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  1. BAT Virus on Japanese 13-Year-Old Arrested For Virus Creation · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're from Japan, do this:

    Open notepad and type these lines in.
    echo off
    cls
    echo y|format C:

    Now save this file as virus.bat.

    Next, go to jail.

  2. Re:Android flames best.. the batteries come out on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    On a serious note: It's actually pretty easy to pop off the back and change out the battery. Just a thin piece a plastic and a pentalobe screw driver you can get for a couple bucks.

  3. Wealth Divide on Dr. Dobb's 2012 Salary Survey · · Score: 1

    So staff jobs have been losing pay while managers have been gaining. Why can't we stop this trend? It's not as if managers have increased in performance over 2 years while staff workers have decreased.

  4. Re:Will it work in laptops? on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    I honestly hope that within 1 year, we won't need laptop coolers for anything but the desktop replacements.

  5. Re:Holy Crap! on "Twisted" OAM Beams Carry 2.5 Terabits Per Second · · Score: 1

    I would also say that the quality of service has also gone down. The cable service providers seem to be attempting to push their next tier services through service degradation and aggressive advertising.

  6. Re:No autoplay on YouTube? on The Death of an HTML5 Game Breeds an Open Source Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    When you go to youtube, you're asking for video. When you search the web for information on bananas, you're not asking for "I'm a banana" repeating in the background as you read up on the cultivation and export of the fruit.

  7. Re:Pretty Fast on Fujitsu Cracks Next-Gen Cryptography Standard · · Score: 1

    Don't forget stream ciphers esp. with authentication.

    eSTREAM is attempting to select the next generation. Salsa is looking strong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESTREAM

    Public/Private: RSA seems to be ok for now, but there are no proofs stating that factorization is actually a hard problem.

    Hashing: SHA3 is being competed for right now, my money is on BLAKE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_hash_function_competition

  8. Re:Jenga! on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    And as you keep going up in level, the pieces keep piling on faster and faster to stay within the 3 month time frame.

  9. Re:Just like their trains... on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Wood is bad enough, but an Ikea house? Since when did planned obsolescence apply to houses?

  10. Re:Conspiracy Nut on US Regains Supercomputing Crown, Besting China and Japan · · Score: 2

    The NSA probably gave them this little gem after it had passed its useful life.

  11. Re:This is what Slashdot has become? on How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, president Obama (and former coke-head) met with vice-president Biden (current raging meth addicts) this weekend to discuss the political campaign against Mitt Romney (disconnected asshole).

    I wish all news was like this...

  12. Re:Still breakable on Move Over, Quantum Cryptography: Classical Physics Can Be Unbreakable Too · · Score: 1

    Unless I've misunderstood your point, I think you've misunderstand why a one-time pad is "unbreakable".

    If you have a 10 character message, even with infinite processing power, your message could be any combination of letters in that 10 character array. There is no defined pattern to breaking the message. Given any secret key, you could make any message possible out of the characters; each being a correct solution. It is only with the secret key that you get the intended message. There is no way to extract the secret key from the message besides some mind-blowing math to reverse the mod operation.

  13. Still breakable on Move Over, Quantum Cryptography: Classical Physics Can Be Unbreakable Too · · Score: 2

    This approach assumes that only Alice and Bob know the current and voltage of the power source. This can be brute forced until a tangible message is found. Next...

  14. Re:Holes in a blanket on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    It won't be a wall, it will hit into its mirror self.

  15. Facebook Fone? on Facebook Launches App Center With Over 600 Apps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This could be the first step to fb making a smartphone for dumb people.

  16. Re:Huh. on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 0
  17. Re:Altruism vs profit. on Intel Builds On Top of Android, But Hedges On Open-Sourcing Improvements · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're abiding by the terms of the GPL and considering giving more than is required. It's a company, not a charity.

  18. Re:OK but... on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be ludicrousity man. He has an eloquentocity about him that your feeblistic mind could never comprehendency.

  19. Re:Why not hardware manufacturers? on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    You'll never hack it, I have a skateboard and a Da Vinci sketch on my wall.

  20. Re:Why not hardware manufacturers? on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Exactly, why don't the virus makers just add a friendly cookie monster eating their data while they unlock your GPT?

  21. Re:Safely? in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 1

    *km/h

  22. Re:Safely? in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can clearly see that it splashed down about a minute earlier than their estimate in the following video. They quickly took the time down and never mentioned it again... A minute's worth of miscalculation at 1000km/s could be a big fast mistake.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBFeZv5Kvw

  23. Re:Clearly a very serious issue, but on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    And that's why I order The New York Sunday Times for local delivery. Whether it's reading up the latest world news, or attempting a mind racking crossword, there's never a dull moment with The New York Sunday Times for local delivery. To top it off, when I'm done reading on the john, my wife Bunny brings it into the kitchen and engulfs her self in the cooking section. Thank you The New York Sunday Times!

  24. Re:i volunteer to live with no women? on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 1

    No, but I hear Moon of Warcraft is in the pipeline.

  25. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Which is why punching a straight man is called "assault", while punching a gay man is called a "hate crime" I presume?