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  1. Re:And... it's gone on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 0

    I'll do you one better. Al Queda - "we will attempt to build a nuke and launch it at you" = multi-country, multi-billion dollar war instantly.
    Iraq - "No, seriously, we don't have WMDs and would only attack Kuwait, not the US" = instant multi-billion dollar, full-scale war.
    North Korea - "We have a nuke, it's pointed at you. We're going to blow everyone up. Seriously, we're going to. Hey, look at our army" = nothing. And it's Obama's 2nd term so what the hell does he care what people think of him "starting" another war (North Korea "started" it). Oh no, maybe it might possibly maybe lose a Democrat 2% in the next election by proxy. Better not bomb North Korea. What a fucking joke.

  2. conpiracy theory on Where Will Apple Get Flash Memory Now? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I honestly think that Apple and Microsoft are now having a stupid-off. They're seeing which foot-shooting, disasterous decisions each can make to see who can bankrupt the company first. everyone weigh in on who you think is winning. Is suing the people who make your screens, lease you patents, and sell you flash memory the stupidest or is an OS with a UI from hell that everyone hates followed by double downing by blaming your vendors then undercutting them and making your own devices stupider?

  3. except for me on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    My new ad campaign for my store is "Hate Windows 8? So do we. All of our new PCs comes with Windows 7." I've sold A LOT and even more used laptops with Windows 7 lately. Thanks, MS! Of course, when they cut off copies of OEM System Builder Win7 I'm going to hate them.

  4. how would they know? on Giant Dinosaurs Were Fastest Growing Animals Ever · · Score: 1

    How would they know if a dinosaur fossil is from 1 year old or 2 years old? Carbon dating isn't that specific. They'd be guessing that a dinosaur was fully grown at X amount of years and then sort of backtrack it but it's basically a complete guess.

  5. I don't see the problem on Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't see the problem with a job that requires you to be always hired :-P

  6. Re:Oooh gravity experiment on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    Everything was sci fi before it was science. But before sci fi, it's theory. So, it is a valid theory. It makes perfect sense too. 1 particle, 2 locations in space. You affect one, the other reacts without a particle or wave traveling between them. It just "happens" because it "is." And causality violations are just made-up logical bullshit with no basis in physics. Black holes violate physics logic too and yet, there they are. Reading the data off just one without affecting it is the hard part but they already solved that over a year ago....and it was on Slashdot *facepalm*

  7. Re:10,000 times faster than the speed of light? on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    While that statement does sound comically stupid and would basically be a "divide by zero" problem, I think they're talking about time to transmit including translation and error correction + processing time inside the NIC divided by just processing time inside the NIC. Honestly, I would think that's closer to 3x faster over that short of a distance but whatever, lol.

  8. (including Linux machines) on S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines · · Score: 0

    Well, there you go. Did you hear that? That was the sound of the last Slashdot reader FINALLY realizing Linux is basically the Mac OS (insecure but not typically targeted). Oooooh, you Windows PC users get soooo many viruses! You should switch to this Linux PC because it's magic and invincible and has ground up unicorn horns as thermal paste on the CPU. Get over it.

  9. Re:Quantum Entanglement Does Not Transmit Info on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    Actually, you were wrong before and you're wrong now. Get over it. NASA knows what they're talking about. You still do not. There was a slashdot article years ago about a method discovered to transmit data between entangled particles.

  10. at least the 5th story in a row on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    This has got to be the 5th story in a row where I will attempt to convince incredibly stupid people that quantum entangled particles have a practical use EXACTLY LIKE THIS. I believe we last left off at people screaming that entangled photons can't transmit data between "them" (it's really sort of not 2 particles). Also that data can't travel faster than the speed of light, which is doesn't and yet does. You're all 1.5 years worth of wrong so far.
    Let's see, how many times do you think I have to copy and paste "entanglement really is instantaneous over long distances" because some slashdotters believe that professional physicists believe it's true. This is a real thing! You're stuck in the 1980's with your high school physics degree, modding me down because I'm saying it's possible. Well, here it fucking is, right in your damn face.

