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  1. Re:Russia's treatment to Pussy Riot on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    It's in the TOS - no usey real namey, no get FB. If you break the TOS, you are guilty of unauthorized access to a computer system. Which is a felony. Which is beyond stupid and is one of the reasons I will not visit the US, now or ever - I might get cuffed at the port of entry.

  2. Re:Greg Maxwell's comments on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    Okay. Where is the damn archive?

  3. Re:Russia's treatment to Pussy Riot on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    What, it's now against the law to lie about your identity to a company?

    Yes, yes it is.

  4. Re:Solves energy problem, causality problems remai on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Presumably the Hawking radiation would bleed energy out of the warp, shrinking it. Cosmic friction, what?

  5. Re:Americium? on Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was rather astonished and alarmed to read the article, which basically states "don't touch it and you'll be fine".

  6. Re:Better link on Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas · · Score: 1

    A collection of TEPCO's correspondence with NISA can be found on rather easily on the TEPCO website.

  7. Re:I'll die happy on Calorie Restriction May Not Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    You can eat anything and still maintain a low-calorie diet on a reasonable timescale.

    The simplest (not easiest, simplest) way to do this is to fast. You eat, then you don't for a while, then you eat again.

    As an experiment, let yourself grow good and hungry before your next meal (I'm not talking about the first pangs here, those disappear in an hour or so, I mean actual hunger). You'd be surprised how long that takes.

  8. Re:More exciting? on Stanford's Self Driving Car Tops 120mph On Racetrack · · Score: 1

    It's huge, to be sure. But then you get into the causes of lethal accidents and you realize that it dwindles to insignificance if you're not an asshat (no DUI, no major breaches of traffic laws).

  9. Re:Break out the check book on Higgs Data Offers Joy and Pain For Particle Physicists · · Score: 1

    The LHC is that bigger and costlier accelerator. It's being run at way less than nominal power right now.

  10. Re:Did we really find it? on Higgs Data Offers Joy and Pain For Particle Physicists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the cosmological constant, is now the most popular theory to explain the universe's accelerating expansion

    describe, not explain

  11. Re:Verified, and will continue on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    As opposed to, I dunno, say, Martin Luther King, Jr.? Yeah, all of those weapons he was stockpiling sure helped shake things up.

    Deacons for Defense and Justice. The Panthers.

    And all of those 60s hippies who were so gung ho about engaging in armed conflict really made the difference in stopping the Vietnam War.

    Weather Underground.

    All of those fundamental shifts in how government has changed were accomplished through non-violent campaigns

    3) England didn't have a massive arsenal of modern weaponry to use against the colonists

    Yeah, no, you know jack shit about the history of your own country.

  12. Re:What about spies? on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    You must be the ringleader, then... to know so much about them.

  13. Re:Recording devices are banned in McDonalds on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    Fuck you and fuck your sig and your dumb shit blog. That is all.

  14. Re:Self-Driving Cars are bullshit. on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a quarter of a century before any sort of vehicle we have does not require a *licensed* driver to be on-board

    Welcome to 2012, esteemed visitor. You will be pleased to know that the Cold War is over and that some of your predictions have come to pass:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17989553

  15. Re:What about spies? on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    Where are they? Do they come with original autographs? Do you seriously believe Anonymous is exclusively (or, indeed, even primarily) teenagers? Because if you do, I have some very, very bad news for you.

  16. Re:Hopefully... on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 2

    He will be taken to the US, that's the problem. Assange will never get his day in court wrt the rape allegations.

  17. Re:Buggars! on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    The prosecutor in the case actually posted a terse explanation some time ago to the effect that it IS possible, under Swedish law, as long as the UK also agrees.

  18. Re:serious? on Skype To Feature Giant Ads · · Score: 1

    http://maddox.xmission.com/ has no ads
    Also, there are more free-to-play games which do NOT serve ads than you can shake a stick at.

  19. Re:Kaspersky on Researchers Say Flame and Stuxnet Share Common Authors · · Score: 1

    One component of one early variant of Stuxnet is also a component of a variant of Flame.

    There is no time for people to analyze all the malware anymore. Instead, there are automated detection and signing routines.

    When you read about the earliest variants of Stuxnet dating from 2008, that is not the time at which they were written, it is the time when a virus signature was added to a database by someone's detection engines.

    So, a particular file was tagged at that time as "virus". No one looked further into it. Whenever something dropped that particular file, the new something was also tagged as "virus" and promptly ignored, because they were rarely seen in the wild. In this manner, a number of components of Stuxnet (and then, Flame) WERE being detected, but no-one connected the dots, as it were, until now.

  20. Re:Slashdot tests waters by sucking Facebook's coc on Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks · · Score: 1

    He cashed out.

  21. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Protective gear in general should be banned. It only reads to a misguided sense of safety.

  22. Re:Verifying a user by following his dick. on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that just the overall appearance of said appendage is enough to positively ID someone.

  23. Re:Doesn't that make him a better CEO? on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Interestingly enough, what you describe is a case of shitty cost accounting.

  24. Re:Nothing... on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    There cannot be perfect surveillance, for very good theoretical reasons. The only reasonable things you can do are to:

    a. make sure the sanes overmatch the loons in numbers in any given community

    b. find or make MANY, HIGHLY DISPERSED, EXTREMELY DISCREET and RIDICULOUSLY WELL ARMED new baskets to put one's eggs in.

    You correctly observe that technology far surpasses the powers of the human race. Well, all prey has to do is to multiply and run faster than predators.

  25. Re:Was told, not consulted. on Zuckerberg Made Instagram Deal Alone · · Score: 1

    So, while you are technically correct, you've completely missed the point.

    Par for the course, here.