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  1. Re:It won't end until there is extreme violence on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 1

    Most people who care to, especially the police, know who the drug dealers are. Anyone who has never met a drug dealer has led a more sheltered life than I have, and that is an accomplishment.

    Anyway, the point is that as long as there is financial incentive to create malware, there will be people doing it, regardless of the consequences, just like drug dealing. That the consequences come from different directions is immaterial.

  2. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scottish huh. Is that like Irish?

  3. Re:It won't end until there is extreme violence on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's stupid.

    Look how well playing wack-a-mole has worked for drug enforcement. Rather, look how it hasn't worked at all.

  4. Re:Proving liberals wrong... on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A massive number of people in the US just completely misunderstood what you said.

  5. Re:Never, never I say! on Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified · · Score: 1

    How many strange looks do you get on a typical day?

    Just curious.

  6. Re:complete BS on Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful · · Score: 1

    Yeah I noticed that when I was looking for Beerfest. I don't really check his reviews that often, I mostly just don't bother going to the theater.

  7. Re:Why? on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 1

    That depends a great deal on whether they think they are in Japan or not.

  8. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make that "whether". Stupid homophones.

  9. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently other people are also interested in weather markets can predict things:

    http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
    http://www.intrade.com/
    http://www.google.com/search?q=political+markets

    Notice at Google that major media outlets are running them now. UIowa was pretty early if they weren't the first.

  10. Re:Why? on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 1

    If you are in Miami and someone asks you for directions to Tokyo, telling them they are lost is probably a good place to start.

    I'm not saying that this is the case here...

  11. Re:When will it stop ? on Decent Book Clubs for Sci-Fi Fans? · · Score: 1

    I misread this statement: "Most of mythology fit the definition of #1 when it was written." to be about the mythology in fiction books.

    Thanks though, for keeping the level of discourse low, by linking to a fallacy on Wikipedia.

  12. Re:The British did not break Enigma on Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin · · Score: 1

    Are you replying to this post:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=555186&cid=23432200

    If so, what does your reply have to do with that article? If you bother to read it, you will see that there is a section that extensively covers the development of the British Bombes(Turing, Welchman and Keen apparently deserve a great deal of credit).

  13. Re:US catches up with the rest of the World. on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that it has been possible to use whatever GSM device on AT&T since it was Cingular.

    They still sell phones that are locked to their network, but I don't think they have done much to prevent people from using unlocked phones.

  14. Re:The British did not break Enigma on Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Great article on the history of Enigma:

    http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00016.cfm

  15. Re:US catches up with the rest of the World. on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 1

    Where in the article or anything related to the article is anybody speaking for the US?

  16. Re:When will it stop ? on Decent Book Clubs for Sci-Fi Fans? · · Score: 1

    So The Lord of the Rings is speculative fiction about what the word would be like if their were hobbits and wizards, like they thought might exist in 1950? Who knew.

  17. Re:In other news.... on Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board · · Score: 1

    He is already massively wealthy.

  18. Re:The thing I really don't understand... on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    The linux version of the XO will continue to be available.

  19. Re:XO has been assimilated on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    It's not less and less true. Look at the software industry. It basically didn't exist a short 30 years ago. Or look at agriculture. Land in the US is more productive per acre today than ever before, and it takes less people to farm a given area of land that it ever has in the past. The examples go on and on.

  20. Re:XO has been assimilated on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nah. It'll be ~8-10% higher against the Euro within a year or so (maybe two).

    The European central bank needs to lower interest rates, if they don't, American companies will start demolishing European companies in world markets (well, if you accept "getting a lot more of the new business" as demolishing). That will drive the relative valuation in favor of the dollar. If they don't lower interest rates, European business will slow down, giving American business a little room to breath, helping the American export economy, which will strengthen the dollar.

    If the entire US economy is a fantasy, then my interpretation is wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the majority of the US economy is not a fantasy.

  21. Re:Record Companies Owe ME ! on UMG Calls Infringement Damages "Excessive" · · Score: 1

    It's quite likely that they go to some effort to attempt to disclose the terms of the viewing of the performance prior to you purchasing the ticket. It's also quite likely that you don't have a reasonable expectation of compensation if they advertise that they performance is being recorded. They may well need to refund your money if you object and they ask you to leave, but I'm pretty sure that it isn't exactly a legal nail-biter, despite the fact that I am not a lawyer and I have not looked into it.

  22. Re:XO has been assimilated on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    Why not just wipe your ass with the money you payed for the license?

  23. Re:One Blue Screen Per Child? on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    They are going to continue to offer a model that doesn't come with Windows.

    I guess it's a big change in direction, but they have only added Windows as an option at this point, not abandoned the original software completely.

  24. Re:[CITATION NEEDED] on Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles · · Score: 1

    Bugs matter depending on their severity, regardless of when they were introduced. My point (and, I believe, the OP) was more that a security problem can be introduced long before it is uncovered and thus end up in multiple versions of a given package, synchronized releases or not.

  25. Re:The UIs are not the problem on Moving Toward a Single Linux UI? · · Score: 1

    That's all still part of the user interface, just not the graphical part of it.