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  1. You forget where you are on RFID License Plates in the UK · · Score: 1
    This is Ashcroftland. Calling anything done in the name of security unreasonable means the terrorists have won.

    Now bend over.

  2. Such a wasteful effort on RFID License Plates in the UK · · Score: 2, Funny
    If the UK Government were properly informed of the US effort to inplant RFID chips in all US/EU inhabitants (at the nape of the neck) over the past 15 years, they'd recognize that is redundant. But Ultra-Blue Order #745-JUR won't allow that. Oh well.

    By the way, I'm making all of this up. And you didn't read it anyway. So it never happened.

  3. Amendment 20, Section 3 on Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty · · Score: 0, Troll
    From Wikipedia.org

    Section 3.

    If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

    The results were certified improperly. The SC stopped consideration of this issue and the disenfranchisement that it signalled based on the patently false premise that the election had to be done on time.

    Hence, the Selected President*.

  4. Some updates: on Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor · · Score: 1
    Netgear has obviously for the first message of the [Sicherheitsl?e]??? seriously taken and the 21241036 password.

    Google's translation: With the password Netgear obviously took forum contributions for the first message of the safety gap seriously and changed the number on 21241036.

    In opinion of lawyers this problem quite serious.

    Google's translation: In opinion of lawyers this problem could quite be reason of enough to return the devices to the dealer and back-demand the purchase price. The salesman can try to improve the lack however the chances stand for it for the moment obviously quite badly.

  5. I would say this qualifies more as ... on Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "security through stupidity".

    But that's just me.

  6. 5.33 Hz? on Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? · · Score: 1
    I'll have you know that hampsters produce a lot more energy then that.

    And if properly prepared, at least two good meals.

  7. Vorbis for Windows too on Apple Rolls Out AirPort Express, AirTunes · · Score: 1
    Plus you could easily give iTunes Vorbis support if your using a mac.

    There is also a Ogg Vorbis plug-in support for Windows.

  8. The Haunting Torgo's Theme on Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus · · Score: 1

    Manos, The Hands of Fate: truly a great Mysting of a horrible, horrible film. And Torgo was, after all, a monster(?)

  9. Well, the Adult Happy Meals ... on McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads · · Score: 4, Funny

    do feature a pedometer. So after you stumble to the emergency room during the major cardiac infarction, the coroner will eventually be able to tell how many steps you walked before your untimely demise.

  10. I'll say it again: on Return of the TV Wristwatch · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not going to be satisfied until I get my flying car. I've given up on the personal jet pack, but I'm not backing down on the flying car.

  11. Actually, no. on Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In "real" life, you can always

    a) use land fill to create new waterfront properties (e.g. Hong Kong)
    b) drain swamp land (e.g. Florida)
    c) level mountains to make an area buildable (various areas)
    d) build in theoretically undesirable areas and make them desirable (e.g. Las Vegas)

    It just requires less effort in the virtual world. And less environmental review processes.

  12. Tis Elvish Trickery! on Your Data and Cyber Business After You're Gone · · Score: 2, Funny
    He promised ME the crown of deception and he would never ...Wait, he was wearing the crown of deception when he promised it to me! Oh, the wheels within wheels.

    Fine. At least I get the SUV.

  13. Wait a second on Your Data and Cyber Business After You're Gone · · Score: 5, Funny
    You cross the road? Do you have any idea what's on the other side?

    Chickens. Hordes of disease-ridden road-crossing chickens are on the other side. Just waiting.

    No thank you. Life is safer on this side of the road.

  14. Given the costs of piracy, ... on Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning · · Score: 1
    Given the costs of piracy, however, the labels are moving ahead cautiously in the hope of striking on a formula that works.

    It's so encouraging to know that the ever-unexamined "costs of piracy" is still the main bugaboo of the RIAA. Heavens forbid that they look over any of the actual research that shows that "piracy" has no major impact on the business. Saints preserve them from looking over their own books to see that their severe reduction of output over the past few years has been a major element of the decline in sales. Let's pray they never look at the sales figures of the most pirated CDs which tend to increase, not decrease as P2P goes up.

