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  1. People will even pay for first post on Most File Sharers Would Pay For Legal Downloads · · Score: 4, Funny

    This one cost me in karma probably.

  2. The engineers are at fault on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: -1, Troll

    These guys act like they know what they are doing when this is really an experimental activity. And it could have been a software bug for all we know. And it could have been a bug in OPEN SOURCE software, written by smelly hippies who are intent on the world switching to smelly power.

  3. It worked for the Moon and it will work again! on James Cameron To Develop 3-D Camera For Mars Rover · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look, if you are going to fake a landing on Mars, who would you want to be making the movie of it for you?

  4. I'd just like to report on Why Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Is Painful and Inefficient · · Score: 5, Funny

    that there is an exploit that allows a user to bump their post up to first.

  5. Re:Sad on New Method Could Hide Malware In PDFs, No Further Exploits Needed · · Score: 1

    You're like in the 1970s in fact. Postscript is even a full language, and it is the predecessor of pdf. I think that a security flaw existed in the old Xfig app for unix in the 80s that had its basis in the fact that it executed postscript.

  6. I used clippy a lot on Office Guardian Angel Worse Than Clippy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It had some good AI actually built into it to understand my questions. I think they actually unified two branches of AI to create it.

  7. Sad on New Method Could Hide Malware In PDFs, No Further Exploits Needed · · Score: 1, Troll

    If only some great pdf/security teacher would take these poor code monkeys who have no future and teach them how to fix this.

  8. My suggestion on Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher · · Score: 1

    The earth should have undergone 1/2 of one orbit.

  9. Don't worry on AMARSi Project Aims To Have Robots Learn Jobs From Co-workers · · Score: 1

    It is vapor-hardware. How many of these announcements do we need to see with no follow-ups until slashdot stops posting them? Make an announcement with the thing is working.

  10. Re:xPad? xPhone? on ACM Awards 2009 Turing Prize To Alto Creator Charles Thacker · · Score: 1

    They were also in the mainframe business. I learned to program on a Xerox Sigma 7.

  11. How about a bone marrow transplant? on AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow · · Score: 1

    Guess that could get infected again anyway?

  12. Background anyone? on Edward Tufte Appointed To Help Track and Explain Stimulus Funds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know about this guys books, but I fail to see why he is going to be helpful.

  13. Yes, but... on New Interactive Black Hole Simulation Published · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is there really anyway to check the correctness of this?

  14. Pfahhhh! on Military's Robotic Pack Mule Gets $32M Boost · · Score: 3, Funny

    A robotic mule? That's ridiculous. Use a real mule. Now a robot donkey, that's different. Could be real hand. Or a bionic burro. An android ass could be the ultimate.

  15. Re:searching for ASCII on Parallel Algorithm Leads To Crypto Breakthrough · · Score: 3, Funny

    Agreed! Also what I do, is before I encode is to switch 1 to 0 and 0 to 1. That'll really confuse'em!

  16. NASA isn't good at listening on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just trying readying Feynman's experience with them.

  17. Re:Oblig. IP jokes. on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look, if the FBI didn't have a good reason, I'm sure they wouldn't have done that. Let's stop trying to hinder their investigations and let them get their jobs done.

  18. Re:The truth on What DARPA's Been Up To, At Length · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Chill out. The fp was junk.

  19. Re:Uhuh on Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern · · Score: 1

    Like any other branch of scientists, there are people who are 1. not so good, and/or 2. looking to get some publicity. These people may or may not believe their results, but statistics is notorious for being used to justify nonsense. See the book "How to lie with statistics", which has become practically a meme among mathematicians. There's also the famous quote "Lies, damned lies, and statistics"; see

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

  20. Re:Uhuh on Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern · · Score: 1

    And a lot of things are Gaussian. And a lot of things are Tracy-Widom....etc. Guess what? They all drop off to zero! Amazing. I wonder if there is a reason for that.

  21. Re:Uhuh on Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Warning - a lot of things look like they follow a power law. You need a lot of data to be sure.

  22. Re:My say on this on Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? · · Score: 1

    She probably didn't plagerize it. She probably posted anon because she knew she would be modded down. That is what ac is for.

  23. Re:round round, I git around on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey it worked for the death stars. Sort of...

  24. Re:What makes them new species? on 94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences · · Score: 1

    So how did they actually check then that all of these 94 are new? (Forget the fossil...)

  25. Re:Information Overload is your freind. on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Xaxa! Great to see you here man. Your cell # hasn't been working for like a month and I need my fix. Can we arrange a drop off?