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  1. Hardware key on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    Give them hardware keys (RSA tokens or whatever they use these days.

  2. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    Another Lie! Slashdotters don't have "fiances".

  3. Death ray on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 1

    Go for the classics.

  4. Re:how are cops like bank executives? on $125,000 Settlement Given To Man Arrested for Photographing NYPD · · Score: 1

    Better police. For a better Police State.

  5. Meanwhile on Scientists Find Traces of Sea Plankton On ISS Surface · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile. The samples of the Titanic I've been analyzing seem to have been exposed to hard vacuum and solar wind erosion.

  6. Wrong wrong wrong!. Siri doesn't have hands on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1

    He didn't *ask* Siri for help. Siri just told him where and also where to pick up the body.

  7. Re:Cost on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 2

    Second the crap-coming-at-my-eyes part. About 1/3 of my glasses get retired with lenses scratches or partially (so far) punctured. Maybe I should be more careful with my hobbies... First lens I knocked a hole in was when I was 18 (big sparky got about half way through the lens).

  8. Re:Uncertainty/fear? on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Make sure they switch the laser from "remove mountain" to "delicate eye surgery".

  9. Makes sense really. on Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules · · Score: 2

    99+% of the terrorists *I* see are in movies and most of my movies are from Netflix.

  10. Free fall broke my cat scanner on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 1

    I tested free fall on my cat scanner for 5 seconds and it's now completely non-functional. Nearly free fall I should say, a little net gravitational force on it near the 5 second mark due to air resistance.

  11. Re:how total deception becomes our 'reality' on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    Godwin's Law tag

  12. Need more cops on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $6.2 gigabucks/year is $300K/officer? That means 20,667 officers for the whole country. Methinks one or more numbers here is fudge.

  13. Have you BEEN to Sacramento?

  14. Re: Vigilante on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 1

    Aw Hell, thread is off on a tangent here. Nazi. Hitler. Stalin.

  15. Re:Legally questionable, doomed to fail! on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many will die thanks to this new app?

    Thus freeing up valuable parking spaces!

  16. Re:Legally questionable, doomed to fail! on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 1

    ... or a 5-20 year wait time. Depending on the local arson laws.

  17. I've heard of lithobraking on LADEE Probe Ends Its Mission On the Far Side Of the Moon · · Score: 1

    But caseusbraking?

  18. 30 generations in 300 years on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 1

    30 generations in 300 years? They need to provide more entertainment on the ship...

  19. Re:My science book says 8 people on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 1

    You need 450x60x40 cubits in this case. You need to bring the fish along too.

  20. Irony? on St. Patrick's Day, March Madness, and Steve Jobs' Liver · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't you expect St. Patrick's day to *reduce* the overall number of livers available.

  21. Re:Bitcoin on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 0

    Mod up plz

  22. Re:Creation versus leeching on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    Millions and millions of tech support jobs created! Bonus, psychological counseling and suicide hotline job opening are up too!

  23. Creation versus leeching on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    Because the finance system has grown into a gigantic leech that pulls resources from the rest of the economy? The capital creation and management part seems to have become rather a sideshow for Wall Street. Because tech companies create new things that people want?

  24. Metro? on Google Fiber Pondering 9 New Metro Areas · · Score: 1

    "Metro?" Ugh.

  25. my 3 on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Portal, Skyrim, Civ 3