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  1. Re:Eh. on DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development · · Score: 1

    Voluntary? Bullshit! You're paying their salaries!

  2. Re:A broader lesson on SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about the 'Right to Silence' regarding this particular law, and came across this website.

    Briefly, it states that under sections 34-37 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, you would, by not disclosing information to unlock encrypted files, risk adverse inferences being drawn from that silence.

    I guess you can have your cake, and eat it, but don't expect it to taste great or not poison you.

    Regarding the parent, you ask about automatic regeneration of keys. IANAL, but I would have thought that the reason why you can't supply the key is irrelevant; That seems to be the way these laws are written these days.

  3. Re:Amongst all this...the question remains... on New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    How many network admins can you buy with campaign donation money?

  4. Re:Call Barack Obama on New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    The only person who's served that long in Iraq / Afghanistan is Osama.

    Quick! Trace the IP!

  5. Re:Call Barack Obama on New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    If they get more than 3/5 vote for in the Senate, doesn't that qualify for Cloture?

    Depending on how the Rep/Dem spread is, filibuster may not be enough.

    IANAYank.

  6. Re:28 Million People Liberated in Iraq on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    That depends on your view of Liberty.

    I don't see many Iraqis having the ability to express free will over their actions when there are thousands of US and UK soldiers just gagging to hit them with a Humvee.

  7. Re:looks pretty standard on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    Geneva Conventions
    Laws of War

    Here, have a clue. Gratis!

  8. Re:Thanks for the answers on Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did the Hollywood Writers Guild get a 'modified' version of the dictionary when they asked what the definition of "crap" was? They seem to have been confused on that point, recently.

  9. Re:I will not.... on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Cite evidence or STFU and GTFO.

  10. Re:in other news on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod everything but parent in this thread: Offtopic.

    I don't have enough points, and will take the karma hit gladly.

  11. Re:Quick way to make for less technology companies on Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Does this make any difference?

    The Govt. would still have their monitoring kit on the exit pipes, so they'll just duplicate the traffic en route and analyse it instead of on some ISP's server.

    The way out is Tor.

  12. Re:Protest site on Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden · · Score: 1

    How is parent informative?

    Tell us what those words mean!

  13. Re:Really short periods on Trio of Super-Earths Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Picture a ping-pong ball spinning around a light bulb which is in a shade the size of a football. It orbits the shade once every 5 seconds. You can only see the ping-pong ball when it obscures the light from the shade (oxymoron?), as you're some way away. This means that as long as you look at it for more than 5 seconds, you'll see it twice, and can estimate it'll be there again in another 5 seconds. Testing will confirm this.

    Now, imagine that there's a tennis ball orbiting the same shade, but it takes 30 minutes for each rotation. Who has 30 minutes to look at a damn lamp shade?! We have other stuff to do, man! So, you don't notice the tennis ball so often, despite being bigger.

    That's why we may not see many planets with longer orbits, despite them maybe being bigger than ones we do notice.

    I know it's not very /. terminology, but it's easy to follow for anybody.

  14. Tame Crysis at 1900x1200? on Hands On With Nvidia's New GTX 280 Card · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I run Crysis, all maxed out, on an 8800gtx, and only get lower than 30fps in the end battle.

    If I want more speed, i'll get another 8800. That card is phenomenal, and about to get a lot cheaper.

  15. Re:Patent infringement ? on Taking the Wii Controller to the Next Level · · Score: 4, Informative

    The eyeToy doesn't work on the PC, so there's no loss of market share.

    If their patents cover all of these style of input devices, and not just PlayStation versions, then the patent office has a serious case of cranio-rectal inversion.

  16. Re:Bittorrent is the problem :( on Anti-Technology Technologies? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is only one solution, and it's extremely simple...

    Everyone is first sold a standard cable connection, unless they state specifically that they require otherwise, and can demonstrate or explain why. Other than that, after the first 3 months of a new contract with an ISP, your usage statistics are provided for you to view, and the cable company shows you the list of connections available to you, with the one you would most likely benefit from using being highlighted. Users of 10% would be recommended a lower tarrif, 100% a higher tarrif, with price adjustments accordingly. Up / down stream are mutually independent.

    Annually, this process is repeated. Contracts are 3 months only, but automatically renewing, allowing for changes mid-period if required.

    Everyone gets bandwidth they use, everyone gets the service they need.

    Why doesn't this happen? Because selling 20Mb connections which only work for 30 minutes, then reducing them to 1/8 of the speed for the rest of the day, gets the company more profit for their outlay on infrastructure compared to the "fair" price plan outlined. It's ENTIRELY the ISP's fault that things are so bad, and in my opinion, they can go piss on an electric fence for it.

  17. Re:Defence on BPI Defends Anti-File-Sharing Partnership With Virgin Media · · Score: 1

    That's exactly the problem. We are ineffectual individually.
     
    However, it sounds like there's now two of us who have stopped giving the BPI and Virgin our money. I'm willing to bet there are more. All we need is to drop them a line explaining why. I suggest doing it from the email address provided by your new ISP.

  18. Everlasting Lightbulb? on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Expect this process, if viable, to be bought for billions by major oil companies, and stored away in a back room for the next 50 years.

  19. Re:Bad Case on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    But isn't it the case that they can't go through your handwritten papers?

  20. Ok! on Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... So, some sort of Post-It note with a smiley face on the back may be in order.

  21. Re:Oh sweet Jesus... on Get the Family Dog Cloned · · Score: 1

    1) Don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
    2) Cemetery. Again.
    3) "Ain't" is not in the English language. The contraction "Isn't" would be more suitable.

    Yes, it is!

  22. Re:Get back to work! on US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale · · Score: 1

    GenControl doesn't need any remote installation, just to be in the admin group on the machine.

  23. Oh sweet Jesus... on Get the Family Dog Cloned · · Score: 1

    Karma knock or not, it's spelled cemetery.

  24. Re:Is this any better? :) on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  25. Re:Chiming in on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uhhh... Yeah, that's pretty much how it is.

    Imagine it the other way around, though; There have been many times where I have been on the phone to somebody like yourself, having already performed ALL of the troubleshooting tips you'll go through (having done them at least three times before on seperate calls), yet you still WILL NOT proceed with escalating a call until you've been through them ONE MORE TIME to make sure we've done it right.

    Too damn right you get a mouth full, you insensitive clod!