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  1. Re:Cannot be reprogrammed? on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would you make a key like that?

    Oh, I dunno, maybe it is tamper resistant or something wacky like that...

  2. Re:The private sector saves us again on Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop" · · Score: 1

    You missed something. Without the law, the market for this was ZERO. Forget about 3-6 million.

  3. Re:humanity vs capitalism on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    ...do away with the FDA and let people be free and responsible for what they put in their body...

    So are you saying it would be better to do away with the FDA than have it? I understand and believe in free market principles but can you honestly say that people who have issues understanding basic principles of biology should be responsible for understanding the ramifications of chemical properties of complex drugs? Should people be responsible for not ingesting (either themselves or their pets) food laced with melamine when the mfgs did not even know they were buying wheat gluten that had been "fortified" with a material solely to commit a fraud. The melamine was placed in there to boost the appearance of protein to increase the value. Remember, perfect markets require perfect information.

  4. Re:YRO? on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ahh, it is pretty clear actually. Those are electrons powering your computer and there are electrons making your network run and there are electrons lighting up your screen, etc, etc...

  5. Re:Confirmed! on EMI May Remove DRM From Parts of Catalog · · Score: 1

    Well, what I really want to know is how about stuff I have already bought??? And yes, I know there are unofficial ways but I would rather see an official method.

  6. Re:GPU on Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU · · Score: 1

    Will we still need drivers?

    Yes, how else will the *OS* access and interface with the GPU?

  7. Re:This is the police. on Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention · · Score: 1

    It was Aruba, not Bermuda...

  8. Re:It's a Fear on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would wager that the FBI sent out initial "test letters" about clients to companies that--if necessary--they knew they could get a court order to acquire anyways. Once the company complied, the FBI probably evaluated the resistance said company gave. A low resistance would indicate that at anytime, the FBI could keep playing the same card (probably on the same individual) and continually receive information whether a court order would back them up in the end or not.

    Dude, you are giving them way too much credit....

  9. Re:Why? on Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is also more effective. How many times do you click on ads? Now how many times do you click on search results? 'nough said...

  10. A guy on P5Porters back in the day was like that on How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was a guy named Ilya who would clash with people regularly on perl5 porters back in the 99-00 days but I tell you, he was a huge contributer to perl and it would not be where it is without him. But he did cause a lot of social issues within the group and we lost other really good developers because of him. Not sure where the net loss/gain fell on that one, but it is an interesting problem to have witnessed first hand.

  11. Re:drives are like hybrid cars on Apple and LG plan Flash Laptops · · Score: 1

    The word "hybrid" has a meaning outside automobiles. Originally it was a biological term.

    Yes, we have a few of those posting around these parts...

  12. Re:Move house to switch ISPs? on To Media Companies, BitTorrent Implies Guilt · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but have you tested the latency on your newfangled cable line. I can't even run VOIP on mine and I have a business package with 5 statics, 6 mbps down and .8 mbps up. If I could get dsl, I would in a heartbeat. Also, when was the last time you actually got that 10 mbps? I test regularly and I may come close to what I pay for 1 out of 5 times.

  13. Re:MassGIS on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1

    Wow, they had in the past. I am shocked that it no longer is obfuscated. I wonder. It looks as though there is a secondary roof over the main flat roof. I wonder if they installed that for this purpose.

  14. Re:MassGIS on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1

    The white house is censored. Either Google does it a lot more subtly or the white house is covering the roof on sat flybys. There is a light tan/off white "cover" where the roof of the white house. It obscures the security apparatus up on the roof. The also do it for the capital.

  15. Re:"Follow the money"? on The Anatomy of Pump n' Dump Stock Spamming · · Score: 1

    The problem is the short time, circa 3 days, in which stock sales are processed and "settled". By the time the SEC gets around to going after these guys, they have run off with the money and can no longer be found. Remember, you are dealing with criminals. If they are not already doing so, they will simply begin using other people's identity's to perform these transactions. If you can settle a trade within a few days, they have enough time to collect the cash and run. Settlement times need to increase to even begin dealing with this problem.

  16. Re:Moo on Spam is Back With A Vengence · · Score: 1
    Seriously, why won't this work?
    Define "spam"... That is why. I have had devs on the SA list look at legitimate commercial email and call it spam. The ISPs are a good source of info to help stave off the problem but to shut off people automatically is a big mistake. The ISPs should be monitoring for odd and unusual behavior and notifying the users when their machines are doing something that is suspicious. This way there is some human intervention into the process.
  17. Re:It's just a necessary evil in trademark protect on Apple Sues Over iPhone Smartphone Skins · · Score: 1

    Yeah, exactly. One of the ways Apple may be trying to get it from cisco is because cisco sat on it for 5 years and never used it. Additionally, they failed to file the proper paperwork showing they were using it in some meaningful way.

  18. Re:It's not common carriers - it's monopolies on A Case for Non-Net-Neutrality · · Score: 2, Informative
    But if you're going to HAVE a government issued monopoly - like EVERY DSL and Cable company does -...

    Not every cable company is a "government issued monopoly" any longer. In the past they had been, and in many cases the incumbents are still profiting from having been one in the past, but that is a very simplistic view of our telecom industry and belies the real problems going on in it. And I am for net-neutrality and for busting monopolies and the residual gains from them.
  19. Insider trading???? Seen the stock price lately? on HP Faces Expanded Civil Lawsuit in Spying Case · · Score: 1

    I realize that one does not necessarily need to profit from or avoid losses to be guilty of insider trading but I have to imagine it really makes it harder to prove it when the stock price goes in the wrong direction after said trading. Is there any evidence of insider trading? What damage are the shareholders looking to recover? The stock has gained 10% or more since the 1st of sept...

  20. CIA and TOR on Charges Dropped In Fake Boarding Pass Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't the CIA take an interest in TOR at one point? Kinda hypocritical that the guberment is against it now.

  21. Does Bronze == Standard??? on Mandriva 2007 Released · · Score: 1
    Does Bronze == Standard???

    Also, when you try to upgrade your membership, it sends you to the download page where you have no access because your membership level is too low. When you click the link to renew/upgrade you go back to the download page... Rinse, repeat. Great Q/A on the club site.

  22. Re:This makes less sense than ever! on PS3 Client for Folding@Home Debuts, ATI GPU Version Soon · · Score: 2, Informative
    It is... Energy Star is working and has been working on it for some time. Running one of these clients could cost the end user as much as $200 a year (assuming a high end machine and 24x7 usage). Now, if they do not mind, great, but most do not realize it. Anyhow, for those machines just sitting idle, the cost savings are somewhere between $20-$100 (hi assumes 24x7 operation) a year if you employ system standby.

    Full disclosure: I work on both of those projects.

  23. Re:wrong question on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    The funny thing, one of the pictures I saw in the original email that went out today from OVG shows a printer connector soldered on board. Presumably for an integrated thermal printer...

  24. Re:I guess that this article can be skipped on Sudo vs. Root · · Score: 1

    Word has it that Vista will change that and there will be sudo like capabilities but I suspect it is too soon to tell if it will materialize and if so, in what form.

  25. Re:This won't last on Nintendo & McDonalds Providing WiFi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In most non urban (ie; suburban) areas (where all the little rug rats tend to inhabit), I bet the drive through is used far more regularly and the tables go mostly unoccupied. This will likely not hurt those areas as much say starbucks gets hit with the wifi.