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  1. Re:That's what they said about the USSR on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 1

    Plus barely anyone lives on either side of the straight. The shortest route between the population centers of Asia and America does not go that far north.

  2. Re:A high speed railway on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 1

    Always hating on religion, in my experience nutbags that won't listen to reason are equally dangerous no matter their creed or lack thereof.

  3. Re:A high speed railway on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    unfortunately the rest of the world is willing to purchase products made with poor environmental, labor and safety levels :/

  4. Re:Not Trolling ... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    Gold standard...

  5. Re:How much of a perfomance hit for open standards on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    I guess this is beside the point, but I feel required to point out that if you start by losing 100% performance it doesn't matter how many times you double your now 0 performance, it will always still be 0 performance.

  6. Re:Relax on Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    Actually there is a bunch of debugging going on on Xbox 360s. They got them to run Ubuntu.

  7. Re:Mass flow is common. on Fastest (and Most Compact) Stellar Spinner Confirmed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you make a closed box around the two white dwarfs and move mass from one to the other you will see that the center of gravity does not change and so I would not think anything would go flying off. Rather both bodies would just move toward the center of gravity while the larger one got larger and the smaller got smaller. If they collided with some force stuff could be thrown away from the collision, but no escape velocity could be reached without another force being involved.

  8. Re:Slowly reinventing the wheel in the browser on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    For the most part, but Google Office has some advantages. Multiple people editing the same document at the same time can be really powerful.

  9. Re:Google the political player on Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am not sure what pull you are talking about. Google threatened to leave China if they didn't stop censoring, China told them they are free to go.

    Thats not a lot of pull in my book.

  10. Re:Google is the only one that stands to lose... on Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think its Google's intention to hurt China. To me it just seems they don't want to do business in a country that pushes them around.

  11. Re:tough titty says the kitty on IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild · · Score: 1

    This is fairly easily solved by using IE 6 or 7 to access those apps and using a current browser for everything else.

  12. Re:Isn't bittorrent good? on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    Traffic shaping based on protocol is a losing battle. My bittorent client already has the capability of encoding the packet headers to prevent casual probing or the entire packet if necessary.

  13. Re:ISP's hate bittorrent on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    Downloading copyrighted material illegally is almost certainly violating their TOS.

  14. Re:It could be related to ACTA, or. . . on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    Every residential internet connection I have used clearly states that the advertised bandwidth is a peak bandwidth and is not guaranteed.

    If you really need a dedicated line just purchase one instead of bitching about other uses on your shared line using some of the bandwidth.

  15. Re:It could be related to ACTA, or. . . on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    An ISP analyzing your traffic by opening your packets and inspecting them as they go over their networks might be a privacy violation. Analyzing traffic by connecting to a bittorrent swarm and reading the information that you send out to every other peer in the swarm is not the same thing.

  16. Re:What's a Paypal? on PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yay hookers and blow!

  17. Re:Wrong link on Microsoft "Courier" Pictures · · Score: 1

    There are free versions of Visual Studio available for download from Microsoft, I don't know if they are included on the DVD or not though.

  18. Re:Fixed Penalty on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am not really sure what you accomplish by disabling the software for 15 minutes. It sounds to me that if the person ignores your error message they get a 15 minute break.

    One thing IT people often forget is that their job is to make the other employee's jobs easier and more productive. This means solving problems without getting in the way of the work that actually makes the company money.

  19. Re:Stop stressing on Did We Lose the Privacy War? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    don't do stuff that you're going to be ashamed of

    This is very good advice. Online and offline. Be proud of your actions and don't be afraid to put your name on them.

    I know this isn't possible in all parts of the world. But the real problem in that case isn't lack of privacy.

  20. Re:IBM makes CPUs? on IBM Releases Power7 Processor · · Score: 1

    IBM makes consumer processors. You will find them in the XBOX 360, Wii and PS 3.

  21. Re:I'm surprised white markets aren't more common on Zero-Day Vulnerabilities On the Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet the Opium would still reach the consumer at comparable prices.

    The Opiate trade does not exist because of Afghanistan farmers or the Taliban, it exists because consumers really want Opiates.

  22. Re:Soooo.... on Mum's the Word On Google Attack At Davos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    War for oil doesn't make a lot of sense. For the amount spent fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan (roughly 1 trillion) around 1/7 of the oil in Iraq (around 112 billion barrels) could be purchased at current prices ($77 per barrel). Sure prices are going to continue to rise, but the US does not have any special rights to Iraq oil now and so still has to buy it on the global market. Furthermore the oil could have been brought to market without a war for free.
    If oil was the primary reason for the war then the embargoes would have been lifted and the oil purchased.

  23. Re:Welcome to 3 years ago on Why "Verified By Visa" System Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    We have embedded chips in the US as well, Visa calls it Blink.

  24. Re:Seriously? on Chinese Human Rights Orgs Hit By DDoS · · Score: 1, Redundant

    China was a second world country.

  25. Re:use encryption on FTC Worries About Consumers, Cloud Data, and Privacy · · Score: 1

    If you need to deny not only the contents of the encrypted file, but the actual existence of the encrypted file then just upload a bunch of actually random files. It may look a little suspicious, but no more so than having Truecrypt installed on your computer.