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  1. Re:meh on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 2

    Agreed. Presentation done by dead guys generally are VERY impressive.

  2. Re:Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: Best Computer For a 7-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    Windows in that sense is better (if you can call it that)

    You can't call it that, period.

    Not that I'm a hater, rather I'm a Mac person.

    That being said the one thing that really grinds my gears is when people feel like their drive letters give them warm fuzzy feelings. They're pointless relics of an aged command line OS. Nothing more.

  3. Re:Wouldn't that just be corporate fraud? on It's Easy To Steal Identities (Of Corporations) · · Score: 1

    Heh, you said ANAL.

  4. Re: Technical Knowledge on Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence · · Score: 1

    OR, just grab for the personal info, and take lists of credit card numbers to other countries south of the U.S. and sell a list of 5-6k cc numbers with names/addresses for $5k cash apiece.

    So I've been told. Not that I've done anything like that.

    Seriously though, if you got the skills, start on the other side. Get paid by the big corps to penetration test their networks. Use your skills and don't even worry about covering your tracks. This is a Much better approach.

  5. Re:minimum-security prison is no picnic. on Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence · · Score: 1

    minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right.

    I'm pretty sure I heard that quote in a movie. What, no-one's delivering him crepes in bed now? Yeah, that's gotta be hell.

    If he's a pretty big buy, maybe someone is serving him creeps in bed instead!!!

  6. Re:Well, I was forced to serve them hamburgers on Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    How does this get modded insightful. The only phone you could possibly own that wasn't made in china is (possibly) a Nokia. See this article:
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57389858-1/are-any-smartphones-not-made-in-china/

    Either way, they're coming from china. Even if the phone wasn't assembled in china, I'd almost drop a fifty on the fact that most of the components went through there, or at least the battery was made there.

    If this story bothers you, stop carrying any mobile device (and probably stop using computers altogether).

    Anyone want to venture at where the servers that run /. were made?

    I'm not saying it's right, just pointing out the terribly obvious.

  7. Re:Age 6 is a little bit too early, methinks on Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 · · Score: 1

    I guess you were going for funny, but wouldn't recursion come under conditional branching?

    -- Too Easy

  8. Re:Age 6 is a little bit too early, methinks on Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 · · Score: 1

    I'd put money on Psychological wounds if they started with VB. Hell I started it in my twenties after watching some of the most brutal video game and movie horrors made to that date. I'm still scarred from it. It makes Freddy Kreuger look funnny.

    "Oh no! Trapped and the only way out is to saw my arm off if I want to live? Well, at least I didn't have to end that with an EndIf. AHHH DAMN YOU VB!!!!!"

  9. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 1

    So it seems you're saying that to achieve socialism we first need to stockpile the work of the productive people. Don't we do that already? As a productive member of society, I stockpile more of my resources than the non-productive members. Therefore, by being a good capitalist I can look forward to a Utopian society! SWEET!

  10. Re:frist on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    Please provide a reference for such a statistic. I could just as easily say "AIX is on 1.6 billion servers wordlwide," but no one would believe me. Not even me. If you ever want to believe in yourself, PROVIDE REFERENCES!!!

  11. Re:Transparent Aluminum on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 1

    Carpenters Unite!!!

  12. Re:My Reaction on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    From one not-so-Anonymous Coward to another...

    Quit being so stereotypical. "Everyone" doesn't think that way. And I have to clue how many 50/60 years old people you've met, so I'm sure I don't know how many of them were proud and arrogant. That being said, as a 30 something who had a slight taste of the end of an era the you totally missed apparently, show some fucking respect. If those 50/60 year old people hadn't spent their time organizing punch cards, you probably wouldn't be playing Worlds of Warcraft today.

    To put it simply, "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

  13. So the main problem I see with your premise, is the "Perhaps I'm not a good enough christian."

    there is no such thing as a good enough christian. There is no such thing as a good human. There's a justice system which punishes people, and scares everyone else into falling into line.

    It wasn't until I met God that I saw that there could be a different way. There is hope for all of us through Him. Can I prove it? No. Do I have to? No more than anyone else has to prove the existence of anything they haven't seen, but can see the outcome.

