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  1. Re:Sad to see it takes a lawsuit ... on Target and Trustwave Sued Over Credit Card Breach · · Score: 4, Informative

    AMEX used to provide this for on-line purchases. Alas, they discontinued about 7 or 8 years ago.

  2. Re:time lapse on Lasers May Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox · · Score: 0

    Depends on how fast the sharks travel.

  3. Re:NSA validates the right to steal source code on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

    Also, remember, we're talking about routers. I'm well aware of what IP meant in context.

  4. Re:NSA validates the right to steal source code on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    IPv4 or IPv6?

  5. Re:Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 4, Funny

    But either you'd never be able to open the book, or you'd never be able to close it!

  6. Re:Two Words on Level 3 Wants To Make Peering a Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 1

    Because otherwise the wrong lizard might get elected.

  7. Re:Embedded on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    Faulty Foreclosure

  8. Re:Ignore Silicon Valley on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to ignore EVERY single one, then. Nobody pronounces my real name properly without instruction.

  9. Re:And then... on Judge Tells Feds To Be More Specific About Email Search Warrants · · Score: 1

    I refuse to play your Chinese food mind games!!!!

  10. Re:never trust an ex-lobbyist on You Can't Kid a Kidder: Comcast's Cohen May Have Met His Match In FCC's Wheeler · · Score: 0

    yeah, but its a similar situations with politicians.

    So true. How can you tell a politician is lying?

    His lips move.

  11. Re:Winding down? on Is One Laptop Per Child Winding Down? · · Score: 1

    They still do booths. They had one at SCALE at the end of February.

  12. Re:I smell a dupe on CIA Accused: Sen. Feinstein Sees Torture Probe Meddling · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not like anyone has posted this story to Slashdot today.

  13. Re:Future of hard drives is oblivion on Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives · · Score: 2

    Power and heat. In a large server farm, those are king.

    2.5s are less power hungry and generate less heat than 3.5s or 5.25s.

  14. Re:Oh great on Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Hell, back around 1990 or so, I was working on a touchscreen interface for the Army, and we had to test with arctic gloves.

    For POC on the algorithms, I brought in some ski gloves, then we used the real arctic gloves for QA.

  15. Re:Groovy ... on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    George Mallory knew it. Hell, Robert Burns knew it back in the 1700s. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

  16. Re:Salary amplification in... on Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with living in Austin is that you're subject to the Texas Legislature.

    Just like the problem with Silicon Valley and LA (Disclaimer: I live in LA) is that you are subject to the California Legislature.

  17. Re:No beginning on Einstein's Lost Model of the Universe Discovered 'Hiding In Plain Sight' · · Score: 1

    Here.... I've got evidence for you.

  18. Re:Well, yeah on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    If I take a picture, and a woman's bikini covered boobs happen to be in it, am I guilty?

  19. Re:no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1, Troll

    Believe it or not, juries sometimes actually DO the right thing, even when sexual predators are involved.

    WARNING: Anecdotal evidence follows:

    About 15 years ago, I was the jury foreman on a particularly disgusting case... the guy was accused of doing his daughters. We were only able to convict him of one count: "Contributing to the delinquency", because we all agreed that he showed his daughters porn.

    We hung on 4 other charges, oddly enough with 4 different splits. On one of the charges, I was one of those voting to acquit.

  20. Re:What could possibly go wrong on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 2

    Except that in the oriignal novel, the message is. "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."

    Of course, in the novel, there was no stupid Cold War subplot, either.

  21. Re:So what happens on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    My point was that you're paying for maybe 10Mbps downstream.
    So $RANDOM_USER uses you as a hotspot, and downloads, oh, let's say the latest Fedora DVD. Over Http.

    How do you think that will affect the remaining bandwidth available to *YOU*?

  22. Re:So what happens on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 2

    And in addiiton, what about the fact that they're eating up your bandwidth?

  23. Because Jenny McCarthy is always right. on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That stupid bitch.

  24. Re:Teach the fundamentals on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Precisely. When I was at UCSC, the students were agitating for a course in ... [wait for it] ... VAX Assembler.

    The department (quite rightly) ignored our plea.

  25. The knights who say... on Apple Closes OpenNI the Open Source Kinect Framework · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess Apple was worried about the Knights who say (Open) NI!!!