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  1. A word of warning from an economist: on Will Google Become Another Netscape? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Although 'The Economist' can be thought provoking [good thing] its economic analysis is trash [bad thing] - articles brush over facts, present dodgy one sided (and often politically biased) analysis and present conclusions as fact. So draw your own opinions from the article but do not take anything from The Economist served on a plate.

  2. Re:And the Patriot Act is the death of civilizatio on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 0

    That student yes... but during the night the 1000s of students were stirred from their slumber by many APCs coming across the square running over their tents and running over a few hundred of them at the same time.

    But this is a few years ago. Those in command then were old and are mostly dead now. Those in the mid level then are now in control, in 10 years those unassociated with the old rule will be in control. The old guard is dying out and interesting times await.

  3. Re:Well done China on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 0

    Add capitalist to that and you get 100%!

  4. Re:At least China is better than America on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 0

    I am surprised I have been instantly modded troll when each and every one of these statement is stone cold fact.

  5. Re:At least China is better than America on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 0, Insightful

    And to keep this on-topic:

    God bless the America that has detailed and tortured hundreds in Guantanamo bay on 'charges' of subversion and terrorism. Not that any of these charges have, or are likely to be, presented in any court. Ever.

    China is open and transparent in comparison.

    Also note that the Federal Reserve today announced that China had not been manipulating its currency against the US. Also note that imports (services as well as physical products) grew less than 0.1% on the recent GDP figures despite the US growing 7.2% SA annualised. China is not the source of your problems despite them being used as a scapegoat by lazy politicians who are not willing to clean up at home.

  6. Re:Some people my not know... on The Linux Documentation Project Turns 10 · · Score: 0

    I agree this is quite odd.

  7. Re:fp on Apple to Fix Security Holes in Jaguar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I applaud your paying attention in senior year maths.

  8. Re:Sounds about right. on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    'tis not the porn that is encrypted but 'error' seeming like noise/fuzz in the video but is infact a somewhat-randomly placed and strong-encoded set of data. A modern version of the micro-text full stop.

    All you get is a slightly degraded video... but lossy encryption makes up the vast portion of the fuzz you get.

  9. Re:Yeah... on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    Someone with a sig about the Middle East troubles (donate pizza) then saying it is OK to burn books. Much of the trouble in the Middle East is caused by different interpretations of the same theme from the same period in history (books have been burnt in Islamic history and more recently flags are burnt in the Middle East troubles)

    I have read Fahrenheit 451, I have seen Equilibrium etc etc. That is a different topic. I am disappointed someone doesn't have the insight to see the hypocrisy in the 'donate pizza' campaign and blatantly promoting something which promotes misunderstanding.

    Popular media is not what everything is about, you know?

  10. Re:Yeah... on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    I dislike your sig.

    "Memorize the books before burning" and what do you get? Certainly you open the possibility to differences when it comes to writing it down again. This is witnessed in the Bible (numerous translations) and many oher religious texts. Then what do you get? You get pizza donated to those who are fighting people who have a particular interpretation of how this book should have beem written while causing pain, death and disruption to the majority of people (both the ordinary Palestinian and the Israeli) in a very valuable part of the ancient world.

  11. Re:Sounds about right. on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    You could open it to Kazaa etc, delete it when a few have uploaded it but have a backup stored on the net for a pretty long time... I encrypted some data 3 years ago, stuck it in an .AVI but keep the hash of that .AVI and searched for it and it is still there!

    Not that I would recommend this as a particuraly reliable backup method. But I think it is one that could conceal data in a nice opaque way if ever searched/raided etc.

  12. Re:And about 1% was worthwhile on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they count film too, as film is not digital medium did they MPEG2 it a la DVD, or take the raw footage from the cameras (as long as it wasn't a direct analog to analog transfer)... and what about photographs - did they count them and if so at the molecular level of the photo paper?

    Unfortunately the site is /.ed so I may never know!