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  1. Re:Really? on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    Well, it got them to fire her? Seems to me that the DDOS accomplished practically exactly what they wanted to accomplish.

  2. Re:Care factor zero. on Study Finds Universe Is 100 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    Why are you on /. ?

  3. Ok, I propose:

    Any random person above the age of 200 can buy a 1 MW laser pointer. There is no restriction, other than age.

  4. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 2

    I guess those countries never understood the concept of the yellow light then. They certainly donot do that in my European country.

  5. Re:"There Are Few Better Ways?" on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1

    You should go back to reading those game magazines and get the real facts!

  6. Re:Maybe try playing the game on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    With people like you, it's no wonder EA is still in business. Lost first city 8 times? I would have returned the product as defective the same day, probably after the second try -- I donot stand for bullshit.

    *I* was expecting a single player game, like the 4 sim cities before them. All they had to do to make it another mega-hit is update the graphics and make the simulation a bit more realistic again using the newly available CPU power.

    Instead they made a new game and called it sim city 5 to get some attention. I donot want games that can make my relaxing day off a living nightmare because there is some network/server/downtime/patch/account/coverage issue... again.

  7. Re:Resources on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMHO, life is too short to spend (part of) it reliving old memories.

  8. Re:Good idea on Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've been wanting that for years, but never managed to find a plugin that does exactly that.

  9. Re:so uh... on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, he moved to America.

  10. Re:Scaling is the Key! on New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It · · Score: 1

    Luckily there is no pressure to move to new forms of energy because there's an infinite supply and energy is just getting cheaper every year.

  11. Re:Port knocking anyone? on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 1

    There's nothing stopping you from giving every user a unique knocking sequence, apart from lack of imagination and software implementation. Is it knock #43? SSHD expects user X to log in. If not, even if using a valid username/password, reject.

    Number 2, you already gave a potential solution to that. Also, that situation, in relation to what we're discussing (automated attacks by bots) is unlikely to occur. If you do suddenly get lots of valid knocks, just change your knock.

    Number 3... we're attempting to make it less public, not more. So I'm sure that's a problem for a http server, but *shrug*, http is not even a secure protocol.

  12. Re:Solution on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 1

    You're right. The center row should be "HRXRCMIIIHXLS".

    I also preferred doing it on the print out, much easier for this kind of puzzle.

  13. Solution on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 1

    Took about an hour to solve, but I'm already insane.

    http://hjohn.home.xs4all.nl/RegEx-Solution.jpg

  14. Re:GiB on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    Fuck that. They can use "decimal GB" or dGB as their "official" prefix. KB, MB and GB are base 2, and have been for decades. Live with it.

  15. Re:Simply put... No. on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    So, I guess we'll have to attack you when it rains then.

  16. Re:Blame it on the others on Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure · · Score: 1

    The alternative would be that there was actually more than one person with this incredible stupid vision. That seems even more unlikely.

  17. Re:Just tax bullets. on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1

    What would be a fair number? 5? I think I could live with just 5 people shot per shooting incident.

  18. Re:Nuclear Technology on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 1

    They moved away from it because it was hurting their number of voters, that's all.

  19. Re:Stupid question from across the Atlantic: What? on FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls · · Score: 1

    Fines really do work apparently... no robo calls here.

  20. Re:Strawman once again on Judge Posner Muses on Excessively Strong Patent and Copyright Laws · · Score: 2

    I agree, the conditions are absent in the pharmaceutical industry as well.

  21. Re:Remember ICONS on MIT Researchers Show Dash Font Choice Affects Distraction · · Score: 1

    And a question mark when GPS/Speed info is not available?

  22. Re:NEVER on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? · · Score: 1

    never never = always
    never never never never never never = always

  23. Re:When this happens... on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    It should just be any character. I don't care what the character is, accept anything, punctuation, spaces, kanji, hiroglyphs, political incorrect characters, characters that give offense to religious groups, the drawing some 3 year old made... ANYTHING.

    You then just hash those characters... all of them... and store that number.

    I hope I made it clear to the developer.

  24. Near price parity? on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call 23 cents per GB near price parity with 4 cents per GB...

  25. Re:Extremely interesting case on Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement · · Score: 1

    Except, Google found it -- it was indexed by Google.

    If Google can find it so can others.