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  1. Not the outcome I was hoping for... on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    And I was really waiting for Geico's caveman campaign to end. This just gives them even more reason to play their lame jokes.

  2. Re:Flamewar! on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    Nano, my friends. Nano. When wouldn't you want your photo editor to default wrap all images to the next line?

  3. Re:America's really getting stupid on Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon we'll suddenly find ourselves in court for admiring artifacts and art or stepping onto the premises of a museum or other site.

  4. Yummy. on First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Enchiladas flyby. A dream come true. Oh wait...

  5. Re:Oxygene on ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew · · Score: 1

    oxy-gene is a portion of DNA bonded with oxygen to make it easier to splice off genes. Sort of like tokenizing DNA. Really easy to import into an Oxygene program like a CSV file.

  6. Deja Vu on Hacking Ring Nabbed By US Authorities · · Score: 1

    I feel like I read this somewhere before. Oh, that's right, on Tuesday. I think it was plainly obvious that the 11 charged were in a hacking ring whether the verbage was included previously or not. Why don't we start tagging these as repeat news?

  7. Taking 'security by obscurity' to new heights on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    Clearly leaving sensitive information on an unencrypted laptop with only two passwords will deter hackers from paying mind to it. In fact, they'll think they stole the wrong laptop and return it to the same place they took it once they realize there's no encrypted data.

  8. Re:Seconded. on Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really don't support anyone that says paying through the roof for a trusted certificate is better than a self-signed certificate. With exception of business validation (which often comes as a joke) trusted certs are really no better than saying this person paid money for a brand name. It's like A&F jeans versus Walmart jeans.

    The problem with FF3 is that it denies you access to websites with self-signed certificates until you explicitly install the certificate (as an "exception"). Odds are you're only visiting such a site once in your life, so installing the cert is by far a larger security risk than allowing the user to temporarily accept. This is up there with Vista's annoying security policy.

    I can see more businesses paying for certificates from Verisign and the like, but it's a punch in the face of net neutrality when you see how this is hurting small business owners. They end up charging more to their customers and the customers leave for a cheaper big-box solution which kills little guy and eventually the local economy.

    This also makes rush/trial/beta setups very annoying where the client has not shelled out their cash for a trusted cert. They want their website out there immediately but they've only paid for part of the package. If you give them a temporary self-signed cert, it gets put on the FF3 exceptions list and then it sits wasted on the machine once the trusted cert comes around. And you also have to waste time explaining to them how to install the cert.

    You probably won't, but I'd support a net-wide protest against trusted certs and see what Mozilla does about their stupid policy after everyone spends half an hour of their day configuring exceptions in their browser. At least IE lets you temporarily accept, but I hate IE.

  9. Cue the terminatrix on Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1

    Any moment now we should see a hot looking robot run down the tunnel in photo #4 chasing after some guy named John Connor.

    Oh and I can't wait for the future repeated slashdot posts about trial attempt number X has failed leading scientists to spend months/years diagnosing what went wrong. Heres to future epic fails.

  10. Wing Sparring on Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two · · Score: 3, Funny

    At 140 ft, the wing spar is the longest single carbon composite aviation component ever manufactured.

    Wing sparring? At 140ft!? Dude, where do I sign up for this? "If you're gonna fight, take it up 140ft in the air, but there will be no fighting on my property."

  11. Re:If you think your investment hinges on the.. on Medical Health Disclosure vs. Steve Jobs' Privacy · · Score: 1

    Can't you tell? It's all one big corporate conspiracy. Get the guy to wear the black shirt and jeans every time he goes out in public, then get look-alikes to stand in for him and appear healthy or sick depending on what direction you want the stock to turn.

  12. Re:Uh huh ... on Medical Health Disclosure vs. Steve Jobs' Privacy · · Score: 1

    They have no problem spreading our health information all over the goddamn planet.

    Now that would explain all the smutvertising I get. They must have leaked that note about me not being sexually active.

  13. Re:Coward. on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous because he went one better than you. Right, Hans?

    To Hans after killing his wife before going to jail: You're doing it wrong.

  14. Re:Don't Buy Foxconn... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    That basically sums up about half of home-built machines, and the other half were build by gamers or by linux/gamers for a friend who doesn't know how to build one. I'm sure now that some execs at Foxconn are saying, "Well... that can't be good for business."

  15. Next up on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    Hans Reiser escapes from prison and hops in a coffin with his dead Wife. Wait, that doesn't work.

  16. Tonight we are going to try a social experiment on New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of those voluntary pain studies in college. For credit in Psych 101, you could get strapped up to electrodes and let the psych department determine your pain tolerance. How long until some dimwit things it'd be a great idea to make a pain study on the tolerance of varying levels of bullet speed. "Most people can only handle a 1 or 2, but this guy took it all the way to 10, and thanks to our waver form, we're not liable for his dead body."

  17. Re:easy solution on Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors · · Score: 1

    Yes, and if one is too lazy to find and disable that, they can just add guide.opendns.com to their hosts file pointing back to 127.0.0.1.

  18. Re:Wow... on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 1

    I would say about twice daily, like vitamin C tablets. Every blue screen is different and only when doing memory-intensive tasks like playing games or composing music or watching too much youtube.

  19. Re:Wow... on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 1

    Not that I play the game, but on the off chance that I did and that WoW does run fully in memory, I didn't pay for ECC memory for my computer, and my memory regularly makes calculation errors so that must mean I don't have a whole copy in memory regardless.

  20. Re:Makemake and the Easterbunny?? on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    Every time you masturbate Makemake kills an Easter bunny.

  21. Re:Just how is this news for nerds? on Movie Review, Hellboy II · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for a one-off "News for Geeks" website because the nerd has hit the fan around here.

  22. Re:Who cares? on First DNA Molecule Constructed from Mostly Synthetic Components · · Score: 1

    Yes, but these synthetic DNA molecules will "could lead to advances in both medicine and technology, possibly utilizing the massive storage capacity of DNA." I can't really vouch for the massive storage capacity of wooden DNA, granted storage capacity per-molecule would be much greater for wooden DNA. Given an infinite universe, that's pretty impressive.

  23. Re:still using office 2003 and happy on The Microsoft Office Rental Program · · Score: 1

    As good as 2003 and newer happen to be, Office 2000 is still the defacto business standard. I've been using a mix between Office 2000 (OEM version) and OpenOffice. In view of this rental program, I've saved myself the rental cost for 6 years, or $420. Plus there's the update to support OOXML in Office 2000, so no need for 2007+. Perhaps I will now give $70/year to OOo.

  24. I bet... on Dungeons and Desktops · · Score: 1

    ...without RTFR or RTFB, the book doesn't discuss the emergence of the comical RPG/MMO like Dungeon Runners and Kingdom of Loathing. I'm certain both came about with some hint of inspiration from Dead Alewives' D&D sketch and the over-geekification of RPG enthusiasts.

  25. Re:Is this really an issue? on OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is going to become more of a problem when SMS spam starts to rise. I for one pay per message because of the low number I get, but when you start receiving excessive amounts of spam that starts to add up. I'm not going to pay $5/month for spam, and I certainly never send/receive more than 4-8 messages per month, so the cost isn't warranted. I'm just waiting for people to band together and class-action the big four for hiking prices without properly informing customers. The "I would have blocked data if I knew you were going to hike the price this month" argument is quite valid. It's all a scheme to get customers to pay for more expensive services.