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  1. Satellite smash on Group Wants To Recover 36-Year-Old Historic Spacecraft From Deep Space · · Score: 1

    So, do they have a large insurance policy? If the re-orbit goes wrong and it smashes into other satellites or space debris, who is liable?

  2. Neat idea... on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    I'd have a glowing plant night-light as that's all I could see glowing plants useful for. Things like road-side markers, very low intensity lighting etc... I doubt you could use it for reading or finding your way around in the dark.

  3. Re:Learn to code on Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2% · · Score: 1

    It's always been my standpoint that in order to be a competent EE, you need to have intermediate coding skills. Unfortunately it seems that most graduates pick one side or the other. An EE graduate with no SW skills is no better than a technologist and will have a pretty tough time finding work.

  4. Does it compute? on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Low power and massive amounts of parallel cores is alright, but does it compute? How do these low power servers benchmark against EC2 or equivalent? This article didn't talk benchmarks. Maybe you get all these gains in consumed power, cost, space etc... because it is 90% less powerful than competitors.

  5. Re:They still don't know the cause... on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Has Taken Its Battery Certification Flight · · Score: 1

    From TFA:
    "Japan's transport safety board said in a report that the battery for the aircraft's auxiliary power unit was incorrectly connected to the main battery that overheated.

    According to Reuters Boeing sources claim to have a fix to their battery problems that involves increasing the space between the lithium-ion battery cells."

    Which suggests that they don't know what the cause is. How does separating the cells fix an incorrect wiring problem?

  6. The traditional way on Happy World Backup Day · · Score: 2

    I've made sure the phone number for the local data recovery services is taped to the side of the server.

  7. Nothing is free on Facebook Gives Free Voice Calls a Trial Run in Canada · · Score: 1

    What's the catch? Nothing really is free...

  8. you can make it even more useless... on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    rm -rf /

  9. Re:Nice one on Unsecured IP Cameras Accessible To Everyone · · Score: 5, Informative

    from 2005... but whatever. it's old news

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/09/1411242

  10. Re:Upon conviction of virus writing.... on Storm Botnet Returns As Part of New Year's Attacks · · Score: 0

    I'd say that in the case of Stuxnet, malice was the main objective...

  11. Re:Or the same thing that causes these: on Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead · · Score: 0

    did you forget your tinfoil hat this morning?

  12. Re:threadbare? on Storm Botnet Returns As Part of New Year's Attacks · · Score: 0

    This is true... but you can minimize the damage and reduce avenues of attack with security updates

  13. Re:Upon conviction of virus writing.... on Storm Botnet Returns As Part of New Year's Attacks · · Score: 0

    Can you provide a virus writing scenario without malicious intent?

  14. FP on PKWare Files a Patent Application for Secure .zip · · Score: -1

    FP Bitches

  15. Re:Squirrels on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: -1

    I don't think I agree with that. Geographically, Canada is bigger and had more forested area than the states. I believe our squirrel population is greater. Also our squirrels are black.

  16. Re:X-Box Emulator ?? on The 1991 "X-Box" · · Score: -1

    That's what I want to know! They all said "Oh, it's going to be easy to emulate this one... afterall the XBox is based on PC hardware". So? where is it? That's what I thought... all talk no play. What kind of shit is this?

  17. Re:YOU FAIL IT! on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: -1

    NO YOU FAIL IT!!! YOu FAIL on getting YOU FAIL on the first FAILED POST. Eat that one sucker!

  18. Unbelievable on Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human · · Score: -1

    It's crap like this that will ensure the united states of america to fail. What a waste of resources to have a judge on tax payers money come to such a conclusion as this. It just blows me away why administration would prioritize this against some REAL use of a judge. Like justice for a crime. It's a crime that usa can behave like this and nobody thinks twice... they think it's entertaining.
    Like the YOU FAIL IT troll.... usa WILL FAIL IT!!!!!
    HAHAHA and i'll be laughing.....

  19. Eyes on you on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: -1

    Hey Kevin, Now that you're free, and back on the internet. Do you think your activities will be monitored? Or have the people upstairs realised that you aren't the evil hacking criminal that the judges and the american legal system made you out to be.

  20. Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell on Quicktime 6 Becoming Mobile-Phone Standard? · · Score: -1

    In other news, A semi-popular tech news website Slashdot was sold to Cmdr Taco the website's main guy. sources say in a surprising move OSDN has become tired of maintaining the now defunct website and sold the domain name for $5.00 Canadian to Taco. Taco comments that he will probably wipe the message board completely and devote the site to the popular Goatse site. " Slashdot has become bloated with useless "news" articles and has been pushed farther from the original goal of promoting goatse and related trolls" says Taco. Slashdot's new slogan will become "Obscene, dirty, filthy, immoral, Ahh Yeah!" It is also rumored that Seth Finkelstein will stay on board to fulfill scripting duties.

  21. Re:This just in! on Human-Computer Interfaces From 2003 to 2012 · · Score: -1

    This is the best quote!

    "Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes."

  22. Some Info about GOATSE.cx on SmartEiffel 1.0 Released · · Score: -1

    Here is some info about goatse.cx. No pictures, but quite a funny read. Here

  23. Re:Cable is better anyway... on New Look at ADSL2 · · Score: -1

    I have had both Shaw and Telus for ISP's And, well I can't really tell the difference. what about you?

  24. Re:PIX on The Evolution Of The Cost-Effective TrainCam · · Score: -1

    That picture has been photoshoped. He has no girlfriend.
    besides, All your girlfriend are belong to us.

  25. Re:And Remember... on How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer · · Score: -1

    yeah No kidding. How does a $42.50 Paul Oakenfold ticket turn into $53.25? It kinda pisses me off, but it's Paul. So what can you do?