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  1. Re:Poverty! on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    Shows how far YOU got.

  2. Re:Poverty! on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    But their girlfriends will be happier for it.

  3. Re:Poverty! on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 2, Funny

    But you'd be happy. After all, you found your G-Spot. Tough to find, I understand.

  4. Re:De facto, or de jure? on The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet · · Score: 1

    I didn't say I savored that method. Rather, Sun Tzu's _Art of War_ seems the way that business is done these days, as the Darwinian Branch of capitalism rules.

  5. Re:De facto, or de jure? on The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet · · Score: 1

    Your Latin needs some rework.

    But let's take the implication that awesomeness==monopoly. Nope. Google, while attempting world domination, has lots of great competition breathing down its neck, and has rotten product quality. Score: as awesomeness != monopoly, zero so far.

    The local telco is a de legis monopoly. The jure is still out. Score, as they were voted into power (by a bribed legislature nationally, and by state across the US, and by fiat in many countries during the PTT era, we'll agree).

    Monopolies invariably suck, no matter the market quality of 'open'. None are open, so the score here is zero, too.

    Monopolies need to be fought. Competition breeds better price, higher quality (usually), and alternatives not present with monopolis. But the perception of monopolies also drives competition. For every Goliath, there is a David with a sling shot who's pissed off.

  6. Re:I don't care. on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 1

    They're also not burning a lot of fuel on a flight that long. When you're up above 35Kfeet, you have a lot of distance to go, but you're really high, going fast. Only a bit of correction is needed now and then. Still seems mysterious. But I'll admit the data seems to support the post.

  7. Re:nice on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps you mean SAP.

    If Oracle goes after users, they're making 200,000 enemies a day.

    Uh, sorry about your phone, dude, but Oracle says you can't use that Android stuff. I think they have their own version, but you have to get it at the Oracle App Store. Have a nice day. Oh, and there's this URL where you can jailbreak your Unbreakable Oracle Phone....

  8. Re:I don't care. on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 1

    The trail ought to expand and get larger, the farther the source moves away from the thrust. Although there's some uniformity to the seeming circumference of the contrail, it would be larger to the west, and therefore doesn't look like an airliner coming east.

    And why would there be thrust when the airplane is supposed to be descending (W to E, Honolulu to PHX)?

    That notwithstanding, the facts seem to support the post claims. Still seems fishy.

  9. Re:See this book on What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? · · Score: 1

    If you liked "The Art of War" then you'll love "What's the Difference betwee God and Larry Ellison" by Michael Lewis. The answer, of course, is obvious: God knows he's not Larry Ellison.

  10. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your defense of the registry shows how you don't understand application and user behavior. The registry is a foul design decision, and up to XP SP2, was accessible by anything for the worst of reasons. Because of its relationship to the kernel, user space, and hardware, it was ridiculously simple to screw it up, or make it the crux of bad behavior in strange, unusual, and bizarre ways. After XP SP2 when user-space was 'redefined', it continued to be the garbage pail for every bad programming mistake ever made in Windows. It's been bad for fifteen years. It's bad now. Its predecessor config files were evil. It turned into a monster that Microsoft couldn't control-- but every bad hack in the book could.

  11. Re:Central Dogma Barking Up Wrong Tree on Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central · · Score: 1

    It also means that incredible amounts of mRNA work is being done, despite faulty proteins, successfully. The error rates inferred seem to be extraordinarily high, yet things succeed.... probably as they should. Therein lies the crux of voluminous questions about *why*.

  12. Re:From what I understand on Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security? · · Score: 1

    Even Rotts like a juicy steak now and then.

    The air gaps seem simple, until someone connects a back door from their phone, wakes up some long sleeping daemon, and then the link is complete.

    Hacking yourself is the best way, with the best tools you can get... frequently.

  13. Re:From what I understand on Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Bastion hosts" are an oxymoron. Every device on a network needs the best self-protection set at the highest possible standard. Layers of security are only incrementally effective. It takes only one bot to bring you down. Firewalls, although they sound impressive, are ineffective when users plug in infected flash drives, or other media. You have to distrust every device on your network without exception-- even routers and switches can be broken into using fuzzing techniques. Continually hack yourself, ethically, using the latest techniques. Then do it again. Be afraid, be very afraid. If you're not afraid, then I'm deeply afraid.

