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  1. Re:Great! on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Describing his own death was a master stroke.

  2. Re:Actually, in this case... on Luxury Liner SS United States Cannot Be Put Back In Service (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also the above is not helpful at all: 32 knots is about 60 km/h. That's a quite low cruise speed for a car, for example.

    But a lot faster than the average car's cruise speed on water, though.

  3. Partial question wording on Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 2
    If you're interested, here's the beginning of what appears to be the wording of the poll question in English. This is from a PDF on the Ipsos website, which unfortunately truncates the question. No idea how it was rendered in other languages, sorry:

    Q. A part of the Internet known as the "Dark Net" is only accessible via special web browsers that allow you to surf the web anonymously. Journalists, human rights activists, dissidents and whistleblowers can use these services to rally against repression, exercise their fundamental rights to free expression and shed light upon corruption. At the same time, hackers, illegal marketplaces (eg. selling weapons and narcotic ...

  4. Re:Finally have to take her shopping on Phone Hacking Group Is Trading Fake Bomb Threats For Bitcoin (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    But they'll run even faster if they think there's a bomb.

  5. I've been doing this for years on Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 3, Informative
    I routinely skip versions when doing Fedora upgrades. In fact, I just recently upgraded five systems from Fed 21 directly to Fed 23 without any real issues.

    Yeah, occasionally, when there are major changes, like when systemd (peace be upon it) was introduced, this might not work, but I've gotten through quite a few version skips just fine.

  6. Re:Patheticly lame bugs languishing for years on KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Matured Past the Point of Plasma 4 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:First step towards... on Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Four legs good, two legs bad! Er, I mean, better!

  8. Re:13 minutes off, 27 hours per day on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 5, Funny

    do I have to get an ugly $2.00 haircut and gain 20 lbs in the gut ...?

    Admit it, you were probably going to do that anyway, Great Leader or no.

  9. Re:Right on Researcher Exploits 18-Year-Old Design Flaw To Compromise X86 Chips · · Score: 2

    ... but it must have been there before that because of the single core processors before dull core became a thing.

    Why would you even bother to infect dull core processors? It's not like you could do anything interesting with them.

  10. Re:A Death start-up on Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, one of their partner firms is Youshock: http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?..., "The Thorough Way To Shock."

  11. Re:Done in movies... on Allegation: Philly Cops Leaned Suspect Over Balcony To Obtain Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everything in TFS apparently comes from testimony (which may or may not be accurate, and may or may not be accepted as a fact by the court),

    One of the two police officers who dangled him over the balcony confessed to it in court, so as far as mere testimony goes, that's pretty good.

  12. Re:Money on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 1
    Also people like to forget she basically won the California Gubernatorial race...

    They probably forget this because it's not true. Did you confuse her with Meg Whitman? In any case, both of them lost pretty badly, despite pouring mountains of their own money into their races.

  13. Re: Can't wait... on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just $300 million? So, he handled restocking the Pentagon with toilet paper or something?

  14. Re:duck or... on 10 New Rosetta Images Reveal Comet 67P In All Its Glory · · Score: 4, Informative
    That's 10^13 kg, of course.

    So, it's heavier than a duck - in fact, since ducks average only a little over a kilogram, and the worldwide population of ducks is likely only on the order of a billion or so, it's heavier than all the ducks in the world put together.

    On the other hand, its density implies it would float.

    Hmm, I'd recommend burning it, just to be on the safe side. Perhaps the Sun can see to that.

  15. Re: Are emails copyrighted ? on Sony Sends DMCA Notices Against Users Spreading Leaked Emails · · Score: 1

    U.S. law used to require "copyright formalities" of this sort (more or less - the details are a little complicated), up until it "implemented" the Berne Convention in 1989. Even though that was over 25 years ago, memories of this obviously still persist.

  16. Re:Are emails copyrighted ? on Sony Sends DMCA Notices Against Users Spreading Leaked Emails · · Score: 2

    Nonsense. Business emails are often coming up with some nonsensical strategy, or attempting to paper over its failure. They can get very creative.

  17. Re:revolutionary idea? on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, longer movies? Have you sat through any major film lately? Poor Bilbo Baggins already suffered through 8 or 9 hours of Peter Jackson, and you want to send him back for more?

  18. Re:Surely, that's no pun on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 2
    Yuen-Ren Chao was not protesting against pinyin (which didn't yet exist) or any other romanization scheme when he wrote the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den. In fact, he was a key proponent of "National Romanization" (Guoyu Luomazi), one of pinyin's precurors.

    He mostly intended it as a linguistic joke - if you've ever read any of his works, he can be quite amusing - and as a demonstration of how Chinese has changed over the millenia. In ancient Chinese, the poem would be more or less comprehensible (although still a little odd here and there), but in modern Mandarin, so many sounds have converged together, that it just sounds like gibberish.

  19. Re:A probing question on Ask Slashdot: Best Biometric Authentication System? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know if incontinence here was a Freudian slip or not, but it sure was an accurate one.

  20. Re:Oh no on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's actually been serious study of this, and it really is tied to potential for weight gain/loss. Here's one recent summary: Energy-balance studies reveal associations between gut microbes, caloric load, and nutrient absorption in humans.

  21. Re:Random companies entering the news business on Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying · · Score: 1

    The news business nowadays is such a gravy train, who wouldn't want to get in on it?

  22. Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1
    Windows Phone has 6% market share in Germany, the iPhone around 12-15%. Though both have been dropping of late.

    Do you work at Microsoft Deutschland, by any chance?

  23. Re: ECC? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1
    No wonder the last quarter-pounder I had tasted a little odd.

    Odder than usual, I mean.

  24. Re:In a week it'll need to be updated to @toredits on Bot Tweets Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Capitol Hill · · Score: 5, Funny

    If congressmen are using it, doesn't that only strengthen the argument that "TOR is a paedophile/terrorist tool"?

  25. Re:Silly season much on Chinese Couple Sells Children To Support Online Game Addiction · · Score: 1
    The 1 child law is being eased somewhat, but still, with unmarried parents, there would have been very strong pressure to get an abortion. Which is why I'm a bit skeptical about the story myself.

    I watched the Chinese news broadcast, but, while it did feature prison interviews with both supposed parents, didn't really have a lot of details. Of course, there probably wouldn't be too many details given even if the story were true. Still, I found it less than convincing.