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  1. Re:woo...someone got fooled by a confidenece trick on Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID · · Score: 1

    Can we think a little less with our dicks guys?

    Penetration Testing: Rule 34.

  2. Does this include .... on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    ... homemade devices? Like lasers?

  3. Re:its, its on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 1

    In related news Anna Paquin goes into hiding.

  4. Re:Wait until you get Cryptolocker on Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking of Malicious Downloads · · Score: 1

    Do they have a version available for Linux yet?

  5. Re:Just Hogwash on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    This.

    Because any company that discovers its cash machine is stuffed with paper and doesn't take it off line immediately is an idiot. The total take from any hacked machine will be the cash and product sitting inside it at the moment. p.Now, this could be different if the 'access' needed to flash the firmware is much less than that needed to grab the cash. A cash machine linked to the bank over an unsecure wireless link and no firmware signing protocol? That could be worthwhile. Push an update and then stand in front of the machine as it makes change or spits out product?

  6. Re:people still use cash? on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    Until strippers hang card readers from their g-strings, yes.

  7. Re:Story on Hacker Spoofs Track Plays To Top Music Charts · · Score: 2

    I didn't understand the part about "I'm never gonna give you up."

  8. Re:Ineffective? on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    Also, you rarely have high-speed chases in areas where buses can be reached out and touched without being noticed.

    But this eliminates the high speed chase. The perp might have 10 or 20 minutes before the cops round up some back up and home in on the signal.

    especially if the dash cam was running during the chase to provide a good shot of what the driver looked like from behind.

    A hoodie.

  9. Re:Prostitution is the second oldest profession. on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    "I will fuck you if you give me engagement ring."

    FTFY.

  10. Re:Ineffective? on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 2

    Suspect gets ahead of the cops, pulls over an unsticks this from his car. Then sticks it to a passing bus.

    Also, there's the 'chain of evidence' problem. The police lose contact with the vehicle/driver. Later, they might recover the vehicle. But who was driving?

  11. Re:Would have walked away? on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 1

    So the pilot would have walked away except for what? That the pilot is a paraplegic?

    Or it crashed in a swamp and the alligators ate him.

    This is Slashdot. The details will be made clear in subsequent duplicates of this post.

  12. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will someone point out that Snowdon is probably revealing info to the Russians?

    Why? Don't they have their own subscription to The Guardian?

  13. These damned kids ... on Hardware Is Now Open (sourced) For Business · · Score: 1

    .... are always so eager to help with my airplane design. But when it comes time to do the FAA certification paperwork, they are nowhere to be found.

  14. Re:Why bother? on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1

    Keep all of this in mind when you select your burial plot. You are just going to make it easier for some archeologist to find you and everyone else in one convenient place. And then your remains will rest for eternity on the shelves of some university.

    Jimmy Hoffa will be revered as some sort of god or king, as his subjects buried him and then built a huge monument on top of his grave.

  15. Slashdot editing on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least they didn't say "There were no survivors".

  16. Conduct an experiment on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 1

    Launch a suitably instrumented satellite into orbit around earth. Crank up the LHC, creating a small black hole. This will rapidly consume the earth. Since the mass of this black hole would be the same as that of the earth, the satellite's orbit would not be affected. The satellite could then make numerous measurements of phenomena occurring at the event horizon.

    OK, repeatability would be a problem.

  17. Re:Greenpeace members stand up and say 'no' on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of those scientists are greenpeace, siera club or WWF

    Wait! What does the World Wrestling Federation have to do with climate change?

  18. He lied ... on NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... to Congress. Why is he not in prison?

  19. Re:Why does Japan's constitution prevent surveilla on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Japanese culture has a long history of having a strong code of honor. Bushido is an example. If we practiced Seppuku, I think the director of the NSA might have had second thoughts about lying to Congress.

  20. Re:Oh Irony, delicious irony on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, Germany is busy saving the Greeks, Spanish and Portuguese from themselves. I guess Japan will have to rescue us.

  21. Blame George Bush on German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 · · Score: 1

    He probably planted a bug on Merkel when he gave her that creepy hug.

  22. Re:lower speed = safer on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    They recommend you keep at least 4 seconds between you and the car in front of you as the minimum safe distance you need to stop if an emergency happens.

    It was 2 seconds when I learned to drive. Cars with drum brakes and bias ply recap tires. It went up to 3 seconds, and now 4 when the auto/insurance industry realized that changes had to be made to keep grandpa buying Cadillacs and not hastle mom for texting while driving the kids to soccer practice.

    Two seconds is still fine. Just take the brain dead clowns off the road. This will also free up a lot of road capacity and reduce expenditures on continually expanding freeway capacity. Figure out how many drivers the streets can handle and issue that many licenses to the most competent drivers. Everyone else takes the bus. Can't stop in 2 seconds? No license for you!

  23. User data? on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main purpose of the site had been to gather data on its users.

    So they have a bunch of anonymous IP addresses from a bunch of public WiFi sites. Even a trusted file sharing site can put people at risk if the FBI kicks the door down and seizes the servers. So any smart pirates will take measures to protect their anonymity, honey pot or not.

    In the meantime, thanks for all the disk space. It was fun while it lasted.

  24. Re:Well on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA has cracked the encryption involved in BitCoin transactions. One day soon, the FBI will examine their account balance and find it empty. The BitCoins having been transferred through the NSA to the CIA to fund some assassinations. Or to the next al Qaida.

  25. Re:It doesn't reach us on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 1

    GetOutOfMySpace.com