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  1. Re:What they'll do... on Shareholders Push Hard For Apple Succession Plan · · Score: 1

    If Jobs dies, they'll just string him up and move him around "Weekend at Bernie's" like

    What if they already did that?

  2. Re:We should remember this next time on Goldman Sachs Says No Facebook Shares For US Investors · · Score: 1

    The economy of Iceland is actually growing again, which is more than can be said for "The Eurozone".

    Iceland does have the advantage of having their own currency. I think they let it devaluate which makes their products cheaper.
    The Eurozone covers countries that are in much better shape than the PIIGS (like Germany (and indirectly Denmark as well, because the danish kroners are bound to a certain euro value)), so the eurozone cant just devaluate.

  3. Re:We should remember this next time on Goldman Sachs Says No Facebook Shares For US Investors · · Score: 1

    Made perfect sense not to sink their economy to recover British savings.

    I think they did recover the private citizens saving accounts, but not institutions that lend them money, bought their bonds or shares.

  4. Re:We should remember this next time on Goldman Sachs Says No Facebook Shares For US Investors · · Score: 1

    If they were too big to fail, clearly they were too big to be allowed to survive. At the very least each one should have been broken up.

    The same should apply to government, but not how the republicans scream it (less services). I am talking about less land and less citizens pr. government, I do like a full service government like the Danish.

  5. Re:very disappointing, but perhaps inevitable on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 3, Informative

    In any case, correcting Wikipedia is a pain, since chances are that your edit gets removed since it contradicts someone's bias. Also, deletionism is still going strong.

    Citation needed

  6. Re:No pics? on Ikatako Virus Replaces Victims' Files With Pictures of Squid · · Score: -1, Troll
  7. But only to true employees on A Windows Phone 7 For Every Microsoftie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But only to true employees, not to temps and interns.

  8. Re:New Goatsebook launched on New MacBook Pros Launched · · Score: 1

    Sorry, 2 cores only, at least the BTO option on the MBP 17" earlier today says "two cores".

  9. Re:Way to go on Microsoft Unveils 'Pink' Phones As Kin One and Two · · Score: 1

    Why? We consumers are better off with increased competition.

  10. Re:Professionalism on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe a uniform design like a red jacket with a shining insignia on the left chest and a black top that covers the shoulders and a little down. + black pants. Naturally all made in spandex.

  11. Good for Wind energy on An Electricity-Cost-Aware Internet Routing Scheme · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is good for wind energy. Wind energy has the problem that it sometimes doesnt blow, and other times it blows too much ;-)

    I have read it is possible to give pretty accurate wind predictions. This could be used to start servers in locations where it blows too much, and stop servers in locations where it doesnt blow.

  12. Re:and a separate user account on Scammers Target Neopets Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    hell no, use an entirely different computer for important (financial) stuff. This other computer is then hands off.

  13. Re:Sounds like you've covered it pretty well on Portables Without Cameras? · · Score: 1

    Find a netbook that has a turnable camera. Then forcibly remove the turnable camera. The security guard can then see something is missing if compared to the factory default picture.

  14. Re:So what next? on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    a single person can have as many as they can and will pay for. Any organisation can sell email boxes. any one can run their own server.

    I would deal with those the same way we deal with someone that hacks email hosting today.

  15. Re:So what next? on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    I think it changes the dynamics. The idea is to raise the cost of doing spam business.

    While a spammer signs up for a gmail account, i dont think they send their spam through gmails servers, that would be detected quickly.

    But the real point was to hit the spammers on their return addresses. I dont think spammers want to use a shared address, i think they want their own return address. And if signing up costs money, it raises the cost of spamming a little.

  16. Re:So what next? on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    I can see that you did not understood my intention. Probably because it was not clear enough. Sorry about that. What i wanted to do was close all the gratis email accounts and start charging for signup to get an email account.

    If it costs money to get an email account we do not need CAPTCHA because the payment is the CAPTCHA. If spammers sign up using their own credit card we know who they are. If they sign up using someone elses credit card it is fraud which is investigated much better.

    To make the juristiction even more easy, then you can only sign up for email from local companies, or companies in countries that has similar laws against spamming. If this means that people from some countries can not get a free gmail account, tough luck.

    I have no intention of charging for each and every email people send. Only for the account.

  17. Re:So what next? on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So if the CAPTCHA is doomed, what is the next approach? Letting spam bots go rampant over a site is not an acceptable alternative.

    The next thing to do is to close the services that needs (CAPTCHA) spam projection. This means no more free email. Get used to paying.

  18. Re:impossible dream? on Earth-Like Planets In Our Neighborhood · · Score: 5, Funny

    CONCLUSION: Mostly harmless

  19. Re:Single Tax ~ VAT on How To Create More Jobs · · Score: 1

    Value Added Tax already does what you propose, except it only applies to things you buy. Some countries has a VAT of 25%, eg. Denmark, but they do also give free healthcare and education to all their citizens.

  20. no IV and thus ECB-mode is probably the problem on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 1

    The problem is most likely that they use ECB-mode and no IV. Using a different mode, like CBC might solve the problem. The problems with ECB are well known, even wikipedia has an entry about this problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_mode

  21. Re:Bike to work on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    If a normal bike is not comfortable enough, get a recumbent bike.

  22. Motorola Ming A1200 on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    The Motorola Ming A1200 is interresting, but where's the keyboard?

  23. Re:Question on A Coveted Landing Strip for Google's Founders · · Score: 1

    What if it involves ncurses?

  24. So 45nm is not innovating? on Intel 45nm Processors Waiting to Clobber AMD's Barcelona? · · Score: 5, Informative

    So 45nm is not innovating? If it was so easy to do, then we would have been there a long time ago. And AMD would have 45nm as well.

    I think slashdot choose the wrong Subject, it makes it sound like intel is doing it to be evil. It's much more possible that they are waiting with the release to make more money. Some might think making money is evil, but i dont. I like making money.

    If intel has the fastest and lowest power consumption now, and AMD is not a threat, so why release a faster CPU, intel can still make lots of money selling the old. When AMD releases their new CPU, intel has a response ready, meaning intel will make more money.

    Intel is in the world to make money, not particular to ruin AMD, how ever if making ruining AMD makes more money, intel will most likely try.

  25. Re:Won't help on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 1

    yes, but some watermarks might be identical/shared between buyers.