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  1. Re:WTF on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    nah, things went downhill about the 50k mark... ;)

  2. Re:32 kilowatt!!! on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    Of course, the Phalanx shoots 50-75 rounds a second, for a total muzzle energy/second of firing of a whopping 2269kJ.

    By coincidence, this is the same as the food energy in two Big Macs.

    Great! Let's just shoot the Big Macs at them! ;)

  3. Re:One Question.. on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    I don't mean to muscle in or make you clam up, but someone needs to school you in making bad puns....

  4. Re:Relevant. on Zynga Investment May Herald Google Games · · Score: 1

    Many of us are wishing California was less relevant.

  5. Re:Sounds good... on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 1

    You're right, it's hopeless, lets pack up and go home.

  6. Re:Don't call me shirley .. on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to mention, how could *anyone* predict anything with as many bad calls as the refs have been making all the time??

  7. Re:We seem to have broken their server on Security Vulnerability Bingo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think a slashdotting is the free token in the middle of the board.

  8. Re:Wait, what? on The Ignominious Fall of Dell · · Score: 4, Funny

    [looks at slashdot user ID] Yeah, you're new here.

    you all look the same to me...

  9. Re:Let me be the first on Microsoft Kills the Kin · · Score: 1

    Many distributions moved on to Dovecot

  10. Re:Thats the least of their problems. on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use a memorable quote, a poem a song lyric, whatever phrase you can remember easily. Use the first letter or two from each word, swapping case and substituting punctuation marks/numbers as needed. Finally, a use for 1337-5p34k!

    Example -
    Whose woods these are I think I know.
    His house is in the village though;

    Becomes - wh wo ar th i th i kn ki ho i i th vi th

    ...and this is why I don't like this technique - you didn't even get it right in your example!

    wh wo th ar i th i kn hi ho i i th vi th

  11. Re:The one real data model: XML on How HTML5 Will Change the Web · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why are we using HTML5 and not XHTML 2?

    XML abuses aside, XHTML is superior to HTML5.

    Go read http://diveintohtml5.org/

    Essentially, the argument is, make it easy for the users - the web programmers, not the browser programmers, and to allow the browsers to incrementally implement the standard, rather than an all or nothing that no one will do. . Telling the browser to error out when the html is not correct or supported is user UNfriendly. HTML5 provides a graceful way to handle it.

  12. Re:I dont need it. on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    I have a better idea: change the channel to something that isn't a sport at all. Spectator sports are a complete waste of time.

    Says someone who took the time to reply to a thread in Slashdot.

  13. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 1

    I think you got to the meat of the discussion there...

  14. Re:I found this article absorbing on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    I guess you understand the gravity of the situation...

  15. Re:FInally a good story on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The puns are just bubbling from you aren't they? Got any more brewing?

    Sorry, had to head that one off at the pass.

  16. Re:This doesn't break the uncertainty principle. on Physicists Do What Einstein Thought Impossible · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's merely confirming something else Einstein said: the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.

    I don't know.... Einstein might want to revise that statement... he never had a chance to try to follow Lost

  17. Re:Where's your cloud now? on Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter · · Score: 1

    What can you dew with this technology?

  18. Re:Where's your cloud now? on Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter · · Score: 1

    weighing the options, I don't see the con - dense, I am.

  19. Re:Again: The IT Uptime Lightweights on Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter · · Score: 1

    When was the last time anyone heard of a TV Network going dark for an hour? A Hospital Emergency Room? IT guys always run around like self-important Star Trek Blue Shirts, but they never seem to take the proper steps to ensure -- really ensure -- their uptime.

    I'm sure there are exceptions, but it just seems that they have a ways to go, compared to the real "critical systems" industries to which they are so fond of comparing themselves. Is it money, arrogance, or ignorance?

    Probably combination of them, depending on the location, but I have seen many, many times where the money is not there to do it right - and because that happens so often, too many IT admins don't *know* what *right* is.

  20. Re:Don't Discriminate! on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1, Interesting

    technically, Saturn is *never* on this side of Saturn.

  21. Re:Pimp My Disaster on Can Oil-Eating Bacteria Help Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    Got a source for that claim? I find it interesting, and the press often enough screws up on the scale of things, but... you can see the oil slick from the accident but not from the river. So where is it?

  22. Re:I'm still confused by something... on Palin Email Snoop Found Guilty On 2 Charges · · Score: 5, Informative

    Too lazy to look up the details, though, so no "informative" mods for me.

    You think that proof is required to get modded up as informative here on /.? You must be new here.

  23. Re:Whoosh? on NASA's Space Balloon Smashes Car In Australia · · Score: 1

    Some people go ballistic when they miss the joke... they get so mad they look like they are about to pop...

  24. Re:Guess what I've been doing all morning? on McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 · · Score: 1

    removing McAfee, right?

  25. Re:Doesn't necessarily do anything on Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory · · Score: 1

    But it can be applicable to non-virtualized apps. Furthermore, I see no reason that couldn't be "advisory" in nature, but still do a global scan if needed. The article didn't really say anything about that possibility.