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  1. From the same folks who brought you Google on Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source · · Score: 1

    Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source

    With Google's strange opacity, it's not a surprising thing to see (them having a lot of the uppity qualities of Stanford). Then again, to say that would be blasphemy.

  2. Google has it mostly cached, mirror it on Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions · · Score: 1

    Just use the deleted page url and append cache: before it in a google query.

    Google's still got some of the urls cached,
    As of this post, this and others are cached.

  3. How telling... on YouTube Bans Terrorist Training Videos · · Score: 1

    Let me guess that AIPAC is a huge contributor to the list. There's a difference between rational support for that area of the world, and the fanatical support enjoyed by some on the right wing(Pajamas Media and the more fanatical of the Likud, that means you).

  4. The Pool is Closed. on Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While results of the FITD experiment revealed no racial bias, the effect of the DITF technique was significantly reduced when the experimenter took the form of a dark-skinned avatar.

    They never saw a good /b/ raid in Habbo.

  5. Just release it in the conventional way already... on HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail · · Score: 1

    (For those who might be tempted to say Defcon, it was not ready).

    It's out there, enough with the needless delays and just get a mirror/link out there.

  6. Good that they werent next to University of Dayton on PGP Leads Corporate Efforts To Save Bletchley Park · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...as they demolished a historical building after railroading about every obstacle in town, and putting some remains in an obscure spot.

    Had Bletchley Park been in the US(and next to the named university), they'd have let a local university just roll the town over and demolish it after buying the land from NCR for $1.

    It's a shame that PGP, IBM, and friends couldn't have come sooner to save NCR's Building 26.

  7. The McCain staff is on the line... on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...they want their "immunity from criticism" card back.

  8. Folding a bit too close to home on Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier · · Score: 1

    I guess prions take the Folding@Home idea a bit too literally.

  9. Mod Parent up on India Joins Nuclear Market · · Score: 0

    As a U.S. citizen, I must say that I am utterly embarrased at the actions of my government. On the one hand, there's no way that they'll let Iran or North Korea even so much as attempt to build a reactor, but as soon as India wants on the scene, oh well, no problem. After all, we wouldn't want them to cut us off from that practically free labor force, right?

    Those countries don't have a job theft(aka offshoring) industry to protect.

  10. Thought this was already done. on TCP/IP Meets Physical Reality · · Score: 1

    The second is a wireless routing protocol that really supports jumping from one AP to another (This will be worked out, probably as a derivative of cell phone networks, when people start roaming further than a single WiFi AP and demand seamless transitions) without disrupting existing sessions. More than just auto-connecting to a new AP, but having previous datastreams (streaming music, calls, chat) redirected to the new address and handing over authentication tokens as well.

    Wouldn't this have been covered by Airespace/Cisco? Unless they just do autoconnect, I'd be sure that they do something like that.

  11. Oh, there are other surprises. on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    At least you can talk about Tibet and Falun Gong freely on Cingular and live to tell about it.
    (incoming mods in 3...2...1...)

  12. Definitely, and tagged !hellno, hellyes on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    They can already find out who is going to support the union and harass them.
    They can already find out how they're going to vote and stuff it with vetted supporters.
    They can do worse than what happens with card check.
    They can hire agitators from security firms to make violations happen.
    They will attempt to fight a war of attrition to force no votes.
    Those above acts do not suggest a true choice, but a forced hand towards voting no.

    The industry is overdue for unionization, and to remove the imbalance towards business.

    It does not mean incompetence, and it allows an even hand against those who have no problem bankrupting entire communities just to get their favored answer.

  13. No, but it will have interesting behavior on A Chinese Challenge To Intel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should it be told to return 16, it will return 16 even if the result is 14. Consider it the Olympic Calculation Extension.
    Attempting to write Tibet, Democracy, or anything the PRC deems harmful(via microcode updates) destroys the unit.

    (Oxymoron (Score:-1, Troll))

    Hrm. I guess the mods have a defective sense of humor here.
    Supporters of China incoming in ...3...2...1...

  14. Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Bad for User on A Chinese Challenge To Intel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Transmeta has tried, Godson has already tried, and both have yet to make a dent. It's just another knockoff that will not take off.

    Like a lot of things from China, reliability will be suspect, not to mention any willful patent infringement.

  15. We've heard of this before... on A Chinese Challenge To Intel · · Score: 1

    Well, here's their history according to Google

  16. Any word on finding the snitches? on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Aided by informants planted in protest groups

    It shouldn't be terribly hard to find the folks who ratted on these people.

  17. Fine, but they're a lot further away as time goes. on Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too · · Score: 1

    After seeing a decent size of hardware go my way, I'm not sure 99% is even reachable. For $500-700, that card had better last 2-3 years and still be at least a middle-of-the-road performer.

    What we get now are mostly cards that are built towards (versus against) failure. It'd be time to take a page from Korea and make it too good to want to return(by making electronics returnable for about any reason). That is how quality can be turned around.

    There is the occasional nod to hardware reliability, it is seen in companies that have largely gone under(SGI, pre-acquisition 3dfx, NCR before they went to clones, and DEC to name a few). Perhaps some would want to know that swapping out hardware does take time and money.

  18. Can they take a page from the Secret Service... on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    ...and show some class? Or is that in limited supply at RNC conventions?

    While the event in Dayton wasn't something that would attract a ton of protests, they handled it well. They gave the only one quite a bit of room to decide how they wanted to leave. Also, they did so in a manner that didn't necessarily cause others to join in.

    While this may not be typical of all of their conduct, they exercised restraint(versus creating a case for force out of nowhere) where things could have gotten worse.

    I'd wonder how much of the protest is derived out of the convention reaction over novel threat. Another thing would be to find out what part of the law enforcement detail is responsible for the overreactions.

  19. In other news... on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "Free Speech Zone" has been moved to somewhere on the Michigan-Wisconsin border.

  20. Re:Comment Reader Agreement on Court Rules Against AT&T's Service Agreement · · Score: 5, Funny

    By reading this comment, you agree to send me $50 via PayPal and let me sleep with your most attractive female relative over the age of 18. If you do not agree to these terms, do not read this comment.

    Two women show up for you to judge who's most attractive. As a part of that, they talk about a cup.

  21. They have more regulations, for good reason. on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    [1] I don't think US citizens are so gung-ho on it either, rather it appears that lobbyists have had a large influence on policy.

    Those lobbyists are part of why there's a disconnect between Washington and the public. That's why it's finally being challenged, but only after 30+ years of junk.

  22. Re: on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    ...and if India did this, US support for Pakistan would go up, with a declaration on all offshoring cities as fair game for nuclear testing.

  23. There's plenty of money in the US... on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    Freeze all accounts of any business that deal with China before they can move the money.

  24. Perhaps it's time to get that reliability back... on Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too · · Score: 1

    Or just do the right thing by making it expensive to not have it anything but military/aerospace quality.

  25. Re:tagged !suddenoutbreakofcommonsense on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 1

    Problem is that there's too much prior art.