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  1. Re:Twenty Seconds? on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    If I had points, I'd mod you informative. There's already a precedent. All hope is lost. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

  2. Re:Legality? on North Korea Jamming GPS Signals In South Korea · · Score: 1

    So that's why the french were dropping concrete bombs on Libyan tanks...

  3. Re:Microsoft Business Disaster Model on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I'm a younger person, and I don't really have a head for business. However, it seems a little silly to me that you would discredit Microsoft's decisions to invest in research and development. Technology is more of a "moving target" than resource harvesting/processing/delivery, and even Exxon-Mobil is putting effort into diversification. What happens to Microsoft if the open movement blows up one day and free/open solutions like Linux, and OpenOffice outstrip Windows and MS Office, and Microsoft doesn't have products like Xbox to fall back on? I would expect them to go the way of the Dodo, man.

  4. Re:Developer for the world? on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points. I'd mod this interesting. Thanks.

  5. Re:Doubtful they have "reverse-engineered" anythin on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    You're convinced they brought it down just as they claim? You may know something that I don't, being that you're formerly of the Air Force, but it sounds kinda like bullshit to me.

  6. Re:Launch vehicle? on In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning · · Score: 1

    That's an incredible modest figure, actually.

  7. So, on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 4, Funny

    what's my new hero's /. UID?

  8. Re:10% more graduates will be disappointed on US CompSci Enrollment Up For 4th Year Running · · Score: 1

    No, the people graduating with CS degrees are not part of that 85%. I graduated with a CS degree the week after that article was published. I've been working (in my field) ever since, living on my own, and I even bought a new car. There is only one person that has graduated from my school's CS program since I started there that isn't going to grad school(payed) or making a living in the field. And even that ONE GUY decided to work outside of the field out of personal preference. I'm currently looking to relocate. I put my resume up in a couple of different places on the web at the beginning of last week, and my phone has been ringing off the hook for interviews. I went to a small state school, and my grades weren't even stellar. Young CS grads ARE working.

  9. Re:Students Don't Always Know The Difference on US CompSci Enrollment Up For 4th Year Running · · Score: 1

    My university made the distinction as well. I studied Computer Science vs. Information Technology (which wasn't even under the school of science and technology, it was under the school of business). I learned math, development, and theory; the Information Technology curriculum was basically "this is how you install an OS, this is how you set up a Cisco network, this is how you set up an Oracle database, meet the Bourne shell, etc." Basically, the things in the IT curriculum were training/hand-holding for things that I could have(and since graduating have) figured out in an hour if you locked me in a room with a computer and an internet connection. It's different everywhere, I guess. Our IT students certainly weren't capable of writing compilers or doing formal logic.

  10. Re:Oh fa chrissake on Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance' · · Score: 1

    I've heard this before. I've also heard it rains a lot over there. What gives?

  11. Re:Does This Tool Actually Work? on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    I don't mean to be rude or pedantic, but please learn what "in question" means. The dispatcher's intent and reasoning when telling Zimmerman "you don't need to do that" are very much in question. 911 dispatchers are typically very clear when communicating with callers; it's part of their training. Had the dispatcher meant "Don't do that. Stay in your vehicle. Wait for police to arrive", then that is what the dispatcher would have said. Period. I think SockPuppet is correct in this regard. The dispatcher was informing Zimmerman that he didn't need to do that for Zimmerman's own safety and not other reason.

  12. Re:You get tickled by "may" now??? on US Government: There's Child Porn On the Megaupload Servers Judge! · · Score: 1

    The last time I checked, the US constitution was still amendable.

  13. Re:Should be obvious--scale up from Jupiter's stor on Monster Solar Tornadoes Discovered · · Score: 1

    I'm not contradicting the statement, but how do they know that? What sort of instrumentation did they use to take temperature measurements for the center? AFAIK it's still a reasonable debate as to the properties of our own earth's core, and we live ON IT. Does our distance from the sun (vs. our perspective of the earth) or another difference between the sun and our planet make one's core temperature measurable and the other's not? I'm not trolling. This is not my area of expertise, but I do think it's interesting.

  14. Re:No DRM but has tracking on What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    Steganography? That'll definitely work!

  15. Re:Neither new nor interesting on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you could wear these. That's 3 ounces per foot/flask. I imagine you could definitely carry what you'd need to whip up one of those binary liquid bomb thingamajigs in these.

  16. Re:Hactivists == cybercriminals on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 1

    I think you'd be legally motivated if, say, John Travolta was holding a gun to your head, and you were simultaneously being sexually assaulted, and the only way to escape the situation would be to comply and hack the system. Oh! and, of course, you'd be timed to prevent you from contemplating the legal and ethical ramifications of your actions. I think any reasonable judge/jury would let it slide.

  17. That's rubbish. If you can do computational physics, you can be a computer scientist. The same thing stands for chemists, mathematicians, and engineers. If you can do that shit, you can definitely do CS.

  18. Re:Ethical DDoS protest on From Anonymous To Shuttered Websites, the Evolution of Online Protest · · Score: 1

    "In a DDOS, there's no way to restrict unwanted traffic."

    Oh yeah?

  19. Re:How about no? on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    I think he was referring to the Israeli perspective.

  20. Re:So in other words... on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's a panda?

  21. Re:Framing? on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    As a man living in West Virginia, I might find your comment a tad disconcerting. Luckily, I math as well as I read.

  22. Re:Sued? No. Threatened? Yes. on Ask Slashdot: Who Has Been Sued By the RIAA? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's likely that the letter went to the university citing infringing traffic from one of the university's public facing IP addresses to YoQuieroTorrents.com. I'd assume it was the responsibility of the school's IT guy to pass along the warning to the appropriate network user. If GP's university's IT department is anything like mine, the dude probably 'effed up reading the NAT logs. Or GP lied to IT to cover his ass. Either way, there was probably no slandering/libeling on the part of the MPAA goons; they wouldn't make that sort of mistake.

  23. Re:Lesson for other hacking groups on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    That's telling, because they seem to have a lot of chat logs from all of these guys.

  24. "What are you, on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    stoned or stupid? You don't hack a bank across state lines from your house, you'll get nailed by the FBI. Where are your brains, in your ass? Don't you know anything?"

    I can't believe they caught the twats at home. If these guys were worth their salt they would have done the following:

    -Stayed mobile.

    -Done some of the things that this list warns people to look out for.

    -TRUSTED NO ONE.

  25. Re:Lesson for other hacking groups on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work out very well if the police have all of your chat logs...