  11. ZOMG!!!!!! on Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker · · Score: 1

    Unplug that sucker and throw it out the windows, now! Oh wait, it's a Linux box lol.

    For the record, MyWebSearch and Yontoo and Freeze and Babylon are after "you" too and since "you" are an idiot, "you" probably have them on your computer as well. They could have added that to the message too.

  12. meticulously proofread on 25000 Books Proofread By Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, they mean meticulously proofred by us in reCAPTCHAs. I think that was the organization that got into that a little.

  13. lol on Ocean Robots Upgraded After Logging 300,000 Miles · · Score: 1

    I figured they were talking about hardware updates since even miles under the ocean, in the pitch black, Windows Update will find you and make you upgrade and reboot :-P

  14. I have an idea on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    How about don't go 5 MPH over the limit? You really have to be impossibly stupid to not know that 5MPH faster than 70MPH over 10 miles saves you 34 seconds. If you're so concerned about being 34 seconds late for work, leave 34 seconds earlier. Speeding is about the drivers' attitude that the laws shouldn't apply to them because they're just so darn special. It has nothing to do with time. So yes, give them 12 tickets.

  15. you've got to be fucking kidding me on Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Apple is exactly the opposite.

  16. 2 important things on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    First, for every iOS device there are 3 android ones. Second, smartphones and tablets are not PCs or laptops.

  17. or.... on Hatebase Tries To Scan For Precursors of Genocide In Language · · Score: 1

    They could just watch for one group of people moving to a new area and taking already scarce resources away from the native ones. That's about 90% of genocides right there.

  18. WTF? on Google Invite Hints Fiber Project Expanding To Austin · · Score: 1

    First Verizon fiber, now Google? What's so damn special about Texas that is gets first launches of fiber networks?

  19. idiotic on New Skype Malware Uses Victims' Machines To Mine Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    The new mid-level BFL mining chip can perform 60,000MH/s at 80 watts. My i5-2400K can do 14MH/s, my Nvidia GTS450 can do about 40MH/s, and my Radeon 5830 would have been able to do about 220MH/s under ideal circumstances and maxed out. So, this is so far into the not worth it category, it's comical.

  20. hmmm on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    So if some nutcase living in a rural cabin with nothing but spy novels goes and shoots up his local congress, should we ban books, cabins, or living in rural areas? Oh and by the way, to stay consistent, he also sent 5 warning letters ahead of time, told his therapist about it ahead of time, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest about it ahead of time...so it's definitely the books' fault.

  21. Re:idiotic artisti bullshit on Listening To the Big Bang – In High Fidelity · · Score: 1

    Atom vibration requires atmospheric pressure. Any power levels registering above 190 decibels is considered a "shockwave" and not sound because it behaves differently. So no, there was no sound. Maybe you should educate yourself a little before you start posting useless arrogant crap.

  22. They have 2 options on HP Chairman Raymond Lane Steps Down · · Score: 1

    1. fire everyone on that board and in management and stop making products that suck

    or

    2. go bankrupt

  23. idiotic artisti bullshit on Listening To the Big Bang – In High Fidelity · · Score: 1

    There is no sound in space. To pretend that there is, the density, temperature, and atmospheric pressure would make it vary greatly. So really this is just made up bullshit.

  24. Re:Hackers on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 1

    In the neighborhood of $10,000 - 100,000 at a non-suspicious volume believe it or not.

  25. For those of you too lazy to RTFA on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hackers DDOSed just the website itself to scare people into a sell-off then bought up the cheaper coins and waited for the price to rise again. This has nothing to do with the bitcoin network or protocol, zero coins were stolen, and no security was breached at MTGox. So everyone above me, STFU and read the article or this before talking out your ass about bitcoins.