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  1. Re:Choose which practices on The Smashing Book · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, your still explodes.

  2. Re:Propaganda on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    A pretext to the OpenID that verifies that a given authentication request originated from the owner of an identifier, without saying anything about the trustworthiness of the identifier?

    (No, seriously, the owner of example.com can set up http://example.com/yes as an OpenID that is always authorized, OpenID itself is not a threat to anonymity or privacy)

  3. Re:His definition of "shock jock" on Confessions of an Internet "Shock Jock" · · Score: 2

    I enjoyed the part where he frames the story as his 'fall from grace' and then goes on to detail how he got caught deceiving people.

  4. Re:people still play that shit? on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.

  5. Re:Why the black ops stuff? on Magicjack Loses Legal Attack Against Boing Boing · · Score: 1

    You can place a call to someone with a regular landline phone.

  6. Re:Well, MagicJack succeeded in on Magicjack Loses Legal Attack Against Boing Boing · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they aren't litigious pricks, they are just court-happy jackasses?

  7. Re:Great on Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers In Gas Pumps · · Score: 5, Informative

    You seem confused. The skimmer is entirely parallel to the regular reader, it does not effect the operation of the pump.

    There will be no observable difference in the transaction.

    The most secure remedy is cash.

  8. Re:Not Contradictory on Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even worse, his efforts to prevent malaria are likely to result in millions and millions of additional living humans.

    But maybe it all doesn't boil down to any simple calculus.

  9. Re:wait, what...? on Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are hereby awarded 1 "I was retardedly obtuse on the internets on purpose" merit badge.

    Congratulations.

  10. Re:tritium danger on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    I was actually talking about radioactive decay.

    (I would describe it as a 'heckling' comment, it was a poor attempt at a joke (I gave myself an 'Oh shoot' when I realized that expulsion was probably more likely than decay))

  11. Re:Loan Guarantee on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    The guy you are responding to markets solar panels in Maryland.

    (The government tax rebates are one of his big selling points)

  12. Re:Awwwwww on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    I am occasionally invited to gatherings, but I wouldn't call them parties.

  13. Re:tritium danger on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    Only until it decays.

  14. Re:unbelievable, yet very believable on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    You're way to literal. The filtering you propose allows everybody, in essence, to create their own store (rather than using the single Apple approved store).

  15. Re:VT Yankee workers break into press conference on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    But sparks flew when several of the Entergy employees crashed a press conference held by the organization Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, which opposes the relicensing of the plant.

    Vermont Yankee workers began yelling questions and comments at the speakers, resulting in a heated exchange on the benefits and fallbacks of nuclear power and renewable sources such as wind and solar - all before a crowd of cameras and reporters.

    "I hate how this debate has become wind versus nuclear," said Vedranal Wren, an operator at Vermont Yankee who lives in Brattleboro. "I want both."

    Don Mayer, the owner of Small Dog Electronics, a member of VBSR, fought back against accusations from Vermont Yankee workers that solar power was not renewable. While it takes a lot to produce the panels, the equipment doesn't "have a half-life of a thousand years," he told the frustrated workers.

    It sounds like they arrived and were disruptive, it does not sound like they broke into anything.

  16. Re:Loan Guarantee on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Define 'safe'.

    This is a tiny leak that is a regulatory problem, not a safety problem. The tritium levels are regulated because it isn't expensive to contain it, not because it poses an extreme and eminent danger.

  17. Re:Placebo No Treatment? on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    Maybe. One of the things they do though is try to make sure that they spend money on treatments that do the most good, so it still might not make any sense to be paying for magic water for patient A instead of more pills for patient B.

  18. Re:Troll summary. on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    It would be deliciously ironic if no one at the power company even made seven figures (It isn't terribly likely, but on the other hand, power generation is relatively highly regulated, and much of the investment comes from people that want stable returns (because the returns are stable); both of those things mean that the CEO might just be an effective executive, rather than a highly paid executive)

  19. Re:Troll summary. on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's been grinding this axe for the last couple of months.

    (Taking them to task for the leak and the lying is okay, but the trying to tie in the loan guarantees and the nucular scare tactics are silly)

  20. Re:Awwwwww on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    The Slashdot comment system doesn't support images.

  21. Re:unbelievable, yet very believable on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    Also, when the kids aren't under constant adult supervision, they can use their eyes.

    The idea that a 14 year old should (could?) be in control of something that costs $1,400 a year is so foreign to me that I don't really care that much (my phone cost $30 and the annual airtime costs vary depending on how much I use it).

  22. Re:unbelievable, yet very believable on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    The reason for their apparent difficulty is that they are trying to make a single store work for everybody.

    If they ceded control to the people who owned the devices (even just a little bit of control), there wouldn't be a problem.

  23. Re: - Turn off users? on Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices · · Score: 1

    Really only for an arbitrary, stupid, definition of core system.

    These days, most applications don't drop anything anywhere except the installation directory, let alone installing a SxS assembly or dropping dlls into a system directory (and only malware attempts to replace actual system files).

  24. Re:Answer: on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 1

    If we end up with a legal standard where making information available over http without authentication is considered anything other than intent to share the information, we have failed miserably.

  25. Re:You Know What Else This Means ... on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 1

    .Lit was already rotting on the vine.