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  1. Re:Well I say on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 2

    I always preferred 'The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less'. Still EA is a huge organization, and it is possible to deride them for some things while giving them props for others.

    Maxim 29.

  2. Re:75 MHz 286 on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 1

    286 is 16bit I believe? I believe this is the first time anyone has actually run the linux kernel on less than 16bit which is the base the first linux was designed to run on.

  3. Re:I'm glad to hear this on Apple Is Forced By EU To Give 2 Years Warranty On All Its Products · · Score: 1

    My 5 year Seagate drives are still running which is more than I can say for any WD drives I've had in that timeframe, had some before that that lasted about 1 year before total fail or major corruption too.

  4. Re:Marvelously versatile on Aviation Security Debate: Bruce Schneier V. Kip Hawley (Former TSA Boss) · · Score: 2
    I'll just quote a great comedian:

    Jeff Dunham: [Walter is complaining about suicide bombers] You know, Walter, those guys actually believe that if they martyred themselves like that, there'll be 72 virgins waiting for 'em in paradise.
    Walter: Well, April Fool, dumb-ass! If there are virgins waiting for you, there'll be 72 guys just like you! "Oh, no, this is not what Osama said it would be!" Seventy-two virgins? Why not 72 slutty broads who know what the hell they're doing?

  5. Re:Barney is ******! on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 1

    Darn, you beat me to the correction, I'll stick to using large values of 2.

  6. Re:Not a fan of optional on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    AES was designed to be hardware accelerated in the NIST standardization process, it's one of the reasons Rijndael won to become AES.

  7. Re:Not a fan of optional on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Encryption takes more time and data for the handshake and integrity checks and compression will make a huge difference on hypertext and other text only data.

  8. Re:SSL needs to be mandatory on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Most governments worldwide have their own certificate authority with root certificates in browsers. So they don't need to put pressure on an 3rd party to do it.

  9. Re:Barney is fucked! on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 2

    2+2=5 for large values of 2.

  10. Re:Wasted taxpayer money on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    My favourite is thermorectal cryptanalysis, I hear it gives very good results.

  11. Re:Not much good if the passcode is easy to guess on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    all mobile phones can dial the national emergency number while locked, it's a legal requirement in several countries so say if i come across an accident and borrow the injured persons phone I can dial for an ambulance.

  12. Re:I noticed the blocks. on Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger · · Score: 1

    Including Google Talk? I've never seen from such tactics there, and XMPP is much more resilient to spam in the first place being default is no messages from users without presence notification. Finally the Google Talk clients from Google even have OTR built in.

  13. Re:Soyuz capsules... on Space Junk Forced Astronauts Into ISS Escape Capsules · · Score: 1

    The shuttle can house upto 11 crew members (emergency missions), 5-8 is common, 2 is minimum to run the flight systems (first few test flights). And has had 2 failures out of 135 launches.
    There are several different Soyuz variations which have different characteristics, we are in the fourth generation which has three separate designs (two in current service, one retired), however no Soyuz ever been in service has been able to support more than 3 crew (some models had a maximum of 2). Crew in the Soyuz capsule must wear space suits since the depressurization of Soyuz 11 killed all crew aboard. The Soyuz capsule is launched on the Soyuz rocket which is also used for unmanned flights too (usually satellite launches and ISS resupply runs), while considered the most reliable with over 1700 launches (exact numbers are hard to come by as it gets used for various military/intelligence launches too) it has had several failure (4 I think, one of which killed several ground crew) on several unmanned runs. That makes 5 failures by my count.

  14. Re:It's not a frickin truck! on 'Space Freighter' On Its Way to Resupply International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Who said it was a tuck? Oh, you think ATV stands for All Terrain Vehicle when in fact it is Automated Transfer Vehicle.
    There is also the Agenda Target Vehicle which was an unmanned capsule to practice docking with in the Gemini program and Advanced Technology Vessel is also the name of the Indian's nuclear submarine development program which leads to Arihant Class which is supposed to be in harbor acceptance trails now for commissioning of a fleet of four by 2015.
    Maybe you need to learn the acronyms and acronyms and initialisms can mean more that one thing around the world.

  15. Except that is not a democracy, it's a representative republic, maybe you need to read democracy 101.

  16. 1) Dealing in stolen goods both buying and selling is illegal in itself, 2) The police have a possible lead back to who it was bought from, 3) the stolen item can be recovered and returned to the rightful owner.

  17. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    A trademark is only in relation to a particular trade so a publishing company called hoover publishing has no relation to the vacuum cleaner company and therefore is not infringing trademark in any way. Also the BBC article does state the filing is for copyright infringement which under UK law may actually be technically applicable, but the judge will laugh it out of court as if we start claiming a single word or two is copyrightable in itself then well, every book infringes on every other book.

  18. Re:Hmm... on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    Well, it's spelled Petey.

  19. Re:Cross functional standard that is driven by mgm on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    bravo-delta-zero-one-papa-tango-zero-three-four-charlie. It's a shame this problem was actually solved back in 1932 (though not perfectly being the currently used variant).

  20. Re:Cross functional standard that is driven by mgm on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    You can blame NetBIOS name service for that one (windows zeroconfig host discovery), especially the populating of "workgroup" on certain Windows versions which would always display in all capitals.

  21. Re:Be creative but have rules on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    I have hostnames for all clients and servers on my network, so Ghandi and Excallibur are the routers (Ambassador class). Phone is Voyager, goes with me everywhere, deep exploration. Enterprise is my laptop, shorter range exploration more likely to be used by others (meeting new civilizations). Desktop is defiant (most powerful in raw CPU)...

  22. Re:Now that I'm mid 30's I realize I'm not young. on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    Okay, so Ewok, Jawa, Muffit, Tribble?

  23. Re:Server Names: The Next Generation on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 2

    My home net has enterprise, voyager, defiant, ghandi, excalibur.

  24. Re:Fermi Paradox on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    Then we can perform the Riker maneuver (one of the few good bits in the whole of Star Trek: Innsurection).

  25. Re:Wtf? on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just in London alone there are about 3 different enough accents to throw off any pattern matching algorithm.