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  1. This dude is protected by 2nd Amendement on Defend Yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Them robots would hafta kill me first before they can pry my high-powered microwave EM-pulsed rail rifle from my cold dead hands.

  2. Engineer Ethics on New Limits to FBI Tracking of Cell Phone Users · · Score: 1

    Mr. "Tom Hudson";

    Go ahead and try your method of swapping cellphone in the midst of your "brilliant" criminal heist (whatever that may be).

    It is one thing to talk about weakness of a system (and defy the responsible engineer ethic that is stated in various engineering organizations' charters); it is another thing to advoate such system exploitments (if any) in the midst of a crime.

    You're evidently not the kind of engineer we want in our moderate Judeo-Christian/Hindu/Buddah/Islamic society.

  3. Finally! on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 1

    The right stuff!

    Enuf said.

  4. DONT STERILIZES THEM!!! on Glowing Mosquitos Aid Malaria Battle · · Score: 1

    Glow-in-the-dark mosquito is A GOOD THING.

    Nothing like sitting in the porch, staring out across the landscape and deciding when to shuck the evening BBQ in, to go indoor, when one can SEE the enemy approaching in increasing numbers.

    I'd say make the entire population glow THEN sterilizes them.

    Oh... flourescent and glow-in-the-dark are not the same thing??? Well, here's my idea above...

  5. Several reason NOT to use fingerprint devices on Fingerprint Payment System Gets Financing · · Score: 1

    I shake my head with sadness as the early technology adopters blindly increase the dangers to our general public without much forethought...

    General populaces are at increasing risk due to:

    1. Loss of biometric data (finger detachments, eyeballs ripped out)
    2. Duplication of biometric data (back-end hacking; once stolen, always stolen; you are non-revocable)
    3. Transference of ancillary foreign objects (Infectious disease; fecal matter; Leprosy; Acid; Alkalinity)

    It is a non-starter. Only takes one plague to avoid the scanner 'like the plague.'

  6. An informed input from a trend analyst on Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM · · Score: 1

    With the sales of CD going downward due to the advent of iTune (and many other soulless DMA-rigged music sites), the obvious impact of consumer trending is self-evident:

    The media repackaging and enforcement industry (another generic label for *IAA) has failed to embrace the power of the Internet and will continue to fail (despite iTune meteoretic rise).

    *IAA has well-documented and established monopolistic practice of doing the following:

        1. Jerry-rigging Top-40 listing
        2. Controlling their radio/cable station with steady stream of sub-par music.
        3. Locking and reigning in the bands freedom.
        4. Ironclad control of multi-layered multi-regional distribution points

    They are attemping (with miserably result) at symbiotic relationship with the computer industry. Intel with copy-once bit (for either blue DVD formats); Microsoft on iTune-knockoff; Even Sony Microelectronic is fighting with Sony media.

    Now, the *IAA are repeatedly attempting at same failed strategies in psuedo-cementing their sandy enterprise through the control of their closed-fisted approach. (reads as slipping sands through closing hands). *IAA MUST be made to realize that they cannot have it all and that failure to embrace technology, particularly rapid evolving open-source technology, will further hasten their demise.

    iTune has understood this all and will become a powerful iconoclastic media empire (along with Google in different ways).

    Good luck, *IAA.

  7. Colossus on Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" · · Score: 1

    Professor Forbin would be spinning in his grave ...

    With Colossus doing the spinning.

  8. Obligatory Zappa Remark on New Tenth Planet Has a Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    so what do you call a moon with no planet?

        Moon Unit?

  9. Mod Parent Up on Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts · · Score: 1

    This is the best most economical solution so far... ALert and Wary... Just like defense.

  10. Re:Lost its responsive time... on Major Microsoft Re-Organization · · Score: 1

    Every company I have worked for seems to think that having two managers watch me at the same time somehow improves my efficiency.

    Perhaps two eyeballs on the source code would be better? Like the open source community regularly do multiple eyeballs on the source codes.

  11. Lost its responsive time... on Major Microsoft Re-Organization · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best way to push a new product out is with loosely coordinated small engines (team leaders) with appropriate small gears (coordinators) interleaving in between the cogs.

