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  1. Re:Security? on Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors · · Score: 1

    It's worth remembering that most consumer grade locks can be opened by a moderately skilled locksmith in seconds while leaving no trace

    Skilled locksmiths are very carefull to keep that fact as secret as possible. How else could they charge you for a) opening your lock (in case you locked yourself out) AND IN ADDITION for b) an new lock cause your old one suffered some 'damage' in the course of a).

  2. Re:LOL on Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    According to my ISP's TOS i shouldn't expect any better than 98%. Any better is a bonus.

    But thats's still not the problem. It's afriggin single-player-game. Those are on my shelf just in case the net goes down and $MMORPG_DUJOUR isn't feasible.

  3. Re: Offshore sites WILL be immune on Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way · · Score: 1

    No. Just the part of the world that's intrested in doing any buissness with any other part of the world.

    Yes, It may not be North Korea.

  4. Re:I knew that and is MAIN reason I bought Toyota on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 2, Funny

    By now you should know how this routine usually goes.

    No, there aren't any websites like this. All Sites that had lists and pictures of disected dashboards that showed those chips have been pulled off the net. That alone should be proof that those rumours are true, for what other reasons would someone be intrested in covering it.

  5. Re:The speed of light is a bit of a problem on Project M Could Send Every Scientist To the Moon, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    feeling drunk??

  6. Extra Terrestrial Ethics? on Space Exploration Needs Extraterrestrial Ethics · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is that about the lost Star TRek episode where Kirk dumps that green skinned chick after knocking her up? (And the blue chick. and the purple one. and don't forget that mauve honey...)

  7. Re:Those who control... on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry Mr. Coward, but you clearly lack the power to control that famous quote.

  8. Re:why? on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just found out about MySpace?

  9. Did anyone notice.... on Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    some of these screenshotes were made while beeing connected to the not open "passive-agressive" networks...

  10. Re:Don't look at google on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you sure Italy has case law?

  11. Re:American values in conflict here on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Defintion of "real free speech" please...

    But sometimes over here it's hard to understand that notion of absolute free speech they have over there. And most people here think that "free speech" that covers 'white supremacy'-stuff, isn't exactly something you want to catch up to.

  12. Re:Bread and circuses on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 1

    This was about youtube, not Berlusconis TV stations.

  13. Re:Great big targets on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 2, Informative

    Small correction:

    He doesn't like ANYONE publishing ANY KIND of video. TV station owner, competition, wink wink nudge nudge

  14. Re:Not Censorship on Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1

    In my last company, our chinese sales guy had definitly more blocked documents when he logged in.

    Perhaps it becomes censorship when published works are affected?

  15. Re:Electric devices are still powered by fossil fu on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    Green? *chuckle* They're still fossil fuel powered. The grid is not magic.

    Maybe not magic,

    But according to several posters, Canadas grid is hydroelectric (somewhere between 60%-98%)

    So only half of your statements aren't true :-)

  16. Re:Green ? on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    Well yes, but if tomorrow the fume&waste&cost-free powerplant would be invented, you'd still have the exhausts of conventional cars.

    And well yes, the other way round too.

  17. Re:How long is your run on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...or install a small diesel generator....

  18. Re:Green ? on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    NET?

    It's just bringing back the CO2 that was bound in biomass (and finally coal) in prehistoric ages?

  19. Re:Green... EPIC FAILURE on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, starts like a good analogy.

    But to be more accurate, you'd need to have that water comming in anything from doplets to gushes, into a funnel thats unpredictably changing it's diameter, periodically clogging up by freezing (at the exit) while some of the water may evaporate because it's boiling. While walking on a tightrope.

    And you know that either spilling or letting the funnel run dry is going to kill you.

    And so far, it's only the analogy for the natural CO2.

    Now you have to take a lieak and the only possibility for that is said funnel. Blindfolded.

    I guess thats closer to the actual state of climate research.

  20. Re:Green ? on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes. OTOH, a lot of power is lost during transport from the central plant to the consuming device.

    Basicly we have three fields here:

    1) "Greener" energy usage (no local fumes)
    2) "Greener" energy production (Windmills vs. whatever)
    3) "Greener" energy transport and storage

    It's the weakest link that defines overall "greenlieness" amongst these three. (anything else is just shifting from local pollution to remote pollution)

    And in addition to these three we have efficiency. Any gain in that directly goes to the total "Green"-Result.

  21. Re:How long is your run on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am still trying to determine the justification other than in FGU, Feel Good Units

    Why?

    I don't need any other justification for drinking coffee instead of brown muddy water, besides that it tastes better!

  22. Re:Not Censorship on Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    technical maybe. But meaningless? I don't think so.

    I don't think you could call it censorship if e.g. your company denies the janitors access to payroll documents.

  23. Re:simple reason. on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 1

    along the same line of thinking, but even simpler:

    4) They rely on the Fax-ID Line with timestamp and senders Fax number to be at the top of the page.

  24. Re:Really? on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    Also, I doubt these scans have any erotic effect on even the most desperate pedophile except for those with some freaky scanner fetish.

    Oh I'm sure the internet will help you to dig up some of them. (worked with every other absurd fetish already)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

  25. Re:Escapism on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    Mainstream-mainstream! Not Slashdot-Mainstream for heavens sake!!