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  1. Re:Oh terrorists... on India Wants To Monitor Twitter, Facebook · · Score: 1

    And you forgot a programme where you get yourself castrated and get paid in 42 goats.

    Terrorists will always find new paths for their information.

  2. Re:Depends on how much risk you want to take on Ask Slashdot: How To Combat IP-Based Censorship? · · Score: 0

    If it's illegal in a country like Turkey you can always get around it using a sufficient amount of bribes.

  3. Re:islamists on Ask Slashdot: How To Combat IP-Based Censorship? · · Score: 1

    As long as Turkey isn't acknowledging the Armenian genocide they should be kept on ice.

    But the whole region there seems to be poisoned politically. Including Israel.

  4. Re:tmobile on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    To me it looks like there are too little competition on the mobile market in the US.

  5. Re:Software Patents... on What If Android Lost the Patent War? · · Score: 1

    They would hardly collapse through that - the patent suits are there just to discredit and mess up things.

    What would happen is that the other companies would try to find other ways to be competitive - and maybe force them to really think about quality rather than litigation to stay on the edge.

  6. Re:Best idea on 8 Ways To Circumvent the PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    Set up your own DNS server and let it talk to the root servers directly. It's no big deal to do.

    Unfortunately - the ISP:s will probably soon start to filter the DNS requests too in the same way as they have done with SMTP.

  7. Re:My Sympathies on Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds · · Score: 1

    And those 50 ohms aren't resistive ohms either, so the lightning just ignores them.

    A lightning can be very powerful - a 2" steel tube can get disintegrated completely by it.

  8. Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... on Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds · · Score: 2

    And with all eggs in one basket you can be sure to crack them all in one punch.

  9. Re:Why give it the time? on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 2

    I did notice that at many of the locations there have been a gym not far from the location.

    And he has been exercising heavily in prison, so maybe those are locations of preferred gyms.

  10. Re:HTTP added by wordprocessor on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    And another factor is that the geographic locations listed in the manifesto may just be approximate, or just pointing to a keyword that points to the real target or information source.

    But it's interesting that the position in Gothenburg, Sweden points to a block containing a movie theater and the location in Vienna isn't far from the Scientologists there.

    And it can also be meeting locations agreed upon for different potential contacts or mailbox drops.

    Or it's just a few random locations to threw the investigation off track.

  11. Re:SSL decisions in secret? on Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter? · · Score: 1

    I agree - it's probably more secure than the CA assigned certificates since there is no third party to worry about.

    And if an ISP is a CA at the same time I wouldn't trust that setup for any important communication at all.

  12. Re:WTF that wasn't supposed to happen!? on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 1

    Rather since Carter. If you look at economic figures and was there during that time you realize that Carter don't deserve that much bashing, and a lot of the troubles during his time at the office was caused by external factors triggering an oil price spike. Blame the right circumstances.
    Also see this graph.

    Nixon was a fool to try to keep his position through illegal means. Carter was politically naive and tried to change the system and thereby trampled just about every political toe that was around Washington at the time even though he had good intentions.

    Many says that Carter was a bad president, but the reality is that he just had bad luck. And the US and the rest of the world didn't learn anything from the oil crisis during the 70's. The medicine was just too bitter.

    Reagan did a lot of populist stuff and shocked the shit out of the Soviet Union which put an end to the Cold War. But at the cost of initiating the movement of national debt out of control. He never had to worry about clearing that up himself.

    Clinton did allow for the home loans to get wild. That could have been put in control during Bush, but he was busy with the effects of 9/11 and didn't want to alienate his voters with some "insignificant" action putting the loan landslide in control.

    Obama inherited an out of control landslide of the economy, and I'm surprised that we did see candidates for the post at the 2008 election.

  13. Re:If only Americans had heard of parks. on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    Plant trees on the 6 acres and you will have less lawn to worry about. And less visibility towards your neighbors.

    If you are worried about trespassers - make sure that you have holly and poison ivy growing. Anyone stupid enough to trespass will get punished in an appropriate way.

    If you just want something nice - plant some beech, oak, birch and pine. Mixed growth usually looks better, and it is great to dampen storm winds.

  14. Re:OK... on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    Only if they lack sufficient amount of food. Goats however are taking out the roots too. That's one of the differences between Sheep and Goats.

    You will have to move around the sheep to different areas to make sure that the load they place on the lawn isn't too high.

  15. Re:Be Afraid on FOX To Host New Cosmos · · Score: 1

    With TV channels like Fox... It's no wonder that the US has the Tea Party and all kinds of weird movements where religious beliefs are the normal standpoint and science seems like something abnormal. If nothing else the cry "think of the children" is used as a leverage.

    The US is slowly turning into something evil under the cover of trying to protect the democracy - which was thrown out the window right after 9/11 with the Patriot Act and DMCA.

    There is total panic as soon as some girl happens to flash a tit but at the same time it's completely acceptable to show violence on news and animated children shows. Bring up the children to be good soldiers for any future war.

  16. Re:Interesting applications for ethanol on New Chip Can Identify Liquids, Encode Messages · · Score: 1

    Even better - the car can itself sense it and adjust the engine management system depending on the quality of the fuel.

    Right now the engine management systems are reactive, which means that they tune down the system when knocks occurs and at a regular basis it tries to tune up the system. A system that can predict the settings depending on fuel quality will provide even cleaner engines and better fuel economy.

  17. Re:Man who knows what he is doing on New Federal CIO Is Former Microsoft, FCC Exec · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if parent is troll or ironic.

    But the donor part is interesting - did he buy his position? Politics looks more and more like the ancient feodal system where you could purchase yourself a title like Baron of someplace.

  18. Re:GNOME shell on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Maybe the perspective changes when a shell becomes so bloated that it is more an obstacle than a help.

    Compare Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 - the bloating increased every time and with that the confusion for the user. It really doesn't matter much for the surfer or office app user but for more advanced user there is a need for some sedative every time some important task has been performed to relieve the stress levels.

  19. Re:Huh? on Was .NET All a Mistake? · · Score: 2

    Microsoft has been trolling all the time since MS-Dos, so there is nothing new or surprising here.

    The only result we get is a bigger and bigger backpack hanging on programmers containing contradicting technologies from Microsoft.

  20. Re:dat net on Was .NET All a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    The whole thing is just going dot nut.

  21. Re:Thus spoke Ben on Facebook Exec: Online Anonymity Must Go Away · · Score: 2

    And revealing your own name can be disastrous for some people. Bully victims and people in need of protection from stalkers are a few.

    Of course there are trolls and other kinds of weird people on the net, but a law won't stop them - they will just steal someone's identity and continue. Use the ID of the local bum or grandmother and you can blow by all gates.

    The reality is that the net actually works relatively fine as it is. The subversive forces will always be there and find channels for their deeds. The Unabomber didn't use the net, he used libraries and the ordinary postal services.

    What you need is to teach people about how to behave safely.

  22. Re:Probably a good idea. on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    They probably need to go to LinkedIn instead to keep in touch.

  23. Re:220 Volt on How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port · · Score: 1

    When a good game was on a 80x24 screen and only the keyboard was needed. The challenge of finding the right command. And you were able to play over a 300bps modem.

  24. Re:220 Volt on How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree, I also did read the heading as "How To Ruin Your PC's Game Port".

  25. Re:Rewriting doesn't help on Ask Slashdot: Using Code With an Expired Patent? · · Score: 2

    A way around this is to provide the whole solution in a country where software patents aren't valid.

    It's up to whomever that's downloading the code to consider if there may be a patent that's applicable or not, but it's not your headache.