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  1. Re:For all the shit Republicans get up to on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    Addendum: I actually think the plan is ludicrous, but that was true of the moon landing too. Worth it.

  2. For all the shit Republicans get up to on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    Their space policies are inspiringly ambitious.

    (Not that this excuses them being assholes to anyone whose skin color, sexual orientation or income bracket they don't like.)

  3. Re:Tough ... on Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative · · Score: 1

    interference

    inference

    Try again?

  4. Re:the model is broken, but the machine still move on Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 1

    seven months of involuntary detention is no more an inconvenience than being roped into a particularly bad vodaphone contract

    Wow, the Telcos really are getting worse day by day.

  5. Re:And yet TPB lives on Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 1

    Ironically, the last time I was looking for a particular Linux ISO, TPB didn't have it.

  6. And this has WHAT to do with Snowden. on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Disgruntled sysadmins may do many things, many of them poorly thought out or likely to result in bad consequences. But they don't hole up in a hotel room in Hong Kong and publish dirt on the NSA spying program because their users are annoying.

    More to the point, if someone is willing to throw the rest of their life away on whistleblowing, then their motivation goes way beyond poor job satisfaction, and a less frustrating work environment is not going to dissuade them.

  7. Re:Mostly Harmless on Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data · · Score: 1

    Yes, I... heard about that, too.

  8. Shouldn't it be between the US and China? on US and Russia Set Up Cyber Cold War Hotline · · Score: 2

    Because it's not like the US and Russia are the ones consistently at each others' throats over alleged cyber attacks.

  9. Re:github on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I really started using github regularly at the same time that I started using github.

    Really?!

  10. Would probably have been fine on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 2

    If instead of refusing specific questions, he'd have remained silent from the beginning.

    Yet another example of how talking to the police is a bad idea.

  11. Wait... on Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosting Git Repositories? · · Score: 1

    You want to have open source, but you don't want the NSA to read your source?

    This sounds like a famous adage about eating cakes.

  12. People will be okay with this on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 1

    Just mash them and make them look like a hamburger. It's not like we need to process these bugs in a way that they still look like bugs.

  13. Re:No updates in 6 years? on FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years · · Score: 1

    If there is anything that needs that, then it needs to be put out of its misery more.

  14. "I know I have done nothing wrong" on NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself · · Score: 0

    I didn't know the US legal system worked that way. Does that mean Bradley Manning could have avoided all that hassle by simply finding himself not guilty on all charges?

  15. "Up to two years or more" on EU Countries Closer To Mandatory Minimum Sentence Cap For Hacking · · Score: 2

    That's an extremely informative statement.

    http://xkcd.com/870/

  16. Re:Fermat? on Banker Offers $1M To Solve Beal Conjecture · · Score: 1

    That isn't immediately intuitive, since Beal would allow solutions with a common factor, so for everyone else who got confused by that:

    Suppose (a*k)^n+(b*k)^n=(c*k)^n for some k>1, where k is the greatest common divisor of ak,bk,ck. Then (a^n + b^n)* k^n = c^n * k^n, and a solution a^n+b^n=c^n without a common factor follows, contradicting the conjecture.

  17. errr... on Temporal Cloak Erases Data From History · · Score: 2

    How does the recipient get the message, if it's so thoroughly erased?

  18. Sweet! on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That 10% discount is almost as much money as you could save by forgoing Windows for something useable and free.

  19. Re:Amazon EC 2 IP reputation gets even worse on Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers · · Score: 1

    That's completely impossible unless the bridge were also configured as an exit node. Since the whole point of the exercise is to get INTO the Tor network in a way that cannot be easily blocked, that'd be a stupid setup.

  20. Re:MIRVs? on India's ICBM Will Carry Multiple Nuclear Warheads · · Score: 2

    I thought it was the Holiday Special, but chronologically, it apparently just made them angry.

    Star Wars Holiday Special
    Cold War (1979-1985)

  21. Re:third-party software? on Drupal.org User Accounts Compromised · · Score: 0

    Who on Earth would find out that a system has been compromised and not immediately reinstall or reimage it before doing anything else?

  22. MicroWorlds and MSW Logo on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    Later, TI-BASIC on a TI-83. Self-taught, I guess, with some parental instruction.

    That's pretty much all I learned until college (where I got the somewhat odd collection of Python, Java, Fortran, PHP, Haskell and TeX), though I did teach myself a few languages during college too, such as Lua.

  23. Woah, graphene again on Graphene Yields Another Trick: Ultrashort Laser Pulses · · Score: 1

    Is there anything it can't do?

  24. Okay, I'll bite on Opera Releases Its First Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    Why should you install a Chromium-based browser when you already have Chromium? (Or Google Chrome, as the case may be.)

    (Not even going into the issue of why developers would take an engine that already natively runs on Linux and then not make it run on Linux.)

  25. Reminder on Why DOJ Didn't Need a "Super Search Warrant" To Snoop On Fox News' E-mail · · Score: 5, Informative

    An infringement on the freedom of the press, or the confidentiality of sources, is a threat to democracy regardless of whether it targets an actual news agency or a mockery thereof.