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  1. Re:Hopenchange on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    The problem is not there, not with the Prez. It is with A) Congress and Senate seeming to consider this as normal legislative practice B) the American people silently undergoing this. Both A) and B) are major problems in a so-called democracy.

  2. Re:Bye, bye freedom... on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is something you can do. It is called revolution. You - i.e. your ancestors - already did something similar, over 2 centuries ago. It resulted into the USA as we know it, today. Nothing prevents you from doing it again.

  3. How deep on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    ...and how low can you go ? What and how much more will the security hype have Americans undergo silently ? How much does it f*cking take ??

  4. Re:Did anyone notice... on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Yep. Look at how the cars on the parking lot disappear in the lower camera pic. Definitely a prank.

  5. Remarkable, though... on Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .... how Apple always manages to thrive upon rumors instead of upon "classical" ads. You may call such rumors "hypes", and they prolly are. Still, they do constitute remarkable publicity feats.

  6. Quoting the article on The State of the Internet Operating System · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "always-on future", frequent use of the word "massive", "the internet operating system is an information operating system" etc. etc. etc. Besides the article a big colored blotch blares something about some "web2.0 expo" - whatever that may be. Brief: are there people actually listening to / reading this guy and his baked air ? What a bunch of meaningless cr*p !

  7. Did anyone notice... on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    ...the incredibly cool "black hole" effect with which the webcams regularly go offline ? Unintended, prolly, but still very funny.

  8. Re:Surprised on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 0

    Surprised, eh ? CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco backed everything up with us here on CoroT 9b. Welcome your new overlords, earthling !!

  9. Where oh where.... on Self-Destructing USB Stick · · Score: 1

    ...can I get one ? I mean: my tax eviction records should be backed up somewhere, some day...

  10. Hooray ! on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    This is certainly a milestone. Now let us hope that prof. Higgs still has the champagne in the 'fridge in case we find the "God particle". Hooray !

  11. Remarkable... on US-Australia Tensions Rise Over Net Filter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...how both so-called "free" countries will crack down upon China for filtering the internet on what they claim to be important free-speech-issues, but in the same time will not hesitate to implement rather identical measures at home.

  12. Excellent example.... on Canadian Libraries Want $300,000 To Buy Games · · Score: 1

    ... of public money well spent. Thumbs up, Toronto !

  13. Next comes.... on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the Netherlands. Oh, and Venice. We'll all end up as game addicts in a suburb of Sprawlopolis.

  14. If i take my girlfriend to "go see it"... on Weird Al Yankovic Biopic · · Score: 1

    ...she will die laughing. Which is a good thing ( the dying, not the laughing )

  15. Kudos to Peter Vreugdenhil on IE8, Safari, iPhone All Fall At Pwn2Own Contest · · Score: 1

    for his paper written on the plane ( and for his exploit ). Gawd knows how hard it is to write anything decent while travelling on a fucking plane.

  16. Re:I sometimes wonder on International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries · · Score: 1

    Amen. Which is why I still, persistently and stubbornly, code in Java. As soon as this kind of contest can be done in Java, I'll move back to Ada. Or so.

  17. The score on Dell To Leave China For India · · Score: 1

    is 2 - 1 in the game "corporate America vs. the Chinese government" @see "CommonWealth" by Hardt and Negri, neo-Marxist doctrine. They point this out, and predict it, quite nicely...

  18. I sometimes wonder on International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries · · Score: 1

    about the humongous amounts of information - in bytes - processed every day in tweets. Or email, for that sake. What *happens* to all that information ? All of it together, if backed up, would almost perfectly document our times to posterior generations. Even such contests would, really. Ever thought about that ?

  19. Website down on Balloon and Duct Tape Deliver Great Space Photos · · Score: 1

    Poor guy's website is fully choked with requests. Hats off to our British overlords !

  20. Yes, but... on How the TSA Plans On Inspecting Your Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...will the monkey blend ?

  21. Re:Daily Mail = Daily Fail on Tracking Pedophiles By Their Typing Habits · · Score: 1

    Amen.

  22. Re:DNS hack? on YouTube Is Down · · Score: 1

    nope. Internic has a normal-looking record. Smells like a Chinese DNS hack, though.

  23. Re:Well, what did they expect? on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1

    I donot think that anyone working on Wikileaks thinks they are above the law. They just have such a high opinion of the law that they are prepared to take personal risks for protecting it - their way. For which the utmost respect is due.

  24. Re:Impotent Slashdotters - all talk on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1

    I do. I donate to Wikileaks. It is the least I can do.

  25. Re:[citation needed] on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1

    Nope. Any chess player knows that keeping a menace or threat close to your chest for some time, makes you stronger. Playing it out leaves you ( slightly ) weakened. Until now, Wikileaks has *always* publicised whatever they had. It's just a question of time.