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  1. Re:Buckle up folks... on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 0

    this could be interesting.

    In the US, it won't warrant buckling up unless your name is in one of the documents. People know the politicians are corrupt. They know we're trading lives for oil. They know the government is violating the constitution. The few who care will not be surprised by the contents of the leaked documents. The ones who do not care will continue to not care.

  2. Re:Please, learn statistics before posting BS on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Public health trumps religious issues

    Right; the 0th amendment:

    "The government has the authority to perform medical procedures against your will and religious beliefs".

  3. Re:Crazy Response to Attack on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 1

    Debian has /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates that reads certificate configuration from /etc/ca-certificates.conf and generates the certificate store for any applications that use the mechanism, which includes openssl, Firefox, and Java as installed from the Debian repositories.

    I would think it would be easy to write a program that does the CRL checking as you described and remove the entries from /etc/ca-certificates.conf.

  4. Re:That brings up an interesting question on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you cannot restore your backups without an Internet connection, you do not have backups.

  5. How much? on US and UK Zombies Demand Top Dollar · · Score: 1

    How much does a US zombie go for? If I want to set up a couple VMs to be zombies, to whom do I talk to sell them?

  6. Re:I don't get it on LinkedIn Hurries To Address Privacy Stumble · · Score: 2

    The point is the same as for every social networking site. To sell your information to advertisers.

  7. Re:Google search worthless now on Why Google Needs Firefox · · Score: 1

    Second hit for "pantech breeze": http://www.pantechusa.com/phones/breeze_ii
    Click on "PC Suite".

  8. Re:Only Safari?? on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    I think "Apple device" means something running iOS; as opposed to an "Apple computer".

  9. Re:It'll never make it through FDA trials on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The eradication of polio did not mean the end of the March of Dimes. The NCI would simply need a name change and slight focus adjustment.

  10. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 5, Informative

    Furthermore, they did not inject the HIV, they injected previously removed white blood cells modified by HIV.

  11. Re:Jumping the gun a bit? on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but the manager who removed the lights from the dashboard got a bonus for saving money and the manager who put the extra pages in the manual got demoted because they spent too much money.

    I bet the manager who put the extra pages in the manual also got promoted because he got to increase his head count and bump up some meaningless-other-than-for-performance-evaluation numbers. To make up for it, they delayed payments to vendors and delayed wage increases to the factory workers. The vendors started charging more and they had to hire a bunch more lawyers to fight the unions, which ended up costing more than they saved with the delays, so they increased the cost of the cars. So people started buying Toyotas instead.

  12. Re:Jumping the gun a bit? on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 1

    What if the downstream O2 sensor has good readings? Now you have to run a different test. Inconclusive? Different test. Inconclusive? Different test.

    Or you could just do it right the first time.

    Sure, it might be cheaper to go to Gomer and have him test the handful of things he can test and only go to the dealer if he cannot fix it. My time is worth more than that; I would rather just get it fixed now.

    That being said, I would never take a non-OBDII car to a dealer.

  13. Re:where's the profit in that? on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 2

    If your car got to the point that the lack of oil changes is causing the CEL to come on, you have bigger problems than $150 to read the code. Anyway, most part stores will scan your car for free, hoping that you will start replacing parts at random instead of taking it to a qualified mechanic (usually a dealer).

  14. Re:Jumping the gun a bit? on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 2

    The CEL system is specifically designed to reduce emissions. When you get something like P0420 (catalyst efficiency below threshold) the only ways to fix it are to start replacing parts and random or do a very involved test with expensive equipment that Gomer Pyle is simply not set up to do. Modern engines and their control systems are very complex to reduce emissions and still put out the (largely unnecessary) power that people want.

    It is not a conspiracy of the manufacturers. I guess you could argue that it is a conspiracy of the environmentalist wackos or something.

    If you do not like it, buy a bicycle. They are easy to diagnose and easy to fix.

  15. Re:What They NEED to do... on Mozilla's Nightingale: Why Firefox Still Matters · · Score: 1

    Java WebStart + SWT.

  16. Re:Java and .NET falling by the wayside? on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: 1

    And MacOS, AS/400, z/OS.

  17. Re:Java and .NET falling by the wayside? on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: 1

    Java would not be a suitable replacement for .NET. The purpose of .NET is to keep people on Windows, not give them a migration path away from it.

  18. Re:Will PageRank be opensourced on Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android · · Score: 1, Informative

    Copyright and patents are different issues with different ramifications.

    Also, if they document PageRank, it will make it easier to game and reduce the quality of their product.

  19. Re:Cablevision/Optimum is Fine on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 1

    There is too much wrong with Rochester to list. Lack of decent broadband is the second biggest local problem in the eastern suburbs though, behind only the upstate-wide property tax problem.

  20. Re:Good... on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    So if you are friends with a parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, or family friend and then that person becomes your teacher, you have to unfriend?

  21. Your post advocates a on Why Public Email Needs a Police Force · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your post advocates a

    ( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

    approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

    ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
    ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
    ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
    (X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
    ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
    ( ) Users of email will not put up with it
    (X) Microsoft will not put up with it
    ( ) The police will not put up with it
    ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
    ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
    ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
    ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
    (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

    Specifically, your plan fails to account for

    ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
    (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
    (X) Open relays in foreign countries
    ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
    (X) Asshats
    (X) Jurisdictional problems
    ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
    ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
    ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
    ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
    ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
    (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
    ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
    ( ) Extreme profitability of spam
    ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
    (X) Technically illiterate politicians
    ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
    ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
    ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
    ( ) Outlook

    and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

    ( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
    been shown practical
    ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
    ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
    (X) Blacklists suck
    ( ) Whitelists suck
    ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
    ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
    ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
    ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
    ( ) Sending email should be free
    (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
    ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
    ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
    ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
    ( ) I don't want the government reading my email
    ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

    Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

    (X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
    (X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
    ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
    house down!

  22. Re:Probably going to good isps on Tens of Thousands Flee From BT and Virgin · · Score: 1

    What speeds do you get for 20-30 pounds a month?

  23. Re:Damn Tea Party! on House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users · · Score: 2

    You are making the common mistake of thinking the tea party and the Tea Party are the same. The former is a group of people fed up with government excess. The latter is a PR arm of the GOP. The former is against HR.1981. The latter is playing chicken with the Democrats over the budget and the debt limit.

  24. Re:Well ... on McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing · · Score: 2

    Right. Because CGI would all get done in one office in one representative's district, but we can a few extras from each district instead.

  25. Re:That could be very helpful. on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    Actually there is data that point to such schemes beeing negative for the clearing rate. Here in Sweden for example the clearing rate for the top 10% of murders (that is because in 90% of the murders there is a known subject, only about 10% has an unsub. Something that is labelled as "reconnaissance murder") has gone down from about 75% to about 40% since the police started to use DNA and mobile phone tracking (where they empty the cellular towers to get a list of which phones that where active in the area at the time of the murder).

    Could part of the decline be because with DNA evidence they are no longer charging (and convicting) as many innocent people because the newly available evidence clears them before it gets that far?