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  1. uh oh on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's awfully suspicious. They better freeze Paypal's account, ignore all e-mails, refuse to admit they did it on support phone calls, and take 3 months to resolve it.

  2. better idea on Tech Firms Planning Highly Irate Letter To Government Requesting Transparency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never wait for the government to do something. Just release the data and see if anyone has the balls to convict them of something. I bet not.

  3. I can't math on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 4, Funny

    "it said he had a $92,233,720,368,547,800 balance in his account. 'I'm just feeling like a million bucks"
    Someone's not so good at math, lol.

  4. Re:more info on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    It could go Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex though.

  5. wait a minute on C|Net Reporter Declan McCullagh Talks About Privacy (Video) · · Score: 1

    "He is a strong libertarian, privacy advocate"
    Then why did he give his name for the interview?

  6. rule #1 on Comcast May Put Wi-Fi Transceivers On Cars, Buses, Humans · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Rule #1 of wireless networking. Don't attach your access point to something that moves or it really throws off your coverage mapping and disconnects people. How about their improve their crappy infrastructure so they can offer better bandwidth instead of wasting their money on yet another "netowork the homeless" caliber idea.

  7. Re:Other weaknesses.... on Google Fixes Glass Vulnerability To Malicious QR Codes · · Score: 1

    Okay, I'll follow you around every second of every day while you're in public with a camera in your face and post it on youtube. Then we'll see if you develop and "anger problem" too.

  8. Re:bad news on Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells · · Score: 1

    Oh, I thought one x was the same as two x's because males only ever use one anyway or something. Guess not.

  9. Re:ridiculous on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 1

    It would be immensely more likely to knock it away from itself. It's exploding energy outward. I know that could cause them to impact on the way around again but first of all, they both have to be dead stars and secondly, almost all binaries that have something happen to them increase in orbital distance from each other or break apart and float away.

  10. Re:ridiculous on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 1

    Binary systems are famous for not smashing into each other. That's why they're binary systems and not 1 star. The probability of them both dying and it affecting their orbits enough to smash into each other at the exact same time is ridiculous but somewhat near each other (a couple million years) is reasonable. But now where are we at? 2 binary stars both died at the same time and spiraled inward at exactly the right angle to smash into each other inside of our solar system near our sun, which remained somehow unaffected, and the gold got to Earth somehow. I think you just increased it to one in a hundred trillion billion.

  11. Re:+5 Insightful for on Jimmy Carter Calls Snowden Leak Ultimately "Beneficial" · · Score: 1

    All his policies had the opposite of the desired effect because he had no idea what he was doing. He was the guy who did that gas stations close every other day type thing, right? All that did was drive down profits, drive prices higher, and piss people off. It was about as intelligent of a plan as half the crap North Korea does.

  12. more info on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 3, Informative

    Strangely missing from the summary is the fact that this only affects Android devices, as far as I read in the article. While most phones allow you to easily "show" aka decrypt and view your wifi password for a network you hopped in ages ago, I happen to know that all desktops and laptops with Windows XP-7 do the same. They're also easily recoverable by third party instant decrypts too. So if you think plaintext or reversible encryption storage of passwords is the problem, that's all devices everywhere, with or without Google. The problem is Google actually having your password.

  13. Re:+5 Insightful for on Jimmy Carter Calls Snowden Leak Ultimately "Beneficial" · · Score: -1

    As other have said, Carter was a complete disaster for the US. So since it takes one to know one, I trust his opinion on Snowden.

  14. Re:OOOh IQ thread. on IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    You missed that IQ should be determined purely by video game abilities. Crack a door lock, solve a puzzle, do some math at an NPC vendor, shoot some people in the head in a logical fashion and tada, 150 IQ.

  15. not going to work on Better Factories Through Role Playing · · Score: 1

    I would probably hit the virtual or real person screaming at me. What really would work is forcing everyone to come to work as a traditional D&D role playing class. I work much better as an archer or wizard.

  16. great strategy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Automatically Sanitize PDF Email Attachments? · · Score: 1

    Only hire people who are smart enough to not open obviously fake attachments

  17. ridiculous on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 2

    The probability of two stars that are both dead smashing into each other is so unlikely, this is completely ridiculous. That's like making a pool shot from new york to LA blindfolded except a million times less likely and don't forget, they both have to be dead stars.

  18. bad news on Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells · · Score: 1

    Sounds like this could be used to suppress the Y chromosome and change a female to a male. In other words, the collapse of several Asian countries obsessed with having male children.

  19. Re:Other weaknesses.... on Google Fixes Glass Vulnerability To Malicious QR Codes · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting the #1 problem. Everyone will hate the wearer, cover their faces, scream at them, and possibly attack the owner.

  20. strange though on Ancient Mars Ocean Found? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it appear that the water would have been flowing upward, away from the lowest point on the lower part of the image. Assuming nothing changed that much since there was water, that seems really odd. It looks like the flowing sediment and stuff avoided the bottom part for no apparent reason. In every delta I've seen on Earth, it doesn't do that.

  21. makes sense on OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine For Viewing, Distributing Porn · · Score: 0

    It makes sense for them target Macs because of their users. If a person has no idea how to use a computer or the internet, they get a Mac. So yes, target the people stupid enough to fall for this.

  22. Re:I own the rights to the letter E on line on HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hey, Cookie Monster owns exclusive rights to the letter E! Everyone knows that.

  23. Re:who wrote this? A Centron? on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 2

    DDR2 laptop memory is mental everywhere. Everything else is somewhat reasonable on ebay. Brand new is still in crazy-ville but what kind of idiot would buy DDR1 from systemax or crucial at this point? Hey look, 20 sticks of 512MB DDR2 for $40
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-20-Tested-Samsung-DDR2-512MB-PC2-5300-667MHz-Desktop-Memory-/330957821186?pt=US_Memory_RAM_&hash=item4d0e9f9502
    and 100 sticks of 512MB DDR1 for $150
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-100-512MB-DDR-NON-ECC-MAJOR-OEM-2100-2700-3200-/360697684461?pt=US_Memory_RAM_&hash=item53fb41e1ed
    I pay $0 because I recycle computers at my shop and pull decent sized ram sticks. I also just picked up 24x 1GB DDR2 for a by-the-pound price at my scrap dealer. It's all aluminum cooled, good brand stuff.

  24. who wrote this? A Centron? on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A "2 GHz Centron" huh? They glued a sempron to a celeron? Someone dumb enough to write that certainly is dumb enough to overestimate the impact Avast has on a system. And 512 MB of memory? That's not enough to run anything.
    How about naming your celeron correctly, adding 512MB of DDR1 for about $4, and dropping in a socket 478 Pentium 2.8Ghz for about $9. That costs less than an antivirus license. Then keep Avast, since it's the best speed vs detection.

  25. you're an idiot on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Avast isn't heavy on CPU usage. It relies on fast HDD access. All antiviruses do and if it seems like they don't, they're simply not scanning as much as they should. Avast is the king resource usage vs detection rate so you should still use it.
    Oh and to the couple morons above me recommending MSSE, you're completely out of touch with reality. It is the dead last worst rated antivirus in the entire world and a resource disaster. It's the last efficient scanner I've ever seen in my entire life and the disk IO is absurd.