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  1. Shut your effing gob, tou tit! on Why Emails Are Misunderstood · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Your type really makes me puke! You snotty, malodourous, perverts!

    Hmmm, yeah, that probably needs some smilies and html markup to make the emotional context clearer.

  2. Man, he's /still/ a young punk. on CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man · · Score: 1

    I hit 41 yesterday.

  3. The real reason they're doing this. on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bagdad. Unmanned Military Ground Vehicles. Primarily for supply runs, but could also be used to troll for IEDs.

  4. do our research for us on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 1

    Ummm, yeah. That's the way they're supposed to work.

  5. bio diesel doesn't decrease emissions on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Since it is, after all, burned.

  6. I thought that was step 4 on I, Woz · · Score: 1

    But it's a different meme anyway.

  7. Step 1: Invent the Apple I on I, Woz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 2: Be Woz.

  8. Computer power on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 1

    is not scaling up that much these days. Moore's Law hit a wall a couple of years ago.

  9. And when you get to the end of the book on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 1

    You'll discover that even when the book was written the NSA didn't have the capacity to monitor even a fraction of the internet, much less all of it. There's lots more traffic these days.

  10. Linux Standard Base is due any day now on OSDL to Bridge GNOME and KDE · · Score: 1

    and has been for years.

  11. an embassy had to be totally torn down on Lenovo Under U.S. Probe for Spying · · Score: 1

    It was the US Embassy in Moscow. Happened in the 80's, IIRC.

  12. Gregg Easterbrook on NASA Priorities Out of Whack? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Also writes a weekly column on NFL football during the season.

  13. If that isn't the Most Slashdottish Comment Ever.. on Web Site Attacks Against Unpatched IE Flaw Spike · · Score: 1

    Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)

  14. Open source!= public. on Feds Kill Check Point's Sourcefire Bid · · Score: 2, Informative

    The GPL only requires that you provide source code if you provide the binary. So if you do a version for $SecretAgency, with $SecretStuff in it, then you only have to provide the source to $SecretAgency. Not to the general public.

  15. Ouch on Meet the Botnet Hunters · · Score: 1

    Interesting freudian slip/unintentional double entendre in my previous post...

  16. Once you get one on your system on Meet the Botnet Hunters · · Score: 1

    Are you nuts? I want to keep the damned thongs off my system.

  17. write a book about the trial on FBI Agents Don't Have Email Access · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? She's looking at felony witness tampering, contempt of court, and probably a couple of other things. The judge told her not to come back to court until she had gotten herself an attorney. If Moussawi (sp?) doesn't get the death penalty the lead prosecutor is going to throw the book at her and send her to jail for a few years.

  18. Don't buy any pre 3.0 Microsoft product on Early Adopters Experiencing More Bugs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right? So this is not a new problem.

  19. They sort of have to be on Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    Since, in order to fight the malware, they have to operate at the same ring level it does.

  20. Dude! You slashdotted the cops! on Spam King Busted by Secret Service · · Score: 1

    They're gonna be pissed...

  21. Since ExtremeTech and PCMag are both on Build a Homemade Media Center PC · · Score: 1

    owned by ZDNet, I suspect the answer is "yes".

  22. Oh no! They're treating e-mail like regular mail! on Limited Email Surveillance Approved · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, looking at the address and the return address on the envelope for regular mail doesn't require, iirc, a warrant.

  23. Not just Microsoft on Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate · · Score: 1

    There's an analysis up at CMU (linked to in the WaPo article) which shows that closed source vendors as a group are slower at patching than open source ones.

  24. From TFA on Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate · · Score: 1

    "Today's post marks the second in what I hope will be a series of similar analyses. " He's got a link to a meta-study from CMU in that article too.

  25. hope to redesign the whole schebang soon on Slashdot Index Code Update · · Score: 1

    But you've been hoping that for years. Sort of like controlled fusion which has been fifty years away for, oh, fifty years or so.