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  1. Re:A dream come true? on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds like the Democratic Party's dream version of the USA.

  2. Useless article on "Free Wi-Fi" Scam In the Wild · · Score: 1
    It's nice that they tell you how to distinguish the bogus ad-hoc networks from the access points, but they like to use "your pwn3d" scare tactics without providing REALLY useful general tips, like:
    1. Use a firewall.
    2. If you must have shares, at least create users with strong passwords and set the permissions.
    3. Don't transfer sensitive information over ANY wireless connection unless it's over a secure tunnel. What makes you think people aren't connecting to legit access points and sniffing your link?
  3. Re:Overkill on MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Contact the site maintainer and convince them them to take the page down. Keep in mind that the website owner obviously didn't care about the sensitivity of the information, otherwise the page(s) would have never been made public.
    The site maintainer didn't post the content, one of the users did. The webmaster may not have even been aware of the content. In the era of Web 2.0, draconian action such as that taken by MySpace and GoDaddy will result in chaos.
  4. Re:Still in business on Diebold Security Foiled Again · · Score: 1

    One entire bank? Well, that settles it then! They're all thieves!* Hide your money in the fridge!

    * Not to say banks aren't all thieves, just a different sort than this poster claims! Please patronize your local credit union!

  5. Re:Still in business on Diebold Security Foiled Again · · Score: 1

    Every one of us can point to our bank balance which is $4-$20 off every month, always in the bank's favor. That is, all hundred millions of us...

    Learn how to balance a checkbook.

    You clearly don't even know what kinds of products Diebold makes for banks. They don't sell core processing software, thus it is unlikely that they could slipping "$4-20" out of your account every month, unnoticed. Can you say, "Superman III?"

  6. Re:Still in business on Diebold Security Foiled Again · · Score: 1
    Maybe it's because Diebold has other lines of business. Or did you think they popped out of the ground yesterday?

    This only makes me more puzzled, really, when I see what kind of impenetrable tanks they use to store money (cash dispensers and ATMs) but they use flimsy pre-teen diary locks on voting machines.

  7. Re:Incoming lawsuits in: on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    I suppose if surviving a meteor involves skiing nude or jumping off roofs, we're set!

  8. Re:Incoming lawsuits in: on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    Think about it. If every family had 4 kids, then in about 18 years or so there are 12 billion people on the planet.
    Did the Grim Reaper go on hiatus or something?
  9. Testing on US Military Tests Non-Lethal Heat Ray · · Score: 1

    The device was apparently tested on two soldiers and a group of ten reporters, which makes me wonder how thoroughly this thing has been safety tested.
    Probably pretty well, as the twelve people didn't erupt into flame, dying horribly.
  10. Great Japanese bands? on The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear · · Score: 1

    They all sound like DDR music to me...

  11. Re:Again, wrong approach! on Schools Act to Short-Circuit 'Cyberbullying' · · Score: 1

    He told the host that if someone used the word "nigger" on him, he would pull out a gun and shoot him.
    Well, at least that guy believes in the 2nd Amendment!
  12. Re:Why do schools need to be involved? on Schools Act to Short-Circuit 'Cyberbullying' · · Score: 1

    I agree. Doesn't this sort of thing spawn, at the minimum, a civil case when adults are involved? It's really just another excuse to censor minors. It happened when I was in school in the 1970s-1990s and it continues today. At least back then, we only had to worry about our biting political satire being cut out of the school newspaper. Today, kids are being barred from posting anything on the web or participating in peaceful protests (ok, maybe unfurling a "Bongs 4 Jesus" banner isn't much of a protest) outside of campus.

  13. Re:Energy to the Blind on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    Probably a small chunk of radium or something. So they're Radioactive Feline Experimental Cyborgs from Missouri. Might make a fun action show for the kids if we can change Missouri to "Los Angeles" or "Tokyo" or something snazzy.

  14. Re:Question for the experts on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    I would hope they extend the experiment long enough to see that happen, although I fear feline brains may not be sophisticated enough (no offense to my cat or any others out there).

  15. Re:My policy is... on One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine · · Score: 1

    Not go to you, apparently. Because you don't have any games.

  16. Re:What is the story? on Running Your Electric Meter Backwards · · Score: 1

    it required a HUGE capacitor
    I used a flux capacitor in mine, but it only worked when the house was moving 88 miles per hour. Fortunately, I own a motor home and a really long coil of copper cable.
  17. Re:F$%^ing idiots know jack about the law, apparen on The Grassroots Blogging Provision's Real Purpose · · Score: 1

    Well, technically he's right, as it's a right not explicity granted, but implied. That, of course, doesn't mean it's not a right (which is spelled out in the 10th Amendment).

  18. Re:This is, of course, The Register? on The Grassroots Blogging Provision's Real Purpose · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Insightful? When your own integrity is compromised, that's the worst time to point the finger at anyone. Speck, eye, log... ring a bell?

  19. Re:Does this consitute eves dropping? on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 2, Insightful
    There are 400,000 registered sex offenders in the USA. I haven't been able to find out how many cases are actually reported each year.

    To me it sounds like the chance of a kid getting hit by a car or killed by a gun is magnitudes higher than actually being molested by someone they met online, but you don't hear the government or parents whine about that.
    Where do you live? Because I'd like to live in a place where some gun-control nut isn't shrieking "think of the children" every day.
  20. No wonder there's a problem ... on Microsoft PR Paying to "Correct" Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... if the average Wikipedia author is as biased as this article summary. "Corrections favorable to them?" Corrections are corrections! In TFA, you'll see that there are errors in the OOXML article (as there are in many of them) and Microsoft enlisted a pretty unbiased guy to find them. If anything, one would expect him to be biased against OOXML and for ODF considering that only free time has kept him from contributing to ODF.

  21. Re:Live bacteria on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 3, Informative

    All yogurt contains some live cultures, and one of the consumers interviewed in the article even said so. It's just that the author of the article is too brain-damaged to comprehend what they have written, apparently.

  22. Re:There are more examples of outdates businesses on The RIAA and French Button-Makers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rome used to have a railroad. I'd blame NY's economic policies and high property taxes more for the sad state of Rome.

  23. Re:There are more examples of outdates businesses on The RIAA and French Button-Makers · · Score: 1

    So... did they get bogged down in the 17th century (before the canal even existed) or the 18th century (when construction finally began)? Or maybe it was the 19th century, when the canal was completed? or maybe the 20th... never mind. Just read Wikipedia, or something.

  24. Re:We just want to see zee papers on Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because old grannies are some of the best people to arm themselves with guns and less-than-lethal weapons like pepper spray. Or do you expect an 80 year old woman to just put up her dukes and go toe to toe with a 23 year old 200 pound rapist?

  25. Re:We just want to see zee papers on Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register · · Score: 1

    Now mind you, any bill that requires you to "register" anything with the government-- be it magazines, newspapers, guns, or blogs-- is subject to abuse and probably a bad idea. But I don't see the leap in logic to "the U. S. Senate would impose criminal penalties, even jail time, on grassroots causes and citizens who criticize Congress" from the article. Simply unnecessary alarmism that gets a lot of people to write you off as a kook. You'd think the people who write every day would know the different between persuasive speech and rhetoric.