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  1. Alternative to Satellites on Satellite Images Used to Document International Atrocities · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google Maps. Street View! Explore secret CIA prisons at the cell level, Virtually from your desktop.

  2. Re:Don't use it if you don't like it! on Privacy Group Gives Google Lowest Possible Grade · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah right. What are you going to use instead?

    Ask Jeeves? ...didn't think so.

  3. Re:A fix? on China Censoring Flickr · · Score: 1

    Yes I do. What was your point?

  4. Re:A fix? on China Censoring Flickr · · Score: 1

    No offence but who gives a fuck about violating the "wishes" of human rights violators.

    Also, how do you sue, charge with treason and extradite a website?

  5. What I don't get about quantum entanglement is... on Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer · · Score: 1

    Isn't it like having a pair of shoes, and you separate the shoes into two boxes. You then you take your shoe in a box away, and upon opening the box you observe that you have the left shoe.

    Ahah! That means the other one was a right shoe. No information is transmitted though. How is it not like that?

    Maybe someone can convert this to a car analogy to explain it better.

  6. Good business model on Millions of Addresses, Thousands of Sites, One Business · · Score: 1

    They should also include malware along with the google ads on these spam domains.

    You see, the malware will break windows, but that's ok because it will create work for anti-virus writers, who in turn will have more money to spend on bread in the bakers. The baker will buy shoes benefiting the cobbler.

    Everyone in society therefore benefits from domain squatting scumbags.

    Adblock http://.googlesyndication.com/*

  7. Treacherous computing included on How Classsmate PC Stacks Up Against OLPC · · Score: 1

    Classmate PC comes with Treacherous computing. I'm not buying this 'market forces will sort it out/competion is always good' argument that keeps being posted.
    The OLPC is definitly more in the spirit of charity.

  8. Re:Be careful what you wish for... on Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    might inadvertently end up forcing them to use Linux instead And this would be bad because...?
  9. Pre-pwned windows on Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not a false positive. The Chinese pirated copies of windows probably come pre-installed with Backdoor.Haxdoor

  10. Yes I can just see that working on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scanning registry 1 of 1000 MB...

    Found alexa
    Found About Blank
    Found Russian spam bot
    Found Office 2003

    Attempting to apt-get...

    Could not find alexa
    Could not find bonzi buddy
    Could not find Russian spam bot
    Installing open office

    Importing spam mail 3 of 106,184

    Done.

  11. Re:The most enigmatic one on Culture Determines Which Emoticon You Use · · Score: 3, Funny

    /-{ }-\

    What does this one say about culture?

  12. Heavy elements? on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I only had time to skim TFA, but it says this ancient star contains heavy elements (Heavier than iron). Since the fusion reaction that produces iron consumes energy, the heavy elements must have come from a different star.
    0.5 billion years seems quite quick for a few stars to go super nova, then condense into another star with the required heavy elements in.

  13. Re:What platform? on What Business Software Runs Your Office? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I run a much smaller business and our office is running ubuntu. We have a server which was originally random cobbled together hardware but has been replaced by a proper server.
    The main applications are LAMP based and I wrote them myself originally, although they have been extended quite a bit since then.
    Any of the growing number of thin clients can access our database through the LAN.

    At the moment not having to pay for software licences, and being able to add new clients at the low cost of just a mobo, RAM, input devices and LCD screen IS a big deal for us, but later down the line this setup should have other advantages too.

  14. Hotmail features on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 4, Funny

    As long as they keep the 'deliver all mail to the trash' feature they can style it however they like.

  15. Re:Isn't this the key that was revoked? on Censoring a Number · · Score: 1

    Ah, player keys are the ones that get revoked. This is THE key.
    Good so AACS is totally broken, but I haven't really been following this story since I'm never going to buy into HD-DVD ever.

  16. Isn't this the key that was revoked? on Censoring a Number · · Score: 1

    If so then why the attempt at censorship.

  17. start-run- apt-get install visual studio! on OLPC to Run Windows, Come to the US · · Score: 1

    What is the point of the $3 windows starter edition.
    I thought an important point of shipping linux appart from cost was that it comes ready to do "stuff".

    Does XP starter come with freecell?

  18. Re:Why use chinese services at all? on New MySpace China Tells Users to Spy on Each Other · · Score: 1

    Parenthesis got removed from "Don't be evil" making it look like a total non-sequitur

  19. Why use chinese services at all? on New MySpace China Tells Users to Spy on Each Other · · Score: 1

    Since the Chinese equivalent of most services are so perverted as per the governments requirements Don't be evil, why are they used at all. Not sure how MUCH safer it would be to use MSN messenger vs tencent QQ, for example, since i'm sure MS would hand any information over as soon as it was requested, but chinese language versions of most online services are out these, and at least the servers can't physically be ceased.

    Those last two, "spreading rumours or disturbing the social order" are vague enough to include absolutely anything.
    I look forward to slashdot.cn with moderation options -1 Endangeringnationalsecurity and -1 Godirectlytojaildonotcollect200RMB

  20. Suggested tag on First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture Technology · · Score: 1

    dropagianticecubeintotheoceaneverynowandthen

  21. Re:DS Emulators? on Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Released in U.S. · · Score: 1

    Offtopic?

    No$gba can run these games. That's a gba emulator written in assembly.
    I ran this game just a few hours ago and it seemed fine.

  22. Re:So the chinese can't read this article on China's New Internet Plan · · Score: 1

    Ok, let me try:

    freedom, reform, elections, multi-party, rehabilitate, dictatorship, fascism, freedom Tibet,
    independence taiwan, Xinjiang independence, Tibetan independence, crime against humanity,
    communist bandits, Chinese traitor, massacre,
    how many murdered Tiananmen students does it take to top a tank,
    genocide, oppression, overthrow, coup, down with communist party,
    protect rights, laogai, re-education through labour, red terror, heixiazi island, yinlong island,
    cultural revolution, great leap forward, Dongzhou protest, Taishi village, Suijiatun, Dalai Lama,
    Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Choekyi Nyima, tiananmen mothers, Wei Jingsheng, Wang Dan,
    Wu'er Kaixi, Chai Ling, Feng Congde, Ding Zilin, Wang Ruowang, Liu Binyan, Harry Wu,
    Szeto Wah, Fangzhouzi, dharma chakra, dafa, hongzhi, and finally Playboy.

    If you live in China, mod me up.

  23. 64bit support? on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What exactly do they mean by full 64-bit support. I didn't find an x64 bit binary anywhere.

  24. In soviet Iowa... on Details of Microsoft's Settlement With Iowa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In soviet Iowa you monopolize Microsoft.

  25. Simple selection pressure on Chimps Evolved More Than Humans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Our relatively large brains, cognitive abilities, and bipedalism has allowed us to avoid selection pressure to a greater degree than the chimps.