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  1. Re:Privacy, as if... on TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data · · Score: 1

    Precisely. Or as I like to paraphrase the 9th and 10th Amendments:

    9. You still retain all your rights, even if we didn't explicitly mention them.

    10. If we didn't say here that they could, the Feds can't do it.

  2. OT: Your Name on Has Mass-Mailed Malware Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Aren't all fish bald?

  3. Re:Internet too? on VoIP Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    That's not what he meant. He meant how do you know that the crypto doesn't have a backdoor?

  4. Re:Ebay is rampant with theves on Book 'Em, Dano · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LAPL does the same thing. I no longer donate books to them. Last time, I donated a few cartons of kids books (my daughters outgrew them) to my local elementary school.

  5. Re:Interesting Quote on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: 1

    Hence the oft-ignored 9th and 10th Amendments.

    Unfortunately, Congress seems to think that those two don't exist.

  6. Re:Dominic Keating says the finale sucks on Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released · · Score: 1

    Jolene Blalock said it was "appalling".

  7. Pedantic reply on Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Episode title: "In the Pale Moonlight".

    That was a great episode, but what really makes it great is that when Sisko and Bashir got caught in the Bell riots, Bashir asks if humanity has really progressed since 2027, and what would they do if the survival of the Federation was at stake, and Sisko answers with some platitudes.

    Now here it is, 3 years later, and we have Sisko ordering murders, cover ups, etc... all in the name of saving the Federation.

    The juxtaposition of these two episodes is the some of the best TV I've ever seen.

  8. Re:But what about the Horizon problem? on Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed · · Score: 1

    I always thought that the "Ultimate 'free lunch'" comments had to do with the fact that the universe might be a zero-point fluctuation that got waaaaay out of hand.

  9. Re:Speaking of obfuscated code... on 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Opens · · Score: 1

    Thanks for modding me up, guys, but the correct mod is "+1 Sad-but-true".

  10. Re:That is a kind of malware on Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware? · · Score: 1

    So Adobe PDF has six fingers on its right hand?

  11. Re:Speaking of obfuscated code... on 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Opens · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reminds me of some code... it was in a military system...


    while (strncmp(p," ", 1) == 0)
    ++p;


    To find the first non-space character in a string.

  12. Re:Mandrake is a bit odd anyways on Mandrake 2006 Will Integrate Conectiva Components · · Score: 2

    I, on the other hand, never got 10.1 to work. Kept hanging up in the installer. It was the infamous VIA USB bugs...

  13. Re:DNA instead of passwords. on What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What about the guy from the blood bank, who needs money? He just took my blood, but steals the pack instead of putting with everyone else's. Now he can withdraw from my account, because after all, it's *my* blood, and only I would be using it to withdraw cash!

  14. Re:Almost useless on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    And if you watched the "Superheroes" commercial during the superbowl (and after... it's still being used), you'd know that *any* VISA check card can be killed the same way.

  15. Re:Almost useless on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    It's by John Kenneth Galbraith. See my post a few up in this thread.

  16. Re:Almost useless on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

  17. Re:it's sad on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1

    Please document your 120K claim (and no, bodycount.org doesn't count).

    You know, if this whole thing was about oil, it would have been a hell of a lot easier and cheaper for Bush to agree to end the sanctions on Hussein's Iraq.

  18. Re:Trusted Computing: Both good and bad on BBC on DRM and Trusted Computing · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised you were allowed back in to the COMSEC room. In the past I was on a project that required a secret clearance with a COMSEC rider, and we were all freakin' paranoid about any data being left out.

    I'm glad you found the document, and didn't have to have an all-expenses-paid vacation at Ft. Leavenworth!

  19. Re:More uphill than FireFox vs. IE on OpenOffice.org Team on OO.org (and Upcoming v2.0) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure who, in US, distributes trial version of MS Office

    Toshiba.

  20. Re:I used NT 4.0 for a long time because on Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations · · Score: 1

    NT4 could (in theory) run on a 33MHz machine with 16MB RAM. At least that's what the box said. I'd never try that.

    However, 2K has most of the goodness of NT4 with the addition of USB and Plug'n'Pray.

  21. OT: Your Sig on Joss Whedon to Write/Direct Wonder Woman · · Score: 1

    That's scary! I had the same message in my Cheerios this morning!

  22. Re:Gentlemen, on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nah, we just need a (+1 Clueless Moderator) for when they think a joke is a troll

  23. Re:GUI on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    Damn!

    That's: g++ -o myapp file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp

  24. Re:GUI on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp

  25. Re:Compiler on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    No. Early C++ compilers translated C++ into C.
    MATLAB has a compiler that turns MATLAB into either C++ or C.