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  1. New review on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1

    "I am prohibited by a court injunction to say what my experience in this hotel was like."

    No way that could ever be taken as bad advertisement.

  2. When I'm so tired on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 3, Funny

    that I read "Secret Middle Earth Web Surveillance" and Slashdot becomes, for just a few moments, a bit cooler.

  3. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 2

    Manning's gender dysphoria was on record going back to before the leaks even happened. So no, while the confinement and sentence have certainly been traumatizing, they're not the cause. Considering the timing of her announcement, I'd guess she waited until after the sentencing to avoid affecting, delaying or complicating the trial.

  4. Re:Too much on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 0

    *Indiegogo. Whatever.

  5. Too much on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 1

    The Kickstarter price for one phone was about $700. If I want to get a phone with a Linux derivative, I can get the newest Nexus for $300. No matter what my free software convictions and Google paranoia are, they're not worth that much. Particularly for vaporware.

  6. contact address on Uncle Sam Finally Wants To Hear From Us On Digital Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    But I couldn't find the address to which to send my comments, so maybe that was an oversight on their part.

    Does it matter? Just send them anywhere, the NSA will forward them.

  7. Google isn't part of the internet anymore on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 5, Funny

    The internet is now part of Google.

  8. Re:Voltaire's dictum still applies on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    As Lincoln said, don't believe everything you read on the internet.

  9. Man, they can *have* Alaska. on Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't even have to ask twice.

  10. Re:Same as any other potential fraud. on Germany: Bitcoin Is "Private Money" · · Score: 1

    You just went full time cube, man.

  11. Every second scientists have to waste on this shit on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    Is a second not spent curing cancer and inventing cool stuff.

    And it's not like it'll do any good anyway. The creationist/altmed/antivax/birther/truther/moon-hoax crowd is invested into their beliefs in a fashion that does not permit rational refutation.

  12. Re:Sure, can America not spy on Americans too? on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    Assuming they do what they say, they were never spying on anyone in the first place...

  13. Sounds legit on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    - "We're not spying on anyone, we promise."
    - "Here's proof you were spying."
    - "Oops. Well, we won't spy on anyone anymore, we promise."

  14. Cost-benefit analysis on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pro: Awesome radio transmissions
    Con: Filling Earth's orbitals with junk that will fuck with spacecraft for centuries.

    Hm.

  15. Yay on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 2

    The people investigating wrong-doing will be supervised by the wrong-doers.

  16. full page ad? on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't see it.

    (thats the joke)

  17. Re:So what ever became of public key escrows? on Chaos Computer Club, Others Scoff At German Email Security Move As "Marketing" · · Score: 1

    We have public key escrow servers. The problem is that since most of the world's email users are too ignorant or too apathetic to security to use them, nearly all email traffic involves at least one party who doesn't.

    How would you force someone to create a key-pair for their email address? They have to create it on their own computer for it to be secure. You could add that into Thunderbird at most, and then people would be confused that they can't access their email from other machines.

  18. What is a bad connections dog? on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1, Funny

    And what's so bad about it googling the Mountain View Wi-Fi Network?

  19. Guess it's true: Smoke Kills on Camels May Transmit New Middle Eastern Virus · · Score: 1

    wait, not that kind of camel?

  20. Re:Context on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So yeah, basically you just tried to justify homophobia with racism.

  21. Re:and how do you resolve the paradox on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    capable of changing sex

    Corsair.

  22. first place held by on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 1

    one "C. Hadfield" with a maximum altitude of 435 kilometers. The legitimacy of that record is disputed.

  23. Re:Doesn't work anyway on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Could try a Web of Trust / reputation approach instead. A site may require your content to be signed with a key (which may be linked to a pseudonym, and which the site operator may allow hiding from the public) in order to be published without pre-moderation, or in order to bypass strict filters. The identity that the key protects could then be rated by reputation databases.

    You'd lose some anonymity on sites that require such keys, but nobody forces you to limit yourself to a single identity for posting everywhere.

  24. Doesn't work anyway on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Computers can solve some of these more easily than humans can. We can stop pretending we're still better than machines at optical character recognition.

  25. Re:I am AMAZED that he's white... on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    I can see you're having a little moment there, but your ranting is kind of irrelevant to Doctor Who and maybe you can go be racist somewhere else.