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  1. Re:Proper? on Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam · · Score: 1

    Lotus Notes does this too. Real PITA

  2. Re:I live in Holland, and on Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    yes, right like you give a fsck about womens rights in the middle east

  3. Re:I declare a fatwah! on Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    I dont know about the film but I saw a bit of the clip by Wilders on YouTube and that was completely full of content that would be hugely offensive to Muslims. Not just gratuitous, general offensiveness, but calculated to be offensive to Muslims. That is why it was pulled - it was hate. This is quite normal all over the world. It is illegal in Germany and France to sell Nazi material because many people find it very offensive. It is possible to make a child porn film without hurting a child. Is anyone here going to defend such an enterprise? I hope that everyone would be offended by this. This is why it is illegal.

    Also the clip had absolutely no redeeming features at all. It was complete crap.

    Freedom of expression is not complete. Freedom of expression ends where offensiveness begins, where you start to hurt other people.

      So why is it ok to be offensive to Muslims?

  4. the trenches on Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote · · Score: 1

    M$ won the initial vote in Pakistan. LinuxPakistan is fighting back. Here is the link http://www.linuxpakistan.org/ooxml/index.php

  5. Law of thermodynamics on Switchgrass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn · · Score: 0

    >switchgrass ethanol can deliver around 540 percent of the energy used to produce it

    Um, no. That would be against the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

    Or is that the 1st law? Well one of the laws..

  6. Re:Will schools adopt it for research? on Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia is discouraged because it does not have recognised academic status. You do not know who wrote the article. You do not know of their bias, their track record, their education or their achievements.

    If I know the Knol on Insomnia is written by a researcher at the Stanford Medical School then I think that probably it will be of high quality. Who knows who wrote the Wikipedia article. It might be generally good, but have some crucial mistakes.

  7. "active flow control" on USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology · · Score: 1

    had me worried just then , "active flow control" sounds like something Microsoft would produce, but maybe they would call it 'live flow control' now..

  8. Re:Competition is good on Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    The place is probably a shit-hole because arseholes like you get to exercise their corrupt ways.

  9. PEBWAC : problem between on PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security · · Score: 1

    Windows and Chair.

  10. nothing to see here.. move along now on US Government Checking Up On Vista Users? · · Score: 2, Informative

    this is just normal scans that everyone gets all the time. nothing to do with having vista installed.

  11. not quite. on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1

    My last pc ran windows. My current pc runs Linux.

    My current phone runs Windows. I need to reboot it at least 5 times a week.

    My next phone will NOT run Windows.

  12. Re:I wrote Signal Spam on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    All I see is FAQs , where is the meat?

  13. unauthorised, illegal on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    Unathorised by Disney. Illegal, no, unless Disney has registered a copyright on all the contents. They probably have registered copyrights on some of the stuff but probably never thought that someone would copy the WHOLE of their theme parks!

  14. Virus? on Death Knell For DDoS Extortion? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What happens when it gets a virus? AI goes crazy? What happens when it becomes self aware and finds out that it is made out of Windows? Self loathing and madness. Scary thoughts.

  15. how about.. on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 1

    renouncing violence and recognising the right of the oppressed to, well..., life?

  16. Re:British banks ? on Bank Accounts of 5,000 UK Terror Suspects Tracked · · Score: 1

    Scottish. The top management has, historically, been Scottish

  17. Re:From IRC, the reason: on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 2, Informative

    the first page on google is your friend (or maybe foe)
    Israelis accused of 'human shields' tactic : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/52128 70.stm
    Israel's supreme court says the use of Palestinian human shields in arrest raids violates international law : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/43148 98.stm
    A five-year-old boy is shot dead in Gaza as Israeli human rights activists condemn troops for the alleged use of "human shields : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/21951 55.stm
    .. the young man, who was said to have had no political affiliations, was used as a "human shield" by the Israelis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/21937 59.stm
    Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields by the Israeli Army: http://www.adalah.org/eng/humanshields.php
    Israeli soldiers who took over the buildings used the occupants as human shield: http://www.btselem.org/english/Human_Shields/20060 720_Human_Shields_in_Beit_Hanun.asp
    The Human Shields of Nazareth : http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=933 3
    The Israeli army has signalled its intention to keep using Palestinian civilians as human shields in operations : http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8431605A-2F 44-4282-8037-E8B53A529EB9.htm

  18. BS on Multi-Layer Security Platforms · · Score: 1
    To be clear, best-of-breed point products do in fact provide in-depth security capabilities. However, each product is only narrowly applicable and is therefore unable to provide the breadth of coverage needed in today's IT environments. To put it another way, the (potential) incremental gain in security capabilities that can be attained with best-of-breed products is simply not sufficient to offset the complexity and expense that will result from organizations needing to implement many of them to cover all of their bases.
    In contrast, multi-layer security platforms hold the promise of more efficiently and economically providing an effective, modern-day security solution. This is based on integrating a full set of security services into a single, easy-to-manage appliance that is capable of supporting a wide range of deployment scenarios.
    Actually, no. UTMs are usually Linux boxes with anti-virus from whomever (TrendMicro or Symantec), anti-spam from Spamassassin, firewall from whomever, IDS from sourcefire. And the most important bit: a big list with a lot of tick marks. The only thing that is unified is the user interface. None of these things will work together - getting a lot of spam from one IP address? your UTM should block that IP at the network layer by using the 'best of breed' firewall that it has. Does it do that? No. Only an idiot would have anti-spam on a firewall but its easy sales.
  19. Re:On site on Network Management Outsourced to India · · Score: 1

    and how is that being local if the machine had to be shipped to you? maybe next time it will be shipped to Bangalor...

  20. Re:Israeli Security on U.S. Investigating Sale of Snort as Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Here US is concerned about US security. US security != Israeli security

  21. but slowwwwww on Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    current flash cards are very very slow. ever try one out? booting takes 2 to 3 times as long.

  22. beam me up on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 1

    of course the article is from the Scotsman.

  23. really good idea but.. on Negroponte's Talk at Emerging Technology Conference · · Score: 1

    the worlds poor children are poor mainly because of their government. If you want to help these kids then you have to work AROUND the corrupt, greedy, repressive and incompetent. Negroponte is being very naive in wanting to work with these idiots.

    Example: Pakistan.
    Major earthquake, many many dead. The first thing that donors wanted from Musharaf was that there be audits of any donations/loans.
    You want to help Pakistani kids you should work with NGOs. Work with the generals and the bastards will just give the laptops to their own kids.

  24. deep and objective? on Conducting a Unix Desktop Usability Study? · · Score: 1

    you need some other place. we only do superficial and subjective. deeply subjective. bigotted even.

  25. X gene on Gene Found That May Affect IQ in Males · · Score: 1

    bet its really really similar to the X gene...I know most geeks loose a lot of intelligence when there are too many of those nearby