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  1. That's so lame... on Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App · · Score: 1

    He uses existing smartphones for that app? He should have commissioned Apple to design a single-use phone good for receiving one text message, and then sold that to people.

  2. Re:Last I checked, the LOTR movies were amazing... on Peter Jackson Announces Third Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the dwarves in The Hobbit are already Jar Jar Binks. As are the elves of Rivendell. Jackson could turn the entire story into a musical comedy without straying far from the book.

  3. Re:Here we go! on Peter Jackson Announces Third Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    In this edition, Smaug shoots first.

  4. Re:Dumb idea on ICANN Backflips Again · · Score: 1

    We're talking about gTLDs, so wouldn't it be com.myawesomecompany93282?

    (On a related note: What is the point, anyway, of registering a gTLD unless you're going to run an absolutely massive number of domains inside it? I can sort of see this happening for MS, Apple and Google; maybe Facebook. Nobody else, really.)

  5. Re:Just a higher tech version of what cops already on The Increasing Role of Predictive Analysis In Police Work · · Score: 1

    If you have technology to predict where crimes are going to take place, selling it to the police is going to be way, WAY more profitable than using it to commit crimes.

  6. Soon to follow: on Author Claims Apple Won't Carry Her ebook Because It Mentions Amazon · · Score: 1, Funny

    An Atlas of the Amazon River.

    Rejected for ToS violation.

  7. Bah humbug on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is all just liberal propaganda paid for by... ...oh wait...

  8. Re:Ick on Web Giants Form US Internet Lobby Group · · Score: 1

    The headline says "lobby" and you say "conscience"?

    It'd be a mistake to think these companies have our interests at heart. Our interests just coincide when it comes to stuff that hurt both internet companies and internet users - like repressive copyright legislation, and a lack of net neutrality. On other matters - like privacy - they shouldn't be trusted.

  9. Hope they don't hire game devs as consultants on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    Or they'll end up with kevlar bikinis.

  10. So, basically, speaking English. on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of the Twitter clues: Curse words. Angry responses to other people, including swearing and use of the word "hate." Using the word "we." Using periods. Using filler words such as 'blah' and 'I mean' and 'um.

    Speaking English either formally or informally and either without emotion or with emotion. I have also heard that almost all of them breathed regularly and wore clothing. Those are relevant clues that might help recognize the next one early.

    On the other hand, that they all owned assault weapons is purely a coincidence.

  11. Re:There is no problem on Australian Sex Party May Sue Google Over Ad Refusal · · Score: 3

    That is complete nonsense. It is illegal for a company to refuse business for all but a few very good reasons, due to decades of civil rights legislation to stop discriminatory business practice. And more specifically, it is illegal for a broadcaster to refuse a political advertisement.

  12. Other than that, Mrs Lincoln on Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises · · Score: 3, Funny

    How was the film?

  13. Re:God Bless America! on EFF Challenges National Security Letter · · Score: 1

    "If we weren't there, you'd all be speaking German now."

    "And if not for us, you'd still be drinking tea."

  14. Authentication requires that you play a round of the game — but this time, your 30-letter sequence is interspersed with other random 30-letter sequences.

    This requires the password to be stored in clear in the system. I think the brain is more trustworthy than that...

  15. Re:0xB16B00B5 on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 0

    I see what you did there!

  16. Re:messenger on Police Close Climategate Investigation · · Score: 1

    Because when Wikileaks publishes data, they actually publish data rather than rambling about reptilian shapeshifters hypnotizing Nixon into faking the moon landing. That's why they get taken seriously while whackos do not.

  17. Re:title on Police Close Climategate Investigation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guys, reading scientists' emails won't be of any use unless you actually have a clue about science. You can break into a library and steal all the books in the name of transparency, but it won't cure your illiteracy.

  18. Re:Let me guess... on Richard Stallman Speaks About UEFI · · Score: 1

    He also apparently doesn't like haircuts. This is, naturally, highly relevant to the value of his views on software.

  19. Oh good on Contiki 2.6: IPv6 For Everything, Everywhere · · Score: 1

    The Hollywood fantasy of everything everywhere being open to attacks over the internet was such an awesome idea.

    I can't wait for "they hacked into the traffic lights" to become an actual statement rather than a punchline.

  20. Re:But on Asimov's Psychohistory Becoming a Reality? · · Score: 1

    And in the end it was moot anyway because Olivaw went with the hivemind plan instead. Or, I suppose, came up with it and left it up to Trevize to decide.

  21. The Hunter-Seeker Algorithm on Asimov's Psychohistory Becoming a Reality? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless. If it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it." Sun Tzu, Art of War, Datalinks.

    (Actual psychohistory, though, was supposed to predict events over a thousand years. Not happening.)

  22. Slashdot keeps astounding. on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    With informative and educational headlines.

    Wait for tomorrow's segment on how cupholders are actually CD trays.

  23. Glasses on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 1

    Or your Google glasses automatically beaming audio and video to the police when you say a phrase that indicates you're being mugged.'"

    Or when you're entering a McDonald's in France, I guess. Just in case.

  24. That's a feature on Why We Should Remain Skeptical of the Ouya Android Console · · Score: 1

    And it's a pretty obvious necessity. The lockdown of hardware and the business model for selling software are parts of the same problem. You can't change one without changing the other as well. Open games require open hardware, and vice versa.

  25. Very one-sided transcript on Witness In Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury Hearing Posts Transcript of Questioning · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since he didn't answer anything.

    When I asked House how he might be incriminated by testifying, as he claims by invoking the fifth amendment, he gave me a predictable response: “I invoke.”

    Which is awesome, needless to say - here is clearly someone who doesn't take crap from anyone, and gives not an inch more to authority than he is legally obligated.