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  1. Midwest on Ancient Cave Art May Depict Giant Bird Extinct For 40,000 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've read stories of American Indian culture talking about the giant birds in the midwest states. South of me here along the Mississippi near Alton Illinois there apparently used to be a giant painting of a bird on the side of a bluff near a cave. Unfortunately the bluff was destroyed by the nearby state prison for gravel.

  2. Working on solution? on Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this a library Google themselves have written? Why not just open it up and make it compatible with the GPL version in question? If they want to call it open source isn't that the easiest and fastest way to solve it? Do no evil, not do less evil

  3. Re:Cencorship, etc on Japan Moves Toward Blocking Online Child Porn · · Score: 1

    By that logic we could charge people with conspiracy to commit sexual abuse of a child if they were paying for a child to be abused before it actually occurred, and thus our current child porn laws would be unnecessary.

    Yes. People have probably already been charged with crimes like that, it's conspiracy. Are you saying it's ok to finance child porn as long as you're not the one committing it? I don't know how that would make any current law unnecessary though.

  4. Re:Cencorship, etc on Japan Moves Toward Blocking Online Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Note: "preventing spread of CP" != "protecting actual victims"

    If you rescued one of your children from someone victimizing them and videotaping it would you be happy just having them back in safety? Or would you want to stop people from leering over your underage child? People that seek this out are just as responsible as the people making the content. You can be damned sure that if you were paying someone to make snuff tapes you'd be charged along with the producers.

  5. Re:Cencorship, etc on Japan Moves Toward Blocking Online Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Obviously, CP is bad. However, I personally commend the Japanese for being slow in attempting a censorship sweep that will cost resources and, ultimately, do between little and nothing to actually protect the actual victims.

    The victims were victimized when the images/video were produced. And they are victimized every time they are viewed.

    These safe houses condone CP, censoring them will help future would be victims. Also curbing the flow of CP could help would be victimizers from feeding their fetish.

  6. Re:Well at least... on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    What used to be the output of 1 man hour of work was 1 man hour of work. Ever since man invented his first tools he has been saving himself time. With the invention of complex tools and machines that saved time has exponentially increased. The printing press and the cotton gin alone increased 1 man hour of work to 20+ man hours. Only a dark age or global catastrophe can stop this trend. There are two possible outcomes:

    1. Man can finally stop living most of his conscious life hunting and gathering and instead pursue art, intellectual and cultural advancement as the prime goal in life.

    2. Man continues to live subservient to other men with make believe rules and we become a welfare/slave state. Except there'd be no use for slaves so we'd probably all die off from lack of proper care from our masters.

  7. Re:Ya, You Betcha on Lifelock Worries After Employee Data Leaked To Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    What it shows clearly is that Lifelock is worthless, except at taking money from morons.

    Exactly. I've been waiting for this story ever since I laughed at their first commercial.

  8. No kidding on Mixed Signs On the State of IT Education · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't think I've come across a person with a programming degree yet that I'd call a programmer. But they sure know how to use MS Office!

  9. Left out a requirement on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it also be required to run on a windows box?

  10. Re:And in other news... on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    We drive on the right side over here .... that changes EVERYTHING! ;)

  11. Re:Tabs are stupid on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. Attacker convinces The User to click on example.com/evilsite/awwcutekitty.html which shows them a cute kitty. They think it's neat and they go to tweet it to their friends or whatever. Once they switch tabs (or windows) the onblur command replaces the cute kitty with a login screen, possibly one chosen using the :visited css hack so it looks like a site they actually use. They go back to where they thought the cute kitty was, and when the cute kitty isn't there anymore, they don't think "Hey my cat picture has been replaced by a gmail phishing site" they think "aww I must have closed it. Now I gotta log back into gmail to get the link again since my session timed out"

    That's what I thought, so really it's nothing at all to do with tabs per se. I'm a great multi-tasker, but I've never saw the benefit of having more than 4-5 open windows/tabs at once. Even if I'm doing some type of development online. It's much quicker, for me, to just open a new window and go to the new site I want to visit, even if I do it several times an hour. I close the window when I'm done and I know right were to access it again next time, by opening a new one ...

  12. Tabs are stupid on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    Ive never understood tabs myself. I already had tabs built into my operating system, they called it the taskbar. What's the vulnerability being attacked here anyway? I know of no way for content in one tab to insert content or even change the location of another tab ...

