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  1. Re:*barfs* on Razer Unveils High-End Gaming Tablet · · Score: 2

    You mean, the summary? Agreed.

    adeelarshad82 meant to write "designed specifically for high-end gaming", not "exclusively", given that it wasn't designed to actually exclude non-gaming functions. I can barely even parse "With the help of crowdsourcing endeavor of tapping into Razer's fanbase", which seems to express the same concept twice redundantly without a preposition, and God only knows where the hyphen in "0.8-inches thick" came from or what it was meant to express. Absent these other issues, it would perhaps be forgivable that he saw fit to specify "Windows 8 with Intel architecture" even though he's already told us what CPU options we have (which are both Intel architecture) but it's a mediocre conclusion to that trainwreck of a summary.

    2/10, would not read again.

  2. Re:Not as clever as it sounds on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    If you know what the stack frame of the software you're targeting looks like, you don't even have to try every n-bit string in the whole memory dump, you can just go straight to whatever memory offset the key's always stored at. It's not like TrueCrypt just puts the key at a random spot in the middle of some other program's RAM page.

  3. Re:Awesome post on Why Google Hired Ray Kurzweil · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many of the "language processing" problems the OP describes are actually "cognition" problems. If Google is serious about algorithmically translating from "academic jargon to local slang", then they're looking at writing an AI which can in some sense understand what is being said.

    I guess it's a good thing Kurzweil's on board.

  4. Re:Not as clever as it sounds on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    I was expecting anything which is properly referred to as a "crack" which is what TFS called it.

    A known-key attack is not a "crack", it's just a "decrypt."

  5. Re:Absolution on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 1

    I think this absolution would be symbolic and not-actually-doing-anything enough, given that the person in question is dead.

  6. Re:Godwining it here on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 1

    If pardons were issued for the Holocaust, it would not be issued on behalf of any individual German nor of the "current generation of Germans", it would be issued on behalf of the German government or the state itself, which is an institution that outlives individual people. Why should any individual German imagine that *Germany* apologizing incriminates them?

  7. Re:Godwining it here on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 2

    Or if they "pardoned" or "absolved" him/her of being a Jew, as in "you're not guilty of that crime after all". That's also a bit off.

  8. Re:Good move. on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 2

    There's no better home broadband router these days than pfSense on a Soekris.

  9. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 0

    So wait, are you suggesting that we fire enough bullets at the assailant that the transferred momentum would... accelerate him out of the room?

    That's a bizarre self-defense strategy.

    Relevant: http://what-if.xkcd.com/21/

  10. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    It does not take a genius to see that madmen are incentivized to rampage where they can expect no return fire.

    Or perhaps the people most likely to go postal are disproportionately likely to be at or near schools, and have a lot of their hopes and fears invested in the things which go on at schools? This guy's mom worked there.

    How many of these school shooters were had no personal connection to the school in question, and so could have been just as well expected to shoot up a mall or a movie theatre if not for the "gun free zone" thing? Any of them? I think your impromptu psychoanalysis has a few gaps in it.

  11. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but if they were armed, do you think as many would have died in this incident?

    The shooter apparently had body armor, so likely yes.

  12. Re:My Ad hominem. on Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    Whoosh

  13. Re:DRM on Linux 3.7 Released · · Score: 1

    > It's not complicated

    I cannot find a single person with actual qualifications in the field of economics who agrees with this assessment. The only people who insist that it's all simple enough for laypeople to address in 1 paragraph, are laypeople. Dunning-Kruger is everywhere when federal budgets are discussed.

  14. Re:Some of these IE bugs are things of beauty. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 2

    What about systems with onscreen keyboards, such as those with touchscreens or accessibility features? If your keyboard is onscreen, then cursor location polling is basically the same as keylogging.

  15. Re:DRM on Linux 3.7 Released · · Score: 1

    the same people who think that the way to get out of a fiscal cliff that is caused by massive debt, is to take on more debt

    Almost as dumb as the people who think a complicated economic problem which is being worked on by many very smart people with many postgraduate degrees, can be dismissed with a pithy one-liner and some informal layperson reasoning on Slashdot. Tell me, when global warming comes up, do you involuntarily regurgitate that old "maybe it's caused by the SUN, duh" chestnut too?

    To address your specific objection; the lawmakers don't need to be smart here, it suffices that the people advocating for their own rights in court (e.g. owners of GPL-licensed intellectual property) be smart.

  16. Re:Jobs not evenly distributed geographically on Linux 3.7 Released · · Score: 1

    You mean people *aren't* like virtual machine instances? You can't just kill one here and bring up another in a different availability zone?

  17. Re:First post on Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 · · Score: 0

    INCORRECT.

  18. their just video games on Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 · · Score: 1

    Whose just video games are they?

    Whoever they are, do they also have some unjust video games?

  19. Re:These belong in a museum! on Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're doing God's work, Byuu.

    I mean, that's a cutely hyperbolic and very Internet thing to say, but seriously, kudos. It may otherwise become impossible to find the material which you are preserving for us.

  20. Re:These belong in a museum! on Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 · · Score: 1

    For the same reason that the original Declaration of Independence is in a museum even though you can read its full text just as easily from any of thousands of other sources.

  21. Re:Sagan Nailed it on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 2

    Carl Sagan's shopping list:

    1) universe

  22. Re:Contradictory ... on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    It's pretty much the only possible interpretation of a claim that "You say you are a top contributor at work, get bonuses and could not be happier, yet to do pot because of the stress" is inconsistent. Either stress and happiness can coexist in the same person or they can't.

  23. Re:Contradictory ... on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech

    It's weird. This is the only website in the world where I can go in seconds from discussing advanced topics in physics and mathematics, to having to remind people what a hyperbolic idiom is, in their own first language. Most people who have happy lives nonetheless have stressful routines in their lives, from which it benefits them to "unwind". This is how it works for almost all people who "couldn't be happier" with their lives.

  24. Re:Contradictory ... on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Today I learned that no one who experiences stress of any kind is happy, ever.
    Thank god Slashdot has such good psychology credentials.

  25. Re:What about teh gayz?! on Brain Scans Show the Impact of Neglect On a Child's Brain Size · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, is this Slashdot, or Yahoo! Answers? I think I'm lost.