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  1. Dark strings on Mystery Alignment of Planetary Nebulae Discovered · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have worked out an elegant solution that can be collapsed to only 88 dimensions, where infinitesimally small unbound super strings made of pure dark energy are curled up in tiny unobservable sub-plank scale vibrating loops that create immeasurable gravity-like dark froth along the alignment axis.

  2. Secure your browser from artificial intelligences on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1
  3. Hypergamy Cure? on Genetic Switches Behind 'Love' Identified In Prairie Voles · · Score: 1

    While they're at it, could they also do some work on hypergamy?
    Maybe *gasp* come up with a cure or at least some treatment?

    This condition afflicts the great majority of woemn in the U.S.
    Some you know suffers from it..

  4. It works!, Found these in Ireland: on Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Don't copy that floppy! on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What a wonderful compliant, obedient little boy the Scouts helped you become!

    I'd prefer my kid to be more defiant and incredulous of authority and status quo,
    and to consider that sometimes great corruption demands extreme measures to
    correct it and sometimes one must disobey and rebel in a disorderly manner.

    Washington, Revere and Franklin would probably make awful little scouts.

  6. DOS? on Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages · · Score: 1

    Could this be used to instrument MS servers to effect a Denial Of Service attack upon the host of your choosing?

    1. Select victim
    2. Bomb URL via chat from a new/fake throwaway Skype account
    3. ???
    4. Profit

  7. Shameless Slashvertisement on Digital Bolex Gives You a Classic Film Look in a Digital Package (Video) · · Score: 0

    What's next Slashdot "stories" on DailySteals specials?

    "XtremeMac BT Connect Bluetooth Audio Receiver - Portable, Battery Powered Compact Receiver Makes Any Stereo System Wireless"

    Some other "pertinent" links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising

  8. It's about the phones, stupid on Canonical and China Announce Ubuntu Collaboration · · Score: 1

    Why Ubuntu would even care to target mobile phones makes a lot of sense now. This could give Ubuntu an unfair advantage over Android.

  9. First World Problems on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    The horror!, did they not provide you with a cup warmer for your fair-trade organic double latte macchiato?

  10. Have you considered.... on Ask Slashdot: How To React To Coworker Who Says My Code Is Bad? · · Score: 1

    .... the possibility that your code is in fact terrible? might be worthwhile to examine his assertions.

    while the code might work today, it could easily turn into an obscenely unmaintainable pile of spaghetti.

    i have witnessed moderately successful start ups get their foot in the door and show promise, only to be immediately
    killed off by their own success when they are unable to expand their software base due to pervasive sloppiness
    in code that "worked fine but was not pretty".

  11. This from "Jono" on Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, and "Jonathan Edward James Bacon" calling himself "Jono" is oh-so-totally mature and not childish at all.

  12. Contact her boss on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    Bob Goodlatte Chariman of the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet. http://goodlatte.house.gov/contacts/new Tell him to stop her staffer from making asinine comments that make him and his subcommittee sound more stupid than they really are.

  13. Streisand Effect on RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software · · Score: 1

    in 3, 2, 1 ....

  14. I present you .... on Pentagon Selects Companies To Build Flying Humvees · · Score: 1

    the M2 Bradley !!!!, now with sharks with frickin' lasers!!

  15. "Same in America" on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    >>>"In Brazil, proofs produced by illegal means cannot be used"

    >>"Same in America, and usually ..."

    As oppossed to Africa where Bazil actually is.

  16. Family leave sexism *AGAINST MEN* on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "But there's a nice unexamined assumption in your post: Why the fuck aren't the men taking parental leave or caring for the children?"

    Well, some of us are. At my current position at least 3 top male engineers have taken time off to care for their wives and newborn children.

    This is well regarded and considered a given for women, but there is still palpable prejudice against men doing the same.

    In my particular case, I even got a direct ridiculing, sneering comment from a female co-worker,
    along the lines of "you must be the next winner of the most dedicated father of the year award".

    This kind of sexism against men, specially in highly technical disciplines goes often "unnoticed" by the same
    journalists who relentlessly lament how "poorly" women fare in the workplace.

