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  1. The code that really matters on The Case For a Government Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    Will there be a bug bounty program for our codes of law, or do I still have to be in a corporation and pay them for my fixes?

  2. Re:Bollocks! on Badgers Block British Broadband Buildout · · Score: 1

    British badgers: beautifully badass.

    I'm game kid and I approve this story.

  3. Re:One suggestion on UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    The manufacturers probably already make them do this, though perhaps less to reduce future harm and more to keep secrets.

  4. Re:The end does not justify the means on Taking Action For Free JavaScript · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stallman wants users to do exactly that, wrt regulations.gov and others, in the case "when the use of the nonfree software aims directly at putting an end to the use of that very same nonfree software". That's how he developed GNU: until it was more mature (and Linux came along), he used non-free Unix to test.

  5. Re:BIOS on Taking Action For Free JavaScript · · Score: 4, Informative
  6. Re:Without being observed? WTF? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a kinda roundabout way of saying, "You can't [or at least don't need to] give or show them the secret spell, but you better perform it and release the rune for the witches to see, or may they rain hell on you from every applicable plane of existence."

    (Magic analogy, because car analogies are so passé.)

  7. Re:Note the discrepancy on Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures · · Score: 1

    Well, this is the exchange that had Madoff as its chair. Draw your own concs.

  8. Re:Riiight on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    They still compete! --granted, it's now called Trickle Down Competition, where companies race to bring their products, service, and general quality downward fastest, instead of upward...but they still compete! And now you can Join The Conversation(tm) on Google+.

  9. Re:iTunes on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 1

    The truckload of validation errors in iTunes web pages (to continue down the Call Me Maybe path, I checked the page for the album) don't help. The page has all the keywords it would need and is fairly well structured, so any search-placement improvements would have to come from valid HTML and fetid SEO.

    But yeah, Google and friends can treat that problem by calling up Apple and negotiating to link iTunes directly to the crawler, something like how Google and Adobe got all loveydovey and *wham* now Google can read Flash. (I said treat; the cure would be to make the song files downloadable from the page, if for a fee, and be done with the whole RIAA love and general non-webbyness of iTunes and whatnot.)

  10. Re:Troll! In the dungeon! Thought you'd want to kn on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you can raise the child you two make after the dinner. :)

    The real story here is that "Italian Parents Assocation" is a thing.

  11. Smile! on German Railways To Test Anti-Graffiti Drones · · Score: 1
  12. Re:WTF is the administration supposed to do? on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Only problem is that somewhere along the way we elected Toydarians to Congress and our boards-of-directors. Tell one of them to do a true switch to metric, and they'll give you a nice and resounding LOL before mumbling "stupid job-killing regulations" and other such incantations.

  13. Re:THERE IS NO LIMIT on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 1

    The front cover would say "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?" in front of a cute, if anguished, infant.

    Really, though, you can't just run a public server, shove a truck of data through it (77 TB, jeez) and not expect the Nickel & Dime Department to show up. Verizon was being ridiculously generous (compared to the other data-miser ISPs lately, anyway), and this was abuse and against the TOS--i.e., Why We Can't Have Nice Things.

  14. Re:Way to go, Dropbox users on Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting · · Score: 1

    Truth, all of that, of course.

    My favorite part is where everyone here's modding down the wise posts as Trolls. But 'ey, if y'all prefer Facebook 2: +ElectricBoogaloo over federation and XMPP, and ridiculous "abuse" excuses over sensible free software download systems, then I don't have all the time in the world to try to steer the USS Consensus closer to the HMS Sense.

  15. Re:Lss Schwab on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage · · Score: 1

    Out there in Mars, that rover's more likely to find a Charles Schwab center and end up owing a consultant money.

  16. Re:Will they still still need X degree and pass ov on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    No. They'll just demand 50 years of SAP experience.

  17. Re:Can they? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 2

    Plus between trade secrets and accounting wonkery there's simply no way for anyone short of a spy behind a Bloomberg terminal to have an idea what'll happen.

    In brief, this article is SOP for the Lobster.

  18. Re:Magnets on Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country · · Score: 0

    The secret isn't really magic, it's magnet--18 magnets to be exact!

  19. Re:Closed protocol? on Google Drops XMPP Support · · Score: 1

    I am just worried that Google is trying to do more to force us to use their tools, rather than allowing us to use our favourite messaging clients., but with their service.

    ...and just a month after the FSF "commend Google for doing the right thing and respecting the importance of full federation", after they reversed a Jabber invite block they started in March as an "anti-spam" measure. I guess it's now an "anti-privacy" measure, right Google? Or is it an "anti-Facebook" one? Oh, Larry Page...

  20. Re:why are you eating boogers? on Viruses In Mucus Protect From Infection · · Score: 1

    "I'm not addicted to cake rolls! I'm just trying to increase the glycan* sugar level in my mucus!"

    *Not to be confused with the lycan sugar level, which is both different and much scarier.

  21. Re:Never expose any security holes on Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and when those fail:
    3. I need to spend more time with my family.

  22. Re:Wait, what? on Book Review: Locked Down: Information Security For Lawyers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I call that the Fool's PGP.

    (This xkcd comes to mind.)

  23. Re:Let's hold on a sec. I see what's she's doing. on Yahoo Pinkie-Swears It Won't Ruin Tumblr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except Yahoo is working with Facebook now, due to general patent shenanigans...so it's actually even worse because the data will all get merged...with Facebook.

    Don't forget to Like their page for a chance to win a new Chevy and the right to vanish.

  24. Re:Copyright conspiracy theory: on Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware · · Score: 1

    It's like the AAs want to piss off all three self-aware people that were still thinking of supporting their cause and business with a video purchase. I guess when you've bought your very own government lobby-lackeys, you don't need those pesky, annoying "customer" things anymore.

  25. Re:Want to hear about scary malware? on Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware · · Score: 1

    Rakshasa (I couldn't find any code released though)

    Maybe you already have the code just from clicking to that web page. Or maybe not. Given your description of it I should probably not click the page to check for myself. :)