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  1. Re:Angry on Freedom Flees in Terror · · Score: 1

    It's not so empty once you realize that terrorists won't be using the comprimised cryptosystems that the government is advocating. The government will be able to read _your_ messages, not theirs.

  2. Terrorists? Suicidal soldiers, maybe on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    The difference between the two is that the Japanese were soldiers. The terrorists are nowhere near as formal, operating in cells rather than a strict, centralized bombable hiearchy.

  3. Re:What? on NIST Wants An Electronic Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Maybe you weren't listening. Kilograms are a measure of mass (the amount of matter in an object) which is gravity invariant. Weight, on the other hand is a combination of mass and gravity (or any acceleration for that matter).

  4. Re:It'll Never Work on EU Expands Microsoft Inquiry · · Score: 1

    A monopoly of force? Well if that wasn't a succinct description of the good ol' US of A.

  5. Re:I wonder if this has been demonstrated yet? on Stealth Aircraft Useless? · · Score: 1

    It's funny you call China the world's only hostile nuclear power. It is the United States that is the only nation to use nuclear weapons in anger, and on civilian centres on both occasions.

  6. Re:Why can't NASA play ball? on Slashback: VIP, Makers, RMS · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't be able to do that since he wasn't in the american part of the ISS at any time.

  7. Re:Not all (common) tech is ahead in Japan on William Gibson On Japan · · Score: 1

    There isn't such a pressing need for a web-connected PC there since their local phone calls aren't free. Note the reference to the girl using text messaging on her cell phone rather than calling people.

  8. Re:Doesn't this undermine respect for the news? on The Daily Show Wins Peabody · · Score: 1

    It's pretty well established, by now, that news media has to have something to draw the audience in. News shows these days pick violence, charming newscasters, violence, often watched time slots, violence, crushing the competitors, violence, and violence.

    Lovely violence!
    Wonderful violence!
    Lovely violence!
    Wonderful violence!
    viiiiiiiiolence
    viiiiiiiiolence.

    etc...

  9. Re:Fear... on ST:TMP Fixer Upper · · Score: 1

    I don't think you'll have to worry about a new version of Princess Mononoke because Hayao Miyazaki partly owns Studio Ghibli (which animates his films). As far as I know he also has complete editorial discretion.

  10. Re:Dumb indicators on Linux Is Going Down · · Score: 1

    Reason number three is pretty funny. Hasn't Microsoft's stock plummeted by at least 60% since the beginning of the Antitrust trial?

  11. Re:Bah! on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to add Elections Canada, which oversees the whole process is a non-partisan organization, so we don't have to deal with a democrat/republican commisioners or whatever they are called.

  12. Re:Theory about movie (MAJOR SPOILERS) on Review: "Unbreakable" · · Score: 1

    I think that the movie convieniently undoes that theory seeing as Willis' character has that clairvoyant touch thing. As soon as he touches his wife (you know that's _gotta_ happen), the gig would be up.

    That is, unless she has some unknown power of her own that foils his...

  13. Sixth Sense wasn't so hot either. on Review: "Unbreakable" · · Score: 1

    If the screenplay was crafted, then the contradiction that a dead person helps the psychic kid overcome his fear of dead people would simply not be there. That alone undoes the whole film.

    It's sad really, I liked the rest of the film and then a "surprise ending" jumps out and ruins everything.

    One thing that Unbreakable has going for it is that the commerical doesn't reveal the most important parts of the plot, like that Harrison Ford film earlier this year (forget the name).

  14. Re:Akira Was My First Anime on Akira on DVD? It Might Happen · · Score: 1

    Akira originally came out in Japan in 1988, so 12 years would be closer.

  15. Re:PPro all over again on C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit · · Score: 1

    The Pentium 4 shouldn't be confused with Itanium, the P4 is 32-bit just like all the other Pentiums

  16. Re:I foresee a Slashdot ethics clash. on The PS2 Experience · · Score: 2

    I would like to point out that _both_ Unreal Tournament and Quake III are coming out for the Dreamcast.

  17. Re:A very different potential hole in the GPL... on Hole in GNU GPL? · · Score: 1

    I can imagine there'd be a distributed attempt at breaking the key, or just going through the source to find it.

    It'd probably be hell to maintain anyways.