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  1. Re:Depends on the girlfriend on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    What do you think a hacker wants from a partner?

    "See, Honey?"
    or
    "C, Honey."

  2. Re:The Girlfriend(tm) on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Solve problems? Ha! The Girlfriend (especially when upgraded to The Wife) creates tons MORE problems

    Sounds like a job for someone skilled in social engineering.

  3. Drug traffickers on GM Car Owners With OnStar Now Can Be Their Own Rental Agencies · · Score: 1

    Tinfoil hat affixed.

    Sounds like a drug/contraband/money traffickers dream come true. Call up GM with fake credentials, get a car, nobody sees your face on camera when you pick up your vehicle.

  4. Re:remember Sklyarov? on High Security Handcuffs Opened With 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting we live in a post 9/11/2001 world now... it's hardly hyperbolic with the crazy amount of power the US now has to deal with situations like this. The only difference is Sklyarov actually got an arraignment and trial.

  5. Linus to Linux Developers: on Torvalds Bemoans Size of RC7 For Linux Kernel 3.5 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you?

  6. Trojans? on The FDA Spied On Its Own Scientists · · Score: 1

    The article mentions no trojans. Why would they need trojans when they can roll out patches to their user' workstations?

    That said, I'm really curious as to what software they used, and why (if any) virus scanners didn't pick this up.

  7. Sorry, we tried banning alcohol. It's impossible.

  8. Pot does raise your risk of emphysema.

    Only if smoked. Combusting anything and inhaling it into your lungs will have a bad experience.
    This is why serious users who reject the hippie culture vaporize or ingest it.

  9. Re:Moles at Microsoft and apple on In Face of Flame Malware, Microsoft Will Revamp Windows Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Somehow I doubt the NSA has such infrastucture.

    If they don't yet, they sure as hell will soon

  10. Reactive on Microsoft Revokes Trust In 28 of Its Own Certificates · · Score: 1

    Having had to support Microsoft junk for over 15 years, the cynic in me screams that this was a reactive approach.

  11. Re:Public Perception of Kim Dotcom on Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal · · Score: 1

    It's been interesting to see the public perception of Kim Dotcom morph from "evil bastard who got his comeuppance" to "cult hero and victim".

    Learn the difference between personal opinions of character to defending due process, liberty and justice for anyone.

  12. Re:What is this talk of 'case'? on Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal · · Score: 1

    Yup,
    News Flash: Al Qaeda documents found on Kim Dotcom's server hard drives. Dotcom's whereabouts are unknown and has not been in contact with his lawyers or family members for several weeks. The US has no comment.

  13. Re:High price of gas. on Florida GoogleX Team Offers To Send Your DNA To the Moon For a Price · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I'll be physically present at the launch and put my vile into the capsule and watch it be loaded on to the rocket, thank you. Anything less than that, I'll keep my money.

  14. Re:I'm getting confused on Activision Turning The Walking Dead Into a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 2

    You're thinking of Left for Dead.
    Watch them take the game and slap a new title on it...

  15. Cute. on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read the 13th amendment of the constitution sometime. It's illegal in the US, period.

  16. The UN is a joke. on UN Declares Internet Freedom a Basic Right · · Score: 2

    The UN is a joke. The US will never ratify this and implement this in our laws. It only applies to those "other" UN members. Take the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty which was implemented 17 years ago, but we have YET to ratify it because the conservatives have a huge problem with children having rights or their own views and feelings being taken into account on things like education, parental placement, etc. as well as being prohibited from the death penalty if you are under 18 years old, etc. Good luck with that. Who is going to stop us? The UN?

  17. Re:Yeah on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    The second quote is the best. Basically, "I don't think the federal government should preclude the states allowing gay marriage, so I support the federal law that bans gay marriage." WTF?

    Great. Who would honestly want to live in a place like Texas anyway? You've got 49 options. Make use of them if you don't like how things turn out in your state. There are plenty more with ideas and attitudes that you will find suitable. All those people who don't like it, should move and take their money with them and invest into a state government that protects their citizens.

  18. Re:Government Already Operates in a Fog on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 1

    Iran?

  19. Re:aka... on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how they are going to flood their own people with a "fog of disinformation" and not cause chaos. The information has to be believable but false, and once its out there how do they stop their own people from acting on it as though it is accurate?

    Exactly. People in the military or working on classified projects need to know all of the facts. Those facts have to be accurate. It won't change leakers, it will just mean they will have to proofread and verify the facts before they spill documents.

  20. Re:aka... on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 1

    Who says it hasn't already been the status quo for a century? You honestly don't think they just came up with this idea... How else do you think they keep tabs on spies and double agents?

  21. Re:Typo on Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer · · Score: 1
  22. Typo on Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer · · Score: 1

    It's hemp BRAKE, not break.
    OP got it wrong.

  23. Drunk on Facebook API Bug Deletes Contact Info On Phones · · Score: 1

    So how's hiring drunk coders working out for you, Mark?

  24. A good talk about the security of SmartMeters on Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? · · Score: 1

    As well as dispelling the myths surrounding them, from the lead security researcher for Itron Inc.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ePWfR6A4_o

  25. Just use TOR on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 1

    Your CO will fully understand! After all, it was made by the US Naval Research Labs..