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  1. Re:who reports data loss here? on Open Security Foundation To Maintain DataLossDB · · Score: 1

    in Iraq if you don't let snipers sit on your roof top to shoot people your considered anti collation. I have friends in jail for looking weird to some idiot soldier.

  2. who reports data loss here? on Open Security Foundation To Maintain DataLossDB · · Score: 1

    When the US army raids my house in Baghdad and takes all my customers' records which I keep on my hard drive? Or should my client report me in that case?

  3. as Darwin would say... on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    its just "Natural Selection" that these institutes are tampering with, I think "Darwinian Insights into Sex and Gender" clearly show that evolution and Biology have an impact on how society is divided. Science is no different.

  4. maybe less weapons... on Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls · · Score: 1

    The US being the largest producer/consumer of weapons in the world isn't helping fight Global Warming as much as it is helping the War Against Terror...or is it?

  5. sometimes it pays to have paper on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 1

    at least fires are easier to control.

  6. IE 8? on IE 8 To Include New Security Tools · · Score: 1

    I still haven't installed IE 7 after the WGA scandal and all the PC's I had to de-WGA for months. IE8 is kind of like "that guy I hate"s kid bro.

    But since Vista is WGA infested, I doubt it will ever be mainstream in Developing countries where FOSS strives to compete with Piracy.

  7. more female geeks needed on First Results From Messenger's Mercury Flyby · · Score: 1

    This discussion turned into a male organ mockery so fast, I can only conclude Mercury and Earth definitely need more female geeks.

  8. Suddenly Saddam Hussein doesn't seem that bad on Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs · · Score: 1

    Especially since the main reason to cover up the WMD search in Iraq was to rid the ppl of a police state etc...

    Maybe one day Iraq will lead a campaign to rid the Northern Hemisphere of police states to return the favor. I think the only difference nowadays is G8 regimes have more resources to make it look more Legalish.

  9. Isn't this kind of like MLM? on Google Seeking "FriendRank" Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This reminds me of the questions and issues that rose from Multi Level Marketing, tapping into Social Networking skills of members to bring benefits to the Mothership and its crew.

  10. Re:Fluff or content? on Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? · · Score: 1

    the question isn't whether support exists on other platform GUI suites, the thing with Developing countries (which constitute most of the non-supported native language sector) use Microsoft products simply because:

    1. Microsoft is widespread
    2. Its mostly pirated, so its cheap and easy to find.

    So until suites like Gtk+ or other Linux based GUI suites become more commonplace in web development, users will always have a front row seat to flash.

  11. oddly on 12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports · · Score: 1

    unlike the laptops that can usually be retrieved, private information once made non-private, is sometimes considered priceless...how much loss does this result in for Persons and Establishments alike?

  12. Re:Fluff or content? on Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For some reason everyone referring to flash lately considers it some sort of fun and games platform, that could be true taking into consideration English speaking users coupled with english (or more specifically native language application support).

    On the other hand, you have a large portion of Internet users who do not have native language support from software vendors, like Arabic, Farsi, Armenian...etc.

    So flash DOES solve the problem with device independent fonts and languages. And it does make the user experience Richer.

  13. ridiculous on G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy · · Score: 1

    The document also claims that special measures would be put in place for developing countries in the initial phase of the scheme.

    So the Middle East wouldn't have to worry about all this till it fails in the Northern Hemisphere.

    But the idea of having ISP's (which are maostly governmentally run) in the Middle East slapping hands for piracy bring an entirely new dimension of horror. Taking into consideration an entire software market in countries that don't recognize International Copyrights, I can only come to one conclusion, unless the G8 allows more flexible software regulations on the developing countries, this will never end.

  14. why isn't this someones job? on Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them · · Score: 1

    I mean there's Green Peace for the planet, Human Rights Watch for human rights...etc.

    If there has ever been a need in need of invention this is it, internet users would like to go to one big third party and check out whether or not Facebook will give their information to say, my insurance company when I fake getting a Tattoo infection.

    I seriously think as a business this would be a very lucrative industry, at the same time I for one wouldn't mind entering Wakoopa in the search engine of this company's website.

  15. this means more devices on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    I think those whom will be doing a lot of cartwheels are actually compiler vendors, since now their current client base will either become more open to trying out new products not afraid of compliance, or requests giving the chance for embedded device compiler production to get more colorful.

    The mobile device giants will now have more hardware options to choose from since their programmers won't have to be vendor familiar. I really don't care for all this, I want to see what Microsoft thinks when all that open source software can run on their PC's fully compatible...

  16. moral dillema solved... on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    When you live and travel between countries that are either under export restrictions, or embargo's (Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon) your entire life, you kind of get used to getting books off websites like the aforementioned.

    So for someone who gets paid $8/hr, $1 (cost of internet cafe hourly rate) as oppose to $100 for a book, isn't sth to ponder on for long.

  17. Re:What Adobe should do on Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable · · Score: 1
    consdering applications built for a user base that doesn't have full support for multilingual processing, flash applications and animation present a relatively feasible solution technology and financially, so to say:

    no content worth indexing should be exclusively in Flash

    Is to stay screw whoever needs it. And thats alienation, which is exactly what standards are against, which is actually what Adobe is trying to make flash comply with.

  18. Re:Wishing... on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    I can't believe boobs roundness is still an issue we're wasting time on, yes we did. Lets move on

  19. WHAT? on Mozilla Pitches Firefox 3.1 Alpha For July Release · · Score: 2, Funny

    So more add-on incompatibility?! I want my Develpers Add-on to work again, not another!?

  20. Beware Superman! on FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    So if I was to blow up sth with my Superman Laser Rays the FBI would be able to track me down? cool

  21. its only worth it when we try on Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling · · Score: 1

    where there's a will, there's a way.

  22. Re:Of course this assumes that when you filled it on Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You · · Score: 0

    Consider filling out just enough to let others find you online in the case of you being away from your hometown or a frequent traveler and have lost contact with old friends. I put a lot of correct information myself and people I know keep finding me on Social networks like facebook, hi5...etc

  23. Great for Developing countries on iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching · · Score: 1, Interesting

    where the rates for international calls range from $0.60 to $1.5 for certain countries, once this iPhone and the service are made available in middle eastern countries like Iraq, Syria and the UAE...etc. Overseas business communication costs will see a significant drop.

  24. maybe the US Army should... on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 0

    start considering what all the emissions its causing by waging wars against the third world is doing to the climate, in Iraqi alone it has devastated the natural habitat and increased sound dunes and the green house effect by at least 30 times more prior to the war.

  25. Re:Grapes Taste Bitter To You? on Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor · · Score: 0

    Because I don't need it and I can't imagine why it would be useful, and so wouldn't have ever thought of it as a sellable idea.

    As an Iraqi 1000km away from home and not a unique case in that (4 million Iraqis are displaced and/or immigrants), the day I came across Facebook I immediately found a place where I can track down most of my friends and recently childhood friends from countries other than Iraq, since I grew up in the States, the fact Facebook makes it easy to track down long lost friends and acquaintances makes it so beneficial for me to use. Its not a matter of leisure to me, its social networking at its best. And I consider Zuckerberg's implementation to be one of brilliance, especially with the ability to browse friends' friend list. It reunited many, and is still doing so.