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  1. Re:better explanation on Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the previously unquantifiable temperature of a McDonald's Apple Pie.

  2. Re:early effective DMR on Elite Looks Set To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    The PC version had you type in a word from the manual. I got a cracked version so it always passed no matter what you typed.

  3. Re:The joys of proprietary software on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    Fewer.

  4. Re:Libel tourism and the SPEECH Act on Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? · · Score: 1

    Tell that to those who got delisted from amazon.com because of a libel judgement against them in UK brought by a (rich) nonresident.

  5. Re:more of a scam not cult on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 1

    It is a cult in UK. As to whether it is legally considered a scam (and if so it will invite similar cases in rest of EU) we'll just have to wait.

  6. Re:Do you work at Microsoft? on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    If a company rates a degree as more important than five years of hands on experience coding for The Real World (TM) then to hell with them as they prefer inexperienced graduates they can churn through and pay less.

    All the bollocks about "where do you see yourself in 5 years time?" is rendered moot if that isn't as long as they envisage employing you in the first place.

  7. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    "Its syntax is Pascal-like rather than C-like."

    This was the only annoying thing I found when using it at university, having already learnt Pascal: the number of times I wrote what I thought was valid Ada and wondering why it didn't work only to realise I'd written Pascal instead. Purely my fault, there was nothing wrong with the language.

  8. Re:Key theft != cracking encryption on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    Whenever I use a XP VM - IE testing, don't ask - after a mandated reboot (I use hibernation otherwise to save time on startup) it is always deleted and I have to re-enable it.

  9. Re:Key theft != cracking encryption on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 2

    Windows deletes a hiberfil.sys if found after a shutdown (or a restart if updates require it) but only by the wiping of the allocation table entry. The contents are usually still on disk as the file tends to be placed at the end of the drive so it is possible that the sectors can be analysed.

  10. Re:The Pretend Democracy Continues... on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 1

    Not very much is democratic about a party or coalition being voted into power with less than 30% of the total electorate wanting it...

  11. Re:Not chilling, quite the opposite! on Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Chilling as in cooling off from the flames of "jail them all" mouth frothing Daily Mail style "justice", not chilling as in creepy freedom restricting by an overbearing state.

  12. Re:One has to wonder. . . on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 1

    Except they can't if all rights are transferred - however shadily. A journalist retains some ownership and liability of the drivel his rag prints because his name is still on the byline.

  13. Re:One has to wonder. . . on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 0

    Except that when you are reduced to a meat sack with a camera phone that has no rights over what you produce Facebook becomes the publisher with all attendant liabilities. In order for the photographer to be liable there has to be ownership (however minimal) retained by the photographer.

  14. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    As the Spartans said: "If"

  15. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Because the law says so, and isn't going to be changed just because it affects a company's bottom line.

    I'm waiting for this to get rejected and then the rest of EU follows suit. Then Facebook can bugger off back to US where they have the rule of corporates to protect their business model. Or, they could *do as they are fucking told* ...

  16. Re:No online footprint? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Is that from last.fm? That guy is also into Beach Boys, t.A.T.u and Prodigy.

  17. Re:No online footprint? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Nope, not me (someone else nabbed that username before the turn of the century). Sorry, try again.

  18. Re:What we know so far: on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Small question: how the fuck is it legal to buy fragmenting rounds? Presumably the mother bought them as they were for her rifle.

  19. Re:No online footprint? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Indeed. My footprint isn't easy to discover either and a computer is required for my vocation. Go ahead and look based on what you can find from my profile. I'll wait.

  20. Re:Great on Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kies is the biggest pile of bloated crapware since Norton.

  21. Re:Great on Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices · · Score: 1

    The SGS is pretty much brick proof, even if you screw up the simple root instructions.

    Currently running over clocked (Semaphore) CM 10 JVT with no problems.

  22. Re:It's a decoy on WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's an encoded dating ad reading WEM WLTM IW SRD BBW GSOH NSP NSA

  23. Re:Lost priorities on UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move · · Score: 1

    "They're now busy fighting for their financial lives in the High Court."

    As they should. Universities are not a non-executive agency of UKBA. Neither are businesses and similar "legal obligations" as defined by UKBA, whispered into the paranoid ear of a Home Secretary and whipped through Parliament are rife.

  24. Re:8 Days Early on Earth Avoids Collisions With Pair of Asteroids · · Score: 4, Funny

    Be thankful for the rounding error.

  25. Re:Thank god... on Earth Avoids Collisions With Pair of Asteroids · · Score: 2

    Prior art: Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.