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  1. Why wonder? on Verizon To Allow Skype Calling On Its Network · · Score: 1

    Some are wondering how the DoJ and law enforcement will react to a major upsurge in fully encrypted traffic.

    Why would they care, they have a backdoor into skype.

  2. Power on TSA Makes 4-Year-Old Take Off Leg Braces · · Score: 1

    Power trip.

  3. Re:Green ? on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    Most of the rest is natural gas or cheaply bought from the US

  4. 5534289 on Did We Lose the Privacy War? · · Score: 1

    I am number #5534289 in a database somewhere you insensitive clod.

    But here, only #1118589.

  5. Re:Mostly whining... on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    If you care enough about hiding your IP to use a proxy, you should have Java, JavaScript, and Flash turned off anyway, in which case popups are not an issue anymore.

  6. Just reword it to on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Winner of the Google developer challenge for (competing app Apple forbids the name of)"

  7. Re:Just out of curiousity... on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    According to wikipedia, it's an interjection, eh.

  8. Re:Not too surprising on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The kind of people who crash due to texting and driving, and the same kind of people who will keep texting and driving regardless of the law.

  9. Re:hmmm targeted advertising on Monitor Your Health 24x7 With the WIN Human Recorder · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are made of Dihydrogen monoxide

  10. Re:Thanks EFF. I never thought about that. on Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses? · · Score: 1

    You don't read the Apple news?

  11. Re:I can't wait... on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    The domain that article links to is dead. Squatter site now.

  12. Re:Apathy on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Even in IT the learning curve can be an issue for some items.

    Ever read the man page for openSSL? If you don't already know the parameters to get what you want, good luck figuring them out.
    openssl req -new -newkey rsa:1024 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout example.com.key -out example.com.crt
    and
    openssl req -new -nodes -keyout example.com.key -out example.com.csr
    Isn't exactly obvious from the documentation.

    And ever try to implement DNSSEC? That is a pretty complicated system too so it's no surprise few are bothering to go to the considerable effort to set it up.

    Encryption needs to be simple to implement if we expect people to bother doing it.

  13. Re:I disagree on Adding Up the Explanations For ACTA's "Shameful Secret" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At the other extreme we are moving towards, technologies like restrictive DRM will also make literary and artistic works become lost in the future.

  14. Re:You know what this means on IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is Google even using IE? They have their own web browser. They should be eating their own dog food.

  15. Re:First Question, on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1

    Torrents are easier.

  16. Re:about time on Apache May Stop 1.3, 2.0 Series Releases · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good 'till one of your clients wants to use a .htaccess file.

    I make some use Nginx for my own sites on my own dedicated servers (and it works great for that), but for my shared web hosting clients, I need to use Apache because all kinds of common software like CMS systems want to use .htaccess files, and Nginx doesn't support that.

    If the Nginx project wants to take a good share of the shared hosting market, they are going to need to come up with support for .htaccess files, and the Apache config directives they contain.

  17. Re:about time on Apache May Stop 1.3, 2.0 Series Releases · · Score: 1

    I've been using it with IPv6 for months with no problems.

  18. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    I run lynx you insensitive clod.

  19. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 3, Informative

    xBSD junk See linux but with a worse UI.

    BSD runs the same xorg/KDE/Gnome as Linux, not a worse UI, the SAME bad UI.

    If you want to criticize it you should be complaining about it's lesser hardware compatibility (in terms of multimedia, etc) or less features (eg. no clustered file system/DRBD equivalent).

  20. Re:Best place to spend a few weeks. on Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels · · Score: 1

    You seem to have completely missed the point of Japan.

  21. Re:idiocy? Incompetence? on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    2038 bug is easy to fix. Just upgrade date to 64bit int.

    This means all that needs to be done for date calculations is a recompile.

    The only hard part will be comverting any on disk 32bit values to 64bit.

  22. Re:"Playing Nice" is Not Considered a Virtue on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    White isn't a color.

  23. interactive video annotations on Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "interactive video annotations" sounds like Nico Nico Douga.

  24. Re:System Registry on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And /usr/local/etc
    and /usr/local//etc, /usr/local//conf, /usr/local//data...

  25. Remember on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Information wants to be free. That includes your memories. Once there are implants, some hacker will start freeing it.