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  1. Yes, but.... on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    ...does it run Xenu?

  2. Who's next? on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    The organization stands accused of targeting vulnerable people for commercial gain.

    Inconceivable. Who will they sue then? Financial analysts, all the other religions, Coca Cola, Microsoft, or Britney Spears?

  3. Ok, stop the smart ass solutions on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, it seems every slashdotter is submitting his best SHA1 fancy trick to answer the security question. But I think you missed the problem. The problem is not securing the accounts of smart tech-savvy people, as they should already know how to do it themselves. It is "how do we make sure that Joe the Plumber, Granny, and Sarah do not set dumb-ass security questions leading their account to be pwned in less than ten seconds?"

  4. Re:Open source ? on Open Source Textbooks For California · · Score: 1

    How is this open source ? You can already read what goes into a book, so the source isn't hidden. Maybe they meant community contributed and owned ? Copyright is the issue, not authorship.

    In this contest, open source could mean that you get access to the original (editable and copyable) text and to the original vector versions of all the included images. A pdf of a book is not any more "open source" than an executable file: with both you have what you need in order to use the material, not modify it. If you are familiar with LaTeX, you will understand immediately. Otherwise, think imagine that HTML were compiled instead of interpreted.

  5. Re:The king is dead.... on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 2, Funny

    FTFY: The duke is dead... hail to the duke baby

  6. Science 2.0 on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, and I thought it was only in computer science that you could talk buzzwords like this.

  7. What next, a coffeemaker? on Khronos Launches Initiative For Standards-Based 3-D Web Content · · Score: 1

    What will they add to web content next, a coffeemaker? (besides that, I think the summary is missing a "3D" somewhere...)

  8. Ahem... it's SF on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Real science fiction fans don't call it Sci-Fi, they call it SF.

  9. Re:I think you jumped the gun a little. on Watchmen Watched · · Score: 1

    You want replies from people who aren't huge fans, but you posted this before most people get off work today. Only a true fan would skip work/school to watch a movie.

    He has no work, you insensitive clod!

  10. Courant-Robbins on Mathematics Reading List For High School Students? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Courant and Robbins, "What is mathematics?"

  11. Buying the game on First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation · · Score: 1

    Tell me those guys managed to have a copy of HL2 bought with research funds, and I am ready to crown them my heroes

  12. My android on Debian For Android Installer Released · · Score: 1

    You can now download an installer and bootloader for getting Debian running on your Android

    Well I've tried, you insensitive clod, but he keeps running away, and as it has robotic legs it's faster than me!

  13. Re:Why? on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Doesn't he have more important things to do than write emails and call people? Won't he have a secretary to do all that for him?

    Barbara, is that you?

  14. Re:Sometimes we forget. on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 5, Insightful

    [Sometimes we forget t]hat the people who makes IT Guys lives difficult and annoying are indeed IT guys.

    Or lawyers.

  15. No pun inteded... on Google To Sell Truly Open Android Dev Phone · · Score: 1

    ...but does it phone home?

  16. Bzzzt, wrong! on A Quantum Linear Equation Solver · · Score: 1, Informative
    I can spot the first error in the abstract:

    In this case, when A is sparse and well-conditioned, with largest dimension n, the best classical algorithms can find x and estimate x^\dag M x in O(n) time

    First of all, "with largest dimension n" means nothing because if we are solving a linear system, we need A to be square. Then, the complexity of the best classical algorithms does not depend only on the size "n" of the matrix but also on the number "nnz" of non-zero entries.

  17. Re:arXiv articles - question on A Quantum Linear Equation Solver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are arXiv articles peer-reviewed?

    No, they aren't.

  18. Re:Lutz Helimann, ex Stasi? on Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck elected this crooked fully-employed ex-Stasi to the Bundestag, though?

    Never been to Italy, haven't you?

  19. Fir0x00st! on Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fir0x00st!

  20. They used to call them laptops on World First Review of Dell's 12.1in Netbook · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, a netbook with a large screen! If the trend keeps on going this way, next year we'll see an innovative netbook with a 15.4 screen! First in the world!

  21. Ihatewhitespace! on White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches · · Score: 0

    Ihatewhitespace!

  22. if it still moves, shoot again on Cobol Job Market Heating Up · · Score: 1
    Damn, we should've followed the evil Overlord list.

    13 - All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.

  23. Yes, but... on Researchers Build Logic Gates With RNA · · Score: 1

    Do you run linux?

  24. White spaces on FCC Report Supports Use of White Spaces For Wireless · · Score: 1

    WowIcan'timaginehowdifficultwirelesswasbeforetheyallowedtheuseofwhitespaces

  25. Re:Is orbital mechanics fractal? on Odd Planet Confuses Scientists · · Score: 1

    A usual property of fractal dimensions is they aren't integers. Cases with interger dimensionality in articles and books on fractals are simplified or 'degenerate' fractals.

    Like this?