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  1. Re: Is that on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Untrue, the NSA intercept every software crash report that users send to Microsoft, that''s a gold mine to them.

  2. Re: So, essentially, this means... on Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand On Multiple Windows Versions · · Score: 1

    What it means is that this chain of exploits is about to become exceptionally popular as Microsoft can't fix them, thereby ensuring that soon even the least knowledgeable of script kiddies will be able to gain access to systems on which they're not welcome.

  3. Better yet, and more effective; on Google Exec Says Isis Must Be Locked Out of the Open Web (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Lock them up and throw away the key.

  4. What about nebulizing stem cells into the brain? on New Class of Sound Wave Gentle Enough To Use In Biomedical Devices (dispatchtribunal.com) · · Score: 1

    Having done zero reading on the topic, is that a possibility? I have complete agenesis of the corpus calossum so if this could be used to grow said corpus calossum into my brain, I would be forever grateful to the doctor(s) who made it possible.

  5. Re:Beta is terrible! on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Ahh, young accounts, always thinking they can make a difference. How cute. :)

  6. Re:Wing Commander on Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3? · · Score: 1

    Aces over Europe! I loved that game!

    I don't remember getting very far in it, but I had so much fun!

  7. Re:Bang! on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    I've heard that raiding them together drastically reduces their lifespan because the trim command gets disabled as a result.

  8. The US is so fucked up it's hilarious. on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 2

    Banks get fined in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars (if at all) for robbing billions from entire countries, but what happens to this woman is somehow constitutional.

  9. This is stupid. on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course they're nearly as good. They were caught stealing Google's search results.

  10. Re:Let's just call it what it really is... on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 1

    It's called moaning. Don't you like listening to sexually charged moans?

  11. Sigh on Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week · · Score: 1

    I bought Splinter Cell: Conviction at Christmas on Steam with but hadn't installed it yet. Looks like it was a waste of my money. Unsurprising, I should have expected this. Of course they won't spend a dime to patch their games, fuck the community! It's the bottom dollar that matters, I mean really, it's not like the gaming community are the ones who will buy the games, right? I guess I'll have to download a crack to play it.

  12. Re:Idiots. on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Yeah and considering computers aren't people, it's nothing short of mind-numbing stupidity.

  13. Re:Finally on U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare · · Score: 1

    Highly interesting, thanks for the insight!

  14. Re:Finally on U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare · · Score: 1

    I agree totally, except for the first 5 words... not human nature. American nature. U.S.

  15. Idiots. on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 2

    Because destroying the hard drives wasn't enough, wasting tens of thousands of dollars in perfectly good hardware was the right thing to do.

  16. Re:Trying to do too much on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Ha, beautiful. :)

  17. Ha on U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare · · Score: 1

    Americans are war-weary? Legalize the hacking they've already been doing in secret!

  18. Re:Trying to do too much on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    PGO = Profile Guided Optimization. It allows the optimizing compiler/linker to figure out for itself exactly what the critical execution path(s) of the program (the code that runs most frequently) is/are by requiring the user to execute the code with this special pgo-instrumentation of the compiled code as many times as required to cover typical use-cases, and optimize the code based around the execution paths taken. Profile guided optimization is a strictly optional step which can be used to improve program performance (potentially) more or better than the generalized optimizer (/Ox compiler option with MSVC) can. Fuck. Posting this is undoing my moderations. Oh well.

  19. Re:she ? on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    No, she's all woman.

  20. Wow on Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP · · Score: 1
  21. American politicians on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 1

    Master hypocrits.

  22. Re:Government action on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 2

    Too bad, she's right.

  23. Google, Facebook, IBM, Mozilla, Microsoft on W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard · · Score: 1

    A fox is now guarding this particular hen-house, how novel.

  24. Re:Reeeaaal smart on Answers.com Now Only With Facebook and Own Login · · Score: 1

    OpenID is decent, granted it doesn't solve the whole single point of failure problem but it doesn't try to, either. It does a good job of consolidating login and user data, so the only trust a user need grant is to that of their provider.

  25. Re:I'm glad they didn't go through with it. on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    If I could mod you up I would, Anonymous would have to separate the list of those forced from those who joined willingly.