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  1. Re:Bad assumption on Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service · · Score: 1

    A different way to look at the assumption is, the guys who will be making and maintaining "telex" nodes will not sell them to any Government or ISP that censors the internet.

    So I can't make a telex node -- some other guy has to do it? And if I can make a telex node, my unfavoritest governments can make thousands of them.

  2. Re:Secret Code Answer... on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 1

    Thank you for at least not making the same old Ovaltine joke.

    There is no old Ovaltine. We were all commanded to drink it by our secret overlords.

  3. I didn't give one to him, so you can't have one. on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    "Our astronauts and their descendants are not permitted to have an Apollo 11-era moon rock to sell for their own enrichment and neither should a private citizen who acquired one in a less-noble manner," Gutheinz said.

    In what way is it relevant what NASA chose to give to the astronauts? If NASA didn't give a rock to astronauts, does that also mean that NASA shouldn't keep any of the rocks? Does NASA own the rocks which it gave away to governors and other countries? If it was NASA's rock, what did it do to recover it after the fire? Did NASA think that a rock can't survive a fire?

  4. Re:Found it in the trash on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 5, Informative

    The State of Alaska seems to agree that stuff in the trash is abandoned property (PDF).

  5. Facebook privacy? on Harvard's Privacy Meltdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So privacy was violated by reading what the students chose to publish on Facebook? Just think of all the privacy violations the students do when they read the college course descriptions!

  6. Re:CFO's glad they didn't take the next step on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google's CFO's glad they didn't take the next step after pi: tau (6.28...)

    The CFO's would have been more worried at a bid for $googol.

  7. It's time for a different environment on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 1

    Do your reading in a negative-gravity environment, so time has negative dilation and the data can be read at what seems to be a higher speed to an outside observer. Achieving a faster time frame is left as an exercise for the overclocker.

  8. Re:Stop trying to be smart... on Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation · · Score: 1

    Just gotta somehow link that energy saving light bulbs stimulate your libido.

    That will only succeed in selling light fixtures with for 100 energy saving bulbs.

  9. Re:Stop trying to be smart... on Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation · · Score: 1

    There's no need for clever new strategies to promote adoption. If you want to sell something just give it sex appeal. Sex sells. Always has, always will.

    But I think these people want to counter HotOrNot.

  10. Location, location, location on Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan · · Score: 1

    I hope 123 4th Street is available.

  11. Label works on "Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle": 30 Dumb Warning Labels · · Score: 5, Funny

    That label works. I haven't eaten a single iPod Shuffle. At least, none that I've noticed.

  12. Re:This is seriously a world first?!!?? on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 2

    I guess three foot switches is not enough to be called a controller, but obviously "the world’s first foot controlled digital interface" is not factually correct. For that matter, there have been foot mouse interfaces appearing for twenty years.

  13. Tweet first on LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack · · Score: 4, Funny

    So after they put out a Tweet, do believe fake LulzSec releases.

  14. Re:Is this actually a question? on Are 'Nudging Technologies' Ethical? · · Score: 1

    Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
    If you know what I mean.

  15. Re:And yet... on Trojan Goes After Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    I also would like to lose nothing of value. Is there a tool with which I can create a worthless wallet, or a wallet that screams "THIEF! THIEF!"? But then I'd have to have the wallet on a machine which might get attacked. Well, at least I could plant a tree in case a nut comes along.

  16. Not while we burn food on Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? · · Score: 1

    Try discussing this after we stop burning food as fuel.

  17. Re:Torchlight on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can only imagine how disappointed your daughter would be cracking open a text adventure, wanting FATE instead!

    It depends upon the resolution of her imagination's graphics whether Zork is good.

  18. For We Have no WalMart on North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad · · Score: 1

    Of course they have to send computer students to study computers in places where computers exist.

  19. Great idea! on Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior · · Score: 1

    Seems like a great idea, as long as it's released on an electrical network that I'm not using!

  20. Re:computer viruses in the power grid? on Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior · · Score: 1

    "who watches the watchers"

    The ant lion watches them.

  21. I think I saw this movie on World's Largest Amateur Rocket Prepares For Second Attempt · · Score: 1

    So there's a self-propelled missile launcher headed toward the USSR?

  22. Re:Additional evidence for collision event? on Discovery of Water In Moon May Alter Origin Theory · · Score: 1
    Most water wasn't shot out into space. We're talking here about water in the Moon's mantle, just as there is water in Earth's mantle. The impact didn't splash pebble-sized rocks, it splashed mantle material on a planetary scale. The surface of the large blobs of molten rock were exposed to space -- well, a greatly distorted vacuum, full of gases and rock vapor also. Some of the splash formed into the Moon, while some of it returned to what would become Earth. So some of the mantle material in the Earth was at one time affected by similar processes. It's hardly surprising that there are similarities.

    Where is some research on how the materials in the big splash were affected by the splash and what happened afterward?

  23. Welcome to Texas on DOJ Could Ban Texas Flights Over Anti-Patdown Law · · Score: 1

    Welcome. You can fly in to Texas but you can't fly out. No problem, we're a big place. Welcome, Texan.

  24. "Confirms"? on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 1

    How did we get "confirms" from "may have"?

  25. Nice workaround on Implant Restores Paralyzed Man's Leg Movement · · Score: 1

    Nice way to work around the problem of the nerves not delivering the message -- add your own communication system. It would be nice if someone figures out how to repair broken links to the spinal cord, but using a different control and communication method is a good way to get some use of that otherwise unused muscle.