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  1. Re:As Gandhi once said - on Judge Lets Sony Access GeoHot's PayPal Account · · Score: 1

    First they ignore you, then they continue to ignore you, then everybody ignores you. You don't even lose - you are just irrelevant.

  2. Re:Charlie Eppes on DHS Chief Wants Better Algorithms For Analyzing Intelligence Data · · Score: 1

    No, it did not. After all there were no successful terrorist attacks in US for years, so that big shiny computer with lots of flashy lights must have foiled them all.

  3. Payments on Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Ok, no problem. On the other hand starting next month I will be throttling my payments to them to make paying other bills easier. I am sure Virgin will understand.

  4. Re:For what reason? on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    For extra paranoia get rid of hard disk completely. Boot from CD or usb key and use ramdisk as home partition.

  5. Re:I think this is a good thing on DHS Eyes Covert Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Another problem: they can also swallow things. So better disembowel them too. You can't be too cautious.

  6. Call in TSA on DHS Offers $40M For Top Cybersecurity Research · · Score: 1

    Every packet should be fondled by TSA agent. Also disallow carrying any sharp or explosive bits in payload. Internet finally will be safe!

  7. Re:Click here on New Android Exploit Discovered To Steal Data · · Score: 1

    Hey! I clicked dozen times and still no boobies! Internet must be broken or something ...

  8. Re:Windowsesqe on New Android Exploit Discovered To Steal Data · · Score: 1

    Much worse. On Windows you enable autoupdates and vulnerability soon disappears. With Android you wait months for new version which carrier will or will not make available for your phone.

  9. Re:Countermeasure on Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because it is so hard to go back to using walkie talkie or any other short range radio transmitter. Surely no terrorist will think of it.

  10. Re:Best story ever. [citation needed] on Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber · · Score: 1

    You should really pay GP for some logic lesions. Car analogy comparable to attack/instability logic fallacy would be: Cars move because they have an engine. Cars have an engine because the move. Trying to prove hypothesis (cars have an engine) in circular way using known fact (cars move).

  11. Re:Who gets the 1GB plan? on Microsoft Explains Windows Phone 7 'Phantom Data' · · Score: 1

    Next ads: "don't make calls, save that for your landline"

  12. NSA on Microsoft Explains Windows Phone 7 'Phantom Data' · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wonder that this third-party service remains unnamed. After all NSA stands for 'no such agency'.

  13. Re:WTF on Program Uses GPS To Track Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    Biggest difference is that you can let them ago several years later if your 'sure enough to convict' turned out to be false. Look up The Innocence Project and see for yourself how many lifers and death row inmates has been found to be innocent later.

  14. Re:It's not easy on The Challenge In Delivering Open Source GPU Drivers · · Score: 1

    Oh great, this again. For example OpenSolaris has stable ABI and yet it has much worse hardware support than Linux.

  15. Re:Without specifics, I think we should be wary... on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't have to convince me of that. However due to those technicalities (among many other things), categorical statements like "30% of rape accusations turn out to be false" are nonsense.

  16. Re:1.2 million euro on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 1

    Point is also communicated if you ignore punctuation, spelling and (in most cases) grammar altogether. And no, being too ignorant or lazy to spell properly does not make you creative or nonconformist.

  17. Re:Without specifics, I think we should be wary... on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 1

    No, but he has been consistently portrayed as egoistic, self-aggrandizing asshole.Hell, even a lot of Slashdotters is repeating that, trying to show how balanced and unbiased they are.

  18. Re:Without specifics, I think we should be wary... on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And how exactly do you determine "false"? Do you also count situations when victim got threatened into dropping charges or rapist got out on technicality?

  19. Re:Enough already! on Audio and Video Patents Haunt Apple and Android · · Score: 0

    Just don't be suprised if their idea of change will be along lines of 'only big companies can profit from patents' .

  20. MPEG-LA on Audio and Video Patents Haunt Apple and Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So MPEG-LA protection racket does not actually protect anybody? What a surprise.

  21. Confiscated? on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Had submitter even bothered to read articles he has linked to? Government has not 'confiscated' Assange's money. Bank closed his account, but Julian is free to pick up his money and make deposit in another bank.

  22. Re:All got to browse the same pages on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    Sheep porn.

  23. Re:Pendantic on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no such thing is digital. When you go to smallest elements (atoms, electrons, ...) you enter realm of quantum physics. There is no clearly defined "is" and "is not" - there are only continuous probabilities.

  24. Re:US Citizens - Contact Your Representatives on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... and welcome to no-fly list.

  25. Re:Gas everyone on the plane. on The Sensible Body Scan Alternative · · Score: 1

    And no need to even install seats - just packs passangers as cargo. Suddenly aircraft with 300 seats can take 3000 people. PROFIT!