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  1. Corporate Profit vs. Religious Indoctrination on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    When America's two real powers argue, don't expect logic to ensue.

  2. Horsepucky on Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 1

    Collecting data from packets is trivial. All you have to do is get a symbol lock and record all the bytes without looking for headers at all.

    If you're recording bytes, you have to go way, way, way out of your way to not record the payloads. It would be like making a sound recording of a crowd without recording anything recognizable in the voices nearest you. It would be like recording a video without recording the faces of people walking towards you. It would be like buying the newspaper but not getting any of the printed words with it. It would be like driving your car but not seeing every other mile of road out of your windshield. It would be like breathing without getting any nitrogen. It would be like becoming a judge without having any common sense (oh wait, that one, according to this case, can happen rather easily).

    This assessment of the situation by this court is, at this point, a fucktard's ball.

  3. Post-quake Japan? on How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Japan is a hump in the Earth created by subduction of the Pacific plate under the North American plate (yes, Japan is tectonically a part of North America).

    Japan will only be post-quake when the Pacific plate stops digging under it.

    They survived this quake because they're being rattled persistently. They survived it the way everyone else survives persistent exposure to dihydrogen monoxide, a known corrosive agent, or high-frequency near-visible photons, a known carcinogen. They are adapted to live in it because it is a continually reoccurring part of their environment.

    Tsunamis, however, are a bugbear they are not really prepared for... did any data centers in the wet zone survive?

  4. Re:Fizzzzzzttt on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe that's what they mean.

    "If you can get anything off our 500 GB drive in the next hour, we'll give you $10K."

  5. Re:Is that all? on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 1

    Dunno what you're talking about. Disks used to have multiple r/w arms. They also used to be the size of your desk. Putting another arm in the housing would only work if it was on the opposite side from the one that's there, but now your housing is 4 cm longer, and you've got extra wire causing latency and skew problems.

  6. Re:al qaeda on LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would they target an organization that is helping them towards their goal of making America so unlivable that the people will accept Sharia Law as a lateral move?

  7. Re:Wikileaks is silent on Anonymous Leaks New Batch of Data · · Score: 1

    Would you send your data to an organization that is probably residing upside down chained to the wall of a dungeon in Northern Virginia and replaced by online simulacra?

    Wikileaks screwed with the wrong people in a way that left them open to legal repercussions and sub-legal interdictions. They're burned.

    Luckily, for data theives, their business model is entirely fungible and not protected by any IP restrictions. So everyone with an IP address is, in essence, a Leak server waiting to happen.

  8. Re:Time and Attendance on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 0

    >deadliest words in Information Technology. "It's Simple. All You Have To Do Is..."

    Then every IT project ever was stillborn.

  9. Re:Time and Attendance on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would, since in all the time I've been entering my time into computerized timecard systems it's been painfully apparent that NOT ONE FUCKING CODE MONKEY HAS EVER TRIED IT.

    And yes, I believe that other types of software would benefit from it greatly. They have my permission to use it, without restriction.

  10. Re:Couldn't on UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the question.

  11. Yesterday on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Yesterday it was Poperub. Now it's either Popereb or Popureb.

    You think a computer is going to find the thing when nobody can even decide what string matches its name in the 'sploit DB?

  12. Re:Well done public sector on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 2

    Firefox just changed to a catch-me-if-you-can model of stability. Wikipedia has errors in the article about the Wikipedia; and what little it has for organizational coherence is owed to limits on who can pwn whom within its ranks. LibreOffice doesn't really know if it exists or if Larry Ellison is just letting them fall to the end of their rope.

    Projects that are led by individuals with clear vision of the problem and the solution get done the way they're supposed to.

    Projects that are led by groups of individuals with varying understanding of the problem and noisy copies of the solution statement get done by someone saying "ENOUGH!", cutting off the funding, and shipping what remains.

  13. Re:Time and Attendance on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you approach the problem with a proper design methodology that generates a thorough set of use-cases before writing the first requirement, the solution falls out of the regs and obvious behaviors.

    And, if you build into that an ability to adapt the system to changing regulations, you've handled the most obvious case, in which regulations change, which they do, continually.

  14. Re:Wireless? on UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic · · Score: 1

    You are correct. This article is kinda stupid.

    A laser beam without a fiber weighs nothing (in fact the photons have momentum which can be counted as lift at the receiver on the underside of the copter) and can probably be run at about 100X the power the lasers going through the fibers for this thing can. It also wouldn't be a serious contributor to the dynamics of the vehicle. 100 meters of fiber in any kind of breeze is going to add appreciably to the effects of wind and gravity, and form a huge reactive component in any motion induced by the vehicle. Good luck figuring out how to eliminate resonance when you're running near max lift in the first place.

    They may have patented it, but they haven't proved it's worth a damn.

  15. Re:Couldn't on UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic · · Score: 1
  16. Re:makes sense on UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact that us degreed EEs agree with him, you're right.

  17. Literally like blowing my nose. on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    Dealing with spam is like dealing with snot. Nothing you can do to stop it, but it's easy to dispose of.

  18. Invisible? on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Putting the thing in the MBR just means you can't intercept it during boot.

    It doesn't for a second mean it's invisible.

  19. Re:Great work if you can get it on Specific Media To Buy MySpace · · Score: 4, Informative

    I doubt it. Apparently they mined it for about a $billion in revenue in a partnership with Google's ad bureau. They probably didn't hit anything like the original targets they projected for it, but they probably made a respectable profit on it.

  20. Re:Bet on Specific Media To Buy MySpace · · Score: 1

    Maybe not.

    He tried to buy it back when the price was still $100 million.

  21. Re:"Unlimited number of characters..." on World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    What? They can take DNA samples over an Ethernet cable?

  22. Re:But let me guess on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 1

    i'm good with Thunderbird 5

    http://davidszondy.com/future/Thunderbirds/cap026.jpg

    as long as the space debris cooperates....

  23. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat on Monty Python Members Reunite For Chapman Film · · Score: 1

    he's just playing in the hide and seek olympic final

    and winning

  24. Re:Wait... on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it doesn't have to be euthanized if it doesn't sell within 3 weeks.

  25. Re:Mormonism cures headaches? on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    For a few seconds I got a dyslexia attack and thought that the Church of the LDS

    You know, maybe Joseph Smith was a dyslexic chemistry student, himself...it would explain a lot....