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  1. Re:Good on YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google didn't kill anyone - hang the blame where it is deserved -- the religious idealists that actually committed the acts.

  2. Good on YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good for Google... This should not be taken down any more than a video calling Jesus or Flying Spaghetti Monster a fraud should

  3. Re:Firing in US on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 0

    Here you go: "You're fired".

    You can't use that phrase in the US without express permission from Donald Trump. I believe the recommended word is "terminate".

  4. Re:Retarded on UK Bill Again Demands Web Pornography Ban · · Score: 1

    30 if people are down trodden enough pass bill; break, else throw out bill

    *gasp* There's no "throw" either... No wonder we are stuck in an infinite loop!

  5. Re:Evolve or die on Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists · · Score: 2

    You comment about "water marking" has shown that you KNOW people will pay nothing if the can, and you want to have a method to force them to pay.

    Some people may pay nothing if they can. I recall Radiohead's album In Rainbows was released under a "pay what you want" program. In this case, "what you want" includes free. According to the band, most people paid normal retail price for it.

  6. Re:How stupid can you get? on Bringing Auto-Graders To Student Essays · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is one area where automatic grading will cause massive skill decrease, as no auto-grader can actually assess contents.

    My thoughts exactly.
    Auto graders could check spelling and grammar, and to some extent plagiarism, but without a human reviewing the content, students will learn be gaming the algorithms from day 1.

  7. ViaCord on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 5, Informative

    My son was born a little over a year ago, and I selected ViaCord as a cord blood bank. We evaluated a few, and they seemed to be more competent than other options. It's important to get the "collection kit" up front, and have it with you in the hospital... at least in my case, the hospital does not provide any of the supplies. Also, your wife will need to make sure that the OB/GYN is aware ahead of time about your decision to store the blood.

  8. Physical Seizures? on Microsoft Leads Sting Operation Against Zeus Botnets · · Score: 0, Troll
    TFA:

    Microsoft has conducted physical seizures

    Since when can a CORPORATION perform seizures of private property???

  9. Re:Don't brick: Lock, track, and seize on US Mobile Carriers Won't Brick Stolen Phones · · Score: 1

    Instead of bricking, lock the user interface, put them in a periodic beaconing mode, and send the posse after the phone.

    You'd better find your own posse because often times the police do not care (not the first time I have heard of something similar)

  10. Re:Facebook in a lather about users' privacy?! on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? Facebook interceding to protect the privacy of its users?

    Of course! If you want access to their user's data, you have to buy advertising, like everybody else.

  11. Best Practice on DoD Networks Completely Compromised, Experts Say · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From TFA:

    “We’ve got the wrong model here. I think we’ve got this model for cyber that says, ‘We’re going to develop a system where we’re not attacked.’ I think we have to go to a model where we assume that the adversary is in our networks. It’s on our machines, and we’ve got to operate anyway. We have to protect the data anyway."

    Its nice to see the DoD finally catching up with basic best software practices.

  12. Re:Stop listening to observational studies on Aspirin Helps Prevent Cancer, New Studies Show · · Score: 2
    I thought the exact same thing. I'm usually pretty skeptical of any "wonder drug" claims, so I tried "following the money" to see if it was funded by Bayer or something similar, and I noticed the abstract said:

    Funding: None

    This surely means that this study probably consisted of data mining, and that's about it. That's enough to establish correlation, but correlation != causation.

  13. Re:Hactivists == cybercriminals on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But the motivation determines if it is a crime in the first place.

    Kill someone with malice, got to prison, kill someone in self defense, no prob.

    I don't think this article was talking about homicide.
    What motivation would make it legal to hack a government or corporate system and stealing personal data?

  14. Re:Hactivists == cybercriminals on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 2

    They're separating out based on motivation.

    I saw that... and that IS playing with words. In this case, a criminal is a criminal regardless of motivation.

  15. Hactivists == cybercriminals on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone stealing personal data is a "cybercriminal". Sounds like they are playing with words.

  16. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. Gravity is readily observable. It's a little different, although admittedly still surprising.

    Evolution has also been observed in quite a few cases. Here is one example of a strain of e coli evolving a new functional trait in a lab. Also, antibiotic resistance of diseases are as a result of evolutionary pressures.

    Locusts primarily walk only with the two anterior pairs of legs, and hop with the posterior pair.

    Nope. Have you ever seen one walk? They step with the front four, and push with the back two. The gait is different, but they definitely use all 6 to walk.

  17. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its amazing that she could get a degree in biology without "believing" in evolution. It's a bit like a physicist that doesn't believe in gravity. Next biology topic: Locusts only have four legs!

  18. Piracy != Privacy on Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Anyone else read this as "Windows 8 To Fight Privacy With the Cloud". I need more coffee!

  19. Re:Sounds like on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see anyone forcing anyone to buy anything. If the GMO crop is worth a premium, the farmers will pay a premium. If not, then not.

  20. Security 101 on Trend Micro Chairman Says Open Source Is a Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity FTW! Everyone knows that is the best way to secure a system!

  21. Re:Why is OSS A Criteria? on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Baptisms for the dead don't happen unless a family member submits the name for that specific purpose.

    Not true. Historically the Mormon church does them for anyone they have genealogy details. They came under a lot of controversy in the recent past by doing baptisms for Jewish people killed in the Holocaust.

  22. Re:Why is OSS A Criteria? on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 0

    I'd be careful using the Mormon version, unless you want great grandpa to be baptized for the dead. That's what they use their vast database of genealogy for.

  23. Re:First post, for the umpteenth time on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This gene may be a good example of a "selfish gene." People who are promiscuous would tend to pass on their genes more frequently.

  24. Re:And the answer is no. on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    Actually, its more like a very specialized version of Wireshark -

  25. Re:IE? on Google Broadens Bug Bounties To Include Web App Security · · Score: 1

    Supposedly Verisign's iDefense labs will pay for IE exploits. Have a great retirement.