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  1. Re:Interestingly, the author of TFA never consider on Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? · · Score: 1

    Tho one could question why Amazon should keep a copy of the credit card info at all.

  2. Re:How to deal with network security? on Separating Cyber-Warfare Fact From Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps someone that have memorized it. And yes, i noticed the same familiarity when reading the list.

    There are some parts of the article i agree with (the "default permit" issue for one) but others, dunno.

  3. Re:We need scholars to tell us that? on Scholars Say ACTA Needs Senate Approval · · Score: 1

    Yep, i think this is why the US negotiators are attempting to keep the french requirements related to "champagne" and similar out of ACTA. If it is in, it requires approval. If not then it is basically international DMCA.

  4. Re:Not at all unusual on Mount Everest Gets 3G Service · · Score: 1

    Yep, i recently read about someone being told to basically stay the night when calling rescue from some hillside. I think they had issue with fog on the way down, tho the weather was warm enough to sleep outdoors.

  5. Re:Why a dock? on British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence · · Score: 1

    i suspect this will show up in it place soon enough:
    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/PDMI

  6. induction charger? on Fun With an Induction Cooktop? · · Score: 1

    rig up a matching coil so that the magnetic field can be converted back to electricity and charge a battery powered device.

  7. Re:Abode Is The Weakest Link on Adobe Warns of Critical Flash Bug, Already Being Exploited · · Score: 2, Interesting

    not unlikely, given that photshop apparently have code inside it that dates back to m86k mac.

  8. Re:Recording Indicator on Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser · · Score: 1

    some designs have a physical cover for the lens.

  9. Re:Recording Indicator on Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser · · Score: 1

    or physical switches on the wires.

  10. Re:so...uh... on Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser · · Score: 1

    and if not, there is always noscript (and removable camera).

  11. Re:What device? on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Could also be the person holding up the collar of whatever is being worn, for some reason.

  12. Re:haha on Some Aussie High Schools Moving To Two Devices Per Child · · Score: 1

    quality of education, like wealth creation of a nation, is bordering on impossible to measure directly.

  13. Re:More obvious stories on From Apple To Xbox, Tech Companies Lean Left · · Score: 1

    and both operate to the right of what the rest of the world considers right.

  14. Re:More obvious stories on From Apple To Xbox, Tech Companies Lean Left · · Score: 1

    anything helps when dividend comes round...

  15. Re:So.. on Wi-Fi Direct Gets Real With Product Certification · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth use frequency hopping, not fixed channels.

  16. Re:Bluetooth is gone eh? on Wi-Fi Direct Gets Real With Product Certification · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only when high speed data is needed, like for file transfers, and only for the radio layer. The protocol is still very much bluetooth.

    And bluetooth 4.0 introduced a low power spec, that should allow a compatible device to function for quite some time from a coin style battery (or perhaps even smaller).

  17. Re:Cloak of Anarchy on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: 1

    With a big enough led array, it could be analog, digital or even nerdtastic binary.

  18. Re:what about servers? on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I guess it could be that one patch set overrides another and one end up with reversion. Or things never made it from staging point to the main source. At ever level there are humans, and humans inevitably makes mistakes.

  19. Re:THey should house a server farm in it on Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence · · Score: 1

    While going more with a mental image then any math, i suspect that any water landing, that was anywhere above borderline stall speed, would result in the engines, and whatever sections of wings related to them, go bye bye. And that event would toss the plane in some direction or other based on what engine contacted the water first, even if the time between them was less then a second.

  20. Re:Or the one who counts the votes matters on US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. · · Score: 1

    Humanity, this is your past, present and future...

  21. Re:one sided? on US, China Working On Intellectual Property Rights · · Score: 1

    So, replacing one set of oligarchs with another is repairing now?

  22. Re:one sided? on US, China Working On Intellectual Property Rights · · Score: 1

    Hello schoolyard. How come we humans have managed to do so much, yet have economic and political behaviors that, at best, seems to be maybe one step away form a hill of moneys?

  23. Re:My Bad! on Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken · · Score: 1

    Basic problem is that we have yet to find a way to measure growth directly (its not like one have a physically inflating balloon with a tape measure around it), so instead we measure proxies. Inevitably however, especially if there is money to be made doing so, someone will find a way to game these proxies, so that they keep going up while the actual growth stays flat or even goes negative.

    One such issue is how to measure public services. The classical way of doing so is counting the number of clients, or similar, that get serviced within a given time frame. Problem is that this says zero about the quality of the service given. As such the service provided may be down right useless, but as so many clients gets serviced in a day the office is considered efficient.

    Or how politicians talk about numbers of people at work, while the real measure to care about would the number of work hours that gets performed. Sadly, one can make it appear that a lot get done by having a lot of people do part time work. Doing so would make it appear as if there is very little unemployment, while the actual work done is no more then what it would have been with perhaps 50% unemployment.

    This is the kind of numbers game that the Enron leadership ended up in court over.

  24. How about... on Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Getting a old oil rig, and have it moved into international waters?

  25. Re:Don't think phones, think software on Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the dual response but i had a "duh" moment right after hitting submit. I really do wonder what will become of webos if HP starts to use it on other devices, both phones and non-phones. a update of their ipaq 210 with a cortex series cpu and webos would get me fap-ing for sure.