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  1. Re:You want a business case? on IPv6 and the Business-Case Skeptics · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Exactly. What is needed is an IPv7 that has IPv4 compatibility. I remember a presentation explaining why IPv6 didn't caught on. There were 3 main points :

    - IPv6 is not IPv4 compatible

    - IPv6 is not IPv4 compatible WTF ?

    - IPv6 is not IPv4 compatible and this is stupid

  2. Re:Well, Good on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    I wonder what is the probability of it being a Hubble artifact. There were some jokes about dirty lens, isn't that possible ? Something that stuck to the lens then unstuck after 100 days ?

    If not, isn't it possible that it is simply a supernova of a new kind ? They say it just appeared but wouldn't a powerful and distant-enough supernova be visible while its parenting star would be too faint for being detected ?

    And, of all the SF hypothesis out there my favorite is : "this is a hole in a Dyson sphere"

  3. Re:Can anyone explain... on Best Buy Coughs Up $54 Million For Napster · · Score: 1

    They are buying the 700 000 subscribers as much as the brand. Plus, the brand 'Napster' is already known to many. That's a huge marketing advantage. To people who know the current sad state of naptser, they'll only have to say "Well, it used to be that way... now we bought it and it got better"

  4. Re:McCain's response... on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    No, but a prayer should help about it...

  5. Re:Old Skool Science Mavericks on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wasn't there a veto thing also ?

  6. Re:I hate these; they are SOOO rigged on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    Finally! Someone to say that lies, lies and more lies is all these candidates are going to say during the campaign ! Seriously, people, how many elections will you have to live through to understand that promises are worth nothing, null, nada, nichts ? Look at the past of the candidates, look at the past of their VP candidates, look where they took money from, look who they took advice from and never trust a campaign speech.

    Oh, and it is the Apollo program that JFK launched, not NASA

  7. Re:That's pretty damning for the CIA and Bush admi on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    More like Bin Laden being the mascot and the PR director.

  8. Re:In other news... on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    Finally some good old fashioned piracy !

  9. Re:That's pretty damning for the CIA and Bush admi on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another interpretation is that al-quaeda, "the base" was just a very small group before 9/11 that had no big international contacts. The US administration pointing finger at them helped them gain the stature they have today. The true responsibles of the 9/11 decided then to be part of al-quaeda, like many smaller terrorist group, just because Bin Laden was seen as the archetype of the anti-american terrorist.

    From all that I read, it looks like al-quaeda is more of a stand-alone complex than a hierarchically organized group. I think most al-quaeda groups begin as independent entities, make a terrorist attack, claim responsability, get labeled by the CIA as "al quaeda linked group", get contacted or contact al-quaeda. (you can invert the last two steps)

  10. Re:Nothing Surprising on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is the use of a terrorist attack without its authors claiming to have done it. How are we supposed to be afraid of someone if we don't know what they are capable of ?

  11. Re:Why is that even possible? on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    Well, the problem is that there may be a thousand eyeballs, there is only one LHC.

  12. Re:Advertising on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: 1

    Addendum : Their system may be easy to pirate, but look, they hijacked our blog !

  13. Re:Advertising on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's a common mistake geeks make : ads (along with most political speeches) are not made for people who actually parse sentences. They are for people who just listen to them and let their "gut feelings" influence their actions. The goal is to make an instinctive neural pathway for ideas : Microsoft BillGates FriendlyGuy makes people feel more comfortable about Microsoft and directly confront the image that we convey here that Microsoft MonopolisticMonster. We are less efficient because we base our arguments on facts, not formulas.

    Basics of marketing : if the product name and the quality you want to associate it with are more than 3 words away, your sentence fails, whatever its point is. Why do you think that you here so much the "McSame" and "Obama Ben Laden" neologism ? They are far more efficient at negative image association than any well weighted argument.

    Don't get me wrong, I absolutely hate it when I am confronted to this kind of argument. But I have to admit that as much as I would like Microsoft to listen to geeks when it comes to fact, geeks should take a lesson from Microsoft when it comes to marketing.

