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Comment: how this happened (Score 1) 121

I have 2 theories. One is Anonymous didn't do this and someone else is lying. Two is anonymous is just as stupid as they seem and just as stupid as any other hacker. Defacement, data stealing, database leaking, causing downtime, they're all considered some pretend major victory by those mostly incompetent morons and script kiddies. They pretend like they can do anything but back in real life you need vulnerable system and specific security flaws to get into something. So if they can't bring the site down and can't deface it or modify it but they found an SQL injection vulnerability in the database so they went with that because at least it's something. Also, they just wouldn't feel special and amazing in their little pretend world if they weren't able to do anything at all to SAPS. So without thinking, they leaked all the data just to prove how "awesome and all powerful" they are. Ugh, give me a break. It's no wonder most of them don't have professional IT jobs. Set aside the clear lack of skill, they have no common sense or planning ability.

Comment: here's a question (Score 2, Insightful) 493

by slashmydots (#43781633) Attached to: Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer
Everyone is freaking out like before this you needed to be God himself to create a firearm. How long does it take a gunsmith to build a gun from scratch? Compare that to the time it takes to design one in AutoCAD or whatever and then 3D print it and assemble it. It's probably pretty comparable and the metal one doesn't look like a bad sci fi prop. I bet I could design a working rifle that would fire a couple bullets from a trip to the hardware store, or especially a shotgun! You need a barrel, aka steel pipe. Then a handle so solder/glue basically anything on. Then you need an end cap with a semi-sealed firing pin to strike the bullet so a piece of scrap metal and a spring. Tada, gun (at about the same reliability level).

Comment: obvioiusly doesn't work (Score 1) 74

by slashmydots (#43778057) Attached to: Viruses In Mucus Protect From Infection
And yet people still get colds and sinus infections. So yeah it would be a lot worse but this isn't some magic cure-all. What I do is nuke everything with zinc at the first sign of any illness and tada, it's gone. It prevents viruses from attaching to the cells along my nose's mucous membranes. I think scientists knew this since like 2004 and after 20/20 did a story on it, New York City sold out of Zinc overnight, as did many other areas. I personally haven't been sick in years and prevented at least 20 colds with zinc. That's the real cure.

Comment: oh that's what we need (Score 1) 501

It had to be Florida? Elderly people suspicious of their neighbors? Yeah, that never happens. Let's give them all an outlet for it! A family from Kosovo moved into my grandma's neighborhood a few years back and she was convinced they were drug-dealing terrorists. It turns out they were just assholes but it's easy for old people to get confused about that.

Comment: Re:You're right but.. (Score 1) 242

by slashmydots (#43744951) Attached to: Leaked Microsoft Video Parodies Chrome Ad
They bought their way to like 18% browser market share or something with dirty techniques like paid co-installers on free games and utilities and their browser still is super glitchy (mostly with flash and page layout), not the fastest or best, and generally is disliked more than other options. So I'd say they're not unhappy about that. Meanwhile, MSN's 3-4% of search turned into Bing's approx 28% of all searches after they bought their way to that level with just advertising and bribing users with sketchy rewards. That's a way larger chunk of money out of Google's pockets so overall they're winning at the moment.

Comment: Re:Insightful video (Score 4, Insightful) 242

by slashmydots (#43744931) Attached to: Leaked Microsoft Video Parodies Chrome Ad

Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.

So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.

Just because the pot called the kettle black doesn't mean the kettle isn't completely, utterly jet black.

In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis

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