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  1. Re:Intelligence not a factor? on Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically · · Score: 1

    This comment is such delicious transpositionbeep.

  2. Re:Stupid thieves on Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is too earnestly true to read as proper sarcasm.

    i need a drink.

  3. Re:MORONS!!! on Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Idle.

    Pull up a kitten and stay awhile!

  4. Re:Unfortunate Reality of Being a Linux User on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 1

    "Laughed out loud."

  5. Re:Unit cannot be resold as received? on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes, "vote with your wallet". It's almost like democracy, except for the part where everyone gets an equal say!

  6. Re:Unit cannot be resold as received? on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 1

    Uh, no disrespect - but do you understand what disk partitions are?

  7. Re:Screw them on European ISPs Ask ITU To Limit Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Jesus once said, "That which you do unto the highest-ping of my brothers, so you do unto me."

  8. Re:TWO WORDS. on European ISPs Ask ITU To Limit Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Those were.

    Boosh.

  9. Re:By corollary on Earth's Own Mars, the Atacama Desert Yields Amazing Extremophile Microbes · · Score: 1

    I have it on good authority that Mars has no bodies of water as delectable as the Atacama Apertif.

  10. Re:s/unknown/unimportant/ on Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career · · Score: 1

    THANK YOU.

    I am sick of people treating this concept as stupid when it's just fucking encapsulation

  11. Re:So much for definitions... on Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career · · Score: 1

    Width and broadness are pretty much synonymous.

  12. Re: Ex-Military on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, if we stick to the last 100 years we pretty much eliminate the major cases of the US military attacking civilians

    This is only if you ignore all of the protegés, intermediaries and silent-partner deals the US military has backed in things like proxy wars.

    The blood of Pinochet's victims, for instance, is ultimately upon American hands. Further examples abound.

  13. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Ok. If I mischaracterized you I'm sorry - it's mainly Rondroids around here who are the most fond of arguing along the lines of "if it's not explicitly specified to be part of the government's job, it's illegal for the government to do it."

    I think most moderates interpret the General Welfare clause as covering exactly this sort of public expenditure.

  14. Re:If they were climate scientists... on CERN: Neutrinos Respect Cosmic Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Ideologues with radio shows are notoriously brutal about seeing their tax dollars being spent in a multi-billion dollar "mistake".

  15. Re:If they were climate scientists... on CERN: Neutrinos Respect Cosmic Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Check the batteries in your sarcasm detector.

  16. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    yeah yeah, ron paul ron paul ron paul.
    constituuuuuuuuuuuutionalism.

  17. Re:it is about compute speed, not hash strength on MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe · · Score: 1

    Does "run SH-xxx N times" actually grow in computational complexity as proportionally to O(N)? I don't happen to know enough about SHA-x to answer this, but I do remember that triple-DES did not actually increase complexity proportional to a tripled key length.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-in-the-middle_attack

  18. Re:Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords on MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe · · Score: 2

    Spoofed source IPs would defeat this method easily.
    It's useless for an actual online brute-force attack, since the attacker clearly wants to receive a reply from his password attempts, but if the aim is just to DoS the authentication server, that's not a problem. You should send the client a token and wait to get it back before you start blowing CPU cycles on determining whether their password hash is legit.

  19. Re:TFA's Scientist's take on Gattaca problem on Sequencing the Unborn · · Score: 2

    no, but the informative-ness of your medical history grows monotonically as you age.

  20. Re:Who modded this informative? on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see, "standard" actually just means "arbitrary metric". Well then, let's just abolish the idiom "by any standard" outright because it seems that no factually true sentence can ever be constructed using it. This definitely adds value to the above discussion on how teachers are paid; keep it up!

    Maybe later we should troll Hardware and help keep all of their discussions about system performance and benchmarks in perspective by reminding them of how many bogomips ENIAC could do.

  21. Who modded this informative? on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Teachers in the richest country in the world are doing way better than southeast Asian subsistence farmers! What the heck are they even complaining about?

    Cute response, but irrelevant. :p

  22. Re:Which algorithms? on MIT Professor Pushes the Envelope of 3D Art and Manufacturing · · Score: 0

    Fuckin' miracles.

  23. Re:Tutoring on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 1

    These people are poor for a reason

    Come the fuck on.

  24. Re:Tutoring on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I came here to say this.

    The problem is not that she's a teacher, the problem is clearly that she is working for the wrong employer.

  25. Re:Busy databases on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    Touche. 'bandwidth' was the wrong word to use.