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  1. Re:Do they have anything like the 1st over there? on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 1

    Not on that level of inviolability, no.

  2. Re:That's not a demand. It's a request. on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 1

    In the UK, requests, when issued by such bodies, usually come close enough to demands. Look at the UK govt's countless "voluntary" regulationary systems.

  3. "Representatives of the UK banking industry"? on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 1

    Would that be governmental representatives, representatives of an independent representational body of some sort, or a single bank/group's representative front? I'm unaware of the "UK Cards Association".

  4. Can the Streisand effect hurry up and get in here? on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    I was unable to locate the video in question, so I assume it's been taken down, and, sadly, and somewhat surprisingly, appears not to have been reuploaded.

  5. Re:Pretty sure... on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 3, Informative

    As far as I know, "ax" is acceptable in American English, British English only permits "axe". I noticed TFA's inability to spell "hassled" in the headline far more. On an unrelated note, I wonder whether they would have pressed charges were the employee in question to have disclosed the vulnerabilities only to the TSA. It's been done in the context of comp security, so I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it happen to someone reporting on physical security.

  6. Re:Everyone does it on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 1

    No, I don't believe that BoA has a support sty to rant in, at or with, whatever a support sty may be.

  7. "Sucks" and "blows" not the only pejoratives on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's astounding variety in dyslogistics; humanity's capacity to insult extends far beyond the simple "x sucks", "y blows", and often enters far more explicit territory. What makes them think that "sucks" and "blows" are the preferred verbal weapon of the domain-registering masses? If anything, this will only cause a rise in popularity of other insulting verbs.

  8. The mere existence of an API? on 10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier · · Score: 1

    I agree with most of these; however, I'd revise #3 to refer to "a substantial API" and not the minimal, in terms of usefulness execrable, deposits of code provided by some software.

  9. Re:Hoping for the best on BYTE Is Coming Back · · Score: 1

    brand necrophilia

    Shouldn't that be brand necromancy? Unless you're referring to the joyous tone of the article, in which case, yes, brand necrophilia would be the correct word.

  10. In short, another magazine is using the name on BYTE Is Coming Back · · Score: 2

    It's certainly nice to see the brand getting some use - too iconic a brand to let it go to waste - but this appears to be revival of the name and no more. Reading TFA, I can find only tenuous similarity between this and the original magazine; different focus, different target audience, by the chronological gap between this and the original, probably completely different staff - one might as well change "BYTE Is Coming Back" to "Another Magazine is Using the Name BYTE". As an aside, I wonder how much they're going to have to pay for a domain like byte.com.

  11. Humanoid robots on The Tipping Point of Humanness · · Score: 1

    This and related observations and studies go further to explain why humanoid robots are often found strange and/or disconcerting than they do to explaining why animated films have failed; the reason for The Polar Express's failure is far more likely to have been generally poor animation and very competent competition. It's somewhat of a a pity that humanoid robots are as unlikely as they are to take off, outside of Japan and perhaps S. Korea, due to the difficulty at achieving a human-looking face; they'd be profitable, apart from anything else.