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  1. Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    But I *do* have an example of the PRC doing what I had said. So looks like I've produced a cite and you're produced a strawman counterexample.

  2. Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you took four paragraphs to say you don't have any cites. Well done.

  3. Re:But He's an Asset to eBay on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    Convenient that eBay has pulled all the completed listings so it's harder for we mere taxpayers to see what this guy had fenced through eBay.

  4. Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cites of western powers running over their own unarmed citizens with tanks?

  5. Re:What Western standards? on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    I like the way you characterize the Vietnam war as "an attack on their country." The U.S. forces in Vietnam were requested by the legitimate government of Vietnam which due to an unfortunate lack of determination on the part of the U.S. and incompetence on the part of the ROV general staff was overtaken by the VC. Glad to hear you're putting your money where your mouth is, so to speak--just remember that having frank political discussions within the PRC's borders is likely to get oneself disappeared.

  6. Re:What Western standards? on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    "Millions of civilians"? Looks like you're the one in the fantasy world, Sunshine. If you love your PRC so much and Americans are war criminals, why not move to your workers' paradise?

  7. Re:What Western standards? on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 0, Troll

    World War II ended in 1945--check your math. Wars in Vietnam and Iraq were and are wars against aggression and terrorism, respectively. There's no valid comparison between defending one's country and running tanks over one's own citizens, though I'm sure apologists for the criminal PRC government would like to think there is.

  8. Misquote. on Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ballmer actually said "Google and their apps can bite me."

  9. Re:What Western standards? on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    How about the ones from the last fifty years or so. Does that clear it up? Or does the fact that the West has blood on its hands from the past excuse that on the hands of present-day barbarians?

  10. Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    Let me clear it up for you--try not running tanks over your citizens when they're peacefully protesting. That should help.

  11. Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Works for me, so long as they don't let in any filthy Persians.

  12. Re:Hardly a Chinese issue on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, Kent State was a full-on riot (though how much of that was false flag we'll never know). But the students shot weren't all even INVOLVED in the protest, and even if they had been, .30 rounds are never an appropriate response to unarmed students. Those national guard soldiers along with those in command should have faced firing squads.

  13. Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    If they want to participate in Western traditions, by God, they should have to abide by Western standards. So yes.

  14. Re:Whoops! on Walmart Caves On DRM Removal · · Score: 1

    Yup -- the cost of potentially being required by market or someday legal forces to run DRM servers in perpetuity MIGHT clue them in.

  15. Re:Duh on No Space Porn (For Now) · · Score: 1

    Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster would take on an entirely different meaning.

  16. Re:Cloud computing and GMail on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    Not much. But if your email is stored on your own machine, you decide what your retention policy is and know exactly what your exposure in the event of a legal order demanding access to your stored mail--and when and if such an order were executed, particularly since it would probably come in the form of a no-knock warrant, but I digress. If "they" want your email from Gmail or a third party provider, it's just a matter of faxing over a subpoena. And Google, for one, refuses to comment on how many of those with which they've complied.

  17. Re:Top Secret Fact: USA Already has it: RFID in ti on Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System · · Score: 1

    Taggant chemical research papers :
    Â http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF
    (remove spaces in url from slashcode if needed)
    [amazing document deleted by feds recently]

    The taggant article from Princeton's site wasn't deleted; its URL just changed. It's here.

  18. If you haven't already . . . on Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero · · Score: 4, Insightful
    . . . remove the "[zotero.org]" /. inserts first:

    svn co https://www.zotero.org/svn/extension/branches/1.0/ zotero

    Never know what idiotic (or corrupt) judge might grant a preliminary injunction forcing them to remove the source.

  19. Re:These kids these days... on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Very nice, took me longer than it should have to get it :).

  20. Re:Dont ever... on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    And don't forget that BASIC doesn't grok printf format specifiers :).

  21. If they didn't keep ending up in spam blacklists, on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    they'd have plenty. Anyway, since they censor the Internet, they only need one public IP.

  22. I wonder . . . on Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st · · Score: 4, Interesting

    . . . which Nevada legislator's friend or relative just happens to sell some kind of compliant encryption solution.

  23. Re:Now I'm Worried on Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions · · Score: 1

    Which is why the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held>/a> building codes to be in the public domain when included in law by reference.

  24. Re:Legitimate Need? on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    Without legal possession, you have zero rights to the work.

    Legal posession happened when I paid for my copy at the register. Any contract presented after that is without consideration.

  25. Re:Simple tests weed out liars on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever gotten anything like this?
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main(int argc,char** argv) {
    printf("1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10\n","%s%");
    }