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  1. Re:Sounds ugly on SSLStrip Now In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Is this so bad as it sounds?

    Technical: Yes.
    Real-world-home-server: No.

    Talk about choices...

  2. Re:Uh, yeah! on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    i won't argue - i never stated that they are allowed to do ANYthing. But still they are seeking whays to maximize profit - as long as this doesn't collide with local laws. This is a more specific case of what i wrote not a falsification.

    I'm almost too sure that facebook has a set of lawyers who evaluated if the ToS do collide with any laws in the US - and obviously they came to the conclusion that they are allowed to do what they are doing.

  3. Re:Uh, yeah! on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    And exactly where does this rant contradict my statement?

  4. Re:Naive thinking... on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Really? I don't think so - i don't know the table-structure of facebook but i worked with a few CRMs. And all of them stored everything forever. "Deleted"-tags were applied to every comment, picture, etc - but nothing got really purged. In the database structure everything was still available.

  5. Re:Uh, yeah! on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah - and if you paint your car green it'll get recepted as a tree. Your logic's somehow screwed up.

    Seriously - what i wanted to say is this: You're using a free service which is provied by a commercial company. You really don't have to be surprised if they somehow seek ways to be profitable.

  6. Re:Naive thinking... on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    And sure as hell - if you deleted your account it wouldn't have been deleted anyway. It just wears a "deleted"-flag so it isn't publicly displayed any more.

  7. Uh, yeah! on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 4, Informative
    There's an ancient proverb describing the evolution of those ToS:

    You get what you paid for.

  8. Re:FOXP2 on Scientists Map Neanderthal Genome · · Score: 2, Informative
    Nah.

    FOXP2 is responsible for "language development" with songbirds and other animals(*), too. If your logic would be correct, birds would talk like humans - which they obviously don't. (*)

    The FOXP2 protein sequence is highly conserved. Similar FOXP2 proteins can be found in songbirds, fish, and reptiles such as alligators.

    see here

  9. Re:It justifies on 45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Illegal copying is like using drugs.

    i really can't see why this is modded funny.

  10. call me... on Micron Demos SSD With 1GB/sec Throughput · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...when it's there. i'd take one - duke nukem forever would just run fine on this thingy!

  11. News at 11! on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Advertisements not telling the truth.

    Next up: Giant footsteps in Alaska not done by Yetis - Signs of prehistoric giantmice found.

  12. Oblig. on Google Terminates Lively · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...They should change the name in Deadely.

  13. Erm. on FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The database will be established and administered by a third party, or parties, to be selected through a public notice process to solicit interested parties.

    1. Such a database can't be operated at no (or low) cost.

    The locations where wireless microphones are used, such as entertainment venues and for sporting events, can be registered in the database and will be protected as for other services.

    2. Registering such devices will most propable cost money to keep up with the expenses needed for operating the database.
    3. To save money people won't register their devices.
    4. ???
    5. Pro...erm... Interference.

  14. Re:In other news: on Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There was this screensaver. Man, the good ol' times... i'm so glad they're gone.

  15. In other news: on Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not all flying things are ducks.

  16. Re:Kent Brock - s/ro/e - Kent Beck on When Agile Projects Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Meh, it's Clark Kent, you insensitive clod!

  17. hey aussies! on It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looking for a way to burn money? I got a different idea...

    ...i'll contact you with my SWIFT-code.

    Truly yours and thanks in advance, cosmocain

  18. Who cares... on China Eases Licensing Rules For Foreign Media Sources · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...about financial information when all human-rights-related things still get filtered? this is no good news for the masses, it only shows the two-faced attitude of china towards capitalism/communism.

  19. Re:Zachary Quinto on First Trek Film Footage Unveiled · · Score: 4, Funny

    the most perfect? are you more surer or is he maybe even more perfectererer?

  20. Re:Trailer Story FAIL on First Trek Film Footage Unveiled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or at least give useful information [...]

    You must be new here.

  21. Re:A good one pre-installed with windows... on Good Freeware System Snapshot Tool For Windows? · · Score: 1

    okay, it might be "DUH!" as well...

    i knew i would end up talking to myself - but i didn't see it coming that fast.

  22. Re:A good one pre-installed with windows... on Good Freeware System Snapshot Tool For Windows? · · Score: 1

    you know, there's just one word to describe that answer:

    ERM?!

  23. Don't they know? on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 1

    Green and blue (and even lesser: blue with white print) do not match!

  24. Re:Hello World already running on DSI on Nintendo DSi Sells Out Quickly, Reviews Coming In · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, THAT'S great news.

    No, i'm not totally shocked by the fact that the DSi has been hacked. It's more like: Erm, wouldn't you please stop reading the summary at line 1?

    (which, predictably, has already been hacked)

  25. This is really obligatory! on Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take this!