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  1. Eh on Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the big deal is. Obviously problems / issues exist and the need to high bandwidth brainstorming without interruption can kick start ideas and solutions. They have a lot of issues with people stomping on them just to slow them down and make them look bad. A simple mailing list, luncheon, or whatever doesn't seem to be a big deal. Except for people that want to try and hold back ideas.

    Its a political world and wp: is a political environment. Don't act like they were redistricting Texas in secret.

  2. Re:Well Duh! on Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes · · Score: 1

    Works for safety flaws in other industries ... "5 star safety rating" "top in its class for safety".

  3. The Title on How Mainstream Can Code Scavenging Go? · · Score: 1

    The title of this article seems to have been 'code scavenged' ... it makes no sense and wasn't proof read. 'How far can can code scavenging go in the mainstream?' perhaps

  4. debunked on Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists · · Score: 1

    this has been show with timed lapsed photography to be a function of extreme cold / heat and wind. there are some lake bed videos on youtube. boing boing had this a few months ago.

  5. Re:Hotmail...? on What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Hotmail.com should be one of their greatest failures. They had an amazing acquisition and totally dropped it over and over again. It might rival AOL's complete lack of focus in terms of potential failure, imo hotmail.com had such promise. Yahoo did a good job at stealing it away and adding their instant messenger, but their profile system sucks and now its just out of control silly. I believe that what keeps it going is their personals and the legacy people on it that you might want to communicate with.

  6. Re:So remember... on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same scam and likely the same punishment.

    The guy that stalked and harassed a woman in michegan got a solitary single day for what seems to me a pretty substantial abuse of power.

    I look up your age, how many points you have, address (apartment/home) out of state address and are likely a student, if you have previous court issues related to divorce or marital issues. Manufacture a stop right before you enter your driveway by a few blocks, deserted road type deal multiple times. Yeah thats just one day suspension, lol.

    The multiple cops pressuring groups of people 'this is my third ticket from you people' is pretty insane stuff. Basically the above only on a 'game theory' approach to casting a wide net looking for successes.

  7. Re:So remember... on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1

    If in a public parking area that would likely be 'vehicle abandonment', which often has a hefty fine and a quick tow.

  8. Re:So remember... on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of many abuses with no accountability forthcoming, the ability for the normal patrol car to lookup information of licenses places for purposes of stalking, abusing, and harassing people has been around for years. The patrolling near a bar, finding a vehicle with an owner low on points, then as they leave give them an ticket for leverage or excuse them from a ticket for leverage has been well documented.

    Efforts for oversight (i know get ready for this) ... pre-911 ... we forthcoming, but now would obviously be impossible. Nobody is going to have oversight on what people are querying outside a bar, near a beach or out on the highway.

  9. Re:Hushmail did NOTHING WRONG on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 2

    I disbelieve .... "Hushmail gives you precisely as much security as they possibly can, and no more." is meaningless when they fail to share that they have a policy of going turn coat on you. Billing yourself as a oasis when its a mirage is more like it.

  10. Re:Iraq War on People Believe NASA Funded As Well As US Military · · Score: 1

    Big investment means big payoff right? I mean that $102,000 is going to be huge versus that the crappy $500 ... you gotta play to win.

  11. Vista Solution? on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    You would think that Vista's amazing and innovative security would prevent one task from sniffing like this quite easily. Obviously running WoW under Wine castrates this entire problem, though having significant downsides of its own.

    How / Why Warden can grind through anything outside WoW's resources is a absolute flaw in Microsoft's product. Clearly some Microsoft Desktop/OS guru needs to step up and write a how-to to run WoW 'setuid' as a separate user and fix this problem.

  12. Re:mitnick on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine the completely insane possibilities for this now? The patriot act likely makes rendition protocols and the like a possibility.

  13. mitnick on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Two years for the sentence or two years waiting in jail to think about getting the two year sentence. Mitnick was in this bind pretty much and the wait in jail during trial was quite the toll.

  14. Re:Really? on Dvorak Says gPhone is Doomed · · Score: 1

    He should obviously get this picked up in japan and korea. They really need to hear how mobile computing is dead soon before its too late.

  15. Re:The evil thing here on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    My money is on inside job, if evidence was destroyed by them to cover up this guy and the customers has some serious bank coming.

  16. Re:There's Ron Paul on Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down · · Score: 1

    Supporting a 'Nazi party in 2008' would seem to differ.

  17. Re:Truthiness on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    Its obviously a fake run for president.

    He will milk it until they tell him to stop, then he will have a second round of insanity finger pointing at everyone in an equally crazy delusional rant. He is only 'running' in one state and not using either party process properly.

    Any attempt to undermind him with some preemptive attack of 'fair use and illegal funds' would be easily fixed with him faking that his show got taken off the air. Imagine the crazy uproar, it would quickly be front page stuff.

    The idea that the chip people are in trouble is amusing, they likely could care less. Do you do a stunt like this and worry about it going either way? Man you hope it goes both ways and becomes a frigging riot. If the ability of them to go to the supreme court existed in some way I have no doubt they would. Its just money and all the publicity is just priceless.

  18. Re:I think this is some great comedy on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    The rules of almost all debates clearly forbid this and have restrictions on the smallest minutia.

  19. Re:Acrobat on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1

    Agreed, MS should have made a virutal printer or some such non-sense that fixes these issues. Well thats unless MS has a product that does what ... ohhhhh

  20. Re:Still in beta on Google News Launches Facebook Application · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Talk is abandoned? News to many people I am sure that use it constantly.

  21. Re:oblig. on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 1

    While we understand that most of our readers are familiar with latin/utf8 encoding, we do not permit you to view our page as such.

  22. Re:I don't get the rationale on Federal Journalist Shield Law Advances · · Score: 1

    This is just to help protect their leakers and punish to leakers that aren't theirs if they have found to stumbled poorly. They want to be able to maintain a outward pipeline of sensitive information to key people every day, but want to be able to punish people that obtain information that is not good.

  23. Re:bllizard, wow patcher on Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    The issue here is that you can download a custom tuned for you serial number / customer id portion from microsoft and get the rest of the binary shared crap elsewhere.

  24. Re:well... on Details of Microsoft's New Analytics Tool Leaked · · Score: 1

    Live ID? Yeah, can you imagine what Microsoft thinks 'demographic information' entails.

  25. Re:Duke WAS NOT Apple's fault on Security Flaw Found That Allows Control of iPhone · · Score: 1

    Or how the 'pwn imacs with simple wifi trick' was?