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  1. Re:Run this afterwards.. on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry son, not on Windows, I gave up fighting the OS wars some time ago.

  2. Patriot act HDD on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1

    With a keyboard macro, or a recessed kill switch, we might actually maintain some semblance of privacy, "oops, was that what that switch did?" or "sorry, you did it yourself when you unplugged the system".

  3. Run this afterwards.. on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cleans out everything you might want.

    http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

  4. Re:86 years is a long time .. on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    I too am sorry for the deaths of normal, average people, politicians, nah!

  5. Re:well.. on Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes · · Score: 1

    I wish I'd had a cute young teacher, I had a Jesuit priest!

  6. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    You seem to believe that there is something huge and special about the universe, there is a growing consensus among physicists that the universe is like one of the tiny bubbles rising in a glass of seltzer, popping into existence, rising and going away, it may be that "universes" are really some inconsequential/ephemeral byproduct of a larger process. Since time and space were a byproduct of the big-bang and time is reckoned from within, the actual life of the "verse" may be rather like the soda bubble.

  7. Re:Looks nifty assuming no one crashes into the ra on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually looked into where your "American" car was made?
    At best it was "Assembled" in the US, from parts made largely in Asia.
    At worst it was assembled in Mexico from parts made wholly in Asia.

  8. We get it, you're British.. on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: -1, Troll

    "football pitches" Huh?
    "silver and crockery" you mean dishes, right?
    "frolicking dogs" Whaddya?
    "mug of Lady Grey" Tut, tut!
    "mulish lay people" We call em Lusers
    "sheep, a duck and a cockerel" a Whaterel, do you mean a chicken?
    "too Byzantine for a computer to process" would it have killed you to say complicated?
    "22 calibre armour-piercing incendiaries" I think you meant 22 millimeter

  9. Corners? on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    Look at it, it's one long piece, half the length of a city block, even if the freeway has gradual curves it's gonna intrude into the lane it straddles when it goes round a bend.

  10. Re:Looks nifty assuming no one crashes into the ra on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NOTHING, I own that I have bought in the last twenty years is/was/has been made wholly or mostly in the USA, with the exception of service, food and desktop support almost everybody in the USA could telecommute at least several times a week.

  11. Re:Saving irreplaceable fossil fuel? on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 1

    Sonny boy, I live in California, and EVERYBODY I know lives at least 50 miles from work, in the office where my daughter works there are people who live in Sacramento and work in San Francisco, and in one case they live in Antelope!

    Where do you live, Boston?, Philadelphia?, London? You certainly don't live anywhere near here!

  12. Re:Should have got planning permission on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    Now the crooked bastards can give themselves raises (Bell, CA) and get rid of all the Firefighters (Vallejo, CA) all time funding boondoggles like satellite photography.

  13. Saving irreplaceable fossil fuel? on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 1

    So, were not burning any fossil fuels to charge these things?

    And most Americans have really long commutes, more than 50 miles per day.

  14. It should be glaringly obvious.. on Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To anyone.

    Who the REAL terrorists are!

    USA!, USA!, USA!

  15. Re:Ou of interest... on Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device · · Score: 1

    I already posted this further up, just Google Phonecrypt

  16. A work-around! on Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device · · Score: 1
  17. Re:The UAE is partially correct. on BlackBerry Services To Be Halted In UAE · · Score: 1

    "The UAE's telecoms regulator said the move had 'nothing to do with censorship'"

    The "censorship" happens when pursuant to local custom, they saw off your head with a dull knife!

  18. Re:why? on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1

    When I was in high school (geezer stuff to follow) we didn't have calculators, if you wanted to cheat you had to use crib notes (palm of the hand, shirt tail, etc), maybe it would be better to put down the cell phone and actually learn something.

    Listening to rap/hiphop has to have serious negative side effects! ..Pantfs on de groumd, Pantfs on de groumd, lookin lahk uh foo wif yo pantfs on de groumd..

  19. Re:Proxies, https, SSH on FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity · · Score: 1

    Stunnel let's you write your own cert *.pem file

  20. Re:WTF on GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes! It (the Internet) needs to be regulated insofar as keeping big business from strangling it.

  21. Re:Asperger's on Obama Won't Intervene Over British Hacker McKinnon · · Score: 1, Informative

    1. "The US are calling him a terrorist"
            The US calls everybody a "terrorist"

    2. "Do you believe he would get off lightly if extradited to the US"
          "The US is world famous for unreasonable draconian sentencing!

    3. "or do you think he would be made an example of?"
          A show trial in a US federal will be as fair as any Medieval Auto de fé and just as much of a spectacle.

  22. Gullible.. on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    Paranoia will destroy-ya!

    And you thought that the right-wing nutjobs were uneducated. To be completely fair, has anybody heard of "The Garden Plot" circa 1959, or "Shiva" circa 1970?

  23. Re:Operating System Feature on Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sandboxie, Foxit reader, CutePDF writer.
    All Free, solves all your problems.

  24. Re:Question... on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    Maybe not a chrome (mirror) at all but the stuff on traffic signs made op of tiny reflective particles?

  25. Re:Shortages on Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens US Security · · Score: 1

    Companies don't hire anybody over 50, the US (civilian) gummermint hardly has any employees under 50. As to "Hackers" If you are "good" you probably will not admit it, in fact if anybody knows about you it's probably because you aren't "good" or you are a poser/script kiddie who brags about your "exploits". The "good" ones are invisible, to uncover yourself is to invite trouble and a conviction in a US federal court show trial will prevent you from ever working again out side of the fast food industry. The people with hiring authority in the gummermint are disinterested "retired on active duty" clock-watchers who, while they may posture and make a lot of puffed-up self important noise about "cyber terrorism" etc, they don't really even understand the concepts behind the terminology. They are just waiting to retire and trying to stay out of trouble until they do.