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  1. Re:And he is, probably, right on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 2

    If public safety is his concern, there are many more dangerous things than terrorism :
    americans-are-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-their-own-furniture-as-by-terrorism
    us-police-murdered-5000-innocent-civilians-since-911
    more-killed-by-toddlers-than-terrorists-in-us
    Dead right you should think of the children. They're dangerous.

  2. Re:First world problems. on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    For 'one of the worst music publicity stunts of all time', please read 'something that annoys a tiny minority of users'.

  3. Re:Whistleblowers on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    But you have no credibilty, because you are an anonymous coward. Snowdon specifically renounced his anonymity, because he is not a coward.

  4. Re:They aren't whistleblowing. on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In a democracy, the public IS a higher authority than the government. Sometimes, the officials forget this.

  5. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 4, Informative
    I know they're always ignored and this one fails to attack the most significant points - such as the government's treatment of Snowden as a criminal rather than a whistleblower showing up abuse.

    However, lots of votes will at least make ignoring the call embarrassing. Even the americans are claiming to review the situation.

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51959

  6. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Because Windows is only there to support legacy programs, and they're most reliably supported by the OS they were originally written for. If I wanted to use some recent program that required Windows 7, that might be a different matter. But I don't know of any such program.

  7. Re:Add to that, NYI... on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 1

    This is Wall Street. Manhattan. Terrorists have tried to blow it off the map multiple times. Several hurricanes have hit this spit of land that sits a mere few feet above sea level in the last decades. A hurricane hit and flooded parts last year even!

    And that's the best site you can find for a datacentre ? Doesn't give me much confidence in your financial organisation's acumen.

  8. Re:he's stuffed on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1
  9. So next week, holidays mean they're really scraping the barrel .. down to the 7th most senior UK politician

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9473078/Theresa-May-to-run-the-UK-as-Westminster-empties.html

    And May is a US patsy - she'll roll over for the RIAA, let alone the state department

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/13/theresa-may-extradition-richard-odwyer

    So what happens when she's in charge ? I guess she sends in the police, pushes Assange to wherever her masters tell her, and then gets blamed / sacked as an apology for the resulting diplomatic outcry. Which is handy, as she's a liability the government would love to lose.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/14/olympics-theresa-may

  10. Re:If you don't have javascript, you're a bot? on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 1

    Either a bot, or an intelligent user who won't read the adverts. Same result for the advertiser.

  11. Re:Passwords are for philistines on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait, passphrase. duh.

  12. Re:Passwords are for philistines on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    You're assuming the loss is via a compromised computer. For me, the most likely loss of the key is laptop theft. So I want to ensure that isn't going to give an automatic login to the home machine. i'd prefer to have both key pair and password, but failing that I think password is preferable to key pair.

  13. Re:Bonus time. on AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce · · Score: 2

    Why would you invest in a company that has lost confidence in it's own future ?

  14. Used to like thunderbird .. on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    But the incarnation in current Debian (icedove 3, whatever that corresponds to) sucks. It was once fairly well-behaved, but now changes the screen format when you search, adds all sorts of stupid indentation and grouping to the accounts menu and generally behaves like a kid's been let loose with the feature list. Maybe it's time to go back to MH.

  15. Re:Here's to hoping Expert's Exchange is among the on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    Is it as annoying as that google misfeature that displays a page of search results then hides them just as you're about to click on one ?

  16. Re:The answer is "No" on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd never heard of him before. Perhaps, outside of some small group of fans, this represents his true worth. And I won't be looking to find out what other opinions he might have - I can do without that sort of sloppy thinking, thanks.

  17. Re:Practically Immaterial on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Yup. If Atwood thinks typing speed is the limiting factor (ie he's I/O bound) then there are a number of possible solutions, only one of which is increasing the I/O speed. A better engineering solution (remember - the best engineer is a lazy engineer) is to modify the environment so that less typing is needed for the same result. When I look at code for modern graphical environments I'm horrified by the code density (in terms of source code) - there's simply way too much typing to achieve very little. This is what needs fixing, not typing speed.

  18. Google backyard view on Android Phones At the Edge of Space · · Score: 2

    Coming soon to a location near you ..

  19. Re:It's not supposed to work at altitude on Android Phones At the Edge of Space · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it's BOTH those things together - ie, a missile. Each is ok on it's own.

  20. Re:Here is the thing about banking... on Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions · · Score: 1

    FSVO of terrorist. Iirc, the IRA caused rather less hand-wringing in the 1970s.

  21. Re:Burying Bodies on Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains · · Score: 1

    Burying people scales fine, at least for number if not for localised rate. The problem is with reserving the places they're buried in for a period much longer than their actual life. We should fill a graveyard, then reuse it as a field and move the burying onto another place. A period of say, 100 years between burying and growing would leave adequate time for direct relatives to feel their loved ones were respected. Turning perfectly good fertilizer into carbon, on the other hand, is silly.

  22. "government claims" on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So who, exactly, wanted to assert this right ? Names, please, not agencies.

  23. Re:Human Success? on ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack · · Score: 1

    So, is there a firefox plugin that fills in captchas for me ?

  24. Re:Yeah, That's New on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    And all the places I've seen it (mostly animated catalogues) are hateful. I hope Microsoft get the patent and make it really expensive to use - then I'll never see one of the stupid things again. Just give me the next page dammit without a cutesy animation.

  25. Well, they would, wouldn't they ? on ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates · · Score: 1