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  1. We are adults on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    For fucks sake, if it's not a safety issue that we don't need laws about it. We are adults and contend with this in tons of other planes in our lives and can self regulate in a airplane. There is nothing magical about being in an airplane that makes us better or worse then off an airplane.

  2. Re:Not sure what their priorities are. on Further Updates On Post-Tsumami Japan · · Score: 1

    Drop the hose from the helicopter. Weight the end with a ton of iron ahead of time.

  3. Why cool with a bucket instead of a firehose on Further Updates On Post-Tsumami Japan · · Score: 1

    Why are we hoisting in a bucket at a time by helicopter when we could use the same flight to lift in an drop a weighted firehose which would provide a stream of water? Would require less exposure to radiation by the flight crews. Also drop one on each of the reactors now while you still have access, don't wait till they blow.

  4. The end of India mobile developers on BlackBerry Battle In India Going Down To the Wire · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Here's a perspective that perhaps India is not considering. My company employs a fair number of mobile developers and QA staff in India. They work on BlackBerry mobile devices as well as others. If BlackBerry's are shutdown in India guess how long we will wait until we pull all that work back to the US and drop all our India employees. Hint: It starts with a D and ends in "ays".

  5. Smoking gun on Chinese Human Rights Orgs Hit By DDoS · · Score: 1

    As another person pointed out, if the DDOS is coming from China, but the sites are firewalled by the China government then the conclusion is only the China government could be doing it since end users are blocked. I think the term is hoisted on their own petard.

  6. Priceless typo "Green Card"="Greed Card" on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Priceless typo on their page "Employment Process Policy" http://www.bozeman.net/bozeman/humanResource/processPolicy.aspx, "Alien Registration Receipt Card (Greed Card)"

  7. Always state your assumptions on Cotton Swabs are the Prime Suspect In 8-Year Phantom Chase · · Score: 5, Funny

    First thing I was taught in my high school class on problem solving. Always state your assumptions, right underneath stating your explicit goal. We were also taught that if you start running into dead ends, circle back to your assumptions and review them critically to see that they are 1) all inclusive, and 2) actually true. Oh, and never use contaminated cotton swabs. I think that was day two.

  8. All this is our fault on Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking about this. It's our fault, the IT community's, that this sort of thing can go on. We once had the argument that strong crypto was outlawed from export. But once that limitation was removed from the US it really became our fault that all these sniffable protocols are still out there.

  9. List does not contain the names of the most wanted on People On No-Fly List Can Sue In District Court · · Score: 1

    According to the ACLU, "The Watch List does not contain the names of the most wanted terrorists as the TSA does not want to share that information with the airlines." https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=travelsecurity_quiz6 Makes my brain explode thinking about it. Can anyone parse that so it would make sense?

  10. Easy way out of contract :) on AT&T Could Cut Off P2P Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Super, this is an easy way out of any ATT contract. Fire up a P2P client and you are out of your contract with no termination fees. Cool.

  11. Man are they cheap on Telecom Immunity Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Money · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $8,359 to sell out this country. Didn't Spitzer spend more on some of his romps. Come on Senators, have some pride.

  12. Bald face liars. on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 5, Funny

    So who did it then, elves?

  13. HTTPS Everything. on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    So the end game is this. If I as a web site operator don't want anyone stealing my ad-revenue, or messing with my content all I do it add an SSL cert to my web page for $20-100 per year and a little more server meat and boom, $500K for that neat DPI box they just bought has an ROI of 0%. Let them try to decrypt 80GPS in realtime for $500K.

  14. Broadband subsidies already given to telco's on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I though here in the US that we already gave buckets of money to the telcos to build out this new broadband ready internet years ago.

  15. No fence, no visual barriers, unstandable mistake. on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 1

    No fence, no visual barriers, understandable mistake, and I think no trespass under law. Once he hit the garage though the driver should have had a way to clear out some of those photos, or mark them for review. In that Google is lacking.

  16. Lowering the Entry cost on Windows 7 Likely Going Modular, Subscription-based · · Score: 1

    Here is what I think they want to do. Bundle super cheap windows basic to combat the OEM's bundling Linux for free. But if you want to take full advantage of your hardware you have to immediately upgrade for $$$ unlike Linux.

  17. Re:Kunkel Reply on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1

    With all due respect. If the thing is capable of being wired up and sending data back to ComCast, there will, not might, arrive a court order opening that up for police. I thought they already did this when "magic lanterning" a PC. ComCast, and any other peripheral vendor would be well advised to ensure there is no way to enable remote access. Of course with software there really is no way to do that since anything in memory can be grabbed and uploaded to ComCast. So the second ComCast introduces this expect the tinfoil hats to rightly call them out and suddenly ComCast looses tons of R&D money as nobody buys it and get's labeled as snitch in the press. There will just be no way to trust this. Same goes for voice recognition or retnia.

  18. Keep manufacturing in the US on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe if these parts are so critical we should keep the manufacturing in the US?

  19. Re:Wait a year on Microsoft's New Leaf On Interoperability · · Score: 1

    I've heard that documentation is easier to maintain if you write it as you write the code. Perhaps that can be your model in the future. Document and publish as you write and not years later.

  20. Re:Never trust a Klingon. on Microsoft's New Leaf On Interoperability · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can't read their doc as it's not published in a format that's interoperable: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/interoperability/docs/MicrosoftInteroperabilityAnnouncement.docx

  21. Re:Interesting on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1

    It's not just your view, it's the view of the Supreme Court that the Constitution meant exactly what it says and that it specifically made a note of what things people have and what things citizens have. It's in Black and White on the page.

  22. Well I won't install that on Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss · · Score: 2

    I simply will not be installing that on my PC. Please feel free to not pocket my $$$ and to not sell me any of your product. Enjoy your unemployment Mr RIAA.

  23. Interesting on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1

    It says people, not citizens. So pretending you can do this willy nilly to people from others countries does not fly. They are saying this can be applied to any person by extension, citizen or non-citizen.

  24. Microsoft is to blame on Microsoft Believes IBM Masterminded Anti-OOXML Initiative · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is only one company to blame and it's Microsoft. If it had been a decent spec and unencumbered people would have respected it despite the author. This spec though did not deserve the light of day.

  25. Freedom is a good idea on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    There are currently millions of unregistered chemical sensors deployed in the city. All unlicensed and uncalibrated, yet the city sees enormous benefits from them. The human nose has been used for probably over a century to detect gas leaks successfully with some false positives. We just kinda handle the false positives and are thankful for such a widely deployed and economical network. The legislator needs to be voted out of office and police commissioner fired, both for being control freaks.