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  1. Re:Terrorism on Google Reveals "Terrorism Video" Removals · · Score: 1

    yup that is the case

  2. Re:... WITH 100% CHINESE-SOURCED COMPONENTS !! on US Regains Supercomputing Crown, Besting China and Japan · · Score: 1

    It's the football fallacy. "My towns team won a football match so my entire town must be good, and me too."

  3. Re:What do SEALs have to do with privacy? on Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription · · Score: 1

    No, but the people who really, really need encryption probably has a van not too far away. I use encryption mostly just to be a dick and generate the noise that the others who rely on it needs.

  4. Re:What do SEALs have to do with privacy? on Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription · · Score: 1

    Knew it was that xkcd before I clicked :D

  5. Re:Obligatory LOLcat ref on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    lol, I actually remembered wrong and the original cheeseburger cat is with an 's', but as you say, there are more dialects, especially around IRC and some popular forums, they use 'z' more.

  6. I don't see on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 2

    the problem. Like the other people say here, load up the most important machines first, pack them with bubblewrap, stack them and tie them down. Same with the monitors if you can do everything in one go. I suppose you want to save the machines first, data is money, monitors are cheap. 3 guys load 200 machines in under an hour. (been there done that). Be careful the most dangerous thing to the machines are bumpy roads. Take it easy. Hard bumps can kill a disk, and generally, any vibrations will loosen cables. Especially SATA cables. Don't panic if something doesn't work after moving, open machine, fasten all cables. :)

  7. Re:What do SEALs have to do with privacy? on Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription · · Score: 2

    Friend of a guy who worked in intelligence here, all your encryption is worthless, they will just park outside your lawn and point a device towards your keyboard. The electrical charge generated by each key can somehow be translated into clear text.

  8. Re:More than that... on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    The next black death will be something that escapes one of those labs where they toy around with black death and anthrax every day.

  9. Re:Obligatory LOLcat ref on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 5, Informative

    haz

  10. Re:Huh? on Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is it that a person who did something wrong has his record tainted for the rest of his life, but somehow a corporation should be scott-free after it pays its fines?

  11. Re:Finally! on Fly Your Own Experiment In Space · · Score: 1

    Old joke, will not mod up :(

  12. Re:Please. on Why Intel Needs Smartphones More Than They Need Intel · · Score: 1

    My diapers said "Intel Inside".

  13. Re:Voyager return on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 2

    Probably another timeline.

  14. Re:Hire bad programmers with good social skills on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 1

    Take your witchdoctor mumbu jumbo and GTFO. Personality tests are a hoax. It's a religion for some. (The people-people that don't actually understand people)

  15. See you at the end of time on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My password would take 8.52 hundred thousand centuries to crack in an Massive Cracking Array Scenario. Not bad. Add the fact that every password I have is different, I should be safe. An uppercase character added would take 1.41 hundred million centuries. Maybe it's time I put in an uppercase too :)

  16. Re:John Carmack on John Carmack Is Building a Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 1

    There were comments also, both about the code structure and some details. Not a lot, but I've seen worse. It was definitely a style I could sink into and probably get something done with the code. It followed the 'the comment is in the code'-mantra ,where everything is pretty much explained by good variable and class names. If you know game programming and maths/physics it will fall into place eventually. But yeah, it's not documented like it was an API or anything.

  17. Re:John Carmack on John Carmack Is Building a Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know about the rest of Carmack's codebase, but I successfully compiled Doom 3 and disabled the serial key checker in the source. The code was well organized and I had most of the structure figured out within minutes. Great work. It's all there. Physics, lights, you name it. (except the reverse Carmack, it's replaced by a modified patch by him.)

  18. Re:Could someone please look up my password for me on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 2

    i can only see ******

  19. Re:Are you guys stupid or something? on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    Duh, just inverse the flux from the core and redirect trough the plasma coils.

  20. Re:You Have Severely Misplaced Shame on Google Highlights Censored Search Terms In China · · Score: 2

    Unless the list of ALL the words are transferred to ALL the users so the logic occurs entirely in a JS and nothing is transferred out, I agree. This sounds stupid. I doubt the Great Firewall will allow this list to be distributed.

  21. Re:ProTools is the antithesis of OpenSource on MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music As Pro Tools Files · · Score: 1

    Sorry I didnt notice that the picture ALT text came with it. I thought it was obvious where it came from, like the sibling post here.

  22. Re:ProTools is the antithesis of OpenSource on MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music As Pro Tools Files · · Score: 1

    A Message From Paul a picture of Paul Davis, Ardour's lead developer Hi, I'm Paul Davis, Ardour's lead developer. Last month, Ardour failed to even get close to the monthly target income, and things look equally dim this month. Over the last seven days, just 83 people paid for Ardour (an average of $10 each), out of a total of 185 downloads. Unfortunately, this means that for the rest of this month there are no cost-free downloads of pre-built versions of Ardour.

  23. I had to have music at work! on Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? · · Score: 1

    My boss had a mental disorder that made him think he was Jon Stewart or something and would talk loud and all the time AND expect people to laugh at the jokes. Earbuds made me seem really busy.

  24. Re:Seriously?? on Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East · · Score: 1

    Aye, the Chinese are beating 'the west' at it's own game, using capitalism to achieve ultimate communism. Clever bastards.

  25. Re:terrible article on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    r/askscience is probably a place most slashdotters wanna go when they've read all the slashvertisments.