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  1. Re:Why WOULDN'T you? on Malware Attribution: Should We Identify the Crooks Who Deploy It? · · Score: 1

    Risk/Benefit is not on the site of actor attribution. Easy to get wrong, hard to get right. And we do things like wage DoS attacks against adversary nations of shaky evidence. Or at least good evidence that they haven't made public. That's why.

  2. Re:It won't die on The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good · · Score: 1

    You sure about that? The political calculus tells me this is going to die and soon.

  3. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Fantastic comment. Are you running for President?

  4. Tolkien on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    ...called death the gift of Men and he was right.

  5. Re:Science != Biomedical Research on Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? · · Score: 1

    This is breathtakingly inaccurate. I don't even have the time to find the long long list of published papers that have been shown to be just plain wrong.

  6. Java is better... on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    ...says its maintainer. Story at 11. This is bollox.

  7. Re:Gee another NASA fail on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    I'm with you. The shuttle was a huge waste.

  8. Re:11,000 years ago, not 300 on The Milky Way's Most Recent Supernova That Nobody Saw · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this.

  9. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    Nature will weed out the reward response for sex and female nudity? Sorry, but I think not.

  10. /etc/hosts on Technology and Ever-Falling Attention Spans · · Score: 1

    Sinkholed (www\.)?reddit\.com to loopback IP. No worries since.

  11. Why have all the major English speaking... on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    countries, the major ones anyway, gone completely mad? Well, I guess I shouldn't include Canada, or should I? This is in reaction to something, but I just don't understand what it is. This so-call fiscal conservative + anti-reason + racist + I've got mine so fuck you mind set really needs to go.

  12. Uhhuh on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    ...so I can film them as long as I'm not "interfering". I read that as "as long as they don't notice me".

  13. Re:AWESOME! on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    Yep, Northeast PA at 1500 feet here. I'm not fuckin leaving.

  14. Fascinating on Extreme Exoplanet Volcanism Possibly Detected On 55 Cancri E · · Score: 2

    -Spock But seriously, this stuff is just amazing.

  15. Media on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    I've read the NASA post, it makes sense. It's breathtaking how absolutely wrong many of the second and third hand media reports have been. All they did was confirm the thrust of the EM drive in a vacuum. They then went a step further with a modified EM drive and tried their interferometer experiment, which DID show a signal. It's all pretty amazing, but calling this an accidental warp drive is pretty far off the mark.

  16. Re:You need to research that? on Can Riots Be Predicted By Social Media? · · Score: 1

    Precisely how did Obama's policies contribute to this riot?

  17. This is why Captain Picard... on Yes, You Can Blame Your Pointy-Haired Boss On the Peter Principle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    should never become an Admiral. Also why Kirk sucked at the position.

  18. It's all relative on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I don't think we should count the PC industry out just yet. At some point there is going to be some killer app, the businesses need, that is not just a glorified spreadsheet or word processor. And it won't fit onto a tablet, at least not right away. And no one will want to run it in the cloud, or over thin client whatevers, because of what it is. Also PC gaming will also push the envelope. Consoles have a really draw back. Also I have yet to convince ANYONE that they should just hook up a bluetooth keyboard to a cheap Android notebook and not buy a laptop. I think these companies are all victims of two things: 1) not understanding that you can't be just a software company OR a hardware company, you have to be both, and 2) they sell garbage. Apple gets both of those correct, and they are doing just fine in the PC market.

  19. Re:Cautionary Tale? on Chinese Scientists Claim To Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos · · Score: 2

    Completely agree. I see a lot of problems selective genetics solves in the long term. I don't think we're close to a Gatacca-like future at this point, but even if we are, and I say this as a lefty, who cares? We've solved a lot of problems and probably saved a ton in long-term health care, and increased the average IQ of the population while we were at it.

  20. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Then the disgruntled poor kids get picked on and blow away a bunch of spoiled rich kids. Pretty sure that's what happened at Columbine.

  21. Data with an expiration date on Technology's Legacy: the 'Loser Edit' Awaits Us All · · Score: 1

    I hope I see expiration dates on publicly available data within my lifetime.

  22. llap on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for everything Leonard. I was just thinking about Time magazine's choice for most influential person of the 20th century. They chose Einstein, but I think it was easily tied.

  23. Re:Will the Google Apps SAML SSO work with IMAP on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly. It seems like the authentication system on the IMAP servers could masquerade as an HTTP client for this authentication step. All the IMAP client would be doing is sending the plaintext. All the distributed SAML authentication function does is send back the username in the case of an authenticated account, so would it just be a simple matter of the backend at Google handling the step of receiving the HTTP response and converting that to a successfully authenticate IMAP connection? Seems possible...

  24. Will the Google Apps SAML SSO work with IMAP on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 1

    I realize that the Google Apps SAML based distributed authentication stuff will not work for Gmail POP. I'm just curious if anyone knows if Google plans on making this work with IMAP. That would be a killer feature for Google Apps on the education side of things...

  25. Another Decker who has... on Yahoo Co-Founder Yang Now In Charge · · Score: 1

    ...had the "enterprise" taken away from them by the chief yahoo. (ST:TMP references...what too obscure for you?)