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  1. ahhh, but what are the resolved addresses? on Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if, for instance, they keep coming from the block reserved by {scumpuppy.net}, for instance, you know who to blacklist by range.

  2. uh, no, courts have rules kids must have porn. on Massachusetts Bids To Restrict Internet Indecency · · Score: 1

    end of manipulation. require credit cards for access, and the issue will be massively reduced.

  3. Droid X saturday the 17th. on Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions · · Score: 1

    that's how you fight back.

  4. there are three forces behind this on Senators Want Big Rocket Instead of New Tech, Commercial Transportation · · Score: 1

    (1) jobs

    (2) jobs and "bragging rights", electability, pork, etc.

    (3) military deadlift capability without letting anybody else in on the deal.

    in the end Congress will get their way or nobody will get any way.

  5. he's throwing tablets now, then? on Ballmer Says Microsoft Is 'Hardcore' About Tablets · · Score: 1

    there is a marketing and promotion window in the computer business, between being able to produce something with a delta-dollars on it (called "profit" in circles we hacks don't visit,) and Apple's first shipment.

    MS missed the market. Tablet I didn't cut it.

  6. it's the crypto key to free Cokes at the lunchroom on Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo · · Score: 1

    however, the keyboard is octal, and you have 10 seconds to translate in your head and enter the key.

  7. Ve need morrre orrrderrr. on US Plans Cyber Shield For Private Companies and Utilities · · Score: 1

    the CORRECT solution is to never have critical infrastructure exposed to the Wacky Wacky Webbiepoo.

    the old saw is still correct... the only secure computer is deep underground in a vault. no power. no wires. encased in concrete. access to the borehole up top guarded by crew-served weapons.

    it is an INCORRECT solution to put critical infrastructure on the Wacky, with spies and lies draped all around it.

    this means your "smart grid," folks, is megatard.

  8. Grove is correct. with no CPU production here. on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    another titan of industry with a foot on both sides of the ship's rail. to make this startlingly obvious statement, he must have looked at Intel's innovation pipeline and found it dry.

  9. in other news, a new line of abacus on market on EU Plans To Make Apple, Adobe and Others Open Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    this version will be a binary abacus, and Bull Group will offer it as an upgrade to its now-outlawed mainframes and servers.

    this is envisioned to be the last generation of "computational" equipment availiable in the EU.

  10. sigh. and I just got the list, too. on With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair · · Score: 3, Funny

    the list of which bankers, world leaders, and radio hosts are lizard people from other planets.

    now you'll never know.

  11. everybody back to 4th grade, please. on Apple, AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 Antennas · · Score: 4, Informative

    AFFECT is a transitive verb. "I can affect your computer's operation with this sledgehammer."

    EFFECT is an object of action. "The effect of my hitting your computer with my sledgehammer is a reduction in idiotic posts on the wacky."

    please everybody to get this correct in the future.

  12. different systems on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    nothing that will work on the ATT network will work on Verizon. different chipsets, different modulation, different cell-skip algorithms.

    so Apple would have to whip up two different phones altogether. they could keep the screen and maybe some of the case parts, but nothing else. they don't do that.

    we are entering a new era, in which the 4G systems are going to be more similar than different. now, it makes sense for Apple to span multiple 4G systems, as you just fork the software left or right at boot, and twiddle some tables. note the rumored verIphone will only work in the 4G realm, which will be 1/5 of the network or so in January, but the whole thing by the 2012/2013 boundary.

  13. for instance, neutrons. on Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor In NYC · · Score: 1

    the paradox of fusion is that you need to have neutrons flying about to call success. this is also a very bad thing for nearby life forms and mutatable elements that can absorb neutrons and become prime particle emitters.

    it is also a bad thing to have a exothermic fusion system because... well, the prime examples are stars and H-bombs. the exothermic reaction tends to feed on itself.

    stuck up in a warehouse loft in the middle of NYC with two layers of foil tape over it is not exactly the place I'd pick for the thing. unless I was bin Laden.

  14. I'm not buying $800 license plates on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 1

    and I'm not paying another $30 a month for the wireless service to change the ads.

  15. I've heard some of the surveys on Afghan Tech Minerals — Cure, Curse, Or Hype? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    go back to the Soviet occupation days.

    proving once again that some governments are simply so corrupt they can't sell anything because the bribes are too complex to figure out, even with computers.

  16. obligatory "wind turbines at Congress" comment her on US Dept. of Energy Wants Bigger Wind Energy Ideas · · Score: 1

    and obligatory "wind turbines at BP headquarters" comment here

  17. you will come with us, now on Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake · · Score: 1

    you have a lot to answer for. the Minister will not be pleased.

  18. one way to not use the reader function on The Safari Reader Arms Race · · Score: 1

    is not to "upgrade" to Safari 5.

    which I am doing. not upgrading.

    I "upgrade" security functions, and let others find the problems with other one-way "upgrades" first.

    to this point, I have rejected Safari 5 three times.

  19. hell, drop 50 nukes at the edge on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    you guys are all token-ring, let the ethernet-heads take this one over. tickle it and record what happens.

  20. there are two markers easily detectable on Smart Underwear Designed For Military · · Score: 1

    and under combat conditions, they are likely to show up.

    "Captain, we have multiple INDICATIONS from squad Baker."

    "Send reinforcements and a gunship at once."

  21. second the motion on Voyager Pro on Best Telephone For Datacenters? · · Score: 1

    that's the only bluetooth that I can actually hear my field techs over when they're sitting by the cabinet fans or blowin' in the wind.

  22. Been Punished, eh? on BP Buys "Oil Spill" Search Term · · Score: 1

    that isn't what I hear from relatives on the gulf.

    incidentally, do you have any really good plans for million-volt stun guns that are about two feet long and under a couple pounds? promised I'd look around.

  23. have they bought "Beyond Pitiful" yet? on BP Buys "Oil Spill" Search Term · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how about they concentrate their efforts a mile down instead?

  24. two times nothing is still nothing on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    curiously, as costs at the bottom rise, some manufacturing comes back to the home shores. sometimes it's shipping costs, sometimes it's snafus avoided, sometimes it's market pressure to have a made in USA alternative.

    the rest of the market goes downhill further, as they move to green monkeys in Kenya, with the local human population pushing chips and solder into the trees, and catching the hot circuit boards as the monkeys drop them down.

    when the monkeys need too many figs to keep working, it will go to pirahnas on the Amazon, or little green men from space who need busywork while their flux capacitors recharge, or whatever.

    best you can do as a consumer is reward those who don't participate in the race to the bottom.

  25. you don't like it, don't look on Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons · · Score: 1

    the "blockers" can go right ahead. that's their right.

    the blasphemers can go right ahead, that's their right.

    don't know about everybody else, but my God is strong enough to enforce His own laws, and doesn't need piddly little sinners running around playing tin-star sheriff.

    if they don't think THEIR God is that strong, then son, you is chasing the wrong star.