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  1. This is gonna be worse than Vi or Emacs on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder what the "none of the above option" (MS Word equivalent) is gonna be?

  2. He's an idiot? on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because he said "you have to have people take personal responsibility " and " there will never be a technological device that imparts common sense when it comes to safe driving" ? That's idiotic?

  3. Re:This isn't a 'vulnerability' on Stuxnet Virus Now Biggest Threat To Industry · · Score: 1

    The PLC's weren't connected to a network. They were connected to a controlling PC. Sure, the connections are a network, but it's a closed one, and one you have to have.

  4. This is what CyberWar looks like. on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    Well, this, and the attack on Estonia.

  5. Since you have to raise your hands... on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 4, Funny

    and take off your belt while going through the scanner, my plan is to wear loose pants and go commando.

  6. Doesn't have to be negotiated. on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 1

    In the US, if you're hourly (at least in the places I've worked) the employer is required to give you a 15 minute paid break in every 4 hour period, and a half hour (unpaid) meal break in every 8 hour period. Time off for vacation and medical may also have been mandated, but every place I've worked has given at least two weeks/year vacation + one week's worth of medical.

     

  7. My plan.... on EPIC Files Lawsuit To Suspend Airport Body Scanner Use · · Score: 2, Funny

    Salon and the Atlantic report that you have to take off your belt when you go through these things. And that you have to raise your hands.

    So my plan (which all slashdotters should copy) is to wear loose pants and go commando.

  8. What's the cap? on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Most ISPs have a monthly usage cap.

  9. that religious stuff near the end on The Science of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    All that religious stuff was in the beginning and middle too.

  10. Except on The Science of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    God/Gods were a major part of it from the beginning. It wasn't like it was introduced at the last minute.

  11. 900 Gigs of Geocities. Awesome. on Geocities To Be Made Available As a 900GB Torrent · · Score: 1

    Or awful. Or both.

    This justifies the invention of the internet.

  12. So any Estonian can shoot any russian on Separating Cyber-Warfare Fact From Fantasy · · Score: 1

    he happens to see on the street. Sweet.

  13. Re:phones out to cheyene mountain beats that on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    We get that sort of thing here in NoVa when the people running the tunnel for the subway hit unmarked cables belonging to various local three letter agencies. The Washington Post had an article about that a few months back.

  14. Not really on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    AT&T had their longlines go down in, IIRC, 93, from a self induced DDos like this.

  15. Especially limestone on Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia · · Score: 3, Informative

    Limestone is calcium carbonate, which releases tons of CO2 when burned.

  16. Re:Nothing New Here on Government Admits Spying Via Facebook · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Agent Provocateur on Government Admits Spying Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    It's Hemos.

  18. Re:3D is not for everyone... on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    I've got no central vision in one eye, so I have trouble seeing 3-d in real life as well.

  19. Nothing New Here on Government Admits Spying Via Facebook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone who was on Kuro5hin in 2002 knew the Secret Service was keeping an eye on it. I'm sure they watch /. as well.

  20. Re:Two words: on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    And what do you do when someone steals your eye?

  21. Dupe on Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places · · Score: 2, Informative
  22. Re:From the article on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    As I said, fit's the profile. So you watch him for a few months and then, if he isn't doing anything interesting, you go watch someone else. FBI doesn't have unlimited resources.

  23. From the article on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    he was planning a short business trip to Dubai in a few weeks... has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially. ...

    Afifi's father, Aladdin Afifi, was a U.S. citizen and former president of the Muslim Community Association here, before his family moved to Egypt in 2003. Yasir Afifi returned to the U.S. alone in 2008, while his father and brothers stayed in Egypt, to further his education he said. He knows he's on a federal watchlist and is regularly taken aside at airports for secondary screening.

    Fits the profile of someone you want to keep an eye on pretty well, actually.

  24. A little more? on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    About 7 times the cost.

  25. Re:Sad yankee system on DC Suspends Tests of Online Voting System · · Score: 1

    Have you ever browsed slashdot without filtering the comments? Just as bad here.