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  1. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    This may sound corny, but for America's sake.

    Thank you for taking the time to answer. Corny or not, you are of course free to have any reasons you want. Even "I just don't feel like it.".

    However, I might have misunderstood something. He was a spy against America, right? Aren't you then protecting the "opponent team" by not revealing what they look like? Or do you mean that by describing the van's suspicious features, you would let enemy spies know what to avoid?

    Sorry for the weird questions. I am just interested in understanding things.

  2. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the van was just too suspicious, for reasons I'd rather not elaborate on.

    I will not ask you what made the van suspicious, but I would like to know why you don't want to elaborate on it. For whose sake?

  3. Re:Dog + Gun works good too... on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    My dog barks, I shoot.

    Poor dog.

  4. Re:I'll stick with what I have..A bible. on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    I know you're joking but in case anyone takes you seriously. That's actually illegal.

    Which one of them? The shoelace, the shotgun or the Bible?

  5. Everyone thought he was dead by his own hand, on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    but he had just taken refuge in space. And now he's about to hit the Earth once again. SPACE HITLER!

  6. Incompatible? on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Furthermore, there is some evidence that certain forms of compression are also incompatible with PGP whole disk encryption.

    What do you mean by "incompatible"? At first glance, you seem to mean that there are certain file formats, making use of compression, that cannot be stored on the encrypted drive. That certainly can't be true.

  7. Re:hahaha on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 1

    Liberal good = MOD 5
    Conservative bad = Mod 5
    Liberal bad = Mod 0 troll
    Conservative good Mod 0 troll.

    A more conventional way of stating that x - y is a multiple of k is like this:

    x = y (mod k)

  8. Re:Small Government on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a small government person.

    I don't see how your size matters here.

  9. Re:Thank you, Taco on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Isn't that what the moderation system is for?

    SWOOOOOOOOSH!

  10. Wandering the roads. Sad. Trying to talk to cars. on Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars · · Score: 1

    Hi, how are you todwrooom... *sigh*

  11. Re:What about Git vs. Bazaar? on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    It may not perform quite as well, but it's also less rough around the edges and supports more workflows.

    What does "workflows" mean?

  12. What about Git vs. Bazaar? on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They are both of the "distributed" kind.

  13. Re:There is hope on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    Better to use a pure non-oil based solvent such as denatured alcohol (pure alcohol).

    Denatured alcohol is alcohol with something added to make it undrinkable. I don't know why that would be necessary here nor why it would be called "pure alcohol".

  14. Re:Oh man on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    24 feet of drywall from the base of the room? He's got some big rooms.

    I thought it was a derivative. But dry feet on the wall, you say. Well with your feet on the ground during a flood, you're gonna get wet feet, so the wall is probably not so bad a place to keep them, after all.

  15. Re:But did they test with a Model M? on Compromising Wired Keyboards · · Score: 1

    If all else fails, the relentless clicking while they listen to your bugged cube or house should drive them completely insane.

    Unfortunately, that sound leaks information too, but you could use that to make your keyboard wireless. Just let your computron listen to it with a microphone!

  16. Re:BTRFS? on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1

    So it incorporates compression by vowel ommission?

    What about extra consonants? For error correction, perhaps?

  17. Shameful on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 1

    bank officials [...] trying to keep the news from leaking to the public.

    They should be slammed for that! Trying to cover up their mistakes. Shameful.

  18. Sensitive data? on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sensitive data about the economies of every nation

    What's so sensitive about the economy of a nation that it must be kept secret, thereby not even allowing the nation itself (the people) to know about it?

  19. Re:Oh yeah. on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 1

    It'd be the best April Fools day ever.

    That's what happens every april fools' day!

  20. Triangle clock signal on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    At the electronics lab where I hang out, there is a story about some guys who wanted to feed their processor a triangle wave clock signal instead of a square wave because "it contains less energy". People told them nothing good would come out of it, but they tried it anyway and nothing good came out of it.

  21. Re:traction control on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    Ah, clever! I'll look for it. Thank you.

  22. Re:traction control on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    Would not buy a car without ABS again.

    I would, but where can I find one these days which has no ABS or where you can turn it off?

  23. Not just open source, _freedom_! on Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Open source is good and well, but you also want the freedom to use your software as you wish and distribute your derivative works. Having access to the source code doesn't automatically grant you that. That's why we want free software.

  24. Re:not really on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    Bah, you oversimplify.

  25. Who allows you to trade by computer? on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there anywhere a small can find a computerised market in the first place? Are there firms who allow specifies a communications protocol and lets you to trade by computer or does one have to do web scraping to automate things?