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  1. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is more to do with proportional response. Those rockets they have killed what 2 or 3? there are over 1000 Palestinians dead. You also have to consider that the Palestinian people as a whole are not Hamas, in the same way the Northern Ireland population were not the IRA. The UK did not resort to carpet shelling Northern Ireland to remove the IRA, because it would never have worked, the IRA would only get stronger. Ireland had segregation, it did not work, only by integrating the people can you bring them around and ultimately onto the same side. For every innocent non-terrorist killed, that will recruit many terrorists.

  2. Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Israel is sure doing a good job in that area creating more enemies, if that is their intention, the plan is working.

  3. Good on Time Warner Turns Down Takeover Bid From Rupert Murdoch · · Score: 3

    The more these big media / film studios merge, the less choice there will be.

  4. Re:4.3 U on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 1

    It would have been smarter not to require an additional chassis (who wants to lug an extra 13U chassis into a datacenter?). It should be done in the rail system to offset the 2nd and 3rd server, then you only have to fit different rails to offset.

  5. Re:4.3 U on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 2

    Exactly, in a cold / hot isle rack you are left with a gap which would need plugging with something.

    A 42U rack would have 7U wasted space that is almost another 2 servers...

  6. Re:The cost on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 1
  7. Better yet ban the company from the whole country on Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it can be shown that the company is working against the countries interests (company treason?), such as in this case, ban them from all sales in that country. That really would get the attention deserved.

  8. Re:Great on EU's Online Shoppers Get an Extended "Cooling Off Period" · · Score: 1

    godaddy.co.uk They should be following UK law.

  9. Re:Does it really matter? on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 1

    Normally Desktops do not have inbuilt speakers, so they can be ruled out, that leaves laptops, which do have wifi. An owned laptop could self enable the wifi, create its self as a hot spot and allow other computers elsewhere in the building to connect to it (through walls and what not).

  10. Does it really matter? on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For this to work, the computers must already be 'owned', the fact the computers can communicate 20 meters with another infected machine is the least of the worries if you ask me.

  11. Only Control For Short While on Justice Dept. Names ZeuS Trojan Author, Seizes Control of P2P "Gameover" Botnet · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech... the C&C servers will be replaced by new ones, so there is only a 2 week window until the network is back up and running.

  12. Re:Aluminum? on Is Carbon Fiber Going Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    >While Jaguar makes some beautiful looking cars, you can barely keep them out of the shop mechanically.

    See: http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-n...

    "Jaguar has been named the best manufacturer in the 2013 JD Power customer satisfaction survey. Jaguar's victory came off the back of the Jaguar XF, which finished third overall in the entire survey, as owners rated it as "excellent" in every area. In particular they praised reliability, dealership service and servicing and repair work."

  13. Cars will have a GTA button? on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    "If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit?"

    Hare Krishnas....GOURANGA!

  14. Re:Same tricks played in UK on Google May Be $1 Billion Behind In Tax Payments To France · · Score: 1

    Except the rich would put the 747 through their business and pay 0% VAT

  15. Poor Record on Health on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 1, Informative

    "A study last year found that in many American counties, especially in the deep South, life expectancy is lower than in Algeria, Nicaragua or Bangladesh. The U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee health care to its citizens; even after the Affordable Care Act, millions of poor Americans will remain uninsured because governors, mainly Republicans, have refused to expand Medicaid, which provides health insurance for low-income Americans. Although the federal government will pay for the expansion, many governors cited cost, even though the expansion would actually save money. America is unique among developed countries in that tens of thousands of poor Americans die because they lack health insurance, even while we spend more than twice as much of our GDP on healthcare than the average for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a collection of rich world countries. The U.S. has an infant mortality rate that dwarfs comparable nations, as well as the highest teenage-pregnancy rate in the developed world, largely because of the politically-motivated unavailability of contraception in many areas." Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/po...

  16. Google more restrictive than Microsoft on Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is that not Evil or something like that?

  17. Re:A year and a half locked up on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown · · Score: 2

    Even if his found not guilty, the state have already 'won' by making serve so long in prison.

  18. A year and a half locked up on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No trial yet, his free speech (as a journalist) removed, why? does he have the knowledge of a WMD which can wipe out man kind? no, he pasted a link to some credit card data. Good job he not share a few mp3s, it could be much worse.

  19. Apple / Google / etc on How Ireland Got Apple's $9 Billion Australian Profit · · Score: 0

    Your tax time cometh, the world has your eye now.

  20. Also consider if a German pilot was shot down, bailed over the UK he became a POW, the same for an allied pilot, he could be back in the air again a few hours later.

  21. Re:hmmm.... on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    It would make theft worthless to the large extent, because it would become risky to pass on this tainted money. If $1M was stolen and passed on to 50,000 unsuspecting people that is 50,000 potential leads for the police when these people find their money is worthless.

  22. Re:hmmm.... on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    The technology is right there to stop large scale theft of bitcoin, as if I am not mistaken the transaction history is kept with each coin, why do the exchanges simply put a block on coins which had passed through hacker addresses? An where is MtGox's list of hacker addresses that made off with all their coinage?

  23. The Conversation on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners · · Score: 1

    Bla..bla..bla..bla..your monies are safe..bla..bla..bla will just take a bit of time to sort out..bla..bla Who is going to believe whatever they say?

  24. "Apple Maps as in-car navigation" on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 5, Funny

    Way to go to kill the product before it begins...

  25. Re:This just goes to show on The Science of Solitary Confinement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Consider that these prisons are private companies that actually want prisoners, as prisoners = $$$. Then you can understand why the prison is not about rehabilitation, it wants damaged people who go back out, re-offend and come back to the prison, follow the money.