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  1. Just talk on Therapy Over IP Draws the Young, Isolated · · Score: 1

    And get recorded on video and audio, just don't plan on running for office or holding any important positions once you do this kids.

  2. Wanker on Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen · · Score: 1

    A true Jedi never leaves his weapon lying about to be stolen, you shall be slashdotted for this.

  3. sheesh on Labor Activist: Apple May Be Terrible, But All Others Are Worse · · Score: 1

    Hitler may have been bad but Stalin was worse!!!!!

  4. Maybe on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the prevalence of fast food, and advertising makes a difference not to mention education.

  5. The end of the Apple bubble? on The iPhone Is a Nightmare For Carriers · · Score: 1

    Their products are OK but the underlying business practices taint the name, it seems there are worms in the Apple and it isn't so sweet to bite a piece off.
    Slave trade, Over priced, monopolized, but if you're a stock holder and you ave no shame congrats!!!

  6. Wow on U.S. Navy Receives First Industry Built Railgun Prototype · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can you imagine the sound this weapon makes when a projectile exits at 5000 MPH, that alone would terrify the enemy.

  7. Premium Google on Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking · · Score: 1

    They will start charging for some or all of the services (besides search) however I find it hard to believe that more people want to search is social networking, that maybe because I find things like Facebook banal, and Twitter narcissistic, I continue to hope that I'm just cynical, but maybe most people are stupid and stuck on themselves and the triviality of their friends.

  8. Some basic info on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Current.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_25

    And old but informative:
    http://www.fordyce.org/scanning/scanning_info/encrypt.htm

    From what I gather cell phone jammers seriously screw with this mode of communication, I think it's a bad idea all around to encrypt radios, not to mention repeater issues and the relatively low number of keys available.

  9. Re:Key management? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2
  10. Big deal on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 1

    All police are going this route and shortly the encryption will be broken or cloned radios will be available, so for thugs in the know it's a non-issue, for the news they will have to foster better connections with the people in the department, for the stupid, well you deserve what you get.

  11. Wrong on Australian Scientists Discover 'Oldest Living Thing On Earth' · · Score: 2

    First lets get this out of the way "Obligatory Dick Clark comment"

    These plants haven't been cloning perfectly for 200,000 years, there is drift and errors in cloning too.

  12. rut roh on Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs · · Score: 0

    Iranian drones that look for English letters, not farsi, English letters.

  13. No surprise on Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol · · Score: 1

    Narcissism is a powerful force, as is "sense of belonging" 2 things FB feeds quite well regardless of the reality.

  14. Laugh on Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months In Prison · · Score: 1

    Would've been cheaper to hire him.

  15. Re:Just goes to show you on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Just goes to show you on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1

    Wow how wrong you are, you simply say to the corporation "I'm a security consultant want to watch me get through your security?" they say "yes", you say "pay me" and then show then how insecure their network truly is.

    It's not as though there are any shortages of hacking stories out there, take the STARTFOR hack recently, 200 gigs of data moved off the network and no one noticed? Unencrypted credit card data? Those seem like newb mistakes to me so they obviously could have benefited from a security audit by someone that is knowledgeable in hacking.

  17. Unless on Simulators Take the Humans Out of Hiring · · Score: 2

    Your name is Ender Wiggin.

  18. Just goes to show you on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only people in IT that know what they are doing are the "hackers".

  19. hmmm on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    I would wager 5 quatloos that there are more "coding newbs" on IOS than Android therefore more poorly written apps on IOS.

  20. laugh on Apple Overturns Motorola's German iPad and iPhone Sales Bans · · Score: 1

    How do you like them apples..

  21. So here's the thing on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    How did they know? Were they already monitoring him? Did someone turn him out for the msg, or is there some flag that pops up for certain phrases?
    I'm going with he has a name that gets him put on a list which then gets his messages and phone calls monitored.

    I wonder if I'm on a list...

  22. Wow on Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From Wikipedia:
    "Steve Appleton participated in a number of sports, including professional tennis. His hobbies included scuba diving, surfing, wakeboarding, motorcycling and more recently, off-road car racing. His aviation background included multiple ratings and professional performances at air shows in both propeller- and jet-powered aircraft. He also had a black belt in Taekwondo.

    On the 43rd edition of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 on 2010 Appleton finished 1st on a SCORE Class 1 buggy and 7th overall with a time of 20:32.18.[6]"

    I feel like such a bum compared to this guy, actually I am a bum compared to this guy.

  23. Telling on RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act · · Score: 1

    You can see just how much BS they are trying to get passed through when they have to take the other side of the argument,
    "RIAA also says it's 'virtually impossible' to prove that a site infringed willfully, as OPEN requires."
    well that concept didn't stop them from taking down Megaupload, but when it's in their best interest then they argue that point.

  24. Re:I'd feel bad but... on Ongoing Attacks Target Defense, Aerospace Industries · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly how it should be done.
    Why should it be convenient for anyone? I wager 5 quatloos that convenience means little to nothing compared to information security.

  25. Science isn't failing us on Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us · · Score: 2

    Greed, substandard methodology and the rush to market is failing us, that's what I get from the article.

    Is /. becoming the geek equivalent of Drudge report? Inflammatory, hyperbolic links to articles that are not?