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  1. Well on Is Computer Science Dead? · · Score: 1

    Dont tell that to my professor.

  2. Wow! on Is Computer Science Dead? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day: stable, well-proven and easily available.

    And who made those packages?

    Software don't write itself.

  3. Re:Your customer sets the design on Patent Filed for Underwater GPS · · Score: 1

    No offense, but the military wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole. The whole point of a submarine is to be silent. Active sonar is anything but silent. You might say "Well then the base station will use active sonar then!" And then I'll say those base stations will probably have a lot of accidents since some people dont want their subs to be found.

  4. Re:My Linux update on GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? · · Score: 1

    or a:

    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

    bit shorter . . .

  5. Might have been just me . . . on 20 Must-have Firefox Extensions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    . . but I just dont see why many of those are 'Must have'. I mean how often do I need to measure stuff?

  6. Re:VMs on Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm? · · Score: 1

    Um, since when does VMWare or Xen emulate a different architecture?

  7. Rama on Sea Creatures to Provide Basis for New Electronics? · · Score: 1

    "and in other applications requiring complex shapes that nature can produce better than humans."

    That last bit reminds me of the Rama Series (Arthur C. Clark / Gentry Lee ) and how the third species genetically engineered creatures to fill the needs of the colony.

  8. Re:I'm sorry but you don't "throw" beer on The Beer Tossing Fridge · · Score: 0

    What's the same with Miller Lite and sitting in a canoe?

    Damn close to water.

  9. Time . . . on Speed of Light Exceeded? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Good. No, the answer is an orange and two lemons."

    "Lemons?"

    "If I have three lemons and three oranges and I lose two oranges and a lemon, what do I have left?"

    "Huh?"

    "Okay, so you think that time flows that way, do you?"

    -Mostly Harmless

  10. Re:Err wha? on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    But the way that question and the previous ones were answered make it sound like you can track a MAC address from the other side of the world.

  11. Err wha? on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    22 A. Every time a packet goes through a

                      23 cable modem, a router, a NAT, the MAC address is not

                      24 preserved; it is destroyed and recreated on the

                      25 other side.


    I thought the MAC address didn't survive the first trip through a router.
  12. Re:so inevitably.... on Best Buy Confirms 'Secret' Version of its Website · · Score: 1

    So . . can we access this intranet to check prices :)

  13. Uh . . on Honeynet Delineates Web Application Threats · · Score: 0

    Based on analysis of malware collected by the project, the paper outlines a number of HTTP-based attacks against web applications and some ways of protecting Web servers.

    chroot and run it as nobody?
    Install mod_security?

  14. Re:Shortly after introduction 100kW battlefield la on 67-Kilowatt Laser Unveiled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Insightful how? Making mirrors that can withstand 100+kW of energy you can't exactly go down to your hardware store. Insurgents have nowhere near the facilities or technology to create anything close to withstanding 100kW.

  15. Ohhhhhay on Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC · · Score: 1

    Now I'm not trying to make light of the CP charges, but why isn't this guy getting in trouble for hacking computers?

  16. Err on Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fortunately the IFE system is totally disjoint from the avionics.

    No offense, but I don't think avionics are your run of the mill programmers.

  17. So on Remote Code Execution Hole Found In Snort · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's the Snort signature for this?

    Would be somewhat helpful saying "Hey look somebody is rooting me!"

  18. Good luck on Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal · · Score: 1

    Good luck enforcing it and finding the C2 to punish the right person. I know my clan's site has had to move hosts a few times due to DDoS attacks, especially when the last one was pushing 10 Gb/s

  19. Hurm . . . on Water Logic Gates Built at MIT · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if the same principle could be used with hamsters and those little tubes they run around in . . .

    *goes off to patent the Hamster Computer*

  20. Re:War is ugly. on Blood Vessel Shunt May Save Limbs In War · · Score: 1

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but a Missile Defense program is not to destroy your so-called MAD balance. In a true MAD scenario a Missile Defense program isn't going to do much, it's more for rogue states with minimal weapons like Iran, N.Korea, etc.

  21. Re:That's not the way it works. on Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video · · Score: 1

    Come now. Google / YouTurd has these dogs called "lawyers". If they had given a shit and wanted to question the Take-Down, they could have. What this does is set a precident for Viacom to walk all over Google/YouTube and take steaming dumps on them. If YouTube / Google was smart, and not "evil", they would not have folded so easy.

    If you do that you're effectively surrendering your Safe Harbor protections so . . . no.

  22. Re:RIPE DNS monitoring on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Thank you for pointing out the same URL that is in the fraking submission.

    Kudos to you!

  23. Re:Some people think bilingualism is bad on Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia · · Score: 1

    No, i'm saying learn fucking English or jump your ass back across the border.

  24. Jesus Christ on World's Densest Memory Cells Created · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick people, a good sweeping majority of the comments so far have been "OMG DUPE", "OMG SLASHDOT SUXORS", "EDITORS ARE STEWPID".

    How about next time there's a dupe, you just don't comment. Let the people who have something intelligent and informative to say post. Also, not everybody might have seen it the first time.

    Lighten Up.

  25. Re:It plays Fairplay on Via Debuts Smallest PC Mobo Format Yet · · Score: 4, Funny

    This thing is only portable if you carry a really long extension cord.