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  1. Re:brace yourself on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Dibs on #1. I'm gonna tear this limey piece of a shit a new ass so maybe he'll stop talking out his current one.

  2. this is obvious on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Complete Hosting Providers? · · Score: 1

    If one host has a problem, you don't want everything you use to go down. That's why no host is stupid enough to attempt to offer every service to their customers. One outage of VPN is like whatever for one day. One outage of email, your website, parts of your domain, your VPN, and phones and you're leaving them for someone else.

  3. the solution is so simple it almost hurts on ACLU: Lavabit Was 'Fatally Undermined' By Demands For Encryption Keys · · Score: 2

    They have more publicity than they could ever pay for in marketing and they're playing the victim. Hmmm what should they do. IT'S OBVIOUS! Relaunch with a user self-signed system or some sort of peer to peer thing where they don't hold the keys. They just relay the encrypted gibberish and some client software makes a randomized key. That's so idiotically simple, they could throw it together in a heartbeat.

  4. out of order much? on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    First you make the power plants not run on fossil fuels or anything that emits CO2, THEN AFTER THAT you push for electric cars. Do it in the opposite order and you're wasting time and money.

  5. Re:Well on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: 1

    You clearly have no idea how bitcoins work whatsoever. You can tell if they're spent or not. "Spending" them changes ownership over to a new wallet. The wallet file is basically a deed to bitcoins floating around in the network and it specifically says in realtime how many you own.

  6. idiotic idea on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    How much would it cost for terrorists and other hackers to crash them into each other all at once? Probably more than a half trillion.

  7. aha on 87-Year-Old World War II Veteran Takes On the TSA · · Score: 1

    So that's the asshole ahead of me slowing down the line.

  8. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    You're right, I'm inventing my own encryption method from scratch. Then my anime/hollywood movie crossover fanfics will finally be safe.

  9. worst grammar mistake they could make on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1, Troll

    "It is getting even more attention lately following the revelations of the NSA as the authors remain anonymous and no thorough security audit have yet been conducted to prove it is not backdoored in any way."

    What they mean is:
    It is getting even more attention lately[,] following the revelations of the NSA[,] as the authors remain anonymous and no thorough security audit [has] yet been conducted to prove it is not backdoored in any way.

    Oh, you know, so it doesn't say: "revelations of the NSA as the authors," implying that the NSA wrote the software.

  10. Re:It's about time on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 1

    What is this, 2007? They hit rock bottom and broke through. Java is in the 9th circle of hell at the moment.

  11. someone please explain... on What If the "Sharing Economy" Organized a Strike, and Nobody Came? · · Score: 1

    ...what the hell any of this is or means. What is Uber? What is it doing that's illegal? What is a sharing economy? Who's giving out free cab rides? I'm someone who lives in a 100,000 person city where you just call the damn cab company on the phone and they show up and 99.9% of cars on the road are not cabs.

  12. This is important! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Here's an important distinction EVERYONE needs to know about 4k: It doesn't indicate quality!

    Satellite providers like dish network and direct tv call 1080i 1080i because it's 1080 pixels tall (by 1920 wide usually). What they fill that resolution space with is static bitrate, low quality, giant-pixeled crap that no human should ever be subjected to. One guy standing still saying something = good picture. Confettii falling at the superbowl - pixels that are literally 1x1 inches on a 52" television. So if they go up to 4k, get ready for image quality to descend into a hellish nightmare from which there is no return.

    Also, given Time Warner Cable's level of compression, I doubt they have the bandwidth to carry 4K either. Oh yeah, that's right, most devices and computers can't push 4K at 120FPS either. So basically no technology in existence supports 4K except for fake half-lies by satellite companies. THAT is why it's going to fail.

  13. Re:Still Bad Patents on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    I own a patent on the process of posting a first post about software and process patents. You now owe me $0.10.

  14. Re:First Post! on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Well...if the scientists can pretend to do it in an experiment.

  15. I can't get over how the definition of entanglement means both particles do EXACTLY the same thing. Not one acts differently and the difference is time. Plus, all matter in the entire universe is entangled and the entanglement never fails and we cannot detect the other particle for some reason? That's an awfully big pile of nonsense.

  16. I have an idea on Cow Burps Tapped For Fuel · · Score: 3, Funny

    One time I sneezed half the papers off my desk. They should look into that too because its an awful lot of energy.

  17. Re:30Km isn't space on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    Wrong. You could orbit with a lower speed vector based on buoyancy instead of relying on pure speed and thrust. So basically counteract gravity by simply floating and go a lot less than 17,000 MPH because of it.

  18. Re:Ballooning as space launch vehicle on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    Because the government contractors like money. They feed on it. MONEYZ! OM NOM NOM! And rockets of course basically run on money. They'd have to fire rocket scientists and hire a lot less balloon scientists and then oh no, people would be sad and lose their jobs. Wah wah wah, AOL dial up salesmen lost their jobs too. Deal with it.

  19. Re:Not too expensive... on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    So it's the same price by length as a NYC parking spot. Not bad.

  20. lol @ escape velocity on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    I remember over a decade ago in school learning that it takes X amount of energy to escape Earth and go into orbit and it takes an escape velocity of like 1000MPH to do it. Anything else would allegedly crash. Obviously if your velocity is 0.0001 miles per hour, and you're going up, and you keep doing it, you're leaving Earth eventually so that pretend law of physics was bullshit then and it's bullshit now. My teacher didn't see it that way of course.

    Now they went and proved my point by simply floating off into (well, near) space with a simple density calculation and virtually no energy.

    If they were to launch a satellite from a balloon instead, it'd take immensely less fuel because it's already so many miles above Earth. This also reminds me of my recommendation that a person simply make a high altitude airplane and keep going up and up and up until air-based lift doesn't work anymore and THEN turn on the rocket boosters to get into orbit with relatively little fuel/energy. That was listed as "impossible" by all the textbooks and my teacher. Ugh, I hate it when people print inaccurate blanket bullshit in textbooks.

  21. Here's an idea on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 2

    Maybe they should use logic instead. Bulletproof and lock the cabin door so nobody is getting in under any circumstances. Increase bomb and explosive detection technology. Leave it at that. Then how suspicious or dangerous a passenger is has no relevance because they're not hijacking the plane and they're not blowing it up.

  22. Re:Probably a downmod coming but.. on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 1

    That is classic Experian to expand without proper research or any caution at all. They'll acquire anyone who they think will make their credit report info look more accurate or will make them more money. If you've ever tried to get your credit report through a 3rd party, you may have noticed that they're all borderline criminals out to scam you and sell you things you don't need. Go look at MyScore.com if you don't believe me.

  23. I have an idea on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a great tip I learned to make money from Facebook!
    1. close Facebook
    2. go to work
    3. make money

    This is a great time to try it out.

  24. Re:entangled entanglement on D-Wave Quantum Computing Solution Raises More Questions · · Score: 1

    Simple. Make it do something only a quantumly entangled system could do in a given time period like reverse factorization or whatever. So far, they haven't done that. Their excuse is a lack of sufficient quantities of qubits to determine a speed change in factorization. Basically a normal CPU or ASIC could have solved the equation they demonstrated in 1 ms but a quantum one could solve it in a billionth of a millisecond but you can't measure that small of a time frame so you have to take their word on it that the machine didn't fake it. Go up to 4x the qubits and tada, it can crack and encryption key virtually instantly and prove itself.

  25. hilarious on Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone else remember when HP's webcam face login program refused to recognize black people and it had to be recalled and altered? This totally reminds me of that. Classic HP.