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  1. Re:Nice achievement but ... on The Encryption Pioneer Who Was Written Out of History · · Score: 1

    There was no problem prediction the invasion of Kuwait.

    Saddam: "Is it OK if I invade Kuwait"?
    US Ambassador April Glaspie: "we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait [...] the issue is not associated with America".

  2. Re:They have a headstart on The Encryption Pioneer Who Was Written Out of History · · Score: 1

    Well, yes. Genocidal maniacs are often proud of the genocides they(*) have committed.

    ((*) Well, not them, their "ancestors").

    People who defend empire, past or present, are scum, or ignorant, or ignorant scum.

  3. Re:I'm so sick of this... on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    It's quite simple.

    1. People whine "why do I have to jailbreak my iphone, root my adroid"...

    2, You say "you bought the wrong phone, you should be rewarding openness instead of giving money to people who abuse you".

    3. Now they have two choices:

    3a admit their error, or

    3b say "no, my choice is good because [ fill in some complaint about the N900 or Nokia ]".

    Actual, real, human beings will always take option 3b, then repeat from 1.

  4. Re:A Libertarian World on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    No.

    The American health system is a middling, high second rank system.

    The American health insurance system is one of the worst there is in money spent for results.

    It is very profitable however.

  5. Re:What is next a cop fee and if you don't pay rap on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    LEOs are not obligated to provide you any form of protection. So, fee or no fee, they could stand there and as you get raped anyways.

    In the US. Please remember that the law is not the same everywhere.

  6. Re:What is next a cop fee and if you don't pay rap on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Well.. sure.. except TN does not tax personal income, only dividend and interest income..

    'cos they're commie scum and hate capitalism?

  7. Here's a clue for phone buyers... on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    ... If you need to root or jailbreak your phone ... ... you're buying the wrong phone.

    Why not just buy one that doesn't need it?

    Don't reward behaviour you don't like.

  8. Re:This has to happen. on US Military Orders Less Dependence On Fossil Fuel · · Score: 1

    Or, to put it another way.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  9. Re:This has to happen. on US Military Orders Less Dependence On Fossil Fuel · · Score: 1

    Gets kind of interesting when the Taliban overrun your FOB.

  10. Re: uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation.. on The Science of Truthiness · · Score: 1

    It's easy to be honest when you're insane.

  11. Re:NAT on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Nothing. You have an iPhone.

  12. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    The short run is a couple of months.

    Hardly worth it.

  13. Re:Wrong! on Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    They're probably going to buy the German ICE because those nasty Frogs collaborated with the Nazis.

    Uh, hang on a minute...

  14. Re:This. on US Gov't Assisted Iranian Gov't Mobile Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    If we allow the U.S. government to put in rules that allow it to spy on Iranian citizens, due to the nature of the technology, we're also allowing Iran's government to spy on U.S. citizens.

    But the US government has absolutely no interest in spying on Iranian citizens. It wants backdoors to spy on US citizens. (And the Iranians want them to spy on Iranian citizens).

  15. Re:Wait, what ? on US Gov't Assisted Iranian Gov't Mobile Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Young Communist league USA, New Black Panther Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, the International Socialist Organization, the War Resisters League, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, La Raza, and the American Muslim Association of North America,

    Just the kind of people I'd trust to ensure freedom and justice.

    Me too. Those are exactly who I'd expect to try to ensure freedom and justice.

    Or would you expect the Tea party and the Republicans to do it? Dream on.

  16. Re:For those like me who don't know what ACS:Law i on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 1

    I thought it was some weird perl module.

    That would be ACS::Law.

    ACS:Law sounds like an American TV series.

  17. Re:Should of refused to cooperate from the start. on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    Punctuation goes on the inside of quotation marks, not the outside.

    Not in British usage (or traditional computer geek usage for that matter(*)).

    * A true geek puts punctuation that is part of the quotation inside the quote marks, that which is not outside. Your punctuation inside the quoutes in the first of your points is an offense to our eyes, you should have written:

    1. Who is "Fuck", and why should he damn it? Perhaps you were looking for "God damn it" or "fucking damn it"?

  18. Re:Who is Nokia again? on Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs · · Score: 1

    So Linux is just the kernel, eh?

  19. Re:Two Wrongs. . . on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1

    Government intervention in transportation has been nothing but a subsidy to automobile manufacturers from day 1.

    Bizarre. Government intervention in transportation started long before the automobile was invented. I doubt the Romans built their road network thinking about how useful it would be to GM.

  20. Re:Short answer: Probably on Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs · · Score: 1

    I think they could do it, but I suspect that Symbian will become an also-ran with iOS, Android and Blackberry's new QNX-powered OS. It WAS good, but they don't have the marketshare

    Delusional.

    Go on, how much marketshare does Symbian have?

  21. Re:Yum, the smell of fresh toast.. on Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the latter two [Android, iOS] are fundamentally Unix-based [...] So they probably leave Symbian in the dust for robustness and reliability,

    Wow. Just wow.

    I'm struggling to come up with a witty response.

  22. Re:Who is Nokia again? on Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs · · Score: 1

    So you have a N900.

    (Android is not Linux).

  23. Re:Soon this law will be useless on In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, the laws are extremely strict here:

    Current state of the law

    The use of cryptography is free, according to article 30(I) of the law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for the trust in the digital economy (Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique).

    Source http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/cls2.htm

  24. Re:Carte blanche on In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day · · Score: 1

    Under the tar the pavés are still there

    (And, of course, sous les pavés, la plage!

    (If you dig up the paving stones in Paris you find nice yellow(ish) sand, in May '68 this was noticed, and gave a nice festive air to rioting - let's chuck rocks at the CRS scum then lie around on the beach!))

  25. Re:You can make this stuff up. on Thieves Use Vacuum To Siphon Cash From Safes · · Score: 1

    Aha, they struck again!

    http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-gang-a-l-aspirateur-devalise-les-monoprix-22-09-2010-1078047.php

    "Le dernier fait en date remonte à lundi. Vers 6 h 30, deux hommes pénètrent par une issue de secours dans les locaux du magasin Monoprix de la rue Garibaldi, à Saint-Ouen."

    This one is "near Paris".