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  1. Re:Not to worry ... on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1

    Boldly going forward 'cause they can't find reverse..

  2. Re:Memorizing site-unique passwords isn't possible on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 5, Funny

    "correct horse battery staple"

    That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

  3. Re:"mobius"? on Physicists Make a Mobius Strip From Beams of Light · · Score: 1

    Actually, wouldn't capital letters be cheaper to send from an energy viewpoint? If they've got less 1's in each byte and a 0 is assumed 'lack of signal'...

    They might take more pixels to draw though? So energy costs would go up at display time (assuming you're displaying it of course. Interesting - oh, unless it's black on white so then it's cheaper again...

    I think I'll stop now before further thinking about this makes my head explode.

  4. Re:Butlerian Jihad on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, he's already worried his future OS is going to leave him for a group hyper-ultra-sentient relationship.

  5. Re:Please do not use this facility on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    What if you just download a copy of the old woman's money? Or even her whole handbag and it's contents...

  6. Re:And another on the ban pile on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 1

    Trickle down effect is as trickle down effect does

  7. Re:Ai is inevitable on The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative · · Score: 1

    Everything -- bar none -- works according to the principles of physics.

    Ahem. The principles of physics are based on the way everything works, as far as we have worked it out as such.

  8. Re:And 22/7... on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    Raised to the power of grayskull.

  9. Re:Wow, that opens a up a whole world of dontgivea on MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Now you can use your eyeballs to try and get Mario to punch the monkey!

  10. Often? on The Mystery of the 'Only Camera To Come Back From the Moon' · · Score: 1

    The way they wrote that, it makes it seem like astronauts are up there jettisoning their camera gear every other day.

  11. Re:Hungarian/English phrase book on Earth Barely Dodged Solar Blast In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Turn left at the next set of lights, then pull over and replace your scratched tobbacconist.

  12. Free for their definition of free, not yours on Elsevier Opens Its Papers To Text-Mining · · Score: 1

    Note:

    If you have to sign or agree to something in order to access it, it's not free, even if they say otherwise.

  13. Re:Nethack on The Geekiest Game Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    Look at the crowd of people on that lawn over there! -- More --

  14. Re:Friend Computer... on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Computer wants you to be happy. If you are not happy, you may be used for reactor shielding.

  15. I want to know what happens... on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    ..when they hear their phone ring?

    Confusion++?

  16. Re:Is it fixed? on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I do the same thing as the author in the article. To confirm this you need to change the email address you received the spam from at the same time you notify the company.

    e.g.

    thecompany@yourdomain.com localaccount

    becomes

    #thecompany@yourdomain.com localaccount
    thecompany2@yourdomain.com localaccount

    If 'thecompany2' address gets spam they're still compromised. Repeat until fixed or you lose trust in 'thecompany'.

  17. Re:SSH Got Bjorked? on Trojanized SSH Daemon In the Wild, Sending Passwords To Iceland · · Score: 4, Funny

    And until now it was oh, so quiet!

  18. Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines on Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards? · · Score: 2

    Interesting 'law'.

    I have my own guideline where if the headline is of the form:

    {start of sentence} may {end of sentence}

    I no longer bother reading the article.

  19. Re:Clearly... on Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize · · Score: 1

    I just wish there was a better way to deliver remote UIs than AJAX (or "metric butt-ton of RDP connections"). It's a crude and slow hack (although a practical one) to use HTML for dynamic content. Even server side scripts are bit of a bubble gum or an afterthought at least.

    There should be a dedicated protocol to deliver UI elements. Maybe there some day will be when this all just gets too messy.

    Maybe that day was in the past?

  20. Re:Nethack on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    I've ascended a couple of times in Nethack. I'm still too 'scared' to play dwarf fortress...

    Incidentally, if your dungeon crawling tastes included dungeon master, eye of the beholder and the like, there's a newly published games called Legend of Grimrock done in the same vein which I'm currently playing and very much enjoying. Although not free, it's cheap and seems to be fairly well balanced.

  21. Re:Rubbish names. on New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction · · Score: 1

    Surveys have recently shown that 67% of people would install the new version of iTrojan without checking how or why it's different from the current iTrojan. Furthermore 43% of users said they were such Apple fans that they would likely install the new version of iTrojan without even being aware that they would do so.

  22. Re:Want an Elf Queen that talks like Fran Drescher on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Actually, fans of Peter Jacksons early works such as Bad Taste and Meet The Feebles would probably find that nauseatingly erotic.

  23. Re:Pretty fucking cool on Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors · · Score: 1

    I can imagine it though - Joe was last seen heading towards the mountains through the forest. He appeared to be carrying 12 pick axes, 6 shovels and a sword of some sort many years ago. Occasional sightings have been reported of a blocky figure occasionally appearing from the ground to chop down and even punch trees and attacking the local boars? The few photo's that have tried to capture this stranger have always ended up too low in resolution to be used for identification. On a couple of occasional brave investigators did make their way in to the places the blocky figure was last seen, but never returned. Search drones flying over to find out what happened have never been able to locate them or any evidence other than some strange new small craters of unexplained origin.

    The last possible reference to Sasquatchewan Joe (as he is now known) was in the Weekly World News which claims to have a source which has seen him riding a saddled pig off a cliff.

  24. Python 1969 on The Science of Humor · · Score: 3, Informative
  25. Re:Retrain on How Do I Get Back a Passion For Programming? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's English. Now we'll see whether he has the time to say something more.