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  1. Re:Two Steps on Ask Slashdot: Preparing an Android Tablet For Resale? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Built-in storage is going to be an IC or two that are soldered to a PCB. If the device won't boot, the only really safe way to delete the data is to dismantle the unit and totally destroy the board and make sure all ICs are broken.

  2. Re:Useless Internet on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is, they're screwed.

  3. Re:Send a robot on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's pointless to send robots into space. All they do is waste processing cycles looking at the stars and mess around with fire extinguishers.

  4. Re:simulate high-latency communciations? on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 1

    I would have modded him, but my last mod points expired in march 2017. He should have posted his comment a few years earlier.

  5. Re: Not Just Phones on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something NSA spyware would do.

  6. Re:Inconceivable! on AP Computer Science Test Takers Up 8,000; Pass Rate Down 6.8% · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  7. Re:Alternative explanation on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 2

    People assume that the Internet is a strict connection from server to client. But actually from a non-linear, non-connected viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, streamey-wimey... bits.

  8. Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    I would even say, it's quite a Quantum Leap, unfortunately it's unavailable to stream on Netflix Canada. Which is funny because it's probably available on Netflix USA which I could access via VPN too.

  9. Re:Attention Editors on Day One With the Brand New Oculus Rift DK2: the Good, the Ugly and the Games · · Score: 0

    The editors don't even see the errors anymore. All they see now is blonde, brunette, redhead...

  10. Re:GPLv4 - the good public license? on The Army Is 3D Printing Warheads · · Score: 1

    Ni!

  11. Re:no problem on Earth In the Midst of Sixth Mass Extinction: the 'Anthropocene Defaunation' · · Score: 2

    But then again, I had no idea we were supposedly responsible for the extinction of mammoth.

    I guess you've never watched The Flintstones.

  12. Chris Hedges on Wikipedia Blocks 'Disruptive' Edits From US Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    “We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.” - Chris Hedges

  13. Re: Citation needed? on Wikipedia Blocks 'Disruptive' Edits From US Congress · · Score: 1

    A simple not-yes would not not suffice?

  14. Re:Speed holes! on Will Your Next Car Be Covered In Morphing Dimples? · · Score: 1

    Glad I'm not the only one who thought about that after reading the summary.

  15. Re:Shark Laser Head Meme MUST DIE! on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    I guess he doesn't want to get laser eye surgery because he's afraid of sharks.

  16. Re:New Microsoft CEO on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 1

    I fourth this post.

  17. Re:NPC on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    Reading about this test kind of reminded me of the test given to Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

  18. And for the other half on For Half, Degrees In Computing, Math, Or Stats Lead To Other Jobs · · Score: 1

    Their degree is in Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

    Do you want fries with that?

  19. Brain scans and actions aside, did they question the people who didn't save the NPC, or were they asked to act as if everything in the simulation was real?

    Without the last instruction, my thought would have been "screw the NPC, I'm not going to fail the test for a virtual

    And no, I didn't RTFA.

  20. Re:Surprise! on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 2

    Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

  21. Re:Because cybercriminals cheat on The Psychology of Phishing · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to know, with a total from all those password surveys, how many are "luggage12345". A search on Google gives "About 10,600 results", so that's already a possible hint about how popular it could be as a password.

  22. Princess Bride on The Psychology of Phishing · · Score: 0

    Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

  23. New Microsoft CEO on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone think there's any chance that the next IE version will simply switch to Blink or WebKit, with a fallback to Trident if the X-UA-Compatible meta is present?

    If that happens, Firefox will be the odd one out as far as rendering is concerned.

  24. Re:Surprise! on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but no other browser can claim a 100% increase in vulnerabilities!

    Take THAT, Apple, Mozilla, Google and Opera!

  25. Re:How many broken parts trying to spin up? on China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    Then again, how many Slashdot readers are left-handed?