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  1. Re:Our patent system is totally broken on USPTO Approves Amazon Patent For Taking Pictures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There needs to be some sort of appeal or review process whereby the public can object to patents like this and many others that have been granted.

  2. Re:This sounds great... on The Next Unreal Tournament: Totally Free, Developed By Public · · Score: 1

    Your heart was broken because they didn't support your OS of choice? I'd prefer to play my games on Linux too (and I do with those I can) but really? Isn't that a bit of hyperbole?

  3. Re:Definitely a new low. on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 1

    Whatever you are smoking it must be really good shit. Colorado? The headline is factual and is exactly what they are doing. If you're trolling then it's a very weak troll.

  4. Re:Apocalypse, Really? on The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse · · Score: 2

    If some users can't update it sounds like an OEM issue to me, or other conflicting software/ driver or firmware problem.. Not much Microsoft can do, its an OEM problem

    If you even bothered to look into it at all you'd see that your statement is false. It *is* a Microsoft issue, but then again looking at your details I wouldn't be surprised if you're just using a sockpuppet account to astroturf for MS>

  5. Re:Earthquakes competency on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    He probably just doesn't understand why you even bothered posting it. Nobody said there would definitely be a big one, they are just saying that the probability is high.

  6. The question shouldn't be if there should be punishment. There should. The asshat could have injured people. The question should be whether or not the FAA should be involved in a matter that local law enforcement can deal with.

  7. Re:Spiderman on Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · · Score: 1

    Dude. Do not feed the trolls! ;)

  8. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    The very epitome of an ad hominem. Well done.

    There was no ad hominem there. Straw man maybe, but it was not an ad hominem.

  9. Sounds fair to me on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The dude should certainly be punished, and a punitive fine like that sounds fairly reasonable to me. No sense clogging up the jails even further over what amounts to vandalism of a sort.

  10. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1, Troll

    Then you want news with a left spin. That's exactly what you describe.

  11. Re:So what? on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 2

    Just remember what Neil Degrasse Tyson said in Cosmos, "Question Everything".

    Why should we?

    I see what you did there, but your punny play aside we really should. Some people might miss the humor of your remark.

  12. Re:No thanks on Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 · · Score: 1

    I've looked at Nabu but I really don't see any value in it for me. I can get the same functionality from my smartphone if I want it, and I don't really.

  13. No thanks on Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm often an early adopter of technology, but I'm not interested in this type of product until it's far more unobtrusive and obvious. I can perhaps see a time when having a HUD built into my glasses might be useful, and sure there are times when I wish I could snap a picture of something more quickly than I can by pulling out my phone, but I'm not about to pay $1500 for what amounts to a barely beta product. I won't even go into my concerns about all the data Google already gets from us.

    This one day sale stunt is just that, a stunt. They are testing the waters and trying to stimulate demand.

  14. Diversity on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    I guess I'm just lucky I have diverse skills. Sure I work in IT security and love to code and all things computer related, but I also know how to hunt and fish and various other stone age level survival skills.

  15. Re:Mountain out of a molehill on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    WOW, bad spelling and typos. I chalk that up to the beers I am drinking :)

    Seriously though, it's not as big a deal as it's being made out to be. Yes it caused a security scramble, and rightly so. No, the sky is not falling.

  16. Re:Mountain out of a molehill on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think you completely missed my point. The hand wringing is useless. Fix it, mitigate it, and try to move on. Any damage that has been done is one. All that cane be done now is to patch and mitigate. All the wrangling going on on the 'net is amusing. The past can't be changed. We can learn from it and move on. There are plenty of ways to stop the bleeding. People are acting like the sky is falling. It's truly sad that you're one of them.

  17. Re:Mountain out of a molehill on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 2

    Nope. I am a senior engineer for an IT security firm. I fix this shit for a living, thank you.

  18. Re:Mountain out of a molehill on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    That is why part of the remediation process is new certs. I didn't say it wasn't a pain in the ass, but it's trivial with regards to the amount of work involved.

  19. Re:Mountain out of a molehill on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 0

    I didn't say it wasn't a pain in the ass. It's just easy to fix.

  20. Mountain out of a molehill on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 0

    It's amusing how much talk is going on about this. Patching the vulnerability is trivial. All of the major IPS and IDS products out there already have signatures published to remediate it for organizations who for whatever reason can't patch. This is getting silly.

  21. Re:Much ado about nothing on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 1

    If I could tell that to your work I would, because that's the result of bad management and nothing else. There's been ample time to plan upgrades. I feel for you, but I would suggest you start looking for a new job if the place you work for is so poorly managed.

  22. Re:Much ado about nothing on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 1

    Nice straw man. Thirty two bit software runs fine on 64 bit OSes these days for the most part. You're comparing apples and rocks, not even apples and oranges.

  23. Much ado about nothing on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 0

    Everyone knew long ago that end of support was coming. Most of the enterprises that I consult for have already finished or started migrations to Windows 7. Some have gone to 8.1, but most are moving to 7.

    XP has been around for a long, long time. It's time to move on.

  24. Re:Stupid on To Reduce the Health Risk of Barbecuing Meat, Just Add Beer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a stupid article. Beer is hardly the best source of antioxidants. Blueberries would be a far better choice.

    "Eat antioxidants to prevent cancer" ....well thank you captain obvious, we have known this for many years!

    Except beer makes an excellent marinade for meats and can be incorporated into BBQ sauce as well.

  25. Re:Shorewall on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? · · Score: 1

    The throwing of fecal matter is optional. That's the beauty of open source; it allows the user to have a choice.