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  1. Re:Oh Great on Ex-NSA Analyst To Be Global Security Head At Apple · · Score: 1

    at apple they don't have black suits only black turtleneks

  2. having to spend time deleting spam is damage on California Spam Law Upheld By Appeals Court · · Score: 2

    All said in the subject...

  3. Re:Duh on Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope · · Score: 1

    Actually the 2000 years old code was already very well tested and had been shared by all the mystics of previous times. With recurring small updates it is still used by mystics of current times. That code has little to do with the catholic church code that entered early alpha stage a few hundred years later when the religion was instituted. At that time the catholics used the original code (which, i'm sure, was open source) and branch it into a close source project diverting the original goal of the program (seek good for all people), into a new goal (good for us and that's it)!

  4. Re:Prior art on Microsoft Patents Looks-Are-Everything Dating · · Score: 1

    You mean they select who is going to go through the full body scanner based on their personal preferences?

  5. Re:black male on Microsoft Patents Looks-Are-Everything Dating · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, microsoft apply for this one, not google

  6. nobody read the comments in the code ... on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 2

    ... That's why it had not been discovered so far

    /*
    * At the request of the FBI I'm inserting a backdoor
    * if you notice this code please wait 10 years before saying anyting about it
    */

    .. code here

    /*
    * And of FBI requested code
    * thank you very much
    */

  7. Re:i very much dubt wikileads is coordinating it on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    Actually I live happily (and debt free) without any credit card at all (never had one). But i agree with you that 3 or 4 choices of what by all practical purposes is a Cartel doesn't allow any room for free market pressure.

  8. i very much dubt wikileads is coordinating it on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    I really don't think the folks at wikileaks are coordinating the attach, probably some low brain supporter or someone trying to discredit wikileads. Best action for supporters of wikileaks is to cancel or stop using their mastercard, their paypal and their amazon account.

  9. Re:Anonymous releases are possible on Wikileaks Competitor In the Works · · Score: 1

    I don't know Assange nor I know much about him so i can't comment on the person but the information that is circulating from wikileaks is nothing new or odd or unexpected, anyone paying attention to international politics knew the substance of these documents if not the actual words used by such and such. What i find new and unexpected is that, possibly because of the way the materials were released, the mainstream press decided to publish and write long commentaries on them. Now that's new.

  10. Re:"Because we say so" on Righthaven To Explain Why Reposting Isn't Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I'm not that sure, does the posting of the article to the non-profit website means that people that would have otherwise read it at the copyright owner site will go to the non-profit instead? Or does it mean that people that would have not been exposed to the article are going to be able to read it and learn something new? I think it would have been more polite to write one or two paragraphs about the article, post that in the non-profit site with a link to the full one, but i'm not sure that impolite is the same as breaking copyright law.

  11. Re:9% after a year? on iPhone 4 Screens Break 82% More Than 3GS · · Score: 1

    you forgot: d. people that place their phone in the back pocket of their jeans and the sit down, just to relax...

  12. Re:Gimme a break! on iPhone 4 Screens Break 82% More Than 3GS · · Score: 1

    but based on this report they can now charge you 87% more if you own a iphone 4

  13. Re:TRUSTe all over again? on Privacy Option Proposed To Control Behavioral Ads · · Score: 1

    While i agree with you, looking from another perspective there could be a old man sitting on a chair just in front of his house, he spends his time looking at the people passing by. Noting the time, the recurrence, the way they are dressed, who do they walk by with, etc... He could infer a great lot of information about them. He never asked them for the permission to look at them or to gather information about them, but should he? Is this information theirs or his? Maybe both? I don't have a solution but I think the problem is that i (like you probably) don't trust what these company are going to do with the information they gather. I have the intuition (i say intuition because i can't pinpoint the reasons) that the amount of information collected and interpreted corresponds to the amount of power that company will have and i'm not happy to give it away that way... But the problem is not only one of personal privacy, it is one of social privacy.

  14. silverlight? on The Surprising Statistics Behind Flash and Apple · · Score: 1

    never heard of it, you are telling me I have a fifty fifty chance my computer comes with some kind of light saber?

  15. Re:what id like to see on US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to your reasoning about A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) and B (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20427730/) the USA should not be allowed to have nuclear Weapons.

  16. Re:what id like to see on US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation · · Score: 1

    That's why you don't give political power to psychopaths.

    Silly me! i thought it was a requirement.

  17. Re:for those of you who charge hypocrisy on US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation · · Score: 1

    2,423,158 umh? according to wikipedia you are not thinking of any city in the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

  18. Re:Only rss? on Lawyer Smokes Pages From the Koran and Bible · · Score: 2, Funny

    i think someone smoked you main page

  19. i know how to tell on Robots Taught to Deceive · · Score: 1

    I ask: tell me the square root of 123456789
    possible answers:
    buy your self a calculator a**hole (human)
    it's 11111.11106055556, why? (non deceiving robot)
    it's 11111.11106055554, why? (deceiving robot)

  20. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happened is that someone high up working at the FBI was wondering what's their job about anyway... So she decided to look it up on wikipedia...

  21. Re:Kinda on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    No, it's called credit card owner, a Walmart employee can quit.

  22. Re:Perch? on Micro Plane That Perches On Power Lines · · Score: 1

    They believed that some old man in the sky was watching them all the time.

    We now know they were right

  23. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    I didn't think that have a full time job, a healthy family life, and still be considered financially successful was a possibility at all, with or without drug use.

  24. I agree ... on Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students · · Score: 1

    I learn and studied many things in spite of the best efforts of my public school teachers to discourage me. (yes, professoressa Monti i talking about you)

  25. Why abuse mice, humans would volunteer on Scientists' Mouse Fight Club · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Scientists should have simply walked to the nearest stadium.