Comment Re:On the other hand... (Score 1) 361
On the gripping hand, Slashdot is an american website, and we all have two hands.
Comment Re:from a mathematician (Score 1) 117
Is forming something like a Möbius strip or a Klein bottle allowed? Or am I thinking in a different direction?
I know a Klein bottle has weird characteristics; is it considered closed or simply connected?
Comment Re:Wouldn't the most efficient form of encryption. (Score 2, Insightful) 99
Isn't that like entering a pointer as your submission in the 'Most Information in 32 Bits' contest?
Comment Re:Anybody here? (Score 3, Funny) 234
It's pretty cloudy; I dunno if he'll be able to see the joke whooshing by.
Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 291
I saw :(){:|:&};: floating around for years before I knew what it meant, but I never did work up the curiosity/courage/idiocy to dump it into a command line.
Comment Re:I'm thinking it won't be an issue for all of us (Score 1) 804
I could still be alive in 100 years; I'll only be 120. People live almost that old now, and I have the advantage of 100 years of medical technology.
Comment Re:How on earth... (Score 1) 299
That being said... I'm amazed at how many people think there's some huge government conspiracy out to get them when they can't get simple stuff like this right. Sure, they can listen in on all cell phone calls... but they can't keep a list properly?
Do you really want to be in such a database when they incorrectly flag people as felons in this one, a database not built to sift for any indication of criminal behavior?
The Washington Posts reports that the Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals.
How would you feel about the phone database or the Folsom Street secret room if they released numbers like this for the false positives there? Incompetence doesn't make the action not evil, and in cases like these, it can compound the offense.
Comment Re:all hail... (Score 1) 295
I like:
"Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples." (Early 1980s)
"Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples." (Early 1980s)
Comment Re:Surprise Surprise. (Score 1) 224
Re: Your sig (I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1.):
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Comment Re:Conspiracy theory (Score 1) 793
It certainly falls at least under contempt of court and probably some kind of fraud, even if there's nothing specifically against it.
Comment Re:Ok I'll Bite... (Score 1) 242
Well played, sir.
Comment Re:"Linking People to Information?" (Score 1) 410
It seems to me that they're not selling a whole package. You need to already have your own gun, the client, and you get the ammo from your peers in the swarm when they fire it at you (okay, so the analogy is a little stretched at this point). The only thing you're getting from TPB is directions as to where to point your bit torrent client.
Comment Re:Is this bad enough? (Score 1) 432
It's just crazy enough to work!
Comment Re:747s have broken the sound barrier (Score 3, Funny) 366
+1, relevant sig:
"But this one goes to 11!"
"But this one goes to 11!"
