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  1. Re:Mommy! the stole my marbles, can you buy me mor on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    No, too many real English words, not enough slithy toves.

  2. Re:First po on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 2

    Go back to your arithmetic tables, you thinking machine.

  3. Re:Whose networks are those? on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 1

    how many of those DSL providers are just reselling?

    All of them, which means that when your local Baby Bell decides to start throttling, it doesn't matter which DSL reseller you're paying, you get the short end of the stick (as Canada Bell has already demonstrated)

  4. Re:Whose networks are those? on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do they belong to The People[TM], or to the Internet Service Providers competing with each other?

    False dichotomy. They belong to internet service providers who don't compete with anyone, and who openly argue that they shouldn't allow other companies' services (eg Hulu, Netflix, and Vonage) to compete with their services (Cable TV and/or Telephone).

    Of course, the bill won't do a thing for Vonage, but it's a start, and maybe when I stream a 1 minute 1080p video from youtube without having it take 5 minutes to buffer on UVerse and the world doesn't end? People might think "hey maybe there's something to this".

  5. Re:made the information available... on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 2

    all sorts of things would become legal.

    (Un?)fortunately no, your government overlords are not held to the same laws you are. As an example, you'd be arrested if you went around looking in open windows. Cops can do that all they want.

  6. Re:Obligatory note: the USPS is intentionally brok on US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon · · Score: 2

    Socialize the losses, privatize the gains. That's the Republican way.

    Down here in Blood Red Texas, they're floating an idea to have all of us invest in power plants so the power companies don't have to spend their capital on capital improvements. Of course, none of us will get dividends or shares in the power plants, the power companies get to own the power plants the rest of us paid for. We get the worst parts of socialism and capitalism combined.

  7. Re:Is it a phone ? on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Before 2011 I had a smartphone that did all that.

    Before "smartphones" I regularly went out and about with a Key Map (the only way to get where you're going in Houston), a compass (one of them cheap suction cup ones that kept falling off), a mobile phone (a nokia "candy bar"), a cd player (with a tape adapter to plug into the car stereo) and a gameboy.

  8. Re:i wonder... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    And then they show ads to those people on their computers to recruit them.

    A while back I had a ton of ads asking me to serve my government... the Australian Government.

    I guess I'm not good enough for the NSA, but good enough for other countries to tempt me into defecting or something?

  9. Re:Fire them on Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents · · Score: 5, Funny

    What kind of an idiot gives their passowrd to an administrator?

    Not Terry Childs!

  10. Re:Thanks USPTO on Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which patent number would that be? (Just out of curiosity of what you consider important patent numbers, of course :)

  11. Re:Mean two different things... on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry until they spread to blackbirds, if four and twenty of them can be baked in a pie, one just might get into an artery somewhere.

  12. Re:Read RFC 2616: Safe and Idempotent Methods .. on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. What's unsafe about "select * from catalog where id=".$_GET["id"]?

  13. Re:Cheap netflix box? on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 1
  14. Re:It's on it's way from Apple, mark my words! on The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex · · Score: 1

    And yet such a design would fix the issue of trying to see anything useful on these itty bitty little screens. (Oh look, I can read websites either three words per line or three lines per screen!)

    In my head though, I'm imagining it sort of like a lint roller, where you hold the handle, and unroll as much screen as you need to use. My imagination can't stop it from looking like anything other than a cheap toy, though.

  15. Re:Strange advice on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 2

    SHA-2 includes both SHA-256 and SHA-512. Password hash algorithms generally use repeated iterations to slow brute force attacks. For instance, crypt modular hashes use $5$rounds=....$ and $6$rounds=...$ as the prefix for these hashes (respectively) to indicate which type and the number of iterations.

    As far as I know, they're currently fairly solid for the purpose of hashing passwords, but CPU/GPU power marches on.

  16. Re:Kindergarden politics on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    "But Bush!"

    Or if they're conservative, "But Clinton!"

  17. Re:Failure is expected result on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    You think the question isn't difficult? OK, then

    5 pennies and a cup of milk with 6 written on the side. What is missing?

    WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?

  18. Re:How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 5, Funny

    But it's obvious the cup is full of liquid, therefore the answer must be 787. That being the number of degrees required to melt zinc, which is clearly what is missing.

  19. Re: A bunch of spineless wimps... on Oracle Shareholders Vote Against Ellison's Compensation Package (Again) · · Score: 1

    Or both, since both sides call anything they don't like a socialist or teabagger, if you propose something that neither side likes, you're a Socialist Teabagger.

  20. Re:No on Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? · · Score: 1

    they are humorless old farts who wouldn't appreciate a great movie if it bounced off of a trampoline into their back yard.

    Speaking of trampolines, it looks like Siskel hated The Big Lebowski, too.

  21. Re:Firmware update? Unlikely. on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Hello, I'm from the maintenance department and I'm here to update your firmware to protect you from the exploit that was recently published on 2013-10-13."

  22. Re:Sounds like a problem... on How Big Data Is Destroying the US Healthcare System · · Score: 1

    your parents buy you a health insurance plan before you're born

    Hm, that's a bit farther than I'd go, but I had a similar idea based on the fact that I could get 3 million dollars in life insurance for about half the premium cost of a health insurance plan that had a 3 million dollar lifetime cap prior to obamacare: Buy health insurance when you're young and healthy, keep it forever, just like life insurance.

    That said, half the reason why we have the ACA now is that in the run up to passing obamacare, insurance companies worked as hard as possible to make themselves be the assholes that needed the government to rein them in. You'd buy your 3 million dollar health insurance plan, and then the insurance company would say "oh nevermind" and cancel it once you hit the $500000 mark.

  23. Re:Sounds like a problem... on How Big Data Is Destroying the US Healthcare System · · Score: 1

    They're also generally not covered by insurance, which means the doctor doesn't have to guess what 20% of your insurance company is going to pay for the procedure so he can tell you up front what your share of it is.

  24. Re:Developer or publisher? on Ask Slashdot: Developer Responsibility When Apps Might Risk Lives? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Unless someone shows otherwise, the apps mentioned seem to do what the software developers who created them made them do.

    Does the app cause the phone to broadcast on the international avalanche transceiver standard 457kHz band? No? Then enjoy hearing the rescuers crunch by overhead while they look for you.

  25. Re:So...looking for paper guns, then? on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Correction: The documents were returned once cleared.

    Corrected Correction: The documents were returned once photocopied.