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  1. Re:You wish... on FISA and Border Searches of Laptops · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not to worry, my Kool-aid gulping friend. The metamod proof, overrated mod is making your day even better. I'll get my jollies watching the mod wars now. Seeing as that the ongoing abuses at the borders don't really bother anybody at all. Afterall, it's not happening to them. Of course my story is nothing when compared to another slashdotter's 5 five year old child being strip-searched. But complaining about it, and trying to put a stop to it is just trolling. Drink up!

    Forget your troubles c'mon get happy,
    you better chase all your cares away.
    Shout hallejulah c'mon get happy
    get ready for the judgement day.

  2. Re:You wish... on FISA and Border Searches of Laptops · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Experience, sonny. I've watched them tear apart my car more than once. I've been flagged for not having a credit card and checked luggage. I've bought my tickets less than 24 hours before departure, with, god forbid, cash! Evidently I fit a "profile". While all their smuggler and "terrorist" buddies wizz on through for answering all their questions "correctly". They are goons. I don't care if you think it's troll. It's the truth. And it ain't pretty.

  3. Re:You wish... on FISA and Border Searches of Laptops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, you can't blame this one on Bush. As much as you'd like to.

    But the indefinite detainment we are now subject to we can blame on Bush, or more appropriately, the people that voted for him. Before all the hysteria, it I was clean, they had to let me go. Not any more. Pretty soon they'll be able to hold me for not having a laptop for them to search. They'll think I'm hiding something. That's like being told I should carry some cash on me so the mugger has something to walk away with, otherwise he'll get pissed and just shoot me. Every border crossing is turning into a mugging.

  4. Re:Yes, RS should be a file system service. on Error-Proofing Data With Reed-Solomon Codes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those who sacrifice speed for data integrity deserve neither - BF

  5. Just gotta say on Senate Passes Bill Targeting College Piracy · · Score: 1

    To Feingold, Kucinich, and Lee... shame on you. This would be expected from everybody else, but from you three I expected better. Especially you, Ms. Lee. You were the only standout of the whole bunch. And now, it turns out that you too, are a sellout or didn't bother to read the bill. Off to Hades with every last one of you!

  6. Of course Obamam and McCain are "no votes" on Senate Passes Bill Targeting College Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So I will assume that all the other "no votes" are potential vice presidential candidates :-)

  7. Re:Government as usual on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...we didn't NEED alternatives most of that time.

    Yes we did, right from the very first time the pushers pulled this stunt. Maybe you didn't see the need, but I sure did and have worked around it since 1982, while you simply closed your eyes. I prepared in foresight, and I cannot care less about the price of gas. I was laughing in '73, and I'm laughing now. Congress has been doing this since I can remember. It is a regularly scheduled recess. And you all are just demanding for them to come back and secure you another fix. Quitcherbellyachin!!! And make tell your damn congress to do nothing more than make sure the alternatives have equal access to the market. Oh, and by the way, the same goes for internet access, create some alternative forms of access, and you'll be dictating the terms of service to the ISPs, instead of the other way around. And do it NOW before you start crying "woe with me" when you "need" to. The problem is as trivial as you make it.

  8. Re:Government as usual on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Your post sounds like you're still 4 years old :-) Can you say "collective you"? Damn near 40, and you(personally this time) are looking to congress to fix your very little problem. I would pity you, if I wasn't rolling on the floor laughing at you. Struggling indeed.

  9. Re:It's called speculation... on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    You are so full of it! Jeeze! 35 years of this crap, and you crybabies have hardly lifted a finger to use working alternatives that are right in front of your noses. Sitting on your butts, waiting for congress to "do" something about it. Are you all really that helpless?? It's true. You actually are a bunch of whiners! All for small government until you want some help.

  10. Re:It's called speculation... on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    It's called devaluation. Precisely what happened in '73 and '79.

  11. Re:Nations vs. Internet on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Locally managed groups have no need to put up fences between them. Territorialism is for animals that are unable to transport needed resources. And for slave owners who want those resources for themselves.

