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  1. Re:What else is there to say on An FBI Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Your thoughts about touching the doll have been recorded and sent to the proper authorities. Please remain calm while our extraction team executes a warrant within one standard deviations of your present location.

  2. Do Bombing sites count? on China Names Chang'e 3 Lunar Landing Site 'Guang Han Gong' Or 'Moon Palace' (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Wondering if Obama got to name the crater he made..
    http://science.slashdot.org/st...

  3. Re:Sounds like the name of a brothel, on China Names Chang'e 3 Lunar Landing Site 'Guang Han Gong' Or 'Moon Palace' (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    cheese

  4. Re:What a criminal on Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    a corrupt one

  5. Monday 11PM on Study: Certain Vaccines Could Make Diseases More Deadly · · Score: 2

    I'm impressed that slashdot can push out this clickbait Monday evening, and that less than 64 people dispute that vaccines suck (excepting those who responded: trolls.)

  6. Re:Plumbing! on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    I'm working as a handyman/carpenter now. More work available than I can handle, get to pick my jobs and clients. I'll probably go back to scientific programming some day, but I'll do it on my terms.
    handymantoby.com

  7. Original Article on The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart · · Score: 1

    Looks mostly theoretical.
    https://www.researchgate.net/p...

  8. Re:The simple fact that we can't talk about this.. on Study Links Pacific Coastal Warming To Changing Winds · · Score: 1

    point

  9. Re:even more shocking on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    Clearly you have never purchased drugs on the internets..

  10. Voting is a waste of time on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 1

    At least in the Federal elections. So is protesting. State nullification via the tenth ammendment is an effective response to Federal overreach. see "marijuana" and "national speed-limit"

  11. Re:As easy as 1-2-3 on Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach · · Score: 1

    this

  12. Re:Interview of Executive Director of TTVK on Finnish Anti-Piracy Site Pirates Thepiratebay Content · · Score: 1

    nice find

  13. Re:No wonder the Chinese get confused. on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    lol

  14. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Why would they do this without announcing it first or explaining it afterwords? What city official approved this? Can I get a license to do this too? (for training when I do this for reals over a foreign city, where it's totally ok and normal)

  15. Re:Can we call them "GMO Deniers" now? on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    I like it.

  16. Re:suicide on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    heh

  17. murder on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    Activists don't readily kill themselves, and are often hard to kill. There are absolutely no details out on Aaron Swartz's death (when where how) so I'll assume he was killed.

  18. makes sense on UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move · · Score: 1

    can't expect them all to know how to sign their names.

  19. Paying for Propaganda on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    People will do it, but those in the know pay to know what the propaganda is.

  20. Re:real news? on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    yup

  21. Non-Fiction on Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? · · Score: 2

    If we drop the fiction requirement but still avoid math proper, there are classics like...
    "A Mathematicians Apology" by G.H. Hardy is The description of what it is to be a modern mathematician. Essential reading for the professional.
    "Chaos: Making a New Science" by James Gleick popularized the field of chaos, now folded into analysis.
    "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" by B. Mandelbrot is worth it for the images, and popularized fractal geometry.
    "Godel, Escher, Bach" by D. Hofstadter has been mentioned above, but is an extraordinary exploration of logic and well-deserves its awards.
    I consider "Where Mathematics Comes From" by G. Lakoff and R. Nunez to rank amoung these. It applies linguistic cognitive neuroscience methods to explore the neurological basis of mathematics.

    For math proper, a couple favorites:
    "The Heritage of Thales" by Anglin and Lambek is part history and part math textbook, presenting classic results from different periods of history in their context.
    "A Wavelet Tour of signal processing" by Stephane Mallat is the best book on wavelets I've seen, clearly written and full of powerful ideas which may take centuries to unfold.

  22. Re:My computer has a tin-foil hat. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    yeah

  23. Re:NCSA Mosaic on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    heh

  24. Good use of technology on Democracy Now Asks Third Party Candidates Questions From Last Night's Debate · · Score: 1

    I watched the first mashup presidential debate on DemocracyNow and it was excellent, they would cut from the official debate to Stein and Anderson also behind podiums and keep it rolling. With the official rules preventing Obama and Romney from interacting with each other there really isn't a need for them to be in the same room.

  25. Re:Third party candidates have the benefit ... on Democracy Now Asks Third Party Candidates Questions From Last Night's Debate · · Score: 2

    Well, Jill Stein didn't know the questions beforehand, because she spent the night shackled to a chair in a warehouse.
    http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala