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  1. Re:Is your vote kept secret? on 1st Real Internet-Option Election in North America · · Score: 1

    And then there's no way to recount or check the results.

  2. Re:Improperly done blacklist on Why Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    I register all my domains through joker.

    As far as I know, Joker hosts no content.

    Why are you talking about registrars anyway? The discussion so far has been about ISPs and hosting companies, not registrars. And why would the registrar be responsible for content on sites registered through them?

  3. Re:Ehh... best of luck to them, but.... on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: 1

    You should get an account so I can befriend you.

  4. Re:Who do we like today? on IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent · · Score: 2, Funny

    A more knowledgeable USPTO would go a long way to keep the suits off our backs.

    Interesting double meaning there.

  5. Re:Who do we like today? on IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But it has handed them something. Patents (and IP) don't exist as a fundamental right, they're a wholly synthetic creation designed to benefit science and engineering.

  6. Re:Actually it's a windows thing on FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm · · Score: 1

    ISPs have to be very careful about things they host or mirror, other than inside of things like squid proxies. As long as they just carry traffic and don't provide the content, they get some legal protection, they aren't liable for the things their users download.

    AOL has money and lawyers, a small ISP might not.

  7. Re:Because it's there. on The Case for the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you realize how large the galaxy is compared to our solar system?

    Eventually we'll (personally) explore the whole galaxy...

    If by eventually, you mean 100,000 years, and by personally, you mean people living 100,000 years from now.

    And that's only if we manage to travel at the speed of light!

  8. Re:I'm addicted to WORK!! on Games And Addiction - A Cynical View · · Score: 1

    Heh, good point.

    Addiction is usually defined as when something interferes with your work or family life. Who's to say that those are more important than whatever it is you are addicted to? :)

  9. Re:Long movies and Intermissions on LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition Reviewed · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can drink. You see, the cup they give you can have more than one use. Just be creative.

  10. Re:don't worry about it too much on UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again · · Score: 1

    What's the point of a 500Ghz transistor if you aren't going to switch it that fast?

    Even serial has RF problems, at 1Ghz, the resonant antenna is about 25cm. At 10Ghz, the resonant antenna is only 1/2 an inch. RF becomes much more of an issue.

  11. Re:has to be said... on UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again · · Score: 1

    How bad is that stuff for the environment?

    Is the arsenic stable in that form?

  12. Re:Actually it's a windows thing on FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Admitting to using not only Windows, but also AOL on Slashdot. Using them at home even. Ouch.

    You know, you could have turned off the messenger service in the services control panel, even if AOL hadn't already.

  13. Re:I'm surprised they don't use UPS, FedEx on Who Makes MapQuest's Maps? · · Score: 1

    heh, no just put GPS in them. Retrieve the packages and record the data from them.

  14. Re:I'm surprised they don't use UPS, FedEx on Who Makes MapQuest's Maps? · · Score: 1

    Forget striking a deal, just ship a bunch of packages all over the place, and track where they go. :)

  15. Re:gasp! on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 1

    Teal over what?

    You prefer teal over red?

  16. Re:Too bad it isn't heading this way on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    I saw the same type of thing, in Southwest Virginia a few days ago.

  17. Re:When will morons get it? on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    This isn't solving even one problem. The problem it purports to mitigate (it doesn't even claim to solve it!) is the hijack/stealing of hazmat tankers.

    Many have already pointed out other ways to bypass this system with not much more effort, and also the danger of a malicious person being able to petrify our entire tanker infrastruture if they got control of the deactivator codes (or key or whatever)

  18. Re:Meanwhile on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    No one needs to go without gold in the US - regardless of what we spend on space exploration. The gold already exists and it is purely a matter of distribution. In fact I would say that anyone who goes to bed poor tonight did not take advantage of the services that already exist that could enrich them.

  19. Re:Fedora will have errata! on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    Up2date does have the commandline switch "--upgrade-to-release", and yum has similar functionality.


    Oh. Cool. I don't think that's documented yet, because I don't see it in the man page. Guess I was wrong about the "no plans to support" part, but the rest I stand by.

  20. Re:Aurora Cam on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    Haha, that was hilarious. :)

    I saw aurora down here in Virginia too. It is an unusual amount of activity.

    My point is, if the sun is going to explode, or whatnot, it doesn't matter, we're all dead in a few days anyway. Nothing we can do can change that, so why get worked up over it?

  21. Re:Anyone see anything? on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    I saw it in Virginia USA the other day. It wasn't that spectacular here or anything, just a reddish glow with streaks that slowly faded in and out.

  22. Re:Aurora Cam on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is the sun dying?!

    Does it matter?

  23. Re:That's Just Crazy on Netcraft Claims Apache Now Runs 2/3rds Of The Web · · Score: 1

    You really think that's going to happen?

    MS has tried over and over to take over the web this way, VBScript, ActiveX web sites...

    None of that stuff has caught on, with the exception of a few suckers who got locked into it by buying or writing intranet products on it.

    Bet they feel stupid now that MS has changed direction yet again, leaving them with unsupported and proprietary apps.

  24. Re:They should be on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    Heh, maybe so.

    My boss took a little convincing. Even in smaller companies, there's still an uneasiness among managers to use something that doesn't come from a company.

    I gave him that Debian consultant list, and told him if I got run over by a truck, to call one of those guys.

  25. Re:G P L on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    OK, I could maybe even accept that. But then they also say that the service contract applies 1 year after it expires too. And the part I didn't paste has large fines you have to pay for running servers in violation of the contract.