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  1. Re:That's what happens on Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP · · Score: 1
    what, when? It's always been awkward with the libel laws, and public interest immunity certificates, D-notices and the like. But what's got worse recently?

    (e.g. see Simon Singh vs. BCA)

    PS. RSF - Reporters Without Borders - place UK and USA at #19 and #20 respectively in the Press Freedom Index. ( http://www.rsf.org/IMG/CLASSEMENT_2011/GB/C_GENERAL_GB.pdf )

  2. Re:Windows? on One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Bah! I've got two degrees in "math" as you call it. You can do /arithmetic/ on a keypad, but you can't solve a 17-variable PDE or prove the Contraction Mapping Theorem.

  3. rsync -var --partial on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1
    will eventually get you everthing, even if you're on damn dial-up. I used to keep a debian box up to date on UNSTABLE with a 33k modem.

    What they're basically saying is, we think there's something to hide. Go go gadget OCR!

  4. Re:Unless on France Bans Facebook and Twitter From Radio and TV · · Score: 1

    yes, they did, but they cut their losses earlier, as they obviously knew the writing was on the wall. Not that the ex-French colonies paint a very nice picture of French rule.

  5. Re:Variable size RAM disk on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    You can always mount swap on the ramdisk to make it quicker.

  6. Programming Perl on Book Review: Camel In Action · · Score: 4, Informative

    has been "the Camel book" since at least 1997, which is when I acquired my copy. Now get off my lawn.

  7. Re:as said before here many times on The Cost of US Security · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apart from all the non-Muslim terrorists like Shining Path, the Maoist rebels in India, LTTE (Tamil Tigers) as was, the continuity/real IRA, UVF, etc. Terrorists are not all Muslim; there was a viable IED found in a bus not too far from Dublin today.

  8. Do NOT use ECB mode on Writing Linux Kernel Functions In CUDA With KGPU · · Score: 1

    it doesn't obscure patterns in your input data. Please take a look at the tux images here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation#Electronic_codebook_.28ECB.29 (it may be faster, but it doesn't f---ing work.)

  9. Re:Yeah, This Time It's Different on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    - Information, Information, Information ! -Totally fair marketeering ! -Strict ecology !

  10. Re:well, i can on 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts · · Score: 1

    Yep - that's exactly why I kept on at ex-colleagues to change the root password for months after I left one gig.

  11. Re:So reliable on US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    pumped hydro - your excess wind energy pushes water up to a higher reservoir from where it can drive hydro when needed. (or solar thermal/PV can drive as well, but usually wind and hills go together.)

  12. Re:Facebook ships code? on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 1

    Hah! says the guy posting on slashdot - you seen the codebase for this?

  13. Re:Unfortunately on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've met him - he's a nice guy and pretty with it. Other smart people I know value his opinions as well. I think your message says more about your insecurities and abilities than it does about Dancho to be honest. BTW, you cannot evaluate "crazy" by looking at still photos.

  14. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    Are you really that fucking stupid? I don't lean on governments to cover up for my crimes. I don't try to hush up US companies who are pimping out underage boys. I don't get taxpayer funding for what I do. I don't spy on UN diplomats. I don't strong-arm governments to vote for my preferred climate deal. When I do any of these things, I will upload my fucking email archives for you all to read. Until then, FUCK OFF.

  15. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    You don't think it's an issue that trigger-happy forces are blowing away journalists? or those who come to help the injured? or that the US is leaning on the justice systems of other countries to cover up illegal activity? or that the UK lied about displacing the Chagos islanders from their ancestral home? It doesn't matter I guess - this is playing to the rest of the world, that 5 and three quarter billion people who don't live in the US, and have even more reason to dislike the US government now they KNOW what it is really going on.