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  1. Re:somebody should kill the bastard on A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man · · Score: 1

    > ... and you certainly won't get shot deliberately ...

    Sounds pretty deliberate to me (self defense is still deliberate, even if that's what it was).

  2. Re:somebody should kill the bastard on A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Apologies for stereotyping...

    Apology not accepted.

    > ...but you must be American...

    Like the Canadian advisor to the PM who recently called for the murder of Julian Assange? Or the British police who attack Brazilian tourists in the subway and shoot them in the head?

    > Civilized countries arrest someone, then try him.

    And, not coincidentally, he has been arrested in the USA and will be tried.

  3. Re:Probably redundant... on Social Media Accounts Part of Deceased Oklahomans' Estates · · Score: 1

    Seriously, before this should be allowed to happen, you really do need a verifiable, court supported document.

    That would be the one appointing you administrator of the estate: the same one you use to gain access to bank accounts.

    ... just sending an email saying "HI, I'm the executor for the following accounts whose owners are now dead" should not cut it.

    You don't get to be the administrator of an estate just by saying that you are.

  4. Probably redundant... on Social Media Accounts Part of Deceased Oklahomans' Estates · · Score: 1

    ...since the administrator of an estate normally has power of attorney. This law may make it easier for administrators to convince Google et al of that fact without resorting to court orders, though.

  5. Re:Education is the best medicine on The Golden Hour of Phishing Attacks · · Score: 1

    And all users are identical of course, and all dunces.

    The fact is that most users are educable to varying degrees. How about we educated the educable while trying to think of something else to do about the rest?

  6. Re:Super Bug! on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know of a good supplier of hermetically sealed human sized bubbles?

    Inquire at your local mortuary. They'll fix you up with a hermetically-sealed stainless-steel coffin.

  7. Re:Can we finally, finally, finally on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    > If anything, life would be most likely to exist closer to the core.

    Things are a little too exciting close to the core. It's better out here where we can get a few billion years of peace and quiet.

  8. Re:Why not wait ? on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    But random misinformed speculation is more fun yet.

  9. Re:hmmm on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 1

    > What does this mean for the mass of the Universe?

    Nothing. It just means that more of the baryonic matter is in the form of dim red dwarf stars than we previously had estimated.

  10. Re:So, how many more ears do I need to cut off? on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 1

    He wasn't a fraud. He just had lousy eyesight.

  11. Re:first? or third? on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 3, Informative

    They don't determine the mass of a galaxy by counting stars.

  12. Re:If the race is on on Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Good point. The Web sites are not going to do the analysis themselves: they're going to include a link to BlueCava. You and I will block BlueCava but they won't care because we are too small a minority to matter to advertisers. Thus we can "opt out" as we did with DoubleClick.

  13. So where's the Firefox fingerprint changer plugin? on Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    n/t

  14. Re:First Impression on Apple's Game Center Shares Your Real Name · · Score: 1

    How do you function in life spending your time reading every last bit of every last detail of every last "contract" you enter into?

    Anyone who does not read contracts before agreeing to them is a fool.

    Do you pore over the signs on the door of a super market before you go in?

    No contract there.

    Do you read all the licence and copyright agreements before you update your OS?

    I use Free Software. No contracts.

    Do you go outside before you memorize every aspect of your city's civic code?

    No contract there.

  15. Re:I've written such a program, as have others on The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting P2P-DNS · · Score: 1

    > Examples of what you're asking for have been done

    Yes. One of them is called BIND.

  16. Re:The ultimate in decentralization: on The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting P2P-DNS · · Score: 2

    And we could use recursion to distribute the files. We could call the levels of recursion "domains" and we'd anchor the whole thing to some sort of a "root"...

  17. The ultimate in decentralization: on The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting P2P-DNS · · Score: 2

    hosts files.

  18. Re:I wish we could... on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    He just wants to go back to bang paths.

  19. Re:Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Octets on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    > I would bet good money that IPv6 NAT is going to emerge

    It already has.

  20. Re:Firefox + NoScript on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    > ...there is far more power there.

    What? I'm not being sarcastic: I'd like to know what power you believe to be there.

  21. Re:Ad Banners on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    > So what am I losing here?

    ur PRIVACYS!!1!!11!!!

  22. Re:Perspective, kthxbai on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    What catastrophe will ensue if "they" do learn your IP address?

  23. Re:Perspective, kthxbai on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    There is no such reason, of course. They don't even care about you qua "you": just certain statistical entities.

  24. Re:Speak for yourself on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    If you are in the habit of accepting and keeping every cookie ever offered to you, you were being "tracked" before Facebook got involved.

  25. Re:I can support Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However I draw the line at releasing documents that are the politicians equivalent of a drunken conversation at a frat party.

    I don't. The fact that politicians frequently behave like drunken frat boys should be highlighted at every opportunity.