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  1. Re:Why? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    You've been moderated informative whilst revealing top secret Scientology scripture. Prepare for a DMCA takedown.

  2. Battery testing methods on Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA,

    The old testing method: A picture showing a naked man stretching his anus to a large and disproportionate size. The Sony employee reaches into the anus and pulls out the battery figures.

    The new method involves running the laptop until the battery is exhausted and timing the result.

  3. Fragile data on Tabula Rasa Promotion To Send Gamers' DNA to Space · · Score: 3, Insightful

    DNA molecules are fragile, and hard drives even more so.
    The DNA data will be shredded by cosmic rays, and even if it wasn't, how exactly would that save the human race in case of an extinction level event.

  4. Re:More reason? on The Google Navy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think they can manage 12 nano meters

  5. Re:A cookie? on A Setback for ISP Web Tracking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exactly. Am I supposed to white list every scumbag company that provides an "opt-out" cookie. That just doesn't make sense because the supply of scumbag companies is practically unlimited.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Phorm_cookie_diagram.png
    Just look at all the spoofing nonsense. That just adds points of failure.

    If you haven't switched away from your phorm infested ISP by now, then be sure to add both *phorm* AND *webwise.net* to your ad blocker.
    Remember, friends don't let friends use (AOL|talktalk|virgin.net|BT)

  6. Re:Land of the free on UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is that some sarcasm; it's impossible to tell?

    Perhaps in the UK they (we? ex-pat here), haven't had the sue happy lawyers going after every man and his dog yet. But perhaps this is the beginning.

  7. Re:by "funnest" on AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting · · Score: 1

    Hey, these people know what they are talking about.
    I mean I don't see you with a Fungineering degree.

  8. Monopoly of China mobile on China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    China Telecom & China mobile are no longer actual monopolies, but still control enough of the market to be very monopolistic in nature.

    You can expect SMS interoperability...never, and the last I heard, they were pissed off with the potential of skype-like services cutting into their profits and were going after skype-out with great vengeance and furious anger.

  9. All the good names are taken on Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you having problems finding good gustav scam domains? Try taking a page out of the web 2.0 book. Here are a few to get you started:

    yougustav.com
    mygustav.com
    gustavr.com

  10. Oh, there goes another one on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    I'll just tick that off my "You know when your country resembles the novel 1984 when..." list

    Right, I'm off down the pub for a quick 1/2 litre.

  11. Re:Crowdsource it! on Newark and the Future of Crime Fighting · · Score: 4, Funny

    This police report is a stub. You can help the Metropolitan Police by expanding it.

  12. Re:Capacitors on Abit To Bow Out of Mainboard Market · · Score: 1

    I hardly think this a problem any more.

    My MSI K9N neo has all solid caps, and thankfully it seems many boards are going this way, filtering in from the high end down.

  13. Re:Block China? on China Blocks More Internet Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Precisely why we shouldn't.
    Cultural imperialism is our most effective weapon, and for it to work we need all channels as open as possible.

    Let a country completely wall itself off and you end up with North Korea, where the general population's world view in no way resembles the actual physical reality.

  14. Re:Stairs? on Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton · · Score: 4, Funny

    People said that about the Daleks too.

  15. So let me get this straight... on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    The transponder doesn't do challenge response, it just spews out an ID number when polled?

  16. Don't worry it's only 0.7% of the population on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    I think we can trust the government with an all powerful, all knowing national ID database hooked up to an slightly psychotic artificial intelligence now.

  17. Re:Nobody is born on the 1st of January on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    Whoooooooooosh

  18. Nobody is born on the 1st of January on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously!

    If anyone puts the 1st of January as their birth date, it is only because that is the most convenient fake birth date to enter on an HTML form.

    01/01/ and then whatever year you need to be to apply for whatever it is you are applying for.

  19. Out of interest on DPI and Net Neutrality's Overseas Weak Spot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How much extra resources are used in delivering a page by HTTPS instead of HTTP?

  20. Re:Just for Google? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Old fashioned way on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    Don't use liquid ink then. Laser toner is vanishingly cheap. If you have the right laser printer, you just stick in a funnel and pour in more.

  22. Re:more bags of marbles? on Stars Could Shine In Many Universes · · Score: 1

    Yes uni means one. This is such an important point that it needed to be posted twice.

  23. Uncanny Valley on Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Those altered faces are somewhere between Bunraku puppet and a prosthetic hand

  24. Re:Protect children from porn on McCain Releases Technology Platform · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem is that adults forget what it was like being a kid, and try to hoard all the porn for themselves. This is totally misguided, and kids need porn just as much as the rest of us.

  25. Re:Nobody is to blame on How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no strong or weak DRM. At some point the data is decrypted, and at that point you extract it. End of story.

    It just takes one person to make it into a "cheap off the shelf tool that requires no expertise", and there will always be at least one programmer out there scratching their own itch.