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  1. Re:Meh on SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives · · Score: 0

    First Post is only valuable if it has something useful to say related to the original article and you aren't posting as an AC.

  2. Re:Meh on SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives · · Score: 0

    As do the concept of Certificate Authority.

    The CA means that you need three parties involved to set up an encrypted channel and lately it has been shown that the reputation of a CA can go down the drain faster than the flush of your #2 in an airplane toilet.

    Effectively this means that there's a need for a new way of working when it comes to secure communication.

    As I see it - the security risk increases exponentially with the number of parties involved in a secure communication. So it's a case of the old saying "Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

  3. Re:Child? on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    It all depends on where you live. Here in Sweden you can't be charged with a crime unless you are 15 or older, so if you train a 10 year old to kill and have him/her kill someone then that kid will be taken care of by the social support agency for a while but they can't do shit in terms of punishment, just evaluation and nothing ends up in the crime records. You on the other hand may be charged with a crime - if you can get connected to that kid.

    And in Yemen it's OK to screw 9 year olds - if you are married to them, and it's legal to marry a 9 year old there.

  4. Re:Child? on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yet another target for "Anonymous" to go at - and he isn't declared innocent either if he isn't charged. You need to bring him to court to determine guilty or not.

    I think that by avoiding to charge him they try to avoid having to re-take a lot of cases that he has been involved in.

    But the video is good enough to get him convicted by almost any jury unless they are specially picked from extreme Amish or similar societies where they don't use computers or TV.

  5. Re:SCO = Herpes on SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again · · Score: 1

    Just wait until Walmart realizes that they can get the customers to do the shopping cart work too - like we have here. Deposit coin, get cart, return cart get coin back.

    But maybe that won't happen until there's a $1 coin.

  6. Re:SCO = Herpes on SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't what happening in the US right now similar to situations where some animals kills their own offspring in order to survive themselves?

    But when that happens it can also be damaging to the future survival since what's culled may actually have a better opportunity and be better adapted to survival in the long run.

    Being a patent troll is not that different from being a cannibal.

  7. Re:Who Cares on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    In addition to that - there would have been another browser alternative popping up.

  8. Re:Interoperability on Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering · · Score: 1

    While others has benefited from your software and the genie is out of the box.

    Just spread the knowledge and how-to into several different countries and the job to put the genie back is ending up being futile.

  9. Re:Economists want nice looking models on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    And when there's a model in place the politicians and banks acts from that model, but then there are players that sees the model and starts to act to have the model to work in ways that will benefit them, and they usually succeeds while everyone else is baffled by the fact that the latest and greatest model suddenly failed.

    All while the people working the model for their own benefits fills their pockets and silently gets away with it.

  10. Re:Here's why it'll never, ever, happen on Google Releases Geothermal Potential Map of the US · · Score: 1

    And all the time you burn oil and mine uranium to get energy.

  11. Re:Yellowstone on Google Releases Geothermal Potential Map of the US · · Score: 1

    So then - cool it down by drawing out the geothermal energy from that spot and get electrical energy from it as a side-effect.

    You need to pipe a lot of water to that spot, but you can get a huge amount of steam from it.

    OK, partly a joke, you can't cool it down enough to have a considerable effect on the development of a volcano, but there's a lot of energy to get there.

  12. Re:And who's gonna pay for that? on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 2

    Yes - you will, and Big Brother will be watching you.

    Don't forget that this can easily be changed to also take care of political opinions and just about everything.

    All while the criminals will find out that you can circumvent the filters one way or another.

  13. Re:He does have some good points on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    But one thing you have forgotten is that Windows Mobile (or whatever it happens to be named this week) is in some cases "undercomplicated" - or rather lacks features that would have allowed for even more advanced features and implementations than is available today.

    At least earlier versions (before version 7) didn't have a fully implemented Bluetooth stack which forced development of specialized hacks to circumvent limitations in the OS.

  14. Re:So? on Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    From what I understand it was a copyright violation where the "offender" had taken the timezone facts from a calendar made by the "offended" party.

    But facts are facts and where you get them from would just be another question.

  15. Re:Activation server? on 100,000 iPhones Overwhelm Activation Server · · Score: 1

    Which still is stupid if you have a SIM card that connects to the subscription.

  16. Seriously... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of other fun things you can do - like recording a sports game from "all possible" angles and then use the videos as a raw data for a film with the best moments.

    Record the game, then let a few groups of students come up with one video each of five minutes each from what they think was the best video moments and then see how different the videos are.

    You are of course not limited to sports events, you can actually use other kinds of events too.

    And making a stereoscopic video (3D-video) would also prove interesting.

    Mounting a camera on a remote controlled vehicle and drive that into hard to reach places to let the students get a view of how it looks under a building would be nice too.

    And this article is also providing camera ideas.

  17. Re:Koreans copying things!? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    And also consider - how many ways can you make a tablet computer? There's a limit to design look when you go for the minimalist look that both have.

    Of course Samsung could have elected to use two buttons instead of one or something. Or a golden embossed border on their device.

    However - how can anyone expect a lawyer to have any kind of technical expertise or attention to physical detail? They are probably using all their time to come up with new legal twists and figure out how to run up the bills the best way.

  18. Re:Lesson learned on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 2

    Or publish it on 4chan or as an AC on Slashdot.

    Then you will find enough hackers to really get an interesting result.

  19. Re:Thanks, I needed that laugh on NASA CTO Says Help Desks May Disappear · · Score: 1

    And often when people need help with their devices they can't configure it and call with it at the same time so they need a physical visit to the help desk.

  20. Activation server? on 100,000 iPhones Overwhelm Activation Server · · Score: 1

    Why do you need an activation server at all for???

    If done right the subscription you have shall already be activated, or activated when you purchase it.

  21. Re:Patenting the web you say? on UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed · · Score: 1

    And if it had been patented then someone else would have done something completely different and that would have taken off instead leaving HTTP/HTML in the dark.

  22. Re:Why replace? on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    To me it's more likely that they have some kind of electrical fault in their house - like a missing ground connection to the power grid that randomly cooks items due to overvoltage.

  23. Re:I called it on Can Relativity Explain Faster Than Light Particles? · · Score: 1

    But if a particle lacks mass - is it still limited by the speed of light?

  24. Re:Politics on Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation · · Score: 1

    New?

    Count the number of Italian governments since '45. It's the most common national sport in Italy to have a chaotic political situation.

  25. Re:Berlusconi's a c**t... on Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation · · Score: 2

    Replace "In Soviet Russia..." with "In Italy..."

    But it would be suitable to shut down the Italian Wikipedia - at least for a while - to specify that there is a problem. The big problem is "without any comment", not the change - since Wikipedia has a history with the old pages accessible for those that want to have the uncensored version.

    As for Wikipedia, it also depends on where the servers are located.

    From a political point of view this seems to be primarily aimed at protecting high-ranking politicians from criticism.