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  1. Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tokaji is mentioned in the Hungarian National Anthem, written in 1823. What are the Aussies doing with that name?

    It is Liqueur Tokay.

    Wine trees were imported to Australia. I am not wine expert, but if they use same sort of wines, mix of grapes used in Tokaji and wine fermentation process is not patented, patent is not expired and name is not trademarked, then Aussies are free to call their wine whatever they want. They do indicate that wine is made by Morris of Rutherglen.

    http://www.morriswines.com/tastingNotes/Morris%20Old%20Premium%20Liqueur%20Tokay.pdf

    This geolocation restriction only makes wine look like exquisite beverage and allows old wine producers to overcharge for their products without actually registering and protecting their trademark.

  2. Re:Yep. My practices are justified. on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 1

    Some kind of encryption as obfuscation... Encryption would defeat this attack.

    It does not defeat anything. Decryption password is stored in same location as encrypted data.

  3. Re:Yep. My practices are justified. on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 1

    Users of the stable version of Google's Webkit-based browser might be surprised to find out that, so far, passwords are stored on the hard disk as clear text.

    What's your point?
    If you ask browser to remember passwords, they will be stored somewhere in plain text or in some form that can be decrypted. Browser has no way to remember passwords without saving them somewhere. If passwords were stored on Google servers, then it would be an issue.

  4. Re:Cisco Planning to Squash Another Competitor on Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype · · Score: 1

    The only reason they kept the Linksys brand

    Not sure what they kept, but their marketing department definitely destroyed blue Linksys boxes and replaced them with something Cisco-branded. In next generation routers features were removed.

  5. Re:If you really want to go against it on Australian Crackdown On Console Modchips Likely To Continue · · Score: 1

    Political party Pirate Party Australia

    Except for the part where "pirate" word has negative associations/meanings and there is nothing wrong with modchips. People who want to exercise their rights might not want to be associated with piracy or copyright violations. Consider changing party name or keep your political agenda away from modchips.

  6. Re:It's free? on No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice · · Score: 1

    Isn't everything in linux?

    Some non-free commercial software runs on linux.

  7. Re:Quicktime Uninstalled on New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP · · Score: 1

    Would Quicktime Alternative be any safer?

    Quicktime alternative does not install alternative. IMHO it installs original Apple codecs and plugin without player/editor nagware. Probably some versions behind official Apple QT. It might have more bugs than Apple QT.

  8. Re:Finally figured it out! on Intel To Buy Smartphone Chipmaker Infineon For $2B · · Score: 1

    2 billion dollars for a bunch of chips and antenna components? I guess we know the true value of an ARM and a leg.

    Or true value of USD.

  9. Re:Meet the 4 stages on Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' · · Score: 1

    To say this company has "never" helped open source is a bit extreme. Like any profit-making entity, it helps open source when doing so is in Microsoft's interest.

    Making sure that code is BSD licensed is major interest for Microsoft. It is open in a way that they like. But lots of commies are not that careless, choose to use GPL and it does not fit MS interests.

  10. Re:"Trading" With North Korea - Against US Law? on North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Yup, I was being a bit sarcastic showing the absurdity of the MAFIAA. if the MAFIAA can apply such logic it then surely everyone else can no?

    If Facebook does not accept payments from Kim, Fidel or Mahmoud, they are safe. They don't have any trade relations with those countries in accounting. Facebook does not sell weapons or luxury goods and does not provide financial services. Can't find full list of NK trade restrictions in wikipedia, but I suspect that facebook services are not on that list.

  11. Re:"Trading" With North Korea - Against US Law? on North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Trade is happening in the same way as the PirateBay and other pirate sites provide illegal media "for profit". That is, Facebook is providing a service to North Korea and they are in return making profit from the advertisements.

    Your personal website was visited from IP address that belongs to North Korean government. Probably by Kim himself. Expect to be jailed in next 2 months for violation of U.S. trade laws.

  12. Re:Air strike would be folly on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    You're also assuming

    You are assuming that Muslims are stupid and they haven't learned anything after Osiraq. Iranian nuclear program is decentralized. At least 16 different targets.

  13. Re:Air strike would be folly on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    If Israel struck the plant

    Osiraq is 18 km from Baghdad (see dot on the map, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad).
    Bushehr plant is 17 km south east of Bushehr (see dot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr).

    IAF was operating at max range of their planes when they bombed Osiraq. If they bomb Bushehr, their mission will be one way. Last time I checked IAF were smart enough to bomb nuclear reactor before fuel was loaded. There is no "if Israel struck the plant". There is no point to bomb VVER reactor. IR-40 heavy water reactor is more dangerous and Bushehr is Iran's "peaceful nuclear research" excuse.