    Easy and fast to build up... Need more function? just add another wheel. Losing steam? Add another small engine.

    What MSFT is doing is adding a gigantic, humonguous, caveman-styled stone wheels (CxOs) that plunders and thunders the country hillsides as it rolls, smothering and trampling all other wheels and cogs in name of progress!

    Apparently, they haven't tried eXtreme Programming for the Business Manager (yet).

  12. Obligatory Carl Douglas (long one) on 'Mr. Samba' Talks About Samba's Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everybody was Kung-FUD fighting
    Those hacks were fast as lightning
    In fact it was a little bit frightning
    But they crack 'en expert typing.

    They were funky Hacking dudes from funky IRC
    They were hacking them up and they were hacking them down
    It's an ancient Cracker art and everybody knew their part
    From a p0f into nmap, and cracking with l0pht.

    Everybody was Kung-FUD fighting
    Those hacks were fast as lightning
    In fact it was a little bit frightning
    But they hack with typing a blazin'.

    There was funky K'vin Mitnick and little Jon Johansen.
    He said here comes the big mafia, lets get it on
    We ping their host and made a stand, started DoS'ing with deft of a hand
    The sudden BSOD made me lurch, now we're into a brand new stepping stones.

    Everybody was kung-FUD fighting
    Those hacks were fast as lightning
    In fact it was a little bit frightning
    But they flip it with incredible l33t typin'.

    (repeat)..make sure you have expert typing
    Kung-FUD fighting, had to be fast as lightning

  13. Obligatory Star Trek dialogue... on A Look at Photonic Clocking · · Score: 2, Funny

    LaForge: Gee, I don't know... These RocketIO bus are mighty archiac and PCI even more so.

    Data: RocketIO is rated at 9.8 Gbps and PCI-X6 is rated at even slower rate of 8 Gbps aggregated.

    LaForge: Yeah, right. Nothing compare to our photonic bus of 980 THz over each of the 2^1024 channels.

    Scotty: Ayie! Why don't they get with the program, laddies? I kin nev'r understind them, bloody buses.

  14. New features not mentioned on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 1

    You will probably be wary if Yahoo emulates Google with regard to indexing emails, indefinitely.

    Just another level of privacy lost due to information era.

    Time to move on to another webmail platform.

  15. Sliver of a chance on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1

    There is an extremely small minority (less than 5%) within the Deaf community that can handle these range (100 to 160 dB) consistently and even smaller sliver that they will be able to retain these similiar level of hearing as they advance into their later age.

    The goal for preservation of hearing rests with conservative usage of these hearing. Not an easy feat by any stretch and measure.

    Many factors are recognized in the even smaller minority (within these 5%) that prolonged and preseved these remaining hearing well into their advanced age.

    All those factors are well documented in studies made for hearing-community.

    You should recognizes these factors:

    1. Career/Work environment noise (Data Centers and constructions).
    2. Quiet home life (usually with sign language)
    3. Recreational/Public place (Techno/ROCK concerts/auto-racing)
    4. Happenstances (explosion, head-injury)
    5. Genetic (not measureable by any survey, YET)
    6. Childhood exposure (early the better adaptation by inner ear, by acclimation)

    Just be aware of your surrounding.

  16. 95 dB is your threshold on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do not want to exceed 95 dB, ever: EVER!

    Take it from a deaf person whose hearing loss is averaged as 64 dB at 20Hz down to 95 @ 8 KHz. That is the surveyed threshold for a lifelong usage of a hearing aid without losing ones remaining hearing (thus rendering such hearing useless).

    Hearings is not recoverable as the many tiny cilia hair nerves gets shortened at greater than 95 dB due to excessive POUNDING of the noise whipping these reed-like cilia back and forth (tearing or cutting off blood flows) as amplified by your middle ear bones and outer ear's ear drum.

    Protect your ears, take it from a deaf person. It is career threatening in your mid-life. No need to get another cow during your mid-life crisis.

    Cholear implant (CI) is a proven technology, but a bothersome hinderance to those late-deafened teens and adult as they did not grow up accustomed to these CI outfits. (Doable, but takes longer to get accustomed to these CI). CI is not a perfect replacement as you would get 32 channels (more later) spread across the sound spectrum but with GAPS in between. Computer/signal processors back-fills in these inter-channel gaps (not pleasant to a true classic music afficiandos).

