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  1. Re:Diff is powerful on Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if someone is already doing this with laws, but I think it would be a good thing to hilight the changes. I sure hope they use a better diff than Wikipedia.
  2. Classics MP3s on MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum · · Score: 5, Informative

    Deutsche Grammophon have just opened their huge catalogue of Clasical Music and are now selling them as 320 kbps MP3s here.

  3. Re:Canadian forecasters: Very cold winter ahead on Recipe for a Storm — Forecasting a Hurricane Season · · Score: 1

    Canada isn't a certain localized area. It's a huge chunk of the earth's surface. Only 2% (6.7% of the land surface).
  4. Re:Not yet on Maglev On the Drawing Boards · · Score: 1

    The $100M/mile figure is not set in stone. Actually, its calculated from the projected cost of the Munich project divided by track length. The fact that this runs underground below a densly populated city for a quarter of the distance ignored. Not to mention that the price includes the cost of the two stations and the trains.
  5. Re:No. on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack · · Score: 1

    Depends on their level of success... Had Hitler been successful in his ultimate plans then there wouldn't be any jews left to be extreme. Hitler even killed people who were *suspected* of being jews. Sure, and if the Jews had killed all the non-jews (or those who were unfortunate enough to have a speech impediment that kept them from properly pronouncing "Shibboleth"), it would just be the opposite. Do you intentionally misrepresent what I wrote, or do you really can not tell the difference?
  6. Re:News for nerds, on Turkey Day Chemistry in the Kitchen · · Score: 1

    stuff that matters...if you have problems trying to cook a good turkey and you're willing to accept the "how to cook" as news. Gee, I'm sure you cut off the ends of your roast.
  7. Re:No. on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack · · Score: 1

    Nazi Germany would have been very bad for any jews had Hitler not been stopped. Had he been successful invading the UK and USSR he would only have continued to other countries, executing any jews he found there. And if Hitler hadn't existed, Israel probably wouldn't either, because millions of Jews would have stayed in Europe.

    BTW, even your strawman of killing all Jews in Europe wouldn't necessarily be bad for Israel and the Zionist movement - just like America's reactions to 9/11 aren't in any way bad for the Islamic extremism, because making people feel prosecuted helps making them more extreme.

  8. Re:Of course aliens live among us on Are Aliens Living Among Us? · · Score: 1

    "Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
    - Sure sounds like an invitation to me.

  9. Re:American viewpoint on Court Order Against German T-Mobile iPhone Sales · · Score: 1

    RE: AC... I figured Germany would have near 100% GSM coverage by each carrier, I just didn't know where to look on the .de sites to find a coverage map. Coverage pages from the 4 major mobile providers in Germany (all others are just resellers AFAIK):

    http://www.t-mobile.de/funkversorgung/inland

    http://www.vodafone.de/hilfe-support/netz-uebertragung-netzabdeckung/108099.html

    http://shop2.o2online.de/nw/produkte/beratung/abdeckung/popup/pageframe.html

    http://eis03sn1.eplus-online.de/evportal/portal/umts

  10. Re:good! on Court Order Against German T-Mobile iPhone Sales · · Score: 1

    (European law also forbids region-locking of DVD players -- every DVD player sold on the Continent is multi-region

    This at least because some EU countries are in R2 and some are in R5. And which ones would be in R5?
  11. Re:Just a few more minutes... on Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm waiting for an eight page anal-whatever about why making up stuff about "evil Apple" is a good thing.

  12. Re:Tracking what? on Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? · · Score: 2, Informative

    heise confirmed that they are not sending the IMEI!!!!!
    http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/99220
    Errm, poor AC is still at 0 despite saying the truth. Mod up. Translated quote:

    The obvious suspicion that the IMEI of the phone is actually transmitted with each inquiry could not be confirmed by the tests heise Security did. Although a number actually was found in the HTTP requests to the Apple server they were not the IMEI of iPhones. Moreover, the weather applet sent a different "IMEI" in its query than the Exchange applet.
    IOW evil Apple sends an HTML request with the string "imei" in it, not the IMEI (of the phone). That's all the "proof" TFA needed - see sig for more info.
  13. Re:No. on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack · · Score: 1

    Pushed to it's ultimate ends, they could end up turning the west into a nazi style dictatorship, run by someone like Hitler who has decided that muslims are to blame for everything in the same way hitler blamed jews. I doubt al-qaeda would be very happy with this eventuality, with such a powerful well armed force aiming to exterminate them all. In the same way Nazi Germany was bad for Israel?
  14. Re:So basically... on Apple Shareholder Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Apple did something wrong. Admits they did something wrong and paid fines. Shareholders didn't technically lose money, so they can't sue for compensation for the wrongdoing.

