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  1. Re:Do not use standard passwords on Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, me too. I told my brother that stealing my girlfriend in the 8th grade was a shitty thing to do and he should stop getting drunk in bars. Then an hour later I told him my account was hacked and that wasn't me who wrote that.

  2. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 2

    You are, of course, referring to the original Amiga 1000 which had music-quality sound, full-screen video, and preemptive multitasking in 1985.

  3. Re:Scummy yet brilliant. on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    By 'rapist', you mean 'is accused of having consensual sex without using a condom', a minor crime in Sweden with a $750 penalty.

  4. Re:Change schools. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 1

    So make less money and enjoy your life.

  5. Re:Do they realise... on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    Oh, this is not going to end well:

    Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Walter Peck] You shut that thing down, and "we" are not gonna be held responsible for what ever happens.
    Walter Peck: Oh yes you will, I'll make sure you will.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: No, we won't be.
    Walter Peck: [to the electrician] Shut it off.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the electrician] Don't shut it off. I'm warning ya.
    Con Edison Man: I, I never seen anything like this before. I'm not sure...
    Walter Peck: [Interrupting] I'm not interested in your opinion, just shut it off.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: [Gets in electrician's way] My friend, don't be a jerk.
    Police Sergeant: [Gets in Peter's way] Step aside.
    Walter Peck: If he does that again, you can shoot him.

  6. Re:I think the Taliban are anti-girl. on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the Muslim women who raise those little boys are full of suppressed hatred of the men, which they will take out on their little boys in numerous ways as they grow up, ensuring the cycle will continue when those little boys take out their anger on their mothers on the next victim.

  7. Re:That's the police for you on Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone · · Score: 1

    George, is that you?

  8. Re:Banal? on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits · · Score: 1

    I just had to look up Ajax.
    Apparently he is a Greek hero. Fancy pseudo-intellectual sprinkling Greek mythology into your conversations...

  9. Re:Plan A on Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? · · Score: 1

    Great idea! In fact, forget about the passwords and the insurance.

  10. Countermeasure on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    I propose an addition to bittorrent clients that detects this poisoning and floods the poisoner with packets. If all clients devoted some small percent of their bandwidth, say 10% to flooding poisoners it would DDOS them. I propose we call it 'ImRubberYoureGlue".

  11. Welcome to the Olympics... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the Olympics... May the odds be ever in your favor!

  12. Re:diff on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 2

    These comments are full of 'helpful' suggestions to compare to backup or to md5's generated from the backups.
    That makes no sense.
    If he has a good set of backups JUST RESTORE THE BACKUPS to get known good files back. Why would you read every backup file and every current file, then compare them, then make a list of ones that don't match just to restore the backups. Restore them all. done.

  13. And we will be paying for every useless bit of it.

  14. Re:Not worth it. on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 1

    "This little drive is not worth the effort. Come, let me get you something..."
    "The frugal is strong in this one."

  15. Re:um..how did they get in? on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 2

    These aren't 'random people' wandering around a data center. This is the FBI. They flashed some badges, made some threats, and when they were done they zapped everyone with a neuralizer just to be sure.

  16. Re:Last bastion on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > Americans still believe that life was created by God 6000 years ago

    heh-heh.

    I met one of those. Nice family. They an incredibly detailed history chart on butchers paper running all around the walls of their house. I was walking along it reading all of the diverging lines of societies, wars, inventions, etc. It was fascinating. Then I reached "the end". I said, 'where is the rest?'. "What rest?" they replied, "that is when God made the Earth."

    The hairs went up on the back of my neck in an involuntary reflex inherited from my Ape-like ancestors... or was it?

  17. Re:apple is clearly doomed on Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK · · Score: 1

    You don't get it? Two business have a dispute which they are working out. In the meantime Apple is stopping developers from incorporating Dropbox's API and stopping users from using those apps. The users suffer while the businesses argue.

    A more reasonable response would be for Apple to tell Dropbox this particular element of their app is unacceptable and must be changed within one month or one week or some time frame WITHOUT holding the users hostage in the meantime.

    (confession: I did not RTFA)

  18. Re:Mr. Wall, please sit down... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a Darwinian process. The US is making itself so utterly uncompetitive with no production no manufacturing no products just lawsuits. Any country with the strength to ignore our bullshit will be so much more productive than the US and its thralls that they will come to dominate us economically and eventually militarily.

    At this point it appears that China is the only country that isn't controlled by the same multinational corporations that govern the US, and has any chance of not becoming part of the same game.

  19. Cost benefit analysis on Scientific Jigsaw Puzzle: Fitting the Pieces of the Low-Level Radiation Debate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Low level radiation may be dangerous, but we have to weight that against the benefit to the corporations that sell airport scanners. Some amount of harm is worth it.

  20. Re:It's a Trap!!!! on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll take CCTV cameras on every corner.
    I'll take warrantless monitoring of my email and phones.
    I'll take radiation scanners at every airport.

    But they can pry my porn from my cold dead fingers.

  21. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    *DS9* and he gets 'insightful' !?

  22. Re:Complain or act? on Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround · · Score: 2

    > get their children out of the public schools
    Done.
    What's step 2?

  23. Re:Of course. on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 2

    Rocky?

  24. Groundhog Day on Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked Into Endless Restart Loop · · Score: 1

    This trick will be great for watching Groundhog Day!

  25. Re:Sixty-nine percent on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    That was true for me in the past, but now both parties have become so dramatically worse for me (and I believe all of us) that I can, without remorse, "throw away my vote" on a third party candidate - if for no other reason than to promote the idea that a third party candidate has value.

    This time around I will vote for Ron Paul who's good ideas are really good and not being addressed by anyone else, and who's bad ideas will never get implemented anyway.