  14. Re:orly? on ITU's Definition Aside, T-Mobile Pushes 4G Label In New Ad Campaign · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod parent up, but modestly. After all, parent is speaking factually, and not in marketing speak.

  15. Re:Consequences? on Cisco Social Software Lets You "Stalk" Customers · · Score: 1

    Good heavens? Astroturf? NOBODY does that!

  16. Re:I must be missing the point here on Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Read Article I, then Article III.

    Then understand that SCOTUS has given themselves dominion over its jurisdiction.

    They have, in fact, limited speech. Not very much, but they have.

    Your denial is your opinion, but your opinion are not the facts, cute quotes to Jefferson aside.

  17. Re:I wonder.. on Aussie Research Company Brings Wi-Fi To TV Antenna · · Score: 2, Informative

    Everything is an antenna, it's a matter of matching the wavelength efficiently to the tranceiver source and the directional relationship between transmitter and receiver. A TV antenna is like any other antenna in that the best reception and transmission have to do with the little tynes or rods or radiators on them matching the exact frequency desired. The old set top monopole and dipole antennas can be tuned by moving the collapsing rods to match the desired frequency. Barring that, it's not as efficient. Sometimes a quarter wave, half wave, eigth-wave can do the job, but tuning it helps.

    Once you use an existing TV antenna to transmit, you're captive to the wavelengths (rod lengths) it has; there will be some efficiency but a lot will be lost. Then, the problem becomes having sensitive receivers upstream to be able to correctly discriminate the desired signal-- and make sense out of it at distance.

    It's at this point where I think things go awry, in that the electronics used to send a signal are designed to do so radially with perhaps megawatts to get to their desired TV antenna to produce an adequate picture. A couple of watts might get you quite a ways (125mi+) with highly tuned directional antennas (like the famous WiFi Pringle can projects adjunct to DefCon meetups) but these aren't highly tuned, directional antennas. A couple of watts gets you to the end of the block on a good day.

  18. Re:BBC vs Murdoch on Times Paywall In Questionable 'Success' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And they'll wither on the vine unless you start sending in much needed cash for their operation. It's also a political statement about freedom of information.

  19. Re:I must be missing the point here on Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Sorry. SCOTUS, Supreme Court Of The United States.

  20. Re:I must be missing the point here on Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow · · Score: 0

    There are dozens of stipulations to how the freedom of speech works. SCOTA has direct and pertinent domain over deciding what free speech is, and what it is not.

    IMHO, the entire post is pure flamebait, as this issue has been covered in dozens and dozens of /. posts. The general sentiment says: keep your hands off deciding what I can buy, although it's posted by people whose age is sufficient enough that it doesn't matter to them, rather only to their sense of 'don't tell me what I can buy and not buy' in this particular form of entertainment.

    As a parent, I would prefer that I have the final discretion over what my children buy, but they're all above 18 years old now, so it doesn't matter to me. To them, anything M or R or X has to be cool, because they can't buy it-- not that they probably don't already understand the content, rather, i don't like them to be fixated over certain adult themes until they're adults.

  21. Re:Wanna check my balls? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I pity their inspectors. Let's let them know how much sexual gratification we're getting from all of this. If this doesn't revile them, then we're we're making them an accessory.

    There is a ceiling to how much is enough. I think they've reached it.

  22. Re:This is part of why offshoring is cheaper: on Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware · · Score: 1

    No, you're confusing socialism with capitalism. Social justice ought to be the end result of capitalism, but seems to elude us. I wonder why....

  23. Re:This is part of why offshoring is cheaper: on Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware · · Score: 1

    No. But many are....

  24. Re:This is part of why offshoring is cheaper: on Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware · · Score: 1

    Call BS where you'd like.

    I don't think the world's ready to agree to another Hitler..... or even George Bush. No one's asking you to be totally fearless; that's absurd. Yet until you level the resources, you give every sociopathic politician a reason to declare war. Otherwise, the 'those heathens are immoral and worship a false god" argument gets used.

    If you read my post, you'll see that I believe that all politics is local. Look at the US, Canada, the EU, the OAS, and other models to understand multi-national 'government'. Inside of them, they're all trade agreements of one kind or another.

  25. Re:Analogy on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    LOL. Got me.