+ - Bill Gates is like a supervillain in reverse.
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wiredog writes "An interview with Bill Gates about polio eradication and global health."
Comment: We've successfully slashdotted the first web page. (Score 1) 82
Damn timey-wimey stuff.
Comment: In traffic, a VW will get me someplace (Score 4, Insightful) 749
as fast as a Ferrari.
Since I do most of my listening in a car, and am almost 48, I can't hear the difference between an mp3 and a vinyl album, or a cd, most of the time. Well, except for the lack of skipping. Ever try to listen to an LP in a moving car? But I digress. Sure, people who are younger and $pend lot$ of dollar$ on the Finest Audiophile equipment areound can tell. Me in my Chevy? Not so much.
+ - Microsoft releases the 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report->
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wiredog writes "Microsoft has released a report of all the subpoenas and other requests it got from law enforcement in 2012, and the way it responded to them. This is similar to the Google Transparency Report at
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US/"
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https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US/"
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+ - Storm brewing over Weather Channel's bid for ".weather" TLD->
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wiredog writes "From the Capital Weather Gang blog comes the story of the various people and organizations objecting to the Weather Channel's attempt to grab ".weather" for themselves.
I don't know why they would try, since they don't actually do weather forecasting anymore. Just one reality show after another."
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I don't know why they would try, since they don't actually do weather forecasting anymore. Just one reality show after another."
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Comment: Re:Don't scan other people's systems (Score 1) 633
That's not what he said. He said that if he sees an unknown attacker scanning his systems he will report an unknown attacker scanning his systems.
Comment: Re:Idiot. (Score 1) 633
Wow. Such vitriol. If you try you can troll even harder.
Comment: How are we supposed to make fun of crazy people (Score 1) 620
if the police won't let us tape them being crazy?
+ - How 90 percent of one doctor's patients are now Albanian->
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wiredog writes "This is what happens when your drop down list is organized alphabetically, not by "most likely choice" first."
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Comment: Remember crisscross directories? (Score 1) 155
Where you could look up a phone number given an address?
Comment: Written version (Score 1) 617
Comment: New cloning technique. (Score 2) 81
Make sperm and egg from the same source.. Surprised they didn't try that.
Comment: Wrong character (Score 1) 83
Col. Ripper was the one who was upset about the Commies impurifying our manly juices microchips with fluoride.
(Side note: HF is actually used in some chip manufacturing.)
Comment: They aren't on the internet (Score 1) 212
They aren't even on siprnet.
Comment: Re:Umm, I don't get it (Score 2) 747
An analogy:
It's not a crime for a man to visit a public playground, but if the man in question is a parolee with a conviction for child molestation and a court order requiring him to stay 1000 feet away from playgrounds...