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  1. Maybe it's in a different font on The L0tR Motion Picture Trilogy Exhibition · · Score: 1

    n/t

  2. Seems like a semantics game on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 1

    Maybe NAT isn't the best means of securing a network but if it stops one person from getting in then it is providing security. NAT by itslef does not reduce exposure. The best example of this would be those who configure nat in a hurry on linux 2.4 systems. No, that sounds like the worst example. Faulting the whole of NAT for its weakest implementation seems like a straw man fallacy. A weak door is still a security measure. Not as secure as a stronger door by definition. But it does keep out the passing strangers who might be tempted to enter if I left it open.

  3. Criminality on P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular Despite RIAA · · Score: 3, Insightful
    And dont sound so unforgiving, I doubt you follow all the laws.

    I'm willing to bet that he'd say that you are free to break laws as long as you are also willing to accept the risk of getting caught and being punished.

    There are laws on all kinds of things that there shouldnt be. Me I follow morals before i follow laws. You democratic republic escuse is bull.

    Actually your comments would suggest that you follow the lame platitudes espoused by your peers.

    So you say most people use aol so all of us should. Great way to look at things

    Actually your choice of ISP isn't a matter of law. So no, I don't think DesScorp would say that.

    Also I think as much harm that has come from religion, thats where civilization came from not laws.

    Ever hear of religious law? Oh right, they don't cover that in theosophy for asshats. Sorry.

  4. Re:Computer for the poor? on State Of The Simputer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can actually post it to every article and slashdot and be on topic. Why buy a new iBook when we could stop world hunger? Why upgrade your kernel when you could be in Africa building houses? There is always something better than we can be doing with our time. And sadly its the same argument that seems to get so much weight with those who think manned space exploration is a waste. Funny how the beneficiaries of humankind's temerity think so little of it.

  5. Re:So what power does this leave the FCC with? on Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules · · Score: 1
    I'm still far from convinced that the American system is "better" in anyway

    I wish those explanations hadn't come with built in aggrandizement. The system can stand on its own relative merits doesn't need advocates. The rest of the world thinks we Americans proselytize too much as it is.

  6. Re:The fault in our economic system on CIO Magazine On Offshore IT · · Score: 2, Funny
    When robots become common, corporation should not be allowed to own them to do work, and each person should be allowed 1

    Well you better hand over all those Lego Mindstorm kits.

  7. I'm a little weak on physics but... on Space Elevator Going Up · · Score: 1

    isn't rate of descent dependant upon density and wind resistance and not weight? Thousands of nanotubes wouldn't be any denser than a single tube. I would think that the basic structure, being an elongated plane would catch a lot of resistance.

  8. Well actually yes on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    My god, what has this world come to. Now a Honda Civic is a normal sided car?

    Yes it has four sides, a top and a bottom. There are various small planes about the hood and windshield, but they're rather standard too.

  9. Re:Actual timeline on US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline · · Score: 1

    PROFIT???

  10. Re:Article is spot on. Happened to me.. on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    There's that problem of "leaky" abstraction layers again. They can make the medium itself as strong as adamantite, but if the data submitted is bogus then their "unfalsifiable" IDs are just so much plastic.

  11. This just in... on Phone Plus Sensory Deprivation Equals... · · Score: 1

    mobile phone conversant drivers have new bouts of accidents while trying sensory deprivation in the aforementioned circumstances

  12. You forgot E on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 1

    Wait for India and Pakistan to let the nukes fly.

  13. Re:R-A-I-D?!?! on Anniversary of the First Computer Bug · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Corporal James Smith, Third Mounted Infantry, World War One." You'd know that even if the sword was real, the inscription was years after WWII, making it less valuable, and lessening it's voracity

    It hungered for recognition no less.

  14. Re:2025, here comes the Butlerian Jihad on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1

    Really now, give me some credit. If I didn't prefer it, I wouldn't have used it.

  15. Re:Thanks for bringing up SCO on Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking I'm going load up a bunch of public domain crap and change the file names to Britney Spears songs. Kill two birds with one stone. Piss off The RIAA and contribute my small part to the end of the proliferation of crap.

  16. 2025, here comes the Butlerian Jihad on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1

    anyone want to guess what's going to happen to a billion unemployed Chinamen? It might lead to class warfare in the US, but it will be apocalyptic in the manufacturing sector.

  17. Oh, come on on U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians · · Score: 1

    Texas is large but it isn't a nation.

  18. Dear God man! on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 1

    You can't just leave us hanging!

  19. Yeah but ... on Cognitive Machines Help Decision-Making · · Score: 1

    "a heuristic tool that learns the behavioral patterns of a human and alerts the human when something deviates from the norm" makes a really cummy acronym

  20. Maybe the game can't be won with pr0n and spam on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    But it sure can be fought with it. Face it, there's no logical argument asides from the judicial hammer that is going to get SCO to stop yanking everyone's chain, but it doesn't mean that the public can't cause them some mischief and mayhem in the meantime. Most /.ers aren't going to have anything to do with the final fallout of the ruling, but they can each contribute in their own juvenile, petty and thoroughly satisfying way.

  21. My question is on Grid Computing Coming Of Age · · Score: 1

    when is bandwidth going to be so available/cheap that this is going to matter?

  22. Funny thing is... on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 1

    I remember a couple of weeks ago in an article on wifi for Africa, someone was lamenting the decrepit 128 kbps isdn backbone in Japan, or somesuch.

  23. This just in on Digital Domesday Defies Doom · · Score: 1

    The first continuous signal from outside our Solar system is just about decoded. Here is it....What's this? It's written in an obsolete proprietary Microsoft file format! Someone owes some licensing fees.

  24. Re:How? on Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users · · Score: 1

    Would using an anonymizing proxy server protect a downloader? Would the RIAA just go after whoever is supporting the proxies?

  25. And yet for all of that on UN Recommends WiFi for Poor Countries · · Score: 1

    We have the luxury of as another poster put it "dipping the chicken nugget in barbeque sauce" while they starve. Maybe we should be pitying Americans.