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  1. Best headline on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 1
  2. Re:I know everyone is against the FCC and all... on BitTorrent CEO On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Great, so now to get to use the bandwidth I pay for, I first have to find an ISP owned by a disadvantaged minority too?

  3. Obligatory on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new lamp-post mounted overlords!

  4. Re:Pogoplug ad, nothing to see here, lets move on. on DIY 80GB iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Somebody mod parent up, please! Extra cool points for making that router provide RAID functionality, solving the Dynamic DNS use case, and (why not?) adding a print server while at it.

  5. Re:We already have a national ID on US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card · · Score: 1

    It's called a Passport

    Get one for granny now so she can escape the country when "the committee" thinks her health coverage is too expensive.

  6. Its about the assignments... on Scary Smartphone Motion Control Patent Granted · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=pat&asned=DURHAM%20LOGISTICS,%20LLC we find that all twelve of Durham Logistics' patent assignments were from smart antenna maker ArrayComm (remember Martin Cooper)? Further, they were all assigned on the same day. I haven't checked them all yet, but one of the assignment applications was on August 31, 2006. Wonder what was happening around then? Oh yeah, ArrayComm was teaming with KT for a Korean WiBro network.http://www.mobilehandsetdesignline.com/192200181;jsessionid=PVVYX1VQ5EXXGQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?printableArticle=true Think those patents might be under Samsung's control now? Anyhow, they were clearly intended for applications in signalling, not user interface.

  7. Re:That's nothing! on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Number 5? on Aurora Attack — Resistance Is Futile, Pretty Much · · Score: 1

    The trick is to always have empty pockets when going into crowds. Just unplug the stuff that matters.

  9. Re:Bottled water industry on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 1

    Following the long tradition of bottling and distributing a substance already readily available to the general public, the bottled water industry has extended their supply chains to include the highly demanded Lunar water.

    Update 1: Initial public concerns over resource depletion were allayed when it became clear that Coca-Cola Corp's Lunar Water(tm) is to be prepared from terrestrial tapwater using patented fluorine-removal filters, while PepsiCo's AquaLuna(tm) is to be recycled from the orca tanks at MarineLand and SeaWorld.

  10. Re:An interesting question... on UK Bill Would Outlaw Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Well, IANAL, but section 342.1.2 reads to me as if cupping my hand behind my ear to listen (with "better than normal hearing") to the sound of someone else's obnoxious ringtone would be just as much a violation. Sidebar: When I was a kid, there was only one ringtone. It sounded like a bell. And we liked it that way.

  11. Re:First on UK Bill Would Outlaw Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    That's what the ankle bracelet's for...

  12. Re:I think I will puke. on IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video · · Score: 1

    Every video and every photo taken by every visitor to the games?

    Sadly, I don't even have to read the back of a ticket to know there's a condition of sale there.~~~~

  13. I call BS on IOC Claims Olympian Lindsey Vonn's Name As Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Not even the IOC has lawyers that foolish. This has got to be guerilla marketing by/for UVEX. Good try though, I'm sure got lots of /.ers to visit their site.

  14. Re:that is... on Did We Lose the Privacy War? · · Score: 1

    If you are ready to face reality, have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acxiom and see what can really be done when Big Brother LLC has nearly all your bits.

  15. Re:The CPU for Playstation 4? on IBM Releases Power7 Processor · · Score: 1

    Rumour has it that this baby is going to be the CPU of the Playstation 4 in 2012.

    ..so you can reverse-simulate from your bootleg of Avatar and watch Meryl Streep act?

  16. Re:Good on New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    Grazing costs almost nothing. The infrastructure is already in place for pasture and oats, and most horses can pull a cart just fine. The aw-toe-mo-beel will fill a nice, and that is all.

    Wait until grazers have to pay for their methane emissions and see how things change...

  17. Re:Why? on Virtualizing a Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    They'll be able to reload the image of your stellar evolution simulation in a few seconds after the guy doing nuclear weapons simulations has had his time. Never mind that the two simulations don't even run under the same OS.

    His parents let him set off nuclear weapons in their basement? Woaw!

  18. US Patent 7,641,984 pertains on Super Strong Metal Foam Discovered · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Will 2010 be on The Future of Portable Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    2020 will be the year of the tuxedo, not because how it will look, but for what will be running inside.

    Running inside the tuxedo will be a poor man trying to look "presidential" for the cameras.

  20. Re:Exponential Growth on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    All of your atom are belong to us!

  21. Re:Death is not an inconvenience? on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    19 bytes ought to do it.

  22. Re:Lost Tourism on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll grant the Orkneys as a special case. Perhaps you should check out Skype ;-)

  23. Re:Stupid names on Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With "Blio" E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Why do all these products have such stupid names? Brio, Treo, Kindle, Nano, Vaio, blah blah blah. It's like there's a council somewhere that approves product names based only on how gadgety and futuristic they sound, but under the assumption that in the future product names will only end with vowel sounds.

    The brand managers want brand names that sound like they might be real nouns in all languages, many of which require vowel endings. Ideally, they dream of becoming real nouns (asprin, xerox, kleenex...) For services, substitute "verbs", ("to google", e.g.) They also don't want them to actually be real nouns in any language. Remember the fiasco with the Chevy Nova in Spanish markets?

  24. Re:Lost Tourism on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Even domestic UK flights are barely tolerable and it is getting worse.

    Of course, anyone daft enough to use an airplane on what should be a bicycle trip deserves to be a tad inconvenienced.

  25. Re:Letters? Really? on Typing With Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Oh, crap. So I18n now means we'll have to compete against people who
    a) think in a first language that has entire concepts for letters and
    b) work a 16 hour day for 50 yuan in a rural hut.
    We are so unemployed!