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  1. This has to be... on Corporation Investigates Spurious Signal -- What They Found Will Shock You · · Score: 0

    ... the least funny April 1st post I've ever seen.

  2. Time for a new Slashdot slogan on Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot: News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.

  3. Re:Argument on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 0

    This comment is not a debate contest in which I convince you to agree with me or vice versa. This comment is concerned only with establishing the truth about Mr. MyLongNickName. Some background is in order: MyLongNickName spouts all kinds of puffery about his moral vigor. Well, sure, he has somehow found the fortitude to endure our ongoing humiliation and discomfort at the hands of his cringers, but the larger point is that MyLongNickName insists that there won't be any blowback from his ridiculing, parodying, censoring, and downgrading opposing ideas. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. MyLongNickName would be better off if he just admitted to himself that he is stepping over the line when he attempts to trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry—way over the line.

    MyLongNickName says that depraved yo-yos are all inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that the world can be happy only when his posse is given full rein. If he can one day smear and defame me then the long descent into night is sure to follow.

    The question, therefore, must not be, "Is MyLongNickName genetically predisposed to deflecting attention from his unwillingness to support policies that benefit the average citizen?" but rather, "What demons possessed him to develop a Pavlovian reflex in us, to make us afraid to lay the groundwork for an upcoming attempt to get my message about MyLongNickName out to the world?". The latter question is the better one to ask because bitterness seeps out of MyLongNickName like blood from an underdone ribeye steak. That extreme bitterness is, as far as I can tell, what leads him to consign most of us to the role of his servants or slaves. To end this letter, I would like to make a bet with Mr. MyLongNickName. I will gladly give him a day's salary if he can prove that you and I are objects for him to use then casually throw away and forget like old newsprint that's performed its duty catching bird droppings, as he insists. If MyLongNickName is unable to prove that, then his end of the bargain is to step aside while I unveil the semiotic patterns that he utilizes to create a beachhead for organized Lysenkoism. So, do we have a bet, MyLongNickName?

  4. Here on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1
  5. It doesn't take a genius... on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... to work out that there is definetely something fishy going on with the whole extradition story.

    To begin with when both woman when to the police station to "report" Assange what they stated was NOT that they were raped but instead that he REFUSED to use a condom and they wanted to confirm with the police if they had the power to force him to take a STD test. Pure and simple! Now the police officer that took their statements called the prosecutor and, given the nature of the inquire, it already starts to sound a bit fishy. When the woman were told that they will issue an arrest warrant for Assange one of them REFUSED to continue with the statements and also even REFUSED to sign what had already been said. It sounds to me that it's pretty obvious that the public prosecutor that was called from that police station informed "someone" that they might had something on Assange.

    There is so much to this it's hard to consolidate in a short coment but I would suggest watching this documentary on the subject:

    http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/19/3549280.htm

    I don't buy for a second that the woman were raped. And given all the evidence already presented in Sweden I don't think anyone does. The question has got to be related to something else, not even Kadafi had a RED Notice put on him, not even the Syrian president, it's an orange notice, but hey, he refused to use a condom, that's seems justified!

  6. Time for a new slogan... on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    Slashdot. News for the amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.

  7. The amazing strip-search scanner on T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Link with pictures here

  8. In other news... on Thieves Hacking Security Cameras? · · Score: 3, Informative

    People are stupid. Google for: inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="

    And have fun...

  9. Re:NO! on Storm Worm Rising · · Score: 3, Informative

    It makes no difference if you password protect them or not as to list the zip file content no password is needed. You only need the password to correct extract the files.

    I've just switched to using RAR and as for now Google is leaving my attachments alone...

    M Addario

  10. Damn subtitles! on Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda's Image Doctoring · · Score: 4, Funny

    So he doesn't have those subtitles in real life? Crap, that means the whole strategy to finding him will have to be changed once again!

  11. Shadowrun on XP - Try it yourself... on Vista Games Cracked to Run on XP · · Score: -1, Troll

    Release name: Shadowrun-Razor1911
    Size: 1 DVD, 1.83 GB
    Protection: Activation
    Genre: Shooter
    Filename: rzr-swrn

      Game Notes

      FASA Studio, the creative minds behind MechWarrior and Crimson Skies, are
      back with Shadowrun, the new multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) based
      on the much-beloved role-playing game (RPG) franchise. Shadowrun propels
      team-based combat into a new dimension with a revolutionary blend of modern
      weaponry and ancient magic. Up to 16 players can battle for control of this
      new world through Xbox 360-to-Windows Vista online compatibility. In
      Shadowrun players vie for supremacy in a constantly evolving battlefield
      where advanced technology and ancient magic provide an unprecedented and
      high-velocity tactical action experience.

