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  1. Re:OMG that is childishly simple on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    On 64 bit, I wonder if allocating (reserving) the VM space, but not allocating memory for it, would do the trick. Harder (impossible?) to do from javascript though.

  2. Re:Sucks to be him on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: 1

    *going to* the casino. The lost money was transported there first is the theory.

  3. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    Too much typing! Write a program to output that instead!

  4. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    'Foot'! You 'foot' a bill!

    No, I don't know why.

  5. Re:Not that unpopular on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 2

    You can replace 'rock' with 'locked cockpit doors and a public awareness that the hijacking rules have changed.'.

    TSA has nothing to do with it, otherwise as somebody says above me the bad people would just shift to other targets. I haven't seen any Al Queda attacks, um, *anywhere* in the states.

  6. Re:Border checkpoints on UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move · · Score: 1

    I got a double major in CS and Pure Math, *never* borrowed a book from the Library.

    Library activity is one of those easy-to-measure-but-meaningless numbers.

  7. Re:Why do I have to BE at a lecture? on UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move · · Score: 1

    Isn't the fix for this then that the Border Agency gets *those* stdents transcripts at the end of each term, and if they are failing out, the BA deports them?

    Who cares if you are in a classroom? I can fail just as easily by sleeping in class as by sleeping in. Deport the students that don't have an adequate transcript, done.

  8. Re:Thank You Captain Obvious on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    Not to defend what was said, but he DID say 'Family of four'. In this case, you are perhaps making his point FOR him, since the total would then be $24,000.

  9. Re:Lucky for them bittorrent is uploading on Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates · · Score: 2

    But since you don't get to set the rules, it doesn't matter if you recognize it or not. You don't have to like reality, but you might want to acknowledge it.

  10. Re:Suck my pirate dick on Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates · · Score: 1

    No, they ruled that *downloading* material is legal. Uploading is still illegal.

  11. Re:Simple way to improve intersection safety on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 2

    Very busy street cross not busy street. If you arrive on the not busy street, there's never a gap in traffic for you to safely enter the round.

  12. Obligatory Dilbert on Sharp Overwhelmed By Volunteers For Early Retirement · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Merging structured text. on How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors? · · Score: 1

    'Version Control' has developers driving it. I think you will find that the expertise of the average developer outweighs that of the average wiki contributor.

  14. Re:So, ... some built in security? on Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Yeah, about that... Most user at home are on DHCP, not a static IP. So, there's no way to be sure that the current user is the one that was 'banned'.

  15. Re:So now we have proof on Geomapping Racism With Twitter · · Score: 1

    It's stereotyping, not racism. Racism is a specific (and particularly pernicious) form of stereotyping, but not all inclusive.

  16. Re:Is this Sufficient? What else could you want? on Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

    If you haven't read it, or even if you haven't read it recently, you really should.

  17. Re:similar issue. Open Plan on They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? · · Score: 2

    Don't we call those areas 'offices'?

  18. Re:Smile! on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    There's actually a reason for that. Let's say that the question is basically 'Are you a terrorist?'. If you are found out or convicted, then the government probably want to deport you, right? Well, now they don't need to create new rules about deporting terrorists. They just use the existing 'You lied on your paperwork' rule to toss you out - no muss, no fuss.

  19. No Dying! on University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
    Woody Allen

  20. Re:Pays to Be Sneaky on Three-Strikes Copyright Law In NZ Halves Infringement · · Score: 2

    If it wasn't cutting into sales, then deterring it is not 'effective' either. Putting a lot of effort into something that makes no difference is just a waste of time, so why bother?

  21. Re:Le sigh. on RMS Responds To NPR File-Sharer's Blog · · Score: 2

    A) You have 10 people. 9 get $1. The tenth gets 1E6-9 dollars. Everyone is better off than before. Minimum gain is $1.
    B) You have 10 people. Everyone get $100,000. Everyone is better off than before. Minimum gain is $100,000, *and can be no larger*.

    Point #1 favour situation B over situation A.

  22. Re:Don't forget teen prostitutes... on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps 'Canadian Bacon'?

  23. Re:As someone said... on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    People care because they don't want the Christians inflicting their stupidity on everyone else.

    That's it, really. If the Christians weren't trying to control (for example) what is taught in the state (and therefore supposedly secular) schools, no-one would care.

    "Sure, fine, go do what you want. Wait, what? You want me to restrict my life, knowledge and freedoms based on something that I explicity think is total rubbish? Um, no thanks."

  24. Re:flagship Canadian submarine on British Government Prepares For Solar Storms · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I am being whooshed, but...

    A Flagship 'X' is simply the best thing in class 'X'. It's a silly construction, but it's just a synonym for 'Premiere'.

    Now, talking about the Flagship Canadian submarine is silly, but that's because all the Canadian submarines outside of the West Edmonton Mall *suck*. We bought them used from the British, and if Canada was not ripped off, then the British are just fortunate to have been able to unload such utter CRAP on Canada for so much money.

  25. Re:Mr. Wall, please sit down... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Again with the stupid! Why do you think the judge has any better access to the 'universal truth' than the jury? These cases of illegal behavior are typically discovered *years* after the fact. The trial judge knows what the prosecutor and the defense laywer put in front of him. If the prosecutor with-holds exculpatory evidence, nobody will know about it during the trial.