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  1. Following the killer's "clues" may cause harm on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    Actually, throwing this poisoned meat out to the dog may be further destruction, not that it is simply a killer-sourced "narrative" established that people will re-ignite interest for many years, but the act of digging up "clues" may disrupt innocent people's lives. For example, what if I named unspecified correspondence with Michele Bachmann as the main reason why I justified going berserk? Her privacy would be invaded and her name besmirched all as a continuing attack by me for years, if not decades. I would lol all the way through prison and you would be my simple tools.

  2. Feature dimension on Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created · · Score: 1

    The particles of fog are below the feature dimension resolvable by my eye, yet it is not transparent

  3. Success on Gov't Funded Electric Car Company Goes Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Actually this project may have been wildly successful, the car may have failed but the project of transferring wealth to entrepreneurs with an in on the city council succeeded wildly. Expect the city council members to have free dinners and free salmon fishing vacations the rest of their lives. You have to understand how small towns work.

  4. shocking nonsense on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 1
  5. I wonder if the $250,000 reward on Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info · · Score: 1, Insightful

    will successfully direct attention away from Microsoft's failure to secure their operating system?

  6. "Understanding the Payoffs" on Understanding the Payoffs From Investing In Space Flight · · Score: 1

    The metaphor of a cash result betrays the mindset that everything that costs must have a financial reward.
    What happened to teaching that learning and discovery were valuable beyond reckoning?
    I am embarrassed to say that even most religions have got at least this right.
    Do we need metaphorical monks working in metaphorical scriptoria to investigate basic science?

  7. Never replace on Scientists Derive Gelatin From Human Tissue · · Score: 1

    The Pohl house special: Chicken Little.

  8. Even a random selection invalidates the population on Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness · · Score: 1

    1898 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CXCI. 230 Every artificial or even random selection of a group out of a community changes not only the amount of variation, but the amount of correlation of the organs of its members as compared with those of the primitive group (OED, 2nd ed)

  9. Engineers and Law on Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    Privilege such as priest-penitent, husband-wife, doctor-patient, attorney-client are affirmative exclusions of evidence, that is closer to mitigation of punishment rather than repudiation of the complaint. Privileges were established for a narrow social benefit and are also interpreted very narrowly by the judge to the end that substantial justice is--done rather than just a technical dodge exploited.

    I've notice that people with engineering backgrounds often misjudge the law as a latticework of laser bright lines separating guilty from innocent or probative proof from random fact. The truth is that there are very few absolutes in law; while striving for uniform and clear application of itself and thereby justice, it has to account for the billions of nuances in intent and fact IRL.

  10. Original content over fair use on Study: Fair Use Drives Large Part of US Economy · · Score: 1

    While scavenging may be intellectually frugal, creation is the maidenhood of civilization.

    Rather than torrent that next low grade horror film, why not write a word, a sentence, a paragraph -- anything -- snuff, hate, poem, story, flame and put it up on a blog, email, or otherwise share it. Then you will have added to the world rather than recycling it.

    And it is so easy to be novel. Virtually everything you utter more than a few words has probably never been heard or seen before in the history of the world.

    For example, the first sentence, the entire sentence is unique in Google and subsets beyond "may be" or "is the" have very few hits.

    To be creative in writing is as easy as forgetting to meme.

  11. And I learned on on Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript · · Score: 1

    APL / CDC Cyber

    just kidding, HPBASIC on HP 2000C time-share

    assembly on IMSAI 8080

  12. Re:Human sun-heat management basics on Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square? · · Score: 1

    "Sun & Heat Optimsed Head Garb in order of efficiency:
    1 Shesh / Turban
    2 Sombrero / Chinese Rice-Straw 'Dish' Hat / Cowboy Hat
    3 Light-colored Longsleve wrapped as Shesh (instructions on the web)
    4 Leginoaires Cap with neck-cover / Safari Helmet"

    [ citation needed ]

  13. Cooling in hot, dry climates... on Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square? · · Score: 1

    Is best and most cheaply done in almost all circumstances with shade and a fine mist of water.

    And I saw exactly that in higher-end cafes in Morocco, Spain, and France during the summer.

