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  1. Re:Zero plus Zero equals One for large values of Z on Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's true.

    You can extract immense amounts of information from the combination of Fox News (channel 0 with no signal) and the White House Press Secretary (channel 1 with no signal).

    Anything in common is a lie, and that is useful information.

  2. Re:Just wait ... on Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws · · Score: 1

    Which is why you must keep your copper dry. (And modems).

  3. Do as I say, not as I do on USAF Violates DMCA, Escapes Unscathed · · Score: 1

    So speaketh the darkside when DMCA was written.

  4. Re:No warrant == not legitimate. on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Otherwise, last I heard, it's call theft.

    1. Impersonate FBI agent
    2. Take computers
    3. Profit!

    Man, and to think it is that easy and was in front
    of our eyes all this time.

    (Laptops! Laptops! Get your cheap Laptop here!, Laptops!)

  5. Re:No warrant == not legitimate. on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 0

    Now listen up, Mr. Binary.

    You haven't been paying attention. The FBI came in, and told
    the librarian that if he did not cooperate, that the NSA would
    be all over them like shit on flies, that his car would be seized
    at the border because it has a computer in it called Sync,
    and his six degrees of separation from Santa Claus is just too
    much for the DIA *and* the CIA to deal with.

  6. It only took one day on Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case · · Score: 1
    Link

    After Suicide, Feds Consider Closing Anthrax Case

    After scientist's suicide, Justice Department to consider closing anthrax investigation

    By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writers

    WASHINGTON August 2, 2008 (AP)

    See why tinfoil is important?

  7. It appears this story is bogus on NVidia Reportedly Will Exit Chipset Business · · Score: 5, Interesting
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    Nvidia (NSDQ:NVDA) has asked Digitimes for "a full retraction" of a story appearing Friday in the tech journal that claims the Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics chip maker "has decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business."

    Link

    Nvidia said Friday that there's no truth to a Taiwan report that claims it's exiting the chipset business.

    That report was published by Digitimes, a normally fairly reputable IT publication that claimed that Nvidia met with its main motherboard clients this week and asked for support for its next-generation chipsets.

    The motherboard makers' response? Silence.

    Although such a withdrawal would be highly unlikely, ExtremeTech asked Nvidia for comment. "The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business," said Bryan Del Rizzo, a company representative, in a statement. (The same statement was later resent as an official company statement.)

  8. Always assume malice on Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes · · Score: 5, Insightful
    for that which can be explained by incompetence.

    It wasn't just that the table was wrong, there was specific code in the BIOS to point to a a bad table.

    This phrase, 'Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence', is absolutely a darkside distraction.

    You've heard it so much over the years, that you start to believe it.

    It's a *great* cover for darkside machinations.

    Incompetence definitely exists, but to let yourself be deluded into thinking that bad things are due to incompetence is to show your own incompetence as a sentient lifeform.

    Assume malice first, and search for proof of incompetence.

    In this case, specific code was in the BIOS that was malicious.

  9. Re:Wow on Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    Bilderbergers.

  10. Why wait? on Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case · · Score: 3, Interesting
    In the hopes that people would forget that the bush administration tied the anthrax to Iraq.

    If you check out the spin in the headlines , you can already tell that they are trying to convict the dead guy for carrying out the attacks.

    In a couple of days or so, they will spin it all as 'case closed', in the hope that everyone forgets the real story.

    If the guy had been 'suicided' too early, that would have taken away the talking point that Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks.

    Now, that the bush administration has declared 'mission accomplished', it may have been time to clean up loose ends.

    </tinfoil>

  11. Lengthened the Ice Age? on Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Conversely, it may have delayed global warming.

  12. Re:The perfect place to buy tickets is... on Craigslist Forced To Reveal a Seller's Identity · · Score: 1

    They aren't that smart. They already had tickets.

  13. Re:Yet more proof... on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    Which just goes to show, the media didn't cover real news back then either.

  14. Re:Huh. on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The aliens don't have to find you if they put you on your planet.

  15. Microsoft after e-mail accounts on AOL In Talks With Microsoft to Merge Online Divisions, Says WSJ · · Score: 1

    What else would they really be getting from AOL?

  16. Re:Seems inhumane on Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, they can't, because they want it to be streaming.

  17. Re:Obligatory stupid *nix post on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    That is why you run makemake first, to create the Makefile.
    Then you can run make make, and get the same error.
    Then you edit the Makefile and scratch your head.

  18. Understanding large values of one on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    You don't, but the Piraha do.

  19. Re:Ok -the sky is falling. So WHAT? on Cablecos, Telcos Working To Strengthen the Duopoly · · Score: 1

    Wireless.

  20. Re:Today Usenet on Usenet Blocking Intensifies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Throw in nntp and you'll be back in business.

  21. Re:For what value of 'year'? on Newly Discovered Young Galaxy Creates 4,000 Stars Per Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that it would be slower, not faster.

  22. Re:Damnit on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    Wait until you find out there is no North Pole.

  23. Re:the answer to Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo on Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo · · Score: 1

    That is smoke and mirrors.

    Microsoft wants Yahoo because they provide e-mail for AT&T.

    They would have the contract with AT&T.

    Remember, contracts are what you use against people you do
    business with. See SCOX.

  24. Re:More independent verification needed on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    DNS administrators who operate these servers behind port-restricted firewalls are encouraged to review their firewall policies to allow this protocol-compliant behavior. Restricting the possible use of various UDP ports, for instance at the firewalls, in outgoing queries and the corresponding replies will result in decreased security for the DNS service.

    So, I have to open up more UDP ports in the firewall.

    I'm not sure I like this band-aid.

  25. Re:Choose them all under one. on Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? · · Score: 1
    I'd consider that a feature.

    Perhaps you can work out the equivalent from this recent article.