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  1. If there is no evolution you can marry your sister on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think I got it. The powerful desire for creationists. If evolution does not exist there is no reason you can't marry your sister, or first cousin, etc...

  2. Re:Evolution is a theory too on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think I got it. The powerful desire for creationists. If evolution does not exist there is no reason you can't marry your sister, first cousin.

  3. Re:Fire the safety department on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 1

    Not really. I was in charge of designing and deploying SCADA system's in several chemical plants. I never considered having remote access into it from outside the plant via internet or modem. That was 1994. I go back to a plant a few years later. My replacement gives me a tour of upgrades and guess what he stuck in? A modem.

  4. Fire the safety department on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The whole safety department of that tram line should be fired. A system hackable via a TV remote and unencyrpted signals subject to relay attacks should not be deployed ever. They should be sacked for having allowed it. Same goes for the "traffic light" systems here in the US with the same flaws. Course I didn't RTFA so maybe he even cracked the encryption. In which case only sack the designer of the encryption.

  5. I thought they wiretapped out of patriotism on FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it really was patriotism that motivated they would let billing issues slide. So I guess this proves we should not give them a pass on the illegal ones since they will stop tapping for money, but not for laws which is the ultimate in contempt for law.

  6. DRM for networks on ISPs To Filter Traffic For Copyright Holders? · · Score: 1

    They should be smarter then this. DRM for media has not worked, so why would they think DRM for network traffic would work any better?

  7. SPAM on the rise on Comcast Promising Ultra-Fast Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, SPAM reaches unprecedentedly high volumes.

  8. What government would do if they could on US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a perfect example of the government tipping their hand. Every time they say, trust us with your privacy, think back to what they do when they have no constrains.

  9. I thought flash went bad over time on BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought flash died after a limited number of state changes. Has this been solved while I slept or should we be expecting 2009 to be the year of data loss?

  10. Just a Big Duck on Anatomically Strange Dinosaur Vacuumed Up Food · · Score: 1

    This must be obvious. This an aquatic animal that was a filter feeder. Kinda like ducks and swans now filter feed. If you float you don't need super strong bones.

  11. Newton! on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Long live the king. The new Newton rises.

  12. Re:I, for one, am for choice on What Happens Next on the US Vote on OOXML · · Score: 1

    A proper standard nobody would have a problem with. This with it's patent problems, undocumented parts that need to be reverse engineered and binary blobs, it's just not a standard.

  13. Re:Get laws outlawing that use on Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    So start there. Any identification is illegal at a protest. Picture, RFID, Iris Scan, whatever. We should have put the law in when cameras came into popularity, but let's get it now. See your premise is three fold: 1) It technologically can't happen. Well tech improvments allways trump such arguements. Read 1984 if you don't believe it. All of that is here now, off the shelf. 2) You have no to right to privacy in protest. I'm not concerned about privacy, but the First Amendment(full text below) "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble" Sprinkle some people, track them and their cats whatever, haress later. And dude the "falls off" issue will be solved by glue if need be. Full Text: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 3) No government will do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man "There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn -- former deputy special assistant to President of the United States Richard Nixon -- reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was killed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests. ..., cameras, how retro of them.

  14. Get laws outlawing that use on Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    Hey how about this. Everytime we see a new technology, cause we are looking at this on the bleeding edge not like law makers, propose legislation outlawing those "bad"/Orwellian uses. So in this case, cool new chip, oops can be used to crowd dust, propose law making it illegal in the US for Gov/Private companies to use it like that and for kicks to sell to any other country for that purpose or if used for that purpose.

  15. WTF on Microsoft Releases Patent on SenderID · · Score: 1

    I use -all and I stuck it in there on purpose. SPF's page says: -all No other servers are allowed to send mail from xxxxxx.com. This is a good default for sites particularly concerned about forgery.

    What in your opinion is wrong with using -all? Is see a bunch of domains using ~all which I view as fudging on their part.

  16. Somebody Moved their Cheese on ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled · · Score: 1

    ABC, just deal with it. Somebody moved your cheese. If ABC somehow does get a magic demarcation of the "ad content" on the airwaves then they have just made the perfect signal to delete that content. And I will be dammed before I pay my good money for a DVR/VCR that supports ABC's business model.

    Now more interesting for ABC is: Where is your cheese now? Product placement is at least one place it has moved to. Another, bordered IPOD video downloads for free.

