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  1. Re:citation needed on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    IIRC the 0.03% that were not approved were cancelled by the requesting agencies.

  2. Re:Where is the Source Code? on Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta · · Score: 1

    Is the LGPL really this weak...?

    The LGPL license permits proprietary code to be linked with licensed libraries. The resulting program can be distrubuted under any terms unless it is derivative work. I cite Wikipedia so feel free to change it if you disagree with it. :)

  3. This is only proposed set of rules on New EU Legal Privacy Framework: We're Not Kidding · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article could be misinterpreted to mean this is a done deal as is.

  4. Re:Kids shouldnt even have SSI numbers on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 0

    Your assumption is incorrect. Go read a Form 1040 from any recent year. SSNs or ITINs are required for claimed dependents. Laws and regulations are subject to change. Reality shifts.

  5. Re:Just one atom? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's different. That only requires one rich fat man with a key.

  6. Re:Just one atom? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    Naw, it takes about 16 engineers to -start- a typical F1 car, and about 40 in the pits just to keep it running.

  7. Re:There is no spoon. on Body Heat Energy Generation · · Score: 1

    Or the woman in the red dress. :)

  8. Re:I love this joke on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 2, Funny
    In the Great War, new technologies in small arms was brought to the field: The American Springfield, the British Enfield, the French Lebel, and the German Mauser. Many of these arms, and the internal technologies and engineering used, were seminal. One can find arms made today with designs that are rooted directly in features from some of these weapons.

    Among collectors of WWI memorabilia, it is generally considered that the Springfield is the superior target rifle, the Mauser the superior hunting rifle, the Enfield the superior battle rifle, and the Lebel the superior lamp stand.

  9. Re:Top Gear Anyone? on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yes, here's a compressed (10 min) version of the Top Gear segment from Laguna Seca posted to youtube comparing the real vehicle and track to the virtual vehicle and track.

    Real gee forces, anyone? Real surfaces, real suspensions and tires? Fascinating segment.

  10. Re:Windows ME on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1
    "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased."

    Kehlog Albran

    -The Profit-

  11. Re:Hit me twice in 2 days on Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    ...since protected memory in 7 should not have allowed the gamr to crash the kernel....

    Do not confuse a userland application requesting kernel services (such as DirectX) which then cause a crash, rather than the userland program itself scribbling in RAM where it should not.

    Tthis is academic. The problem is likely not a crash, rather a failure to deliver video to your monitor in viewable form.

  12. Re:Most insightful department ever on Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    they are written behind closed doors by industrial lobbyists, then given to Congressional Aides, who write a one page set of talking points for the Congressional Committee to review

    FTFY.

  13. Obligatory! on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    The timing is absolutely perfect, too: http://dilbert.com/fast/2009-11-24/

  14. Re:OMG! on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 1

    =That= book is definitely worth the read.

  15. Imagine the difficulties redecorating! on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    And you thought the regular stuff was hard to steam off.

  16. Re:Really? on MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports · · Score: 1

    ...reliance on consumers to know what they are buying and choose intelligently doesn't really work.

    Excellent point. Remember when lower quality VHS beat out higher quality Beta? Did consumers care? No. They went with what was either convenient or available.

    Sony's inability to see the impact market forces on their closed architecture, notwithstanding, of course.

  17. Re:A question on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    I noticed you didn't specify how it was unconstitutional.

    Nope. See the EFF's second letter to the Atty G.'s office, as I'd recommended. If you don't find what you're looking for within it, his name and contact info is provided therein.

  18. Re:A question on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    Please explain how the gag order is unconstitutional, including the relevant sections of the Constitution and other law.

    According to Kevin Bankston, Sr. Staff Atty, EFF, in his first of two letters to the US Attty's office, wrote "...the secrecy requirements applying to grand jury proceedings do not reach grand jury witnesses (or prospective witnesses)." He cites F.R.Crim.P.6(e)(2), and United States v. Sells Engineering, Inc., 463 US 418,425(1983). He then goes on to cite 18 USC 2705(b) and the requirements for an accompanying court order.

    He reiterated and enhanced this in his second letter. I won't bother to cite it, I recommend instead that you follow the link in TFA, as TFA was entirely and spectacularly unhelpful as to the history of the proceedings and their current state.

  19. Re:Whedon in the bidding on Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off · · Score: 1

    I for one, welcome our new brick-wrapped-in-a-lemon overlords.

  20. Re:Released in November? on Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    ...even though it is an odd year...

    I'll say. It's been a very, very odd year.

  21. Re:humans on Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man · · Score: 1

    Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, (or H. neanderthalensis, including those with traits of H. heidelbergensis), is the critter discussed in TFA. It had little in common with any of the species of the genus Australopithicus, such as brain size to body mass or brain size by itself.

  22. Re:Same type of experience here on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Any idea how much longer I have until they crash?

    While nothing is ever a certaintly -- a tool for your OS that inspects SMART data from your drives' electronics would answer that question, at least from a trend perspective. I like smartmontools, but you may prefer something else, or it may not be applicable for your OS.

    See Wikipedia for some background information on SMART, and what it can tell you.

  23. Re:Solid Rocket Vibrations Are Not Pogo on Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT · · Score: 1

    feedback / resonance of thrust oscillations

    Wouldn't NASA's ocillation overthruster would handle the feedback.

  24. Re:Did the Gun Help? on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 1

    Lets see, there's 12 million lines or so now, so that would be every 12th line, then.

  25. Re:Virtual D20 on Surfacescapes D&D Demo · · Score: 1

    I play an RPI MUD that does this. I -like- not knowing my character's stats, except in the most general terms, or even how the combat system makes its determinations, or, how it even works. One can, out-of-character, roll virtual dice against a stat to determine the outcome of some event, and then roleplay it as desired, but but that's about it for stats/systems.