  12. Re:Government as usual on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh please! You've had since 1973 to find an alternative or three. That's 35 years of sitting on your asses yelling "please,sir, may I have another?".

  13. Very nice on 3D Printing For Everyone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But it still suffers from the age old problem of control by those who own the press. Let's get the printers in the hands of everyone to insure that control goes where it belongs. Then we can make our own DRM free hardware for instance.

  14. Re:Degradation of rights for nothing on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You inconvenience and step all over the rights of average, law-abiding citizens to give the impression of safety.

    Well...Chaaa! What are you getting at? Look who's on the ballot. Listen what they talk about on the TV. Think anybody gives a damn? Okay, so play their silly game and don't take anything of value across the border. You think I wear my Rolex when I go to get some rock on 63rd and Halsted? Like the corrupt cop, get a throwaway.

  15. Re:Well... on Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music · · Score: 1

    However it would be better if it weren't opt-in.

    But how many years have we clamoring for exactly that? :/

  16. Re:Shooting themselves in the foot on Foreign-owned Hotels To Install Firewall In China · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Man! They sound so...American. Our elections have shown that we have deep respect and trust for our administration too. I bet they even drive on the same side of the road we do. Copycats!

  17. Re:Not trusted for a reason on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    Does TrueCrypt enforce a chain of trust down to the hardware?

    I believe it does. You can load any OS you want or put the disk in another machine and still not be able to decrypt the "hidden" partition, even if you know of its existence.

    Under what scenarios could an attacker get a hold of your encryption key and access your data?

    Somebody with a pair of pliers pulling your fingernails off is the best method I know of. If public relations is an issue, mere waterboarding might work.

    Is the BitLocker chain of trust really secure?

    Does the pope shit in the woods? Um, it's a Microsoft product. ntpass gets me past a lot of their security now. Though I haven't tried it on Vista. But Vista has been hacked in other ways, so I have doubts about its security too.

    I don't know the answers either. A little help from other folks might be able to settle it.

  18. Re:Not trusted for a reason on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If I want my data to be secure, I probably won't use BitLocker. Would not TrueCrypt be the better option?

  19. Re:Great things will happen in the next 50 years on NASA Turns 50 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Spain, England and the Dutch took up the effort and built globe spanning empires.

    Not exactly something to be proud of, considering how they did it and all. It just means that the Chinese will be enslaving little green men to toil in their underground sugar cave. And I for one...

  20. Re:Of all 3 branches on ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am speaking of immutable rights guranteed definitively by the Bill of Rights.

    Void where prohibited by law. That guarantee expired 211 years ago. The old dog has finally been muzzled and taken out back and shot. And we just turned away.

  21. Re:Hey NewYorkCountryLawyer on ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations · · Score: 1

    Ah, but I was so much older then
    I'm younger than that now.

  22. The chart shows 60 watts on VIA Nano CPU Benchmarked, Beats Intel Atom · · Score: 1

    How do you get 4 out of that? It's that danged new math, I tell ya!

  23. Re:And watch the "discussion" devolve... on Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted · · Score: 1

    If you replace one party member with another, you're not getting term limits. You only get more people who toe the party line. Example: Look at the presidency. Getting worse with every election. And it's happening again, before your very eyes. And who's nominating those "idiots? Why, we are. The guy in the mirror is doing the nominating. Gerrymandering is a convenient cop out for people who simply won't accept the blame for their own actions. Despite your term limits, Jeb has a very good chance of winning the presidency. If you want a better example, look at Mexico's presidency. They have "no reelection" One term is all you get.

  24. Re:An alaskan perspective... on Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until then he is innocent until proven guilty.

    People in positions of power shouldn't get such benefits. Every last one of them should be set under The Sword of Damocles, hanging by the barest of thread. If you consider robbing the rest of the country for the benefit of Alaska a good thing, especially with the vast riches it possesses, then there's not a hell of a lot to tell you. Especially with your whining about "liberals". Socialism must be a good thing when you're the one who benefits. But when somebody actually needs it, they're a bunch of leeches. Kinda sick thinking.

  25. Re:And watch the "discussion" devolve... on Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone hates congress...until election time when 95% of them get reelected.