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  1. Solution on Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Passengers and cargo are a security risk. Prohibit them from boarding planes, and everyone will be safe.

    (Pilots are also a security risk. In the future all planes will fly autonomously, controlled by AIs.)

    (Programmers writing the AIs are also a security risk. You know what? Scrap those planes, they're not carrying anything anyway.)

  2. You are broadcasting your IP!!! on 'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous · · Score: 3, Funny

    If hacktivists use this tool directly from their own machines, instead of via anonymization networks such as Tor, the Internet address of the attacker is included in every Internet message being transmitted.

    OH MY GOD!!! Our webs are down! All of them! They're stealing the internet! Quick, we need to hack all IPs simultaneously!

  3. Re:"Too fast to be true" on SHA-3 Finalist Candidates Known · · Score: 1

    Short strings are supposed to be salted anyway.

  4. Re:Revival of the floppy disk! on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    Especially since the entirety of sensitive military documents takes up roughly 1.3 MB, according to movies!

  5. Re:Atlantis? on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 1

    Didn't Plato explicitly state his account described a fictional utopic civilization?

  6. Re:this land is a fertile land... on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we should call it... "your grave"!

  7. They reconsidered on Oracle Asks Apache To Rethink Java Committee Exit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Answer is still no.

  8. Delaware? on World's Largest Patent Troll Fires First Salvo · · Score: 1

    in the US District Court of Delaware

    Wrong! Retarded patent troll suits are to be filed in East Texas. What kind of noob is this guy?

  9. I smell an infringement lawsuit on Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users · · Score: 1

    Didn't Steve Jobs patent that entire concept of treating your customer as your enemy?

  10. Re:It's a start but on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    That didn't work on the Apple fanboys either. :-P

  11. Re:/scoff on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    And according to latest reports, screwdrivers also exist! ;)

  12. Re:There's a really useful aspect to these. on A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets · · Score: 1

    Right up until they rise and overthrow their human masters.

    A landmine is not going to plot Judgement Day. :P

  13. Re:China's govt demonizes like US with Assange (re on China's Influence Widens Nobel Peace Prize Boycott · · Score: 1

    Give the US some credit, China didn't come up with the whole "pressure Sweden to charge him with rape" thing.

  14. Economic consequences? on China's Influence Widens Nobel Peace Prize Boycott · · Score: 1

    The Nobel prize is endowed by a private foundation, which basically means they can tell all those countries to fuck off - no matter how economically influential.

    If China really gets its pants in a twist, like the last time the Dalai Lama came to Europe, they will ask the respective governments to censor and suppress this, and get laughed out the door because until quite recently, most European governments did not interfere with private, legitimate organizations that politically discomforted them.

  15. Re:Oh happy day on PC Era Forecasted To End In 18 Months · · Score: 1

    Wait, hasn't the Year Of Linux On The Desktop been every year since the late nineties? I read it somewhere.

  16. Awesome on Amazon Web Services Launches DNS Service · · Score: 1

    Scalable, redundant and probably fast.

    But is it Lieberman-proof?

  17. Even better: "CompSci expert needed" on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This might be limited to universities, but on job ads posted around the campus, "computer science student" tends to stand for "cheap coder". Every now and then some hot-shot (possibly a marketing, media or finance student) with a bright idea for a new dot-com (sorry, Web 2.0 site) puts up flyers asking for "computer scientists".

    It's funny because technically, we can be cheap coders (and will be, often), but it would sound less bull-shitty if the ad actually said "programmer".

  18. Re:An idea with ability is a fantasy. on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 5, Funny

    An electric car that can charge in 5 mintes, go 300 miles on charge, and costs $20,000

    My words exactly! But whenever I ask for an engineer who has some spare time to build that for me, people start laughing. Odd...

  19. Re:WikiLeaks, not Wikipedia on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 1

    To US lawmakers, it is quite possibly the same thing.

    It is to Glenn Beck, that's for sure...

  20. Re:Who profits? on Australian R18 Games Rating Gets Gov't Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, tyranny of the minority by the majority is prevented not by limiting government but by codifying personal rights and limiting the ways those rights can be altered by majority vote.

    See how useful a minimal, non-interventionist government is if people decide to organize an armed lynch mob to kill whatever minority they don't like. Or the proposition 8 thing - voting minorities' rights away sure was the fault of big government.

  21. Re:Make it static. on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    That works too, but this form of access presumably allows them to push updates as well.

  22. Re:This is their third try. on USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s · · Score: 1

    You neglected to trash Apple. (Though I'm not sure if they even have a game console. iBox?)

  23. Is that a wallet in your pocket? on Smart Wallets React To Spending By Shrinking · · Score: 1

    (...)

  24. Wait, what? on ProFTPD.org Compromised, Backdoor Distributed · · Score: 2

    They used a security flaw that already existed in the FTP daemon to surreptitiously introduce a backdoor into the FTP daemon's source, evidently hoping it would be propagated? Why not just use the security flaw to attack whatever site they wanted to hit directly?

  25. Re:I wonder how the pet resurrection is going on Dolly the Sheep Alive Again · · Score: 2

    What is the difference between getting a new pet and getting a new pet that shares your old pet's DNA?

    (Aside from the high risk of the clone having genetic defects and dying young.)