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  1. Obligatory bogachev on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 1

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    To obtain the private key for this computer, which will automatically decrypt files, you need to pay 666 Bitcoin like similar amount in another country. Click >nezt> to select the method of payment and the currency. Any attempt to remove or damage this software will lead to the immediate destruction of the private key by server.

  2. Re: A Blazing Storage moment ... on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 1

    Mongo LIKE.

  3. Re: Less Trolling on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 2

    Personally, Ive off-shored & out-sourced a majority of my trolling, passive-aggressive self-rightous diatribes and compensated product endorsements. This leaves more time for, well, pr0n. Gotta have a life sometime ya know.

  4. No fun on the receiving end on Robot Performs Prostate Surgery Inside an MRI · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I had one (prostate biopsy) about 10 yrs ago. The doc that ordered it did so because of a single elevated PSA. No robots, no MRI, just a doctor and nurse with an ultrasound machine and a tube up my butt. They moved the tube guided by the ultrasound image. press a button and it shoots a hollow needle through the colon wall into the prostrate. Basically, core drilling into body parts. Hurts like hell. Retrieve the needle with sample, put new needle into machine, lather, rinse, repeat. Blood in my piss and come for a week. Diagnosis was BPH. I cant see how robots and being confined to an MRI will make it any more effective or painless; just more expensive.

  5. Re: Sharing is caring - sharing w/everyone is TMI on How Biostamps Can Replace Clunky Biomedical Sensors · · Score: 1

    Anyone with an NFC will be able to monitor your vitals. Think of the advertising and sales possibilities! Does a certain musical passage raise or lower your BP or pulse rate? Does a certain image or video produce fear or give you a woodie? Now everyone will know and will be able to use that for advertising targeted to your autonomic responses. Resistance is futile.

  6. Re: Never assume that ALL your Chinese workers are on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    Apple and, to be fair, Google & others, want cheaper workers. That's ok. They want to keep costs down. Shareholders agree. They want to artifically control the labor market. That's less ok. They should realize the short-term costs (fines) and longer-term costs (loss of IP). http://www.inc.com/associated-...

  7. Never assume that ALL your Chinese workers are in on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    Companies really like Chinese engineers. Many are highly degreed, many of those are highly educated, they work hard and they're cheap. Only a few are going to steal IP. If a dedicated Chinese engineer has family back in China there's no way to know what kind of pressure the Chinese govt is going to apply, and, IMHO, it's all about the Chinese govt. Ya pays yer money, ya takes yer chances. I would like to encourage Apple to hire lots of H1Bs from SE Asia.

  8. Re: Before reading TFA ... on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 1

    Sounds like browser-native Flash + Actionscript. Multi-platform, no plugins and widely supported. I've never developed for Flash and know nothing about ease-of-use. In any case, capabilities deliverable to the end-user are (sad to say) more important than developer friendliness. If a technology delivers an amazing user experience or a marketing advantage, management will insist that it be used, even if it requires developers to be fitted with face-hugging alien brain-suckers.

  9. Re: Let me guess on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 1

    Holy Cr@p! Are you implying that Buckaroo Banzai, my hero and spiritual guide, is not real?!!? Well there goes my religion.

  10. Re: Wait till they see water! on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 0

    MPU!

  11. Re: Of course it did on Ability To Consume Alcohol May Have Shaped Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    I drink waaaaaay more, therefore I am, like, snifficly more volved than you amateurs. errrrrp. MORE BEER HERE!!

  12. We've got Not Safe for Work police? With spyware? on NSW Police Named as FinFisher Spyware Users · · Score: 2

    Here?? At work?!?! Quick! TOR the pr0n! TrueCrypt the mp3s!

  13. Check out "The Assimilation Project" on Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution? · · Score: 1

    Take a look at The Assimilation Project : What we do: Continually discover and monitor systems, services, switches and dependencies with very low human and network overhead.

