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  1. Re:The real question on Harry McCracken Rounds Up the Year In Tech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nevermind Phill, I want his other brother Zack McCracken to play the kazoo for us!

  2. Typo in the brief on GSM Decryption Published · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nohl's efforts could put sophisticated mobile interception technology -- limited to governments and intelligence agencies -- within the reach of any OTHER reasonable well-funded criminal organization.

    Fixed

  3. Re:Oh really? on The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds · · Score: 1

    Middle management?

  4. Simulartions are boring on Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By · · Score: 1

    Show me the arcade mode

  5. Re:No worries ... on Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By · · Score: 1

    The project has been delayed, next due date is 2029 and it's not yet a sure hit, so probably an early beta.

  6. Not entirely true on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Assuming that the average C++ coder is heavier and bigger in size (even when shaved) that the average PHP coder, I think the exhalation of CO2 produced by the C++ programmers needed for the job overpower the 10:1 edge they have on code speed.
    Also, they probably eat more, and drink more coffee, which turns into a bigger environmental footprint if you count the emissions produced by trucks that deliver those groceries to the nearest store. And, just to name one example: Let's assume that 50% of the coffee company employees drive to their work and so on....

    Hey, they are the ones who started drawing conclusions based on assumptions, not me.

  7. Re:Subtitles? on 3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported · · Score: 1

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...

    Does that answer your question?

  8. Re:How about us handicapped people! on 3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported · · Score: 1

    How does it feel to suddenly be on the "crippled" side? Don't worry, the rest of us, naturally conceived, will join you in the next years.

  9. Re:Social contract? on Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga · · Score: 1

    And since when did the mafias played with the rules?

  10. Re:impossible on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Exactly my thought. Same way ski centers have avalanche control teams that throw charges in strategic places to create "tiny" avalanches to prevent a huge one. Same practice is used to control fires in national parks, they do controlled fires to prevent big, unstoppable, fires.

    He probably saved many lives.

  11. Switch to CUIL on Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or you can use CUIL (http://www.cuil.com). It's a great search engine
    As they say: Cuil analyzes the Web, not its users

  12. Re:PNAS on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    I wasn't complaining, I laughed at it. Sorry if it looked like a complain.

  13. Re:PNAS on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    This is why I like /. It's a sanctuary of wisdom in this world of dumbness. Where us, the enlightened, above-average IQ, well-formed and educated people can gather together to discuss the most profound topics knowing that any silly comment will get inevitably modded down thanks to the peer modding system.

  14. WIFI! on What Do You Look For In a Conference? · · Score: 1

    What Do You Look For In a Conference?

    Decent Wi-Fi access. Thank you.

  15. Time for some biometric escalation?? WTF! on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    Time for some biometric escalation.

    BULLSHIT! It's time to stop the gestapo tactics and open all the borders to anyone that wants to enter any country. After all, we are all human beings born in the same planet. Those imaginary lines that they always told you were borders between US and THEM, they are just that, imaginary lines made up by the people in power.

    "Imagine there's no countries" - John Lennon

  16. Re:Not EVERY site you visit on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    Yeah, until the loaded page tells flash to load www.dirtycelebrities.com/vids/dana_plato_arnold_jackson_furious_fisting.flv

  17. Re:What is the motivation to fabricate AGW? on Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout · · Score: 1

    To find out, you have to think like a very cynic and evil person. Have complete apathy to other people's problems.

    If you are to develop and industry to fight some problem, you first have to create the problem. You know, the 4 steps to profit.

    A war against a country doesn't sell anymore in this new media-laden world.

    What if the enemy is a group of people instead of a nation? Well, that way war could last much more since they are harder to find. It's not about taking the capital of X nation anymore. Every knows where a capital is located. But nobody know where Osama is.

    Now how can we make the enemy/problem even more invisible so it's a never ending battle?

    Option A: A virus (think N1H1 paranoia) but it would require obviously a real virus to begin with, otherwise people will notice.

    Option B: Something about the weather! The earth is heating up! Yes, you just don't notice cause it's so slow, but it's surely getting warmer. We mash up a swimming polar ice bear footage with the frog in the pan theory and we are set!

    Not saying that's the real scenario, but it's a possible one.

  18. Re:Future doesn't want to be discovered? on LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure · · Score: 1

    Correction: Church doesn't want its dogma to be debunked.

  19. You are paying for beign studied on Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs · · Score: 1

    WoW players in US cyberspace - over 76,000 were studied from June to December 2005 - are evenly divided between men and women, aged between five and 95...

    1 - Develop MMOG
    2 - Get people to pay for playing and buying pixel-made goods with real money
    3 - Sell user behavior data to whoever wants to pay you an extra
    4 - Profit++

  20. Even better on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    Point behind them and shout real loud "Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!" and flee. It is a well known fact that they'll turn around to see.

  21. Re:Browning M2 - Accept No Substitutes on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    when word gets around the piracy doesn't pay, the pirates will forced to give up or be killed.

    Exactly that very same reason is why we don't have terrorism, car hijacks, robberies, killings, etc. even on countries with death penalty and/or the most brutal law enforcement practices and even with drones dropping bombs in terrorists camps every single day... -rolls eyes-

  22. Re:Can someone please explain the crossover here? on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a typo. I'm sure they've meant "UNMANNED vacuum-cleaner" like the Roomba.

  23. Re:Magneto on Magento Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Chapter 1 - Holocaust surviving, bending concentration camp's steel bars
    Chapter 2 - Learn how to hate humans, advanced steel bending
    Chapter 3 - Mercury
    Chapter 4 - Know your enemy, get a dorky helmet
    Chapter 5 - Aluminum and Adamantium explained
    Chapter 6 - Electromagnetic forces, negative uses
    Chapter 7 - Improving your leadership skills
    Chapter 8 - Chess, strategy and tactics
    Apendix A - All about blue hot chicks

  24. Not taking off from the ground? on Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight · · Score: 1

    That's not flying, that's falling with style...

  25. Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    Sure, as I'm still using my CueCat