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  1. No point giving a link on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    No point linking to wikipedia, everyone has heard of it already.

  2. Wallets are not fucking smart. on Smart Wallets React To Spending By Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Chips are not fucking smart, cards are not fucking smart, materials are not fucking smart, a person may or may not be smart, an animal like a dog might be smart, inanimate objects are not smart or intelligent or clever or fucking astute!

  3. I don't get it. on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    I don't watch TV but when I do watch video online that has that kind of loud unskipable commercial I just mute it preemptively. (also applies to stuff like the TED start music)
    If it was a reasonable volume I might keep it on and just ignore it but this way they just lose me altogether, I don't get why they'd want to do that.

  4. I'm with you on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    I won't stand for this kind of market-baggery!

  5. Or at the very least on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    be prepared to face some unusually ill-tempered sea-bass or possibly talapia.

  6. Re:Antivirus? on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Using a USB dongle where I study can infect it with anywhere between 1 and 4 different malware, I don't know, maybe the IT staff are incompetent, maybe it the large number of Macs leaving them with not much experience with Windows, maybe it's just the heavy use of USB dongles.

    It wouldn't be a good idea to stick your dongle into one of those machines without protection.

  7. Re:Palin against government transparency? on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    Plus, she is only a supporter of the Constitution when it's the parts of the Constitution she likes.

    ...or is aware of.

  8. They forgot slander on Torrent Users Fight Back · · Score: 4, Funny

    for insinuating they willingly watched Far Cry.

  9. So a few hours have passed on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And things are starting to come out that are somewhat interesting but what's really fascinating to me is that this is sort of like an archive of the correspondence in World War 2 being opened to the public, only it's for right now, or close to now, a snapshot of the history of the present if you will.
    It lets the world see a reflection of itself (though the state-trooper authority sunglasses of US diplomats) and where the path we're on might be leading.
    So it might be a historical moment and it might just be that a bunch of people will get pissed off and and it'll blow over.
    And I should probably get some sleep because I'm babbling.

  10. Re:mass ddod? on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 1

    I believe it's what you get when someone hears you like distributed denial of service attacks.

  11. Makes me wonder. on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 1

    What's the latest in avoiding this sort of DDoS, if you suspect something like this is coming, are there solutions for distributing websites over p2p while still verifying the source, something involving torrents and public key cryptography?

  12. Re:About those downloads... on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 1

    It's directed by this guy named Uwe Boll who's apparently made like a ton of these adaptations so he must be really good at it.

  13. Re:The solution is obvious on First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ha, sucker, my house is a hybrid, you wouldn't believe how much electricity you can generate from regenerative breaking of continental drift.

  14. Do any of the tags... on Scientists Attach Bar Codes To Embryos · · Score: 1

    Do any of the tags contain the string 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' on them?

  15. Re:"DSLR" is meaningless on Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists · · Score: 1

    Well, personally I prefer looking through the viewfinder, I suppose it's just a preference of how to hold a camera and not having to be limited to a certain amount of pixels for the display.

    With that said, the new Canon 60D is I believe the first EOS camera with a flip-out display which I would definitely find useful in certain situations and I imagine you'll see that on later generations of EOS cameras.

    Also the Fujifilm Finepix X100 looks like a pretty cute little camera and seems to have some sort of hybrid display/rangefinder viewfinder.

  16. Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 1

    What's his superpower, transmuting money into douche?

  17. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    More like 'In Soviet Russia open source code releases you!'

  18. Re:Karma Whoring Post on 2010 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds more like an MCSE test than a geek test.

  19. Re:earprints on Ears Might Be Better Than Fingerprints For ID · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine it would solve a signification portion of all those unsolved damsel-tied-to-train-tracks cases.

  20. Re:Isn't freedom great? on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    You'll notice they attack the cops as well.
    This is taking place in a part of Jerusalem called Mea Shearim, populated by ultra orthodox Jews that don't acknowledge the state of Israel, burn trash containers and spit or worse on passers by when something is not to their liking.
    It's a pretty unique place in that regard and is not indicative of any pretty much any other place in Israel.

  21. When they came for the leechers... on Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook · · Score: 1

    When they came for the leechers...

  22. Re:We used to do this sort of thing as well... on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, considering Christianity has about 600 years of a head start on Islam they seem to be pretty much at the same stage respectively.

  23. Re:Isn't freedom great? on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 4, Informative

    As an Israeli I have no goddamned fucking idea what you're talking about.

  24. Re:Halve, or quarter the size? on Intel, Toshiba, Samsung To Form Chip Alliance · · Score: 1

    Ha, screw that, we're halving our chips in the time dimension!

  25. Re:Chopstick gene on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to imply correlation is not causation on Slashdot, you extravagant risk-taker?