    Consider atoms. How many people have perceived atoms before? Even with an electron microscope, do you really "see" them? I could give you a pair of binoculars with a picture of what I thought an atom looked like taped on the other end, and as long as you had faith in me (and my binoculars), you would believe you saw an atom. Did you really? No.

    The key is so much of the time we want proof, but there is no such thing as provable fact without faith.

    If you believe it when you see it, you put faith in your eyes. If you "see" it with a scientific instrument, you put faith in your instrument (no pun intended).

    Do you test your instruments? Excellent. That will improve your faith in them.

    I'm a programmer (by trade) and even the basics of code are subject to interpretation. In C#, Boolean True == not false. that is any integer value that's NOT 0 is True. In other languages it's reverse. So you can't even look at True, and guarantee what your looking at.

    To ask me to prove the existence of my Creator seems to be futile in nature. For there's not an instrument I could prove it on that you'd have faith in if you didn't have faith in Him to begin with.

  14. God still loves you.

  15. Re:Mods on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 1

    Actually Dictionary.com has a slightly different definition. Why does it always come back to the Catholics? And when are they finally going to admit they're worshipping Cathol? I mean really. They've got his name right in their title!

    propaganda [prop-uh-gan-duh] Show IPA
    noun
    1.
    information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
    2.
    the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
    3.
    the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.
    4.
    Roman Catholic Church .
    a.
    a committee of cardinals, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, having supervision over foreign missions and the training of priests for these missions.
    b.
    a school (College of Propaganda) established by Pope Urban VIII for the education of priests for foreign missions.
    5.
    Archaic . an organization or movement for the spreading of propaganda.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/propaganda

  16. Re:Apple is dead to me on Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win · · Score: 2

    How does this get modded insightful?

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/251435/samsung_files_patent_lawsuit_against_apple_in_south_korea.html [Bloomberg] Samsung sues Apple.

    Companies sue companies. In this broken corporate system we have. BOTH COMPANIES are narcissistic entities who only are interested in YOUR MONEY. Don't defend EITHER of them.

  17. Re:(almost) anyone alive can do .187 Hz on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 1

    For more information on this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing [wikipedia]

  18. Re:They're stupid on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    Please Explain.

    Person A. Vaccinated

    Person B. Not vaccinated.

    Person B Gets Virus.

    Person A cares because???

  19. Re:Misses the point... on Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 · · Score: 1

    Ah my bad. I failed to consider the lack of quotation marks around the paraphrased text that would have indicated an exact translation rather than an idiomatic one.

  20. Re:Misses the point... on Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 · · Score: 1

    No wonder you are how you are! You cursed at your mother at 8 years old?

    Freak.

  21. Generic Phone-Lover post on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 2

    I don't know what you're talking about. My {InsertPhoneModelHere} works perfectly. I never have signal problems like {InsertCrappyPhoneModelHere} do. It has the automatic ass wiping feature unlike Symbian or BlackBerry. My signal strength is the Chuck Norris of cell phone signal. In fact when I'm in a low signal area, my {InsertPhoneModelHere} will kick closest {InsertCrappyPhoneModelHere} in the ass and steal all it's signal bars for me. It can generate chocolate pudding at will.

    Now then..... I own a smartphone. I've owned many, and someday someone will come out with one that might make me want to get naked and cover myself with oil. I don't know for sure, cause I haven't seen it yet. that being said quit trying to justify your overpriced piece of technology, and accept the fact that we all spent too much for the coolest thing out there. No matter which brand it is.

  22. Difference in Men and Boys on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Most of the conferences are filled with boys, not men (speaking strictly in maturity not age).

    the simple fact is that the "experts" at really doing things in Geek-world are usually well-centered, logical, and while they don't care much for social situations can handle themselves in the just fine.

    While you might be able to explain many of the occurrences mentioned in the article with social ineptitude, bullying, or lashing out at the opposite sex, that doesn't work as a reasonable excuse for the behavior. As with any other culture, in the geek (not greek) culture it's us who have to set the norms.

  23. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Must Be a PC then.

  24. Re:Victims of their own greed on Carriers Blame the iPhone For Data Caps and Increased Upgrade Fees · · Score: 1

    If you're streaming netflix, you're not working :)

  25. Re:If you don't remember BASIC on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming? · · Score: 1

    I know this got modded funny, but it's good advice. Just write code. Tinker with it till it works, then write more.