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  1. Useless data on Your Cloud Provider (Probably) Isn't Spying On You · · Score: 2

    Data is not the same thing as information.

  2. Edlin on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Nothing did more to frustrate programmers than Edlin.

  3. Re:Influential? on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Specifically dBase II. There never was a dBase I, since base I numerals are rather useless.

  4. Re:I'm part of the problem on Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure · · Score: 1

    Ive been telling people for years that I dont do windows. Works like a charm.

  5. Re:Don't worry Iran... on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 1

    I measured the temperature of a concrete runway surface at 72 Celsius.

  6. Don't worry Iran... on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bah, only +50 Celsius. Quite useless in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Siria...

  7. Re:Tip on Trojanized SSH Daemon In the Wild, Sending Passwords To Iceland · · Score: 1

    All the machines I cleaned up got hacked due to some wise guys who thought that using 4 letter passwords were kewl.

  8. Re:All about deniability on Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Yup, it doesn't matter that the encryption is flawed. What is not flawed is that the same file, uploaded by different people, will result in a different sequence of bits. Therefore, there is no easy way for the **AA or any *** to compare files on the site with other files and come up with a list of 'infinging' files. The purpose of the encryption is really just scrambling and for that it is probably good enough.

  9. Re:3D in VM on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 1

    I used to have a ME install disk...

  10. Re:Randomized passwords are the best on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 1

    Memorizing only the phone numbers is useless if you forget the names and faces of the girls...

  11. It is so simple... on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    It is so simple, even a caveman can do it!

  12. You have to ask? on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 1

    You have to ask, about something this simple... Dude, you have much bigger problems. Don't wander out of sight of your nanny.

  13. Hole in the water on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 1

    So they want to store energy in a hole in the water. I thought Holy Water was patented by the Catholic Church.

  14. Big Pharma is to blame... on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, the purpose of the scanners is to increase cancer in the general population, so that Big Pharma can make more money with chemotherapy drugs...

  15. Re:Polarized sunglasses? on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    3D glasses are cross polarized - one lens is vertical, the other horizontal. Sunglasses have both lenses vertically polarized.

  16. Re:Meanwhile, 25 years from now... on DARPA Wants Distributed Network of Deep Sea Storage Units · · Score: 1

    Yup, this will be so cool. Imagine your own personal armoury. Finally a modern version of the battleships game.

  17. Bad quality electrons? on Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing · · Score: 1

    Why is this called a scam? Did the subcontractor use bad quality electrons?

  18. Re:Obligated on Belgian Consumer Organization Sues Apple For Not Respecting Warranty Law · · Score: 1

    Pardon me, but you missed a whole two leter word in that sentence, not merely an apostrophe.

  19. Shows how good they were at creative accounting on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 4, Informative

    That shows how good they were at cooking the books, if malpractise can't be proven. They should open a school for Creative Accounting.

  20. Re:The 4K tablet. on The Best and Worst From CES 2013 · · Score: 1

    Only a pick-pocket would want a tablet pocketed.

  21. Re:Why do you want to combine them? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems? · · Score: 1

    "keep a copy for themselves" If you do this distributed storage software right, then it will be fault tolerant and encrypted.

  22. Re:Cracking down on cash... on Norway Tax Auditors Want To Open Source Cash Registers To Combat Fraud · · Score: 1

    Meh, the really successful ones will pay for the house in cash. Why have a mortgage when a briefcase full of cash is so much easier?

  23. Re:Similar in Portugal on Norway Tax Auditors Want To Open Source Cash Registers To Combat Fraud · · Score: 1

    I heard that Petty Cash boxes are selling amazingly well in Portugal...

  24. No matter what they do, nothing prevents the clerk from hitting the No Sale button, or simply not hitting any button at all.

  25. This is NOT Fracking... on Geothermal Power Advances · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No Sir, anything but. Not fracking at all. Fracking is only done by the evil gas companies...