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  1. Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier on The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Anyone who's been in a bar fight knows that whether they are sturdier or not, full ones make much better blunt instruments due to their higher mass.

  2. Riiiight. on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    And it'll be on Verizon's network, too.

  3. Re:Serves the noobs right on IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use Mosaic.

  4. He's not a TSA agent on Former TSA Analyst Charged With Computer Tampering · · Score: 1

    He's a data analyst, or maybe a sysop (the article is a bit light on the details), but not an agent. And he's not the first one of those to go off the reservation and get smacked. Happens a couple times a year, and gets reported here.

  5. It's a sign of the forgery. on Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 · · Score: 1

    The mispelings on the bocks, the led processor, the fake distributor.

  6. Mythbusters Episode! on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    Didn't they do that once? Or was that the cement mixed one?

  7. OK Slashdot, time to get honest... on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    This story is really a marketing gimmick for the new Alice in Wonderland movie that opened today, isn't it?

  8. It helps if you read Lewis Carroll. on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 3, Informative

    Preferably while tripping.

  9. pop-up ads? on Window Pain · · Score: 1

    Those are one of the annoyances blocked by AdBlock on FireFox, right? I can't recall seeing one for awhile.

  10. Re:The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat majo on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 1

    Gunpowder, treason and plot...

  11. Now we know who invented the holoband. on The Computer That Can Read Your Mind · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hot cylon chicks can't be far behind!

  12. the drive was surgically recovered. on Man Swallows USB Flash Drive Evidence · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Couldn't they just wait for it to move through?

  13. Not for sale yet. on Western Digital Launches First SSD · · Score: 1

    Or, if it is, no one id talking about the cost, which is therefore presumably somewhat high.

  14. is this a serious news site? on AIDS-Like Virus New Threat To Koala · · Score: 1

    No. Next question?

  15. Really, is anyone surprised on Microsoft Says It Never Meant To Knock Cryptome Offline · · Score: 2, Interesting

    by the data that they can gather? Heck, the users give the data to them. All of it is data that would be gathered by any provider of similar services.

    The only surprise is that they got worked up by the document getting out, and invoked the Streisand Effect.

  16. Re:Which is why they ran the exercise on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    There was someone there. Several people (legal, technical, and other) who said "You can't do that..."

    Also, these weren't lawmakers, they were from the executive branch. Various levels of managers, mostly senior.

  17. Which is why they ran the exercise on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    They didn't know that those things couldn't be done. Would you rather they found out during an exercise, or in a real emergency? Remember, these are not technical people.

  18. No discussion of Superman is complete without on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A citation of Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, by Larry Niven.

    Assume a mating between Superman and a human woman designated LL for convenience.

    Either Superman has gone completely schizo and believes himself to be Clark Kent; or he knows what he's doing, but no longer gives a damn. Thirty-one [now 68+] years is a long time. For Superman it has been even longer. He has X-ray vision; he knows just what he's missing. ...

    The problem is this. Electroencephalograms taken of men and women during sexual intercourse show that orgasm resembles "a kind of pleasurable epileptic attack." One loses control over one's muscles.

    Superman has been known to leave his fingerprints in steel and in hardened concrete, accidentally. What would he to to the woman in his arms during what amounts to an epileptic fit?

    ...

    Superman would literally crush LL's body in his arms, while simultaneously ripping her open from crotch to sternum, gutting her like a trout.

    Lastly, he'd blow off the top of her head.

    Ejaculation of semen is entirely involuntary in the human male, and in all other forms of terrestrial life. It would be unreasonable to assume otherwise for a kryptonian. But with kryptonian muscles behind it, Kal-El's semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet. (*One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?*)

  19. Don't worry on Microsoft Confirms Update-Linked BSODs Required Compromised Machines · · Score: 5, Informative

    The malware has been updated so that it won't cause a crash.

  20. A community college does not have that environment on New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Depends on the college and the course of study. NVCC is well regarded as a prep school of sorts for GMU, GWU, and UMD. Do your first year or two at a much lower cost than a "real" university.

  21. How hard is it to pull the old wiring on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    and run new wiring? Does the old coax run in channels or conduits?

  22. The privacy problem on Two Scoops of Buzz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Was why I didn't use Buzz. Made sure it was disabled as soon as I could. I don't want some spheres of my life intersecting.

    An example of what can go wrong, and generate big lawsuits in the process of failing.

    I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother.

    There's a BIG drop-off between them and my other "most frequent" contacts.

    You know who my third most frequent contact is?

    My abusive ex-husband.

    Which is why it's SO EXCITING, Google, that you AUTOMATICALLY allowed all my most frequent contacts access to my Reader, including all the comments I've made on Reader items, usually shared with my boyfriend, who I had NO REASON to hide my current location or workplace from, and never did.

  23. Look, if you're the IT guy and this happens on Time Bomb May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs' Data · · Score: 1

    You just restore the image from a ghost backup without worrying about the data because the data is stored (by policy) on the servers. What? A user ignored that policy? Tough luck for him.

  24. Re:No explaination on Time Bomb May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs' Data · · Score: 4, Informative
  25. Better summary at The Atlantic on Simulated Hack To Test US Government Response · · Score: 1

    Right here. Although I expect ot see lots of posts here rated "5", which completely miss the difference between a drill and a war game.