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  1. Re:It's good to see. on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    What is the point of a punishment that is not cruel?

    Really, the common attitude here regarding the Criminal Justice system is just plain bizarre.

  2. Re:It's good to see. on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    Do you really think the hashes themselves are submitted as evidence? I would think that the hashes are only used to get a warrent for actually looking at the files with matching hashes. The problem in this case appears to be that there was no warrent to do the initial search, thus invalidating any further evidence-gathering based on the hashes.

    But I didn't RTFM, so what do I know.

  3. Re:New features are irrelivant... on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 1

    My pet peeve about Vista is that at the same price point of the different XP versions, you actually get less product.

    Why the hell can't Vista Home Basic play DVDs out of the box? (For non-administrators)

  4. Re:BSD Network Stack on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 1

    BSD is an OS (distribution). It can't compete with anything. Red Hat competes with Microsoft. Linux does not.

    The developers are not competing with Microsoft either. Existing as an alternative does not imply competition.

  5. Re:Stop calling Apple products intuitive on Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? · · Score: 1

    You have to return to the Now Playing screen to change the volume? Dang! I've been doing it wrong all this time!

    OK, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I couldn't resist. Anyway, you can double-tap the home button to bring up a volume control, even while in other apps or while it's locked. That's not intuitive either, but a lot more handy.

    I pretty much agree with your sentiments on user-friendly versus intuitive.

  6. Re:Mini Review on Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? · · Score: 3, Funny

    but how can you screw up SSH?

    Ask Debian.

  7. Re:What I'd like to see... on Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've never configured samba to use unencrypted passwords unless I had to connect from Win9x (which won't do encrypted passwords). I really have no idea what you are talking about.

  8. Re:Could SMB just go away? on Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability · · Score: 1

    LDAP is a protocol, not a directory service. AD supports LDAP just fine.

  9. Re:The easy way on Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells · · Score: 1

    Non-pro-life people should be terminated. If they don't care about life, we shouldn't be burdened with them.

  10. Re:Sadly, this is the problem, two discussions on Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    ALL rapists have only that right. Why sensationalize it by adding "child"?

  11. Re:Whoops! on Walmart Caves On DRM Removal · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't have a single DRM'd song from iTunes, though I've bought about half a dozen albums. (iTunes just doesn't carry much of what I like.)

  12. Re:Yeah, but if the LHC kills us all... on Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel · · Score: 1

    Actually, it does. But it all sucks.

  13. Re:Surprise? on In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who in the UK doesn't have a region-ignoring player? You need better educated friends, perhaps.

  14. Re:Working together on In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I had a choice between buying kids and video iPods, I'd pick the iPods any day.

  15. Re:Mod parent down, here's why on Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yay, another shlashdot poster with shit for brains. What in the world makes you believe even a fraction of your argument is true in any way, shape or form?

  16. Re:Red Sea tag suggestion: on Birth of a New African Ocean · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Bible never gives an age for the Earth/Universe. Got to love the disconnected logic that allows a person to make things up at random and yet allows themselves to feel smugly superior to other people they claim are making things up.

  17. Re:Finally! on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Huh? Have you forgotten SCO already?

  18. Re:Stole freedom. on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am not sure if it's theft in a legal sense, but by trying to shut down the source of the code, it is a form of theft. The whole premise of "copyright infringement isn't theft" is based on the fact that the source hasn't actually been deprived of anything. The asshole who patented his software was trying to get rid of the source by abusing patent law. When I lose my own code by abusive legal action that leaves the only legal holder as the abuser, that is theft. I have lost what he has gained through his actions.

  19. Re:Shocked, I am on Skype Messages Monitored In China · · Score: 1

    Explain how we do not have a one-party system in the US.

  20. Re:Shocked, I am on Skype Messages Monitored In China · · Score: 1

    You have fallen into the same trap as most of the populous. You seem to think that a 200+ year old paper can actually affect anyone's actions. There is NOTHING stopping the Government from enforcing anything it chooses except the people in that Government, and perhaps the people they would rely on to do the enforcing.

    There is a reason why Jefferson said that the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots (please excuse the bad paraphrase). He knew that the only way to stop a tyranny was with one's life. The Constitution CAN NOT do it. Only we can.

  21. Re:Gee... I wonder if on Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems · · Score: 1

    That my friends, is truly dad indeed

    You must have had a pretty bad childchood.

  22. Re:Sounds like Sequoia is trying to avoid bad pres on Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Trade secrets in a voting machine? I know you aren't speaking from particular knowledge, but the very idea just reinforces my decision not to vote.

  23. Re:Where and how well did they look? on Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros? · · Score: 1

    The burden of proof relies on the accuser.

    Ask Sagan.

    Ha'motzi me'chaveroh alov ha'riah.

    Ask a Talmudic sage.

  24. Re:Or else... on NYT Ponders the Future of Solaris In a Linux/Windows World · · Score: 1

    All new Unix servers at Ford are Linux unless there is a good reason (software compability) to choose another. Linux is by far the most popular server OS after Windows (roughly 40%).

    I do have to admit that in a couple years it might be a stretch to call Ford an "enterprise" :p

  25. Re:Thanks from the reminder on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    What success?

    Even if he didn't cause it personally, the economy is utter crap. Everything related to the economy, such as healthcare, is getting worse.

    The wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq are killing more innocent people than they are saving. Neither is accomplishing anything constructive.

    What exactly has Bush succeeded in doing that is actually positive for the US, much less the world?