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  1. Write a little script! on Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? · · Score: 1

    You can solve your particular problem with a 10 line script that runs in your notebook. Just write it!

  2. Re:Time to move. on FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now · · Score: 2

    To where? There isn't a country out there that isn't corrupt to the whims of the US that isn't ruled by someone just as bad.

    Iceland is quite autonomous right now. They are a fully functional democracy with strong safeguards against these kinds of attacks to freedom. Besides, between geotermal activity and the cold climate a data center should be quite cheap to support there ;).

  3. Re:If this leads to a cure for Human HIV... on Engineered Stem Cells Seek Out and Kill HIV In Mice · · Score: 1

    Since you're so self-righteously against scientific research on animals, perhaps you should consider making a stand and refusing to use therapies that were tested on animals.

    Please mod parent insightful

  4. Re:Teenage _____ Ninja _____ on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    I'd usually suggest we wait for a script or at least actual plot details but this is Bay, the script will just be drawings of things blowing up and pages from a Victoria's Secret catalog.

    Screw it, bring on the explosions!!!

    Hang on, the explosions are the part you are interested in? I beg to disagree. Bring on the Victoria's Secret models!

    Just bring both! Long live to Bay!

  5. Le Café on Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App · · Score: 1

    Cute french animation regarding the subject of the article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sILvmyNGAI

  6. Re:Digital evolution at work on When Viruses Infect Worms · · Score: 2

    Digital Intelligent Design at work you mean... These programs weren't created by /dev/null you know...

    But, how can we know that they were not created by /dev/random?

  7. Re:inb4peta on Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz · · Score: 1
    Mod parent up! Best dolphin quote ever!

    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  8. Re:Arab spring my ass on Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte · · Score: 1

    This is just a single woman spreading conspiracy theories. And I know, that hormones can influence rational thought, but to throw away all logic just because some girl tells you strange stuff? If you were a muslim extremist with a very negative attitude towards the U.S., would you join a movement which is supposedly sponsored by the very same U.S.? If not, who are the actual people the Muslim Brotherhood consists of? American patriots?

    I would certainly trust her more than a nobody who writes in slashdot and is unable to analyse the reality in a non-binary way. The US is supporting the muslim brotherhood using the same strategy that they used before. For instance, they supported the Taliban (see Rambo 3, the movie, for details). They also supported lots of repressive regimes in Latin America (I know, I am from Argentina).

  9. Re:Arab spring my ass on Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte · · Score: 0

    arab spring seems to be a shitty operation by u.s. to topple unfriendly governments to install their own islamist supporters and to oblige the countries to financial system.

    Right. Which explains why one of the first governments that was overthrown in the "Arab Spring" was Egypt... a staunch US ally that the US had poured many billions of dollars into. Congratulations. You managed to set a new record for cluelessness.

    I've dated a turkish journalist last summer (southern hemisphere summer). While we were dating, I asked her about the things that were happening in Egypt and who the "muslim brotherhood" are, she said exactly what the GP told you. They are a US intelligence thing or they were heavily infiltrated by them. I asked why would the US overthrow an allied government and she answered that they actually support the Muslim extremists in Turkey too (just a remainder: Turkey is a NATO country). The US does that to have leverage in the local politics.

    I think that you (and not the GP) are the one who managed to set a new record for cluelessness.

  10. Re:Love on Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl · · Score: 2

    What if you are so socially fucked up that even paid girls interpret the awkwardness as being a narc?

    Learn to play a musical instrument.

    Another option is learning how to dance something. Tango worked great for me and it does not require you to move your hip. In fact, it is better if you don't do it at all, giving us wooden dancers an advantage.

    Whatever you choose to do (playing or dancing), remember that it will not work for the first 2 or 3 years. It is a lot of hard work to be able to dance or play an instrument in a pleasant way. That's where being nerdy helps. We are experienced in taking big and long projects and keeping doing them without pause for years until we finally achieve what we want. Just make yourself sure that you will like the activity even if you are not able to pick up girls because of it.

  11. Re:They're not dropping nuclear on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    They aren't really dropping nuclear, they are exporting it across the Rhine to France. The analysis I've seen is the only way the Germans keep up with historic demand growth short of tanking their economy is to build more interconnects to France and let the French operate those horrible nuclear plants.

    That's the same thing I was going to say. When you ride the TGV from Luxembourg to Paris, if you look to your right, near the horizon there are 4 or 5 nuclear power stations (that look like the one at the Simpson's Springfield). This is just across the border between Germany and France.

