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  1. Re:You poor sap on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    ...requires CAT tools.

    Is that tomography or cabling?

  2. Let Nature Bear the Message on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Plant a weed garden around the blocked entrance. Humans, visiting the site much later, will be warned off by the cunning, intelligent, carnivorous mutant weeds.

    Some illiterate would just steal the the pretty disk, unable to resolve the tiny markings.
    --
    So I pass that on to you. Write it down, and put it in your computer, so you can forget it.

  3. Brilliant own goal on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 1

    To work, disinformqtion (lies) will be circulated to potential leakers, that is, people that actually need to know the truth.

    They have just told their minions that they cannot believe what they are told. Worst suspicions have been confirmed -- your boss lies.
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    Don't be alarmed. This is all for safety and security. Just not yours.

  4. Past tense of copyright on Copyrights To Reach Deep Space · · Score: 1

    There is no past tense. It will go on forever, ever-present.
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    The credulity is strong with this one......

  5. Re:In other news: on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 1

    Remember Goliad!

  6. Re:Uh what? on When Your e-Books Read You · · Score: 1

    You could go into a book shop in some town where you are not known by anyone, and boost a book there.

    This encourages you to avoid human and video surveilance.

    Saves money, too.
    --
    Almost all integers are too big to remember or compare in a reasonable length of time.

  7. A little help here? on How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the FTC On Privacy Issue · · Score: 1

    On unique fingerprints for browsers and the tracking thereof.

    Each browser has a unique set of information routinely passed back to web servers.

    Marketeers use a hash of that information to identify and track us as we skip merrily from site to site about the web.

    Is there a simple way to twiddle that browser information to generate a new unique hash every time we go to another site?

    It needs to be easy for us to do and hard for the servers to adapt to.

    The only reason real fingerprints are used for identification is that they don't change.

    Just asking.

  8. All of them.
    Except Congressmen, of course.
    And Presidents, well, the current one.
    Nobody else, honest.
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    Thank god for the NSA wiretap program. We finally have a government that listens to its people

  9. Re: Setting the block on fire on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    You wanted a block of sodium, coated in wax. Flush and enjoy.

    Shredded magnesium is a major component of Thermite, and flash bulbs (remember those?).

    Marrying a chemist finally pays off. Come, karma, come.
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    I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the type of person I'm preaching to.

  10. Skepticism FTW on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 1

    Don't believe anything someone else has videoed. You have no idea how it was cropped or edited. Or whatever the video equivalent of 'photoshopped' might be.

    It is a very weak form of evidence, next to hearsay.
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    Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter if nobody listens.

  11. Re:Asymmetric warfare is a bad idea on Drones, Computer Viruses and Blowback · · Score: 1

    That is why you don't send a single officer to quell a riot.

    Instead, you should send a single Texas Ranger.

    Or in an extreme case, the single Chuck Norris.
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    The preferred solution is to not have a problem.

  12. Keyboards like Momma (IBM) used to make on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    Some posters have complained about cramped laptop keyboards.

    My Thinkpads (T23, T30, T60) have 0.75 inch wide/high keys, just like my Model M.

    They just don't sound quite as loud or feel quite as sound.
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    It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  13. No need for FedEx to examine hard drives? on FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ · · Score: 1

    How much coke can you fit in a hard drive enclosure?

    Colombians want to know.

    It wouldn't violate any MPAA/RIAA copyrights, so it would probably be OK.
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    Advertise cyanide capsules as v1agra and sell them via spam. Problem solved.

  14. Copyrights - a Modest Proposal on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    Since this has degenerated into a series of copyright rants, I will make a modest proposal.

    Since IP is property, declare its value, to be taxed annually, everywhere -- frequently, in many jurisdictions.

    And as in claiming races, require the holder to sell the rights to whoever offers to pay the declared value.

    Allow the holder to release IP to the public domain, ending its tax burden.

    That should get older IP into the public domain. And get immortal corporations to rethink sitting on rights forever.

    That isn't nearly as bold as Dean Swift's contribution to modesty and propositions.
    --
    Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.

  15. Re:With World Economies in Decline on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 1

    A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies!

    One Happy World.

    Wrong Dick.

  16. Re:New options? on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    RAM is cheap. Why not use it?

    without ECC?

  17. Re:I believe every word of this ... on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    Ask not what Slashdot can do for you, but what you can do for Slashdot.

    ...in moderation....

  18. Re:doesn't sound like idle. on Most Game Console Power Draw Comes From Time Spent Idling · · Score: 2

    What is timothy there for?

    A counter example? A warning to others?

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    EXPERIENCE IS what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  19. Re:Factors influencing Aussie 'piracy': on Aussie Case Unlikely To Solve Piracy Riddle In Fast Broadband World · · Score: 1

    free money for the content producers

    free money for the content distributors

    FTFY

  20. Beowulf cluster fuck? on U.S. Government Hires Company To Hack Into Video Game Consoles · · Score: 1

    Hacking the USAF playstation cluster?

  21. Aim on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 1

    With a laser light beam you don't need to lead the target.
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    Using sharkless lasers, can we finally win The War Against Abstract Nouns?

  22. Re:Hmm on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 1

    Most anti-ship missiles tend to cluster around a speed of 1000 km/h, which means they cover that last km in .27 seconds. And some US missiles arrive at over 4000 km/h.

    Arithmetic fault. At 1000 km/h, the missile covers 1 km in 1/1000 hr = 3.6 seconds. At 4000 km/h it reduces to 0.9 seconds.
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    On the Internet, everyone's an expert. Right?

  23. Just asking S on James Cameron Begins His Deep-Sea Dive · · Score: 1

    When did the final S fall off the Marianas Trench and associated Islands?

    Even this site http://www.fws.gov/marianastrenchmarinemonument/ seems to lose its S part way through.

    Not to mention the other question arising - What is the world is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?
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    "The advanced societies of the future will be driven by competing systems of psychopathology." -JG Ballard

  24. Backup/Restore? Planning for pain. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    If you think backup is slow, wait until you try a restore or RAID rebuild.

    Copy/sync to a duplicate file system on a replacement drive in an external enclosure.
    When the internal drive fails, swap in the pre-loaded replacement, and refill the external enclosure.

    This also allows for growth.
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    The Truth of Large Numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.

  25. Limited Usefulness of Duct Tape on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 1

    And what if the only way to change channels is Kinect-style hand-waving?
    Or voice controlled -- "Let me watch the game, please"
    --
    Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.