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  1. Re:Pffft !! on Backdoor Found In Hacked Version of Anti-Censorship Tool Simurgh · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's bullshit. The Register

  2. Should read... on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: -1

    ..."Part of Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth."
    Unfortunately, the back half is jettisoned and burns up. It's a wonderful achievement but it isn't a spaceship. The shuttles were spaceships. Earth doesn't have any at present (unless you count the US Air Force's little robot one).

  3. They're going to go bust. on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    Unless somebody buys them first. No amount of reorganizing will help.

  4. Re:Kaspersky Again on Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East · · Score: 2

    There's nothing patriotic, altruistic, laudable, or beneficial about screwing up legitimate national intelligence projects.

    There exist differences of opinion as to what is "legitimate".

  5. "...petition to the Whitehouse to make a law..." on Patent Troll Now Armed With Thousands of Nortel Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A civics lesson for you: the Whitehouse does not have the power to make laws. That is the exclusive domain of the Congress. You see, we have this little thing called "separation of powers"...

  6. Re:needs technical measures on Internet Defense League: A Bat Signal For the Internet · · Score: 2

    The internet really needs better built in, automatic, technical measures to protect anonymity and protect against censorship.

    No technical measure can protect against men with guns, The ISPs must cooperate with the governments. They have no choice.

    End to end encryption as standard for everything. Censorship resistant technologies.

    There is no resisting rubber-hose decryption.

    We can try to defend it against legal attacks, but those attacks only have to succeed ONCE, where the defence has to succeed EVERY time.

    Laws can be repealed.

  7. Are these solar plants adequately protected... on Germany Sets New Solar Power Record · · Score: 2

    ...against tsunamis? Think of all the children who might be exposed to toxic chemicals should one of them fall over!

  8. Watch the routing tables explode... on Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam · · Score: 1

    n/t

  9. This does not differ fundamentally... on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    ...from the long-established (and equally execrable) practice of giving property tax breaks for the construction of factories.

  10. Re:NOT a dividend of space exploration on MIT Unveils Robotic Manipulator Filled With Coffee Grounds · · Score: 1

    > ...after a shot makes the air gets in?

    There exist uses for sandbags that do not involve bullets. I can't think of any where rigidity would be desireable, though.

  11. Re:The main problem is... on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > I fear for my online bank info constantly .

    And yet you continue to deal with that bank. Why?

  12. Re:Larry Niven on Superflares Found On Sun-Like Stars · · Score: 1

    "Inconstant Moon".

  13. Re:too close for comfort on Superflares Found On Sun-Like Stars · · Score: 2

    The "hot jupiters" they are talkiing about would be much, much closer than 1 AU. Being closer increases the probability of transiting, which is where they get the 10% figure.

  14. Re:Um, What? on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    > Those are still common tools that a normal person would be
    > expected to be familiar with.

    "Normal person"? This is Slashdot. The CS majors here are not familiar with actual physical tools at all.

  15. "Surveilled"? on Aussie Police Consider Using Automated Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    What an obnoxious back formation. The word you are looking for is "surveyed".

  16. Icons are crap. on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    Use words.

  17. Mod parent up. on 'Social Jetlag' May Be Making You Fat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Conventional exercise recommendations are not based on what is best for you. They are based on what the physiologists think they have any hope of getting you to do, on the theory that anything is better than nothing.

    Get out there and run.

  18. Half measures. on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Disband the entire DHS.

  19. Girl Genius on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  20. "connected all of these networks to the internet" on Will IBM Watson Be Your Next Mayor? · · Score: 2

    The malware purveyors are peeing themselves in excitement at the very thought.

  21. Re:Physics on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 0

    > In my opinion, the most dangerous science is always going
    > to be physics.

    Which is, of course, why politicians continue to fund it generously. They keep hoping for another atomic bomb.

  22. There are none. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. "...tech underneath software..." on Ask Slashdot: Sources For Firmware and Hardware Books? · · Score: 4, Funny

    There isn't any. It's VMs all the way down now. Hardware is so 20th century.

  24. Re:"fat found in nuts, seeds, fish and greens" on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 1

    Ok, mutton that tastes like worms.

    Where that "nonsense" comes from is that the fat is the type found in nuts etc. (i.e., the supposedly "healthy" kind).

  25. Re:Genetically Modified Hogs next? on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 1

    Of course, it will smell like fish when you fry it...