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  1. Mathturbation on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 0, Troll

    What will their next study be? That comparing an apple to an orange is different from comparing a gazelle to a kangaroo?

    How about this? Buy the vehicle that gets you the best mileage and still suits your needs.

    Oh wait. I didn't piss away somebody's grant money. This can't possibly be right.

  2. Re:A word to the wise: on Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive · · Score: 1

    Microsoft? The best sonic birth control is a woman screaming "NO" at the top of her lungs. :)

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Vibration Killing Enterprise Disk Performance? · · Score: 0

    And to think, people wonder why geeks don't get laid more.

  4. ICANN is nothing but a scam on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Constantly creating new domains to force brand owners to pony up more money for new TLD's thereby lining the pockets of ICANN's stakeholders (registries and registrars) and further funding their own existence.

  5. Agree. Concepts are a dime a doxen on Best Way To Sell a Game Concept? · · Score: 1

    sorry to burst your bubble

  6. Re:Yea but on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except then it would have been a civil case. Police and search warrants are typically indicative of criminal action.

  7. What? Apple was going to let it go? on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.

  8. Re:Don't blow shit up - problem solved on Obama To Decide On New Weapons · · Score: 1

    The fact that characters like Alexander, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler appear again and again in history would suggest that there is a rather high likelihood that there will be another.

  9. Re:How Companies Work on A Reflection On Sun Executive Payouts For Failure · · Score: 1

    Institutional investors, by and large, are a pretty savvy group of people. If you think that top executives can put one over on this class of investors, then I'm sorry, but you just don't understand how publicly traded companies function wrt investor relations.

  10. Re:Tell it to the plastic clown on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to keep the foreskin from flapping up over the face

  11. Re:Arms race on Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The p2p C&C infrastructure has been talked about since at least 2005. Not much has been seen "in the wild". It has been speculated that this is because a p2p botnet infrastructure has, by its very nature, a much lower efficacy.

  12. PR "Stuff" from Fireeye on Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds · · Score: 4, Informative

    For some value of "Stuff".

    Yeah. He succeeded in eradicating the mega-D botnet. For about 2 weeks anyway.

    From MessageLabs Intelligence: 2009 Annual Security Report "Almost eradicated on 4 November 2009 as the result of community action to disrupt the botnet, spam from Mega-D fell to approximately 1% of all spam. Mega-D returned on 13 November using a different collection of bots, sending between 4-5% of spam."

  13. Re:Acoustic coupler era and POTS! on A Brief History of Modems · · Score: 1

    Any history of modems that skips the Telebit Trailblazer is BS. Pure and simple. They were like $1k and every geek had to have one. I was at MIPS back in the day and every engineer got one with a Wyse 60 to take home (free work don't ya know :).

  14. How convenient on Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cyber-Ark just happens to have a product that helps prevent this.

  15. How stupid can he possibly be? on Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ask any IT professional what's the hardest thing to change?

    User behavior.

    Technology is supposed to make out lives easier, not the other way around.

  16. Santa Cruz, California on EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net · · Score: 4, Funny

    also known as the World's Largest Open Air Mental Institution.

    P.S. Sorry, but you'll probably only get this if you've actually visited the place.

  17. Got UUCP? on The Tech Aboard the International Space Station · · Score: 4, Informative

    Once upon a time, large portions of the internet were "store and forward."

  18. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What would your aunt expect to see at the hospital? All the healthy people who had flu shots with no side effects? Nothing is 100% safe.

  19. That's impressive? on iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got a sourdough starter that will kick that thing's jammy little ass.

  20. Let's download binaries from China! on PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody else see what's wrong with this picture?

  21. It will never happen on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least not in our lifetimes. Between all of the NIMBY's and environmental impact statements, this will be delayed in the courts for decades

  22. Because they can on Why Games Cost $60 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the same underlying reason why male dogs lick their balls.

  23. No on A Tour of Taser HQ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am not a Wired reader.

  24. Re:Damn voyeurism is all it is on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But the voyeurism slant isn't newsworthy. Oh wait. Neither is this.

  25. Re:I don't know, but... on Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? · · Score: 1

    I thought we agreed that we weren't gonna talk about your sister on /.