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  1. Sadly, on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 1
  2. "pretty shitty country"? on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 1

    Looks like somebody needs to check their local news.

  3. Re:Tin foil hats on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 1

    "Europe is a hell of a big place"

    Russia is big. Western Europe is rather compact.

  4. catapostrophe on AMBER Alert Partners With Facebook · · Score: 1

    And they said literacy was dead.

  5. Nothing new, Sudoku Grab for iOS already mentioned on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    This post has been above for quite some time. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1945980&cid=34836230

  6. pattern recognition? on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Usually search with backtracking.

  7. linked above on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    ...and mod'd +5 informative by some incredible AI.

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1945980&cid=34836230

  8. Why bother with QA... on Android Text Messages Intermittently Going Astray · · Score: 1

    When they really just want to push you headlong into the upgrade treadmill?

    This also seems to explain how incredibly crappy p

  9. Free sharing far pre-dates RMS on Open Source After 12 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    RMS ignited the modern revolutionary era of free software with his extraordinary legal invention, the GPL - but anyone informed in this area knows that the idea of freely sharing source code, for many of the same benefits underlined in the GPL and open source licenses, dates back at least to the 1950s and IBM SHARE.

  10. Surprised nobody mentioned yet on 23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That /. is written in Perl.

  11. Re:Take Note on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    they consciously hijacked the tragedy for their own ends

    That part, at least, is proven.

    The whole world (particularly the huge swaths of it blasted to bits without any justification, not to mention those kidnapped, detained, tortured, and killed in custody without justification) still waits for a credible explanation of all that happened on and after 9/11, and why.

  12. Patrick Smith covered the gaping staff loophole on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    Here and again here.

  13. DONOTWANT on iPad Newspaper From News Corp Rumored in January · · Score: 2

    If ever a story deserved that tag, it's this one.

  14. Doctor Nick! on Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal · · Score: 1

    n/t

  15. You're kidding, right? on Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal · · Score: 0

    Please tell me you're kidding... For your own safety, shut down Windows and use a secure operating system.

  16. Planalto—not a newspaper on WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul · · Score: 1

    Planalto is the "seat of government" in Brazil - its Parliament House, or White House, if you will.

    Presumably the "blog" Lula refers to is this one. Wikileaks is already cited there several times.

  17. MAD on North Korea Says War With South Would Go Nuclear · · Score: 1

    You're familiar with the charming phrase "Mutually Assured Destruction," I take it.

  18. N.B. on WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul · · Score: 1

    AIUI Wikileaks didn't give the cables to the NYT (for obvious reasons). The UK Guardian passed them on to NYT. The NYT cannot be trusted on any level; it's operating in the interests of the Establishment.

  19. Hint: on Denver Bomb Squad Takes Out Toy Robot · · Score: 1

    TV. Particularly the Murdoch-designed, tabloid kind.

  20. I just hope on Denver Bomb Squad Takes Out Toy Robot · · Score: 1

    They catch the dangerous individuals who installed this menace. Maybe they can change the law to make sure they're put away for a good long time!

  21. Better Stupid than Safe! on Denver Bomb Squad Takes Out Toy Robot · · Score: 1

    ...is the real state of things in USA.

  22. It's worse. on A Peek At the National Opt-Out Day Numbers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read this.

    Opt-outers (presumably of any TSA procedure on any mode of transport) are tagged "domestic extremists" whose data will be referred to the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.

  23. Not enough to retire on?? on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 1

    $7.5 million tax free. Not quite enough to retire off of at age 30

    You must have a pretty astronomical cost of living. Most people could very comfortably retire on $2 mil cash.

  24. Best. Outing. Ever. on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 1

    ;-)

  25. Re:Nothing New on Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Xerox engineers themselves have said Apple didn't rip them off"

    Which is an understatement, really, since Apple formally licensed Xerox technology.