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  1. Re:DoubleTake on NSFnet — 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, what summary says is that it started out as a 56k backbone and then when they noticed the demand they upgraded to T1.

  2. Re:What's the problem? on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 4, Informative

    That is what they are doing. They are defining the kilogram as X silocon atoms.

  3. Re:Anonymous Coward on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 1

    >Precisely. These multiple averaging methods give different answers. Which one is right? There isn't one. In particular, none of >them is more accurate than a human. Just different.

    I have no idea what you're on about.

    We know there only one true answer so obviously the accuracy is different. The human usually misses the correct location by measure X and the computer misses by meausre Y. They have different accuracy.

  4. Re:Will surely only delay the h4x0rz? on Blizzard Introduces One-Time Password Devices For WoW · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're meant to be account specific and brick themselves if you type in the wrong pin 3 times.

  5. Re:religion and evolution on Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    Evolution has some evidience, ID has none. I don't see where the contest is.

    Also don't confuse theory with data.

    Objects fall to the ground = data
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation = the theory of gravity(it's only mostly accurate, einsteins relativity theory fixed it)

    A theory is an explanation for how something is happening.

    Evolution as a fact isn't disputed by anyone other then madmen because we have seen it in action, the theory of evolution isn't that well understood yet though.

  6. Re:Why can't it be simple. on Safeguarding Data From Big Brother Sven? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

    No need to keep your public key secure it it takes a few milenia to decrypt with it.

  7. Re:Nukes could solve a lot of issues on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    the price of the water and hydrogen would be way to high.

  8. Re:Except when it comes to sports! on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    We have something defined as "Existensminimum" that is the lowest amount of money you can have per month to live.

    Afaik it's calculated to be the money you need to pay for clothes, medecine, food and shelter and currently it's 4000 kr(688 dollars) per month.

    The usuage is that if you earn less then this amount you'll get financial aid from the state and if you're under dept the state will take away all your money except for this amount until you paid off your debt.

  9. Re:Schools award mediocrity on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    It's a huge amount of luck, how else do you explain the fact the vast majority of inteligent people are middle class?

    It's all about being in the right place at the right time and it's close to impossible to regognice those moments until afterwards.

    If you read biographies about people that became rich they usually point out the moment where he struck solid gold, but usually noone expected it to be that profitable at the time.

    For every person that was the first in their field and became rich there are hundreds or thousands that tried to be first but failed.

  10. Re:Except when it comes to sports! on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    In sweden we define poor as having less money then what is required to pay for the minimum defined quality of life.

  11. Re:Schools award mediocrity on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 0

    Well, most of the rich inherited the money and most of the successful are just lucky while praising smarts violates the whole "we're all born equal" thing.

  12. Re:And may I be the first to say... on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    >I was more referring to collisions, where SUVs come out intact and the other car comes out as a crashed block.

    That's by design, the car folds on purpose to lessen the impact of the crash, if the car doesn't do that the person inside will get crushed instead. I wouldn't say that's a good quality for the SUV to have.

  13. Re:And may I be the first to say... on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    >I can certainly see the points against it - Unsafe for *other* drivers (It's certainly safer for the person in it)

    That's a rather large untruth. It's generally recognized that most SUV's are lethal for the person inside. They have a huge tendency to roll over and the roof isn't really strong enough to protect you from getting crushed by your own car.

  14. Re:The irony... on A History of Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    People that break copy protections (Specifically unprotect .exe's) refer to themselves as crackers.

  15. Re:Data has not been anonymized on Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits · · Score: 1

    In sweden it is defined as anything that can uniqely define a person. Ofcourse it can be bypassed as you say by collecting small non identifiable information from several sources until it becomes idenfifiable.

  16. Re:Cut off fingers? on Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how much plausible deniability helps when you're being tortured

  17. Re:Guess they don't play WoW... on Leaked ACTA Treaty to Outlaw P2P? · · Score: 3, Informative

    They already do, their bittorrent client downloads from peers and an HTTP source at the same time, they might need to upgrade the main server though.

  18. Re:Paper book piracy is also rampant on No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given · · Score: 1

    Technically you're allowed to reloan a book as many times as you want so the time isn't really that limited.

  19. Re:Anti-Malware Response on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    the thing is, we're not talking years or months, we're talking centuries and milenia.

  20. Re:Telia-Sonera on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1

    The whole point is that they COULDN'T route through the outage. They originally did so and then cogent blocked that aswell.

  21. Re:Tit for tat? on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1

    That sound so retaliatory, wouldn't suprise me if it went mroe like:
    "What a brilliant idea, why didn't we start doing that sooner"

  22. Re:Not entirely accurate on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1, Informative

    Aftonbladet & Expressen arn't sources of news, they're sources of entertainment.

    Actual sources of news are newspapers like DN (the daily news), Göteborgs-posten, Svenska Dagbladed, Sydsvenskan, Dagens Industri, Metro, City etc most of which are read by as many people as the tabloids.

  23. Re:Telia-Sonera on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1

    Read your own link.

    If you seriously think that was about the OOXML then you might want to have your head checked.

  24. Re:Peep? Not so.. pretty loud buzz more like it. on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1

    Most people in Sweden don't mind far reaching goverment power, however this program doesn't only capture all the traffic passing the border, it'll also capture most of the traffic that's not passing the border aswell.

    And the bill doesn't cover just internet, it covers any information going by wire.

  25. Neat on Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the hardest things to account for when it comes to setting the limit for the number of scans a computer can resonably make must be bittorrent, a computer actively seeding files through bittorrent might connect to hundreds of computers for each file.

    I suppose the admin of a corperate network will probably frown on active bittorrent use in general though.