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  1. Central Bank of New Zealand on New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    We are glad to see such wide coverage of our new security measures. We are Central Bank are totally focussed on giving our users the most secure online banking experience possible. To that rnd and to help speed up the implementation of our new security measures could all Slashdot readers resident in New Zealand please respond to this post citing

    (i) Full name, DOB and Address
    (ii) Account number
    (iii) Internet banking login name and password
    (iv) Credit card number, expiry date and security code
    (v) IP address and machine user name and password

    Thank you for you assistance in this matter and we will report the security status of your machine to you as quickly as possible. If you feel uncomfortable entering this information you can always download our helper program (RapeMyAccountLikeItsaSheep.exe) from our website.

    Central Bank
    New Zealand

  2. Re:Actually, this is good for the white hats..... on Rutkowska Faces 'Blue Pill' Rootkit Challenge · · Score: 1

    Not really. In this scenario they are looking for it specifically and thats more than half the battle. I'm pretty sure if they just took their standard approach they may well find nothing amis with the Blue Pill machine. As they point out there are many possible tell tales for Blue Pill but does their standard tooling already include these checks? With the 2 machine test they are proposing it would be almost impossible not to find the tainted machine through sheer trial and error if nothing else.

  3. MOD ME UP! on Cyberbullying Gains Momentum in US · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or I'll kick seven shades of crap out of every moderator in here!!!!

  4. Segueing away from storyline a little on Ken Levine On The Background of Bioshock · · Score: 1

    How far from a storyline can you get on a segway?

  5. Re:Hitting 3 petaflops takes an 884,736-processor[ on IBM's Blue Gene Runs Continuously At 1 Petaflop · · Score: 5, Funny

    will there ever be such a thing as too many cpus???
    There will be if all those cpus decide there are too many humans.
  6. Just don't on Wikipedia Gets State Funding in Germany · · Score: 4, Funny

    mention the war!

  7. Re:Not for Linux on BBC Chooses Microsoft DRM Platform · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thats funny cos Linux advocates are alwasy telling us that Linux is ready to replace windows, that OpenOffice.org can replace MS Office, Multimedia? No problem on Linux, Wine works great with windows apps etc. etc. etc. Then something like this comes along and suddenly its OMG we are being shut out, theres no way for us to watch this boo hoo.

  8. Text of the email on Fresh Security Breaches At Los Alamos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hi Hon,

    I'm going to be late home from the lab tonite so have dinner without me, we are just putting the finishing touches to the doomsday device so we can test it tomorrow.

    Love you
    xxxxxx

  9. Re:An employee took his lab laptop on vacation on Fresh Security Breaches At Los Alamos · · Score: 1

    The same should apply to humans. If you are in possession of sensitive knowledge your head should explode if you are asked inappropriate questions by strangers, or at the very least nanobots in your skull should lobotomize you to the level of drooling idiot.

  10. Re:unrealistic on X Prize Foundation Announces Lunar Lander Competitors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well one of the major reasons Burt Rattan won the previous challenge was because Paul Allen bankrolled the whole thing to the point where the prize fund became irrelevant. Whether this was out out curiosity to see it does or as potential investment or both I dont know.

  11. The secret contenders are ILM on X Prize Foundation Announces Lunar Lander Competitors · · Score: 3, Funny

    And my money is on them to win by not just landing on the moon but converting it into an orbiting battle station and calling it a death moon or something like that.

  12. Intensifying Conflict? on The Mechanized Future · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Devices of the Soul is an insightful, disturbing, imperfect, eloquent, and important contribution to what may ultimately become the most critical debate in the intensifying conflict between humans and our technological creations: Humans may survive, but will our humanity?
    Someone clue me in. Did we activate Skynet while I was at the office or has someone been indulging in too many sci-fi books and movies?
  13. Re:The Health Care Industry / Gov't would fear thi on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must be joking. It's absolutely no coincidence that so many addictions and psychological disorders suddenly started getting diagnosed at the same time the pharmcos started churning out happy pills.

  14. Re:indeed on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can stop whenever I want.
    I could't but fortunately I was able to beat my sex addiction because every woman I approached helped out by refusing to have sex with me.
  15. So if I am addicted to posting on Slashdot on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does that mean I am have a mental disWOOOOHOOOOO I'm a teapot!! I'm a teapot!!!

  16. Alternative working title on Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales Trailer Posted · · Score: 1

    Babylon 5: The Lost Tails Sharks with Fricken Lasers

  17. In other news on Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    GMail Poland excutives were looking rather nervous after this announcement.

  18. Way too tacky on Fiber Optic Table Illuminates Your Dining · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Think I'll stick with candles thank you very much.

  19. Re:The Need for an Enemy on US Prepares for Eventual Cyberwar · · Score: 2, Informative

    This whole terrorism thing just isn't working out
    Well even the dummies are starting to put 2 and 2 together now over the whole 'terrorist global domination' charade and 'Cyber terrorists' are a ready made replacement in terms of fear mongering. Another vague, unknown threat that could be anywhere and somehow capable of causing immense destruction and loss of life at any given moment.
  20. Re:Removing the word rumor always helps on WoW Database Site Sells For $1 Million · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a tendency now to mentally apply the suffix 'Allegedly' to all slashdot headlines in the best tradition of HIGNFY. I find it makes the vast majority much more accurate.

  21. Favorably reflective mirror? on Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Lunar chicks are just gonna love this.

  22. First secret post on C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet · · Score: 1

    It's rumoured the daffodils grow sideways in Odessa at this time of year.

  23. Just like Slashdot on Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova · · Score: -1, Troll

    they really mean it probably exploded 6,500 to 7,500 years ago and we're awaiting the news
    Think I'll wait for the dupe explosion.
  24. Rename 'Black holes' to 'Wholes' on Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then everything is complete and the Universe is in harmony. Problem solved.

  25. Yay! on Vertical Farming · · Score: 1, Funny

    Finally we get flying pigs. Now when does Hell freeze over again?