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  1. Bad Ideas on Robots May Inspire Suits Against Programmers · · Score: 1

    This article could potentially give Dr. Forrester some bad ideas...Joel already has enough to deal with!

    -Crow T. Robot

  2. Re:Think of the children too on Man Mines Facebook For Security Questions, Nabs Nude Photos From Email · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, because producing child pornography and distributing it on the internet is producing child pornography and distributing it on the internet. If a 16 year old girl sends a picture of her tits to your phone you are now in possession of child pornography and in direct danger of having your life destroyed and everyone you know hating you.

    This is akin to weaponry. This shit needs to stop.

  3. Re:Open Platform? on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 1

    Those calls and SMS's get to by being routed by hardware running "community" code (i.e. BSD, Linux, etc) so what does it matter if your phone runs "community" code?

  4. Re:Good! on Catching Exam Cheats With a Spectrum Analyzer · · Score: 3

    I personally know that cheating on the foreign service exam will get you fast-tracked to GLG-20.

    - A. Millbarge

  5. Re:Decriminalize it on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    Liquor is much less profitable than marijuana currently. It is very easy for a single person to break in to a "grow house" and steal $10,000 dollars worth of marijuana with just a backpack. I'd like to see someone try to do the same at a distillery without the use of a forklift and/or flatbed pushcarts.

  6. Re:what, are you high? on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    Your anecdotal experience does not apply to everyone who uses marijuana.

  7. Re:Questions on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    Causation/Correlation.

    This could also be interpreted as pre-psychotic/latent-psychotic teens are twice as likely to abuse or experiment with marijuana than non-psychotic teens.

  8. Re:OK, so I don't know the whole story... on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    Except that it's not really legal. Getting some security is not going to stop the federal government from kicking down your door and hauling your ass to prison unless you are ready for some ruby-ridge-style security measures.

  9. Re:Let's put it up on Wikileaks on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    The amount of preventitive care that running and jogging provide far outweigh the cost to the healthcare industry for things like sprained ankles.

    Smoking and over-eating can easily be traced/related to all the major ailments responsible for the majority of the healthcare money that is spent each year.

  10. Re:*HOW* Much?! on Social Security Information Systems Near Collapse · · Score: 1

    Oh, and note that the article said that half a billion dollars is just what has been allocated for the project. So far.

    You can safely assume this project will overrun its budget just like many many many other government and defense programs.

  11. Re:Why an OS upgrade? on Mac OS X 10.6.6 Introduces App Store · · Score: 1

    I would imagine there are some new underlying hooks that help implement the updating process. The new store not only installs directly to your machine but the OS keeps an eye on each and every program and integrates it into the "Software Updater" feature that is natively included in the system utilities.

  12. Re:I've been wondering for the longest time on SEGA Brings Gaming To Public Restroom Toilets · · Score: 2

    I live in a metropolitan city on the east coast of the US and we have had these for a long time in places like bars. They use an enclosed/framed cork-board-type of setup that advertisers pay to have their ads posted on. It's mostly ads for car care centers or some shitty local bar and grill.

  13. Re:So what? on Apple Support Company Sues Customer For Complaint · · Score: 1
    Interesting link.

    Riches continued, "Defendants put me in prison. I face imminent danger from violent inmates who played Grand Theft Auto who will knock me out and take my gold Jesus cross."

    Funniest thing I have read so far in 2011.

  14. Re:Why not ban mandatory attendence of lectures? on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    College isn't mandatory.

    Also, mandatory lectures is not an "American thing." The college that you were attending is staffed by some professors that feel they have to babysit their students.

  15. Re:Stupid is as stupid does. on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 1
    An appropriate Idiocracy quote:

    Doctor in Waiting Room: Clevon is lucky to be alive. He attempted to jump a jet ski from a lake into a swimming pool and impaled his crotch on an iron gate. But thanks to advances in stem cell research and the fine work of Doctors Krinsky and Altschuler, he should regain full reproductive function again.
    Trashy Guy: [in the background] Get your hands off my junk!

  16. Where do you draw the line? on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    The problem, she says, is that the OCD Facebookers aren't just devaluing their own education — there's a certain distraction factor to worry about.

    On the one hand, college is "grown up" time. You shouldn't have someone telling you that you need to go to class or that you should concentrate or when you should study. You are now an adult and it's time to figure that out for yourself.

    OTOH, I have to agree that there is some level of distraction factor especially when you have the tiered-type auditorium classroom and 4 idiots in front of you watching lolcats youtube videos. The subject of electromagnetics and electromechanical energy conversion is hard enough to concentrate on without having to deal with that kind of tasty eye-candy. In the end, I would have to agree to ban them from classrooms because they are completely unnecessary and I know that someone will reply to this with "BUT I TAKE FABULOUS NOTES WITH MY LAPTOP, YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD" but, honestly, the number of people that do that is "statistically insignificant" compared to the idiots. Car analogy: It would be like raising the speed limit of the local roads to 100MPH because 0.5% of the population can drive safely at those speeds and on those roads.

  17. Re:Epic Fail? WTF? on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    I think it should be taken into consideration that the people that worked on this were most likely (I haven't confirmed this but is usually the case) amateurs working on this stuff in their free time. I am sure that a professional crew could have accomplished this in a few days.

  18. Well done, Cambridge. on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 1
    It is refreshing to see them stand up against them and in the end this kind of disclosure does work:

    There is one piece of Christmas cheer, though: the No-PIN attack no longer works against Barclays’ cards at a Barclays merchant. So at least they’ve started to fix the bug – even if it’s taken them a year. We’ll check and report on other banks later.

    Of course the bankers would just rather be lazy and not have to fix their shit system.

  19. Not part of STEM? on Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject · · Score: 0

    defense of mathematics as a liberal arts discipline, and not merely part of a STEM

    Not part of "STEM?" It is clearly the "M."

    Case closed.

  20. Berlin Redux? on Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? · · Score: 1

    Zuckerburg: Mr. Jintao, tear down that wall! (And sign up for my ridiculously useless and exploitative web service!)

  21. Poor Assumption on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their rationale is that if ISPs have managed to block all child porn, they'll also be able to block all other porn as well.

    Except, they haven't...not even close.

  22. Re:Never on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seeing that you have "failed it" just proves the author's point. Farewell, ChromeOS!

  23. Re:Shakespeare? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    They should remove the Bible also since Lot's daughters got him drunk and each had sex with him in the hopes of getting pregnant.

  24. Re:!admin on McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    ...protected by OpenBSD-based firewalls.

  25. Time to change that tagline! on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 1

    Only three remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!