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  1. Re:this is it on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    ...the art of saying nice doggy until your compilation finishes. For what it is worth I don't believe this came from the US. I bet their viruses get in, and send back the product without anybody knowing anything about them.

  2. Re:not very technical on Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime · · Score: 1

    But all the Karma whores offer their services for free anyway.

  3. Re:Not just piracy... on UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its been a scam for longer than the internet has been around.

  4. Re:Bing on Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist · · Score: 1

    You should just bing bing crosby.

  5. Re:SQL Injection? on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 3, Informative
  6. Re:For those who are American on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    Additionally it is in the northern hemisphere of the planet earth and has a population of 9.2 million.

  7. http://hittepa.webs.com/x.txt on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    Seems to just reference itself. Clever but a bit of a waste. Or are they aiming for a stack overflow? Didn't seem to bother firefox here.

  8. Re:Has not already happend yet... on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    It was accessed with a needle (maybe an atomic force microscope) which could be positioned arbitrarily. So for me reads and writes were both random as we use the term for memory.

  9. Re:A rather small set of unit tests on Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Might be worth noting here that I have experienced totally novel emotions as a result of epileptic seizures. I don't have the associated cultural conditioning and language for them because they are private to me, so I am unable to communicate anything about them to other people.

    Its also worth noting that I don't seem to be able remember the experience of emotion, only the associated behavior, though I can associate different events to each other, ie, if I experience the same "unknown" emotion again I can associate that with other times I have experienced the same emotion. But because the "unknown" emotion doesn't have a social context I am unable to give it a name and track the times I have experienced it.

  10. Re:Emo AI software. What could possibly go wrong? on Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you about my mother....BANG

  11. Re:that daydream... on Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream · · Score: 1

    reaches for the power switch....

    I want more life, fucker

  12. Re:How do you get offenders to stop? on Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? · · Score: 1

    Any ideas on how to convince people to stop?

    I have a shortened link in my sig because otherwise I will overflow the 140 character limit. Slashdot could fix the sig length and the [url] would point to the correct place.

  13. Re:Has not already happend yet... on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    IBM have written their name in atoms with variants on the electron microscope. So in a way they have built single atom RAM. Its just not fast enough yet.

  14. Re:Bad naming scheme on Martian Meteorite Gets NASA Mars Rover's Attention · · Score: 1

    A smarter way would be to create anagrams of Earth names. If you want numbers just start at zero and ++ for each rock you find.

  15. Re:ADS on the link and Official NASA Press Release on Martian Meteorite Gets NASA Mars Rover's Attention · · Score: 1

    I don't see the advertisements at all.

  16. Re:Bad naming scheme on Martian Meteorite Gets NASA Mars Rover's Attention · · Score: 1

    The rovers have seen so many rocks they must be running out of names.

  17. Re:Why? on Martian Meteorite Gets NASA Mars Rover's Attention · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A rock which has been somewhere else can tell you about conditions at its source, and along the path it took to its present location. It makes sense to investigate rocks like this now because Opportunity may not live much longer. Best to take the opportunities (yeah) as they come.

  18. Re:Great... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Ummmm on FCC Set To Finalize Rules For Next-Gen Wireless · · Score: 1

    Cellphones currently have 600 megahertz of space.

    I do not think that means what you think it means... [/Inigo Montoya]

    (600 megahertz is a frequency, not a bandwidth. Cell phones operate at many different frequencies.)

    If I used bandwidth between 1000Mhz and 1600Mhz would that not be called 600Mhz of bandwidth?

  20. Re:Remember, folks: on Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy · · Score: 1

    Well okay but at high school we had Apple ][s which had games written in BASIC. A lot of us patched the games for our own purposes and wrote our own games from scratch. Development tools are, of course, banned from the app store.

    Now I suppose somebody could port a development environment to the ipad and install locally but you are limited in the number of ipads you can do that to, and not being able to use the app store would probably make the idea unworkable.

  21. Re:Remember, folks: on Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy · · Score: 1

    The big difference between the US and other countries is the strict enforcement of GSM as a standard. Competition is limited in the USA because carriers have developed their own versions of standards, which limit portability.

  22. Re:WHAT UNIVERSITY?!?!?!?! on Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy · · Score: 1

    But what if the e-books still cost you 1200 AUD per year, and they are locked to your device, while your device is locked to you and you can't sell it? Sounds great for the publishers.

  23. Re:Remember, folks: on Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meanwhile school administrators and your wife's employer are delighted at the restrictiveness of the device.

  24. Re:I can't wait on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 1

    Australians don't get knighthoods any more. Instead we have our own system of honours. Now if only we could get rid of the monarchy entirely...

    You're still eligible for them if you wanted them though, as for the Monarchy issue; I've never understood why you guys don't just directly elect the Governor General and side step the problem so both sides can claim victory.

    The problem with having a revolution is that the people in charge of the revolution inevitably wind up in charge. If that person is a notable dickhead then his cause is going to suffer and the public will decide to stay with the devil they know.

  25. Re:Public money is public! on Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy · · Score: 1

    "Looks like it's not just Apple fanboys that are going wild for the iPad: in Australia, virtually every state education department"

    Well, maybe those departments are indeed filled with Apple fanboys, specially when the money doesn't come from their pockets.

    Apple were quite popular with the secondary school system here in Victoria, Australia when I was a student. We had Apple ][s and a bunch of Apple ][ clones. They were great, hackable machines. Not sure I can say the same of the iPad though.