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  1. Re:Marketshare gains misleading... on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're logged in and have web history disabled, you should never see this sort of behavior.. drove me nuts until I figured that out. If you're logged out I'm not sure what the situation is, I'm always logged in for gmail.

  2. Re:Law enforcement thinks they're above the law. on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention I was looking for a solution that worked actually over the voice channel (not CSD over GSM), and so it should be carrier agnostic and work over CDMA. I'm sure that narrows the field a bit :) I did find this if anyone was interested and has CSD-GSM capabilities - http://www.securegsm.com/pages.php?pageid=73

  3. Re:Law enforcement thinks they're above the law. on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 1

    Well, there's this, which is probably the safest method for voice communication. There are software apps for Windows Mobile that encrypt voice connections.

    A couple years ago, I looked high and low for a functional Windows Mobile app to do this that is compatible with modern phones.. if you have any useful links I'd love if you could share them? Thanks in advance :)

  4. Re:How many pepsi points is this gonna cost me? on Own Your Own Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    I saw that commercial too... ...oh it's Russian?

    What's the Russian equivalent of Pepsi?

    vodka.

  5. Re:Seriously? on Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful.
    Nobody seems to make 3D goggles for people who already wear wear glasses. Or does anyone know a source for them?

    I just invented some, they're a bit smaller and more lightweight than regular eyeglasses. Since they are lenses that rest upon your eyes, I think I shall call them contact lenses.

  6. Re:Windows Mobile on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    I'm using a Touch Pro 2 on Sprint, 100% stock ROM etc.

  7. Re:No to nuts, but yes to pets? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    According to this pets are now allowed on Air Canada, although many people with allergies object and can no longer fly because of this. But nuts (which don't get carried in the air as much as pet dander) are not allowed?

    Am I the only one wondering WTF?

    That's simple - they charge you to bring pets, but there's no charge to bring peanuts (yet).

  8. Re:the new standard... on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    perhaps you should get over yourself and stop demanding that you be given the 'right' to eat non-essential (and nutritionaly damaging) snacks (which you'll only have because they're given to you by the airline) in a confined space with someone who has a non-negligible chance of dying if they come into contact with it, and consequently finds mearly smelling the damn things terrifying

    As soon as you tell me why someone has a right to force others to change their behavior to suit them (i.e. someone flying on a plane who can't handle the environment -- peanuts or otherwise).

  9. Re:I'm 6'5" on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Re:Oh noes! on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    They have to paint a single parking spot blue?

    -1, Ignorant.

    ADA ridiculousness has gone so far as to force places like rock climbing gyms to make their locker rooms and ramps to the wall wheelchair accessible.

  11. Re:Baby Free Zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Baby Free Zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    That's what babies do. Put some headphones on and deal with it.

    and keep feeding them peanuts until they stop crying|breathing!

  13. Re:Shrimp free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, aircraft generally carry hydrocortisone, chlorpheniramine, and epinephrine for just such emergencies, and probably even a scalpel for an emergency in-flight tracheostomy if necessary. You're probably a heck of a lot safer on an airplane than you are on a bus in that regard.

    There are scalpels on planes and I can't bring a nail file?

  14. Windows Mobile on Y2.01K · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10425455-56.html

    this is affecting me and the other 3 guys on the planet with a Windows Mobile phone, too. :(

  15. Re:"Shouldn't be spying on sea lions" on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    What, so now freaking sea lions have more privacy rights than we do?

    CIA is not allowed to operate their imaging stuff over the US.

    Of course if the NSA already is sniffing your traffic, that probably isn't relevant. :)

  16. Re:I don't know, sea lions can be trouble on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    I sincerely doubt the CIA is going to put terrorism intelligence-gathering on the back burner in order to free up resources for this initiative.).

    Since the 'spy' satellites are of course not in a geosynchronous orbit, they are often left unused for huge portions of their orbits as they move across uninteresting* parts of the surface.

    *to the intelligence community

  17. Re:Thousands? Far from accurate... on EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) · · Score: 1

    You do know that an isk is not worth a dollar right?

    Consider either the cost to buy 60B isk from currency sellers, or take the total man-hours needed to make a Titan and multiply by minimum wage, and then you'll have a much more useful figure representing how my *real* value was invested in those ships.

    If you google 'buy ISK', there are a ton of ads from places selling - if you buy 60B, even with the bulk discount, it will cost about $2200 at the places I checked..

  18. Re:well god dammit on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Well, as one of millions of athiests out there, I am grossly offended by religious pronunciations in public, and consider the same to be blasphemy to reason. There, fixed that.

    I don't think anyone has the right to "not be offended," fortunately. God-given, creator-endowed, intrinsic (or however atheists would like it worded, not trying to flamebait) - or in any once-sensible country (US).

  19. Re:"Whoops, sorry" - this is AFTER.. on TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "We didn't realize our dick move would receive so much public attention."

    This is AFTER they took the guy's laptop, imaged it and returned it to him with a corrupted disk, reportedly.. of course they don't need the subpoenas anymore.

  20. Re:Command & Control on Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds · · Score: 1

    It is, from what I read it seams that the botnet generates a random domain every hour or day to fall back on, and all they did was knock out the existing C&C and register all the fall back domains for the next 2 weeks. Surely the botnet will have taken a hit, and the information gathered will possible help reduce the number of infections, but it wasn't shut down permanently.

    And in 2 weeks, they'll simply patch the algo so it checks an order of magnitude more domains, making pre-purchasing them uneconomical for these guys from the article.

  21. Re:21 cameras are not enough on Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam · · Score: 1

    Especially if any of the illegal immigrants have "invisibility cloaks", EMPs, or other technological sophistication involved in their efforts.

    lol.

    Those who can afford this sort of half-imaginary tech can quite easily immigrate legally.

  22. Re:A general area to search on Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't think between the area not being that wide and slight variations of terrain you are going to have much luck with that sun/shadow thing.

    Most of the cameras have some sky in the shot. Light curves are easy to take, which will give you a very good idea of camera longitude. Being on the US/Mexican border gives you the latitude.

    You might have to take data over a few days to narrow it down to a mile or so, but beyond that, who cares? Avoid those 21 miles of the border and you're good to go.

    These things are basically self-locating.

    Mexicans who can figure this out are more than welcome to join our society in my book..

  23. Re:Why guard the border at all? on Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the millions of illegal immigrants in this country don't give back by building our houses, cleaning our buildings, growing our food, or mowing our lawns for shit wages with no benefits. You know, all the jobs most Americans would never get off their fat asses to do, but nevertheless need to be done. They do more for America than most of the elected representatives in our own government...

    First, they're not doing those things out of the spirit of giving - we pay them. And yeah, no one built houses or cut grass before the flood of illegal immigrants.

    Lastly, now that we're hovering around 20% underemployment, I'm sure many legal citizens would happily build houses or mow lawns.

  24. Re:Should read on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    I also think all American's (from the US) should be strip searched and left to wander around the Scandinavian winter cold a few hours just to make sure they didn't bring any Big Macs with them.

    Fair is fair, no?

    As soon as American visitors start killing your innocents with hamburgers, yup.

  25. Re:This attack was perfectly succesful on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    Great point. I was over-focusing on the economic / hassle factor. You're correct that a potentially even greater impact is the fragmentation of our society based on profiles and stereotypes. I travel to Israel regularly where profiling (say - at a club or the airport) is a 100% accepted practice. Why - it works. The downside - a 2 tier society.

    We already have a 2-tier society.. so you're saying we can further reduce the risk of terrorism without any other downsides? :P