    You'd think the shareholders would've figure out whether they actually lost money before bringing the suit. This is America: If you sue somebody you can make money - thus if you don't sue, you lose that money.
  15. Re:maybe not on Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings · · Score: 1

    the flawed firewall application is just a GUI app for a standard UN*X firewall, so the firewall wasn't flawed, just the settings and GUI for the settings. You only got the last bit right - that is no "standard UN*X firewall".
  16. Re:So don't use the firewall. on Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings · · Score: 1

    The firewall is not an essential component on a UNIX system the way it is on Windows, because you can actually turn off all listening ports and go "dead" without having to firewall off internal services that can't run without a TCP port open.

    Not all Unix systems. cf. OS X 10.5, which is a certified Unix. Just fire up IPFW.
  17. Re:Skype vs. the Leopard firewall! on Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings · · Score: 1

    A rather entertaining issue - if you have the firewall enabled and run Skype then quit it, then Skype gets horribly broken, and doesn't start again. Nobody can decide if it's Leopard cryptographically signing (and modifying) the Skype executable and tripping up Skype's own excessive intrusion detection, or Skype modifying its own executable and tripping up Leopard's checks that it's the same application being allowed access to the interweb. I suspect it's the former - as older installations of Skype got killed on my two recently upgraded machines in that way. Actually, it's that Skype didn't update their shit for 10.5, even so Apple has told developers for months what to do. [Knock-knock] Hello Skype, anybody home?
  18. Re:As usual, other considerations... on Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings · · Score: 1

    "Based on this, I'd say that several major issues with the Application Firewall have been addressed."

    So what do you do when you're at Starbucks with your PowerBook and you want to ensure that *ALL* connections are closed except TCP, ports (80, 443)? Then you don't use the Application Based Firewall which doesn't handle "ports".
  19. Re:As usual, other considerations... on Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings · · Score: 1

    "In your world it seems nothing and nobody can [*every*] be forgiven for making a mistake. How sad."

    ON MEE-SA-PLANET, WEE-SA CALL A BIG MAC A NABU ROYALE... How's daaad???? No, in his world nobody can ever be forgiven for making the same mistakes over and over and over again. Sucks if that is you, but not because you are not forgiven...
  20. Re:not entirely surprising on Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October · · Score: 1

    The might have also purchased this knowing they could get a free upgrade in October. Not exactly sure if that's the case, but just a possible explanation.

    Basically, you can't make many other conclusions about this data set. Since they could only get a free update if they bought a computer, that doesn't cut it. Unless of course the numbers include computer sales and then we can conclude a lot about the data set.
  21. Re:not entirely surprising on Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October · · Score: 1, Interesting

    that's a big jump from the 15.5 percent share it had in September, which was itself the highest share Apple had managed to get so far in 2007.

    This big jump makes sense, really. Who in their right mind would buy Tiger a month before Leopard is coming out, Obviously enough to account for an 15.5 percent share ...
  22. Re:The worrying factor here is China's demographic on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    Consider: This will result in a LARGE population of Chinese males in 2050 who cannot find Chinese females...because there are none (at least none living within the borders of China). Gee, long time no see, Yellow Peril
  23. Re:Simple solution: on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    As long as a sub can hide and wait for a CVBG to cross within, say, 5 NM to any side, a hidden sub can vertical launch or float into a vertical launch one or more missiles, mines, decoys or other devices as a ruse or means to disperse the fleet and weaken the shield/umbrella.

    Sure, they'll face retaliation, but for any rogue/stateless assailants wanting to damage or merely startle a CVBG (which may or may not end up in the press), this might be something we see more of -- by state-funded, stateless actors. Imagine a future conflict (say with North Korea) and the US doing the usual "go close enough to the zone with aircraft carriers to gain air superiority". Now imagine a coordinated attack on those carriers. Ooopsy.
  24. Re:no more whining on Fans Cheer as Apple's iPhone Finally Hits Europe · · Score: 1

    the fact that Airtunes only works with iTunes
    False: Airfoil


    That's extra software you have to pay for, and it's not made by Apple.
    Holly Shit, so Apple is evil because there is software that works with their hardware that isn't made by Apple. You hatebois are a hoot.
  25. Re:The most frustrating thing is.... on Monitor Draws Zero Power In Standby · · Score: 1

    Btw - this 0W standby only works when its a relatively simple thing to monitor for to come out of standby, a line level. Try making a TV that is 0W standby, yet I can boot it with just my remote. Actually, its quite simple, you use a rechargeable battery to power a IR monitoring circuit, but thats cheating :) Hrrmm, maybe you could do something with one of these? Power your circuit (or the switching transistor that is hooked up to the capacitator that does) with the infra-red light from your RC. Ba-da-bing.