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  1. Re: It was the most polite arrest ever on RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted · · Score: 2

    Or Bryan Adams. Although they have apologised for Bryan Adams on several occasions.

  2. Re:sudden outbreak of judicial mental clarity on State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms · · Score: 1

    It's truly a shame how these things happen, and how so many in the pacified populace fail to put two and two together.

    It's also a shame how many people end up with five.

  3. Re:Time to petition? But this time... on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    Does anybody in America actually think Bob's Burgers is good other than apparently Fox and the series creators?

    Yes. Do you always assume that anyone who differs with you over sense of humour must be in a minority?

    Fox made a big deal out of Allen Gregory but I could tell from the trailer that it would be a big fail. What was it? A big fail.

    Oh, so you're the guy who's opinions always exactly mirror the public at large? Oh, no, wait, you can't be, because that guy would be too busy banging models on his private tropical island rolling on a bed stuffed with the rest of the billions of dollars he's made.

    Every now and then I will watch a new episode of American Dad and it's never funny any more [in my opinion]. Even Family Guy is hit or miss [in my opinion]. Sometimes it's great [in my opinion]. Sometimes it's not even a little bit funny [in my opinion].

    FTFY.

  4. What's a fixed rotor? on Hybrid RotorWing Design Transitions From Fixed To Rotary Wing Mid-Flight · · Score: 1

    How do you define "fixed rotor"? Is there such a thing as an unfixed rotor in comparison?

  5. Re:Relevant xkcd on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 2

    Mods: feel free to stop by xkcd and let him know how insightful he is, but the link itself is entirely derivative.

    There's no need to throw a wobbly just because you didn't think of it first. Maximize your disorder, dude!

  6. Re:Japan, a new Iran ? on Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor · · Score: 2

    It's the point of "innocent until proven guilty". The burden of providing proof of guilt rests on those that accuse not the ones that defend themselves against accusations.

    I wasn't talking about justifying a prosecution - only an arrest.

  7. Re:Japan, a new Iran ? on Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, we know you didn't do it, but it came from your house. Guilty."

    How do they know they didn't do it?

  8. So... on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    Now we know what the "J. J." in J. J. Abrams stands for.

  9. Re:The Truth is Never Libelous on British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims · · Score: 0

    Wrong.

    Wrong.

    [...] homeopathy is "bogus" [...] [t]his statement is demonstrably true

    False.

    Scientists have been successfully sued for stating that homeopathy is "bogus".

    False.

  10. Re:John Glenn on Pavel Vinogradov, At 59, Sets New Record As Oldest Spacewalker · · Score: 1

    They've only budgeted for one publicity stunt per trip.

  11. Re:6 hours 38 minutes on Pavel Vinogradov, At 59, Sets New Record As Oldest Spacewalker · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's 30 stone, not 30 years.

  12. Re:Am I missing something on Did B&N Pass On the 6.8" E-ink Screen That Kobo Snapped Up? · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling that the backlight is mainly intended to compensate for the dull off-white colour of the screen. Thus, turn it up outside, turn it down inside. Most annoyingly though, you can't turn it off. You can only see the real colour of the screen as you lock it.

  13. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast on FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos · · Score: 1

    He's the only one not running or looking a bit disturbed by the blast in that picture too.

    Yeah, like that's really easy to tell in a still picture. Hell, the guy closest to the camera looks like he's leaning back on the railings with a smile on his face. Get him!

  14. Re:Production on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 2

    It wasn't new software, per se, it was a definition update. There's plugging in strange USB keys you find on the street at one end of the spectrum, and there's manually examining every opcode before it gets to your CPU at the other. Security is never all-or-nothing in the real world. For all we know some of the IT guys who let this get installed on their servers have been complaining to management for months that they don't have an extra person to spend their entire day testing each and every piece of new software in a locked basement. And even if they did, this kind of thing would still happen.

  15. Re:Global Warming on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Production on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    No, I'm +4 Insightful at the moment. Bazinga.

  17. Re:Sabotage... on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    I think it was intentionally done by either a hacker or a disgruntled employee.

    Who up until now was relatively gruntled.

  18. Re:Production on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, stupid idiots, why didn't they write their own OS from scratch at the start, then they wouldn't have any of these problems.

  19. doctoral student on Low Levels of Toxic Gas Found To Encourage Plant Growth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    doctoral student at the University of Washington seems to have discovered

    "doctoral student"? The poor guy doesn't even have a name?

  20. Re:Use a FreeBSD box as your firewall on Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers · · Score: 5, Funny

    so you would sacrifice security for convenience? Then, you deserve neither*.

    You're right. He should block all traffic and whitelist every single IP address as he needs to. Actually, he should manually inspect every packet he receives. Actually, he should have all his packets printed at a remote location and FedEx'd to him for examination and re-input.

  21. Re:Production on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would someone update software like this on production systems, instead of testing it in a lab environment first?

    Because they assumed Malwarebytes had done that already.

  22. Re:You can have my own mobile number on Microsoft Hops On Two-Factor Authentication Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Quite right too. Lovely chap.

  23. Re:Does MS even understand Two Factor on Microsoft Hops On Two-Factor Authentication Bandwagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is 2 factor authentication.

    The 3 authentication factors are:
    Something you Know.
    Something you Have.
    Something you Are.
    And a fanatical devotion to the Pope- Four! Four authentication factors!

  24. Re:I am not a physicist on Higgs Data Could Spell Trouble For Leading Big Bang Theory · · Score: 2

    Maybe you should become a physicist, then.

  25. Re:er, what? on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Update: 04/17 16:25 GMT by U L : And the substance is ricin. Apparently, air filters another facility have also testing positive for ricin.

    What? "air filters another facility?"

    You a word or two.

    "have also testing positive" is another gem. Apparently ricin causes aphasia.