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  1. Re:I still would like Benidict Cumberbatch on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Fuck that, imagine a beowulf cluster of Ricardo Montalbans!

  2. Don't u feel dum. on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    They used to say no tractor needed 8 jet engines, either!!!!1!2111!!

  3. Do...or do not. There is no try. on Duke Energy Scraps Plans For Florida Nuclear Plant, Forced To Delay Others · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Either these kinds of plants are ok or they are not. If not, ban them. If so, get the hell out of the way.

  4. Tong on QuakeCon 2013: Carmack On Next-Gen Console Hardware · · Score: 1

    Can I plug in a keyboard and a mouse?

    Playing these kinds of games with a console controller is like assembling a ship in a bottle with long, clumsy tongs. Without the feeling of pride, just irritation.

  5. Re:What about Gay Marriage? on Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe · · Score: 1

    Careful! A geek is about to use his Samsung phone to bitch at you about the glories of communism.

  6. Re:Devices which have only one purpose on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 2

    Oh I get it. Now I see why "chicks with dicks" never turned up funny pictures of girls with their boyfriends.

  7. Speaking of improved communication, where's a link to this letter?

  8. Like this? Or like this. on Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity · · Score: 1

    > 'casual and organic' questions

    "So, ya wanna go root around in each others' funk?"

  9. God and country on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: 1

    From the transcript of an actual audio recording of The Queen practicing The Queen's Speech:

    "Now this madness of war is once more spreading through the world and our brave country must again prepare itself to survive against great fuck fuck shit fuckin' shit odds. I have never forgotten the sorrow and the pride I felt as my sister. fuck shit (singsong) Mary had a little jug-eared baaaaaaaaaaaby and I huddled around the nursery wireless set listening to my father's inspiring words on that fateful day in 1939."

  10. Pay or not to pay, that is the qq. on 9th Circuit Court Elevates Celebrity Privacy Rights Over Video Game Portrayals · · Score: 2

    You use the man because he's famous at a sport, pay the man because he's famous at a sport.

    It's not really any different from trademarks. You can blabber about Harry Potter all day. You just can't write a story then sell it without permission.

    Football games are not public events in the same sense as a fight in a street is.

    Nothing to see here, move along.

  11. Groovey times on Companies Petition Congress To Reform 'Business Method' Patent Process · · Score: 1

    This will crush the groove of lots of lawyers -- lawyers who also donate. Watch the votes.

  12. Re:Don't EVER be a freedom-loving libertarian on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    It's actually quite a good troll, the ending sums it up well.

    Anyway, metadata is useful to corrupt governments, too. Interested in who the next presidential candidate is talking to, to 3 people deep? That is incredibly valuable to strategists setting up counter-measures.

    Hence there should be warrants to get it. The old King of England would have quickly rounded up the revolutionists.

  13. Make large larger. on Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks · · Score: 1

    Can they replace Starbuck's at Starbuck's while they're at it?

  14. Re:Slightly off topic on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    That's what secret Swiss bank accounts are for. You just need the (large) account number and nothing more to do business. Driving world politics for hundreds of years, accept no substitute.

  15. Re:Hurry up, Europe is hungry for your fines on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 1

    But you're not being prevented from observing the functionality of the program. Indeed, this design presumes it.

  16. Heavenly naming on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    SkyDrive was way too fancy for them anyway. Based on coopting the windowing concept and calling it Windows, or Word (I forget what that does) something like...Cloud.

    Ya that's it. Hurry up and trademark Cloud, Microsoft.

  17. Re:No, it still looks like Snowden was lying... on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    From a legal perspective, it seems they are allowed to collect the data, but they can only look at it if authorized (ie, crtain requirements are met). What Snowden is saying is that the authorization method wasn't very robust, which means that someone somewhere probably has actually abused this to check up on his girlfriend

    Tha's what I've been saying every story so far -- the "safeguards" are written process that people are supposed to follow. There is no uncorruptible logging going on, with MD5'd files shipping offsite to multiple storace sites; no alarms going off; no checks that servers don't have extra stuff installed.

    If a G. Gordon Liddy operative wanted to do a little political spying on the opposition, nobody would know. And it is exactly this issue, spying on opponents, that half the first 10 amenents exist, not to stop them from spying on hot chicks.

  18. c'est la guerre, or something on Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    "In a significant victory for law enforcement"

    Gotta love ignorant writers. How about, "In an astounding loss for the framers of the Constitution..."

    Note to future constitution writers: "Government has only these powers and none others", "you can't construct other powers from these", and "whenever new stuff is invented, if government isn't authorized, it can't. Amend if desired to allow it" are just optional.

    You're gonna need better language. Because you sure ain't gonna get better people.

  19. Re:I think we should end this on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    New to bleeding edge technophile stuff, eh? And therefore new to Slashdot.

  20. Re:And you think they're the only one why? on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Samsung could get fraud charges on this one if they advertised or published the benchmarked speed. It is less obvious if they did not do the publishing themselves.

    25 years ago, Byte was notorious for forcing Mac benchmarks they used to be compiled with SANE turned on, to make PC benchmarks look a lot better. SANE was Apple's "Standard Apple Numerics Environment", a library which took the results from the Mac float processor and massaged the last few bits to ensure they were the same as the Apple II.

    Recompiling that stuff in Lightspeed C without it gave very favorable results.

  21. Re:ASUS is Out of the RT Market?? on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    Ya but how well did they want this thing to work anyway?

  22. Don't Be Evil(r) on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Data volume and net neutrality are separate issues. If home servers serve up tons, then we're back to the "unlimited" plan issue with peer-to, wait, peer2peer.

    But some small business or hobby server that otherwise doesn't stress the system as much as 30s of YouTube does, screw that.

    Don't Be Evil*

    *Disclaimer: This trademark does not give specific, reliable assurance of the status of any Google activities on the Dungeons & Dragons alignment space.

  23. Re:In Browser on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 1

    Some molecular 3D matrix could handle the storage. It's the processing that is the struggle for that much data for the forseeable future.

    If you build it, people will find a use. And not just weather or quantum simulations.

  24. Re:indeed, too many bad code monkeys, few engineer on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 2

    You play with that newfangled mnemonic bullshit, huh? 1s and 0s too much for you?

    goddam kids.

  25. Re:Another interpretation on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 1

    Oh and that he lovingly assburgered out over it.