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  1. Re:Smart people can be dumb on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 0, Troll

    You sir are also known as Satan's Cocksucker.

  2. My own currency on Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency · · Score: 1

    I'll send them my own currency in the form of whatever I feel like it should be (images, sound,...).
    According to them, it's as good, if not better than money.

  3. Re:Passwords are stupid on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    I don't assume but everything points to it. There are multiple passwords to begin with and even if the lock-screen password does something, it's probably encoding and not encryption as you are never asked to generate a random key pair.

    If iTunes worked that way, you wouldn't have to change your pass-phrase through their web site.

  4. Neutrinos faster than photons? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Have we figured out that one yet?

    Anyway, ever since I read that story, I was more amazed about them being able to transmit/capture neutrinos that way than about the neutrinos being faster than light.

  5. Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Not really necessary to have a battery powered IO device. It's hard to generate neutrinos and even harder to capture them. All you need is neutrino communication hubs at major locations. Lets say LA to SF, SF to Tokyo, New York to London, and Bangalore to Paris. The rest of the communication to those hubs could still occur through the available fiber optic cables.

    As information travels now, going from East Asia to Eastern US directly the Atlantic route would be something we can't do now because of geo-political limitations (Siberia, Afghanistan,...) so speed-of-light based latency is still too high.

  6. Re:If you are American on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    There is no April 31! The rest of the world gets no pie.

  7. Re:Beats real war any day on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    BTW, the banks all did what they did because they knew there was money to bail them out with.
    Government regulation made guarantee.

  8. Re:Beats real war any day on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    No one is being "given" anything by force. It's a personal choice which doesn't affect anyone else and you and everyone else should stay out of it unless you have a non-liberty-restricting solution which works. (see Portugal http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/03/portugal-drug-laws-decriminalization-_n_889531.html)

  9. Re:Brute force? on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 0

    You are right. No encryption. Same with the iPhone. Total bullshit "security"

  10. Passwords are stupid on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 2

    Passwords are a stupid way of securing a device. The "password" on the device should be a passphrase for a key on the phone's encryption system. Both Apple and Google are making the same security mistake. iTunes could be a million times safer if they used public key authentication instead of their awful password system.

  11. Re:Pure propaganda. on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    Only major news brought to you directly by BBC in a while probably. Everything else on there is fed to them by Reuters, who also feeds CNN, FOX, and all the other brain-washing machines.

  12. Re:Beats real war any day on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    "Fixing banks with less regulation is like fixing Lindsay Lohan with more cocaine."

    Blaming the cocaine on her problems is like blaming the gun on someone who commits suicide.

  13. Karma on Yahoo Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    This is Karma for turning our Facebook photos into billboards for "sponsored" ads.

  14. Re:wiki link on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1

    Needs more mod points. Unfortunately mine ran out while I didn't see much to use them for.

  15. Re:It only took a century on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1

    Don't care about the energy crisis. I just want a shitload of lumen to light up the night just for fun.

  16. Global warming solution? on IBM Scientists Measure the Heat Emitted From Erasing a Single Bit · · Score: 0

    Does this mean that we can stop global warming by no longer censoring movies on TV?

  17. Re:Freest country in the world on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Reminds me at Jack Nicholson's Easy Rider speech about freedom.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc11mJGre10

  18. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but sometimes people who give up citizenship of the initial country can end up stranded, which is ridiculous in of itself. Where should you send them? Space?

  19. What investigation? on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    The only investigation mentioned on the News is the investigation of Megaupload.
    They might be using that as a premise to hide the bribery and impede an investigation there.

  20. Re:try service for a change on Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors · · Score: 1

    Great point of view. Amazon should step up and classify products that can be improved by adding service and offer specialized product support. I bought many products which are well warrantied by Amazon but it's hard to get expert-opinion on them and I ended up with either a poorer choice or with the wrong product.

  21. Let China lead on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    Why do we need to be the first or beat anyone to doing anything? It's not really a competition. If China finds a profitable reason to be there, then we can raise money and go back. As it stands, we could not figure out why to be there so why bother again? The moon has plenty of space for everyone.

  22. Show me the money! on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    I'll believe him when he uses all the money he raised on his campaign as a down payment for it and shows a 3 year break-even analysis.

  23. Glorious mustache on Hawaiian Bill Would Force ISPs to Track Users' Web Histories For 2 Years · · Score: 1

    John Mizuno wants to make sure his glorious mustache will be safe from the terrorists.
    Seriously, don't they have enough problems in Hawaii? The hotels are pumping mad sewage into the coral reef and they care about what people do on the internet?

  24. Banning incandescent lightbulbs is stupid on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    What they should do instead is impose a tax that makes CFLs and LEDs price competitive and use the tax money to subsidize domestic LED production.

  25. Advertising? on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Louis Vuitton is using this to advertise more of their really ugly products.

    How could they have been hurt with product placement?