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Comment: Had this conversation a million times... (Score 4, Funny) 505

by kid_wonder (#42451621) Attached to: Trip To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains

Me: "Here's a pen dad, sign the picture for them"
Dad: "Why do they want my signature?"
Me: "You were an astronaut when you were younger, you went to the moon"
Dad: "What?"
Me: "Yes, you went to the moon."
Dad: "We've been to the moon? That is amazing!!!"
Me: "Yes Dad, and *you* have been to the moon"
Dad: "*I've* been to the moon?!?"
Me: "Absolutely, see that picture you are signing? That is you"
Dad: "OK. Why am I signing this?"
Me: "Your were an astronaut when you were younger, you went to the moon" ...

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+ - Researchers Convert Phones into Secret Listening Devices->

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CowboyRobot writes "Columbia University grad student Ang Cui demonstrated how networked printers and phones can be abused by attackers. "The attack I demonstrated is caused by the multiple vulnerabilities within the syscall interface of the CNU [Cisco Native Unix] kernel," Cui tells Dark Reading. "It is caused by the lack of input validation at the syscall interface, which allows arbitrary modification of kernel memory from userland, as well as arbitrary code execution within the kernel. This, in turn, allows the attacker to become root, gain control over the DSP [Digital Signal Processor], buttons, and LEDs on the phone. The attack I demonstrated patches the existing kernel and DSP in order to carry out stealthy mic exfiltration.""
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Comment: Re:Dental History Lesson (Score 1) 783

by kid_wonder (#42147823) Attached to: UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact

Ah, one more thing we introduced to Europe: personal hygiene ... it's a work in progress, I suppose

Naturally crooked teeth are not unhealthy.

It's only unhealthy when your wife's lower bicuspid is lacerating my penis. Hey-oooo!

Obviously Americans are full of their own ideas of what is normal and correct, and we all get to hear about it :)

Yep. Suck it losers. Go have some tea, spell color wrong, add e's to the end of words that don't need it and think you have not been conquered by McDonald's and Coca-Cola. My advice? Buy bigger pants, you're gonna need 'em after you get done shoving our culture down your throat and washing it down with liquid America.

You guys are so *cute* when you get all proud and stuff!

Comment: Re:You shouldn't have to mandate this (Score 4, Funny) 783

by kid_wonder (#42143443) Attached to: UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact

Well, it's all the brits fault to begin with.
You *had* to have your stupid tea tax didn't you? See how silly that sounds now?
Yeah, now look at you. McDonalds on every corner, getting fat and fundamentalist.
Look at what you have wrought.
I could have been a nice, loyal, queen-loving, crooked-teeth-having, meat-pie eating subject, but noooooo you had to be a tough guy.

Thanks England!

Comment: monetize your work (Score 1) 128

by kid_wonder (#41801773) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Funding Models For a Free E-book?

Not sure how big of a market you are talking about here, nor the material(s) involved - for example, is it a straight textbook or are there lessons, syllabi(?), etc

Create a free version and a paid version. The paid version should obviously provide some substantial improvement and/or additional features from the free version. Perhaps those lessons and/or syllabi

If this is an on-going process of improvement then at some point you could make your older versions free and charge for the newer version -- even have some sort of a step down. Say full price for v3.0, half price for v2.0 and free for v1.0

I mean, thats how software has done it for years and that seems to be sticking around so it must work, right?

Comment: Re:Dolphins are jerks! (Score 1) 139

by kid_wonder (#41707447) Attached to: Dolphins Can Sleep One-half of Their Brain At a Time Say Researchers

could not agree with you more. as much as i respect their intelligence and creativity and all that ...

but they are still the worst monsters on the planet ... ok, well besides us.

and just because i can't find an article about dolphins raping humans does not mean that it doesn't happen. you have been warned

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