  17. Battlestar Galactica on UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1

    Has somebody in the UK just downloaded Battlestar Galactica from Itunes?

  18. Biggest time saver: System Images on Software for a One-Man IT Department? · · Score: 1

    System Images. I don't troubleshoot software issues with desktop/laptops. If the amount of time to fix an issue looks like it's going to be > a re-image and moving a person's data back to the new system, then the system get's re-imaged clean and data restored. May seem wasteful, but it's a fixed amount of time as opposed to an open ended "troubleshooting" session. Also keeps the time per problem consistent amount the lower skill set admins.

  19. Re:This is not as good on Microsoft to Replace Blackberry? · · Score: 1

    That workaround actually is necessary because even when "ssl" is enabled on the client it first must use a http initial session, NOTE a non-ssl session. And I quote: "The Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync and Outlook Mobile Access virtual directories cannot access the contents of the user's mailbox if the Exchange virtual directory is configured to require SSL." from : http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=817 379#XSLTH3121121124120121120120 What a joke. Maybe two versions from now they will get it close to where RIM is, which by the way has a device firewall on each RIM on by default.

  20. This is not as good on Microsoft to Replace Blackberry? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hooked up a few of these. This is definitely a Ver 1.0 or Ver 2.0 Microsoft effort. After hooking it up I tried to sync my 1000+ contacts, and it gave up the ghost at ~100, with no errors mind you. Also "push" is not seamless like a RIM, it goes out via the carrier's SMTP to SMS gateway so in some cases it gets crushed in carrier's SPAM filters. Never mind that a very common setup of no front-end OWA server is not supported out of the box, but via "knowledge base" article.

    This is not ready for prime time.

  21. Put on your thinking caps! on 'True' Video iPod Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cause this is the proper place for a Newton or Newton emulator to live!

  22. Re:Science subject on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He should allow the research, but ensure in the contract, checked by a very very good lawyer, that all patent rights(IP?) be donated into the public domain, forever with a poison pill clause for any company that attempts to co-opt those patent rights by derivative patents. That is a fair way to be truly altruistic.

  23. Planetary civilization commits senseless suicide. on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    I would rather have nuclear power plants running windows. Less deaths.

  24. Turn about is fair play on Chicago To Consider City-Wide Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    If some of these anti-muni wifi laws get put into place let's adopt the ways of our enemy. Let's whittle these laws down to size by pushing our congress men/women to make loopholes you can drive a truck through. After enough loophole laws, these anti-muni wifi laws will look like swiss cheese.

  25. .bank TLD possible solution to phishing on Phishers Build Deceptive Links with DNS Wildcards · · Score: 1

    With Phishing so much in the news http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/05/00 42226&tid=158&tid=218, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/005223 5&tid=95, and the difficulty that most users have in detected a phishing url without tools like http://toolbar.netcraft.com/, http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/ it occurred to me that maybe a solution lies in creating a exclusive Top Level Domain(TLD) for banking. Many of the current problems reside in the free-for-all nature of registering a .com domain name which allows anyone with a credit card, forged or real, to create a domain name convincing enough to phish people. For example my email from Saturday contained an email with these two links purporting to be from Washington Mutal, https://login.personal.wamu.com/logon/logon.asp?dd =1> and http://login.personal.wamuecare.com/%20/logon/logo n.asp/dd=1/login.php in it. One is Washington Mutual's one is a phish.

    I propose setting up a new .bank TLD, but making it exclusive to banking and financial isituditons with heavy checking of the business records of the applicatnt and even requiring a bond be posted in the range of $100,000 to $1,000,000. This high a level of entry to registering a domain in .bank would prevent all but the most dedicated phishers from registering say, wamuecare.bank since they would lose their bond if any fraud was found. While your typical user would have no trouble with seeing the .bank at the end of the domain name, and would have confidence in the web site he/she was visting. The cavaet being that the current round of url line spoofing attacks need to be solved, as Opera has http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/25/155 3236&tid=172&tid=218 . Of course International Domain Name (IDN) characters would have to be disallowed in .bank as well.

    In my mind any organization that has real or "credit" monies that is keeps for it's customers, PayPal comes to mind, could apply for .bank domains but no one else. Lastly perhaps our govenments can mandate the use of this .bank TLD as a consumer protection keeping banks from trying to be cheap and stick with the .com domains they currently have.

    I'm interested in what the ./ community thinks of this as well as what we think the defintion of a "bank" would have to be for this to work.