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  1. oh, noes! Google is hacking Google! on Google's Project Zero Aims To Find Exploits Before Attackers Do · · Score: 1

    all my data will be seized by Google and used for nefarious purposes! call out the National Guard! we are doomed!

  2. skilled trades on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    plumbing, electrician, framer, mechanic, heavy equipment operator. if you're working for a contractor, not in-house at some firm, there will be boom and bust years. but no makerbot can do this work.

  3. A. Typewriter. on German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks · · Score: 1

    so, one guy types up all the reports and then shreds them. THAT's security!

    until the one guy goes out for the night...

    probably all the typewriters they could dig up... one.

  4. you would think prop wash would down the drone on Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    helicopters ride on a LOT of air. the cops could have just gotten over the drone and slapped it down.

  5. 30 meters, bonded? yeah, that'll sell on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 4, Funny

    as soon as you get out of the shade of the equipment cabinet, it's dead, Jim. yeah, that'll work. dig up the shrubs to put a 2 cubic meter cabinet and power stand next to the house. oh, yeah, I'm going to pester the phone company for this now.

    plus 106+ MHz impacts aviation radio with interference. if the cabinet blocking your dryer vent doesn't get you, the 737 in your living room will.

  6. that's gotta suck when the TV goes out on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    "tower, ByNight 666, help, we're flying blind."

    "666, only until you're out of fuel, over."

  7. Dragonfly by Symantec... hey, that could sell! on Western Energy Companies Under Sabotage Threat · · Score: 1

    you know it's working by the buzz your production machinery makes on the other side of the office wall. well, almost more or a roar....

  8. pnysically impossible on Funding for iFind Kickstarter Suspended · · Score: 1, Redundant

    so it's self-delusion or fraud. you would have to be three tower rungs below a broadcast antenna to harvest enough power, and you'd get very, very fried.

  9. I know that joke! on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 4, Funny

    at the corner where Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin meet, three farmers were talking over the fence. they find a magic lamp, and the Iowa farmer rubs it. out comes the genie, and splits the three wishes between them. the Iowa farmer says, "I would like this place to be green and fertile forever, rich and promising." BANG! the corn is ten feet tall. the Wisconsin farmer says, "Our state is so beautiful, I would like a thousand-foot wall all around it, so we can enjoy these hills, this water, the land forever without interlopers." BANG, fence.

    the Minnesota farmer looks at the wall, and says, "Genie, we love our lakes. Fill that fence with water." BANG!

  10. all I'd need there is a sports iPod on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    wireless, several hours battery time, over 4 gig. everything else is on my smartphone, the new fogey's pocket watch.

  11. just one more Chuck Norris kick, and it's gone on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    so to prove the power of a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick, we will have to fire up the CERN supercollider to ever higher and ever higher energies, until we can record the exact one that makes the universe go "poof."

    then add 3, and there you have it.

  12. creaky old farts may remember... on First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android · · Score: 1

    that Microsoft bought Xenix in the 80s, and rewrote all their code in C at that time for portability to any platform, any OS.

  13. just so it doesn't change Chicago as a city on New Sensors Will Scoop Up "Big Data" On Chicago · · Score: 1

    after all, every person in the cemetary has a right to vote!

  14. mod +10 informative on EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement · · Score: 1

    this is one of the times in which busting the top off the thermometer is justified. unless the MafIAA is vanquished, this is infinite jeopardy.

  15. judges don't understand much on The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand Software · · Score: 1

    their presumed knowledge is limited to application of 87 US 1.d.23 and related precedents, for instance. they spend 7 to 8 years in university for that, and suck up to politicians for the rest. it is up to the lawyers on both sides to reduce a case to words of one syllable at a 5th grade level of reading to make complex systems understandable. judges' heads swim if you can't lead them through a nasty stew of undocumented code to a conclusion in less time than it takes to search Nexus-Lexus for prior rulings. just how it is.

  16. so shout "fire" in a crowded theater on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 2

    not all speech is free. you won't find The Jihad Channel on your local cable box. incendiary or hateful speech is prohibited by any number of state and local ordinances, and various equal rights legislations. fact is, and you can ask multiple schools about their athletic departments, the native American population has had enough, as other people of color have, and they are using all challenges possible to douse the loaded stereotypes. the Washington NFL team has got to change, and the screws are tightening under their thumbs.

  17. Secure. Responsive. 24/7/365. the Cloud. on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 1

    and our admin password is "letmein"

  18. hell, just unplug Canada, then on Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From Its Global Index · · Score: 1

    be just like Egypt, Iran, Syria, China.....

  19. jibes perfectly, hand in glove on FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists · · Score: 1

    good ol' voter pattern research to hound the rascals out. everybody does it these days, not just the parties.

  20. "He's dipped, Jim!" on Priceline To Buy OpenTable For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 1

    sorry, but somebody had to do it.

  21. two parts to the access on Portland Edges Closer To Google Fiber · · Score: 2

    there is a link to get your data out of the house. and then there is an ISP at the other end of the link to get your data on and off the internet.

    links don't care about physical media. you can use fiber, twisted pair, coax, wifi, top two wires of a fence, whatever. some are better than others in a specific physical area.

    some ISPs are crap, and some are not, also. if they can handle the bandwidth, don't treat you like a captive, and have support inside and out 24x7, ISPs can be interchangeable. but usually if you take one company's link, you get their ISP. the days of sharing the back office side of the dslams are pretty much gone to any ISP who wants to drop a T1 or T3 to the connection point.

    at this point, fiber is the goal. PON is the usual method. but it's still costly as sin to run it out to you, so it's limited area access where it's cheapest and has the best chance of adoption, like to new developments with McMansions.

    Joe Blow in a 60-year-old neighborhood, forget it. sorry. but I can't get PON either, and I work for a provider. story of my life.

  22. sidestepping the obvious on Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you had plenty of VAX to clean the office each night, too.

  23. and yet one more new domain... on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    .idiot

  24. yeah, tell them to send the money back home! on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 1

    don't hide it any more in the pristine EuroCenter!

  25. heh, prior art exists on Fuel Cells From Nanomaterials Made From Human Urine · · Score: 1

    namely, a lovely line from Tom Clancy concerning a black helicopter pilot where he shouldn't be without enough fuel to scat... "Son, right now I'd burn piss if I had enough."