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  1. Re: radical new technology on Rethinking the Wetsuit · · Score: 1

    Especially if you give it a massive tooth ache in the process. Then it just might get really annoyed at you.

  2. Beyond the pond on Gut Microbes Can Split a Species · · Score: 3, Funny

    So McDonalds is the reason why Americans are becoming a different species?

  3. Re:Some math about water usage by power plant? on Collision Between Water and Energy Is Underway, and Worsening · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, they can reduce that consumption figure a lot by using air cooling. They can also use the waste heat to distill brine and manufacture drinking water, like in Arabia. This is just another 'Oh no the sky is falling' story.

  4. Air Cooling on Collision Between Water and Energy Is Underway, and Worsening · · Score: 1

    In South Africa, most coal power plants are air cooled. If water use really becomes a problem in the USA, they will change too. In the mean time, this is just a normal 'Oh no the sky is falling' story.

  5. Re:Who is this Steve Lexus? on When Metadata Analytics Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I can hear Agent Smith musing: "I see that you have a large number of 2 hop associates in the middle east. That doesn't look good, Mr Coward."

  6. Android to the rescue? on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would think those units would sell very well once they reloaded them with Linux and marked them down to about $50, same as the Chinese equivalents flooding the market.

  7. Re:Obligatory shot on Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What? · · Score: 1

    Less than that. Although most of those MS Servers probably run BSD, not Windows.

  8. Re:server comparison (BSD vs Micro$loth) on Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I've run various Red Hat servers for over 4 years without a reboot or an upgrade. If it works - leave it alone.

  9. But... on Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What? · · Score: 3, Funny

    do they run Linux?

    Someone got to ask you know.

  10. De Lorian on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pretty soon Tesla will have sold as many cars as De Lorian.

  11. Re:How do I type this? on ICANN Approves First Set of New gTLDs · · Score: 1

    Point and tap on your tablet dude.

  12. Re:But on IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm wondering whether your post deserves a whoosh, or a huh? or whether you are a 4 year old AI...

  13. Strong gas on Very Large Telescope Observes Gas Cloud Being Ripped Apart By Black Hole · · Score: 1

    I never knew that one needs much power to rip a gas cloud apart. Must be strong gas.

  14. Only thing using QR codes on Google Fixes Glass Vulnerability To Malicious QR Codes · · Score: 1

    Goggle Glass must be the only thing that is actually using QR codes.

    Nothing to see here, please move along.

  15. They don't give the keys, just the plain text... on Microsoft Petitions US Attorney General For Permission To Disclose Data Requests · · Score: 0, Troll

    Got to read their weasel words carefully. If they don't provide the keys, then they must provide the plain text. Six of one, half dozen of the other...

  16. Well, duh... on Ancient Mars Ocean Found? · · Score: 0

    Sad, but it has really gotten to the 'well, duh' stage.

    We get it NASA. Mars once had lots of surface water. Said water is now probably sub surface, having sunk in as the core cooled. Now go and drill some wells for oil, gas and water.

  17. Re:Not so Invulnerable now, huh...? on OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine For Viewing, Distributing Porn · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Antivirus - to do what? Your ignorance is astounding and you work in IT? Sigh...

  18. Re:Buttinsky on How To Compete With NSA By Hacking a Verizon Network Extender · · Score: 2

    Whoosh...

  19. Buttinsky on How To Compete With NSA By Hacking a Verizon Network Extender · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the good old bad old days, all you needed to butt into a phone conversation was a Buttinsky phone (linesman test set). Nowadays, you need a whole backpack full of equipment a laptop computer and heavy batteries and we call this progress?

  20. Sidestep the problem on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my experience it is so much easier to avoid the whole problem of Windows malware, simply by installing Linux. I tell my friends that I don't do Windows. They then assume I use a Mac - I use a Mac too, so that isn't wrong. When I tell them that I can install something on their computer that will make it work almost exactly the same as a Mac, then they actually get interested and once they have Linux with XFCE running, they never look back.

  21. Sergeant Major at Leningrad on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    While handing one rifle to every pair of men: The first man takes the rifle and shoot. When he gets shot, the second man picks up the rifle and shoot. 'Nuf sed.

  22. GCHQ doesn't want to log your porn on Leaked Letter Shows UK ISPs and Government At War Over Default Filters · · Score: 1

    I know why they want these filters. GCHQ is getting flooded with porn. The filters are for the good of the country boys. Dog save the Queen.

  23. Re:Weird that people think that way on Samsung Ups Ante In Smartphone Size Wars: 6.3 Inches · · Score: 1

    Phones were huge in the 1960s and 70s. Even the biggest thing they make now is small by comparison to a Motorola brick. Anyhoo, these large tablets make nice desk phones and they work fine with a bluetooth headset.

  24. Re:Don't complain on NSA Spying Hurts California's Business · · Score: 1

    Well, I advise my customers to avoid all foreign services, not just the USA. Whenever you send an email, it is backed up in at least 5 countries.

  25. Re:Skype on NSA Spying Hurts California's Business · · Score: 1

    Skype was quite secure, until Microsoft bought it for the NSA.