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  1. Re:fun to think about? on Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport · · Score: 1

    In agricultural societies people didn't live that long, but humans at least lived long lives before agriculture came around. Typical life expectancy in hunter gatherer societies (which is most of what paleontologists that deal with human remains would be looking at) was 60.

  2. Re:But but but but but.... on Next Generation of Windows To Run On ARM Chip · · Score: 1

    Except that the emulation doesn't work on a fair number of xbox games (about one in four in my experience, but my sample size wasn't very big). This is a huuuuge problem from a customer perspective.

    I was in tech support when Vista rolled out, 99.9% app compatibility doesn't matter to the user if that one app they they absolutely must have OR THEY WILL DIE (which is whatever app isn't working) doesn't work.

    Best solution would be to market the ARM version of the OS as a a more powerful tablet appropriate variation of Windows Mobile.

  3. Re:Is DDoS a crime? on Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Because this "sit in" is disrupting business.

    That would be the entire point of a meatspace sit in as well.

  4. Re:The next generation... on Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled · · Score: 1

    Because the goal of Al Qaeda isn't to kill people, but to get the US to spend itself into bankruptcy. Killing people is a means to that end.

    As long as the US continues to use expensive and inconvenient solutions to failed attacks, they have no real reason to change tactics.

  5. Re:DoD should not support the Foxconn iPhone on Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security · · Score: 1

    If you factor in that they could easily use up a million phones before they became obsolete (depending on how serious they are about them being used by everybody) economy of scale would drive that price way way way down.

  6. Re:Socialism never disappoints on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    You make it into an economic issue every time you say the words 'socialist' and 'libertarian'.

  7. Re:Socialism never disappoints on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    Yes, because no non socialist government has ever tried to make it illegal to criticize the government.

    Except of course for all that censorship that took place before the concept of socialism even existed, in pretty much every country that ever existed (I defy you to find one single country that did not have at least one year in its history where speech was totally and utterly repressed de jure, prior to Marx being born).

    Ultimately, civil liberties are a totally and utterly separate question from every other part of politics, with the small exception that it is slightly easier to maintain them in democracies than other forms of government, assuming the majority of people actually want to have liberty.

  8. Re:Difference from what u.s. doing ? on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 2

    So what's your solution? To prevent Fox news from speaking at all? Television is a limited resource, one way or another only certain people will be allowed to speak on it.

    In the meantime, I'm speaking to you, and you are certainly not a friend, family, or part of my social circle.

      I can (and do) print political posters and put them up, and distribute flyers. So my voice is heard even by people I have never spoken too, and if the people choose to listen, I can reach a million people with a blog or youtube videos, without spending a single dime.

  9. Re:Difference from what u.s. doing ? on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    No, Fox news is simply louder than the rest. Better at shouting from the rooftops. But Fox news may say whatever it likes, and that does not prevent me from saying whatever I like.

  10. Re:Difference from what u.s. doing ? on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    The difference is Obama hasn't taken state control of Fox News for spreading dissent about his presidency.

    The US is chipping away at the edges of Free Speech, and constantly loses fights over it. Venezuela is putting the final nails in the coffin.

  11. Re:trademark not copyright on Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer? · · Score: 1

    It's not allowed, but it's not a copyright violation either (unless you also copy the mannerisms or story of the character), it's a trademark violation. There are entirely different rules for the two, among other things you can't use a takedown notice for a trademark violation.

  12. Re:Socialism never disappoints on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has nothing to do with socialism, it's a standard political power grab. What it has to do with is idiots like you who make it into an economic issue, thus distracting everybody from the real point.

  13. Re:Censorship is in every country on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    Do you realize just how full of shit you are? It's available at B&N and Amazon, as is the supposedly banned first book.

    Actually given that Amazon puts Atlas Shrugged as suggested reading material for anybody who likes the book, I'm guessing no, you don't realize.

  14. Re:The final step. on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm certainly not (really, the second they started taking state control of the local media this became only a matter of time), but maybe I can finally get the people who think that my anti Chavez attitude is somehow related to his economic policies to realize just how screwed up the Venezuelan government is.

  15. The final step. on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And thus the last avenue of free speech in Venezuela dissapears.

  16. Re:Nothing to see... on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    My second drive is read only (it was a dollar cheaper even).

    I don't know of any big vendors that offer that by default, but Dell was willing to bend over backwards for any order of 50 systems or more back when I worked for them, so it shouldn't be too hard for a buyer the size of the military. Of course, you'll need to deal with USB properly too.

  17. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    Sadly, there isn't yet a proper test to ensure that all your employees are dishonest backstabbing thieves. It's important to keep dirty secrets from them, lest one of the honest ones gets ahold of it.

  18. I love it! on Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users · · Score: 1

    Currently in the middle of the 5th virus removal of the year for my father, who only uses the computer to surf the web anyway. If I can knock a couple trojans off my workload without the tech support overload a linux system would have, it would so be worth getting him (and a couple of my aunts, my grandfather, my brother...).a chromeOS system.

  19. Re:The most successful trolls on Angles On Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Nobody is 'in charge' of the botnets. The closest you can get is convincing people to use your IRC channel for the hivemind function, but that stopped working soon after the attacks on wikileaks started (DDoS attacks against wikileaks were redirected to anonops (for some reason the press has been almost totally silent about the zombie botnets on the other side), coupled with a substantially larger userbase than the hivemind function was designed to handle), everything is being done by word of mouth now.

  20. Re:Assange gets arrested. on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 1

    There was corroborating evidence, specifically against the cops (who were arrested).

    While there are no allegations of beatings in this specific case, its standard practice for the owners of Bacha boys to beat them when they don't do as they're told.

  21. Re:Assange gets arrested. on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 1

    It might be 'culturally acceptable' but its a serious crime under US and Afghan law (both the new civil code and Shar'ia law), and it *is* slavery, the children are beaten if they refuse to perform or have sex, and are regularly bought and sold.

  22. Re:Assange gets arrested. on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 2

    You mean the way the cables were only released to a select few newspapers, and then redacted versions of those cables were published at the journalists' discretion?

    So in other words, exactly what wikileaks is now doing.

  23. Re:Assange gets arrested. on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 1

    There is no point in releasing this.

    The State Department covering up a child sex slave racket that was run by a US corporation isn't something that should have been released?

    http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/07/report-wikileaks-cab.html

    If the government is going to pull shit like this, then the only real solution is to deny them secrecy of any kind.

  24. Re:M.A.D. on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1

    It's not even cracking, the Anon attacks are entirely voluntary. Its the attacks on Anon and Wikileaks that are being done with zombie systems.

  25. Re:Assange is going to come out of this a hero on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    No, I think that between the governments he's pissed off, the Banks he's threatened, and the mercenary companies whose illegal actions he's exposed, at least one will be dumb enough to think killing him will solve problems.

    This is of course assuming he doesn't get shanked for being a sex offender once he's in a US prison.