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  1. Re:Trackball on The "King of All Computer Mice" Finally Ships · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love playing against people who use a trackball. Can always use target practice.

  2. Sounds like a debug feature on HTC Android Smartphone Stores Browsing Screenshots · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds like the equivalent of writing alert("here"); in javascript?

    Don't think this is a big deal.

  3. Re:What a joke on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you want anything done practically, you aren't calling a Ph.D. I would never trust a Ph.D to do anything actually useful.

  4. Re:Ormandy did excercise responsible disclosure on Miscreants Exploit Google-Outed Windows XP Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    He chose the correct thing to do because it gets a fix quicker from Microsoft. Your flawed logic is why full disclosure is the only way to release bug report.

    Who the fuck wants to read an article where someone is whining about how long microsoft takes to fix an important vulnerability he has found. People want to know the vulnerability so that you can protect your systems against it. I don't give a fuck about who reports a bug or when. Tell me as soon as you know, so that I can protect my systems UNTIL a patch is given.

    When did slashdot become infected with morons?

  5. Re:Do no evil on Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you didn't realize that windows was an insecure product, you get what you deserve.

    The end users and admins punish themselves.

  6. Re:Law Suit!!!! on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Won't matter. This has happened before and they have never had to pay out.

  7. Re:Labeling on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank you for proving my point in your first sentence. I will ignore your second paragraph, because it has to be the dumbest conclusion I have read today.

  8. Re:Diet? on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    You would think that the parents could tell if one sibling had a different diet than the other.

  9. Re:Labeling on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Autism isn't a label, it's a condition. The western mentality to diagnose and treat conditions is why humans' life expectancies have increased.

    Stop regurgitating shit you hear from bad late night comics and ignorant rednecks.

  10. Get your fucking head out of your ass. on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you realize how much money research and development costs? Do you realize that the only way it makes sense to pursue research and development is if it can support you financially? Do you realize why patents are a _good_ thing (not software patents). No? Well then you, sir, are a fucking moron. This is the real world not some hippie commune. Grow the fuck up. If you can't realize why CSIRO getting money it deserves is a good thing, then fuck you. If you can't realize why NASA getting royalties for THEIR research as well, then fuck you.

    God I fucking hate dumb people.

    And no, I'm not conservative.

  11. Re:Maybe we should charge them? on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 1

    You have usage information that they send you every month. If they want to monetize it, it will be easy to track how much time I spent earning them money.

  12. Re:Maybe we should charge them? on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 1

    Glad I didn't say that they were owned.

  13. Maybe we should charge them? on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If government subsidized telcos want to use my data to make money, I think I will charge them for it. After all what travels on their tubes isn't their data, otherwise they couldn't be labeled common carriers.

  14. Re:It's not ending... on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 1

    Barely being able to achieve 30 fps does define that, yes.

  15. Re:It's not ending... on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 1

    Golf clap.

  16. Re:It's not ending... on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 1

    Horrible wording, but you should get the point.

  17. Re:It's not ending... on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, a good game is defined if the movement looks fluid. Guess what platforms don't achieve that?

  18. Re:It's not ending... on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea when you have a console that runs the latest games at 1920x1200 with FPS over 100, then you can say consoles have caught up.

    The only reason consoles have caught up to PCs is because they hinder innovation due to their limited hardware.

  19. Re:Expect a repeat performance in 2014 on Passage of Time Solves PS3 Glitch · · Score: 1

    wow, whoever thought Year % 10 and Year were congruent mod 4 needs to go back to undergrad.

  20. Re:A law that doesn't transfer well to the interne on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    What is software if not information? Binaries are just sequences of 1's and 0's and the source is obviously just text. Your distinction of what makes SF.net different from Wikipedia doesn't really hold water (even if the US govt think it does).

  21. First Amendment Violation? on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why wouldn't this be considered a violation of the first amendment? (Not SF.net blocking, but the laws which that censorship is based).

  22. Re:DNA samples/Chips in fingertips? on Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mark Foley would probably like that idea.

  23. Re:Filing as Jane Doe? on Netflix Sued For Privacy Invasion · · Score: 1

    Infidelity is a leap yes, not a "major: one, but certainly a leap. What isn't much of a leap however would be if she never told her husband (if she has one) that she is a lesbian, then that would be a CLEAR violation of trust. If you don't tell your partner that you aren't sexually attracted to them, then that is pretty indicative of a serious character flaw in that person.

  24. Ibogaine on Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only reason why this is necessary is because a compound that already exists is illegal and not profitable.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine

  25. Re:Side-effects on Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market · · Score: 1

    Actually they already have cure for addiction:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine - but thanks to the war on drugs you can't get it legally.

    The more you know...