"

    f he had done this in 2008, a significant number of the people who are questioning the current document would have moved on

    Maybe. But I doubt it.

  7. Re:Surprising? on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    CCCXVII is the year of the 95 theses

    Except that it's not; the year of the 95 theses (1517) would be MDXVII.

  8. Re:us news is unique on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    The more common form of the joke uses Pravda and Izvestia; Izvestia also means "news".

  9. Re:kind of like the police on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    You fail basic science forever. Absence of God is the Null Hypothesis. The burden of proof falls to those who would maintain his existence.

  10. Re:Stock shows no change on RIM Announces BlackBerry 7 OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    RIM *is* getting left behind, but let's be honest here. Countries where RIM lets the government read the emails are countries where everybody who provides email lets the government read the emails. RIM got headlines for being the last holdout.

  11. Re:A few details on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    So, is there a Costellabad?

  12. Re:Euro is both singular and plural! on AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    You can eat one fish, or you can eat two fish.

    You can eat red fish, or you can eat blue fish.

  13. Re:Amazing on AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    To make the stack burn quickly. After all, the whole point of the exercise is that you don't have all day.

  14. Re:A few details on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but Minion left out the "Secret Entrance" doormat again!

  15. Re:Lunchbreaks on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    organic, non-GMO soybeans

    Yes, it's much better to eat soybeans that have never had their genetics modified by man!

    Oh, wait. There is no such thing. Read up on "selective breeding" some day.

  16. And the best way is: Don't. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You'll be liable for any excess traffic charges your ISP puts on you. You're letting total strangers into your LAN, which is a security risk. And there's no guarantee at all that the cops will leave you alone. It's an idiotic thing to do.

  17. Re:3d is underwhelming on Nintendo Chief: Consumers Don't Understand 3DS Yet · · Score: 1

    It should be noted that if you don't like the PSP's battery life, you can get an extended-life battery from Sony (in other words, not a cheap, unsupported third-party add-on) that almost doubles the capacity, putting it firmly on a par with a DS Lite. Bulges out a little (Sony provides a replacement case door for it in the kit) but it's really very nice; I have one myself.

  18. Re:"must operate" on China's High-Speed Trains Coming Off the Rails · · Score: 1

    Sunk cost fallacy. Better no value than negative value, and that's what you have you have to keep shovelling money at it to keep it running.

  19. Re:Corel Wordperfect is still around on Novell Completes Sale · · Score: 0
  20. Re:Reminds me of the fuel stores in WWII. on NASA Looking To Build 'Gas' Stations In Space · · Score: 1

    In WWII, the US was building up a fuel store by fueling up B52s and flying them across the Himalayas.

    Wow, I didn't know the US had time travel during WWII, getting aircraft that were still over ten years in the future like that.

  21. Re:Why does everything have to be monetized? on Markets For IPv4 Addresses Emerging · · Score: 1

    Why does everything have to be monetized?

    Because the people who have them like money.

  22. Re:Right... on Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage · · Score: 1

    Finnish is indeed considered one of the world's toughest languages for a foreigner to learn by any major linguist.

    Tougher than Japanese, or Chinese? Japanese too a gazillion different ways of saying the same thing (oh, and you have to use the *right* one--screwing up the politeness level is a major faux pas) and every damn city has their own dialect here, too. Plus you have to learn several thousand ideographs to read and write. Chinese has the same writing system (mostly--there's actually *more* ideographs to learn), you have basically *sing* your words (do it wrong and it's a *different* word) and dialects are so diverse that you *can't* learn to speak just "Chinese"--you'll have to learn Cantonese, or Mandarin, or whatever dialect that's so different that it's effectively a different language.

  23. Re:Multiple standards can coexist on EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux · · Score: 2

    On the other hand, there's a lot more petrol vehicles than diesels ones, so by making it hard to mis-fuel a petrol vehicle you're protecting more vehicles.

  24. Re:FFS on Greenpeace Says the Internet Emits Too Much CO2 · · Score: 2

    Edward Longshanks! It's never too late--join the fight to support Llywelyn the Last today!

  25. Well, in that case... on Greenpeace Says the Internet Emits Too Much CO2 · · Score: 1

    We'll go back to delivering information by sending everybody thick heavy bundles of paper, then. I'm sure that'll be much greener.