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  1. sentence. on Study: Some Antioxidants Could Increase Cancer Rates · · Score: 2

    word.

  2. Clapper needs to go on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    the correct answer when they have the goods on you, but you don't want to be seen bumbling around on TV, is "We will be providing such detail as we can to the Chairman in private, so he can brief the committee under oath."

    if you bullshit your way through the hearings, you are not informing Congress as required by your enabling legislation and the Constitution, and your sorry ass needs to go now, today.

    that's how it works.

  3. hey, and it came from rats! on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 3, Funny

    the coincidences are just too many to be random...

  4. I expected Alexander Cousins on European Research Network GÉANT Turns Spacecraft Data Into Music · · Score: 1

    this is scales backstage at the Maxbass, ND Philharmonic.

  5. create a secure computer on Sniffing and Decoding NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE Packets For Under $30 · · Score: 1

    1) dig a hole 30 feet deep, say, 10x10 feet.

    2) drop computer in.

    3) no wires, dammit, take those out.

    4) fill with concrete.

    5) place crew-served weapons on top 24x7 for eternity.

    that's the only way. it would also help to nuke the machine in a microwave for a minute first so all the chips are back to sand.

  6. and if it doesn't work out... on National Lab Working To Mix Metals and Polymers For 3D Printing · · Score: 2

    ... I'm sure the soldiers of the First Army will personally come over and "discuss" the matter...

  7. some fishing expedition this is... on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    there are fishing expeditions by subpoena. by break-and-enter. by throwing dynamite overboard.

    freakin' NSA is tossing nukes to try and find one bluegill in the ocean.

    there oughta be a law...

  8. chops up the chip density some on Graphene Sheath Modulates Fiber-Optic Transmission At 200 GHz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    you also have to dissipate the heat of conversion in the source and detector, which means large chunks of silicon in relation to the transistors. but I can see using this to cut distortion cross-chip, or up a stack of chips in Cray-ish constructions, and maintain internal speed.

    there is of course the usual last line of the study document, on behalf of the lead and the graduate assistants who have several years to go in their degree yet, that "this effect needs more study."

  9. sigh, all the innovation has gone elsewhere on Amazon and GoDaddy Are the Biggest Malware Hosters · · Score: 2

    we host the most sites, but all the big hacks and l337 hax0rz are from other countries. just shows to go ya, we have lost the innovation edge in the US, outclassed by WhateverStan. I am so embarassed...

  10. heh, all oursourced at the stores on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 3, Informative

    the link is interesting reading. click it.

  11. uh, don't use Windows based POS systems? on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 2

    all the bad boys know the ins and outs of Windows APIs. read the Visa alert, it's only Windows registers that get fooled and compromised.

    this is one of those things where using commodity software in any stripe is probably not advised. like, for instance, cars. airplanes. hope to God not nuclear reactors.

    embedded Windows is a freakin' end of civilization waiting for the right malware...

  12. Hi, my name is Steve Ballmer. on Samsung, Apple Agree To Try Mediation In Patent Disputes · · Score: 1

    I will be your mediator today. Will you gentlemen have a little hemlock to start with?

  13. anybody on a Helldesk can testify to this on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I am the Senior Vice-Neutron for Intracorporation Multinational Reassignment! You must open port 23 at once so I can check my stocks!" who hasn't heard something like that?

  14. case dismissed on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    the Chewbacca defense always wins.

  15. but your honor! on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 2

    I was researching the appropriate statues in the Combined Annotated Statues of the Law of the State of (wherever) at the time the vehicle ran down six members of the State Supreme Court. I refer you to Evidence Photo #17, in which the rest of the car was full of lawbooks. your honor, this case should be considered pre-appealed, as it has already been presented to the Supreme Court, and I should be released on personal recognizance... .

  16. woo! Gilbert Home Physics Kit! on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    first, they have three meltdowns because they can't get things right in the face of a storm. now, the Japanese seek a meltdown just... because. those Ninjas have the curiosity of a 3 year old...

  17. best answer on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    because if the hardware company is thinking "gates" instead of "cycles," they want to implement it in a FPGA. hell, if they were going to put it on a dedicated microprocessor, they'd just recast it with libraries for that processor and recompile.

  18. yeah, but you can only bring in Atari 2600s on China Lifts 13-Year-Old Foreign Console Ban · · Score: 1

    and other consoles made before 2000. written natively in the Chinese language. featuring games of feeding pandas.

  19. why not beef up the alert system? on Creating Better Malware Warnings Through Psychology · · Score: 1

    like, say, banning for life websites serving up crapware... in the case of malware ads, banning the ad sites. and submitting the site info automatically to Spamhaus and the like. there are so many "oh, gee, we blocked content from Internet Explorer" boxes every day that it's meaningless. the content is NOT from IE, it's from slopbucket.adserver.ru or wherever.

  20. I've been ringing that bell for over a decade. on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 1

    alas, when you ring a bell in the forest...

  21. Ford was playing with epoxies 15 years ago on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    instead of welds, as well as plastic panels. while Chrysler engineers invented epoxy in the 30s, nobody has used it in production vehicles to hold the big parts together.

  22. purview of banks investing in security on Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    seeing as how the chipped cards cost 5 times as much, I think we can consider this discussion closed :-D you know, the mantra of Wall Street is "screw the future, what are you doing for us this quarter?"

  23. 98-million gun salute... on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 4, Funny

    bringing down 72 helicopters, ten planes, and falling lead took out 200 weddings.

  24. ideologically pure, how? on DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security · · Score: 1

    batwing crazies are fixated, too

  25. from bad to worse on DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security · · Score: 1

    "Hi, I'm Jihad McMuhammed, I'm here to start data analysis as your newest intern."

    "fine, why don't you take the Assistant Leader Personal Security desk over here, and coordinate our reactions to intelligence... you can text when you're not busy."

    what could possibly be wrong about that?