  14. Re:Moderation/Meta Moderation? on Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one surprised that this moderation + metamoderation system isn't used everywhere ?

  15. Re:Can't wait to see... on NASA Developing Small Nuclear Reactor For the Moon · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, there are only a few probes that used that in the 70's and now concerns about in-atmosphere dispersion have precisely grown so much that they prefer to use alternative means of production.

  16. Re:Or you're an idiot on One In Five Employers Scan Applicants' Web Lives · · Score: 1

    The problem is : will I be able to convince a (presumably averagely pointy-haired) interviewer that my surname-name is a common combination in my native region ? Otherwise he'll think I have been held hostage by Algerian djihadists when I was a journalist, that I played soccer a lot, played guitar a bit, that I was stabbed while fighting a policeman and that I study the influence of lasers on super-heated plasmas.

    All of these can be found by googling the name I put on my CV. Is that fair that I am held responsible for all that ? There are also pictures of me drunk on the net, put there by retarded "friends" who are into facebook/mysapce. Fortunately, they didn't write my full name next to it. How is it possible for me to prevent it ? I try to say that I find pictures at parties off-limit but many persons (you know, the "social" type) don't understand what could possibly go wrong. Sigh...

    The full-honesty strategy should be the ideal, unfortunately you sometime have to get past the asshole-recruiter in order to get into an interesting company. Really, the practice of googling interviewees is a bad practice that will not carry useful informations most of the time and will bear a very low signal/noise ratio. Recruiters : don't do that.

  17. Re:Can't wait to see... on NASA Developing Small Nuclear Reactor For the Moon · · Score: 1

    Yes, the real problem is : what happens if the shuttle/rocket used to bring it too the moon explodes in the atmosphere ?

  18. Re:Irony if this works. on 'Super Steel' Sought For Fusion Reactors · · Score: 1

    In the meantime, they win as their actions remain a strong electoral argument 7 years after the facts and that they still scare people.

  19. Re:Why ... on Researcher Publishes Industrial Complex Hack · · Score: 1

    The people who put these systems in place know what they are doing

    Every time this assertion is made at the scale of an entire industry, there is a lot of potential for catastrophic failures

  20. Re:Because There's Profit To Be Had on Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries · · Score: 1

    Rich with culture ? They may have a rich local culture, but it is nothing like the thousands of different cultural backgrounds and experiences an Internet access would bring to them. Bringing internet access to third world country doesn't destroy their culture, it gives alternatives to it and even a bigger voice. What is great with internet is that it works as well for downloads and for uploads (culturally speaking).

    There has been a lot of suggestions from African country that they prefer to get a service they pay for and be a consumer with a contract and rights rather than relying on irregular humanitarian help that could be free but that is so condescending.

  21. Re:Because There's Profit To Be Had on Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not saying this is a bad thing, it's great for the people but Google's only motive is "How do we reach the other 1/2 of the world's population with our services?"

    Only motive ? How about saying they found a way to do humanitarian actions while improving their profits ? I really admire such actions. They take risks, they bet on the fact that helping the world can be a profitable thing when done right. I wish we see more of these.

  22. Re:Worth picking up, but... on Review: Spore · · Score: 1

    Virtualize. The graphics don't look like they need a power hog anyway

  23. Re:Theft is not concern #1 on Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit · · Score: 1

    You have to be able to make a choice to make an informed choice. I agree that being informed and educated is also a very important issue, but having the right to vote in a fair election is a prerequisite to be able to cast an informed ballot in a fair election.

  24. Re:Yeah? on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 1

    RFIDs of the mifare technology were reverse engineered through layer removing and through microscope imaging, and careful semi-automatic understanding of the logical gates layout. The algorithm may be hidden in the hardware, if it is not rock solid (and published) I give this technology a huge chance of failure.

  25. Re:http://thepiratebay.org/search/Spore/0/99/0 on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 1

    He wants spore, he boycotts the DRMs. Isn't that the point ?