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  1. Re:Why are we putting up with this? on Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What do you mean Bush should oppose what China is doing?

    He is probably taking notes, like "Hmm, that is a good idea, that is a tad bit too far for now, that another good idea"

    We already have RFID chips in our passports. The government is engaging in warrantless wiretaps, the National Security Letter is a blatant violation of the first amendment, Gitmo, War on Drugs, etc...

    You don't need to look further than Washington to see "nonsense-ical human rights violations"

  2. Outmoded Business Model? on Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Department said that the policies prevented consumers from receiving the full benefits of competition, discouraged discounting, and threatened to lock in outmoded business models.


    Apparently the Realtors didn't pay enough to their lobbiests and lawyers. Just look at how the MAFIAA has done at getting policies and laws to lock in a outmoded business model.
  3. A-Hole vulnerability on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They are only "locked" if people don't record the analog output from the computer.

    How many people really want music that can only be played from the internet? For some people this would work, sure.

    Apparently they don't think many people like iPods and other portable music players.

  4. Re:Where All... on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is there a way to execute SQL queries on wikipedia without having to actually download the entire database? I asked google, but was presented with the SQL page on wikipedia....


    If there was a way to do that, it would be through a SQL injection hack.

    So, hopefully not.
  5. Re:Dreamhost on Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail · · Score: 1

    $ uptime
    08:01:13 up 7 days, 23:09, 11 users, load average: 29.42, 20.77, 13.91
    $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor
    processor : 0
    processor : 1
    I don't use DH for anything but completely static pages. And even then the downtime is not insignificant.
  6. Re:Constitution easy to subvert on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement · · Score: 2, Informative

    anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.


    And how exactly does that allow a treaty to remove a part of the constitution? (Crappy politicians defining words however the hell they want aside)

    See also Reid v. Covert
  7. More types of "Illegal Data" on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sweet, now there are even more kinds of "illegal data" out there.

    Under-age porn, "terrorist" material, DRM removing software, MAFIAA products, etc...

  8. Re:You Liberals can thank yourselves for $4/gal. g on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Yeah, buses can be useful.

    They would be useful to me if the nearest bus stop to my house wasn't 5 miles away and buses ran more often than every 2 hours.

    Americans have spent fifty years developing the idea that traveling alone is normal. It is not.

    It is normal, for many Americans, as you just said. Efficient? Environmentally conscious? Maybe not, but it is pretty normal.
  9. Re:Sounds like a challenge on Welcome to the New Slashdot Chicago Cluster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Add Natalie Portman as the spokesperson, and that would indeed be quite a test of new hardware.

  10. Re:It's simple with OpenWrt on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or install Tomato and go to the QOS tab. It is pretty simple to get QOS going on Tomato

  11. Re:Consider the do it yourself way... on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I tried DD-WRT, and in my situation, where I am using WDS along with QOS on one of my 3 wifi routers, Tomato was much more stable than OpenWRT and DD-WRT.

    If you find DD-WRT to be stable (enough) for you, then I would suggest not changing.

  12. Re:Consider the do it yourself way... on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was going to suggest a pair of WRT54GLs running Tomato with some 15dBi antennas, but ethernet like that is going to be a much more reliable solution, if a bit harder to install.

  13. Re:Torrents Here on Penny Arcade Releases Episodic PC Game · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if it was a torrent of a crack, that wouldn't be good.

    I am kind of surprised they just posted a link to a 200MB file without having a torrent version be an option.

    I didn't see a torrent of the MacOS version of the demo.

  14. Re:Once again on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    That you for your well-written explanation.

    There are 2 separate issues here. I agree that it could be argued that some kinds of speech should legitimately be restricted, but any restriction on speech should be a hard thing to accomplish.

    But, I don't see how those restrictions can be reconciled with the first amendment, as it is currently written. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" seems to be pretty unambiguous to me.

    All I am saying is that if people want to limit rights, they should have to change the constitutional amendments, not have a judge insert "meaning" into the amendments, like has been done for almost all of them.

  15. Torrents Here on Penny Arcade Releases Episodic PC Game · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here are the torrents for the Windows and Linux versions of the demo.

  16. Re:Once again on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    For speech not to be protected it has to advocate criminal violence, not just state an opinion about it.


    And where is that exception in the first amendment?

    If you can insert "little changes" into the amendment without actually amending it, then it can be changed to say anything.
  17. Re:Ummm... on Judge Recommends Guilty Verdict for Jack Thompson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jack Thompson is a lawyer who has made a bunch of lawsuits against several game manufacturers.

    Basically, he hates the 1st Amendment, and isn't afraid to make a ridicules lawsuit to try and censor people.

  18. Re:Even more? on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Um, hate to break this to you, but everyone already has a gravity field.

    Getting more massive would indeed make that gravity field more intense.

  19. Re:Much as I hate to defend Apple's prices... on Mac Cloner Psystar Ships First Service Pack · · Score: 1

    And a replaceable monitor.

  20. Re:May I be the first to say on Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought as well,
    "Do they make a spherical version"?

  21. Re:Enumerating the Bad is not a good idea on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 1

    I wasn't referring to virus checkers for a list of "good software", I was thinking about the package manager used by many Linux distributions.
    I don't know how that would work in Windows, but it generally works pretty well in Ubuntu, with the advantage that you can quickly add a set of applications.

  22. Re:I love it. on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is a clever plan to get people to RTFA. Now people will stop bothering to read the fine summary.

  23. Enumerating the Bad is not a good idea on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Enumerating the bad is usually a bad idea, since it is to easy to change what is "bad". We enumerate the good with firewalls, why should software security be any different? Distro repository + corperate repository should cover all software necessary, right?

    Will we now see true evolution of software viruses?

    This is pretty much #1 and #2 in this list of The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

  24. Re:Xbox 360 Hardware Still Isn't Profitable on Microsoft Says No New Xbox 360s In 2009 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you trying to make it sound like MS hemoraging money is a bad thing?

    If they keep trying to break in to the Japanese dominated console market and keep failing, losing tons of money, all I can say is "Good for them".

  25. No new *kinds* of 360s in 2009 on Microsoft Says No New Xbox 360s In 2009 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I read the title to mean that MS would stop making 360s.

    What the article said is that there isn't going to be a slim version of the 360 or a 360 with a Blu-Ray drive.

    Quite a big difference, I think.