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  1. Re:why? what is the point? on In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All right, people, I'm in charge now and we will find the terrorists. Jarvis, I want you to check for any terrorist chatter on AOL. Marley and Greggs, try searching for nuclear devices on askjeeves.com

    This is the level of sophistication we're dealing with. They might catch some really, really stupid criminals. Like the ones that put their bank robbery's on youtube.
    Now bearing in mind that they currently are looking at the connections between communicators, rather than the content of those communications; that's arguably even more dangerous, because it's like a giant fishing expedition combined with "guilty by association".

  2. Obligatory audiophile post on Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want decent audio you need oxygen free speaker cables. Hand made valves for the amps are a given.
    Oh sure, if your gear is CONSUMER GRADE then you could hook it up with a coat-hanger wire.
    I personally avoid anything digital, because I inherited superior hearing, and those 70 kHz frequencies are conspicuously missing from digital compressed audio made for mere mortals.

    Enjoy your 44.1 KHz on your CONSUMER GRADE gear you PEASANT.

  3. Memory on Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just replay the music in my head. This helps avoid copyright infringement suits.
    Be sure not to get carried away, and hum or whistle because that's a performance not covered by Section 117.

  4. Tintin on Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shooting rhinos for the lulz since 1931

  5. Re:Simple solution on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Good advice even if you aren't flying.

  6. Flashblock on Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not just a good idea. It's the law.

  7. Re:An answer in search for a problem? on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you expect me to just take your word for that?

    I'll report back here in one year.

  8. This site best viewed with NOT ie6 on Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I noticed many sites seem to have abandoned IE6 support completely. (Using ie 6 and 7 in virtualized XP for testing stuff)

    This is how it should be. No CSS hacks, just IE6 users seeing the bugs that arise through their usage of the browser.
    And for corporate users who HAVE to use ie6, for the nicest value of "they can fuck off"; they can fuck off.

  9. Re:Interesting thought on The Tech Aboard the International Space Station · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf satellite constellation of those.

  10. Re:Easier fonts means a lot! on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but no more than is already practised by some sites.

    Take link-redressing for example. Noscript often detects attempts to redress links, though somehow google
    manage to redress links without setting off noscript. I never managed to figure out how the jumble of obfuscated javascript on google achieved this.

  11. Re:Physical activity. on FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media · · Score: 1

    Oh stop reinventing the past.

    Before video games, there was a wide range of active and sedate activities to choose from.

  12. Re:It says: 256MB RAM... on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't you mean front?
    All the "cool" people take the back seats.

  13. Re:How to get Ubuntu 9? on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can skip from one LTS release to another. eg: 8.04 to 10.04

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes

  14. Re:Time for my Ubuntu 9.10 Launch Party on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/ef83afc272/hosting-your-windows-7-torrenting-party

    Don't worry, this one isn't cringe-worthy like the original.

  15. Re:no it wasnt.. on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Slashdot confirms it!
    Those party poopers in #ubuntu-release-party are in denial.

  16. Re:Encryption is a bad thing? on "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Absolutely.

    Whilst mentioning encryption causes people to post that f'ing cartoon with the $5 wrench adnauseum, the fact is, even fairly weak encryption whilst data transits though your ISP goes a long long way.

    For example, a certain bone-headed ISP which one of my relatives uses, enforces using their outgoing mail server for "anti-spam reasons".
    Do they log all outgoing emails? You can bet they do. SMTP over SSL raises the bar just high enough that they don't bother any more.

  17. Why the CF bulb hate? on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't know where people have been getting their compact fluorescent bulbs, but I've never experienced one actually wear out since they came on the market.
    I think they are mostly Philips.

  18. Re:Just waiting for this e-mail on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 4, Funny

    non-free?

    I only install FLOSS malware.

  19. Re:marketshare on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But none of us really want a locked down OS

    WTF?
    Microsoft totally fucked up the principle of least privilege from day one. If they hadn't, the damage done by viruses/worms in the history of personal computing, would have been an order of magnitude less.

  20. Re:Please use the torrents on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good for you, but I have to use up as much of virginmedia.com bandwidth as possible, since they turned evil whilst I was an ADSL customer.

    Oh look, netbook remix. I haven't tried that one yet.

  21. Re:I can see it now on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's your point? That mojave marketing stunt didn't address Vista's actual problems.

    Yes I've used it. I found it hideous for all the usual reasons, plus some of my own.
    My brief use of windows 7 RC just confirms that Microsoft are taking windows down a path that I don't wish to follow any more.

  22. Re:140 chars - the holder of so much info on Google Partners With Twitter For Search · · Score: 5, Funny

    Results 1 - 10 of about 368,000,000

    Cant reply im on the toilet right now LOL

  23. Business on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ubuntu works for me. Large community, fixed release schedule.
    But whatever your choice, small to medium sized companies need to plan well ahead *before* they get locked in,
    otherwise one day you'll be in your office and your MS exchange server will say "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that", then you're stuck with the thing forever.

  24. There's somebody wrong on the internet... on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    And it's you!
    There are voting protocols that simultaneously allow:

    Verification of the voter by the voting authority
    Prevention of double (multiple) voting
    Anonymity for the voter to the voting authority
    Verification of the voters own vote

    Begin your research with David Chaum's blind signature.

  25. Re:To be honest... on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is that a joke, a troll, or insurmountable ignorance? I really can't tell.

    Given the total incompetence to date, of any company implementing a voting system, I think open source is the only way it's going to get done right.
    If properly implemented, the voting system can be as secure as the crypto primitives it's built upon.