  17. Is there no end to Wikipedia's love of pederasty? on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1

    I have found that Wikipedia conveniently has a list of States
    where these sick bastards can indulge in *LEGAL SEX WITH UNDERAGE* girls.

    Despicable backwater places were pederasts can *legally* own
    their own *CHILD* brides / sex slaves.

    In most of these places 16!, in some as young as 14, 13!

    Is there no end to this evil?

    Why does Wikipedia hate America and our Christian way of life so much ???!!!!
    Here's the link as if more proof were required:

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age#North_America

  18. China has it wrong on 2-D Avatar To Be Pulled From Theaters In China · · Score: 1

    Repression and censorship work poorly for suppressing dissent and making populations obedient.

    Re-education and relentess repetition through propaganda are far more effective.

    Instead of forbidding critical content, you just make the thoughts it would provoke
    ridiculously *unthinkable*.

    For example, in the US, there are no issues with Avatar causing people to realize the horrible
    genocidal atrocities We committed against the *real* Americans, and certainly, there is no danger
    of drawing parallels with the Mexicans, who were displaced forcibly from their homeland
    to make way for the expansion of our great nation, and although these people are *ethnically*
    more rightfully American than most of us, it is *them* not us who are called "alien".

    These thoughts are ridiculously unthinkable from within the mainstream social consciouness.
    They do not have to be forbidden, they have been filtered out of our political dialog altogether.

    There is no fear of the public ever realizing that We are still vigorously engaging in the most
    brutal violence against local populations around the world to disposses them of
    the natural resources our corporate overlords crave, whether it is Bolivia's water or Iraq's oil.

    Therefore, We have no need for censure, and should it ever become necessary,
    it will be *corporations* not the government who will exercise it.

  19. The key being ... on Harvard Says Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "IT systems were aimed at improving efficiency for hospital management"

    Doctors and other medical personnel do not typically hold much power
    when it comes to IT.

    Software vendors aim to please management, they are the ones who take
    the purchasing decisions.

    Your typical Lab software for example might not have a straightforward
    way to cross-check isolates for emerging resistance trends,
    run critical screens or automatically report to a global EPI database,
    but it sure has 1,000 ways to generate Aging Reports and auto resubmit insurance claims.

  20. On the plus side ... on G-WAN, Another Free Web Server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Finally a platform with built-in buffer overflow support!

    Let the exploits games begin!

  21. Is this pronounced ... on First European Commander of the ISS · · Score: 1

    Frank Ze Weenie ?

    Is think some kind of weird German joke ???

  22. "FreeBSD really isn't intended for the desktop PC" on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    While I agree with you on FreeBSD being a fine (if not *the* finest) server OS,
    it really irks me to see the "not intended for desktop use" myth being perpetuated.

    The desktop *is* one of the explict targets for FreeBSD:

            "With over 20,000 ported libraries and applications, FreeBSD supports applications for desktop, server, appliance...."
                    http://www.freebsd.org/about.html

          "*BSD makes a great server. It also makes a great desktop....
            *BSD has access to the same desktop tools (KDE, GNOME, Firefox, windowmanagers) as Linux.
              And ``office'' applications such as OpenOffice suite work under *BSD too."
                    http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html#server

    FreeBSD 7 in fact, among other things, had *major* wireless rework done,
    a feature almost exclusive to desktop use.

    The aggressive demeanor of your post is shameful and in contrast with
    the overall spirit of the *BSD community.

  23. Should Google be next? on Craigslist Fights Back, Sues SC Atty General · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%2Bescort+%2B%22south+carolina%22&btnG=Search

    this returns :
            Results 1 - 10 of about 2,490,000 for +escort +"south carolina". (0.20 seconds)

    far more than craigslist.

  24. Web "applications" on Universal Design for Web Applications · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This should have been a one page book reading : "DON'T".

    Webapps are the most evil thing that has happened to software
    development in the last decade.

    AJAX, Silverlight, JScript are all 1990s state of the art technologies
    that accomplish nothing new in terms of innovation or functionality.

    The resulting applications bring nothing new to the table and are bloated
    and unmantainable compared to their circa 1996 network enabled desktop application cousins.

    Web apps are a historical regression.

  25. Re:Glad to see.. on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa!, lots of details there, Tommy. Sounds like you've been giving this idea more than a fleeting thought.