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  1. Lets hope on Front Row Seats To NASA's Lunar Impact · · Score: 0

    that the aliens wont get too upset at us.

  2. Re:Anthropogists the world over on Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's just news because it finds some way to make video games seem tied to bad behavior.

  3. Re:Impressed by Spotify, but Apple? on Spotify Wins iPhone App Store Approval · · Score: 1

    "This product is not available in your country yet."

    No.

  4. So, can I complain? on Spotify Wins iPhone App Store Approval · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems like whenever an story about Hulu/etc somes on all the non-USians come to complain about that.

    So can I complain about it not being offered here in the states and how that's so unfair so I'll just download the stuff instead of pay for it?

  5. Re:I was a little worried on SHA-3 Second Round Candidates Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well Bruce Schneier helped write it, this is the same man that once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.

  6. Just a wee bit sad. on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kinda disappointing that the first thing nowadays when people see something new it's that "Wow, humans really stuffed up the planet" instead of "Wow, that's an interesting natural phenomenon"

  7. Re:Heart of the global nature of the internet on UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User · · Score: 1

    As I seem to remember, one is a felony criminal case, this is a civil case. Bit different there too.

  8. OT: How to get Slashdot to stop spewing bars on Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I view the story here it's fine, but when viewing it at the 'friendly' url it spews crap all over the place. Namely those last three bars and that row of bubbles.

    Come on Slashdot, if you at least fix this, I'll stop complaining about idle.

  9. NWA on The Worst US Cities To Work In IT · · Score: 1

    Living there, I can say Northwest Arkansas is not that bad. And there's a difference between a funnel cloud and a tornado, but getting back on topic, besides Walmart there's a few other large companies based here that hire a decent number of IT people such as Tyson and JB Hunt.

  10. Re:How Ironic on America's Army 3 Has Rough Launch, Development Team Canned · · Score: 1

    Mod points? What are those? I know I've been the black sheep on a here a few times and I haven't seen mod points since, been a good 5-7 years.

  11. Re:It is a problem on Is China Creating the World's Largest Botnet Army? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For the sake of argument, lets assume the transit providers drop China's interconnects. 0% CPU overhead.

  12. Isn't this the same guy from before? on DIY 18-ft.-High Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    That's been working on this since 2004 and has likely been posting about here before?

  13. Hah on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The controversial plan to scan outgoing passengers -- including US citizens -- was allegedly hatched under the Bush Administration. An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants.

    Yea, but who has had control of Congress + the White House for the past 4+ months. Can't blame it all on Bush when the current administration can prevent it. Oh, I'm sorry, everything is still Bush's fault.

  14. Re:Big Deal on Confirmed Gmail / Google App Outage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But usage is precisely the point.

    I lost access to Search, News, E-Mail...

    but try explaining a global blackout of Google to your boss.

    Well that sounds like your problem really. Guess you shouldn't sold him on that single point of failure idea then huh?

  15. Re:Disabling Javascript is standard on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And yet another person misses the point. It's not talking about JavaScript in your browser, it's talking about JavaScript in the Reader software. I guess it's a given that somebody with the uid of 317 didn't RTFA ;)

  16. Re:the main concern... on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    This is cause for alarm if you're concerned about iceberg free shipping lanes, correct?

    Considering there's about zero shipping lanes near Antarctica I'd say this doesn't rank up there on the priority list.

  17. Re:Gee... on Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution · · Score: 2, Informative

    And when I wanted to find the image later after some jerk reverted my edit to the page I added the image to, it took forever to do that as well because the search function wouldn't return it as a result.

    That's why Wikipedia logs well . . . everything. There's this handy one called the upload log that, surprise surprise, logs uploads. Plug in your username there and it'd take about 2 seconds to find it again.

  18. $25 million? on Game Companies Face Hard Economic Choices · · Score: 4, Informative

    It takes $25 million to take the exact same game, shine it up a bit and put a new cover on it and expect people to shell out $60 for it?

    Maybe spend some of that on coming up with something new.

  19. Re:Malicious? on Microsoft Slaps $250K Bounty On Conficker Worm · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How is it not malicious already? It downloads and spreads unknown crap without peoples knowledge.

  20. Re:Enough crap... on EC Considering Removing Internet Explorer From Windows · · Score: 1

    But many can't because they have to access IE only Web pages. Those pages exist because MS broke the law and bundled IE. Not only that, MS did that intentionally (as revealed by internal memos) as a way to keep people from switching to other OS's.

    I've seen some slanted arguments, but blaming M$ for bad website coding is stretching it.

  21. Not surprising on The Unmanned Air Force · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't have the numbers handy but I'm betting that they can get many unmanned aircraft for the cost of a single manned one.

  22. Re:If the fix works. . . on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's the FBIs Botnet! OHMYGOOSES!

  23. Re:Solution: Public Key Auth on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    That's odd, if $large_company would do something like this, everybody on slashdot would bitch at them for "Security through Obscurity"

  24. Re:I guess I can't count on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    Back in March SlySoft confidently proclaimed BD+ was finished and said the worst case scenario was 3 months work.

    Read the first half of that sentence.

  25. Re:Bug? on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 1

    The fact that the cheats shown in the video are identical in function to the PC cheats kinda proves that.

    Imagine that, using the same engine for the same game.

    For the record, this fix is on dedicated servers only. These cheats can still be preformed on
    locally hosted games, although Valve HAS stated that they intend to fix that.

    Again, exactly as the article stated. Thank you Captain Obvious.