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  1. I'll answer all questions now on Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because fuck you, that's why.

  2. Re:"Dark Market"? on Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber · · Score: 2

    It's like dark matter and dark energy. The observations say it should be there but we can't prove it.

  3. yay!! on YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels · · Score: 2

    Live cat videos!

  4. Re:Another Hubble story on Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa · · Score: 0

    Because fuck you^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorists, that's why.

  5. Noise generation on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about someone develop benign virus that spreads easily, then browses everywhere similar to a spider or crawler and resets it's own cookies (and/or built in creds for various data gathering sites), frequently. With a relatively low CPU and network footprint, a big enough botnet doing just this would make just about all data collection pointless, as the SNR would become problematic.

  6. one could wish on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That Obama would condemn and stop being ambivalent, but I suppose letting them stew is enough.

  7. Re:W.C. Fields would disapprove on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 2

    Winners never quit, quitters never win. Those who never quit -and- never win are idiots.

  8. Re:underground cave... on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    Underwater cave

  9. Re:Hominin? on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    You could have replied and used ad-hominem, you lazy lout.

  10. Re:Very interesting, but on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    Also RE Modern DNA contamination... I am certainly no expert, but chemical means are used to copy and 'amplify' weak or degraded DNA, both in this and in 'DNA forensics'. Regardless of 10000 years of piss in the corner of the cave, one modern skin cell floating in the air and landing in the sample will get amplified as much or more as the target sample. The replication and amplification process is not discriminatory IIRC.

  11. Easy answer on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff? · · Score: 1
    Q: How do I convince management to hire more IT staff?

    A: Quit.

  12. Synonym fun on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 2
    If the work is 'forged' how can we trust it?

    Since it is physics, perhaps we could trust it better if it was 'LaForged'.

  13. Hmmmm on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. This technology
    2.Silk Road 2
    3.?????
    4. PROFIT!

  14. Send them to mars on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'll never go.

  15. Re:Idiots .. use a VM on Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are really paranoid, you can use whonix, which puts a vm in a vm, piping everything through tor and preventing just about any leak of IP information or exposure of OS exploits.

  16. Idiots on Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Keep...your...own...fucking...wallet...

    I do. Encrypt and backup your wallet.dat file. When you restore it, even if it is old, you can rescan the block chain and have all your funds. Except for transfers, why hand your entire wallet to someone? Would you do that on the subway, or in walmart?

  17. Re:Free Software on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 1

    This is why you should use free software from a reputable source, such as Debian GNU/Linux.

    Like sourceforge? /sarcasm

  18. Re:Finally on The Ultimate Anti-Action Online Game: Waiting In Line 3D · · Score: 1

    Are we forgetting enviro-bear 2000? http://www.enviro-bear.com/

  19. The logic here is astounding on A Mercenary Approach To Botnets · · Score: 2

    It is a real shame criminals broke your door in and stole some stuff. However, we recommend leaving your door broken, as it allows us (the good guys, just trust us), to look around and make sure everything is oka and keep an aye on the criminals activity.

  20. The DHS official, when done denying entry said to her, "Sorry, eh."

  21. Come on eds... on Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) · · Score: 4, Insightful
  22. Re:Where is all of this money coming from? on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1
    The interesting question to me is will one of the 'alt' coins break out if BC crashes. All the other coins values seem to follow BC. I currently mine litecoin for giggles. I have good GPUs and my energy costs are negligible, so I don't have to worry on that end.

    The other posters are correct though in that we need more places accepting BC. Namecheap is accepting BC, and if I make enough litecoins I will trade and apply it to my hosting bills.

  23. Re:Yes! on BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company · · Score: 1

    I won't turn a brown eye to this. Sphincter.

  24. So what... on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    Getty Images had about $945 million in revenue last year, according to a March credit report by Moody's. That's up from $857.6 million in 2007, the last full year in which the company reported financial results.

    That is 2008....do you think they really care about part of 1.2 million? Do you think it will change attitudes and behaviors?

  25. Re:scripts on Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls · · Score: 2
    I work for a repair shop and we just had a person get hit. They were having issues with the windows 8.1 update (it killed their wifi). The actually called (who they said was) microsoft. In the middle of phone tag for that, the scam call came in and they thought it was the support people they called.

    Boom goes the dynamite. Whoever this tech was had them get on one of their old XP machines, and then proceeded to guide them into bricking it.