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  1. Re:Welcome to 2009 on Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking I read this about five years ago... good guess, haha

  2. Re:Honestly, when will people learn? on Project Zero Exploits 'Unexploitable' Glibc Bug · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, but according to your clients, it's still your fault.

  3. Re:So? on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 3, Informative

    Basically an app can ask for permissions for the gyro only (if it even needs to) and be recording conversation.

  4. Re:Dumb dumb dumb advice... on Selectively Reusing Bad Passwords Is Not a Bad Idea, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    I paid the $10 (or whatever it was) for KyPass on OSX. I use KeePass everywhere else. Works well for me.

  5. Re:Everyone does it on Australia and NSA Gain Comprehensive Access To Indonesian Phone System · · Score: 1

    Damn, the time I wish I had mod points... This is brilliant!

  6. Warning on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do not look into headlight with remaining eye.

  7. Art on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    That's nice that something grotesque is allowed, but me trying to post some artistic nudes (even with everything hidden) get taken down...

  8. Re:Alright folks, prepare for Twitter to suck... on Twitter Seeking To Go Public · · Score: 1

    This was exactly my thought when I read about it. Best way to ruin a company is to float it. No longer is it about the employees and customers, it's all about the shareholders.

  9. Very easy to get rid of the majority of spam on Researchers Buy Twitter Bots To Fight Twitter Spam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Twitter should be blocking any post that is only a link sent to someone they've never interacted with before. That would remove 90% of the spam I receive there.

  10. Re:Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: -1

    Syncing the webservers to an online atomic clock is fairly trivial. Then just run some javascript to convert to local time.

  11. Re:Oracle Java: Bad on Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws · · Score: 1

    Actually most experienced developers will tell you that while backwards compatibility is holding it back, even minor upgrades tend to break things (in particular since Oracle took over).

  12. Re:Trouble on screen for all who write software. on Judge Invalidates 13 Motorola Patent Claims Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points to mod this up. I was about to write the same thing.

  13. Re:The stupidity hurts my head. on Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update · · Score: 1

    We write an applet based trading platform, and due to the API adding a method with a name we were already using, we had to re-engineer heaps of our code (along with other Java issues). For them just totally discontinuing Java 6 as soon as Java 7 came out (and still had heaps of bugs) was a stupid mistake.

  14. Re:Exterior coating for condoms? on "Superomniphobic" Nanoscale Coating Repels Almost Any Liquid · · Score: 2

    You know this is /. right? ;-)

  15. Re:Good on Assange Seeks To Sue Prime Minister Gillard For Defamation · · Score: 2

    When the Prime Minister openly mocks a person, their intentions are pretty obvious.

  16. Good on Assange Seeks To Sue Prime Minister Gillard For Defamation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While I'm not a fan of Mr. Assange (quite the opposite really), I find the way he has been treated by our government absolutely deplorable. Especially when you consider how people like David Hicks (trained with terrorists) and Shappele Corby (convicted drug smuggler) have had the government behind them trying to get them home.

  17. A simple spam filter would be nice on Twitter Clampdown Could Impede Anonymous Tweets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just wish they'd block tweets that are directed straight at me, with a shortened link in them, from people I've never interacted with before.

  18. He's already on the bottom on James Cameron Begins His Deep-Sea Dive · · Score: 2, Informative

    He tweeted it about 45mins ago. https://twitter.com/jimcameron/status/184036733959143425 An amazing achievement!

  19. Re:The wet t-shirt effect? on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 1

    This really needs to be modded to +6 Funny!

  20. How is he running agains Julia Gillard? on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    Julia Gillard is part of the Lower House, so if Assange is running for the Senate, they're not directly in competition with each other.

  21. Pretty much nope. on Should Next-Gen Game Consoles Be Upgradeable? · · Score: 1

    Anything in the initial design should be such as amount of storage space and video outputs (as it has to support many even with the most basic version). Beyond that no. The beauty of consoles is that it is a fixed hardware platform. Even the lack of hard drive in the original basic Xbox 360 was a disaster in my opinion (and caused troubles with dashboard upgrades later in the cycle for those units).

  22. Built in repeaters? on Scientists Embed Electronic Components Into Optical Fibers · · Score: 2

    I'm wondering if this means they could have repeaters built in to the fibre itself. Could be pretty cool.

  23. Re:Logoff/Shutdown/Restart on One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Windows Key (Ctrl+Esc), Right Arrow, Right Arrow, Enter

  24. My last time on jury duty on Should Smartphones Be Allowed In Court? · · Score: 2

    I think the system we have here in Australia works well (no idea how it works in the US). Phones allowed in the courthouse, but not in the courtroom. When I was on a jury a couple of years ago, we had to put our phones in a box before going on to the jury. Once we left the courtroom, we could pick up our phones and use them like normal. Not even from the smartphone side, but a jury shouldn't have any distractions like that while listening to a trial.

  25. Re:And I thought my bug was bad on London Stock Exchange Price Errors 'Emerged At Linux Launch' · · Score: 1

    Not much really (had to buy the company donuts as punishment), but policies were changed to not allow changing our production network without going through proper channels. We had a similar database thing too where somebody accidentally removed all historical data for a project that was about to be rolled out, and due to the size, the techs had decided not to back it up. Yeah, policies are much better these days - major issues like this don't happen any more.