  14. Sounds as if a pastiche is needed here: on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 0

    Battle Royale times Bible Black divided by Tentacle porn to the power of Pachinko modulo

    buxom,Junoesque,adipose,agreeable,amply endowed,attractive,becoming,beefy,big-bellied,bloated,blowzy,bonny,bosomy,braw,brawny,built,built for comfort,burly,busty,callipygian,callipygous,chesty,chubby,chunky,comely,corpulent,curvaceous,curvy,distended,dumpy,fair,fat,fattish,fleshy,frivolous,full,gleeful,goddess-like,gross,healthy,hearty,heavyset,hefty,hilarious,hippy,imposing,jocular,jocund,jolly,jovial,joyful,joyous,laughter-loving,likely,lovely to behold,lusty,meaty,merry,mirth-loving,mirthful,obese,overweight,paunchy,personable,pleasing,plump,pneumatic,podgy,portly,potbellied,presentable,pudgy,puffy,pursy,rejoicing,risible,roly-poly,rotund,shapely,sightly,slender,square,squat,squatty,stacked,stalwart,statuesque,stocky,stout,strapping,swollen,thick-bodied,thickset,top-heavy,tubby,vigorous,well-built,well-developed,well-favored,well-fed,well-formed,well-made,well-proportioned,well-shaped,well-stacked

    young woman, while separated from her friends, has to learn to use a semi-disabled tank to fight off swarms of horribly implanted aliens waves disguised as parents / bosses / ugly women / creatures from Australia.

  15. This certainly sounds like... on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    a white boy's problem.

  16. One key problem with patents on Patent Troll Goes After Notebook Cooling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is that there is no adversarial position, as in a civil or criminal lawsuit.

    This means there is no effective counterpoise to the seeker of the frivolous patent, since the patent office itself has nothing to lose from rank incompetence.

    An attorney team whose reward is correlated with the number of patents it gets dismissed or invalidated would be quite interesting.

    Then we need to work on the broad strokes of varying patentable periods depending on the field at hand. Drugs, software, and shoes probably ought to be patentable for differing periods of time.

  17. Script to turn off Autorun in XP on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Here is the registry key that I use when reinstalling Windows XP:
    Iut the following in a text file with the extension .reg, right click and merge with my registry.

    REGEDIT4
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
    @="@SYS:DoesNotExist"

  18. What's next? I'll tell you what's next... on Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's next from these ingenious companies?

    A patent of course.

  19. Entropy of passcode space on Passcodes Prove Predictable · · Score: 1

    I am sure that most people are aware that the entropy of passcode space is culturally dependent.

    One way of evading the cultural diminution of passspace entropy is through a selection technique known as "shocking nonsense." (Google)

  20. How about flagellates and ciliates? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    Damn. There goes my protozoa business.

  21. technology and free choice between good and evil on Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype · · Score: 1

    If a privacy technology is insufficient to protect pedophiles and terrorists, then it is insufficiently strong enough for me.

    The quality of the technology should transcend the user's choice between good and evil, as the allegation of evil is often done by those who know it well.

  22. George Orwell was an optimist. on TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I read 1984 as a youngster I was shocked at the telescreen, the minutes of hate, the ever-shifting language and designated terrorists, and the frightful Room 101 ways of dealing with questionable comrades.

    At some point with water-boarding, elimination of due process and habeas corpus for designated humans and spying without warrants, we have now fulfilled Orwell's nightmare of a despotic totalitarian system of politic and thought. And we aspire to further degradation of the human spirit.

  23. a game for gentlemen, but the stakes are high on Apple Has Stopped iOS Downgrading · · Score: 1

    Until iPhone security is implemented with RSA or other public-key crypto system on chip, the cycle of crack and patch will be for us onlookers an amusing game of quoits, or maybe as a slap-fight at a Wild Irish Rose festival. For Apple, though, the stakes are higher than kids getting to play $0.99 games for free, as each exploit is a proof-of-concept that both questions Apple's entire design, implementation, and review process and demonstrates to businesses that their trade secrets remain low-hanging fruit on the iOS platforms.

  24. Re:Cool idea, but... on Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe I will start a multi-generational cult whose most holiest quest is to seek down these kinds of hipster projects and return them to the chaotic elements from whence they were forged. A portable laser could vandalize the mechanism through the quartz glass with a slashdot symbol, couldn't it? Most certainly.

  25. Re:Art project, not a working 10k clock on Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash · · Score: 1

    Considering each clock is using orders of nanowatts when you have almost a milliwatt to play around with, a wireless time on demand circuit could be designed to be powered by the excess power generated by your U235. How about a transmitter that would occasionally beacon with the electromagnetic signature of something uncommon, such as 294Uuo which has a half life of under a millisecond. Now a flash of that would stand out, eh?