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  1. Someone should cover the judges house on In Brazil, Google Fined For Content of Anonymous Posting · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Someone should anonymously cover the judges house with graffiti, then sue him for defamation

  2. Re:There was an even worse case on State Employee Skips Work On Friday For 17 Years · · Score: 1

    At least she should have had the decency to bring a sleeping bag into work and sleep. Where would the British motor industry been today if we had that kind of Attitu .... oh wait!

  3. Re:And if there's a man in the middle? on Quantum Cryptography Now Fast Enough For Video · · Score: 1

    That's a good question, and not answerable from the article. The method given was as you say an attack on the hardware, by sending strong pulses of light the eavesdropper could force the detectors to register ones (and zeros?). The article does not say whether a similar type of detector is being used and whether it is subject to this attack.

  4. Re:Any grammar Nazis around? on Quantum Cryptography Now Fast Enough For Video · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think that it is acceptable British English, see American and British English differences: Formal and notional agreement

  5. Re:And if there's a man in the middle? on Quantum Cryptography Now Fast Enough For Video · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's absolutely correct. For some purposes it is better that you terminate the video session than have someone listening in undetected

  6. Re:Not for security, but for life-efficiency on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    I've been talking about this for years too. But not for security, just to remember everything. Everything.

    Yes, I'd like that too so when my wife says "you never told me....." I can show her when I did. Second thoughts sometimes its better just to say "sorry love I must have forgotten" and have done with it.

  7. Re:Unacceptable on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    No one is stopping you.

    The question you should be asking yourself is "Why haven't I don't anything about the Chinese Restaurants and Massage parlors?"

    If the US is anything like the UK, in the first case they are mostly family and would all happily deny that anything went wrong. In the second case they are often run by the Russian mob and any action is likely to get you a concrete overcoat.

  8. Re:Close your accounts! on How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try to close your Slashdot account, for example.

    Bastard. now I've got to re-register.

  9. Re:More To It? on How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners? · · Score: 1

    How many services have a "lost your password? enter email address here". If you abandon a domain name you really must make sure that you change the registered email address of any service registered using it. Its easy to forget if you are used to just accessing the site with username and password.

  10. Re:News? on Scientists Say Toads Can Predict Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Shortly yes, they are thought to feel vibrations. It is the 5-days ahead that is the news.

  11. Re:Evil on Lawmakers Ask For FTC Investigation of Google Buzz · · Score: 1

    Why are politicians so evil? It's one thing to say that it could be a privacy issue: look into that. But when they start getting in "sexually charged" terminology its like saying the email name was "RepublicanDick." It's fear mongering and grandstanding, nothing more.

    Or Dick chainlike

  12. a "sexually charged" username on Lawmakers Ask For FTC Investigation of Google Buzz · · Score: 4, Funny

    a "sexually charged" username

    What, like Dick Dynamo?

  13. Re:Play ARMA2 instead on Decrying the Excessive Emulation of Reality In Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    Exactly. The thing to realize is that almost no game these days tries to emulate reality, instead they all emulate what one could call movie-reality or hyper-reality or whatever.

    Hey, I've just designed a new race game that does emulate reality. When you crash a 10lb lump hammer is fired at your chest from the console to emulate hitting the steering column.

  14. Re:diode effect? on US-Australia Tensions Rise Over Net Filter · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "We can censor you but you can not censor us, we can hide info to you but you can not hide info to us." --United States of America

    Exactly. We can block online Casinos and anything elee we don't like, but how dare you block our porn sites.

  15. Re:Asshole on Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google · · Score: 1

    Yea, well it'd have to be better than Boner Gaylord Jr, now wouldn't it?

    Seriously, what's he got to lose?

    His parents were involved in an attempt to attract business from a male-on-male porn magazine.

  16. Re:Yup on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 1

    Some productions are outsourced to small production companies. Also a lot of things are just brought in (think of all the American tv shows)

  17. Re:Quantum Theory on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Funny

    A couple years ago my quantum theory course had 10% of our grade from "Contributing to Wikipedia's coverage of quantum physics and related math topics." http://am473.ca/

    Yes but could you tell me if its still there and how quickly it's going?

  18. Re:Wikipedia on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    That's very true. In fact, Wikipedia has made it very easy for me simply dismiss only those facts I happen to disagree with. In that regard it's a great tool for anyone who wishes to be out of touch with reality.

    Pha amateur. To be really out of touch with reality you should know with absolute certainty and express with fiery conviction that nothing you disagree with is a fact. Conversely everything you express is absolutely and unquestionably true. You might even have a book that says that what you say is true. Of course the book also says that it is itself true, so what more proof could anyone need?

  19. Re:Heading it of at the pass on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the +5 funny/insightful "But how many will be deleted for lack of notability?" is on its way. As hilarious as such remarks are, I think they misrepresent Wikipedia. I've created many articles over the years. Not one has been deleted. A few of the tragically short ones were merged into a larger article that covered the subject as a whole. You want to know my secret? Citing sources. You know, what Wikipedia policy says to do. And for good reason.

    It probably also has to do with your article being notable. I could cite sources to a deer crossing Queensbury High Street (Bradford Telegraph and Argus) but I doubt that it would last long on wikipedia.

  20. SPOILER WARNING on New Ancient Human Identified · · Score: 1

    The New Ancient Human was identified as:




    Cowboy Neal

  21. Re:UK Space Agency Launched on UK Space Agency Launched · · Score: 2, Informative
    When will they ever learn....

    Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow.

  22. Re:Pigs are flying. on UK Space Agency Launched · · Score: 1

    Someone told the government that it could augment all its security cameras with a spy satellite.

  23. Re:Preparing for standoff with Axis of Evil on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's hoping to get Bing into the Iranian and North Korean search engine markets by threatening them with nukes.

    Or free nukes in exchange for search engine monopoly.

  24. Re:Preemptive military strike on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's building a bomb, I tell you! A bomb! Send in the troops right now to stop him.

    Running a pirated copy of windows has suddenly become a lot more dangerous.

  25. Didn't they delay a launch on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Didn't they delay a shuttle launchto avoid a GPS clock rollover? Will they ground all the world's aircraft for the next one?