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  1. Reluctant to change - fear of shared services on Study Urges CIOs To Choose Open Source First · · Score: 1

    I found that most companies are afraid to use cloud services because they fear for the safety and integrity of their internal documents. This is whack in so many ways since the majority of the clients I dealt with had worse back-up and security in place than the cloud providers they feared. Enjoy.

  2. Re:I blame the media. on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 1

    Because the toxic plumb went over the ocean instead of the other way. Enjoy.

  3. Obligatory Pink Floyd Reference on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 1

    And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it – you've got to go sometime Enjoy.

  4. Future Perturbations on Disney Turns Plants Into Multi-Touch Sensors · · Score: 1

    "Honey, did you just switch the TV channel on me or is that damn cat peeing on the rhododendron again?" Enjoy.

  5. The Device May be a product of Scientologists on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 1

    If so, then it is going to be copyrighted down to the last bit. Can you imagine the fuss it would cause if somebody found out they were being kept alive by broadcasts emanating from the inner planetary broadcasting XENU channel? Enjoy.

  6. Samsung is PRIMA FACIE GUILTY on Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Samsung is a major outlaw electronics manufacturer who has adopted the vision of American capitalism that requires them to steal everything that isn't nailed down and then pay a small fine if-when they ever get caught. FWIW, I won't even argue over Samsung prima facie guilt. They were copying Apple even in the packaging of their products. Enjoy.

  7. True Valuation on Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? · · Score: 1

    I think I saw somebody on Hardcore Pawn try to pawn those exact same items. Les offered about three hundred bucks. Just sayin' Enjoy.

  8. I want my quarter back!! on Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' · · Score: 1

    Just kidding. In reality, I store my Zune on top of my jukebox. You know the one. It is sitting right next to my pinball machine. Enjoy.

  9. How to Make it Sail Through Congress on Bill Banning Employer Facebook Snooping Introduced In Congress · · Score: 4, Funny

    Attach a rider that further deregulates the banks. Enjoy.

  10. Timex Sinclair 1000 on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    You haven't really lived until you have experienced flight simulator on the Timex Sinclair. I had the full meal deal. Extra ram kit as well as the thermal printer. I was in hog heaven when I upgraded to the Timex Sinclair 2000 (color and sound!!). Enjoy.

  11. Re:Few is not the same as none on Egg-laying, Not Environment, May Explain the Size and Downfall of Dinosaurs · · Score: 3, Informative

    I got this one. The larger dinosaurs were dependent on larger trees and vegetation that takes longer to repopulate after the asteroid hit than their life cycles would allow. The growth cycle of a tree is many orders of magnitude slower then reptiles. So at first there would still be a lot of small babies of big (dead) dinosaurs to compete with the smaller dinosaurs (that evolved into birds?) from the short grasses that would emerge post fireball. The large bodied dinos would ultimately die when they got too big to consume enough of the smaller vegetation to allow them to exist. This is as good as example as I can think of off my head: You could, for example, try to reintroduce a particular species of extinct locust that used to exist until the late 1800's and it wouldn't do any good. They only bred in the deepest ruts of the prairies before the vast buffalo herds got slaughtered (Arizona history books mention that were all wearing hoodies). You could theoretically release the first "batch" of artificially created/cloned buffalo locusts into the wild, but when it came to the point in their life cycle to breed, they wouldn't have anyplace to lay their eggs. No herds of buffalo. No eight foot deep ruts in the prairie worn down over eons for them to lay their eggs. Enjoy.

  12. Torture on FBI Wants To "Advance the Science of Interrogation" · · Score: 1

    We all know how well torture works because all you have to do is look at Iraq to see how we found all those missing WMDs by torturing the testicles of toddlers in front of their parents. John Yoo authorized that btw. I think he is teaching American kids law in California these days. Enjoy.

  13. Get Creative on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Massage your resume to the point that it in no way actually resembles your qualifications at all. The more flagrant the lies, the better quality paper it should be printed on. You can be sure that some HR departments (or their outsourced imitators) won't check it a bit. If you can't dazzle them with diamonds, baffle them with bullshit. It has to work because there are countless stories of people faking as doctors and lawyers. You'll get an interview and if you pass the piss test you're hired. How hard can it be? Enjoy.

  14. We're not totally screwed if the war ends. on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 2

    It's not like war is the only growth industry left in America. There's always the prison industrial complex to soak up the job losses of the returning American soldiers. Either as guards or inmates. Enjoy.

  15. Re:also on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    A war we will win once we've incarcerated every medical marijuana patient in America if need be. Only then can we really free ourselves of the scrounge of the Taliban....or something... Enjoy.

  16. H/T to the "Freidman Unit" on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    Thomas Friedman also (and perpetually) thinks it's only about six months til we win. Enjoy.

  17. Google Engineer remarks: on Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications · · Score: 1

    "Dam this is harder than it appeared at first glance." Enjoy.

  18. From Al Jazerra - Actual Fucking News on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 0, Troll

    Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown. The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster. Why have alarms not been sounded about radiation exposure in the US? Nuclear operator Exelon Corporation has been among Barack Obama's biggest campaign donors, and is one of the largest employers in Illinois where Obama was senator. Exelon has donated more than $269,000 to his political campaigns, thus far. Obama also appointed Exelon CEO John Rowe to his Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

  19. The Skype interface is confusing. on Skype Forcing Mac Users To Upgrade Client · · Score: 1

    It's like trying to figure out where the flush handle is on some of the more esoteric new-age toilets out there. Enjoy.

  20. Those Lulz guys... on 13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    are gonna be so pissed. Enjoy.

  21. Mystery Solved. on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    It was a simple case of rightwing Republican dirty tricks. Whocouldanode? http://thetimchannel.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/case-closed/ Enjoy.

  22. If it'll make the CEO an extra buck on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 1

    then they are gonna do it. I can't be the only one who has noticed that consumer/client data security is not exactly a priority concern. Enjoy.

  23. Re:It's the death of IT as we know it... on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 1

    and I feel fine.

    You beat me to it. Great minds think alike. Enjoy.

  24. What, Me Worry? on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 1

    It's the end of IT as we know it (and I feel fine). Enjoy.

  25. Just for comparison.... on Japan's MagLev Gets Go Ahead · · Score: 2

    Let's point to the many long term development projects right here in the United States. Crickets. Enjoy.