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  1. Re:I love the snark here on State Television Says Iran Launches New Satellite Into Space · · Score: 1

    It exists because the rockets used for satellites and for ballistic missiles are close enough for the former to be a way to get the latter.

    It's much cheaper to rent payload space from Russia, the only reason to do it yourself is if you want the military capability.

    The same goes for enriching uranium to 20%, there is only one reason to do that.

  2. ./ also p0wned by NSA on Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is the wrong place to ask, "ask slashdot" is also controlled by the NSA.
    They have been spending years building cover identities and collecting karma, so they can control ./
    And that's why this post is going to be modded down, see, I told you so!

  3. Re:Entirely Sensible on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    Israel never announces a test before they do it.
    Also, the only ones with the capability to detect it are the US and Russia.
    The Russians probably knew exactly what it was when they saw it.
    So, maybe they are the ones trying to create a scare.

  4. Re:It's the Kobayashi Maru! on Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable · · Score: 1

    It was designed to be solved by people down under.
    you are holding it upside-down.

  5. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Asperger's is high functioning Autism.

    Nowadays, anything the shrink does not like is "highly functioning Autism"

  6. Re:fucking great? on Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene · · Score: 2

    3. The real issue is actually the patenting of the gene itself. Patenting of the test is fine: it is an invention, and so a monopoly can be granted on that. However, the same can't be said of the genes.

    can you get sued for carrying or expressing the gene without a license?

  7. Re:Is This for Real? on Making Sure Interviews Don't Turn Into Free Consulting · · Score: 1

    While I agree that the article is nonsense, I have seen something slightly related.
    Often at an interview, someone will ask you a question that he recently tried to solve himself.
    Sometimes it's a clue that they don't know what they are doing.
    This happened to me more than once.
    If the guy that is supposed to be your next manager asks you such a question, especially if you try to explain a simple solution to him and he does not understand it, this is a red flag.
    In that case, you thank your favorite deity and politely disengage, considering yourself lucky you found out so fast that you shouldn't be working for him.

  8. how do you manage heat stress? on Tiny Pill Relays Body Temperature of Firefighters In Real-time · · Score: 1

    In Australia heat stress is usually cause by drinking warm beer.

  9. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Besides, if someone gives you a rifle and you can't get yourself a brand new TV on your own, maybe you don't deserve one.

  10. simple: ask the inernet oracle on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 2

    This sounds like a question to the Internet Oracle
    http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi

    The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
    > O Oracle, great and all the rest
    >
    > how do you get sales people to learn programming?

    And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
    } You offer a commission.
    }
    } you owe the oracle a piece of informaion that is correct but unhelpfull, yesterday's weather for example.

  11. Re:What's next? Free printer with every ink purcha on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because they assume that unlike consumers, professionals factor the price of consumables into the buying decision.

  12. Female voices are easier to understand (?) on Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the army there is a known fact/myth that female voices are easier to understand on noisy radio links.
    Something to do white the a different/better frequency spread than a male voice.
    In my not very scientific experience, it seems to be true.

  13. Re:Seems plausible on Drunken Parrot Season Starts in Australia · · Score: 1

    The international Talk like a Pirate day was just last week, do you think it's a coincidence?

  14. Re:Posting anonymously for obvious reasons on Building a Better 'Anonymous?' · · Score: 1

    dude, I think your confusing "anonymous" with "anonymous coward"

  15. Re:what I did on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 2

    I think that as long as you avoid BASH-like "fi" and "esac", you're probably safe.

  16. Re:Trained vultures to find bodies? on German Police Train Vultures To Find Bodies · · Score: 1

    It's Germany, everything has a training program and everything has a manual.
    I bet the police even train in drinking beer.

  17. Re:I was here first on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    This is more like "free as in flue" than "free as in beer".

  18. surely you mean on Scientists Attach Bar Codes To Embryos · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "I, for one, welcome our new scientist overlords"
    oh, wait

  19. Re:Resources, will, and motive on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 5, Informative

    I concur,
    Also note that whoever wrote the virus had very specific knowledge of the target.
    It would only act if more than 33 devices of one of two manufacturers were linked to one controller.
    It would act one way if the majority of the devices were from one manufacturer and do something else if there were from the other kind.
    I would guess that someone that worked there or someone that supplied parts to the project had a major hand in this.
    My guess would be that this is at least to some extent an inside job.

  20. The same exact review also appears on Amazon on Super Principia Mathematica · · Score: 1

    A word by word cut & paste.
    And is the only 5 star review for the book.
    If you look at all of the other reviews buy the same user you see that they are all 5 or 4 star reviews, almost all 5.
    and somehow 23 people have found it helpful.
    Look at the 1 star reviews and laugh.

  21. Re:Even for torts? on Israel's Supreme Court Says Yes To Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this decision will survive if someone does a personal smear campaign against supreme judges.
       

  22. Re:Apple Newton on Newton's Apple Story Goes Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, I would expect them to get a DMCA takedown letter from Apple's lawyers any minute now.

  23. Re:I'll take one on Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection · · Score: 1

    yes, but who will protect the hypervisor from rootkits?
    maybe, if you nest the hypervisor inside another you can use that new hypervisor to protect the one protecting your OS...

  24. ARM is not a chipmaker on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    A small correction.
    ARM is not a chipmaker. They only liscense the design to others, don't do their own chips.
    Can't buy an ARM from ARM only the IP to incorporate it into your own chip.

  25. That's nothing on Running Over Virtual Pedestrians Helps In-Game Ad Recall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet you, if you ran over real pedestrians you would remember what was on the billboards.
    (actually you would have years in prison with only that to think of.)