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  1. Includes all satellite imagery on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    Er... way to fuck up, Texas? Good luck suing NASA.

  2. Re:Reanimation on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 0

    what you did there i see it

  3. Re:Huh? on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    The literal kind, I suppose. The other kind would probably be instead termed something like resuscitation, revivification or resurrection, depending on whether the subject is a little, mostly or all dead.

  4. Biometric security on Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse · · Score: 1

    Because instead of taping your password to the screen or in your wallet, let's stamp it on everything you touch.

  5. Re:Is it fixed? on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 1

    Well, they could at least publically acknowledge the breach...

  6. You're looking in the wrong place on Lessons From the Papal Conclave About Election Security · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Elections like this don't get manipulated during the ballot-casting, because they're not decided during the ballot-casting. Just like the decisions of a legislative body, the vote itself is merely the result of a ton of secret politics leading up to it.

  7. Re:They should have used a HOSTS file on Pwnie Express Releases Android-Based Network Hacking Kit · · Score: 1

    4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD

    what you did there

    i see it

  8. Re:Trivial on Notification of Server Breach Mistaken For Phishing Email · · Score: 1

    And that's how Equestria was made!

  9. Triangulation on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    That is, unless they want to talk via old-fashioned radio, which can be intercepted and triangulated and could betray the planes’ locations.

    This sounds as though the encryption is capable of evading triangulation. Don't know how they want to do that...

  10. Trivial on Notification of Server Breach Mistaken For Phishing Email · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just ignore the links in the email, go to the website you know to be real, and change your password.

  11. Re:You see... on Swedish Pirate Party Threatened for Hosting the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Could you link to the RFC that specifies the IP via Bullets protocol? Or are you saying these troubles would go away if people started shooting government officials? Because yeah, that'd totally be the appropriate response and not make anything worse.

    (Man, do you gun fanatics even hear yourselves?)

  12. Re:I can improve on that. on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    PS: There's actually a key combination to focus the URL bar. Ctrl-L in Firefox, apparently. So 0 clicks, I guess. :P

  13. I can improve on that. on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 2

    *click on URL bar*

    *enter URL*

    *hit enter*

    There, one click.

  14. Re:Higgs Bosun walks into a church on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1

    A bosun is someone leading a ship's work crew.

  15. Re:Let us look at this the other way on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    (The "evil asshole" was not directed at the GP; sorry for vagueness.)

  16. Re:Let us look at this the other way on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    Wait, let me go buy a labcoat.

    There.

    Now, how much do I get for lying and telling you you're not an evil asshole?

  17. Re:Place names on The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States · · Score: 2

    You don't need to limit it to 435 at that point. Barrier clauses and the limit on the number of representatives are chiefly for cutting administrative costs. In your model, the election and regular government would have to be carried out electronically anyway (due to complexity of vote counting), which scales well.

    You could end up with a system where all legislative action is essentially by referendum, but where constituents could assign their vote to delegates at will.

  18. Re:last date on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 1

    "Professional bullshit extraction facilitator."

    They'll think you're in marketing.

  19. Re:Oh really?!? on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Blowing up your engine sounds like an excellent way to safely stop your car while going at 200km/h.

  20. The robot revolution on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    I guess we're finally there, starting with the microcontrollers in cars.

  21. Apparently not. on Can You Potty Train a Cow? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I love when the headline question is answered right there in the summary.

  22. Re:So they can... on Lab Rats Given "Sixth Sense" · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, but they can see red people.

    (*rimshot*)

  23. Re:It is not 6 on Lab Rats Given "Sixth Sense" · · Score: 1

    7 is also reserved for historic reasons, I believe.

  24. What luck! on Earth-buzzing Asteroid Would Be Worth $195B If We Could Catch It · · Score: 3, Funny

    And a project to capture and safely retrieving the asteroid could be as cheap as $200B.

  25. Re:Can't Go Backwards on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, but then users complain because the bar is weirdly scaled, like 95% taking up a second and the remaining 5% an hour. You can try to profile it, but the actual time is determined by the local hardware after all: Processor speed, number of cores (which affects only some operations), network speed, free memory - there's no way to predict how much of the time will be spend on each task.

    (And if the progress bar isn't an indicator of execution time at all, then the arbitrary completion percentages assigned by the developer mean little. In that case, you may as well go back to hourglasses and spinning beachballs...)