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  1. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    The metter is not defined by means of a physical bar anymore.

  2. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    You still need 2 more siginificative algarisms if you want to make it a standard. They are open to submissions, make your procedure and send them, they'll be glad to receive it (but 2 more significative algarisms).

  3. Re:Ham radio on Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online · · Score: 1

    Are you really concerned that those people are not following (US) laws, while they are in a rebelion with the intent to overthrow their government?

  4. Re:Wired wiki on Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online · · Score: 1

    It isn't any less safe against the governemnt the the other usual channels. Maybe, except for direct satelite.

  5. Re:It would... on Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online · · Score: 1

    Yep. Democracy (our modern form of it) was the stuff the French invented to make those bloody revolutions impossible. It works very well, but some people forget why it was created every so often.

  6. Re:It would... on Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online · · Score: 1

    The US should not intervene. For any side.

    Unfortunately, that is not they like to do, and not what it looks like they are doing now.

  7. Re:reduction in subthreshold leakage current on Molybdenite As an Alternative To Silicon · · Score: 1

    "Higher melting point than silicon"

    That is a bad thing, not a good one.

    "US, Canada, Chile, Peru, and China have sizable deposits."

    Compared to Si, availability is also bad.

    "Expensive"

    By tthe price those things sell (Both Si and MoS2), that is irrelevant.

    "Natural deposits contain traces of radioactive rhenium-187"

    So, those physicists better start working on ruthenium based reactors, we can get a lot of them as a side product.

  8. Re:Continuation of a wrestling match ... on Sony Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 To Stop Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    Well, option (a) leads directly to an 1984ish situation where the big corporations are free to restrain your access to any information, or even rewrite that information after the fact. So, we'd (and I'm not at the US) rather start votting with our wallets AND with the balots. If those fail, the situation will likely became very bad.

  9. Re:"We See" on Sony Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 To Stop Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    It is a presentation. He is showing you something, but he isn't blind, so "we" see.

  10. Re:Genetics Proves Evolution on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    Just one more piece of evidency. If you want proof, look at genetic programming, that proof that evolution is a consequence of things that reproduce on an environment where they can be more or less fit.

  11. Re:Flip it around on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is science in the meaning that it has falsifiable predictions. Those falsifiable predicions were all falsified by now, so it isn't sicence in the meaning that science must acknowledge false theories as such.

  12. Re:Freenet? on Openleaks Goes Live · · Score: 1

    "Is it because the secret war plans will just get lost in the shuffle between child porn and random flogs?"

    I guess that's it. Maybe if Freenet had a moderating system...

  13. Re:When will they learn? on Openleaks Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Seeing how not even the RIAA learned this lesson from fighting torrent sites, I'd think it translating to anybody else should be quite unlikely.

    But maybe it did. The Egypt governemnt has simply cut all of the internet inside the country, that way no other site can appear and replace Twitter. No way that could backfire...

  14. Re:United States likes dictators... on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Oh, you don't like them? That is why you overthrown democratic governments all around the world and put those dictators on their place?

  15. Re:Assuming the Egyptian govt. cuts off people on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Implement ad-rock wifi networks. Just like the OLPC does.

  16. Re:Free market is not the prerequisite for democra on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    It may not be a prerequisite, but the correlation is 1.

  17. Re:Internet kill switch on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    "even sending orbiting satellites into 'sleep' mode would hamper communications pretty effectively"

    You are overestimating the importance of those satelites. Submarine cables are way more important than them.

  18. Re:Learning from History on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    It's worse. Cutting communications is assuming defeat.

  19. Re:A tip for management on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    Try looking into Elisa on Google. Or if you have emacs on handy, I think it is ^x-doctor.

  20. Re:Who's bringing Telnet back? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    I agree they should know every machine. And I wasn't talking about machines spreaded through the company, I'm yet to met a big IT department that knows all the machines under their physical reach.

    Now, those devices with telnet by default are things that you keep always plugged to the company-wide lan? It is not so bad to use telnet through a cross-over cable directed connected to another computer, but when the device starts to use or provide lan services, that is a problem.

  21. Re:Who's bringing Telnet back? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    WTF service have telnet by default?

    On a relaed note, I wouldn't expect professional IT departments to be aware of such things. I'm yet to see a big IT department that knows about all their machines.

  22. Re:Hackers Bringing Telnet Back? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    I can understant that those admins don't port-scan their machines every time they update them. What I really can't accept is that some distributor activates telnet by default. That's unexcusable.

  23. Re:A tip for management on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 2

    And how do you feel about GET / HTTP/1.1?

  24. Re:April F.. Wait! What? on Black Eyed Peas Member Joins Intel As Director · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I came here to discover if /. sudenly decided 2011 is fools year. We've already got a new interface...

  25. All communication is blockable on Tens of Thousands Protest In Cairo, Twitter Blocked · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as unblockable communication. Yet, people are quite good on organizing mobs even on blockable communications. What you are missing is that the government must block all suceptible channels all the time to make the mob uninstantiable (hey, you've made me look on a dictionary!).