    Keep it down... It might save your life.

    Don't get hit by a bus because you're IPODing. (interesting tidbits: 422 deaf people were killed by bus.)

  17. Simplistic but fatalistic POV. on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the new strategy to take, is to hold the country who host or export terrorism as being responsible for their own action/inaction.

    This makes global society well-behaved. A country that harbors and base such terrorists without identity is solely to blame themselves and nobody else.

    This is called diplomacy.

    Behold them to be responsible for their own land and people (terrorist or not).

    Propaganda their people into thinking that slaughtering children and women are bad, unless they too also harbor misbehaving terrorists.

    Geneva Convention is still effective today, once that mindset sinks in.

    Then when all diplomacy fails, make white smoldering glass out of them. Then they'll pause.

  18. Re:Twisted Priority on China's Second Manned Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the additional insight. That was refreshing evidently from the World Fact database (I also should have checked that too, and you should have read the fine prints too!)...

    And no, I'm not THAT insightful to both space programs (unlike you, perhaps).

    China has 130M (10%), USA reportedly have 37M (13%) below poverty level. Now for the fine print from your lookup of the World Fact, "For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations."

    USA is generous and gracious to our poor (they have Medicaid, SSI, SSDI, state grant, welfare...) Does the Chinese? By Chinese standard, our poverty level would be less than 3% after adjusting for Ginn index, et. al.

    So, there... Twisted priority, I stand by this.

  19. Re:Surprise, surprise on Free Downloadable Tech Shows · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, I noticed this link (of which we share in common).

    http://slashdot.org/~RollcallOfArseholes/foes

    I've finished reading up most of the slashdotters' journal and cannot find a common thread topic wise...

    I can't think of any other most common denominators over here. By any chance, do you use TOR?

  20. Re:Sad Future of Broadband Access in other countri on China Telecom Blocking Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    Um, I noticed this link (of which we share in common).

    http://slashdot.org/~RollcallOfArseholes/foes

    I've finished reading up most of the slashdotters' journal and cannot find a common thread topic wise...

    By any chance, do you use TOR?

  21. Re:In other news... on Windows Incompatibilities Frustrate D.C. Schools · · Score: 1

    Um, I noticed this link (of which we share in common).

    http://slashdot.org/~RollcallOfArseholes/foes

    I've finished reading up most of the slashdotters' journal and cannot find a common thread topic wise...

    By any chance, do you use TOR?

  22. Re:Why not... on What is Responsible Disclosure for Security Flaws? · · Score: 1

    By any chance did you use TOR?

    I noticed this... and tried to piece a common thread amongst the slashdotter on the list... So far, no match on the topic nor belief.

    http://slashdot.org/~RollcallOfArseholes/foes

  23. Interesting... on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey Doc,

    I ran into this rather demented Slashdotter maintaining a list of not so savory characters...

    http://slashdot.org/~RollcallOfArseholes/foes

    after reading those list and their journals, apparently these 'foes' are very intelligent, but I don't sense a common thread amongst us.

    What is your take?
    ---
    Posted without Karma Bonus.

  24. Twisted Priority on China's Second Manned Space Flight · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It staggers my mind to watch the Chinese enter (however belately) into the space race with such obsolete equipments.

    India had ambition but had to scale it back due to pragmatism (and a wise move at this).

    Chinese however is surely to make this long moon-shot works because its such a draconian government mandate at the back of its ten millions of poor destitute citizenry (at least 40% at last count). Why does this remind me of U.S.S.R. back in the 80s? USA merely (oops, nearly) drove them broke with Reagan at the helm touting his Star Wars pitch.

    As for Red China, such lofty goals by its forward/backward parity of a Taoist (no, make that Maoist) society. At least, NASA has pragmatic mechanism built-in (via congressional funding) whose vote is carried by its middle-class!

    Just break the Chinese camel's back with a Mars shot and be done with.

  25. Re:IPS/IDS and firewall are the dumbest ideas.... on Intrusion Prevention and Active Response · · Score: 1

    I design 10Gbps IPS and a naysayer of IPS...

    Perhaps I see something you don't???