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  1. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    A classification determined by human appraisal.

  2. Re:We need more on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    Throwing open the borders isn't a solution, it is just a suicide pact. All that does is transform the culture of the US into being another corrupt, graft-driven Central American country.
    This seems to be a non sequitur. Do you want to explain yourself here?
  3. Re:stupid users on Oracle Linux Adopters Suffer Backlash · · Score: 1

    I have never witnessed that happen. They usually come to your door and give you a pamphlet.

  4. Re:Who cares if they host some infringing content on Cuban v. EFF lawyer on YouTube, DMCA · · Score: 1

    The front page only has featured videos so there would be no problem there. The most viewed page had at least five infringing videos. It doesn't matter if it is automatically generated. Youtube makes money off of it and if they hired a single employee to look at it they could stop a million viewers a day from streaming the the infringing material.

  5. Re:Who cares if they host some infringing content on Cuban v. EFF lawyer on YouTube, DMCA · · Score: 1

    If someone is using your wood chipper to chop humans on your front porch are you liable to do something about it? Half of Youtube's front page is infringing material. They blatantly ignore it.

  6. Re:Interesting.. on Torvalds "Pretty Pleased" With Latest GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    If the GP comment was slanted then your comment is a jagged edge. You say that the purpose of Linus's disagreement on GPLv3 is to hide his "fucked up" of not surrendering all his rights to the whim of the FSF. An argument based on slander is not going to convince anyone.

  7. Re:Good Luck on De Icaza Pleads For Mono/.Net Cooperation · · Score: 1

    So what? Don't use their sample code. By a C# book or look at the many free online tutorials for sample code.

  8. Re:Was good on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    I don't support Hillary or Obama because I don't know where they stand yet. Being experienced or having a great personality is not enough. It's Edwards for me.

  9. Re:Was good on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    I brought nothing but bad publicity to Obama and the entire party.

  10. Re:Was good on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    He is a coward for posting anonymously and then putting Obama's name on it. Maybe he has learned his lesson on how to behave properly.

  11. Re:Shooting fish in a barrel on How Apple Orchestrated Attack On Researchers · · Score: 1

    Since the fiasco came about Apple did then commission an external company to look for bugs in their airport drivers, while some bugs were found they were unrelated to the publicised "macbook remote exploit" (the security researchers gave such little information anyway.)

    Then finally once all the patches were out by Apple, the security researchers piped up again claiming that the exploits they discovered were the ones that Apple had patched. (When in all reality they probably just examined the old and new drivers and looked for the differences.)

    Not according to David Maynor's account. And he as emails and code to back it up. They weren't unrelated since they involved the same method of malformed packet injection of 802.11 management frames. The security researchers guided Apple to test this exploit as they had only done proof on concepts on other wireless chipsets.
  12. Re:Setting up for disaster on GM Mosquito Could Fight Malaria · · Score: 1
    You keep reading:

    For resistant mosquitoes to be useful in the wild, they must survive better than non-resistant mosquitoes even when not exposed to malaria.
    Therefore the next modification would be to make the mosquitoes more fit in the absence of malaria. That could be a bad move.
  13. Re:How would nuclear weapons work in outer space? on NASA Outlines Asteroid Deflection Program · · Score: 1
    Effects of nuclear explosions

    The interaction of the X-rays and debris with the surroundings determines how much energy is produced as blast and how much as light. In general, the denser the medium around the bomb, the more it will absorb, and the more powerful the shockwave will be.

    The energy of a nuclear explosive is initially released in the form of gamma rays and neutrons. When there is a surrounding material such as air, rock, or water, this radiation interacts with the material, rapidly heating it to an equilibrium temperature in about a microsecond. The hot material emits thermal radiation, mostly soft X-rays, which accounts for 75% of the energy of the explosion. In addition, the heating and vaporization of the surrounding material causes it to rapidly expand and the kinetic energy of this expansion accounts for almost all of the remaining energy.

  14. User involvement on Viacom vs. YouTube - Whose Side Are You On? · · Score: 1

    Obvious copyrighted material is the front page of Youtube all the time. Youtube could make identifying copyrighted material easy by using the community policing. People could vote yes or no if they think a video is violating copyright. Only trusted users should be allowed to do this such as people with an videos and subscribers of their own. User involvement has kept kiddie porn off Youtube. It can work for copyright infringement as well.

  15. Re:Raised eyebrows... on Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity · · Score: 1

    I meant to say "aught" from an "is."

  16. Re:Raised eyebrows... on Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity · · Score: 1

    The method of transport of information is irrelevant. Just because the brain and nervous system uses a different method of transport and has a different architecture than man-made computers does not mean the brain is not a computer. Yes, we are merely natural robots. No there is no such thing as the non-physical. Yes, you can get an "is" from an "aught." Now that I've solve all of philosophy for you I will go to bed.

  17. Re:Ah...That explains... on The Principles of Beautiful Web Design · · Score: 1

    I much rather work with a graphic designer than become one. Would a catcher what to become a pitcher or vise versa?

  18. Re:MAFIAA gets their way on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    A better analogy would be if someone jammed the airwaves in a town of about 50,000 people during the Super Bowl but the other 99.9999% of the populous in the world saw the Super Bowl. Would you sentence this guy to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine?

  19. Re:Is it a mandatory minimum? on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    I guess that justice is the unattainable goal that we strive for in our legal system. At least it is the goal for some of us.

  20. Re:If memory serves on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 2

    I can't tell what level of fines you meant in your post so let me caution that dispossessing them of all future earnings would probably have a worse effect on society than just sending them to prison for ten years. There is a large difference between a hefty fine and a fine that one could never possibly pay. We need to be careful not to fall into the same old trap of cruel punishment that doesn't help reform the criminal.

  21. Re:Where in the world ... on Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC · · Score: 1

    The evidence from the search was admissible according the the ruling in federal court. The evidence that lead to the search warrant was acquired illegally from a nongovernmental source. The hacker should be prosecuted but the case against the judge was airtight. The only wrong was that hacker wasn't charged. End of story.

  22. Re:More vigilantes please on Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC · · Score: 1

    You would have to provide specifics about this TV show to convince me that it was entrapment. Entrapment is defined relatively narrow and the definition only applies to government agents. So I seriously doubt that this TV show is showing "illegal vigilante entrapment." Perhaps it is vigilantism if they are breaking the law somehow but not entrapment.

  23. Re:Also... on Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC · · Score: 1

    The judge admitted to writing the diary. But what do you care, anonymous coward?

  24. Re:Point to point on Scientists Make Quantum Encryption Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Not only is the summary bullocks but the technology is bullocks. What is a slashdotter to do?

  25. Re:Think again on Can You Be Sued for Quitting? · · Score: 1

    You relied before I could. I *was* talking about the morale of the entire company. Basically it sends the message that employees are not trusted unless there is some ominous force hanging over there heads.