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  1. Re:It's because of crypto on Microsoft Blocks Messenger In Five Embargoed Countries · · Score: 1

    http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar_consolidated.html

    Yes, the crypto is considered a weapon and has always been considered as such.
    Any application that encrypts data can be used for secure communications and in
    that form, it becomes a weapon.

    ITAR. Google it.

  2. Now renamed on US Federal Government Launches Data.gov · · Score: 1

    Hacked Data dot com. Coming to an Identity Theft near you!

  3. Six day old and questionable on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is this 'news', it is an old report IF you look at archeology reports.
    Why is everyone so behind the times?

  4. A CTO on Senate Sources Say CTO Confirmation a Done Deal · · Score: 1

    Need not be overly technically savvy, just be able to understand
    the basic ideas and make a fair choice. Sadly. politics WILL rear
    it's ugly head and compromise things. So sad.

  5. Powerful video on YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis · · Score: 0

    I did what was intended, exposing corruption and murder.

  6. Alfred Bester on Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears" To Be Filmed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    When will this author's works make it to the big
    screen? The Demolished Man was a masterpiece.

    Heinlein's, Stranger in a Strange Land ,would also rock.

    Slow down cowboy? WTF? It took me 60 seconds to write
    this post without using the word 'nigger'.

    What do you want?!?!?! Waits 2 minutes before submitting.

  7. Re:Stereotypes usually have some kernal of truth on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 0

    Amen to that ! Besides, not many of work in a carnival or
    sideshow.

  8. First? on A Look Back At the World's First Netbook · · Score: 0

    http://oldcomputers.net/grid1101.html This was even earlier. I guess what passed for a
    netbook today, is well, not quite a netbook, except for the browsing stuff.

  9. What may be the real problem on Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time · · Score: 0

    Is that EVERY Federal employee, contractors and all, use the same
    accounting package. Maybe under different names, but I would
    wager it is a common place accounting package which is entrenched
    in the 'system'.

  10. What we REALLY need is on Google Planning To Serve "High Quality News" Passively · · Score: 0

    For Google to take over ALL high speed access broadband and kill the
    idiots like Time Warner, AT&T et al. They have the money and are closer
    to being honest with subscribers. Oh well, that will never happen.

    IF there is to be a monopoly, it should be from intelligent overlords,
    not profit driven idiots. Yeah, we have all heard that before.

  11. Free, yet EXPIRES? on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 0

    Pure horseshit. Free is forever, and nothing else.
    Mod me down, you pussies!!! Bad Karma, I have more karma
    built up based upon the years of my life, that most of you will EVER have!

  12. Defeat Plagerism on Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism · · Score: 0

    Simply disallow the use of words.

    Vice President Biden, are you listening???

  13. When we see it on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 0

    Then I will belive.

  14. Re:Such projects perhaps should die. on Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? · · Score: 0

    We never know what SCO could have done or should have done either.

    Shall I hold my breath?

  15. This is old on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 0

    Popular Science talked about this stuff in the mid 1960's.
    The plan was to collect energy(the how part was vague) and
    convert it to microwaves to beam it back to earth.

    I do not want microwaves playing over the landscape. No matter
    how well intentioned. Just beam focused sunlight to the Salton
    Sea and generate steam, at least you could see the beam.

  16. Interesting on Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs · · Score: 0

    Will it be truely scalable?

  17. Remedial Education needed on South Korean Financial Blogger Faces 18 Months of Prison · · Score: 0

    The U.S. is a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC. Based on democratic principals. That is
    NOT a Democracy. Please revisit Government 101, and pass the class this time.

  18. Small excerpts on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 0

    would be okay, but 75 questions in order? Hogwash.

  19. The possibilities are enormous. on Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body · · Score: 0

    I have your enormous possibility swinging between my legs.

    Want to monitor it?

  20. We were supposed yo go metric years ago on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: -1, Troll

    But Americans are niggers. Nigger, nigger nigger, nigger. We always break out commitments. Nigger.

  21. wow on EFF Unveils Search Tool for FOIA Results · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me guess before looking, hundreds of PDF files with those annoying black lines through
    that parts people are really interested in.

  22. Narcissistic ?? on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    More like retarded. Did these applicants have ANY real development references? Did they code an app from scratch that is in common use, like BlueBeep or any of the stand-alone DOS programs?

    Do they actually have the chops to start from the ground up and develop a helper application
    for ANY platform or app? Are they living and breathing code? OR are they paper tigers with unrealistic expectations? I would bet they are A+ certified morons.

    Great programmers program in any language, after all, logical thought can be expressed easily,
    the implementation is only limited by the language they use and their understanding thereof.

    Graduates, expecting to instantly gain GURU status, are wannabes and lame. Corporate travel??
    Very funny. Real programmers can learn any language, with ALL it's quirks, and excel at using that, or any language. It is NOT only book learning and test taking. It is mostly doing and being able to DO that counts.

  23. OLD Stuff on Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009 · · Score: 1

    http://www.fretlight.com/ looks like the wheel has been reinvented.

  24. Nope on Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws · · Score: 1

    Still crashes on me everytime I try to close it. 2.0 did not.

  25. Public Hanging - televised on Facebook Vs. Spammers, Round Two · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That would stop US based Spammers. We need to try it for once, or get them for
    violating the laws of a country that has severe penalties for sex related offenses :P

    Stoning any one? Every country has SOME law they must have broken.Involuntary extradition?
    My mouse had quivers with anticipation.