    Any other industry with this many virulently clueless individuals in charge would have gone bankrupt years ago.

  15. I win 10 points! on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 2, Informative
    ten points if you can name another company that does what halliburton does, or another company that would take the work

    Bechtel

  16. Oh, please. on Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates · · Score: 2, Informative
    It isn't a Mafia or Teamsters tax. It's an "I'm living in NYC, the center of the everything" tax.

    And PA is not just one state away. It's a world away.

  17. Jason, is that you? on NYT on Spam Cops · · Score: 2, Funny
    Jason, it's very unlikely that any person on /. is going to be on your jury. Most of us aren't even allowed near the court house except to answer those damn Orders of Protection from Seven of Nine and Subcommander T'Pol. Which are SO UNFAIR!

    I'm walking away from the computer now.

  18. ..they are actually purchasing pills.. on NYT on Spam Cops · · Score: 4, Funny
    Increasingly they are actually purchasing pills and responding to offers of get-rich-quick schemes to track down the spammers.

    Of course, they'd probably stop investigating if any of the products actually worked. Then they'd stay at home in their mansions and satisfy their wives and their wives friends and neighbor ladies and ...I'm walking away from the computer now.

  19. $6.50? $6.50?!?! on Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates · · Score: 4, Funny
    Where the hell do you live where they're still charging $6.50 for a movie?

    In NYC, it's almost double that.

  20. Remember the good old days ... on Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates · · Score: 2, Funny

    when all you needed to take on pirates was a cutlass, a musket, and of course if you're in Bengalla and it's the Sengh Brotherhood you're dealing with, the Phantom wouldn't hurt.

  21. How could you have ignored the REAL story? on Slackware Chooses X.org Server Over XFree86 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ap/joe-3.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to joe-3.1. Now with Klingon support!

    The long national nightmare is over! Finally, I can sleep easily, knowing that all those years of intensive study have been recognized, and in some way, appreciated.

  22. You're not grasping how RFID tracking works on RFID Leaders Talk Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Each RFID has an individual code. Unique. So they will know where and when each of those items was purchased.

    If you bought any of the items on you with a credit card, or a membership card, or a "discount friendly" card, then the merchant can tie all of those items to you directly (even if you paid for the rest with cash). And they can use that information to create a profile of your purchasing habits.

  23. Your bet is wrong on RFID Leaders Talk Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Actually, the whole point of this is the the manufacturers, not the stores, are the ones placing the RFID tags. That's one of the issues right now: WalMart and the Armed Forces are requiring items delivered to them to have RFID tags in them by a certain point so that they can instantly know that all contracted items are present. The manufacturers are balking because the cost of the tags is still relatively high. But you can't say no to either WalMart of the US Armed Forces, just "not right now, please".

    And the inclusion in the soles/linings is from RFID industry sources. If the item is easy to remove/displace like the security patch, then it has little value for the sort of tracking planned.

  24. RFID tags can be placed INSIDE of items ... on RFID Leaders Talk Privacy · · Score: 1
    such as inside the soles of shoes and inside the linings of articles of clothing. You can't get at them without damaging the item you bought (assuming you even know they're there), and you can't microwave them because while that would in theory would short them out, it would also cause the chip (and your item) to catch fire.

    Which would be bad.

  25. They can, they plan to and they will on RFID Leaders Talk Privacy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The ability to track you if the RFID tag is still in the item is intrinsic to the technology.

    If you look at the examples that Albrecht from CASPIAN notes, you'll see from internal discussions by the industry that they already plan on this sort of tracking. They're just looking for ways to counter public pressure and present a positive spin on it.

    They will as long as it isn't explicitly illegal because they believe that it will provide them with an enormous amount of information that they can mine to eventual increase sales and sales margins. That's their job. The fact that they are attempting to do this on the backs of our privacy doesn't enter into their conversations.