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  1. Re:What if she doesn't actually know? on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I either flood the room with helium, and put on an oxygen mask, or I find a less sucky analogy.

  2. Re:What if she doesn't actually know? on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Nope. I meant Helium, as it would escape when the hole was bored, or whatever other method they might use to open the safe, and allow volatile and dangerous oxygen to enter and react with whatever chemical countermeasures you have set up in your safe.

  3. Re:What if she doesn't actually know? on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Suppose I have a safe, in which I keep all my secret papers. The police cannot force me to open that safe. The best they can do is seize my safe, and try to crack it themselves. If I care for the integrity of my safe, and it's worth more than the papers, then I'm going to open it for them. If I care more for keeping my papers secret, I'm going to let them try to open it, in the hopes that they won't get it open. I will also not mention that the safe is filled with helium, and letting oxygen in will destroy the contents.

  4. Re:Optimistic on Turning E-Mail into a Social Network · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  5. Re:How does a disappearing antenna help? on "Stealth" Plasma Antennas · · Score: 1

    Well, if they don't care about having any wireless comms of their own...

  6. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north on RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers · · Score: 1

    We're talking about Canada. It's always winter.

  7. Re:Or maybe.... on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 1

    Completely busted. We managed to get it into a nearby parking lot with a police officer pushing, and myself and another police officer pushing on the tires to keep them in the right direction. Not something that could have been done alone, even if alone had included a tow truck.

    As fas as my car emergency kit goes, I've got a tool kit, one of those battery pack things so that I can jump my car without needing another car, a can of tire goo for temporarily fixing flats, a jack, a blanket, and a minimal first aid kit. Thus, nothing other than hazard blinkers to warn the other cars. Should I upgrade? Maybe, though most of the driving I do keeps me in populated areas. It's a rare occasion when I wouldn't be able to walk to civilization from my car, and I'm not a man in favor of walks greater than a few miles.

  8. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north on RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers · · Score: 1

    Your numbers seem to be incontrovertible. That'll teach me to go off of things like "Canada is the second largest country in the world" when we only care about the part that you can walk on.

  9. Re:I googled my name and... on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    881,000 for [First][Last]. "[First][Last]" got 749, of which 5 referred to me, 4 of which could get you my state, and two of those were on the same site.

  10. Re:I, for one... on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    But he can't move U.S. currency back to the gold standard. Best odds say that he won't get the chance to build a Supreme Court willing to repeal Roe vs. Wade either, but even if he did, would it be so bad to have that be decided by the states instead of on a national level? Personally, I've always subscribed to the "If you don't like abortions, don't get one." view.

  11. Re:Ambivalent feelings on RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers · · Score: 1

    I would consider the law to be flawed, and work against it. I don't even pirate, but I'd start if I needed to oppose something like that.

  12. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north on RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know at least twenty people that would volunteer for a Labatt Blue-boarding.

  13. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north on RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Canada's got way more land mass than the U.S. Only country with more land mass than Canada is Russia.

  14. Re:Finding yourself in Google on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    Heh. According to the first two pages of my Google search, I am a stunt double, a football player, a reviewer on Amazon, a MySpace bot, and a bigwig at Tower Financial Planning. Looks like I'm about as close to incognito on the web as you're going to find.

  15. Re:Nokia 1100 on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    My LG does this too.

  16. Re:Mystifying on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    For me, the camera is a flashlight. Just set the flash to Always On, go into camera mode, and there it is. I could care less about taking pictures.

  17. Re:what's the big deal? on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    Sometimes an employee may become malicious later. If the new company were unscrupulous, they might easily ask a recently acquired employee how much information they could access about the inner workings of their competition. It's like trying to get a skilled hacker out of a network, just because there's so much material they can access.

  18. Re:Or maybe.... on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 1

    Last week when the front tyrod broke on my car in the middle of an intersection, that's when.

  19. Re:Microsoft isn't the only irresponsible company on The World's Biggest Botnets · · Score: 3, Informative

    DD-WRT. Problem solved.

  20. Re:Who need so to imagine? on The World's Biggest Botnets · · Score: 1

    No malaria vaccine is going to work. Malaria is caused by parasites. Getting a vaccine for malaria would be like getting a vaccine for ducks. Only the symptoms can be treated.

  21. Re:Well.... on The World's Biggest Botnets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Millions of Radiohead downloaders aren't telling me that I've won some European lottery, that's how. I could care less if these botnets were all doing SETI@home. I'd be pleased if they were all doing Folding@home. But they're filling my inbox instead.

  22. Re:Well.... on The World's Biggest Botnets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, smart people who know plenty about security punish all of us and use the clueless as their weapons. Your statement is like blaming the bullet for a murder instead of the killer. Without a functioning mind building these botnets, it wouldn't matter to us how stupid the rest of humanity is.

  23. Re:Does it run on Windows? on The World's Biggest Botnets · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a well-known fact that SELinux was developed to confound hackers. It is a less-known fact that the trick is to try to get them to install it.

  24. Re:Did I miss something? on The Dumber Android Is, the Better, Say Experts · · Score: 3

    Did you just fix your own, or did you give back to the community that provided the app?

  25. Re:hmm on Evidence of Historical Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis · · Score: 1

    Vampires are simple. They don't bother to bite non-humans.

    Ghosts work because only sentient creatures will have the 'unfinished business' to keep them here.

    Zombies? Well, how do you know there aren't lots of cockroach zombies? It takes all sorts of crap to kill them, maybe they're just already dead?