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  1. Re:Well on Free Software Activists Take On Google Search · · Score: 2

    How is it a problem for a spammer to use his (stolen) node to solve problems? He's not paying the electricity bill.

  2. Re:Up to them on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    Actually the problem seems to be a sorting order, I heard. Instead of gathering everything in chronological order (which isn't that easy of course) and thus giving a chance to know what commands where made obsolete by newer ones, they sorted everything from shortest sentence to longest.

  3. Re:I don't know... on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 2

    What prevents the hacker from recreating the log file by replaying all of the log lines minus the one he wants to remove? Leaving a nice coherent log file on the disk with all of the entries chained to the next.

  4. Re:Penguin Yanking? on Penguin Yanking Kindle Books From Libraries · · Score: 1

    In other news, Pakistan just added "Penguin Yanking" on it's list of banned words for SMS.

  5. Re:US needs a set of BALLS and Liberate Pakistan on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Not gonna happen, Pakistan has nukes. US doesn't attack countries with nukes, that's why Iran and North Korea try to get them.

  6. Re:Develop ? on Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe · · Score: 1

    > > which encourages bacteria to develop new ways of overcoming them.

    > which encourages bacteria to **evolve** new ways of overcoming them.

    which encourages god to design new ways for bacteria of overcoming them.

  7. Re:No shortage of cash for weapons. But. on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 1

    Weapons kill people. Lack of social security kills people. I see no incoherence here.

  8. Re:A patent is not just an offensive weapon on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 2

    >> some slimeball will instead, and take you to court
    That would be Apple. And your point is?

  9. Suspens on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> we wait and see whom Apple will use this against?

    Not willing to kill the suspens but I think it will be a company whose name starts with the letter G.

  10. Re:Another flaw found in Bitcoin protocol on Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol · · Score: 1

    You can't eat gold. You can't use it to make tools to work the fields or cut trees (too soft and too rare). And yet people used little bits of gold to trade goods. Why?
    This is truly a mystery.

  11. Re:Yes but on Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol · · Score: 1

    if you leave your life savings in cold hard cash on the living room table you are effectively one burglary away from losing everything.
    But just as you put your savings in a bank, you can put your bitcoins in another account. Extract from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet :
    "A good practice is to keep at least two wallets, one as a "current account" for everyday transactions and one as a "savings account" where you store the majority of your Bitcoins.
    The "savings account" wallet should be backed up in encrypted form only and all plaintext copies of this wallet should be erased. In case someone gains unauthorised access to your computer (either by physically stealing it or by exploiting a system vulnerability via the internet), they will only be able to spend the coins in your "current account" wallet."

  12. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    See: war on drug.

  13. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! Make sure than only the strongest, most vicious prisoners get out of prison, what could possibly go wrong?

  14. Re:And how much to plug it in? on Light Barrier Repels Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    That's why other people are busy trying to find ways to give these people electicity, like cheap solar installation with batteries for example.

  15. Re:Every response is a "no" in disguise on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 0

    You never lived in a democracy. There's no democracy in the world, except maybe switzerland where 250000 people can group and propose a law to be voted by referendum.

  16. Re:Waiting for MS to underbid on Schools In Portugal Moving To OSS · · Score: 1

    For XP maybe. But with Vista and Seven a lot of then 2 year old hardware found itself driverless in Windows.

  17. Re:What do they do if they find guns? on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    The TSA will probably only be disolved once they get to the random cavity searches, which means they have a couple more years of groping fun to enjoy.

  18. Re:I think acting as a fake fireman is a felony on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, and these tests are invalid as they address a situation that will never happen in reality: actual criminals will never impersonate fire inspectors, as there's no way they'll manage to get the permission from the local officials.

  19. Re:samsung??? on Samsung's Solar-Powered Internet School · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. Containers don't have rounded corners.

  20. Re:How about the sliding gesture to wipe my ass? on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    Still free to use, but not for long now. I hope you rushed to the patent office to fill it.

  21. Old news on Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Mhmmm temptation... on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Silly you! Logboxes are not for politicians and the powerfuls, it's only for proles! :D

  23. In other news on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Italy will solve it's unemployment problem. The governmnent decided to pay half the population to spy on the other half.
    "It's totaly not like the Stasi, we value freedom and privacy." commented one Italian MEP.

  24. Re:closed model on Valve Boss Expects Apple To Challenge Game Consoles · · Score: 2

    Steam doesn't prevent you from installing software on your PC. It even let you add your non steam game in it's library. I'm sure a "Steam console" wouln't be locked down like a PS3 or XBox as I doubt people at Valve would enjoy playing cat and mouse with tinkerer trying to break their boxes to install homebrewed software.

  25. Dwarf fortress fail on AMD 'Bulldozer' FX CPU Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    It seems this new generation of AMD will run Dwarf Fortress more slowly than Phenom II :(
    When new computers are slower, there's something seriously wrong!