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  1. Re:POP? on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um... what you said is IMAP, not POP.

  2. Re:Well... on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    Read the previous post! It says BACKUPS! That means if a user wants to delete it, it will just mean that the user deleted his own stuffs, and Google merely wiped the backup they held for internal purposes (message failed to arrive, yaddy yaddy yada). The retention law applies to the people why uses the e-mail, meaning they have to back it up themselves if needed.

  3. Re:I love google but on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    I seems to remember there is a type of stock that basically give the stockholder no control over the company but still share the profit. Maybe if Google should ever go into IPO they should use that.

  4. Re:Which one is Sergey? on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    Sergey is 2. Apparently it looks like Sergey is getting feedbacks instead of being interviewed.

  5. Re:Philip Greenspun saw this coming on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    According to most development cycle, once a country starts out as agricultural (raw materials) then they move to manufacturing (current state of USA), then a country either become a financing center (Hong Kong, Switzerland) or a tourist nation (Most Europe).

    Exceptions are Singapore and Hong Kong, they move directly to become a financing nation since they don't have much land to be an agricultural nor a manufacturing nation.

  6. Re:writing off the car is the whole point on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    Actually airbags are not designed to cusion your impact. When they inflate at that speed, its very hard, the point of that is to offset the problem that seatbelt does release a few inches of slack. Airbag merely tries to keep you hard on the seat so the car's crumble zone can be effective.

  7. Re:Long lasting cars... on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    If still driverable and works decent, I say that's one DAMN A**KICKING GOOD CAR!

  8. Re:A Useful but Long Quote. on Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab · · Score: 1

    In Summary... (can't help it, I have to say it...)

    "YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK!"

  9. Re:Why not massive one-time pads? on Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab · · Score: 1

    Hm... physical pads... I could thought of someways to compromise them either with or without ones knowledge.

    1. Three person, there's still a good chance all three can be bribed...
    2. ... or threatened...
    3. ... or get kidnapped.
    4. Or simply someone destroy the car, then you have to redo the pad number thingy, thus delaying possibly time-sensitive data from travelling at all.

  10. Re:Government overstepping its bounds on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like something a dictatorial nation might do...

    Required programming...
    1. Hail to our leader.
    2. The Pro of Terrorists.
    3. Long Live our Leader.
    4. The Good Life in *What ever country this is*.

    Hm... I won't want that...

  11. Re:Why it won't work. on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 1

    Well, satellites are quite expensive. That and considering the radiation those satellite are constantly under.

  12. Re:The issues are: on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    I don't think Canadian law have that kind of problem. Although not even the president here in US are allowed to keep "incriminating" evidences locked up (Nixon anyone?).

  13. Re:Whose Linux is it anyway? on Embedded RTOS Maker Raises Linux Security Issues · · Score: 1

    I seriously think that the military would do their own distro, just getting the kernel.

  14. Re:Info about company and founder on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    Well, Nemitz can stick it up his arse. If they're claiming that NASA is "illegally" parking their satellite on Eros, there can only be 3 outcomes.

    1. US hostile take over by force (extreme measure).
    2. NASA pays.
    3. NASA don't do anything, and nothing happens. Because here on earth, what happened when you illegally park on someone's property? They tow it away, and Orbit Development is more then welcome to plan and pay for their own mission to get it off, since NASA don't even want the probe anymore.

  15. Re:Same guys who say they own the asteriod EROS on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    I would say OrbitDev is a greedy dumbass and an idiot. That don't own the asteroid EROS, show me the land deed! What? US don't grant extraterrestial land claims? Too bad, that mean US owns them, and ultimately, you got pwned.

  16. Hm... thin, memory metal... on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 0, Troll

    Use one of those memory metal (the one that reform itself when heated by sunlight), create a massive version of the goatse.cx image, fold and put into canister. Pod lands on moon, pod opens up, metal got heated by sun during full moon, bang, BIG GOATSE image on moon!

  17. Re:And this will be powered by...? on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 1

    Depending on what type of desalination. Conventional desalination process (evaporating the water) uses up a LARGE QUANTITY of energy. However, reverse osmosis desalination process uses much less energy, so it doesn't actually need a dedicated powersource (okay, maybe it need roughly similar amount of energy or more then a manufacturing factory need).

  18. Re:Secret Software Formulas on The Pure Software Act of 2006 · · Score: 1

    I don't think they can say "may", even the contents label just list EVERYTHING that's in there. So the format may be something like this for the Pure Software Act.

    "This software contains adware that monitor and provide you with content sensitive information that helps keep this software free."

  19. Re:And I'm sure... on The Pure Software Act of 2006 · · Score: 1

    With that law, we now can legally SUE THE HELL OUT OF THEM! If it's a free software that is not from a company... then sorry for those people who want free software and don't read the fine prints...

  20. Re:Mag-lev's quiet? OR Don't believe eveything on on MagLev Trains Annoyingly Loud · · Score: 1

    You're right, they're techinically very quite once they picked up speed. Unfortunately, maglev trains move by alternating magnetic field at a high rate (low oscilation, slower speed, higher oscilation, higher speed). So there will be some times when the oscilation move into perceivable range (20000 hertz) at which we will heard a high pitch screeching.

  21. Re:Why should this be a problem? on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 1

    One, plz post with a registered name. I would've mod you up except you're posting anonymously... so...
    Either way, the law really should get written. There was this joke in Tom Clancy's Executive Order that when they place all the tax rule book on a beach nut table at the white house presentation room, the table broke and collapsed in full view of reporters. Maybe someone need to do it (preferably the president) to send a message that our tax code is WAY TOO BLOATED!

  22. Re:Perverse incentives on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's something called ethics. I want to pay my taxes as honestly as possible. And being on the track to become an engineer, if I was given a job, I'll try my darn best to do it well (IRS tax system included).

  23. Re:Always wondered.... on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 1

    Because the rich can actually hide incomes from taxes. Example, put some into "office improvement" when that so called office is their million dollar mansion. Poor people don't have that. Rich people got enough money so that hiding a large portion of it doesn't effect their ability to live a good life.

  24. Programming golden rule... on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 4, Informative

    From my professor...
    "In order to write a good algorithm that can solve a problem, you must be able to solve it yourself."

    How would you expect a computer knows how to file return when some people in IRS don't even know how?

  25. Re:Classical Music on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 1

    To illustrate the point further...
    Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

    That piece (it's classical) kick so much asses, that just about every action movie and video games (at least up until recently) featured them either in the movie/game themselves, or featured in the commercial.