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  1. Might as well just return to the Tandy 1000 days on Anti-Rootkit Security Beyond the OS · · Score: 2

    With a core operating system in ROM, mounted as a system disk. Flash your new OS like a BIOS.

    That'd stop a lot of this rootkit crap cold, wouldn't it?

  2. Ask on Reddit on Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? · · Score: 0

    Just ask this on Reddit. You'll get a hundred replies in one hour and won't have to wait two days for the Slashdot mods to get around to posting your question.

  3. Re:It can succeed -- but it's a local business on Amazon Tests a Home-Delivery Service For Groceries · · Score: 2

    Just coordinate with the grocery stores. Half of them have delivery trucks already, I'm sure they'd love to have someone else handle all that for them, plus have a cut of someone else serving online orders. Why the fuck is this so hard?

  4. Re:Can't find anyone asking the obvious question on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 1

    The public at large has a goodwill, founded in the hope of the project's success. That goodwill results in donations to the project and passive political support for the SETI goal. This goodwill is being squandered on a project with (pardon the pun) astronomical odds of success, even by astronomical standards.

    You are turning the public into cynics by doing 'something' just to say you're doing 'something', even if the both of us know and understand that there is no chance a SETI telescope can receive earth-type signals, and a next-to-zero chance an alien society will be spending time and energy beaming a signal directly at us.

    And while my terawatt hyperbole is just that, I'm sure it's not terribly far off.

  5. Re:Can't find anyone asking the obvious question on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 1

    The likelihood of someone beaming a terawatt transmission purposefully in our direction, for years at a time, is effectively nil. If this is what SETI is hoping for, it's a complete waste of everyone's time.

  6. Can't find anyone asking the obvious question on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 2

    Is this telescope even capable of detecting Earth-type leaky RF signals at such a great distance?

    And if it's not, isn't this like cupping your ear and hoping to hear conversations in China?

  7. Re:Yet another idiotic /. article. on Over 7.5 Million Facebook Users Are Under 13 · · Score: 1

    Seems you haven't been on Slashdot for very long either. These sorts of baiting and trolling summaries are picked by the editors for a reason: to spur discussion (and troll for hits). You took the bait. Congratulations.

  8. Re:Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Right you are, sir.

  9. Re:Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for taking the time to grade my work :)

  10. Re:Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    And while we're on this subject I just noticed the second 'quis' in section 2 should be a 'qui'.
    Many eyes make bugs shallow, eh.

  11. Re:Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    You are correct, sir. Some part of my brain was thinking in French at that moment and I took it as a reflexive...

  12. Re:Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Cool :)

    I only took first year Greek so I'm a bit rusty.

  13. Re:Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    For the record I'm a double-major Classics (Latin focus) and Computer Science at Concordia University in Montreal. A bit off the beaten path I guess.

  14. Latin answers on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Translation:

    1. Me non refero quam divitem esse Gygen. (Unsure how to decline 'Gyges' but we'll go with that for accusative. I guess it's a Greek paradigm.)

    2. Quis clarior Graeciae quam Themostecles? Quis, cum in exilium expelleretur, injuriam suae patriae ingratae non tulit, sed idem quod ante viginti annos Coriolanus fecisset?

    3. Primo veris venit consul ad Ephesum, et militibus ab Scipio acceptis apud milites contionem habuit, in qua, virtute sua collaudata, adhortabatur ad novum bellum cum Gallis suspicandum, qui (ut inquit) Antiochum auxiliis iuverunt. (I left in 'ut inquit' and 'in qua' although they were meant to be omitted. I wondered if the last bit should be infinitive/accusative construction due to indirect speech, however I think 'ut' demands the indicative.)

    Grammar:

    You could copy this out of Wheelock so I don't see the point of reproducing it here.

  15. Re:Spirit is doing just fine! on Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent · · Score: 2

    What the fuck? Seriously. Why have a blog if it's 5 years delayed?

  16. Re:Payroll on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 2

    There's no single enemy. It's not like Egypt or Libya where the regime is mostly at fault, it's all of us. We vote these fucktards in because they promise us wealth. It's like playing the lottery, and we keep doing it, because we believe someday we'll be rich too. Except it doesn't happen.

    The shared delusion, the American dream.

  17. Re:USB3 vs Intel Thunderbolt on A Late Adopter's Guide To USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    My only guess would be a super-videophile, syncing his monitor to multiples of film (24fps) and video? (30fps?). Otherwise... I don't understand either.

  18. This is like on Tractor Beams Are Getting Closer (Sort of) · · Score: 1

    This is like climbing a tree, and claiming you've made progress in getting to the moon.

  19. Re:O tempora o mores on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Indeed, no one dances sober, unless by chance they're insane.

  20. Re:Already happened? on Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not · · Score: 4, Informative

    Calm down, he's obviously talking about his own inertial reference frame. And within his frame, he's correct.

  21. wharrgarbl on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Be common too place to the whatsit?

  22. Wouldn't it be great... on Amazon To Launch 'Amazon Appstore For Android' · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be great if Amazon could open a competing Apple app store, and then people could have free choice to buy wherever they please, just like in the real world?

    That'd be anti-capitalist, though.

  23. just dump it already on Yahoo! Says Delicious To Get the Boot, Not the Axe · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Delicious is an anachronism from the early days of web 2.0. Most people share links on Facebook now.

  24. Re:This reminds me of WW 1 on Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Each side figured if they could amass a significant enough alliance, the other side would capitulate, making any battle short and largely symbolic. It was a whole lot of blustering and brinksmanship, but reputation meant so much that by the time things came to a head, they had to fight, nobody could stand to lose face. Thirteen million dead because nobody would call uncle.

  25. Re:Not Temporary, Microeconomics is stubborn on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's six to eight percent, annually. If you're going to lecture someone, please get it right.