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  1. Re:I'm on a Mac on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Too bad it doesn't have a decent text editor

    (Thought I'd skip a few posts ahead)

  2. Re:!News on Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills · · Score: 1

    Better link (NSFW, contains math)

  3. Re:Bunch of ingrates on Quebec Says 'Non' To English-Only Video Games · · Score: 1

    So you admit it's your fault they're stuck with French?

  4. Re:Missing Achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    * Complained about missing achievements
    * Voted over three times on the same poll
    * Has unlocked all achievements (including this one)
    * Waisted modpoints by posting after moderating

  5. Re:It was nice while it lasted on Last.fm To Start Charging International Users · · Score: 1

    I will NEVER pay for an internet service.

    Nice, could I have the name of this free ISP please?
    Or are you just assuming your neighbour will never figure out how to secure his wireless router?

  6. Re:NASA won on Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All right, but apart from the Pretty Pictures, Light-Emitting Diodes, Infrared Ear Thermometers, DeBakey's Ventricular Assist Device, Artificial Limbs, Aircraft Anti-Icing Systems, Highway Safety Grooving, Improved Radial Tires, Chemical Detection, Video Enhancing and Analysis Systems, Land Mine Removal, Fire-Resistant Reinforcement, Firefighting Equipment, Temper Foam, Enriched Baby Food, Portable Cordless Vacuums, Freeze Drying Technology, Water Purification, Solar Energy, Pollution Remediation, Better Virtual Software, Structural Analysis, Internet-Connected Ovens, Powdered Lubricants, Improved Mine Safety and Food Safety Systems, what have we ever gotten from NASA?

  7. Re:All your base are belong to us on Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle · · Score: 1

    So I guess we'll call it the Zig particle?

  8. Re:Does Ubuntu run on ARM? on OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2 · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall seeing something awhile ago that Ubuntu is being ported to the ARM architecture .

    There you go

  9. Re:privacy on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple: you implement RFC 3514 on the passports.

  10. Re:You don't say. on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 2, Funny

    As long as you didn't the card's microchip you can just the card's microchip, that should the card's microchip. Just don't accidentally the card's microchip.

  11. Re:One. More. Time. on Best Approach To Keeping a Virtual World Protocol Free to All? · · Score: 1

    I think the general idea is that lawyers cost quite a lot of money per hour, while /. is completely free.
    So if someone here posts you need to know x, you can look up what x is in your case. This might save you from paying a lawyer to tell you to look up x before coming to see him again.
    Of course you should always end up seeing a lawyer eventually

  12. Re:Original Sources on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am surprised that they didn't go with _7_ versions. They could have then called them Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. Exercise to the reader to match them up with Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate, and Fully Cracked editions.

    There, fixed that for you.

  13. Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 1

    They didn't demand that they teach the strengths and weaknesses of Newton's theory of gravity,(...) or Dalton's atomic theory of matter

    You mean stuff like relativity, isotopes and nuclear reactions?

  14. Re:The mass still has to come from somewhere on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    Actually it will terminate just fine, you could even leave out the x>0.

  15. Re:FCC? on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 1
    It isn't caused by interference, but by AT&T putting 2G on a different frequency, FTFA:

    While previously the company had been primarily relying on the 850 MHz band that offers a more robust signal, including superior indoor reception, company technicians confirmed to OFB that transmitters for the 2G signal used by the original iPhone and most other handsets, including most AT&T offered BlackBerry and RAZR models, have been shifted to the weaker 1900 MHz band in some areas.

  16. Re:Its a cheddar thing on Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion · · Score: 1

    I still remember 'walkman' as being an example of 'how not to learn from your mistakes' (i.e. 'diskman').

  17. Counting has nothing to do with it. on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    how did they "underestimate" anything?

    FTFS:

    A month on from the story that BD+ had been completely broken, it appears a new generation of BD+ programs has re-secured the system.

  18. Re:makes sense on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Guess you're right, I'm 25 and I understand it just fine.

  19. Re:Is it for real this time? on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    Caveats are legion. If enough time passes, the extraordinarily protean HIV might evolve to overcome the mutant cells' invulnerability. Blocking CCR5 might have side effects: A study suggests that people with the mutation are more likely to die from West Nile virus. Most worrisome: The transplant treatment itself, given only to late-stage cancer patients, kills up to 30% of patients. While scientists are drawing up research protocols to try this approach on other leukemia and lymphoma patients, they know it will never be widely used to treat AIDS because of the mortality risk.

    So for now it's only for people who already need a bone-marrow transplant anyway, and then are lucky enough to find a immune donor.

    About 1% of Europeans, and even more in northern Europe, inherit the CCR5 mutation from both parents. People of African, Asian and South American descent almost never carry it.

  20. Re:Most important feature on User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong: the most important feature is the ability to display Tetris blocks.

    We actually have those HP scopes at my University, I can't imagine how much time wouldn't have been wasted without this feature.

  21. Re:Lego Art Robot - In Lego on Computer-Aided Lego Art Project · · Score: 1

    If a program could run a Mindstorms arm that is totally rudimentary, put together in under 15 minutes by a human, then upgrade itself into the arm required to assemble more copies of itself, and then take over the world, well that would be the coolest.

    There, fixed that for you.

  22. Re:Journalists that hack? on Reporters At Black Hat Get Bounced For Hacking · · Score: 0

    Actually, hacking journalists is only number six on my list, right behind the one with the big shoe chasing me.

  23. Re:When in Rome... on Reporters At Black Hat Get Bounced For Hacking · · Score: 1
    They were also told

    The separate, wired Internet connections set up for reporters are supposed to be off-limits to hacking and the Wall of Sheep

    So while the reporters who got their logins compromised should learn to secure their connections better (just as well at the local pumpkin throwing contest as at a black hat conference), that reporter should've known he'd get into trouble for (getting caught) breaking the rules.

  24. Re:UAV missions more demanding that you might expe on USAF Enlists Shrinks To Help Drone Pilots Cope · · Score: 1

    Even better:
    Just send some six year old kids to 'Command School', tell them it's only a simulation and have them kill the buggers.
    (Just make sure they don't actually nuke Iraq during their final exam, that would interfere with oil production)

  25. Re:See if you're vulnerable on Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Seems my ISP's DNS violates RFC 1149.5: It always uses port 5353 instead of port 4.