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  1. Re:I probably wouldn't have noticed this... on Man Finds Divorce Papers, Tax Docs On "New" Laptop · · Score: 1

    From what I've gathered most full disk encryption will overwrite the disk with random data anyway

    So, does this random data usually include divorce and tax papers?

  2. Re:OK, maybe I'm a bit grumpy today. on Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! · · Score: 1

    Of course, I might be jumping the gun. Perhaps this article will garner few posts.

    I think he jumped the shark, (*** er... whale **).

  3. Re:Shatner's 9th decade? on Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, there was this slingshot maneuver around the sun, but it involved whales, so we don't like to talk about it.

  4. Re:Shatner's 9th decade? on Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! · · Score: 1

    And here we have another one who celebrated the new century a year early due to poor math skills, and proud of it.

    According to your math, his first decade was only 9 years long.

  5. Re:Iran used to be called Persia... on Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo · · Score: 1

    It's a case of recycling. Take a roomba, use it to clean up an old persion carpet that your pet has ravaged, and you end up with this. There should be a warning sticker on them about this problem.

  6. Re:Actual Picture on Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo · · Score: 1

    Are you sur e that isn't from a Steam Punk convention?

  7. Re:"Propaganda Planes" cover the skies on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    The gross number depends on how you word the question,

    If this were a Republican in power, the question would be "Do you support the unconstitutional and violent overthrow of a peaceful country in order to take over their oil fields and to kill and rape their women and children?"

    Since this is Obama, it was probably more like "To you support protecting a peaceful demonstration from an evil and oppressive terrorist regime?"

    Of course there is no bias in how the question is asked.

  8. Re:"Propaganda Planes" cover the skies on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    They probably invaded just to find someone to surrender to. They haven't been able to surrender to anyone in over a year.

  9. Does that mean on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that the next version of Windows won't ever be able to run on any machine?

  10. How about on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    Since living within 50 miles is about 2 blue boxes, how about living within 50 miles of 50 nuclear reactors? (check INEL in wikipedia). Do they still rate two boxes, or is it multiplied out?

    Oh, for extra credit, one of them (SL-1) blew up, and killed 3 people. Does that earn me more blue boxes?

  11. His comment on Facebook Wedding Photos Result In Polygamy Arrest In Michigan · · Score: 1

    But I thought that unfriending was the same as a divorce.

  12. Re:Not Good on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 2

    Again, having mentioned it already once in this thread - are you old enough to remember Three Mile Island? It's hard to cover this sort of thing up - we were treated to endless talking head segments on every news program during that failure.

    One thing about getting older... you learn a little bit about perspective.

    What I remember from the news broadcasts are similar to what they are doing now: Namely, reporters screaming "We are all going to die! WE are ALL goint to DIE! We are ALL GOING to DIE! We ARE all GOING TO die!"

    You would think that they would have learned their lesson the first time, but they are still crying insanely without a hint of shame.

  13. Re:Not Good on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter whether they release the video or not, the reporters will still report "EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE!!!" either way. They had everyone dead on the first day, even before the tsunami hit the reactors. Since then, it's been the same idiotic nonsense ever since. Releasing the video, no matter what they show, will only be used as anti-nuke propaganda, even if the cameras had failed and only showed black images.

    What is never commented on, is that several nuclear plants, designed to survive a 7.5 quake, have survived a 9.0 quake plus a tsunami, That's 300 times more than the design limit for quakes, followed by a 20 foot wall of water slammed into it, and they haven't completely collapsed yet. How would your house handle that combination?

  14. tsar on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 2

    So, what are all those tsars doing anyway?

  15. Re:This is not new tech... on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    Only problem with that is, more than 90% of the shots are usually misses. The arrow shooters usually used the idea of throwing as many arrows as possible at the target, in the hope that a few would actually do damage. For a regular soldier, the idea is to shoot enough bullets to keep the other guy from being able to shoot back (and hoping that a few might hit something important). Snipers take their time from a distance to carefully aim, but I doubt they are as accurate as portrayed on TV shows. So, you are more likely to hear a *whing* then feel a bullet, especially if you aren't the shooters main target.

  16. Sensitivity on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    If you turn up the sensitivity, could you use it to place the blame on who farted?

  17. Satellite photos on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    It's time to get some new nighttime satellite photos. The ones that show the lights from space. It would be intresting to compare the before/after images.

  18. Re:Private Corporations on Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action · · Score: 1

    Are the police not allowed to hire consultants when working on a case where they do not have sufficient knowledge or equipment to handle it? So, under your belief, if the police find an active meth lab, and they do not have the training or equipment to make the area safe, they should just walk away from it, leaving it boiling away, instead of hiring someone who can safely clean it up?

  19. Re:Microsoft helps the internet on Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action · · Score: 1

    Windows trains people to click through such dialogs. Every time you try to do normal tasks, you are bombarded with "are you sure" dialogs, and it just becomes a reflex action to click through them without bothering to read the nonsense in the dialog box. You click on a "save" action, then you have to go through two or more dialogs just to confirm that you really, really want to save your work. "File name to save as?", "Are you sure?", "A file with that name already exists, replace it?", "Are you sure?", "Finished saving, want to save again?", "Are you sure?", .... People are trained by Windows software to ignore all the warnings unless you want to waste hours every day reading confusing confirm messages.

  20. Never on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    You can never have too many smurfberrys.

  21. Re:Insert shark joke here... on NASA Wants To Zap Space Junk With Lasers · · Score: 1

    Are sharks really accurate enough to shoot down orbital debris with a head mounted laser? If they released some piranha into the sharks tank, would that be sufficient to destroy Tokyo (is a thrashing shark with a laser as powerful as Godzilla)?

  22. Last flight on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    So, this is what the brought in on the shuttles last flight. Is that what they are making on thye ISS?

  23. Re:Nothing Beats Stupid Criminals on Facebook Photo of Stolen Ring Puts Couple In Jail · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the part that the boyfriend (and girlfriend) recently visited the victims house. So what's more likely, the boyfriend stole the ring, or that after his visit, a junkie broke in, stole the ring, traded it to a drug dealer, who then traded it for a car stereo, who then sold it to the boyfriend (who was recently at the victims house).

    A more likely idea: Maybe they both bought identical rings from a TV advertisement. If you call in the next 10 minute, you can purchase this $12,000 ring for a mere $19.95 (plus shipping and handling). But wait, there's more. If you act now, you will also receive this set of Ginzu knifes, a pocket fisherman, and a portable bottle opener. This amazing offer is limited to the first 100,000 callers, so act now.

  24. Re:Easily CSI on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    Why do computers on TV have to display all the photos/fingerprints in its database when doing any kind of search?

  25. Re:USGS continues to upgrade on 8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast · · Score: 1

    Quake was upgraded to 8.9 some time ago. Also aftershocks continue.

    Please leave your World Of Warcraft character out of serious discussions such as this, Mr Quake.