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  1. Re:Honeypot? on Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP · · Score: 1

    Interestingly I searched for my old IP, and it listed a bunch of movies which I never downloaded, as well as an Armin Van Buren album which I never downloaded (I listen largely to Jazz). I think part of its fallability is dynamic IP's because those things weren't me. Now however I did get tracked for a home repair book which I had downloaded some time ago.

  2. Re:Honeypot? on Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP · · Score: 1

    I find it funny that I clicked and it told me that the only thing I had downloaded was a copy of a trigonometry text book, and its accompanying teacher edition. #nerdalert

  3. Re:Offensive Tweeting? on Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets · · Score: 1

    So there wasnt, thanks for the heads up! :)

  4. Offensive Tweeting? on Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets · · Score: 1

    Somewhere in here there is an angry birds joke.

  5. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    Who audits the auditors?

  6. Re:Sad, then happy! on Miyamoto Steps Down As Nintendo Game Design Head · · Score: 4, Funny

    I say let him, the man has done more than enough for a few lifetimes. He's like the Dickens of video gaming. An Asian perma-smiling Dickens.

  7. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    Who sets these rules? So far as I know, I don't see them listed in the constitution anywhere. More swiss-cheesing written into law elsewhere?

  8. Great on Vaccine Developed Against Ebola · · Score: 1

    Seriously, just what we need, more humans running around.

  9. Re:Really? on Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stealing something requires that you deprive the owner of the right to posession. So, I can steal your car, and you are unable to drive. To steal a CD, that would require me to break into the music company's office, steal the master, destroy all copies, and then leave. That's not what I'm doing. I'm simply making an unauthorized copy. It is NOT stealing.

  10. Dick move on Google Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Gmail App · · Score: 1

    Well, its a dick move to kick someone while they're down, but its sound business.

  11. Re:So, as an end user... on Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users · · Score: 1

    Most modern OS's already have dual stack support (windows vista forward on the windows side, I know red hat had it as far back as version 5) so there shouldn't be any change there. But because it is a dual stack deployment, your average home user wont have any issues or need to swap out any equipment - at least for the time being.

  12. Re:Hmmm on Computer-Controlled Cyborg Yeast · · Score: 1

    Psh, that's what rhesus monkeys are for! If you get it wrong, well, back to the drawing board. If you get it right??? DRUNK MONKEYS!

  13. Reused thousands of times! on Gecko-Inspired Tape Can Be Reused Thousands of Times · · Score: 2

    And every single time, it could save you a bunch on your car insurance!

  14. Re:yeah... on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 2

    Yeah, was anyone expecting anything different on this one?

  15. Hmmm on Computer-Controlled Cyborg Yeast · · Score: 1

    As I often write in my blog, I am a homebrewer. So, does this mean that we could create cyborg yeast to brew beer? Cyberbeer! You could control things like attenuation, flocculation, etc.It'd be really interesting to see the possibilities.

  16. How about Savak??? on Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    I think Savak would work. Orrr Schutzstaffel.

  17. Re:Fallacy on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lynx existed, and that's all I needed.

  18. Re:Who Cares on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    That's a flawed argument. If what you said is true a large portion of the study of military science wouldn't exist. Its entire basis for developing strategies and tactics is to look at previous battles and situations and ask "what if" to figure out what would happen, and be able to apply it for future situations.

  19. Re:I don't understand why people worship this guy on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    People need to get over the death of Steve Jobs. He wasn't that important. Its not like the prick came up with the cure for cancer or anything.

  20. Re:Parking in Handicap on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 2

    I don't think you realize quite how big of a dick Steve Jobs was. You're talking about the guy who subcontracted to his best friend, and ripped him off to the tune of $2500 in 1970's cash. That's a lot of money. He was a huge, self centered, arrogant prick.

  21. Wikileaks on Copiale Cipher Decoded · · Score: 1

    So when are we going to see this up on wikileaks? I'm pretty sure that this is something that was supposed to remain hidden!

  22. Re:Straight to the top in an hour on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 1

    Hahaha, nice catch! Damn you Gnuspell!!!

  23. Re:I can't figure out Slashdot . . . on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    You have an incredibly unscientific view of what is and isn't scientific. Is there any benefit to having Science Olympiad students drop eggs off of buildings? No, not really. But we do it because A) they learn and B) it could pique their curiousity in other directions. The world is full of wonders you can measure and learn about, and some of them might end up not even matching the "official numbers" provided by the government - can you imagine that??? Shame on you for telling the poster not to check into something.

  24. Re:I can't figure out Slashdot . . . on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    I was actually excited about the possibility of constructing a bomb out of some explosives and Tokyo mud. Talk about a dirty bomb!!!! (Dear FBI, I'm kidding, everyone knows you use the contents from old smoke detectors - still kidding!!!)

  25. Re:Still a grind on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 1

    Agreed. There was nothing quite as fun as a 40 person raid. Such utter chaos. "YOU'RE THE BOMB!!!!"