  14. That's easy - brains of smart people taste better. on US Intelligence Wants Tools To Tell: Who's the Smartest of Them All? · · Score: 1

    And idiot brains taste terrible. Brains of politicians are unedible. More's the pity, but it does explain a lot.

  15. Allright! Yet another way for insurance companies on UK Team Claims Breakthrough In Universal Cancer Test · · Score: 1

    Blood samples are already a condition of coverage for some insurance. Now prospective employers have a reason for doing the same. Not that either would ever reject anyone on the grounds that they might have health issues. No, they were rejected because a better candidate was found. Nine months later. Question is, would they alert the applicant of the findings? If they did that and the person didn't know someone might put 2 and 2 together. Can you imagine being told by the HR email robot that you weren't selected for the job. Oh and by the way you've got cancer.

  16. Gamable by design on New Digital Currency Bases Value On Reputation · · Score: 1

    "Reputation" is a digital artifact that can be manufactured and manipulated. I'd hate to think my payckeck was dependent on my Slashdot Karma times number of Linked/In connections times Stackfault rep. Why not base it on something objective but equally irrelevant like height or nosehair count. Just not size of woowoo.

  17. Back in my day we had this "accountability" thing on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    Now politically incorrect and unfashionable, holding people accountable for their decisions and making examples of those who chose the path of irresponsibility is ancient history. I expect that Crosswalk Countdown Incursion Syndrome to get a nod from the theraputic community and it's own pill* before Christmas.

    Do not use in combination with other medications.
    Do not take with alcohol, heroin, cocaine, or meth-amphetamines.
    Known to cause heart failure, diabetes, ulcers and psychotic outbursts on a small percentage of the population.
    Some people report small explosions in their spinal cords after taking.

  18. Re: Let them be. on Crows Complete Basic Aesop's Fable Task · · Score: 1

    "Whoosh" is the sound made by a joke flying right over someones head. Have you had your hearing checked recently?

  19. I care about voice latency and audio quality, not on Oppo's New Phone Hits 538 PPI · · Score: 2

    While a screen with decent resolution is nice, I really need (not want -- NEED) a phone with good vocal quality and zero latency on the voice side. Show me a phone, encoding scheme, network and carrier with _that_ and I'll sign a life membership. I have googled my pants off for "cell phone voice latency" test results with no meaningful hits. The conspiracy-theorist part of me says the cell phone mfgrs & carriers all know how horrible they are when compared to landline so they've agreed to not test or not alert the consumer to this measurement.

  20. Wait.. the State Dept is the environmental expert? on Environmental Report Raises Pressure On Obama To Approve Keystone Pipeline · · Score: 1

    does that mean Health and Human Services knows best how to conduct a war in Iraq?

  21. "uttering counterfeit money"? on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    ...indicted on a variety of charges, including possession of counterfeit money, making counterfeit money and uttering counterfeit money

    .
    Just saying the words "counterfeit money" is illegal?

  22. Not by choice in my case on Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer to be FTE, but RIFs happen. My wife is disabled and has some chronic ("pre-existing conditions") health problems so I need a good health-care program + long-term disability ins. Historically that's been through my employer. Currently through COBRA at $1150/mo, going to $1300/mo in 2014. ACA aka Obama-care may help - we're trying to find out but it is complex. I wonder what'll happen when all the technology workers who are tied to a job because of health coverage are no longer dependent on their employer for medical insurance? Retire to Costa-Rica? Join the Peace Corps? Become artists?

  23. Re: Illusion shattered on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 0

    Don't be stupid, new a smarty! Come and join the Nazi party! Deutscheland is happy and gay! (Mel Brooks from "The Producers")

  24. Re: Setites = low profile slabbering hucksters on Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? · · Score: 1

    +1 for challenging widely accepted beliefs.
    -2 for not doing the math.

  25. I'm all for it, but only if on Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? · · Score: 1

    Only if the pesky aliens will text me the winning lottery number.