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  1. Re:headline? on China's Politburo Behind Google Cyber-Attack? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:OK on DIY Sound-Activated High-Speed Photography · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'd just whip up a bit of python,

    Oh, you mean your camera doesn't run Linux. How odd.

  3. Re:You dont... on Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, look at the context,

    Saddam was Irans biggest enemy, the one they'd fought a war against.

    The Taliban were the next most dangerous,

    The US destroyed Saddam, installing a pro-Iranian regime in Iraq.

    They removed the Taliban from power, leaving Afghanistan with an Iranian funded government,

    Which enemy of Iran will the US destroy next? Saudi or the USA?

    My money is on the USA. The process is already advanced.

  4. Re:Economic downturn on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 0

    it's pretty obvious the Housing Boom was caused by an inadvertent mistake by the Clinton administration, specifically the HUD. They passed a regulation that made it illegal to deny a mortgage application even if the citizen was too poor to pay it back. Hence a run-away boom.

    Aw, shit, someone's wrong on the internet again.

    Nope, that's not what happened. Sorry.

    (I assume you're talking about the CRA. The majority of the bad loans were made by lenders that were not covered by the CRA.)

  5. Re:Untrusted certs should not raise an alarm on SSL Certificates For Intranet Sites? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is done by having the server present a certificate, which the client can then verify was signed by one of many trusted authorities.

    The only thing the "trusted authorites" confirm is that the person who has the cert paid for it.

    Some trust.

    The whole SSL certificate crap is a scam. The only interesting thing to know would be "is this site using the same certificate as the last time I connected to it". And the shitty browsers don't tell you that.

    (The protocol should also have some reasonable way of doing rollover, like presenting a new certificate in the session "this is what we're going to be using starting...").

    That is why SSL authenticates the remote site. Encrypting the transport prevents eavesdropping, while authenticating the remote site prevents man-in-the-middle attacks. You need both to have any degree of security.

    But they don't authenticate the remote site. They just check that the remote site has a certificate signed by one of those super trustworthy people like Verisign or the government of China.

  6. Re:Why does this always get marked troll? on SSL Certificates For Intranet Sites? · · Score: 1

    The rule should simply be "no financial transactions or personal data on a site without an entrusted cert".

    But do you trust some random idiot who paid some money to Verisign?

    Do Verisign promise to reimburse you if the person they sold a cert to turns out to be a crook?

  7. Re:You dont... on Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? Logical sequence?

    First you took down Irans biggest enemy, Saddam.

    Then you took down their second biggest, the Taliban.

    The logical sequence would be either:

    1. take out Saudi Arabia
    2. commit suicide.

  8. Re:You dont... on Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design · · Score: 1

    It's traditional to give the allegiance of senators and so on.

    That's R, R, R, and Blue Dog.

    (Not the Dem's are any less corrupt, but don't forget these idiots are claiming to want to bring budgets under control, not give all the cash to their buddies).

  9. Re:How about . . . WRONG!!! on Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids? · · Score: 1

    But yeah, C.S. Lewis is probably something we can all agree on.

    Yup, I agree, it's total crap and will permanently warp any child who reads it.

  10. Re:True for me on Why Don't We Finish More Games? · · Score: 1

    I finished Half Life, downloaded and finished 100s of mods.

    Finished Half Life 2.

    Finished Half Life 2 episode 1.

    Started Episode 2. Just got pissed of with that fucking gravity gun and gave up. That's Half Life all over for me.

  11. Re:Chuck Norris on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 1

    Come off it, Norris is a wimp who's scared of Obama.

  12. Phil Jones on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 1

    Yes I can type more than that idiot slashcode.

  13. Re:Of course they want a Linux Mobile OS on AMD Joins Intel's MeeGo OS Effort · · Score: 1

    The goal for both Meego and Android should be to get their kernel customisations back into mainline.

    It's basically already done for Meego.

    As for Android, google (hah!) "tokenised dead mice" to see what the chances of that happening are. (Ignore Google's attempt to "fix" the spelling of tokenised).

  14. Re:Of course they want a Linux Mobile OS on AMD Joins Intel's MeeGo OS Effort · · Score: 1

    If Nokia [...] were smart, Nokia would steal Google's [...] Dalvik

    WTF? Why on earth would Nokia want Dalvik?

  15. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    We don't make our money from selling [products], we make it from ...

    Maybe you missed the beginning of the thread. These guys were standing around a water cooler in China. They do make money from selling products.

  16. ipv6 on Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers · · Score: 1

    It's the only solution.

  17. Re:Just because they have branded it on Telstra Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    If the license says:

    "You can use this software if you sacrifice your first born child to Baal"

    And you strike that out because its illegal.

    Then what part of the license allows you to use the software?

  18. Re:Just because they have branded it on Telstra Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    I can write a license that says you must kill your first born child if you use this code. Does that make it legally enforceable?

    I doubt they can force you to kill your first born child, but you have no right to use the software if you dont.

  19. Re:They're still around? on Nokia Reasserts Control Over Symbian OS · · Score: 1

    Another good thing is that their chargers have used the same connector and voltage for something like 15 years. Everyone have a nokia charger.

    Not true unfortunately.

    There's the old fat one, the newer slim one, and now the micro-usb one.

  20. Re:That doesn't help the US citizens. on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why are you demanding protectionism?

    Don't you trust the invisible hand?

    Are you some kind of commie?

  21. Re:I use that setup on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Seats on TGV class trains often have power sockets now. (Pretty easy for them to do since the train is plugged into a big extension cord).

  22. Re:Make your own on Agloves Allow For Touchscreen Use On Cold Days · · Score: 1

    If you're using a stylus you don't have a capacitative screen, this article is not for you, you don't have to worry about cold fingers.

    I lurve my N900 even more on cold days.

  23. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the worst thing about corporal punishment is that it is used as a fig-leaf by child abusers.

  24. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 0

    I think it's significantly more cruel what we do to kids now. We let them grow up with this sense of entitlement and utter disregard for others,

    What do you mean by "we", you childless troll?

    It's beyond a joke when slashtards start harking back to some fucking nonexistent "golden age".

    Why yes, I do have children, and they are about 1000 times more considerate of others than you are.

  25. Re:Wow on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 1

    Lie? That infers malice.

    No, it implies it.

    You notice that strange blue colour to the words "an Apache helicopter gunship gunned down two men"? That's what we call a "link". You can click on it to read the actual report.

    You claim the Guardian "left out relevant parts of the story" when you leave out relevant parts of the story yourself. The point of the tiny snippet of the Guardian summary story that mentions the helicopter incident is not that Crazyhorse 18 shot the "insurgents", but that a lawyer gave them the advice "You cannot surrender to an aircraft.".

    You are claiming "The Guardian is unreliable, because they didn't give the full details of the 'surrender to a helicopter' incident, so we shouldn't trust them when they tell us US troops threatened to hand captives over to the Wolf Brigade knowing they would be tortured". You've made a totally cack-handed job of showing that the Guardian didn't give the details, showing instead that you didn't bother to look.