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  1. lol on Christmas Tree Rocketry · · Score: 1

    Maybe he should have kept that tree around. It's still 351 days until Christmas and people already have all their lights and decorations up! Just look around. Christmas is starting super early this year!

  2. Re:"Stifle descent?" on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 0

    It's a lie! They're causing descent, lol. They're actually trying to stifle dissent.

  3. lol on China's Controversial Brain Surgery To Cure Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    Why would they need a surgery that likely makes them never be happy again? They already live in China. That's pretty redundant.

  4. comparison on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    Those mega bright HID headlights usually come in around 3000 lumens at 35 watts. So an LED that bright is pretty insane.

  5. ridiculous on Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown · · Score: 1

    Yes, if there's one thing that calms down social media and photo taking, it's holidays, being around family, and traveling. What a load of bullshit.

  6. legal stuff on Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters · · Score: 2

    You can't record a phone call or in-person conversation in non-public places without warning and use it as evidence but guess what, past a thousand feet above your property or whatever the hell it is, you don't own a damn thing so say cheese and see you in court.

  7. redundent redundent redundent redundent redundent on Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins · · Score: 1

    There's a federal law against storing customer or employee passwords in a reversible manner in digital form under certain conditions. So, most of them are already violating that law by keeping your login credentials in some excel spreadsheet or something.
    All this did was give employers who did it in the past ex post facto immunity against most lawsuits.

  8. Re:The bright side on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    What are you going to jam a metal key with, your finger? Hack it? It doesn't have USB connectivity, sorry. Unpickable too if you were wondering. And they break...hmmm, never had anyone break a metal key made out of that material.

  9. Re:No mention of members arrested. on McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous · · Score: 1

    It's sort of implied that they figured of John McAfee's brilliant escape plan could be foiled, the cops could catch anyone anywhere!

  10. another headline on McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Slashdot predicts decline of McAfee antivirus in 2013.

  11. The bright side on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    At least with the jamming effect in place, nobody would walk by with a laptop and steal your car by hacking the doors and keyless ignition. So that's a plus.
    Seriously, all this wireless proximity bullshit it ridiculous. It's jammable, hackable, and breaks often. What exactly is so bad about laser side-cut keys, huh?

  12. Re:why? on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 1

    Well then it DEFINITELY should have been a Linux box just to avoid confusion.

  13. Re:Ickleberry predicts decline of McAfee on McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Yeeeeah, tell that to any media outlet anywhere ever.

  14. Re:Ouya Dev Consoles Ship on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 1

    Is that what they spent the extra 7x money on? Their own cruise ship for developers? lol.

  15. Re:This product is a game changer. on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 2

    That and if they simply don't add ads to the main interface, they'd already have Microsoft's Xbox Live service beat.

  16. why? on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 1

    Isn't the point of Android that any app runs on any device? Why would they then need a developer console (I assume for game developers). That implies they'd make games that only run on the console. Even if they set up their own separate app store, the other 99% of android users would probably find it and get all pissed off that their $600 smartphone can't run basically anything in it. That really defeats the intention of the Android OS. They should have just made it a Linux box in that case.

  17. Xenon? on NASA's Ion Thruster Sets Continuous Operation Record · · Score: 1

    I thought to use something as fuel in an ion thruster, it has to be able to ionize? Xenon is about as inert as it gets and really isn't useful for anything because nothing reacts with it in any way. In fact, wasn't hydrogen or something the typical fuel for an ion thruster? Can one of the hundred or so ion thruster engineers that are likely here on slashdot (lol) explain it to us?

  18. GTFO on John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am going to be beyond pissed if the US doesn't extradite his dumb ass straight back to Belize.

  19. Re:timing chip? on Adafruit To Teach Electronics Through Puppets In New Kids Show · · Score: 2

    That didn't rhyme and you didn't sing it! DO IT AGAIN or the show has you beat! lol.
    By the way, I'm fairly certain a timing chip (on a motherboard at least) sets and controls frequencies for every various chip on the board. So if your timing chip sucks, you can't overclock very well.

  20. hilarious on Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He's not making money off the advertising, he's making money off the stupid companies not realizing that there's no way in hell it has an ROI above 1. 3.4 million at Dunkin Donuts' profit margin? That billboard would have to convince something like 1 in 10 people that sees it to go buy a coffee from them to make up its cost. This is right up there with GE realizing after many years that its Facebook ad campaign to the tune of $43 mil didn't have an ROI above 1.

  21. oh come on on The Most Unique Viruses of 2012 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh come on, where's the CD tray random timer open and closer from Lizard Works? Yeah it wasn't "made" in 2012 but it's still around and it's A LEGEND! lol.

  22. timing chip? on Adafruit To Teach Electronics Through Puppets In New Kids Show · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not 100% sure what a 555 timing chip is so I might have to watch the show myself to learn, lol.

  23. rest of the headline on 'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind · · Score: 1

    'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind...until they get hacked and/or infected. Then they work significantly differently.

  24. Re:hardware vs software on Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches · · Score: 1

    I actually didn't know that but hey, you get the cheapest anything en masse, it's going to be bad. Those $60 android tablets are terrible too and their screens last about 2 weeks. Without volunteering or extremely low assembly volumes (and thus manufacturing overhead), you're going to get a piece of crap for that dollar level. Like if I make a custom bitcoin mining FPGA and can make all 100 personally in my basement but still get volume discounts on parts, it's going to be awesome and cheap. But a 20,000 square foot plant in China, that has some overhead that can't beat my basement, lol.

  25. Re:hardware vs software on Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches · · Score: 1

    Lol, I never realized that "China" in just about anything from manufacturing to website ownership to shipping sources to language settings are all gigantic red flags and their actual flag is also one giant red flag, lol. It's like they know!