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  1. Read-only switch on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...or jumper. How much more would that cost?

  2. Re:What about those from the sun? on ET Will Phone Home Using Neutrinos, Not Photons · · Score: 1

    Solar neutrinos tend to come from a predictable direction.

  3. Re:They missed the worst weapon of all. on The World's Spookiest Weapons · · Score: 1

    On reflection, I didn't word it very well, the basic implication being that dolphin society seems to deem violent behaviour acceptable.

  4. "Technologies" on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on...

    What is it with Microsoft and the word "technologies"?

    Heeding a fucking bit is "technologies"?

    [Clicks fingers] Oh, sorry, that's marketdoublespeak to hide the fact that they're selling stuff that takes its orders from someone other than the customer who bought it.

  5. Re:We Did It in 1990 on Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos · · Score: 1

    I must ask... did you test it on Lenna?

  6. Re:Respect on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am also tired of the quality of trolling used on this site. We Discordians are always losing out — there ought to be a law.

    Oh, there is one, and it's called Principia Discordia. It's just that it's optional, or subject to personal interpretation, or fit to be ignored altogether. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.

    (Can't be doin' with all these god-damned fuckers telling other folks how to talk.)

  7. Re:They missed the worst weapon of all. on The World's Spookiest Weapons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The worst weapon in existence on Earth is man itself. Man is the source of every weapon ever created. Without man, there would be no weapons.

    Oh, what pitiful long-haired bullshit is this? Humans are not the be-all and end-all of violence in nature. Sure, we have the intellect to come up with very dangerous things. Sure, there are those dope-arsed enough to use these things. But as general violence in the animal kingdom goes, we're really quite the softies.

    Take dolphins, the poster children of New Age flakies, often put up as these supposedly peaceful, gentle, intelligent creatures that could teach us a thing or two about being in harmony with nature. Bollocks. Dolphins are psychos: murder, violence, gang rape including bestiality and that of their own young --- you name it --- are all staples of dolphin behaviour. Frankly, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of these fuckers without someone standing at the ready with a charged harpoon. Where are the dolphin justice mechanisms? If they're so peaceful and moral, where are the dolphin courts and prisons?

    Ducks are just as bad. I was sitting by a pond the other day with about 20 or so ducks there. In the space of about half an hour or so, about six fights broke out, half of which were sexually motivated. In the same amount of time, over a hundred humans must've passed by --- a population in whom not one case of violence or sexual harassment broke out.

  8. When your time is running out... on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    ...every moment is too precious to be wasted on advertising.

  9. Re:Beta software in a production release? on Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny thing though, it never crashes.
    You should tinker with the kernel features more. ;)
  10. Re:Hmmmmmm Spelling? on China's Cyberwar Against India · · Score: 2, Funny

    Huuuuahh!

  11. Kurt Russel? on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 1

    Or, maybe not...

  12. Re:Can we please just call it Linux? on FSF-Approved gNewSense 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    /They're not "wipes" they're kleenexes.
    //We don't make photocopies, we zerox stuff.
    In the UK, we do make photocopies; and we wank into tissues, not "wipes".
  13. Re:Sure, it's neat on Memristor — 4th Basic Element of Circuits · · Score: 3, Funny

    In about 200 years' time, when Evil returns.

  14. Re:And Fedora is??? on Is Ubuntu Selling Out or Growing Up? · · Score: 1

    And a fucking good thing it is too! Red Hat make t3h c01n, so it can pay top-notch developers to hack on the Kernel, etc. and we all benefit.

  15. Re:Redhat on Is Ubuntu Selling Out or Growing Up? · · Score: 1

    ...put a lot of money and resources into developing the Linux Kernel, GNOME, and a whole truckload of other Free Software I enjoy using.

  16. Re:UK readers banned from slashdot? on UK to Ban Possession of Certain 'Violent' Pornography · · Score: 1

    You've clearly never seen "Strictly Come Dancing".
    WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME WET MYSELF?!
  17. EULA on EULAs For Malware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How does one pronounce it? "Yoo-lah", or "Oi-lah"?

  18. Re:Security not just about encryption. on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 1

    I'm lead to believe that if you're using it properly, shy of someone making a working quantum computer, PGP is as good as unbreakable.

  19. Re:What? on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    America truly is the land of opportunities.
    And opportunists.
  20. Re:Free Software on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cue the chroot jokes.

  21. Re:Reasonable Doubt on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    What happend to the good old "we'd rather have ten guilty men run free than put one innocent man in jail"?

    Just ask any reactionary conservative loudmouth.

    Or the average Joe Two-Short-Ones who believes abovementioned wankstains.

  22. Question: on Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely · · Score: 1

    What if alien TV transmissions consist entirely of little white dots running around on a black background saying "Shhhhhhh" non-stop?

  23. Re:maybe if gmail supported it.... on Wikileaks Sidesteps Publishing Public PGP Key · · Score: 2, Informative

    So enable IMAP and SMTP support in Google Mail and use a PGP-equipped client.

  24. Re:Rabid Debian/Ubutu fanaticism is still rampant on Fedora 9 Preview Cleared for Launch · · Score: 1

    It's a bit like the Canon vs. Nikon debate.

    I'll leave you to decide which is which.

  25. Re:I Suppose..... on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 1

    No, just get Vista's binary representation and remove all the 1s.