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  1. Re:Who? What? on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 1

    Yea, the userdir really makes you feel warm and safe about the URL.

  2. Re:Perfect american corporate business practice on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 1

    Because you can hold a single company accountable, something that is very difficult to do to thousands upon thousands of individuals? (just ask the MPAA/RIAA and friends how 'easy' it is)

  3. Re:Umm.... on Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Erm, that argument doesn't fly here... because the -control- over the domain was seized away. It's not like it was just copied, like the whole "pirating != theft" argument has at it's heart.

  4. Re:notify visa on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 4, Informative

    should be -> are :)

    (spoken as someone in the industry)

  5. Re:PCI on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The difference is that Ford doesn't head up a cabal of auto makers that hand out outragious fines to those who handle said cars insecurely.

    Here, since you obviously don't realize what PCI means in this context.

  6. Re:Real elements - or theoretical? on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 2

    No, gold is not one of the decay products of uranium. Lead, however, most certainly is. read.

  7. Re:Priorities on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 1

    Yea, doing a wonderful job of it so far... just like we're taking care of these budget problems quickly over here!

  8. Re:It Can Tell by the Pixels on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 1

    I like your idea :D

  9. Re:Red Light Runner Prediction on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    Yea, either that or the THREE times I've been pulled over in the 7 years that I've been driving were:
    1. Local police: (Clearwater, FL) Because I was actually going almost 30mph over the limit during rush hour (I was a new and stupid driver)
    2. Highway Patrol: (FL) Because I had a headlight out on the highway, in foggy conditions, in the middle of nowhere ("hey, did you know..." / warning)
    3. Local police (Norcross, GA) Because my out of state registration was very close to expiring, and he wanted to remind me of how it works in this state (no tickets etc, just a friendly "hey did you know...")

    So, I think I'm qualified to say that "not driving like an idiot" is a very large part of not getting pulled over.

  10. Re:Next mod... on Terahertz Wireless Chip Will Bring 30Gbps Networks · · Score: 1

    This isn't a beam though. From my impression it's low gain.

  11. Re:MIPS/horsepower? on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    This is not x86. There's the hardware switch - then there is the routing CPU that has to handle all traffic going between LAN, WAN, and Wireless (if applicable). The only stuff that's I/O bound is LAN->LAN (over the switch) assuming it's simple traffic that doesn't go out the gateway (which is the routing CPU).

    To complicate matters, the wireless is usually software defined - meaning CPU is dedicated to the radio signal generation/modulation (or at least directing the chip(s) doing so) - think winmodem, but less retarded.

  12. Re:It Can Tell by the Pixels on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 2

    "photo shop" is not "Photoshop" - one is a place where you work on photographs, the other is a product by Adobe.

    Can't comment on xerography. Never heard of that term. Now, you can do photocopying, which is the correct non-buzzwordy term.

    And yes, this IS trivial nitpicking. Which is why I replied to someone similarly nitpicking. It's a form of satire, if you will. It's a big pyramid of nitpicking all started by the AC nitpicking about 'shoop' and 'shop'...

  13. Re:Red Light Runner Prediction on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    Well, if you got pulled over and are being subjected to all this, you did something wrong. Well, something to attract their suspicion that you're intoxicated at least... so you could try not driving like you are.

  14. Re:Just a matter of time... on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    Well, I get all that. The whole idea was in jest. Suppose I could have made that more obvious.

  15. Re:MIPS/horsepower? on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    Um, all of the routing? You know, the stuff that a router does?

  16. Re:Just a matter of time... on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 2

    Well, yea. It would be messy and annoying the first few times it happened... but I strongly suspect it would stop happening...

  17. Re:Just a matter of time... on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    Good call, yea. I think most people over here wouldn't know the term either.

  18. Re:It Can Tell by the Pixels on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nowhere did I make any of those mistakes, except for the extra 'n' in Canon. I will give you that one.

    For the other two? Kiss my fucking ass, AC.

  19. Re:Wrong on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    Yea, and for most of humanity people routinely died before they hit 30. Clearly, that's the better option...

  20. Re:It Can Tell by the Pixels on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole term is dumb. You don't photoshop something in GIMP, for instance... just like you don't xerox on a Cannon.

  21. Re:Now what ? on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 2

    Hehe, oh yes we do...

    Though, they do take too long to actually deploy. Work on that... and I think we have an answer...

  22. Re:Red Light Runner Prediction on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    Most, if not all, places give you the right to refuse the field test in favor of a blood test.

    More inconvenient, yes... but I think I like the accuracy of the blood test far more than that of the aforementioned "sobriety" test.

  23. Re:Welcome to the Future Crime unit on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    Hell of a turnaround. Detection to verdict in 1.5 seconds!

  24. Re:Just a matter of time... on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 2

    I think deploying a bollard in the path of the potential light runner will get the message across.... CRUNCH!

  25. Re:Microgravity, not Space on Fire Burns Differently In Space · · Score: 1

    Which, if you read the fucking summary, is exactly what is being asked.