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  1. News at 11 on Facebook On Collision Course With New EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Facebook is on collision course with any privacy laws.

  2. Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? on Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today · · Score: 1

    I have never gotten spam from Facebook.

    So ZuckMail notes that "your friends (which are only acquaintances) are on the FB, get over there promto" is not spam. Sending me activation emails for accounts that I've never requested is not spam too.

  3. Re:How big can they make a bomb? on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    US already has "bomb" which weights 75000 lb. Delivery system with 8 thousand mile range included. Russians have weapons with similar range and weight of 4600000 lb. Accuracy is 200 meters. Good enough for any big bunker. And we are not talking about some sample 60k lb tsar bombs. These are regular nuclear weapons and you are free to replace their warheads with any conventional explosive.

  4. Re:How big can they make a bomb? on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    possibly a big blimp..

    Cruise speed up to 150 km/h. Target can have five additional layers of concrete before bomb reaches its destination.

    You are not some incarnation of H.S.Truman, are you? WW2 is over. If your enemy is pacified, you don't have to through mother of all bombs on it.

  5. Re:How big can they make a bomb? on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    Anyway... at some point they're going to have to build these bombs to attach like the Space Shuttle to that specially retrofitted 757 that can carry it on it's roof.

    Lets make it 75 thousand pounds and call it Minuteman. Or buy some blueprints of a thing called SS-18 Satan.

  6. Re:We already have email authentication on Big Internet Players Propose DMARC Anti-Phishing Protocol · · Score: 1

    Every email provider issues a key to their users. This can be done by the email client getting the key from the server when it authenticates (say a specially crafted email that it then hides from the user. No need to make it complex like extending the protocol!

    Existing protocols are about getting or sending emails. They have nothing about feeding custom settings to client. You also missed two major part of signing emails. User must know private key password and private key must be private as in "available only to key owner".

    Providers can't switch on IPv6 until their asses are at stake and you expect them to make other trivial change in their infrastructure without any financial return value.

    Get real.

  7. Re:Hard to Believe on Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade · · Score: 1

    Why can't the government just use Google Earth

    Can you guess the source of google earth data, if you can count planes and ships in Baltijsk and can see only contours of a 100k city 500 km away.

  8. Re:There's nothing to change on Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade · · Score: 1

    There's nothing to change

    Good luck finding 40-year-old plane in flying condition with no parts changed. Every engine (piston engines and turbines included) has engine life limit.

  9. Re:Again with the visas on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    How is increasing the number of workers supposed to decrease the unemployment rate?

    If company moves dev center to other country, it will have impact on unemployment rate when infrastructure support services have nothing to support.

  10. Re:Forget PR on Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone · · Score: 1

    about 100,000,000

    What percentage of Japanese, Vietnamese and native American population is that?

  11. Re:Will Rand Paul now be fined $10k? on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    If not why?

    They are already close to violating US Constitution due to their process rules.

  12. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 2

    "A senator would make a great mule," Simmons tells me.

    Don't confuse Republicans with Democrats.

  13. Re:Heins and RIM vs Elop and Nokia on CEOs of RIM Step Down · · Score: 1

    BlackBerry is not your average phone or Nokia. It is phone for suites. I have both Android and BlackBerry and they both fit their place. I do need integration with company email and calendar in BlackBerry and I don't want locked down dull smartphone for personal use.

  14. Re:Forget PR on Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone · · Score: 1

    Likely Russia and China will not be too impressed in Israel launches an airstrike even a series of airstrikes on Iran in an attempt to precipitate a conflict and draw in the US at the US's expense.

    Not sure about Russia or China, but I would be impressed if Israelis do that. Iran is not Egypt, Lebanon or Syria. It is even further than Osiraq. Last Israel military actions were responses to attacks on their territory. So far I am aware only about three cases when they attacked first. One is from 1960s, other two were against nuclear targets. One of them was on the limit of Israelis strike fighter capabilities. Other refused to admit that it was nuclear object.

  15. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 1

    NZ doesn't have the DMCA

    Are you saying that copyright laws don't exist in NZ. For US it is DMCA, for others it is notification about possible copyright violation.

  16. Re:Patch on What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? · · Score: 1

    5) Ship pops back up, tug it anywhere you want.

    Or one half of the ship pops out and you have to collect other half from the bottom in small shattered pieces.

  17. Re:throwaways are easy with gmail on Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that it's trivial to discard the part after the + thus getting the real address.

    If you have problems with that, get real domain and setup catchall for entire domain.

  18. Re:Screenshots on SOPA and PIPA So Far · · Score: 1

    interesting site. You confused blackout with whiteout. For the sake of data mining your album does not work without javascript.

  19. Re:GPS Accuracy on New Mexico Is Stretching, GPS Reveals · · Score: 1

    to 10 cm, which is just above 4 inches I think

    2.54*4 = 10.16 cm
    below 4 inches, if your below and above don't reffer to accuracy.

  20. Re:Holy crap on House Kills SOPA · · Score: 1

    government is actually listening to the will of the people

    No. Somebody mentioned blocking internet and control freaks remembered what happened when internet was shut down in Middle East.

  21. Re:Oracle matters less thank you'd think on Oracle and the Java Ecosystem · · Score: 2

    even some app servers.

    Some app servers have compatibility issues if you run them on different Sun JRE/JDK version.

  22. Re:Clang/LLVM in FreeBSD on FreeBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    preventing cooperation between free and proprietary software sectors

    What kind of cooperation you are talking about? Taking something without giving back is not called cooperation. It is called leeching or parasitism.

  23. Re:That's messed up ... on LG To Pay Licensing Fees To Microsoft For Using Android · · Score: 1

    They made the tech, they licensed it, people pay for it

    Microsoft is mostly software company. They haven't made any tech. They threatened companies with patents about some software process and software is not invented. Give two unrelated developers same task and they will come up with very similar solutions.

  24. Re:convenient for microsoft on Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site · · Score: 1

    Can't be very serious. I have multiple gmail accounts configured

    It works. That's critical issue.

  25. Re:I remember reading Asimov's 'Foundation' on Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years · · Score: 1

    If you run remote colony and central hub stops responding, your primary goal is to go self sufficient and survive. If you don't do that fast enough, you lose high tech knowledge. It has nothing to do with nuclear fears. Terminus 2 retained knowledge as they were closed scientific community and staying high tech was the only way of surviving in that world.

    See COBOL software and programmers for example of technology survival.