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  1. Re:Isn't that logically impossible? on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 1

    How long before you start churning out duplicates? Quantum is not analogue.

  2. Re:Isn't that logically impossible? on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does that stop someone reading the private key from the RFID device using non-RF methods?

  3. Re:Is global warming all bad? on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    50 million people died from the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and we've had a flu pandemic every century for 300 years.

    The end of the 1800s saw 50 million people starve to death through economic mismanagement by colonials in India, China and South America.

    While I have plenty of sympathy and empathy for people who choose to live *below sea level* if i waas them I'd be making plans to get to higher ground, it's not like it will come as a surprise.

  4. Re:She will. on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Americans like living in flimsy sheds made from balsa wood that blow away in strong winds or cardboard caravans with big fking air conditioners bolted on. How dare you suggest otherwise!

  5. Re:She will. on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I'm not totally convinced by the global warming hypothesis. However, should I be wrong, I'm not keen on the ocean raising its temperature because it's not the ice-caps melting that will cause flooding but the expansion of the water from increased temperature of the oceans.

    The ice caps are a drop in the ocean compared to that!

  6. Re:That's what? on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Billions ?

  7. You forgot the inputs on The Google Navy · · Score: 1

    If they are using the energy of the sea to power electronic equipment then even if it was 100% efficient there is no net gain of heat for the water.

  8. convicts = underclass on SPORE Released 5 Days Early In Australia · · Score: 1

    The convicts thing is because they criminalised being a member of the urban poor.
    In my city, Nottingham, if you stole over the price of a loaf of bread you went to the gallows. Transportation was often for anti-social behaviour such as gossiping (I wish I was joking).
    There's a list of 10,000 names in The Galleries of Justice. The role call of the underclass. The footings for the gallows are still in the street outside.

  9. http is peasy u lamer : on Local Web Server For Web Development? · · Score: 1

    bash

    rc

    or python, or perl or awk or anything really.

    If you want to learn, write your own, http isn't that hard unless you plan to get fancy

  10. Re:Slow News Day on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1

    It's not called gorilla arm for nothing !

    Like lots of things in Computing, if you want to make a splash, get out the 20 year old stuff, polish it and see if it flies.

  11. Re:Might already be there, depending on purpose on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    of that I'm mighty glad

  12. Don't fuck with the baldies on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    Leave the kid alone

  13. Re:Its cut price police - again on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The CCTV camera outside my house is 1 mile from the nearest pub and 4 miles from the city centre, it is also outside of the city boundary. It covers three 400m stretches of road, one of which is a cul-de-sac. I would post the google earth but I've said too many things here I might get a punch in the snizz

  14. Re:Wow! Cursor Accelerator! on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    We even read your email!

  15. Re:Arrghhhh on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    You forgot us :)

  16. Re:Now show them why OSS is good on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    Wobbly windows FTW!

  17. Re:Arrghhhh on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    Plan 9 has a fully paid full time driver writing team. Sadly it's just one guy and he does other stuff too.
    But my EPIA runs 1280x1024 so I was happy already :)

  18. Re:tv and hardware codec are what you really want on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    That's the money shot right there. They already added the encryption chip. It is annoying to know I have hardware mpeg on my $100 computer that I could be using for something I need my $500 box to do for me.

  19. Re:Might already be there, depending on purpose on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    wtf are you on about, why would a firewall need a fast blit ?

    I would guess you don't know shit about what a vga card does.

  20. Re:I'm glad! on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    When the British arrived in India the ruling classes refused to meet with them because they were so hygienic (Indians had soap, something foreign at the time to the Europeans). British built Indian infrastructure (railways) was calamitous on the indigenous population that watched the grain trucks steam away while they lay there starving to death.

    Invasion of China by Europeans (and internal Muslims insurrection) diverted investment from infrastructure particularly the flood defences. So when the expected rains came, the resultant flooding starved millions of people.

    It's a lie to say that India and China were some kind of savage backwater in need of economic and social reform. Military power combined with severe El Nino and La Nina flooding / drought are what tipped the balance. The costs to India and China were staggering and set the scene for world power until the present day. The U.S. had to play catch up because they has been sidelined by their civil war. When cotton production got going again it also devastated the newly planted cotton fields of India because you can't eat cotton and suddenly that's all they had!

  21. you ponce on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    > a bandwidth monitoring solution

    You mean "a bandwidth monitor" or are you the sort that calls a spade a low volume human powered earth moving solution.

  22. Re:I'm glad! on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When you say "you guys" you know you're talking to a bunch of dead people right?

    But yup, Britain managed to leave 50 million worldwide dead its wake in the 19th C, with a little help from the Dutch & the Germans. How any of the European colonists have the gall to castigate modern China is almost beyond me. Using appropriated common land and "market forces" on the Indians to get them to grow opium instead of food in order to flood the Chinese mainland with narcotics has got to be one of the most audacious foreign policies in history!

  23. Someone's on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    got a bad case of the supposed to's.

  24. Re:Scripting language. What is it? on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    If you end up staring down the gun of an ASP project, you'll be glad Javascript is there waiting for you with a pair of sunglasses and a JD & coke.

  25. Re:120GB is too much. on SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years · · Score: 1

    I got a dual CFIDE adapter, two CFs and striped them with RAID0.