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  1. Re:As long as certain rules are kept on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1
  2. Re:As long as certain rules are kept on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Never heard of 'rigor mortis'?

  3. Re:Ultimately... on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Insert penis into scanner.
    Error, insufficient data, biometric password must be at least 3 inches.

  4. Re:Ultimately... on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    You don't measure your penis size, you use a challenge-response system that measures your penis size IN RELATION to a specific photograph!

  5. the rest of the world? on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 1

    Sure, give the parents and kids 6 weeks vacation to take together like the civilized world does, and then extend school into the remainder of summer.

  6. Re:Snake Oil on How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find that Facebook, Google, and every other "targeted" ad system does the same thing: they show me ads for the thing that I just bought and won't need to buy again for several years.

  7. Re:Mensa incarnate? on Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM · · Score: 1

    I joined Mensa, and at my first meeting I brought 'smarties' and 'smart food' to share. Nobody thought it was funny and they were kind of annoyed. I didn't come back.

  8. Re:Hurr. on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    > Just because a corrupt judge signs off on it, doesn't make it legal.

    Actually, when a judge signs off on it, like it or not, the warrant by definition becomes legal.

  9. Re:The Stasi & Stripes on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 1

    I hereby revoke my consent.

  10. Re:Virtual reality is coming on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    Because fascinating games with depth don't look like pretty like a Michael Bay movie. Go play Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft for a while and wonder why you look up at 5 am wondering where the night went. The same problems have hit Hollywood; When big money is involved you get people who are following the money without any passion for the craft.

  11. Re:Slew of missing business applications on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    1. Switch ringer to vibrate
    2. Call self
    3. Goto 2.

  12. > /&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
    > Random garbage or valid perl?

    I just ran it through my Perl interpreter to find out:

    $ perl -e '/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^'
    42
    $

  13. Re:Translation on TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible · · Score: 1

    Dear sir,

    I am interested in learning more about 'Forensic Analysis of Tamagotchi Devices'. Please subscribe me to your newsletter.

  14. Re:When have they ever implemented this well? on Microsoft To Launch Machine Learning Service · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has finally gone too far:

    https://flic.kr/p/nJ4xag

  15. Re:7.1a for x64 linux on Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt · · Score: 1

    And you're assuming that your compiler isn't inserting extra code that wasn't in the source code.

  16. Re:KDE? on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' Released · · Score: 1

    Will someone explain to me why I would choose "Cinnamon" or "MATE" or "Xfce" or "LXDE" etc etc etc?
    One would be for an old underpowered laptop, the other for a reasonably modern desktop.

    It's really off-putting to hear how great Mint is, then go to the site and the first thing you need to do is decide which environment you will choose with no explanations of what that choice will mean to you. Are there programs that will only work under one environment and not the others? Are we just talking about differences in the file browser and config/update system?

  17. Re:The pain is good on Fixing the Pain of Programming · · Score: 1

    > While true

    I never made it past this phrase.

  18. Re:Sick Society on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't work as an English teacher.

  19. Re:whine on How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer · · Score: 1

    > dev needs the loosest reins (while still keeping separation so that the loosened policies don't allow for a security breach to compromise other departments.)

    Oh thank you, thank you, for using 'loose' instead of 'lose'. I think I cried a little.

  20. Re:Sad, and not black and white either on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    The irony is you feel compelled to inject useless noise into the conversation on the very same topic your signature asks us not to complain about.
    Bait taken.

  21. Re:Sad, and not black and white either on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    Yes, actually I did. I pointed out that he could get off the canoe right there and live in a hut and it wouldn't cost him a dime. His savings would most likely be enough to pay for whatever logistics he needed (plane tickets to visit home once a year, food, some clothes, etc). But he would be giving up the "normal" life he was used to. He thought about it for a moment and said he really wants to retire "in style" and not in a hut, and that he would have to "work his ass off" for a few more years to do that. At least he acknowledged what his priorities and trade-offs are.

  22. Re:Sad, and not black and white either on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    I was on vacation on a remote island in Fiji, taking a canoe ride with some other American tourists. A man in his 50's sighed and said 'I hope I can afford to live like this one day'. The irony was totally lost on him that the people who's life he was jealous of woke up in their huts, had a little food, then played soccer and fished all day without owning a single penny.

  23. Re:"smallpox OR guns OR other unknown diseases" on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

    ( City of Buffalo bison that other city of Buffalo bison bully, themselves bully city of Buffalo bison)

  24. pun intended on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    > "Using the Internet can destroy your faith.

    Oh God I hope so.

  25. Re:Old News on Researchers: Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did · · Score: 1

    > the numbers of rats you'll find in places like .

    I think this is the first time I've seen Unix "." used to mean "the current location" in the common English sense of the phrase. Kudos to you, sir! Now I will go ~ and smoke my |