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  1. Re:Posting from it now.... on Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone · · Score: 1

    "I think Opera is honest" is not the point. You're being asked to trust criminals not to figure out that Opera is probably an easy target, since they probably don't have a big security team and mandatory audits the way banks and large ecommerce sites do. You're being asked to trust Opera to perform well in an area (security internal and external) that isn't their core competency.

  2. Neither can anything else on Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum · · Score: 1

    So they think a 30-second commercial is long enough to disclose drug risks? Or anything else than a many-page highly technical report that assumes the reader knows all the implications of the implications? And when the risks are often not even well-known in the first place?

  3. By their definitions, everyone needs to register on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    By their definitions, * North Carolina is a "subversive organization" since it "conducts" its government through the use of force (via the police). * Anyone who interacts with the global economy meets the "affiliated...indirectly" part of being under "foreign control". * Anyone who hears a foreign government official quoted on the news and has their opinion influenced (no matter how slightly) meets the definition of a "foreign agent".

  4. So we understand quantum gravity now? on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    Is it really possible to make a prediction on black holes of this size, without a theory of quantum gravity? I'm no physicist, but I keep reading that the current theory of relativity is not usable at the quantum scale.

  5. Gestures will do the trick instead on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 1

    Gestures will do the trick instead: StrokeIt for Windows and xGestures for Mac.

  6. A new approach to self-sufficiency on From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency · · Score: 1

    Will someone please give me "generous amounts of aid" so I can become "self-sufficient" too?

  7. Gestures not buttons on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 1

    I'm happy with 2 buttons and a gesture utility (StrokeIt for Windows, xGestures for Mac OS X) especially when combined with a macro utility (QuicKeys for Mac OS X).

  8. 25% is not half of 50% on Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    "The winning submission this year fooled 25% of judges"... That's about the same number of people who still give President Bush their approval. The next 25% will be harder. Setting the prize threshold at 30% was a bad idea.

  9. 60% of Americans also believe... on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    So what? 60% of Americans also believe any number of crazy and contradictory things.

  10. A paradox on Independent Cartoonists Band Together for Success · · Score: 1

    If they have banded together, they're not independent any more.

    So the title should read, "Independent Cartoonists Give Up Independence for Success."

  11. Keeping it to myself on 11 Anti-spam Products Tested · · Score: 1
    I'm using a great anti-spam product which so far is 100% effective. (It's not a filter; it's a throwaway-address solution.)

    But I don't tell people about it, because it's not unbreakable, and if it ever becomes popular, the spammers will find a way around it.

    This is one instance of a general phenomenon which is often discussed (vehemently ;-) on Slashdot in the context of Linux: Security Through Unpopularity.

    Another example: Please don't set up a company to distribute prebuilt MythTv boxes, or the FCC will wake up and try to regulate the commercial-skipping feature.

    (Remember Security Through Obsolescence?)