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  1. Trust the government? on Malaysian Government Offers Free E-mail To All Citizens · · Score: 2

    We already do....http://www.usps.com. Now the key thing is that USPS is a mail transport. At any time given appropriate legal action, they are authorized to read your mail. The question is, what do you choose to do to protected the contents of your mail knowing that you have an insecure transport? Oh I'm sorry, I forgot that most of the stuff that you send is irrelevant and nobody could give a rat's ass about it. Granted, electronic mail can be copied and archived for many years with minimal cost where as archiving copies of physical mail requires significant resource investment. So now you have to decide what to do to your mail knowing that you have an insecure transport where your information can be cheaply duplicated and stored for many years. Then the biggest question has to be asked, what will the Malaysian government do to people that make their mail difficult if not impossible to read by an unintended party?

  2. Re:pshaw! on China To Overtake US In Science In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Thank you Peter Griffin.

  3. In the sage words of Austin Powers: on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    Well I vana toilet made out of solid gold, but it's just not in the cards now is it?

  4. Re:no Antarctica downloaders? on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately their downloads were frozen.

  5. Re:Who cares? on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 1

    South Korea is also a prize, and having their puppet to the north start a protracted conflict in order to cripple the Western economy by a thorough shelling of Seoul would be a major military coup.

    Yes, because "crippling the Western economy" is EXACTLY what North Korea would be thinking of when they incite war with somebody. God we Americans can be so self-centered sometimes.

  6. Do it like the real UN on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students? · · Score: 2

    Make the students buy their votes. Soon after you should have enough money to by the clicker thingies.

  7. Re:Check out Hawala for a better alternative on Visa To Offer Person-To-Person Payments · · Score: 1

    As quoted from Wikipedia: "Hawala has been made illegal in some U.S. states[3] and other countries[citation needed] as it is seen to be a form of money laundering and can be used to move wealth anonymously."

    There's no elephant here, move along, move along.

  8. Already have that covered on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just make sure that I am a very uninteresting person. You can also count on businesses going out of business and your data dying the obscurity death as well.

  9. This is up for potential regulation on AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, in certain areas Comcast tried to implement bandwidth caps and the feds stepped in and stopped it because they couldn't prove that it cost them more money to maintain their network when everything was unlimited vs capped.

  10. Re:Grey market economy on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    I actually prefer to keep my money in a safe located behind a painting in the master bedroom. Much less conspicuous that way.

  11. The solution on Improving Nature's Top Recyclers · · Score: 1

    Build an oscillating time machine where the fungus exits out of the start of the feedback loop after it oscillates 1300 times. Just make sure that none of your engineers try to put themselves in the time machine or your stock price may plummet.

  12. Re:Oh, I disarm them alright.. on Disarm Internet Trolls, Gently · · Score: 1

    Actually, you have to burn them with fire for them not to survive the encounter.

  13. Re:I miss the really smart people on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    And I also miss the day that I had to learn not to implicitly trust the Linux or any other system's documentation. I tried to write an asynch sockets program using Linux sockets on Slackware 2.0.12 or 2.0.24. I worked on it with bursts of fervency and then abandoned in frustration at various intervals for close to 6 months. This was back in the time of Xmodem and Zmodem Telix connections to connect to a Unix system via dialup to connect to the Internet and there was a really cool application that brought 10-20 people together in an online game that pre-dated UO by two years (a HUGE technological time gap for those days). Obviously you can hint at my motivation to program sockets.

    Finally after 6 months of not knowing why the sockets wouldn't connect, I finally figured out that the manpages had documented the wrong return value for a successful socket connection and was immediately able to develop a rudimentary client/server application after overcoming that one little hurdle.

  14. Re:Social Network on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    I remember pre-2003 where in order to get this new Gnome thing working you had to go to this website where they walked you through what code changes you needed to make to make Gnome compile. Of course it couldn't be better than WindowMaker, but the screenshots were too gorgeous not to try it out.

  15. I miss the really smart people on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 2

    I miss the dudes who hadn't even hit 20 yet but had receding hairlines, used to say a bunch of stuff that you could quite tell was either crazy or genius, that wanted to convince you that this crazy Linux thing was awesome because it was in color (i.e. as opposed to black-and-white DOS or the VAX/VMS we dialed in to), and that thought it was totally reasonable to trust something that was *gasp* free (there's no way that something that was free was reliable enough to bother with).

  16. The problem is with them on Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming · · Score: 2

    The music industry is doing nothing to actually groom and foster music. My wife goes to bed every night with the same radio station on and I swear I have heard the same 5 songs repeated over and over and over and over again for the past 8 months to the point where I want to shove an icepick in to my eye. If you don't take risks and support more artists you're doomed to decay from the inside.

  17. 30 minutes, right? on Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one to notice he went over 30 minutes?

  18. Another way of saying on Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Feel free to replace "parents" with "US Government" and "children" with "citizens" in any of those statements. Also feel free to replace "police" with "FBI".

  19. It's a very nice!!!! on Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material · · Score: 1

    US get 13 ton of nuclear material from my country yet I show US my sister, she show her vazhïn to US and say "You will never get this you will never get it la la la la la la."

  20. Re:What about cracking down on Siemens? on Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire · · Score: 1

    If China can fine Walmart http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/26/bloomberg1376-LFM8EF6JTSEA01-198KCAIC8BBDM0DUFP7VNMOL1J.DTL what's to prevent us from doing the same with a company that conducts work that supports foreign programs in violation of programs such as the NPT and the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010?

  21. Re:What about cracking down on Siemens? on Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire · · Score: 1

    In case you didn't know, they are a global company with US offices and are subject to US laws and restrictions. http://www.usa.siemens.com/

  22. What about cracking down on Siemens? on Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire · · Score: 1
  23. Where's Obama? on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the kind of behavior that I thought the Obama administration was going to crack down on. Business using shelters and practices to avoid fairly contributing their taxes. I'll be interested to see if this gets any traction with the administration since I personally believe this is one of the biggest economic failures in America.

  24. what do you mean on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    IF Popeye had made alternative fuels? ONRL is simply replicating what you get when Popeye takes a dump.

    s/Popeye/Chuck Norris/g

  25. Too little too late on 1Gbps Wi-Fi Coming Soon To a Billion Devices · · Score: 1

    Why the heck would I buy 1G wireless in the future when I can buy 3G and even 4G wireless right now? They'll probably be up to at least 5G by then.