  14. Re:Nope on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 5, Informative

    Plus isn't this "state of the art" plant something the Russians started building for them almost 40 years ago?
    So its a big ass junk heap, hopefully its not the same design as Chernobyl.

    Germans started it. Some country a little bit closer to US than Russia.

    Bushehr should have three VVER-1000/446 type reactors. Pressurized water reactor. Negative void coefficient
    Chernobyl had four RBMK-1000. Same power, but graphite-moderated reactor. Positive void coefficient

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

    Although considering that reactor was built by three different contractors for over 45 years, it is still German/Iranian/Russian junk heap.

  15. Re:Counter-Strike? on Military Personnel Weigh In On Being Taliban In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    I've enjoyed (mostly) playing Counter-Strike for years, and one of the two teams is "Terrorists"

    IMHO in CS both teams were terrorists and anti-terrorists at the same time. Every team treated their opponent as terrorist. Other posters on previous topic said that.

  16. Re:Well... on Belgian ISP Claims One Customer Downloads 2.7TB · · Score: 1

    In theory:
    ///snip///
    that's assuming you're not also transmitting! ///snip/// However I do find it quite difficult to (1) Maintain 2.5Mb/sec constant (speaking of Torrents/other P2P in general) and (2) Having things to constantly download at that rate.

    What if he has 3-4 MB/s uplink, he is transmitting and his P2P program holds everything he downloaded? I am pretty sure that uplink will be maxed all the time.

  17. Re:Any update in terms of long run use? on Leaked Intel Roadmap Shows 600GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Ah... an Enterprise drive. Interesting marketing speak, but it still manages to gets its effect I see.

    I don't look at enterprise part. I look at rpms, sustained transfer rate (working with large files are common in graphics design) and seek time. MTBF is marketing speak. You don't know when your drive will fail, but you can always measure how fast it spins (IMHO it affects noise level, seek time and read speed in same generation drives). You can measure how fast drive writes or reads files.

  18. Re:It's gotta be rough on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    Your opponent calls in a helicopter that you have no defense against

    Afghans had to deal with helicopters even before Americans tried to make them free. RPG-7 works just fine although Stinger, Strela or Igla is better.

  19. Re:Any update in terms of long run use? on Leaked Intel Roadmap Shows 600GB SSD · · Score: 1

    http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701284.pdf

    1. Sustained transfer rate - WD Raptor has higher write speed (126MB/s vs 70 MB/s), SSD wins with 250 MB/s read speed.

    2. Size - 32 GB vs 300 GB. Drives are not from same league.

    3. Price
        INTEL X25-V SATA2 SSD 40GB 2.5" MLC 34NM (115 EUR, 2.9 EUR/GB)
        WD VELOCIRAPTOR 300GB SATA2 10KRPM 16MB (185 EUR, 0.62 EUR/GB)

    4. SMART
        both drives support it, but I don't know how much time SSD can give between warning and dieing.

  20. Re:Logo on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 1

    Best Buy's lawsuit would get thrown-out.

    You miss the part where holy father does his business/organizational work on this car. It is not parody.

  21. Re:Debian or IE to last? on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 1

    So there are two important aprts of the internet with birthdays very close together. I wonder if Debian or IE will last the longest?

    They are not close enough. Only some people want to celebrate things one month ahead of schedule. They couldn't wait for Friday and get drunk as usual. I guess hangover from three day drinking kicked in.

  22. Re:Maybe they'd have a case if on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 1

    a user with 30 seconds on google could figure out on their own.

    If user managed to fsck up his or her computer, do you really think that he/she will be literate enough to fix it without hitting "rm -rf" fix on google.

  23. Re:Ignorance, mostly. on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    These applications, being written by professional developers, are often significantly better than what was produced by the amateurish PHP/Perl community.

    For every shitty web application written in dynamic scripting language there is shitty application written in VB or .NET. Dynamic apps are usually more open and can be fixed and your client can't do that with your "professional" app.

  24. Re:How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Bush CREATED Gitmo.

    Bush was not born (nor GHWB nor GWB) when Gitmo was created in 1903.

  25. Re:Why do I need KDE? on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    KDE is more than just a desktop Environment, it's a whole programming library and philosophy that unifies a family of applications, so they can interoperate, exchange data, and work together as well as you do.

    That philosophy is flawed. It prioritizes eye candy instead of guarantying desktop usability. KDE4 is not desktop environment. It does not have desktop. Only some file manager plasmoid that pretends to be desktop.