    It is even more puzzling that in the case of a nuclear accident there Germany may still suffer the consequences, but the french get all the revenue from theses nuclear plant. Maybe, just maybe, Germany just found a complicated way to subsidize France in order to give more strength to the European Union. That's the only rational explanation I can make besides "germans are stupid".

  12. Re:Distractions on Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the ages of the prospective employees, the question still stands: Would you rather have people who can write and do math, but have trouble with email, or those who are the opposite?

    I would pair one of each and pay a 1/3 of a full salary to each one (and keep the 1/3 extra for myself).

  13. Re:Cheating should be rewarded, not penalized... on Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies · · Score: 1

    if the purpose of education is to prepare for life in the "real world". Cheating is a part of everyday life and if you are going to compete in a world of cheats, you need to refine your cheating skills as early as possible. How else are you supposed to be a competent financial analysis, stock broker, lawyer, etc.. Success in many fields is all based on being the best cheater. In fact, there should be a requisite course taught in schools titled "How to cheat and get away with it".

    Spartans did just that. They took their 8 years old children and forced them to steal food in order to eat. If the children were caught they were severely punished. That's how they prepared them to be able to survive in a battle field.

  14. Re:I've said it before, I'll say it again on France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax? · · Score: 1

    Maybe some quality time with a razor. Imagine your old lady's armpit hair tickling your nose when you snuggle up to her at night.

    It seems you have never gotten out of your mom's basement. Here, in the big room with the cyan ceiling, French girls are great.

  15. As easy as a first post! on The Ease of Publishing an Ebook · · Score: 0, Troll

    But more profitable

  16. Re:This is why we need to use Ruby on Rails. on Researchers Demo ASP.NET Crypto Attack · · Score: 1

    I've talked with the 0-day authors and they said that RoR had (or have, I don't remember) the same kind of vulnerability reported in ASP.NET. The problem is that using encrypted but not signed content allows an attacker to decrypt it (check out the authors' paper for details, it is really cool).

  17. Re:Boycott on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    I already did it. It didn't work out. You can read on my blog for details (automatic english translation> )

  18. Re:Don't be TOO sure on Media Industry Wants Mandated Spyware and More · · Score: 1

    Thank God (and Torvalds) for Linux. There won't be any spyware on my machine.

    Only if you're not installing binary blobs, i.e. drivers (*cough* nVidia *cough*) in the kernel and closed source programs (*cough* Flashplayer *cough*). And who knows what's lurking inside your closed-source BIOS (both on the motherboard and in network adapters)? I'm not saying that those binary blogs contain spyware, but I have no way (short of reverse-engineering them) to be sure they don't... and never will on subsequent updates.

    Lots of notebooks come with a rootkit in their BIOS that receives instructions from a website. For details check the work of Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco here and here. Disclaimer: I work with them at Core Security Technologies.

  19. Re:Martin-boundary Announces Windows 7 SP2 on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you accidentally all your drugs.

    Compile error in line 1.

  20. Credits on MS Virtual PC Flaw Defeats Windows Defenses · · Score: 5, Informative
    From TFA:

    An exploit writer at Core Security Technologies has discovered a serious vulnerability that exposes users of Microsoft's Virtual PC virtualization software to malicious hacker attacks.

    I would like to add that the exploit writer at Core Security Technologies that discovered this vulnerability is Nicolás Economou and congratulate him on the great work he has made.

    Disclaimer: I also work at Core

  21. Re:Aaaarrrrggg on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    In K&R C functions that do not specify the return type have int as the return type.

  22. Mozilla foundation achieved its objective on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1
    The objective is to have better browsers and more choices than Internet Explorer 5. Right now there are several browsers gaining mark-share: Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, Konqueror. If the problem with Firefox funding is a consequence of having a lot of browser choices, I would like to just say:

    Congratulations Mozilla Foundation, you made it

  23. Re:Statistical analysis of the summary on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    Please mod parent insightful.

  24. Re:On a related note on NASA Tests Flying Airbag · · Score: 1

    On a related note, I think final car safety tests should be performed with the CEOs of the car company inside the car.

    When romans inaugurated their bridges, the architect was below them. They lasted two thousand years.

  25. Also saving the environment on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 2, Funny

    By supporting the pirate industry, they give jobs and new opportunities to the local people. But this is not the only reason why we should support them. They do an amazing job reverting the global warming. Every ecologically responsible person should invest in this stock exchange.

    In unrelated news, it is rumored that the Rainbow Warrior will join their fleet.