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  1. and yet... on Almost 100 Arrested In Worldwide Swoop On Blackshades Malware · · Score: 0

    And yet the biggest criminals responsible for the vast majority of the world's malware are sitting at Perion Network, in a lovely building in Redmond, Washington. They must have bribed the entire fucking government to do what they do without the SWAT time shutting them down. If it was up to me, I'd arrest everyone and then a drone would destroy their building.

  2. Re:Vs the NSA on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 1

    That has never happened.

  3. what a stupid article on Malvertising Up By Over 200% · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're talking about 2 different things. Malware advertising is "your PC had errors. Click here to fix it" and it download some registry nagware bullshit. Drive by downloads are not ads at all. It's an exploit kit and it's what happens when the ad blocks get hacked. It's not like someone supplied exploit code to Google's advertising program. The article is talking about 2 completely different things.

  4. heheheh on Meet Canada's Goosebuster Drone · · Score: 2

    "Modified a drone with some flashing lights and speakers and took to the skies"
    Over the speaker, they say "go fly somewhere else, eh? You hosers."

  5. target foot acquired! on AMD Preparing To Give Intel a Run For Its Money · · Score: 0

    Way to shoot yourself in the foot, AMD. I don't want or need a new architecture. I want x86 (and x64) for my PC and laptop, the end. In 2016, you'll have some stupid new chip that won't work in any PC or laptop in the world just in time for people to realize that tablets are netbooks with no keyboard and a higher failure rate and stop buying them. I don't think they will make a 1/8 watt cell phone chip when they're this far behind so they're making a completely useless product that nobody will use in anything.

  6. no on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    We don't actually know how mosquitos evolved in the first place so my guess would be probably not.

  7. here it comes on IBM Discovers New Class of Polymers · · Score: 1

    What's the over-under odds on how long it'll take before they discover X% of the population is allergic to it or it causes cancer?

  8. get real on Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video) · · Score: 1

    I have a snarky photo response proving the article wrong but it's in my Adobe cloud storage, which is offline at the moment....oh wait....

  9. obvious fix on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Here are 2 obvious fixes. 1, don't buy an iPhone in the first place or otherwise you switch as well and 2. can't you delete their number and name as a contact and enter is slightly differently like "john smith 2" with the same # and it won't know it's the same?

  10. nothing wrong with that on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it pushed ugly, unhealthy, and otherwise undesirable males out of the gene pool. Good! Have you seen what happens to the genetic disadvantages and diseases and average IQ in small, isolated communities? It's the same thing when it's 1:1. Imbalance in either direction ensures that adaptation and fitness improvements occur.

  11. Re:Idiots. IDIOTS! on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 1

    Violating gravity and keeping it that way instead of remaining neutral against the ground automatically costs a ton more, especially over time. That's engineering 101.

  12. wrong on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    My estimates say just my netflix traffic alone would exceed that limit in one month and I work 54 hours every week and nobody else lives with me. So...that's bullshit.

  13. Re:NO Photoshop for you! on Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) · · Score: 1

    Oh HELL NO! It was money. Money, money, MONEY. Ongoing costs, inflated services, and more MONEY!

  14. obvious on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    One explodes, the other doesn't. The end.

  15. "I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lower case letter and it becomes a capital letter. I don't want a capital. If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital"
    The next character to die on Game of Thrones is definitely going to be Clippy!
    By the way, he's completely and utterly wrong. You need split screens with a separate notes file kept up in realtime to map logical events and maintain chronology or you'll open up plotholes a dragon could fly through. I always keep lists of what characters did what and any noteworthy "absolutes" that I mentioned about each character so I don't cause logical violations. He must be keeping them on paper or something as side notes because you simply cannot write a book without doing that.

  16. Idiots. IDIOTS! on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The NUMBER ONE infrastructure budgeting problem in America right now is that roads cost too much. Not bridge repair or aging electrical grids or anything like that. Just purely by the dollars, it's the cost of roads. I know! Let's make them more expensive for a reason that solves a problem that doesn't exist. My headlights + titanium fleck paint means I can see the lines just fine. I also don't need the road to literally tell me it's raining or snowing or below zero. The road tells me that already just be looking at it.

  17. "There is growing evidence that the center of the Milky Way contains a mysterious object some 4 million times more massive than the Sun"
    No, that's a proven and well known fact actually.

  18. Re:saw this coming on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    WTF are you on about? NASA launched plenty of corporate satellites for money!

  19. Re:saw this coming on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    Yeeeeeeeeeah, we have something coming up called an election and everyone's more pissed than ever. So the next candidate damn better be anti-everything we hate or he won't even get nominated. A bad president can only fool everyone for 4 years. Or 8 if the opposing party picks an idiot with a mental patient for a vice president. Then that ends in a damn big hurry. I can't wait to either see the democrat candidate melt down into a pile of unelectable something or other OR run against Obamacare. Either will be entertaining.

  20. saw this coming on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    Gee, maybe we should have kept our space program going. Then instead of placing it in the hands of moronic dictatorships like Russia (true if you live in reality) or private industries trying to make a profit, they would be the one collecting money for licensing, part sales, and commercial launches. It was one of the few things at NASA that made money!

  21. how about this on Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? · · Score: 1

    My sister in law had to take a basic intro to programming class with VB.NET to get a bachelor's degree in statistics and product research-related math. I thought that was sort of cool but unnecessary and unusual. I wondered if it was just to filter out stupid people who are bad with logic and numbers because I can't imagine someone working in her career position actually having to do coding ever.

  22. Re:Well, that settles it on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 1

    Yeah, buy up property in the middle of a drought area that's only going to get worse. Good idea.

  23. I have an idea on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 0

    Let's take everyone who thinks climate change isn't real and tie them to a rock 6 inches above the waterline on the ocean shore. Then we can let them go when they admit it's real.

  24. in other news on EA Ending Online Support For Dozens of Games · · Score: 1

    EA just announced in a later press release "Just stop buying our games. If it has EA on the box, DO NOT buy it. Seriously, if it's not DRM issues then it's nickel and dime DLC or we'll kill the game as soon as it's not profitable. Stay far away from our games!"

  25. Re:Yay? on Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan · · Score: 2

    You do know that your phone's memory almost definitely can't process and buffer data that fast anyway, right? Decent smartphones can usually write to their flash memory at about 80MB/s. They can buffer to RAM faster but run out of their usually 1-2GB of DDR3 extremely quickly. So hooking it up to 10GBps seems pointless to me.