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  1. Are they embossed? on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    The majority of counterfeit bills aren't embossed. It's one of the easiest tips offs. Ink lays on top of genuine bills making them easy to feel the difference.

  2. Re:Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    "How many non-technical people do you know that provide corporal punishment to their computers when they fail to work quickly enough, we know it has no effect but they believe that such actions are useful."

    I do find that at least a daily use of a "three finger salute" is mandatory for most windows users.

  3. An international embarrassment on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Granted, Kentucky is not representative of the whole US, but a perfect example of how we repetitively embarrass ourselves internationally.
      Most of the world is multilingual. Learning another language provides skills unrelated to coding. In addition to the obvious benefit of communication, it provides the student with a wider vocabulary and the ability to basically know the meaning of many, many new words they may hear while studying, without the use of a dictionary.
      How many Europeans know only one language? How many Indians or Chineese? Virtually none that have education.

    We've carried the big stick for too long, if you can't see that you need to have the ability to play internationally, you'll be stuck with a Kentucky education and sadly ignorant .

  4. Not Stolen on Hackers Steal Law Enforcement Documents From Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they were stolen the owner wouldn't have possession or use of said items.

  5. Why not researching a wireless solution? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are there no wimax solutions available? Wouldn't a hspa+ / LTe / 4g solution be much more cost efficient?

  6. Re:hmm.... on It's Official: Registrars Cannot Hold Domains Hostage Without a Court Order · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should he registrar be responsible for content? Is the phone company responsable for publishing phone numbers of unscrupulous businesses? The responsibility for mal-content is that of the host, not the directory.

  7. Re:Google Abuse on Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings · · Score: 1

    "whatI need is usually within the top 3 results. Granted my searches are usually for a specific error code"

    I agree. The problem with many, many result pages are the users queries. Properly formed queries provide useful results.

  8. It's harder than... on ABC Kills Next-Day Streaming For Non-Subscribers · · Score: 2

    Clicking an addon on XBMC, joining a public swarm 15 minutes after airtime or googling it to find which file locker to stream or download it? How stupid for them to cut another revenue stream.

  9. Atlantic Heritage Trust Image Collection on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.nzaht.org/AHT/antarctic-photos/
    for a complete collection of the images.

  10. And great quotes... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 0, Troll

    " I've never written letters to people"

  11. CCTV Link on Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies · · Score: 5, Informative
  12. Let us not forget... on 2013: an Ominous Year For Warnings and Predictions · · Score: 1

    The sky ius falling! H. Penny

  13. When did 91 out of 5000 become 91% on Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe · · Score: 1

    Please explain.

  14. Telecommuting does have advantages. on Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? · · Score: 2

    Limiting your exposure to others is one of them. Do you think there are more benefits than liabilities being in close proximity to peers?

  15. Outlawed? on How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam · · Score: 0

    Like chemical weapons, warrantless searches and seizures, the right to speedy trial, and countless other laws our government has decided to violate.

  16. Re:Not a surprise, but still... on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    Easy for JFK to say having full and complete control of the media.

  17. Mistitled link. on How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History · · Score: 1

    The link is mistitled. The result is an article about the video. For those if us that want the meat now: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdE-vOscpiNc should get you there.

  18. We all might be already..Azimov on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    (Howard, Rajesh, and Shel

    t in a circle around a game of Jenga they are playing.)

    Howard: Sheldon, if you were a robot and I knew and you didn't ... would you want me to tell you?

    Sheldon: That depends. When I learn that I'm a robot ... will I be able to handle it?

    Howard: Maybe, although the history of science-fiction is not on your side.

    Sheldon: Uh, let me ask you this. When I learn that I'm a robot, would I be bound by Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?

    Rajesh: (eyeing Sheldon suspiciously) You might be bound by them right now.

    Howard: That's true. Have you ever harmed a human being or through inaction allowed a human being to come to harm?

    Sheldon: Of course not.

    Howard: Have you ever harmed yourself or allowed yourself to be harmed except in cases where a human being would have been endangered?

    Sheldon: Well, no.

    Howard: (to Rajesh) I smell robot.

    (Leonard enters the apartment.)

    Leonard: (glum) Hey, what's going on?

    Sheldon: The internet's been down for half an hour.

    Rajesh: Also, Sheldon may be a robot

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKkEI7q5tug

  19. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    The only BIOS virus I've ever seen was CIH which knocked out quite a few dead end users BIOS'. You either reflashed the EPROM or they bought another motherboard. That's the first time I've ever seen real damage to firmware from a virus or Trojan. Has there been others?

  20. Probably directly proportional on A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? · · Score: 2

    To the amount of people now viewing broadcast TV. I woulkdfnt even consider viewing commercial TV realtime.

  21. That quote will be remembered just like.. on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    640k is enough memory... Gates

  22. Re:Fuck them both on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    If memory serves me correct, I think my x.com account got bought or migrated to a Paypal account.

  23. In order to provide support... on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You must have a spine.

  24. Re:So can we stop it? on Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed · · Score: 1

    There's a joke here using the words "Fault Tolerant"... just slips me.

  25. Re:NOT NEWS! on How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? · · Score: 1

    Yes,
      You are forgetting that one of them (hint the German one), generally gets it right.