      Release Notes

      Tired of waiting for Falling Leaf to produce drivers so that you can play
      Shadowrun in XP? The wait is over, because Razor1911 already has the remedy!
      Yes, you read right. This game will also function in Windows XP (following the
      installation procedure below).
      This release will work with bot matches and lan mp. If you want to play
      online, buy the game!

      Install Notes

      1. Extract RARs
      2. Install
      3. Go into your installationfolder and delete the srsw_shadowrun.dll.
      4. Copy srs_shadowrun.dll and srsx_shadowrun.dll to your installationfolder.
      5. If you want the XP compatability, copy the files from the xp/ subdir to your installationfolder.
      6. If you want a shortcut on your desktop, this is the time to make one!
      7. Play!
      8. Have fun!

    Razor 1911 Greetings

    You can check the NFO here: http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?switchto=nfos&menu= quicknav&item=viewnfo&id=115244

    And you can get the game (and the XP patch) here: http://cache.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=159857 6

    Ooops... did I just said too much? :)

  12. Re:Test results on Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? · · Score: 1

    Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3)

    From the 43 selectors 21 have passed, 7 are buggy and 15 are unsupported (Passed 336 out of 578 tests)

  13. Check out the specs! Pretty cool... on OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay · · Score: 1
  14. Re:*smack*! on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, you can even check the Lion King - Kimba ripoff...

  15. East London... on Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras · · Score: 1

    Oh boy... I would like to see this working on East London... "Know what'a'meeeaaan?"

  16. Market Share 101 - Read it Mr. Balmer! on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Overall market share numbers capture the vast scale of PC disposability, but do not reflect the product profitability that comes from building a better quality product.

    While Apple is cited by Gartner and IDC as selling around 5% of all the computers in the US, it isn't obvious that Apple's 5% share is the cream of the market; it's actually worth more than the same or larger percentage shares held by rivals.

    There were 9.8 million Macs sold in the last two years, up from 6.2 million in the previous two year period. Those numbers don't compare with the stunning volume of PCs shipped by HP and Dell--which each sold 38 million PCs in 2006 alone--but Apple's profits do.

    In the forth quarter of last year, HP and Dell combined sold 10 times as many PCs as Apple in the US, earned 5.5 times as much revenue as Apple, but together only ended up with 2.2 times as much net income as Apple.

    In other words, Apple earned nearly half as much net income with its 5% share the market as HP and Dell together, with their combined 55% share of the US PC market: $1 billion for Apple vs $2.2 billion for HP and Dell together!

  17. Re:I wonder what level they are blocking? on Ohio University Blocks P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    > Failing everything else, there is always sneakernet.

    Sneakernet is dead... remember? Don't you dare copying that floppy!

  18. KIS on French Voting Machines a "Catastrophe" · · Score: 1

    Yes, really, KEEP IT SIMPLE.

    The problem with all this e-voting revolution we see now on First World Countries is the obscene amount of money they have at their disposal to develop such technology.

    Too much money in this case has been translated into touch screens, fancy hi-tech networked machines that simply have no focus on usability. Take the Brazilian example in contrast, the first country to have a fully electronic election (2000): No money, no touch screen, no networked machine == No problems! 100.000.000 votes counted for in less then 10 hours.

    Just my 2c.

  19. New slogan... on Windows Vista, More Than Just a Pretty Face · · Score: 5, Funny

    News for the amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.

  20. Go beyond Vista on Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year · · Score: 1

    Activation crack or not you probably need a new computer to run Vista. Perfect opportunity to get a Mac and start enjoying a completely new world...

  21. Download it... on Apple Sues Over iPhone Smartphone Skins · · Score: 1

    ... with this very neat torrent

    Enjoy :)

  22. Check out the video of the experiment... on Nike+ iPod Used For Surveillance · · Score: 1

    ... here.

    (ok... I'm evil to link a 200mb file... I know...)a

  23. Not a well defined test on George the Next Generation AI? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Turing test is not a well defined test. Whether a robot passes the Turing test or not, it greatly depends on the intelligence of the human partner. A chatbot may fool a 10-year old, but it may fail with a 20-year old. So in fact, we already have many chatbots that pass the Turing test - it all depends on how you look at the issue.

    Hint - most chat bots do not have memory, they do not remember what you talked about 5 minutes ago with them. They just react to the current input, they cannot do more. So, if you ask the chatbot to tell you what you talked about a few minutes ago, it won't be able to do so. That's the dead give away of a chatbot.

    Just my 2p, as I live in the UK ;)

  24. Becouse you all know... on Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Macs Crash Different

    And don't get me wrong, I'm typing this on a Mac and I would not trade it for anything else out there ;)

  25. Let alone on Sony's PSP Memory Stick Entertainment Packs Shipping · · Score: 1

    Let alone filling the memory sticks with crap, that's my job, and give me a 2 or 4gb M2 stick Sony!