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  1. DMCA? on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this violate the DMCA?

  2. Solution for them on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 2

    Go live in a cave!

    It came to me in a dream; God spoke to me, she said "those that are offended should go live in a cave, ascetic lifestyle, ftw"

    "But lord, are you saying they're righteous?" I countered

    "Not at all," she replied "this way those who won't do as I wish won't screw it up for the rest of you living in the 21st century."

    I know you don't believe me, but may God smite the earth and destroy it, RIGHT NOW, if I am wrong!

    See? Nothing happened, therefore I am God's messenger!

  3. No misogeny on Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He was considering a series with male models but his career took off (he works in the television industry now) and he simply didn't have the time to follow-up

  4. But - but but... on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 3, Funny

    But I posted that disclaimer on Facebook expressly forbidding them to do that

  5. Re:I keep seeings announcements for E17... on Call for Questions: Rasterman, Founder of the Enlightenment Project · · Score: 1

    but my calendar doesn't say the April 1 yet, what gives?

    No, look at the press-release carefully; it says that E will be released Dec 21st, 2012

    They're just hoping the world ends before users are disappointed. That way they can go out on a high note.

  6. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, I don't want the WBC people to be hurt.

    I want them to realize the suffering and hurt they've caused.

  7. Ooh! on Ericsson Seeks US Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 1

    More innovation??? I can't stand it!

  8. Re:This this not evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Acquisition of mutations is not evolution

    That's PRECISELY what it is.

    Some mutations are beneficial, leading to prosperity for a species, and others lead to what are called 'evolutionary dead-ends'.

  9. What's transmission without TCP on Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? · · Score: 1

    Anyone can understand packet braodcast and transmission but you should get the child interested in the harder stuff: TCP.

    Sliding windows, data-retransmission algoritms, congestion backoff timers, etc...

    It will explain not only how the data gets where it's going but how it gets there, ordered!

    Fascinating stuff, really.

    It's pure computer-science from there on.

    Maybe the kid doesn't want to be a programmer but maybe the kid could end up designing/optimising data transmission algorithms, you never know.

    Understanding TCP's challenges is the way towards that.

    Good luck!

  10. Anyone else on Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Getting goosebumps at all the innovation this is spurring?

  11. Re:Soviet vs American justice on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the best punishment would be a year or so in prison with the most violent and vicious criminals our society has to offer. If that doesn't discourage him from his black-hat activities then nothing will. A few before and after pictures (of both his face and anus) posted online should do the trick.

    You sir are simply a sadist.

    Even without experiencing the horrible torture you propose, you are already as cruel and depraved as if you had.

  12. I've got an idea on Vendors Sue Dutch Government Over Media Levies · · Score: 2

    Fuck these guys.

    The media companies do NOT compensate artists with any of the money collected, so their principal reason for getting this money is invalid.

    As for their lost profits, study after study proves that file-copying actually increases their sales.

    Screw them, we need to get rid of these leeches.

  13. 15M$ can buy a lot of photoshops on Google Lunar X Prize Teams Now In a Race With China As Well As Each Other · · Score: 0

    I wouldn't put it past China to outright cheat.

  14. Re:no on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 2

    If Einstein were alive he'd be laughing too

  15. Re:No platform is 100 percent secure? on Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More like Linux still doesn't have the market share to warrent spending significant time developing malware for it.

    Right...

    Linux runs on more computers than Windows worldwide.

    You know, all those servers, phones, appliances and clouds that make up the Internet? Those.

    It may not be on most desktops but its on everything else and it far outnumbers Windows.

    It's not more secure because it's more obscure, it's more secure because it's better.

  16. It has also been reported... on Cray Unveils XC30 Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    That it runs Windows 8 nearly-acceptably

  17. Re:Contradictory ... on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    There is historical evidence of miners in Africa using weed to do their work and being able to do the brutalizing, back-breaking work without complaint for long shifts.

  18. Re:I can sleep on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I knew it.. Windows terrible design is based off weed!

    No, if it were weed, it would be incomplete.

    The pattern resembles caffeine more than weed.

    There's a famous study that was done about the effects of drugs on the ability of spiders to spin webs.

    Web-spinning resembles coding to a degree, both are engineering tasks, both have to be completed in a timely manner or the author starves.

    What they found was caffeine made the spiders very productive, but rather sloppy. That sounds like Windows to a T.

    Weed on the other hand made the spiders do very detailed, ornate work, but they seemed to have wandering minds, get bored and leave their webs unfinished. I don't know what OS that would correspond to.

    LSD had the effect of the spiders becoming very parsimonious with their effort. Webs constructed by LSD-spiders are typically minimal but very elegant. This makes me believe that Unix was probably dreamed up by some acid-heads.

    The study
    http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm

  19. Next time on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Spend the 400$ on a computer-forensics investigator, find out who is doing this then contact law-enforcement.

  20. Obviously on Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake · · Score: 3, Funny

    God is angry at Stephen Harper

  21. Re:It's easy with an IDE on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you can more often use plain strings, rather than having to construct a regex.

    Sounds like pandering to the lowest-common denominator.
    Why don't you switch to programming in VB while you're at it?

  22. Re:Industrial terrorism on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    You're right, it is less barbaric if you're actually using it for warfare and to prevent loss of life.

    But the far more common use of this will be to sabotage competitors or nuisances without killing anyone so that there is no public outcry.

  23. Re:Industrial terrorism on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right.
    This new technology will never be misused or fall into the wrong hands, unlike every technology that came before it.

  24. Industrial terrorism on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Welcome to the age of industrial terrorism.

  25. Get root on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? · · Score: 0

    Get root because anything else is like trying to plug a leaky dam with a band-aid.

    Oh sure, the astroturfers will now come out of the woodwork to claim "buy product u$ele$$, it'll make unicorn farts!"

    But those are just bogus claims because you cannot defend a box properly if you are not its administrator.

    Of course, it's not for the faint of heart (newb) though