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  1. Re:Messing with Government of USA is one thing on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 2

    corporations have ready access to the US government...

  2. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 2, Funny

    easy, it is how many weight exactly one kilogram

  3. Re:Users aren't the only stupid people on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    even better... I have a Bank of America checking account, and they bought my mortgage. Their method of tracking all accounts is by social security number, and this is entirely inflexible, and cannot be altered in any way. One day our joint credentials to our mortgage account suddenly allowed full unfettered access to my checking account. It was just my wife, but it was still annoying. Both accounts were moved for the fiasco.

  4. Re:Beijing is in a permanent fog on NASA Data Reveals China's Industrial Air Pollution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    maybe the problem isnt as bad as the original poster says, but your defense is damning on its own. Bragging that the blue sky has been visible most of the last 28 days also says that there are days that you cant see the sky, and that the previous summer the sky has been blocked for most days. I dont think you should be so violent in your defense of splitting hairs.

      I live in a city known for traffic and the pollution it creates, and I see blue skies on every day that it doesnt rain all day long.

  5. Re:Here's why: on NASA Data Reveals China's Industrial Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    There is likely a third reason ... anyone having to deal with the toxic crap needed to create these panels has to deal with cleaning up the mess, or processes to avoid creating messes. Or they can have a joint venture and do the manufacturing in a place where there are no restrictions or requirements.

  6. Re:It should go both ways. on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    record labels are primarily a distribution network. Why cant the ISPs supplant them? If they split their 25% 50-50 with the artists, then all the artists will get a HUGE raise.

  7. Re:What do UKers think? on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    I think this puts you as a creator. It has been very difficult to determine the dividing line between the "creative industry" and the litigation industry. Litigation has been one of the creative industries primary assets for some time, and this is just another step towards monetizing a potential income stream. You happen to be another income stream that management of these companies have available. The management is not creating, the industry is not entirely about creating.

  8. Re:fp? on Appeals Court Rolls Back Computer Privacy Guidelines · · Score: 4, Interesting

    agreed. There was a reason that the original rules were so strict. The founders could have requested that the powerful should just be nice in their handling of the masses, but they instead chose to be explicit. Sorry to the coppers if that gives them a little extra work, but it is nice to avoid a witchhunt.

  9. Re:What a silly question. on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 1

    so, are you concerned that I throw poop, or that it doesn't register with my co-workers as a significant event?

    (monkeys throw poop btw)

  10. Re:What a silly question. on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 1

    I have noticed though, when I get angry and throw poop at people, they all just shake their heads and shrug it off.

  11. Re:My stepson.... on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    so is he smart enough to realise that string theory is bullshit ?

  12. Re:Lots of good memories :) on Keith Elwin Wins Pinball World Championship · · Score: 1

    Dont touch the door! Dont touch the door! Dont touch the door!

  13. Re:I don't know about Twitter, but.. on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When facebook reminds me that it is a dead person's birthday, that can be kind of nice as a reminder of good times. When facebook tells me that I havent contacted a dead person in a long time and I should try to re-connect with them, it is slightly upsetting.

  14. Re:FTC on FTC Introduces New Orders For Intel; No Bundling · · Score: 1

    take a fully paid for phone to t-mobile. The plan is $10 off of a subsidized plan.

  15. Re:Since when... on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    You can tell your children about this amazing brush with fame!

  16. Re:Is it worth the effort? on Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    a dtrace script will work when run against a solaris10 server regardless of patch levels. Systemtap has some similarity, but the scripts that work on one are not reliably portable between patch revisions or systems.

  17. Re:Is it worth the effort? on Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris · · Score: 3, Informative

    one kernel shared amongst the zones, not VMs populated with independent OSes. The zones can "loopback" filesystems, so /usr is only created once . Each zone has independent configs for users and such, and is visible as files from the global OS. VMs dont have a global OS, they just sit on a hypervisor.

    this is the first 5 seconds of differences. The biggest thing to note is they are nothing alike.

  18. Re:Since when... on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give me 5 minutes and that will say it was invented by me

  19. Re:HP Does this ... on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 2, Informative

    The other piece about the HP recovery disks is that they are not an OS disk, but instead an image of the factory default install. I was hoping to have an image with base OS and drivers to get started. Instead I have a copy of all of the apps and other nonsense in the exact same configuration.

  20. Re:Undeniable? No Such Thing on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Is this irony? I am not sure. I am from the US, and up until now I always thought it was just a British myth that we didnt get irony. I am confused, so maybe the Brits are right.

  21. Re:I wouldn't call it IKAROS on Ikaros Spacecraft Successfully Propelled In Space · · Score: 1

    nope,at night the rest of the stars will be pushing it back.

  22. Re:Unit conversions on NASA's Juno, Armored Tank Heading For Jupiter · · Score: 1

    that number isnt nearly as far off as the conversions from kilograms to pounds. 200 kilos = 500 pounds, but 18 kilos = 40 pounds??? There is a very liberal use of significant digits and rounding going on here. Or maybe its that one of these units was called mass, but the other weight.

  23. Re:Not exactly news on RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians · · Score: 2, Funny

    good god ... 20 years since nirvana was sold from subpop ... im old

  24. Re:For a day? on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    On July the 4th, the United States celebrates kicking the British back to their island for suggesting how much better our lives would be if we just followed the rules that they use back home. Just sayin...

  25. Re:No different than the food supplements in Ameri on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    i use that little x in the top corner of the browser when I notice that slashdot is wasting too much of my time...