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  1. Re:Annoyed on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    Yes, so obviously all males must be put in jail immediately after their first erection, so they can't rape any women.

  2. Re:Plausible deniability on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't know how TrueCrypt works at all.

    If you have a hidden volume, to protect it, you need to enter the password for it. If you don't have the password for the hidden volume (because, for example, you don't know it's there), you can stuff files into the outer volume until you start destroying the hidden volume.

    Unless you're using a sparse volume, there's no way to tell if a TruCrypt volume contains a hidden volume, unless "they" take snapshots at different times and guess from the fact that ostensibly "free space" keeps changing, but they still can't really "prove" it.

  3. Re:W3C on Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant · · Score: 1

    Google is not exactly the poster-child for W3C compliance. I've seen lots of web pages that are compliant, except for the Google ads. Also, their home page is not even compliant.

  4. Re:Blame Sprint on Android Also Comes With a Kill-Switch · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    I have never had any problems uploading crap to my phone on Sprint, but then again, it's not a smartphone, just an LG LX-150. Also, none of the features are disabled.

  5. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However, the government doesn't get to search your house to see if you've robbed a bank. They have to first have reasonable cause to believe that you did, and can then search your house to see if they're right.

  6. Re:Solution for ISPs mucking with DNS results on New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages · · Score: 1

    Your ISP may have an alternate pair of DNS servers that return proper NXDOMAINs. Contact support and be persistent. I know for certain that Earthlink does.

  7. Re:This is offensive. Stupidity is not a crime. on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    Well, then the obvious corollary is that killing rapists and attempted rapists is at worst animal cruelty, and punishable as such.

  8. Re:Dear USA... on UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    P.S ...but keep sending us aid dollars and materials, especially disaster relief. And if someone attacks us, come bail us out. But be sure to GTFO right away, we don't want you here. Unless we need help.

    -- also "everyone else"

  9. Re:Wrong - GSM max power output is 2W on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 1

    So, like, where do they find these cellphone tower workers with 10 meter arms to work on the towers?

  10. Re:braces on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I stopped doing 80 columns a while ago, and switched to 120. 120 happens to line up perfectly on my monitor when VS is maximized.

    OTOH, using unlimited line length sucks. You either have an unreadable mess when the editor wraps the lines, or you have to scroll to the right to read everything. What we really need is an editor that can dynamically format the wrapped lines on the screen.

  11. Re:Hmmm... on Open WiFi Owners Off the Hook In Germany · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like you left your door open with you or a designated alternate standing there answering "yes" when someone asks if they may enter.

  12. Re:200% more? on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    No, the upgrade from the base model is $6799 - $3239 = $3560 home-brew but $13,989 - $3239 = $10,750 from the Apple Store, which is just under 202% more for the cost of the upgrade.

  13. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    No, apparently he believes that if you're "competent," your last resort is to curl up in a ball and die.

  14. Re:Time Warner Cable RoadRunner's Usenet Goes Away on Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy · · Score: 1

    I used to use Newsguy when I still did the Usenet thing. They have rollover, extra capacity on demand, and an unlimited account option. Some of the account types come with mailboxes and web space.

    Heh, I see they heard about this story already. Roadrunner customers get a free month with a new account.

  15. Re:First! on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    Are you an idiot, or did you not RTFA? Citrate is no more edible to normal E. coli than rocks are to you. This is not being forced to choose something undesirable as an alternate food source, this is successfully consuming something that was previously classified as not food, where not food means “provides no nutritive value.”

  16. Re:First! on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    This is not a “preferred food” in the sense “I prefer peas to brussels sprouts;” this is “I have no bread, I will eat these rocks instead,” and actually being sustained by them.

  17. Re:Doesn't disprove creationism on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    Your knowledge of adaptation is wrong.

    New genes can be introduced by viruses, sharing and remixing of genetic material (either sexually or asexually), transcription errors, mutations, and probably more methods I’m forgetting.

    Your example is also wrong. They gain the ability to keep it outside, or they begin resisting the specific action of that particular antibiotic (all antibiotics don’t have the same action.)

    The concept of species is not a human invention. The word is, yes, but no matter how many donkey shows there are in Tijuana, there aren't going to be any donkey-human hybrids born.

  18. Re:This is why ... on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    One brand uses thymol extracted from thyme instead of alcohol or an artificial antibacterial agent.

    And this is better, how, exactly? Does being “organic” somehow imbue it with the property of not evolving resistance in bacteria? If you synthesized the thymol instead, does that make a different thymol with an “evil” bit that magically imbues it with the power to evolve resistance?

    Over-use of antibacterial agents is a bad thing, no matter their source. Just because they’re “natural” or “organic” doesn't magically make it a good idea.

  19. Re:Required reading IMHO. on No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given · · Score: 1

    Load rtf in OpenOffice.org writer, adjust "default" paragraph style to add kerning and the desired line spacing, adjust page size if needed, export to pdf.

    If you want fully justified text, it's a bit more work, because you'll have to scan through and turn off full justification for any paragraph that it's inappropriate for.

    You know, if you submit it as a suggestion, they might even add a pdf option.

  20. Re:Required reading IMHO. on No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given · · Score: 1

    Um, what's wrong with printing the rtf or html versions to PS and converting to pdf? If it can't be done in a single line of shell script, it's not worth doing?

    What other eInk devices are there, besides the Sony one and the Kindle, both of which formats are already available?

  21. Right... on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    ...because "2girls1cup" and "tubgirl" are completely indicative of the mental scarring that takes place when you view them.

  22. Re:It's an accounting thing on An App Store For iPhone Software · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit. My old motherboard got a new BIOS to support newer processors, and my DVD drive got a new BIOS to support new disc types. How is that not "new features?" Remember that it doesn't actually cost anything to distribute the software to existing users, if you're putting it on new hardware anyway.

  23. Re:United Police State of America on Examining the Search and Seizure of Electronics at Airports · · Score: 1

    "No, you already confiscated my pocket knife."

  24. Re:Reinstalling may not be an option; activation on Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps · · Score: 1

    Only if you're stupid enough to reinstall the OS before you click Help -> Transfer Activation. Unless this is a feature unique to the Windows version.

  25. Re:Parity Error on Microsoft Threatens Startups Over Account Info · · Score: 1

    Oh really? What about Secure Audio Path and the other draconian DRM measures in Windows.

    Who said Microsoft wanted them? It's the MAFIAA's fault.

    Look, I bitch and moan about MS all the time (I am, after all, a Windows/Pocket PC developer), and sometimes they do fuck up, but don't blame them for things they're not really in control of.

    OSX doesn't have it, because it's not that much of the market (yet). Linux doesn't have it because it's also not much of the market, and you couldn't force people to compile it into the kernel anyway.