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  1. Re:Is it worth the risk? on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Depends on who's network you're on.

  2. Re:Is it worth the risk? on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I had to walk to the bus stop all the time at those temps and colder. Dress for the damn weather.

  3. Re:iPhone anyone? on First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel · · Score: 1

    The Streak 5 makes a perfectly good phone. Makes an awesome on dash gps as well.

  4. Re:Good on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    Heh, unless it hit the bottom first, then you'd get a (little) wave and then you'd have a little tiny bit more ocean front property.

  5. Re:9 Megatons on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    They've still been "smaller" than the world wars, and for the most part fairly contained in one geographic area. Since nukes have been invented no one has had the balls to pull a Pinkey and the Brain.

  6. Re:Fighter-pilot posture... on Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment? · · Score: 1

    Yea, like that happens anymore.

  7. Re:Lighting. on Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base · · Score: 1

    Nothing like laser dazzling the pilot on landing....

  8. Re:what would make them even safer is on US Wants Cybersecurity Protection Plan For Cars · · Score: 1
  9. Re:News on What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? · · Score: 1

    That was an awesome show. Though the only one I can remember is the one with the people living in the tree house and the pee in a bag on a zip line....

  10. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Since the US seems to have so many problems at home, why don't you try this for a generation - recall all your troops, close fucking Guantanamo Bay ( you are in violation of the "agreement" that was forced upon Cuba way back), stop meddling in other countries politics and try to find ways to teach geography to your citizens that don't involve bombings and troop deployments.

    Sounds good. Boot out the UN, stop giving out foreign aid, don't bother trying to control the price of oil. Ignore the North Koreans and hang the South out to dry. Let China kick the shit out of anyone they don't like. Then kick back, crack a beer, and watch the world disintegrate. I'm with ya. Being Canadian, I'll probably get to watch most of the ICBM's go by. Should be a kickass light-show, eh?

    I've been saying this for years, though if the missiles start flying, I'm coming up to visit! You'd think if other countries didn't want us being the world police, they wouldn't allow us to have military bases on their land.

  11. Re:Take off and nuke Marshall, TX from orbit ... on Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World · · Score: 1

    Hey, I've got a better idea. Give Texas back to Mexico. They can have California too.

  12. Re:Take off and nuke Marshall, TX from orbit ... on Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World · · Score: 1

    That's working out well for the guys in Gitmo, who also aren't American citizens, and didn't live in our country.

  13. Re:--- So what can they get from that info ? on 37 States Join Investigation of Google Street View · · Score: 1

    Well if it was an open network, then they also have all the data that was flowing over the air at the time. If the user was logging into a non-ssl'd website, they have that password now, a lot of mail services don't encrypt the user/pass over the wire, so they could potentially have that as well. As most IT professionals know, most of the population uses the same password for almost everything. So now they may have a users name and password, and location/address. Using that information it's not too difficult to figure out other information about the person.

  14. Re:How is collecting unsecured wifi data different on 37 States Join Investigation of Google Street View · · Score: 1

    Well most of them were lawyers, so there's at least one test they need to pass.

  15. Re:Will the mines explore on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1
  16. can't be hacked on Airport Scanners Can Store and Transmit Images · · Score: 1

    "Further, the TSA says, the machines are not networked and cannot be hacked." That's what they said about the voting machines too.

  17. Re:What is so hard about using WPA2? on Using Aluminum Oxide Paint To Secure Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    You are correct. Good password is the key, something like, LoV\8Y2C#!d1hDo4FYGuqM\Yfy?ARoFG6rgE#gIKHd[%.6x$!ABz[oio:1k}*y This password is functionally uncrackable with current technology. It is however a bitch to type into your portable gaming device.

  18. Re:New here? on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is wrong with you people lately? This isn't wikipedia. We don't need anything filtered for truthiness by the retards responsible for that site.

    If I had mod points I'd mod you up for that comment right there.

  19. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Or show her pr0n.

    If she likes the same pr0n you do, most likely she likes chicks as much as you do....

  20. Re:Fair enough on Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    You mean like the average slashdot reader?

  21. Re:Making Ubuntu Accessible? on Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Funny

    If 98% of the people at nothing but McD's, the world would be a much emptier place. Though where would you bury all the over weight corpses?

  22. No need for a ring cutter. on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    My ring is silver, I hate gold, ugly stuff. It's also on a chain around my neck. I've worn my wedding ring about a month total since I've been married. My fingers get beat up too much to wear it, they also swell up at night when I sleep.

  23. Re:Whatever happened to the old fashioned way? on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    I agree with you whole heartedly. Teachers can't even discipline their students any more. I've personally watched middle school students drop the f bomb at their teachers! Why, because they know the teacher pretty much can't do a damn thing about it. Yea, they probably get a three day suspension(vacation), but what does that really teach?

  24. Re:I find the obsession with tech in the class bad on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    The school district I used to work for started doing this at one school. Crapton of apple laptops, one for each student. All of the elementary schools were primarily Mac. Once you hit middle school, they started mixing it up a bit. All the high schools are primarily pc (Dells) with a few Macs thrown in. The theory was they would carry that laptop from the 6th grade to graduation. The reality was Apple dropped the ball, so now the laptops stay with the school. It basically just put a crap load more work on the computer techs. We gained around a thousand new computers, but no more help. The math programs seemed to me, to be helping. The kids really did want to play them, which I though wouldn't happen. Anything to get kids interested in math helps. I sucked at math in school, never made it past algebra. My brain just isn't wired to add a+3. Give me something physically in the real world and I can figure it out though.

  25. Re:How? on In Japan, a 900 Gigabyte Upload Cap, Downloads Uncapped · · Score: 1

    You know, I hate replying to myself, but I'd love to have an internet connection that was actually capable of uploading 900Gigs in a month.