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  1. Re:"Gamers" on Hackers, Gamers and Tech Workers: The UK Needs You For a New Cyber Army · · Score: 1

    Think of the grinders! Some people are able to play the same game for years, almost 24/7. Don't confuse casual gamers with the devoted.

  2. Re:Just another example... on DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records · · Score: 3, Funny

    C) And their last letter isn't 'A'.

  3. Re:Poor NASA on NASA Rover Fails to Turn Up Methane On Mars · · Score: 1
  4. Re:We should make this app illegal on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 0

    And let school kids to bear arms, so they can fight back this threat!

  5. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    You vastly misunderstood me. Copying the binary to another system is to defeat the on-the-fly rootkit that would alter the data on read.
    Nowhere near i suggested that you recompile the code.
    You check the BINARY on two different architectures.

  6. Re:missing the point on How IP Law Helps FOSS Communities · · Score: 2

    In Open Source, there is no clear boundary between developers and users. This is actually a benefit of open source, any user could be a developer.

  7. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Compile login with the suspicious compiler and inspect its assembly code. - you may or may not notice something
    Check the size of the binary.
    Copy it to another system, preferably with a different CPU.
    Check the size of the binary again.

    There is no way they have on the fly cross compiling root kit :D

  8. why not in the USA or Russia on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 1

    It is weird i don't see any USA or Russian trains, they both got a vast country and a knack of looking for grandour.
    How come that much smaller countries like Taiwan got faster trains, heh.

  9. Re:Coverity fails to detect errors in python on Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density · · Score: 2

    This causes false positives, so if they are really not bugs, then Python's code is even more awesome :D

  10. Truth harms. Even simple truth.

  11. Re:It is a cover up on Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker · · Score: 1

    Storks only intercept frogs. We need an eagle to catch twitters.

  12. Re:In soviet Egypt on Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker · · Score: 2

    Actually, they caught some stork from Hungary too. It had a GPS to track its migratory path. Hopefully, the bird is still ok.

  13. Re: Sounds good to me on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who gave that magnet to the kid?

  14. Re:Double or quits on UK High Court Gives OK To Investigation of Data Siezed From David Miranda · · Score: 1

    You meant STASI for KGB, and i'm pretty sure it was "legal". Different laws, you know.

  15. Re:Moral thinking, or Black-and-White thinking? on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 1

    Altruism is actually wise selfishness.

  16. Re:Next step on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 2

    So the copyright infringement may still exist, but it is Steele who did that, willfully, with malice. I wonder what that would earn him.

  17. Well, they found the bug after he demonstrated the vulnerability, so this security team sucks.
    They should probably create a test account and let people try and vandalize that.
    Anyway, they should have paid the 500 bucks regardless if the guy is a moron or not.
    He pointed out a real vulnerability. This actions increased the worth of Facebook (well, it would have been increased more if the sec team is not a bunch of jerks).

  18. Re:349GB? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    No, that guy has a keylogger in my system.

  19. Re:Not found !! on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    And you can find it, easily.

  20. paper is still less dangerous on Most Veterans Administration Data Breaches From Paper Documents Not PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When there is an electronic data breach, there are hundreds or thousands or more records. When it is a paper breach, it is probably less than ten records at once.

  21. "a chemical found in an anti-wrinkle cream" on Effects of Parkinson's-Disease Mutation Reversed In Cells · · Score: 1

    What? Is that the first occurence of the chemical? I mean, the scientists just tested several cosmetics to look for a useful chemical? In the past, scientists looked for useful chemicals in plants or even designed them. Now they 'find' useful chemicals in products.

  22. Re:That's so sad. on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    Anything to support your statement?

    Aging is a disease because its detrimental effects are causing you pain, inability to care for yourself and eventually death.
    It is a 100% lethal one, also causing a slew of other illnesses, much like AIDS.
    Symptoms: memory loss, bone loss, immune system deficiency, multiple organ failure.
    If you want to die, why not choose a faster and less painful way?

    If you meant, aging is great, because then dictators won't live forever, think about North Korea, it doesn't seem like they had a problem with transferring the system.

  23. Re:Mining water? on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's probably the most precious commodity in space.

  24. Re:Great! on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 2

    We are not just collecting them, the plan is to mine them. And what's this talk about hundreds or thousands? Even if asteroid mining becomes an industry, i doubt there will be more than 10 at a time. Eventually, they will learn to mine them on spot or use the Moon for it, without towing them to Earth.

  25. Re:Math much? on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    Probably only 4 out of every five users can do that math.