  13. Re:All comes down to budget on IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards · · Score: 1

    If he hadn't moved out of state I would have followed that man anywhere.

    ... except following him out of state of course ...

  14. Re:Qualifications on Military Appoints General To Direct Cyber Warfare · · Score: 2, Funny

    What from his picture makes him look like a slashdotter? His hair is trimmed, his face is shaven and his smile seems to suggest he's been laid within 25 years.

  15. Re:And in other news... on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    In 20 years of driving, only the emergency vehicle one. I've never had any of those other situations. That's not to say they don't happen, but I am left wondering why you imagine they are common occurrences that happen to everyone.

    I don't think he said they were commonly happening to everyone. But they are common occurrences that happen. Having the ability to restart your car doesn't help, that's 2-3 seconds at best, and in emergency situations you're already read-ended, or already forcing the ambulance to slow or stop, or already swiped by the young semi-driver on his 2nd delivery through crowded city streets. From your use of 'queue' I'm guessing you're from 'across the pond' so have you driven in the U.S. before? A rational implementation? When was the last time government and big business did anything rational? lol Common sense doesn't happen commonly either.

  16. Open on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Give them something open they can play with. You can learn plenty on windows, and I assume mac (last macintosh i used was a green screen and I learned plenty). Let them get hands on and into the guts of it all. Let them write their own OS from something open.

  17. Re:Open Store, Open Door... on App Store-Aided Mobile Attacks · · Score: 1

    As much as we hate Apple's walled-garden approach to an app store, having a central authority with a kill switch for any app, plus limited multitasking ability, plus developers tied to using the app store's preferred programming language and tools are all things that stand in the way of a would be trojan spyware author.

    Know what would really stand in their way? Not having mobile devices. Then they'd have a hard time doing anything malicious with it since we wouldn't even own them. Oh wait, yeah, we wouldn't own them.

  18. Re:Microsoft missing an opportunity on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    Which game did Loki port?? I bought a ton of those back in the day, but don't recall any Mech Warrior.

  19. Re:Very popular on Russian Company Buys ICQ · · Score: 1

    Yeah 6 digit ... but starting with 3 :(

  20. Re:Why 2-legged? on Japanese Consortium Projects a Humanoid Robot On the Moon By 2015 · · Score: 1

    If you don't have 4 legs, then you won't be able to do anything on the moon. Humans have 4 legs. We only walk on two of them, and call the other two "arms". They are smaller and lighter, but not that much lighter. Most quadrupedal mammals also have smaller, lighter front legs, which they happen to walk on. With them, just like with us, the rear legs are larger and heavier and provide most of the locomotive power.

    Yes exactly. A two legged robots are useless if they don't have the extra appendages to help them maintain balance or regain their bipedalness after losing their balance.

  21. Re:Why 2-legged? on Japanese Consortium Projects a Humanoid Robot On the Moon By 2015 · · Score: 1

    If a two legged robot can traverse the terrain while it builds an outpost then it would be safe to assume that a human could traverse it as well.

  22. Time Served on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    and let him go

  23. Re:Islam is dangerous. on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Parent is modded interesting for 'Islam is dangerous'?

    Have you studied the Torah? Or the Christian Bible? There are rules laid out in those as well. And FUNDAMENTALISTS interpreting any ancient text are dangerous. There are Christians who believe they'd be first in line after the rapture who also believe they have the holy right to burn gays, hang pagans or kill other 'non-believers'. They don't because society says no, but as soon as society says it's ok, the witch hunts begin. Hitler used Christianity and an Aryan Jew hating Jesus to incite his fellow Christians. I think the death toll scoreboard shows Muslim Fundamentalists trailing to hard hitter Christianity, and probably others as well.

    The truth is, anyone literally interpreting anything as 'Gods Infallible Word' is dangerous. The USA needs it's religious fanatics curbed probably more than most other counties. Remember them? They were the ones that invaded the Islamic country because their commander-in-chief said 'God told him to end the tyranny'.

  24. Re:not going to work on File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life · · Score: 1

    No, it'll just be enough so that everyone runs to their geek friends to do it for them.

  25. Re:I saw the meteor on Meteor Spotted Yesterday Over Midwestern United States · · Score: 1

    Yes I had just walked out onto my deck and was in shock for several seconds not understanding what I was quite seeing at first. It was huge, and from it's speed I could tell it was still at least several hundred miles away from me.