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  1. Re:I'm just thinking on New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting · · Score: 1

    That's merely one method of turning such rankings into decisions. There are many more, from Borda Count to Condorcet.

  2. Re:Whats next? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 0

    frothy left-wingers making up all kinds of criteria to differentiate wikileaks from "real" news reporting

    [citation needed]

  3. Re:It's a start. on UK Reviewing Copyright Laws · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Offtopic? Seriously? I thought the connection was clear: they're both laws that are used to impede the flow of information.

  4. Re:So how do you like your fraud? on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no. We need an intimate familiarity with DCTs, Fourier, and hardware micro-architecture.

    *raises hand*. I'm a physicist with a good deal of CS background, but any competent EE should be able to handle this.

  5. It's a start. on UK Reviewing Copyright Laws · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How about also fixing the insane libel laws as well?

  6. Re:Cameron? on UK Reviewing Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Okay, I can see the mechanism for striking workers starving the beast. Voters not voting just seems to be throwing away what little input and control they have.

  7. Restricting Exports ineffective on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 2, Informative

    This shouldn't be called an "embargo". They're not preventing anyone else from trading with Japan, only their own nationals, and only rare earths. It's a very very narrowly targetted export ban. The problem is, it can't be effective. Someone else buys a little more in China, sells it to someone else who sells it to someone else who sells it to someone in Japan. It's fungible.

  8. Sauce for the goose. on The Demographics of Web Search · · Score: 5, Funny

    > would you want Google trolling through your search data? How about governments?

    Heck yes I want Google trolling through governments' search data.

  9. Re:overengineered on OpenID Fan Club Is Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Yeah, look at the FOAF+SSL discussion, for example.

    What needs to happen is to make it far easier for people to generate and add their own client certificates to browsers, as well as get them signed by each other.

  10. Re:It's called speculation... on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not. That's a recently propagated myth with no actual evidence behind it.

  11. Re:So, time for a REALLY long-baseline telescope? on Trio of Super-Earths Discovered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why can't we put an optical telescope on the moon?

  12. Re:Of course they don't violate ... copyright ... on Mod Chips Legal In the UK · · Score: 1

    (Resists temptation to explain why all laws are wrong, complex or not.)

    Unsuccessfully resists temptation, perhaps.
  13. Million billion? on Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star · · Score: 1

    What, they don't expect people to understand "quadrillion"?

  14. Re:It will be fixed on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, any DSA key *used* on a box with the bad SSL packages may be compromised:

    From http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys

    Additionally, some DSA keys may be compromised in the following situations:

            * key generated with broken openssl = bad
            * key generated with good openssl and used to ssh from a machine with bad ssl = bad
            * key generated with good openssl and used to ssh from a machine with good ssl = good

    This is because the random numbers used during the signature process must also be good.

  15. Re:No kidding! on Cubicle Security For Laptops, Electronics? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Secondly they are in a police station which often houses not only police but also known and suspected criminals.


    These are occasionally the same people.
  16. Re:Asking the public to name things? on Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    Mister Spacey Pants!

  17. French Revolution on Evidence of Historical Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, I bet this could also explain the heavy use of the guillotine during the French revolution.

  18. Re:They should be suing others on EFF Interviewed About Their Case Against AT&T · · Score: 1

    Actually, Qwest probably wasn't involved with the spying. The CEO, Nacchio is being pursued by the SEC apparently in retaliation for declining to spy illegally. Naturally, his attempts to bring this up at the trial are being quashed.

  19. Re:Good on ESA Seeks Money For Legal Fees From CA · · Score: 4, Funny

    The concept that certain ideas can be harmful is a very dangerous one;
    Such delicious irony
  20. Re:Public roads on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 1

    Those indeed should not be covered by copyright. Copyright's primary purpose is not to keep things secret -- we do have privacy laws, after all.

  21. Re:Why binaries? on Performance Tuning Subversion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so it costs some extra disk to store it. Disk is cheap.

    Disk is cheap, but bandwidth (and latency!) is not. Being able to send deltas over the wire is very nice.
  22. Re:Does that mean on Judges Rule Google Search by Employer Not Illegal · · Score: 4, Informative

    had quite a sorted professional and personal past


    Sorted: all in order.
    Sordid: dirty, immoral.
  23. Outlaw Penguins on RuneScape Passes 1 Million Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Penguin Underworld? That sounds like the penguin mafia of kingdom of loathing...

  24. Re:This is (now) a famous number-theory integer! on Censoring a Number · · Score: 0

    Sure it does, the prime factorization of numbers in the following list:. Sure, it's empty, but so what?

  25. Re:Not a stretch of the imagination on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    Store-and-forward which is slow and automatically logged (you must delete any messages you don't want to keep) vs real time and no automatic logging seem pretty distinct.

    No, it makes no real difference to the crime, but then the legislature shouldn't try to make distinctions based on method...