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  1. Re:Encryption is a bad thing? on "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The UK! Nice.

    If it had started on a computer wise under-developped country. All it's population would have to wait until the law reached the UK, France, USA, etc. to have any chance of a working full network encryption.

    Anyway, as I've often stated in slashdot, the arms race will keep going, and the corporation lobbied laws will fail to keep up with the technologists.

    In little more than a decade the americans will start a war on piracy that will work about as well as the current unwinnable wars. i.e.: A secure, illegal, connection will cost several times more than it's lawful price and a huge percentage of the population will pay them and access the contents anyway.

  2. Re:Vibrations on Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not necessarily. Take Uranus. Please!

    Why, do you intend to penetrate Uranus with a rocket?

  3. Re:Vibrations on Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT · · Score: 1

    It's easy.

    Rockets are male. Everything you intend to penetrate with rockets, is female.

  4. The ability to deceive? on Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence · · Score: 5, Funny

    they also evolved the ability to deceive.

    Obviously, once you've proved the entity has the ability to deceive, you must distrust any further results.

  5. Re:N00b thing? on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    I think "senior citizen" is the politically correct term.

  6. Re:$1billion on Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts · · Score: 1

    Trying to reply myself, in case someone is interested:

    MS Annual report

  7. $1billion on Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much of an impact would be, for MS, to pay that amount.

    I also wonder how much did they expect this to happen but did it anyway, just in case it works.

  8. Solution on New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout · · Score: 1

    The move has raised concern because many [ISPs] operate off some already very thin margins."

    The solution would be to directly tax those ISP's benefits.

    Hmmmm, I wonder if anyone thought of that.

  9. And that's the lesser evil on Of Encrypted Hard Drives and "Evil Maids" · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could have found the evil bartender.

    You leave your laptop at the hotel and you go out to take a beer. There, you meet the evil bartender, who because of a common past becomes your friend and starts inviting you to more and more beer. Then he closes the bar and you both go to a strip club where you meet the evil bartender's girlfriend and her friend who we shall call "Foxette".

    The next morning, you wake up in an unknown appartment with Foxette and a guy you don't even know. You quickly get out of there and go to work, with such a massive headache than when asked about the laptop's full disk encription, you answer is "the what?".

  10. Re:Idiot Sheriff Strikes Again! on Judge Rejects Sheriff's Suit Against Craigslist · · Score: 1

    He's just creating content for the movie about his life.

    Some possible titles:

    - The greatest hero who ever lived in the entire world.
    - Dumb&Dumber2: Dumbest.

  11. Re:Third option on Are Game Publishers a Necessary Evil, Or Just Necessary? · · Score: 1

    "Just evil" is the first thing I thought as soon as I saw the headline too. So its easy to see how it could be posted twice so fast. :)

    First 69968 and 78285 and now 79566.

    Clearly there a mind control experiment was done on new slashdotters around the time of IDs 78k.

  12. Re:Third option on Are Game Publishers a Necessary Evil, Or Just Necessary? · · Score: 1

    So IDs 69968 and 78285 posted the same response with just a minute of difference?

    Hmmm, suspicious.

    I want to say "alien conspiration" but it's most probably a glitch in the AI that posts all Slashdot's replies.

    And now that we're at it, "Dear SlAIshdot, please stop with the frist posts already."

  13. Re:Where is the news? on History In Video Games — a Closer Look · · Score: 1

    !

    And yes, I did preview.

  14. Father and Child? on Are Game Publishers a Necessary Evil, Or Just Necessary? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The analogy is completely wrong and misused.

    For starters, where's the car?

  15. Re:Checking on China Expands Cyberspying In US, Report Says · · Score: 1

    Bob: "It, Could you lend me the red pen for a sec?".
    Its: "NO! It's mine! Get your own red pen!"

  16. Just China. on China Expands Cyberspying In US, Report Says · · Score: 1

    What did they expect? A polite call? A mail?

    "Excuse me. We'd like to know about your military efforts. Thank you."

    Or is it just a case of: "Countries spy on each other. News at eleven."

  17. Re:never apologize for sex on Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event · · Score: 4, Funny

    She had already made-up her mind to dump you several days prior.

    When he apologized for kissing a different girl.

  18. Re:Yawn on Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event · · Score: 2, Funny

    Speak for yourself. I am a horribly oppressed victim of society.

    Well, except for right at this very moment.

    Now I'm a just slightly oppressed victim of society.

  19. Re:The Jewel on Why Our Brains Will Never Live In the Matrix · · Score: 1

    I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull

    Hey! My parent also told me that.

    Then I tried to find my little brother's jewel but with all the red mess I couldn't find anything.

  20. Feedback on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We took all the feedback.
    Printed it.
    Made bricks with the printed feedback and some glue.
    Built a piramid with the bricks.
    Painted it green and brown.
    Called it Mount Feedji.
    Burned it down in a massive party.

    Then, still drunk from the party, we designed W7.

    .

    Ok, that was a lie. We didn't actually paint it. But we considered that suggestion for quite a long while.

  21. Re:Clock is ticking on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    Or just wait for the new firmware and hack that: it will be just as bad.

    I was about to say "Or worse".

    However, I can't think of any such situation, unless the router actually has a list of known hackers and directly mails them the password everytime it's changed.

  22. Re:The end of indie iphone games in Australia on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    indie developers in Australia

    You mean "all indie developers [in the world] when trying to sell in Australia", right?

  23. Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? on Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer" · · Score: 1

    Or simply forget the movies and in 20 years download the torrent "All Disney movies - PurpleRay_RIP".

  24. Re:Less power? on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should have worked on something more useful, like a machine to turn trash into power!

    I build such machine, but it was too dangerous.

    You see, if it ever got in contact with a Windows they'd both disappear in a higly energetic explosion.

  25. Re:Less power? on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. So much work with my lightning catcher for nothing.

    Well, time to go back to the human reanimation experiment.