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  1. apples to oranges. on Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study · · Score: 1

    Humans are only more violent because we stopped using our fists and turned to alternative weapons. If we all had to stand in the middle east dessert and punch each other to death, I don't think it would take very long for people to get tired of it and just go home.

  2. why not just limit attempts on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 1

    wouldn't crazy brute for attacks like this be eliminated with simple attempt limitation? It maybe be able to do the bruteforce attacks at a megazillion per second, but if the connection is actively refused after 10 tries, what does it even matter. You could theoretically set the limit to any amount way under the total amount of possibilities and it still wouldn't matter. as for building passwords that are stronger, we need to move away from 8 - 12 char limits with case and special characters and force people to use complex strings that have 25 - 50 chars in them but are simple to remember for example something like "mydogsnameisfluffy" or "whydoineedacrazyasspassword" both of these are much harder to crack than "8&#sref"

  3. Nothing to do with obesity on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    This is all about removing sugar from the food system and replacing it with laboratory grown chemicals.

  4. i ended up using untangle on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic? · · Score: 1

    I didn't have to do nearly the amount of stuff you are asking for. But I did throw in a spare box I had laying around and installed Untangle to manage / monitor the kids playing those damn club penguin virus sites and the like. It did the job and then some. But I do agree with the rest of the posters here .. this is almost impossible to do and way .. way .. unnecessary.

  5. great article, to bad.... on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    no one will read it that actually matters.

  6. they will offer this as a fix on Apple Developing Tool To Remove Flashback · · Score: 1

    buy the "new" ibook, it will be virus free.

  7. Re:Sony's war on their customers on Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    my boycott started when sega released the saturn to compete

  8. Re:The easy way on Ask Slashdot: How To Make My Own Hardware Multimedia Player? · · Score: 1

    I'll give you another item to add to the very very short list of stuff you need to make this work. we got 1. XBMC so 2. PICO motherboard and to help promote one of my favorite sites.. check out http://www.mini-itx.com/

  9. Re:Even worse on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 1

    not only polite, but it's almost 1000% more effective, if you are within your legal rights. This law not only outlaws certain "trolling" but also outlines exactly what would be considered acceptable.

  10. Awesome! on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    I was wondering what to do about getting a new system. This settles it .. I will be switching to PC gaming! Thanks sony and xbox!!

  11. Re:The real hero on Why Hubble Broke and How It Was Fixed · · Score: 1

    I did say that there was a lot of planning put into fixing it. But it all comes down to the people working with the equipment. All kinds of stuff went wrong with the "fix the hubble" missions. He ended up having to improvise and almost lost his right hand because of it.

  12. The real hero on Why Hubble Broke and How It Was Fixed · · Score: 4, Informative

    The real hero of that project was a man called Story Musgrave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_Musgrave There was a lot of planning put into fixing it, but without him actually up there in space improvising when stuff went south, the Hubble would be useless today.

  13. the following has nothing to do with copyright on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 1

    but .. shouldn't a song based on pi, be a single instrument with a single stave of music. There are not harmonizing numbers when dealing with math. why should a musical representation of such have more than a single line of music?

  14. anyone know how to get some?? on Righthaven Ordered To Forfeit Its Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    it would be cool own a piece of this glorious victory.

  15. I saw this one! on New Interface Could Wire Prosthetics Directly Into Amputees' Nervous Systems · · Score: 1

    This is the one where the coyote buys robot legs to chase after the roadrunner ... it didn't work out to well for him, if I remember correctly.

  16. Re:That's why I like the basic Kindle on The eBook Backlash · · Score: 1

    I do not have any of the problems reading a book on the Fire that this article suggests. In fact I read more now than I did, because I can carry one item along and read many books.

  17. Re:Safe Harbor on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 2

    dropbox is different than mega upload. in just about every way possible. first off they market themselves as data backup system not a file locker. second they don't show up in the search engines when you look for illegal content. third most people see them as a business to business company not a front for serving illegal content. I"m not saying people don't use drop box for that purpose, but you gotta admit they have a much cleaner rep than the mega sites.

  18. Terrorism on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    soon they will pass a law that if you steal copper you are a terrorist. that's basically where this is going. I don't condone the theft of copper, i just think it's crazy that just about any criminal act these days is a threat to national security.

  19. gone are the days on Why Fuel Efficiency Advances Haven't Translated To Better Gas Mileage · · Score: 1

    why is it policy makers responsibility to make sure car manufactures create the most fuel efficient cars? Remember when business owners were in business because they made a quality product? Now they make cars just like inkjet printers ... the printers are there as a means to sell ink. If you really want a policy that makes sense, prevent anyone associated with the auto industry from investing in any type of fuel "futures". Once you take their money out of the product the car depends on, you will see the MPG skyrocket.

  20. Please Tell Me.. on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    Did the customer get his controller or not? why is this about how he treated the penny arcade guy? Outting this guy is all well and good, but i'm sure the customer is still sitting around waiting for his controller.

  21. now sure what they are talking about on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 2

    they just built a brand new playground buy us. they did add a really nice rubbery type of padding on the ground, but they have a 15ft high slide and a really cool rock wall and crazy jungle gym type things. plenty of places for kids to fall to their "death", just like when I was a kid. you know what ... that playground is always packed. Not like "geeze there are so many people I can't move" packed, but there are always people there with the kids. It's a really cool place.

  22. before oracle on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    when we heard at work that oracle "might" be buying MySQL ... we switched to postgres and never looked back. I wish most hosting companies and software developers would add support for postgres

  23. you could ... on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    built a containment box with a plexiglass top and cut holes and attached welding gloves. kind of like one of those bio hazard boxes they use in labs. you could make the cuts and then let the dust settle in the cabinet then do some removal.

  24. hmm .. which have i heard of .. on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 1

    well .. i have never heard of filesanywhere until now. dropbox.com has been growing by leaps and bounds even with the limited controversy over the TOS. plus.. that stupid box they have doesn't look at all like the dropbox logo. honestly .. i doubt the people at dropbox ever heard of this company either. just jumping on the troll wagon like everyone else.

  25. very intersesting .. "education" on Media Companies Create Copyright Enforcement Framework · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the education will consist of. I have read several books on Copyright Law. Also books on the pros / cons of the current law. Plus other books on the legal interpretations of copyright law. All of the books seems to go around in circles and generally leave you more confused than you were when you started. they all say something like "if the item was published between 196x and 197x then it may be copyrighted, unless it was published without a copyright notice. then it's not copyrighted. Unless it was refiled before 1979 and then published again with a copyright notice before 1982 .... etc, etc, etc." I would be very curious how they will explain what can be downloaded and what cannot. I would also be interested to see if you were to follow the rules listed in the "education" package, and were to download something that did not meet the requirements for copyrighted work. Could they still sue you for it. Or would the blame be on them for not properly documenting the scenario in which it would be illegal to download the content.