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  1. Re:Pay UAE or Omar to build a sea level canal. on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    Take a look at a map.

    Take a look at geographical map and not at political one. The one that shows elevation above sea level. Hint - Al Hajar Mountains.

  2. Re:Two things. on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    US would most likely only be concerned with destroying the Iranian military and forcing them out of the strait of Hormuz

    Get some map and find Persian gulf there. Iran controls ~50% of gulf coastline and you are concerned only about one strait.

  3. Re:...and so it begins...? on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't be able to get within 1000 yards...

    Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. ... Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.

    Link to Millennium Challenge 2002 is already in discussions on this article. Highlighting part is mine.

  4. Re:Where's the OCR? on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 1

    As I pointed out

    Based on same logic cars can drive on sidewalks as some roads can be used by both machines and humans. Your machine readable fonts are still designed for humans and they are only less prone to errors in OCR. Information stored there is not optimized for machine use and requires more machine resources to parse it.

  5. Yes, Minister on Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! · · Score: 1

    Does it include link to Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister library?

  6. Re:Where's the OCR? on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why QR codes are needed.

    Letters are designed to be read by humans. QRs are designed to be read by machines.

  7. More Open on Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs · · Score: 1

    Open Source is also replaced by OpenOffice, Shared Source etc. Stop basing your decisions on matches in product names. People won't stop eating apples, if you give them ipads to eat.

    You can call Google and Facebook things APIs. I call them data miners and proprietary libraries designed for specific application. 'Free online stuff' users fail to realize that they are running third party code on their sites and that code is outside of their controls.

  8. Re:Completely reasonable on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    I have many friends in countries where it isn't offensive gesture

    It does not have to be offensive in your country, but you will recognize it and know what it means just like your friends do.

  9. Re:Cleanup the IP Space on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    bots that come this way

    Skynet does not exist yet and bots are started by humans from somewhere. Guns don't kill people. Bots don't hack into servers.

    RIPE is not USSR. It is European IP networks. I have my portion of Asia connections trying admin password, but I also had alerts about brute force attempts from amazon hosting services.

    Other Little Rock High School students had no legit business to conduct with Little Rock Nine, but it does not mean that local government had the right to block them from entering that school.

    I suspect that ae1294 user comments about 'separate but equal' pointed out at little pearl from American history. You can call it 'compartmentalization' if you want, but it also can be called 'segregation' and 'racism'. You are free to setup your firewall rules to filter network blocks assigned to unrelated world parts, but it won't free those blocks for ARIN use and one day your customers will ask why something is not working for their customers in that area.

  10. Re:Cleanup the IP Space on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I would be more than happy for Asia, Soviet Union, and Africa to use ipv6 if they are in such dire need of IP addresses and limit connectivity to whom they consider future victims.

    You are replying to person from former USSR. Most of us are smart, intelligent and just want to live our lives. Attacks are not initiated from original attackers addresses. If you look up spammer lists, you will find some white meat there. If you segregate internet, you lose global connectivity, critical networking mass and you go back to cold war and little rock nine.

  11. Re:Completely reasonable on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    Guy did something that was offensive in his own cultural environment and was punished. Then other dickheads followed the thread.

  12. Re:I commend Mike at PA for doing this. on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine this guy in public office?

    Why do I have to imagine something? 8 years of GWB in Washington match the picture.

  13. Re:Cleanup the IP Space on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    There are so much junk IP addresses out there going nowhere

    Couple of A blocks won't give you 10 years with the way things are expanding in Asia and Africa.

  14. Re:Iran never called for Israel's destruction on Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran · · Score: 1

    Although he really is a nutcase if he denies the holocaust.

    Maybe Farsi language is so alien to us that any Mahmoud speed is misunderstood. 'wiped of the map' calls Israel a stain on the map. That definitely accounts for call do destroy it. Holocaust speech does have some valid points, although he should not deny it. He just have to point out that more people lost their lives in WW2. Only losses of one nation are inflated and we are constantly reminded about their suffering. It goes to the point were elderly barely walking people are charged with crimes they might have done 60 years ago.

  15. Re:I doubt it on High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? · · Score: 1

    People do change.

    These changes definitively help people who have problems socializing after being bullied.

  16. Re:The problem isn't the tax tables on Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? · · Score: 1

    And it's no way to run the world's largest economy.

    I can assure you that IRS does not run European Union economy.

  17. Re:Not to worry. on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    even if a US citizen

    Even? You do realize that when US detains non-US citizen and keeps him or her without pressing charges, it is illegal under international laws and treaties. These laws apply to all signatories and not just to 'non-US stuff'.

  18. Re:Yes. I've been using PGP for a long time. on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    And all my messages are signed.

    If it worth doing it, it is also worth overdoing it.

  19. Re:Disabling plugins on Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved · · Score: 1

    How is it possible

    User's failure to check for safe startup mode and available configuration options makes lots of things possible.

  20. Re:North Korean State television Says... on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: 1

    He had cancer. If you have cancer, you die peacefully drugged or you die screaming while being driven insane by pain. You choose which version you can present on TV.

  21. I am pretty sure monkeys agree with that on Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation · · Score: 1

    Or maybe we should send author of this idea together with some monkey. If monkey can go there, then human should be able to follow it.

  22. Re:TCO on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1

    I suggest you have a look at some actual sea level rise data.

    Do you have prognosis for situation where both polar caps are 100% melted? It will be required to grow bananas in Canada. Or they will need big Canadian firewall for Greenland. Or Earth axis should change radically and Kyoto will be the last thing to worry by then.

  23. Re:That's funny on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I thought Iran's F14's never flew again after Grumman pulled out all their service techs and stopped delivering parts.

    If it never flew, then plane excelled as ground platform for downing Iraqi jets and helicopters.

  24. Re:Iran? Nope, China and Russia... on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Iran simply does not have the ability - the technical knowledge and manufacturing ability - to "clone" these aircraft.

    Their neighbor had no problems in cloning cruise missiles. Maybe it won't match spec of original, but it can give some technological boost or increase of experience with such systems.

  25. Re:TCO on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1

    Less snow, more farmable land?

    Bananas and farms have problems with other vegetation under water.