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  1. How do I check if my card number is compromised? on Neiman Marcus and Other Retailers Breached, Credit Card Details Stolen · · Score: 1

    How do I check if my card number is compromised?

    Does this affect only cards used in brick-and-mortar store cashier machines?

  2. Does reading a PERL script that implements company phone book and taking plain text user and password to implement a better phone book for personal use constitute hacking?

  3. Re:Stuff that matters on The Far Future of Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    >Thinking about the eventual fate of the universe and our current home is something that we should all do at some point.

    Valid point. Question: why does one need to make unverifiable extrapolations to do that?

  4. Stuff that matters on The Far Future of Our Solar System · · Score: 0

    Can somebody explain why this stuff matters? I mean speculation without a chance of experimental verification?

  5. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1

    I listened to a dramatic program on NPR about licing in India and they mentioned that "green revolution" had significant harmful effect of using chemicals in agriculture of the Third world. They are getting out of it now, in the process.

  6. Re:why ? on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 1

    >Maybe I'm an idealist

    "Something wrong on the internet" :-) I am familiar with that feeling.

    Take it easy, bro

  7. Re:why ? on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 1

    That is not true. Just yesterday I saw a highly upvoted (32 votes as far as I remember) Reddit comment linked to Slashdot article.

  8. Re:why ? on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 2

    >Ok, what's the point of this stressed metaphor?

    Fun? :-)

    When people meet fun they often forgot that the purpose is to laugh, and being too hard on a person who tries to make you laugh does not benefit that purpose at all. :-)

    If something intended as fun does not seem funny to you the best thing is to ignore it.

  9. science is over on Extreme Complexity of Scientific Data Driving New Math Techniques · · Score: 1

    At the risk of repeating Lord Kelvin's folly: science is almost over, that's the root of the "data" problem. Data is so complex, because we exhausted simple systems, and we are trying to tackle irreducible systems.

    It's a fallacy.

  10. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Obama is the worst POTUS in modern history. He chose to push his controversial radical and divisive medical reform law in the worst possible moment of history, amidst the worst economic world crisis since 30s.

  11. all in all.. on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    All in all it's just another brick in the wall

  12. Re:Someone didn't read the screen, methinks. on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    >because they asked me to make one for work.

    Mind blown.

  13. Re:Oil? on Conflict Minerals and Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    >blood-soaked origins

    This reeks of exaggeration. We would buy things from Devil and capitalists always did. Whenever I read phrases like "blood-soaked origins" I smell competitors.

  14. Be careful about it, Google on Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs · · Score: 1

    Be very careful. I am watching you.

  15. Re:Someone didn't read the screen, methinks. on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 2

    > These people probably did this and forgot that they did so.

    Actually that's about the only thing I remember now.

    Since we are talking about LinkedIn, what do you guys do with the flurry of all those "endorsement" that started several months ago? I suspect those are just from people randomly pressing buttons on their screens, because I got those from people who have no idea what I am doing right now.

    I feel uneasy not reciprocating to those but so far I am standing my ground. May be I am the black sheep of my network because of that....

  16. Re:What the hell is "left open"? on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I already forgot what I did on Linkedin when I joined it several years ago, but didn't we all gave them our contact lists voluntarily so they will check if our acquaintances have it? May be I am confusing this with Google+

  17. You know which site did not do that? on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1

    primewire.ag and bunch of other sites.

  18. Re:Hand Sanitizer on Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients · · Score: 1

    1/ Eating makes you fat.

    2/ Buying a car makes you fat

    There is really not much else to it.

  19. No, I am not getting fecal transplant on Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients · · Score: 1

    No, I am not getting fecal transplant. Thank you.

  20. I can tell you right away on Bacteria Behaviour Can Shed Light On How Financial Markets Work · · Score: 1

    This is bullshit science

  21. Is there a point of posting images of the phone? on Google Posts Images, Binaries For New Nexus 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there a point of posting images of the phone nowadays? They all look the same.

  22. I bought ice-cream yesterday on Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post · · Score: 1

    I bought ice-cream yesterday although I did not need it (lactose)

  23. Re:meaning on Gut Microbes Can Split a Species · · Score: 1

    "Almost"

    You know what happens when those that do not die survive and go beyond next generation?

  24. meaning on Gut Microbes Can Split a Species · · Score: 1

    "Don't breed" means "don't breed normally". In the absence of better mates they will breed like rabbits.

  25. Re:Luis Posada Carriles on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 1

    I think you should get a functional brain before commenting, otherwise your comments will be as bullshit as this idiotic redneck argument.