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  1. Re:So lemme get this straight on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me, that I could output /dev/random to a file, place it on my friends hard drive, say it contains valuable information pertaining to a case and he could go to jail or be fined for not revealing the password/key? No, encrypt that file first. Create a PGP key with the userid "George W. Bush" and use that for all the encryption. Hilarity ensues.

  2. emblazoned on the conning tower on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Got rice, bitch?"

  3. Tom Lantos on Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs · · Score: 1
    Lantos's voting record:

    http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/l000090/

    a strong supporter of the war in Iraq and one of George Bush's allies on the Democratic side, facilitating the war in Iraq, authorizing the use of force by the president in Iraq.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos

    Boy, getting lectured by this guy on morality... those poor Yahoo execs. It must have been hard not to burst out laughing.
  4. Re:I Completely Agree... on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 1

    Ocarina of time was alright Do you have the brain worms?! Hint: greatest game of all time, any platform.

  5. Re:Scary and stupid on FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" · · Score: 1

    My apologies - I assumed you were posting from the USA.

  6. Re:Scary and stupid on FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" · · Score: 1

    I thought we were meant to be the good guys

    I hate to break this to you, but you're not "the good guys". For some time now you have been "the most universally-hated nation since the fall of Nazi Germany".

  7. Re:Idiotic ideas like this... on Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter · · Score: 1

    Or, to (probably mis-) quote Bruce Schneier, "trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet".

  8. Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    Come on buddy, I like my Mac as much as the next guy and I'm typing this on a Macbook while my Mini does automating backups in the background, but Leopard is a point release. The changes between Windows XP and Windows XP SP1 were far more significant than those between OS X 10.4 and 10.5

    If that's too complicated, just say it out loud: TEN POINT FIVE. Notice the word in the middle?

  9. Re:Maybe this stems from... on Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files · · Score: 1

    Simple.

    Get a Mac.

  10. Re:Math time! on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    Only in the hard drive marketing world. The rest of the computing world uses the nearest power of 2.

    Riiiiight. So how many calculations are there in a teraflop again? How many watts in a terawatt?

  11. Re:Math time! on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    4TB = 4096GB

    No it isn't. Four terabytes is 4,000,000,000,000 bytes.

  12. meanwhile on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    the potent neurotoxin has been made from scratch by organic chemists ...who are at this moment being transported to Guantanamo Bay for "re-education".

  13. Re:Ten bucks says... on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    Ten bucks says, the US gov never pays up.

    Simple solution. All copyrights worldwide on works produced in the USA are revoked and those works get placed in the public domain. All Microsoft's source code, all Hollywood's movies, all the RIAA's recordings... it's a lot easier than collecting a fine.

  14. Re:Hmmmm.... on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    Because they had publicly, and arguably stupidly, talked about the fact that they were running an online betting company

    Yep. Can't have people talking about doing things that are legal in the place where they're doing them and talking about them. That's just asking for trouble. I reckon we should just hang them.

  15. Re:is webmail to blame on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    I've got email dating back 13 years, and it's all in gmail -- labelled, searchable, in conversations.

    1. Set up a mail server with IMAP and POP3.
    2. Copy all your old mail to the mail server via IMAP.
    3. Configure gmail/google apps to check that mail server via POP3.
    4. Come back a week later -- all your old mail will now be in your gmail or google apps account.
    5. Set up your mail forwarding/MX records to point to gmail/google apps.

    Bingo.

  16. Re:What this proves on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    False analogy, donuts do exist.

    Replace "donuts" with "invisible pink unicorns" and your post makes more sense.

  17. Re:Floyd Rose? on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    The late-eighties-to-late-nineties Ibanez Edge is the best Floyd-style bridge I've ever used.

  18. Re:Technical review... on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I had no idea. What a coincidence then that I chose exactly those two things to illustrate a point of difference between a Gibson and a Strat. I mean, holy cow, what's the chance of me doing that? It's just... freakish.

  19. Re:Technical review... on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 5, Funny

    No vibrato bridge. Less scale length than a Strat. Lame.

  20. Re:"Here's your problem" on Science In Islamic Countries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there's no valid comparison between literalist Christians in the U.S. and literalist Muslims in Saudi Arabia or Iran

    "invisible friend"? - check

    "100% totally true book"? - check

    batshit crazy? - check

  21. you must be new here on Bloggers Who Risked All In Burma · · Score: 0, Redundant

    9-11 changed everything.

    The Government is always right.

  22. I know which game on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1

    initially developed to solve a problem in game theory

    Yeah, I played "Paranoia" back in the pen-and-paper RPG days too.

    Help Homeland Security! Homeland Security is your friend!

  23. Re:Simple on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    the American education system is failing our kids

    "Childrens". The word is "childrens".

  24. Re:And Google does it again! on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    Helvetica 4 lyfe, yo.

  25. Re:A new tool for the torture we don't do... on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If journalists are writing about it now, the USA has been using it on huma--sorry, I meant "terrorist"--test subjects for some time.