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  1. Re:Eh? on Magnets To Replace Bluetooth? · · Score: 1

    Let me guess - you're american. Bluetooth is widely used where I live. Guess where.

  2. Re:Patch delivery mechanism on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1

    You don't need to pay for it, you can have a demo account for one machine for as long as you like. You only have to answer a questionary every 60 days.

  3. Re:Cyrus IMAP for sure.. on Recommendations for the Right IMAP Server? · · Score: 1

    If there's a sufficiently large hole in a sufficiently distributed product (sendmail, bind, apache, etc.)

    There is - iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.10.03: Two Exploitable Overflows in PINE

  4. Re:Stupid lawsuits by the few... on Register.com Loses Class action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    We have lawsuits on other countries aswell. If you win, the numbers are reasonable. Hospital fees payed, and _reasonable_ "damages". We laugh a lot more about people suing for millions of dollars all the time than the actual suits themselves.

  5. Re:I walk by one everyday! on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 1

    That article is even more informative than the one posted on /. - nice!

  6. Re:Because it is true on Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble · · Score: 0, Informative

    The bad thing is that it is not 100%.

    ... because ... why? You want 100% of americans to appear clueless?

    The US government readily admits that they've found no connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda - as do others.

  7. Re:of course... on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    Parent is the most insightful comment I've read in a long time.

  8. Re:The Economist on The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches · · Score: 1

    I asked you for sources for your well-known facts :) Do you have any? Non-US that is, since the winner always writes bad history.

    The reason there ever was an Iron Curtain is because of the US "assistance" in rebuildning Western Europe. The US, of course, only assisted since it suited their own purposes - just like Iraq today. If the US hadn't stayed behind, you wouldn't have had a polarized Europe for so many years, and it's likely that the Soviet Union had been much different.

    Myself I'm Swedish. While I haven't lived on the Eastern side of the wall, I've lived close enough to know the "russian scare", and also to now know how much of the western anti-Communism that was propaganda rather than truth.

    BTW, anyone who writes "In all the history of mankind, no nation with so much power has shown so much self-restraint" should read a few history books. No nation has ever shown so _little_ self-restraint as the US.

  9. Re:The Economist on The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the lesson, now, can you please cite some non-american sources for all that? It really felt like listening to some good ol' US propaganda.

  10. Re:The Economist on The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches · · Score: 1

    ... but the number of Russians who died while defeating Hitler is staggering - and we owe THEM, not the US, our thanks for ridding us of the Nazis.

  11. Re:The Economist on The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No you didn't - learn some history. Russia saved Europe - if they hadn't beaten the crap out of Hitler's eastern army he would've rolled over the American-British invasion army in an instant.

    Hollywood don't teach history, they teach fiction.

  12. Re:Actually... on Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry - but you really don't know the subject at hand. If you want low-latency - go with IIP. That's why I linked to it. If you want a bearer for other applications, storage etc, go with Freenet. There's absolutely nothing in your rantings here that would call for a third solution.

    Freenet MIGHT only use links within a country - or it won't. It doesn't matter - you still have plausable deniability since you don't know what's passing through, links are saturated, stored content is encrypted etc.

    There's absolutely no point in forcing routes abroad since who extradites who could change _tomorrow_. If you want anonymity and security, you design a network that doesn't _need_ to rely on such a thing.

  13. Re:Actually... on Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers? · · Score: 1

    What? Freenet is a bearer like TCP/IP - and fits the description perfectly. You can then do whatever you want on top of that - how is that not "grandly" enough?

    ... and WTF is "international links"? Freenet is used worldwide.

  14. Re:Actually... on Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers? · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know .. I'm actively working on WASTE actually ;) It doesn't fit the grandparents description of plausable-denial-routing though.

  15. Re:Actually... on Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers? · · Score: 1
    These networks exists. Invisible IRC and Freenet.

  16. Re:video phones? on What's Always Next? · · Score: 1

    Ah the beauty of american propaganda. Did you know that Iraq was a very wealthy country before the Iraq-Iran war (when USA was Iraq's ally)? Very wealthy - high living standards, very good social health care etc. The Iran-Iraq war took its toll on all that - but the REAL devastation came when US bombed Iraq back to the dark ages from -91 and onwards.

    Don't you just feel like an idiot when you don't know the truth and just spew US propaganda from Fox News instead?

    30m from my flat is a grocery store run by someone who used to live in Iraq - he was an English teacher there. I can promise you - he was no friend of Saddam, he actually fled from Iraq to Sweden. However - what he has to say about Iraq still differs quite a lot from what the US wants people to believe ...

  17. Re:video phones? on What's Always Next? · · Score: 5, Informative

    See the US vs half of South America - or why not the US vs Iraq -91. No country has bombed anywhere near the amount the US has since the 1940's.

    The US also holds an unprecedented amount of support for terrorists in favour of removing the people's elected governments and replacing them with dictators.

    Troll? Only in the eyes of ill-educated americans.

  18. Re:video phones? on What's Always Next? · · Score: 1

    It's the US that bombs countries back to the dark age - no one else.

  19. Re:Before... on Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS · · Score: 1

    Doing that I get a lot of garbled characters in the manpage. (I.e, where there's supposed to be "special chars" I get garbled ascii)

  20. Re:Before... on Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS · · Score: 1

    [troed@knut troed.se]$ man iso
    No manual entry for iso

    To get the programs to work I force my language settings _to_ US_en from UTF8 - then everything's ok. RedHat's stance on this is that non compliant programs aren't worthy of their distribution (pine) - but some obviously are.

  21. Re:What difference does it make? on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 1

    Let me guess - you're american. In Sweden almost everyone use ICQ. Why should've ever changed?

  22. Re:Before... on Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS · · Score: 1

    Several of the tools ('less' etc) that came with my RedHat 9 do not show the Swedish characters aa and o correctly.

  23. Re:What difference does it make? on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 1

    Installed user base? Then it's ICQ you should use - and always has been.

  24. Re:Rediculous on New Dell Clickthrough Software License · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are such laws ...

    ... outside of the US.

    You know, in the sane world.

  25. Re:MD5 Cannot stand up in court. on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1
    Start at guessing at about 4000000 "cracks" a second for usual implementations.

    NetBSD did ~700000/second in Aug 2000 (Dunno the hardware)