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  1. Re:I remember on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> Doctor stopped it...went to an alternate dimension or something

    Yep: 3rd Doctor in "Inferno" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - and just like Star Trek you knew it was an alternate dimension because character's facial hair was different.

  2. Egon, remember that time you tried to drill a hole on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Egon, remember that time you tried to drill a hole through your head?

  3. Re:Symbolic of what on Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    >> "The votes are largely symbolic..." of what?

    Here's the GOP case in a nutshell: http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

  4. I like the new video format on The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Copyrights, Patents, and the TPP (Video) · · Score: 1

    >> a second video interview with Mr. Robertson

    One second SlashDot interviews? Even I can get behind that.

  5. Re:The question has to be asked: on Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    >> Where is the money for this coming from?

    The Clinton Global Initiative?

  6. In Engrish, please. on Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    >> it would extend ex parte seizure law to federalize private information

    In Engrish, please.

  7. Slow news day? on Chrome 47 Released (blogspot.ca) · · Score: 1

    >> yet another new "whole number" version of Chrome

    Also, the sun rose again today.

  8. Re:Is this some kind of joke article? on Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    >> I think you mean O.R.E.S

    Sounds like they've been playing Minecraft.

  9. Sensible then not on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Troll

    >> The overall scientific evidence does not support the suggestion that such exposure causes acute symptoms or that some people are able to detect radiofrequency fields.

    OK, I'm with you there.

    >> Nevertheless effective treatments need to be found for these symptoms.

    Now you lost me. So there's no link to reality, but we need to make accommodations and pay benefits (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/09/04/woman-wins-disability-payments-for-wi-fi-allergy.html) anyway because people possess a belief?

    If you really need a treatment, how about a nice backhand slap to the face?

  10. Bolt cutters - the choice of locker room thieves on Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock (csoonline.com) · · Score: -1

    >> open a new #3 Master Lock using a small brass hammer — in under 90 seconds

    Or, just haul a big bolt cutter into the locker room in a duffel bag and go "snip, snip, snip." That's usually what the local thieves do. It's also what I've seen a lot of companies do with padlocks on remote utility cabinets: why worry about keys at the end of a 150-mile trip when you can relock it for about $5?

  11. Re:No shit. This is why we all have our "lucky" D2 on Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis (markfickett.com) · · Score: 0

    >> I was rolling 100 D1s.

    It might also explain why 99% of your results are between 37 and 63.

  12. Get out of jail free. on DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> The problem is that it measures only a very limited subset of of the vulnerability space but comes with a gold plated get out of jail free card: ‘The US government came and checked us.’

    This.

    >> They say they are doing it only for organizations that cannot afford commercial assessments, but they often go to organizations that have deep enough pockets.

    Simple solution: put in a regulation that says if you get breached, you agree to take down your online services for two weeks to get your house in order. Something like that would free up money for preventative solutions in a hurry. Furthermore, we KNOW the inspected organizations have some security personnel (which aren't cheap) because the permission form asks for specific contacts who might be smart enough to interpret any results.

  13. Re:No shit. This is why we all have our "lucky" D2 on Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis (markfickett.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> Can we please stop using physical dice now?

    Not a chance. I play with developers...

  14. No shit. This is why we all have our "lucky" D20s on Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis (markfickett.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >> All dice are slightly unfair

    No shit. This is why we all have our "lucky" D20s. (Or my favorite handful of "deadly D6s" to deal with up-ity PCs.)

  15. getting stuff is easy - heh! on Book Review: Security Operations Center · · Score: 1

    >> Getting the raw hardware, software and people to create a SOC is not that difficult.

    Says someone who's never had to work within budget or personnel constraints.

    Smart people put their "SOC" in their existing "NOC" anyway - otherwise all you have is continual pissing contests between two ivory towers of truth.

  16. If they behave badly they are excluded. on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    >> If they behave badly they are excluded.

    Except they aren't in today's society. For example, every time we try to "means test" welfare or food stamps or re-examine people fraudulently put on disability for life, there are a whole bunch of people who come out of the woodwork to whine about how unfair and mean all of us who pay the bills are.

  17. All Israel would need to do is reference TOS? on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> individual Palestinians have been uploading videos showing violence by Israeli soldiers, including execution-style killings

    I think all Israel would need to do is reference YouTube's own Terms of Service, which prohibit videos featuring illegal acts, right? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_YouTube) Or maybe it could copyright all videos featuring its soldiers and go the German route (where YouTube would be liable for violating copyright by hosting videos). /snark

  18. Re:What year do you think this is? on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> We busted up the mob years ago. They've got nothing to do with Unions now.

    You must not live near Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, etc. or take a close look at who's involved in the pension plans then.

    e.g., http://deadline.com/2015/09/mo...

  19. Listen yoos on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: -1, Troll

    So a guy from the mob knocks on a driver's window. "Weez gonna hass tuh take $50 uh week from yur paycheck from now ons. Yoos wouldn't wanna hass anything happens tuh dis nice new Prius, would yoos? Oh, an here's yur union card."

  20. Where I live there are no mail trucks on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >> normal as seeing mail trucks on the road

    Where I live, we have mailmen (or mailwomen) walking door to door. Mail trucks are usually parked several blocks away.

    >> drones fly under 400 feet and weigh less than 55 pounds

    Well that's good. I'm sure 55 pound weights dropped from 400 feet are harmless.

  21. upgraded to lower cost on Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    >> upgraded to lower cost

    You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

  22. The real Bill Gates of India on IT Execs On Their Dream Dinner Guests · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >> Another would invite Ratan Tata, who he calls the "Bill Gates of India."

    The real Bill Gates of India would be on a forum with questions like, "Help!!! I need to dominate my country's PC market to the point where there's no money in building hardware anymore and corner the on-premise office productivity software market by Tuesday. Can you please tell me how, I'm willing to do the needful. Urgent reply requested!!!!!"

  23. Re:John Wayne on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    >> electing Rambo wannabe

    Rambo came out in 1982 - Reagan was elected in 1980.

  24. Because it will make you SEE RED on AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released (anandtech.com) · · Score: 0

    >> AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released

    Because it will make you SEE RED. Heh heh hee. Thank you I'll be here all week.

  25. Paris terrorists didn't seem "religious"... on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >> (engineers) are seven times as likely to be both religious and conservative as social scientists

    The Paris terrorists didn't seem that "religious" or "conservative". From AFA: "She loved partying and going to clubs. She drank alcohol and smoked and went around with lots of different guys." (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3325180/Two-fingers-world-Pictured-Europe-s-female-suicide-bomber-booze-loving-extrovert-nicknamed-Cowgirl-love-big-hats.html)