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  1. Re:A good way to lower your profile on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Rummage away dude:

    http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/

    The quality of the content is right up there with 4chan too.

  2. Re:Well first... on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    If he had a time machine, he could go back and kill himself before he has a chance to commit the act in question.

  3. Re:Dumber dumbed-down discourse on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    The fun question is whether this has to do with things changing, or with you becoming more accurately observant.

  4. Re:Ummm. No. on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    If you actually look at the statistics, someone usually wins. The problem is that the probability of a given individual winning is rather low.

  5. Re:iTunes not welcome here on Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format · · Score: 1

    They don't block other 'stores', so there isn't anything real poisonous about them not giving away hosting.

  6. Re:It's private property people ... on Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall · · Score: 1

    Still, it seems like a law requiring prominent notification of active computerized surveillance would be a good thing (I see a massive difference between identifying and logging each shopper, just keeping tapes, or having human eyeballs doing the work (a typical human won't be nearly as tireless as the computer)).

    The language of the law might be a little prickly given that advanced compression does content analysis, but it should be the problem of the party choosing to do the surveillance.

  7. Re:Obligatory NoScript comment on SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ · · Score: 1

    The article says that the exploit uses multiple layers of scripts hosted on several different sites...

  8. Re:I see it coming... on Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software · · Score: 1

    The stranger is clearly only trying to hijack the elevator.

  9. Re:Not more safe on Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look · · Score: 1

    You should talk about secure defaults, the only real change in Vista and Windows 7 was that accounts are not generally created as Administrators (I guess UAC adds a little more than just the UI, but not a great deal), both NT and XP share much of the underlying permissions framework...

  10. Re:Damages should be limited by law on Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases · · Score: 1

    You still need a reasonably similar fab and quality engineering, it isn't just a matter of taking 'the plans' and copying them, and the idea that someone is going to reverse several hundred million transistors with an electron microscope has basically zero credibility (and Intel ships chips that run at "75% of Intel speed" for $50-$100, at least to the extent that the statement even has meaning, they just don't make them on their most modern processes. For example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091 ).

  11. Re:Why not Tivo? on D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix · · Score: 1

    So we've established that it doesn't really resemble a soft drink can?

  12. Re:Who cares about DRMed eBooks? on Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market · · Score: 1

    Within the letter of the law anyway, most drm schemes are cracked straightaway (but that doesn't change the fact that purchases are an implicit endorsement of the schemes in general).

  13. Re:Damages should be limited by law on Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How sure are you that Intel needs government enforcement to protect their products?

    They operate the most sophisticated factories in the world, producing some of the most complicated objects in existence, I'm not real sure they need to worry about some guy in his garage trivially duplicating their chips. Not to mention that they consistently offer a certain level of quality.

  14. Re:Why not Tivo? on D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix · · Score: 1

    Where do you buy your pop?

    Or do you mean some sort of 4.7 inch wide can that you keep your drugs in?

  15. Re:Madoff on Facebook Axes "Beacon," Donates $9.5M To Settle Suit · · Score: 1

    It would be pointless. Why choose the architect of one of the largest fraud schemes in history when you can choose from thousands of brokers that might be honest? He wouldn't have any customers.

    I guess it might be better to make him drive a cab or something, but a lot of people like the punishment aspect of prison.

  16. Re:Opt out of the settlement on Facebook Axes "Beacon," Donates $9.5M To Settle Suit · · Score: 1

    You probably weren't identified as a member of the class.

  17. Re:What about copper? on Silicon As the New Lithium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No?

    I grew up a few hundred miles from a mine that shut down because other mines were more economical. As the price goes up, that sort of mine can start operating again (if they can convince people in the area to put up with the environmental impact).

  18. Re:Um, there are not-unforseen problems on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    I am imagining them breaking down the muscle mass for energy and becoming super weak starving humans.

  19. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I would guess the researchers are interested in treating people with severely decreased muscle mass (for whatever reason; genetics, disease, bedridden, space travel, etc.).

  20. Re:Tabs on Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released · · Score: 1

    He was pretty careful to say "gmail like threaded conversation view", which is not there in 2.x.

  21. Re:Questions: on Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms · · Score: 1, Funny

    I figure it's the Russians.

  22. Re:No AdBlock? No Chrome for me. on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 1

    I do, over a modem.

    I would guess that I do end up avoiding sites with a lot of ads though, and I do use flashblock (which mitigates a lot of the beeping and cpu-grinding and whatnot).

  23. Re:Duh on Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the display of the review data is broken, it should be evident, at a glance, that a given set of reviews are one-sided.

  24. Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? on Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I should have said "Chinese government", that makes for a better analogy (because it really is likely that there are pro-democracy movements among the Chinese people, even if it is just the occasional guy who thinks his local administrator is a dick).

  25. Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? on Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet that there is also a pro-democracy movement within China.