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  1. Re:more info on Voyager 1 Crosses The Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    I'm an idiot, ignore the previous post. I really need to stop posting at 3am.

  2. Re:more info on Voyager 1 Crosses The Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    So when it actually passes out of the solar system that meands that the interstellar winds will start slowing it down once its fuel runs out, and eventually will push it back into the solar system? The picture makes it look as if the interstellar wind blows orthogonally to the solar system at the direction voyager is exiting, which presumably means that once its fuel runs out then it will get blown back into the solar system and get stuck in the boundary somewhere.

  3. Re:Encryption use != evil on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    I agree, that was uncalled for. I apologize.

  4. Re:Not a good result, even if it was child porn on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    Really? I have never seen anything about encryption on TV at all, let alone hearing people say it is bad. What TV shows do you watch?

  5. Hmm on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article says the conviction was based in part on his searching for child pornography through search engines. However, if he used PGP to encrypt his HD then there is no way that law enforcement could have known this. Does that mean that Google or whichever search engine he was using logged his search history and handed it over to police??

  6. Re:Encryption use != evil on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm not saying the guy accused of the crime shouldn't produce keys

    It also depends on whether he was using PGP to encrypt just his email or his HD, since newer vesions can do either. Personally I don't think he should have to produce the keys either way, but there is a difference. If he was just using PGP for email then it should be entirely irrelevant, since obviously no nine year old girl is going to have PGP on her email (or at least any 9yo girl who does should be smart enough not to hang around pedophiles).

  7. Re:I heard this story on NPR this morning... on Publishers Protest Google Library Project · · Score: 1

    You are thinking of Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer is in the clear, afaik. We read it in seventh grade in our school (we read Huck Finn junior year).

  8. Re:Proof that physics and pot don't mix on Tinfoil Hat House · · Score: 1

    How does that work? Wouldn't increased conductivity just mean that the heat would spread out more evenly over the surface of the metal walls before going through the wood?

  9. Well on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Wouldn't this technology be great for fixing up all those ID3 tags?

    Well with google you can already do this for free. However, the catch is that you need good enough pitch to know what the notes are. But if you can get them (or close enough), then you can type them in to get the song.

  10. Hmm on Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    show distributed free (as in beer AND speech)

    So in other words, the show is Free, as in with a capital F.

  11. Re:I was disappointed on Star Wars Premier: The Line People · · Score: 1

    I dressed up as Vader when I went to see LOTR, but sadly I didn't have a LOTR custume to wear to star wars. Of course this silliness is inspired by the original triumph the dog sketch.

  12. Wow on A Peek at Personalized Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    I certainly hope the word of the day is harder than 'aficionado' in the future. I think word of the day should come in four difficulty settings:

    1. Unwashed Masses
    2. Smarter than average
    3. I'm a fucking genius
    4. I read /.

  13. Re:Who's fault was it? on Consumers Union Wants You to Share Your Story · · Score: 1

    yes, but they sold me the phone and they were the ones who told me those specs, so I expect them to stand behind them.

  14. Re:Lame on OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn · · Score: 1

    Yes indeed, you caught me. Of course I am a little biased because my startup revolves around this.

  15. Lame on OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn · · Score: 1, Interesting
    How is this ID? It doesn't identify the person, nor does it even make the claim that it is a unique person. It is just the next in a line of doomed to failure solutions for the lack of Identity on the Internet. Repeat after me:

    Pay me 25 dollars (iname) to get a name is not the same as identity

    Register with your 'name' and 'email' (typekey) is not the same as identity

    Single sign-on (passport, openID)is not the same as identity

  16. My story on Consumers Union Wants You to Share Your Story · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I bought a phone at Verizon that said it had a battery life of 110 hours. When I actually used it, it lasted 48 hours or less. Now I understand that they fudge it a little, but less than half? So I went down there, and they had the audacity to tell me that the battery life listed was for when the phone was turned off!

    So then the phone says "change battery" and I went to tell them that I needed a new battery since the phone was under warranty. They said that "change battery" just meant charge battery. So I said, "so you mean its just broken, and it means charge the battery instead of change the battery?" and they said, "yeah." So I said, "Well then THAT MEANS THE PHONE IS FARKING BROKEN" in front of their entire store full of customers, and everyone started cracking up. They kicked me out of the store, and I was planning on coming back that night and torching it but I pussed out.

  17. actually on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, cocaine is still legal for use as a local anesthic in mouth and throat surgeries. Tip for young /.'ers: Ask for it when you have your wisdom teeth/tonsils out.

  18. Hmm on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 1

    How does freenet compare to plex?

  19. Re:Corrected Text on Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, for those who don't know, this is his blog. It is a very good blog in fact, one of the few that I go out of my way to refresh several times a day.

  20. Hmm on BBC Launches APIs · · Score: 2, Interesting
    BBC News wikipedizing proxy

    Doesn't this violate wikipedia's trademark?

  21. An idea on China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers · · Score: 0

    I think we to get the editors a fact-checking monkey to hurl feces at them when they post this shit.

  22. You know what they say on Managing Code Signing Digital IDs for Open Source? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Three people can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

  23. Re:He'll need all the publicity he can get on New Awards To Compete With Nobel Prizes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you know that the reason that there isn't a nobel prize is in mathematics is because Nobel's wife was having an affair with a mathematician?

  24. Re:your? on Alienware's Star Wars PCs · · Score: 1

    With Alien Ware it's more like, "What is thy budget, my master."

  25. No on Annual Fee For Your Comment? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This isn't at all irrational. What is irrational is getting your news from a newspaper which is supported by corporations instead of readers. How farking stupid do you have to be to believe what you read in papers like the NY Times and all the rest that work on this model?

    I hardly see how paying for news in irrational, unless you LIKE having a corrupt society where the papers and government are run by those with the most money. If people think it is ridiculous to pay less than five dollars a month for news, then truly there is no hope left for society. Remember, just because you don't have to pay for it doesn't mean it's free.