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  1. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    Actually blair was elected 4 times, but are while blair was bad, he still got a lot of things right, the economy, bringing back the GLC, etc. Sure he was a fuckup in some respects but bush is in a completely different league on that scale

  2. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    not quite right yet, 1 year = 365 * 24 hrs = 8760hrs. 100,000 years = 876,000,000, still got 2 years of death credit left. OFC when you include passengers that get the 'special' checks your probably already there.

  3. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    So who did the rescue workers find? were people just wandering around untrapped waiting for the rescue workers to show them the way out? No, they were trapped and some were rescued by rescue workers.

  4. Re:Autoconfig? on OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You mean wesside ?

  5. what about aircrack? on OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The wireless sniffing section seams a bit weak, if they can Dsniff working, would aircrack-ng not also work?
    On an active network, with a bit of patience, aircrack & wireshark can get you all the information you need without leaving a trace, (granted if its a WPA network with a good key its a lot of patience).

  6. 1 page link on OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool · · Score: 4, Informative

    Might just be virgin messing with me but the site isn't loading well, so here's the 1 page version
    and the google cache

  7. Re:An alternative approach to change? on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    impossible, they are politicians out for themselves. next question

  8. Re:s/freedom/security/g on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    Hey im not one of the fearful daily mail reading twats that supports this, but im going to lose both anyway. Are any countries looking good as places to move to for freedom?

  9. Re:The Pete Townsend defense, eh? on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of the 7/7 students None, the whole event was epic fail. Back seat on the top of a bus, outside a medical institute? Not checking if the tube was closed for work before the day of the attack? Those mupets clearly weren't university educated, nor had they done much research.

  10. Re:Spread it around? on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just read that does that mean the po...

  11. Re:they need to spread fear... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    There is also documented proof that >90% of what the government says about the terrorists is pure bullshit. Anybody remember that hillside super WMD complex they where going to find in Afghanistan? come on there was probably more truth in Jason and the Argonought.

  12. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 2, Informative

    You think that's bad, they raided some guys house in the middle of the night, shot the guy and then when they didn't find any evidence, they tried pinning some child porn charges on him. I dont know what happened after that the press lost interest.

  13. Re:George Orwell: 1984 full text on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 2, Funny

    Careful reading the link from the UK, I hear you can get arrested and/or deported for reading certain websites over there.

  14. Re:except there is still a problem on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait so just looking at a website on terrorism can get me arrested?
    Well its a good thing they cant lock me up for a month without proving i did anything wrong?
    Oh well at least there's no chance that they'll just turn blind eye while i go for a vacation on the Cuban cost?

  15. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what you mean we should go back to WWI, where the 1st troops deployed were to iraq to look after the ,you guessed it, oil?

  16. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    I assume your referring to taking it in the arse from the government, because tbh id rather die free (very small chance of actually getting killed by a terorist), than have my liberties taken away from me (I mean your not allowed to protest within a mile of parliament, they watch and film protests, etc).

    And we have no more a problem with radical Islamic factions now than we had with radical Catholicism or Protestantism 10 years ago.

    p.s i wonder if McDonald's will start paying Osama to not bomb them too

  17. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    I'm tempted to do the maths because I reckon that
    number of people scared by government fear monger post 9/11 * reduced life expectancy due to stress / (average life expectancy - average age of 9/11 victim) >> number of people that died in 9/11

    So even ignoring Iraqis and us soldiers and thinking purely on US/UK soil, more live have been lost due our own governments actions than Osamas.

  18. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they weren't, people survived in the towers.

    Since when did invading countries and wasting money = making you any safer?

  19. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    Still, twice...WTF were you thinking? "he managed to fuck everything up last term, so he's bound to come in a winner this time"?

  20. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    for people on a 30" monitor there was always image zoom, there is nothing useful that cant be done in firefox, operas only* advantage is that if you happen to want exactly the features that opera offer, then it comes nicely bundled instead of running round Mozilla for 30mins once to figure out what you want.

    *it also used to render pages faster but there about even now.(start time and loadtime are easily reduced with firefox preloader/other preloaders and fasterfox)

  21. Re:How ignorant. on Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed · · Score: 1

    free adj (freer , freest)
    1. allowed to move as one pleases; not shut in.
    2. not tied or fastened.
    3. allowed to do as one pleases; not restricted, controlled or enslaved.
    4. said of a country: independent.
    5. costing nothing.
    6. open or available to all.
    7. not working, busy, engaged or having another appointment.
    8. not occupied; not being used.
    9. said of a translation: not precisely literal.
    10. smooth and easy â free and relaxed body movement.
    11. without obstruction â given free passage.
    12. derog said of a person's manner: disrespectful, over-familiar or presumptuous.
    13. chem not combined with another chemical element.
    14. in compounds a not containing the specified ingredient, substance, factor, etc definition of free [from chambers]
    you'll notice that definitions 1,2,3,4,6 are more along the lines of RMS and only 5 supports your definition of the word.

    That's the problem with arbitrarily picking one definition, dictionaries.

    interestingly the word free comes from freo

    1. free, at liberty; exempt
                        Beo he freo: he shall be free. (Alfredâ(TM)s Laws)
          2. (poetic) noble, glad
                        Ãa wearþ worn afeded freora bearna: then a number of noble children were brought forth. (Cædmonâ(TM)s Metrical Paraphrase) which is pretty much free as in libre.
  22. Re:How ignorant. on Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed · · Score: 1

    shhh fanboy the real men are talking here. WTF does the iphone have to do with free software/music/web service?

  23. Re:Ecosystems come in many flavors on Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed · · Score: 1

    By not releasing any code before you complete the project dont you miss out on (some of) the benefits of being open source.

  24. Re:Repeat after me, physician, on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tend to favor the opinion of professionals over some random jerkoff on the internet. you must be new here
  25. Re:Oh... on Gaining System-Level Access To Vista · · Score: 0

    your point is valid, but for laptops you can always lock bios & grub, ofc that would also protect you from this attack.