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  1. Re:"Bio-engineered 'cultured' meat" on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 2

    Taco Filling?

  2. Re:People like me on Researchers Track Mouse Movements and Hesitations · · Score: 1

    Google works for quickly selecting results using the arrow keys, so I find myself touching the mouse less and less. Oh wait, this was for Bing. Nevermind.

  3. Re:I want to see it from the very beginning. on Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not · · Score: 1

    *facepalm*

  4. Re:Soon? on Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not · · Score: 1

    So... if you had a vehicle leave Betelgeuse in the year 2100, and one leave at the exact same time from earth. They cross paths in the middle of their journey and reach the opposite destination.... It is then both 2100 and 2700 on Betelgeuse and Earth simultaneously.

  5. Re:This is why on New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era · · Score: 1

    No, there were NO Special episodes... I refuse to believe that what I watched was in any way associated with Red Dwarf. Now let us all forget that this ever happened.

  6. Re:I want to believe on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 1

    Well, I recently moved to a large multi-national. So I am awaiting to see what training perks I can get in a Large Private Sector company. I've worked in small and medium sized companies before as well as large government depts, so I've spoken from those experiences.

  7. Re:I want to believe on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 1

    When I was in the Public Sector I LOVED training... it meant going out of town, getting paid accommodation, meal allowance, party nights, and general fun (mind you, we did have good funding for our department)

    In the Private Sector you only get training if you jump up and down and make yourself loud enough. Training gets sparingly allocated because private organisations like to hoard their monies wherever they can.

  8. Re:I want to believe on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 1

    I just bailed from one that said the same... but they have been saying that for years. The projects never deliver. The fact that the "new upgraded systems" to replace these outdated websites are still stuck in the same project loops that plague the public sector means government workers are left using outdated software to access outdated systems.

  9. Re:I want to believe on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    96% of desktops use IE6 and thats because most users are blocked from installing their own apps. Upgrades to IE are rare due to this breaking old web code that they rely on. This is less malice or conspiracy and more stagnancy than anything else.

  10. Re:Im sorry - define Kit on EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time · · Score: 1

    I was wondering more how he got caught, considering that the company he sold it to is also under investigation.

    Did the "kit" call home and therefore alert EMC to the location of its whereabouts? TFA was light on details.

  11. Re:Seems unfair to me on Aussie Retailers Lobby For Tax On Online Purchases · · Score: 1

    What I find funny is that some orders I put in just at the start of the whole furor appear to have been delayed by between 5-10 business days due to "unprecedented demand for airfreight capacity into Australia". It appears that Gerry has just made everybody realise that things are cheaper online, so everybody went out and bought stuff :P

    Aussies 1 Gerry 0

  12. Re:I doubt it on Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    So he suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder? The article only mentioned him, and from TFA it doesn't even say he has managed to implement this so how exactly is he considered a Hacker, or claim that he found anything. As far as I can tell he is just theorizing that it MAY be possible.

  13. Re:I doubt it on Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Even as somebody who does not work in the industry, I cannot see how " Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street", It even says in the article "Kay says he does not know if anyone has yet launched a side-channel attack against a high-frequency trading network". How did the Hackers find this? Or is this story really just "Rony Kay Worries that Hacker MIGHT Find A Way To Cheat On Wall Street".

  14. Re:Stupid is as stupid does. on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 4, Funny

    First thing I thought of was the oblig. xkcd.

  15. Re:The sound I want on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cue the Crazy Frog making vroom-vroom/ding-a-ding-ding noises... Like we need to hear that again. I'd be more likely to step out in front of such cars so I wouldn't ever have to hear that again.

  16. Re:Evil? No. on D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener · · Score: 1

    In fact, there is a legitimate DDoS effect that occurs when a site is linked from Slashdot. The DDoS is not intentional, but the result is the same :)

  17. Re:Since its a redirect... on D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener · · Score: 1

    Depends if the DDoS comes from the client or the server. The way I read it the redirect page opens in an iFrame but the JS runs on the client in the background DDoSing whichever target(s).

  18. Re:GRAMPS on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 1

    It is interesting to see where the roots of your family are... Especially with my wife and I we can trace our roots back through the UK, Europe and the Middle East. This leads to researching history and coming to understand the circumstances in which our ancestors lived. History usually doesn't interest me, but when I feel a connection with that history it becomes far more interesting.

    If you don't care for your ancestry, that is fine, but your kids may one day wish to pursue this line of research. Would you deny them the knowledge if they asked you for it? (My mother-in-law pretty much refused because thinking of the past reminded her of all she had lost, but her brothers were far more at peace with their lot in life, so I can understand why some people may not care for their family history).

  19. GRAMPS on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 1

    GRAMPS is my favourite, though I haven't needed to go trying any of the other options as yet.

  20. Re:This isn't surprising. on Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Australia would freely admit that they could be taken down by Anonymous, and therefore Anonymous would leave us alone.

    It's only if we were to taunt them that we would be in real trouble...

  21. Same situation on Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    "...to stay relevant when so much information that was classified was now open source and available to anyone."

    They are now in much the same situation with cables such as this being "open source and available to anyone".

  22. Re:Humble Bundle 1 on Humble Bundle 2 Is Live · · Score: 1

    What they also did not consider was that people download for multiple platforms. Also, I had some downloads fail midway and due to not using a download manager I ended up having to restart my download from scratch.

    I certainly did buy at work and download at home. That tends to be because I have time to purchase at work, but wish to avoid the notice of the download Nazi's here.

  23. Re:script kiddies should stay away from fire on Designer Arrested Over Anonymous Press Release · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More mature hackers are avoiding it by getting the script kiddies to do the work for them...

  24. Re:But but but on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft has been accused of (or caught?) purloining code from OSS projects in the past, such as the TCP/IP stack. If it happened to the IPSEC stack then they may be going back and checking their current implementations too.

  25. Re:Oddly enough the outside of the pot had a messa on Archaeologists Find 2,400-Year-Old Soup · · Score: 1

    "Come back 2400 years!" ???