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  1. Re:Bye Bye EBAY on New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy · · Score: 1

    Both .com and .net TLDs are controlled/hosted by Verisign, a US company.

  2. Re:A pox! on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Internet only became what it is today because of WWW, which was invented at CERN. But enough of that because it doesn't matter. Internet is global and no one has any special right in terms of control.

  3. Re:I love moderates on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    Before and during the WW2, The Pope supported the prosecution of the Jews. Not the 21st century though.

  4. Re:Good to see what EVE is like on EVE Online PVP Tournament Streamed Live · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen EVE Gate is only a contact list and private message system accessible over the web. It has no real time chat, groups or anything else that would really help.

  5. Re:Good to see what EVE is like on EVE Online PVP Tournament Streamed Live · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I agree with you. EVE is a dull, boring game with a terrible UI. The only thing that makes it enjoyable is PvP if you're in a good corporation/alliance. It's not rewarding over short term. It's lots and lots of grinding for money so you can experience a battle for a few minutes and then you're back to 10h of grinding. It's hard to find a fair player, most of them will try to scam you in any way possible. Honorable players are rare. It's next to impossible to a fair fight. There are definitely great moments in game, but the amount of negativity is overwhelming and that is the reason so many people leave after trial runs out. Even those who have full accounts take breaks and often complain of boredom. It has a very low ratio of fun/"time invested".

  6. Re:It already exists. on Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format · · Score: 1

    Acrobat Reader supports reflowing. Once I got a very narrow PDF (weird "letter" or "formal" format I think) and I was searching for a "reflow". I found it. It's great.

  7. Re:3000BC called... on New iConji Language For the Symbol-Minded Texter · · Score: 1

    No one (normal) in my country knows that @ means "at". @ has it's own unique word here, "afna". It's only used in email addresses.

  8. Re:Who is this for? on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, they use 128-bit RC4 encryption, which is considered insecure. Today AES-256 is standard.

  9. Re:Peopleware on Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:and windows is insecure... on Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Operating system has nothing to do with this attack. Web server has nothing to do with this attack. JIRA has to do with this attack. If a session cookie is stolen and is valid when used by the 3rd party, it's the application's fault. The solution would be a better, more secure session manager in JIRA. Additional solution would be using HTTPS.

  11. Re:Earthquake relationship ? on Geomagnetic Storm In Progress · · Score: 1

    To cause an earthquake, it would have to be a concentrated beam of EM energy, something that only man made technology can do. There are reports that HAARP was on at full power from a few days ago to a few hours past the Haitian earthquake. HAARP can cause earthquakes. Russians and Chinese have the same super weapons.

  12. Imagination on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 1

    I think more important ability than being good at math is having a very active imagination than can be focused and having the ability to think outside the box. Personally, I have a very active imagination and an open mind and I found them very useful so far in my software engineering.

  13. Re:Dimensional Weight on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    What is a "gm"? Do you mean "g", as in gram?

  14. Re:Global warming? on HP's New Data Center Cooled By Glacial Wind · · Score: 1

    Which part of my comment violates the 2nd law which says the thermal energy can only flow from hot to cold objects?

  15. Global warming? on HP's New Data Center Cooled By Glacial Wind · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does anyone else think that a great contributor to global warming is the method with which we create and consume power. We produce most of the electricity with steam and that steam needs to cool off before it can become steam again. They way that steam is cooled is either with water or surrounding air. Every nuclear reactor needs to be next to a river if the outside air is not cold enough. The river on which our reactor is built is 4C hotter after it passes the power plant because it's used to cool the steam. And that temperature increase is constant, all the time. Coal power plants do the same. Then, on the consumer side, we also convert much of that electricity into heat, with inefficient light bulbs, cars (thats why the engine needs a heatsink and a fan), electronic equipment, etc... If your computer uses 150W, thats 150W of heat output per hour. Human body outputs on average ~100Wh.

  16. Re:current internet not inevitable or irreversible on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    The word "balkanize" is insulting to the people living on the Balkans. It's like calling a fat person an "americanized man".

  17. Re:Memeory Leaks on Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.6 RC, Nears Final · · Score: 2, Insightful

    8GB RAM is 120 EUR. Thats a month of quality food for a single person. Saying hardware is cheap is wrong because it's not cheap. Not for the majority of the people.

  18. It's a conspiracy! on NASA To Try Powering Mars Rover "Spirit" Out of Sand Trap · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since the Mars rover is not really on Mars, but on a secret location on Earth, perhaps they could just use the "hand of god" to give it a little help :)

  19. Re:Security advantages over Ubuntu Server on OpenBSD 4.6 Released · · Score: 1

    The system has heavy traffic and is using nginx http server and PHP workers. We are a high profile target so security, stability, availability and performance are paramount. Some critical components are VMs and have VMware Fault Tolerance enabled on them (essentially, the VM runs on two physical machines).

  20. Security advantages over Ubuntu Server on OpenBSD 4.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Comparing the latest OpenBSD to the Ubuntu Server, what are the security advantages of OpenBSD that would warrant it's usage over Ubuntu Server? Ubuntu Server home page boasts quite a lot of security features and I presume it's faster than OpenBSD as well.