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  1. Re:I tend to be rather busy when on business trave on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    Me: Yeah, the legal dept says I had to according to *applicable law*.

  2. Re:Mess with them on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    no, that test was done with aluminum foil. that's the reason why it's nearly impossible to find actual TIN foil anymore!

  3. Re:Dual Boot on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Set grub timeout to 0 with default to windows. When you want to go into Linux, bypass the timeout by holding escape.

  4. Re:Let the raging tardfight commence on Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada · · Score: 1

    just added that for the sake of people who don't read xkcd, and thus wouldn't get the joke.

  5. Re:Laptop raper! on 3 Rugged Notebooks Take a Beating · · Score: 1

    Ever left something in the car on the seat on a hot summer day? Stuff can get damn hot in there, so an oven is quite a reasonable emulation of that circumstance.

  6. Re:The epitome of unbiased summaries on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    I'm on the personal "don't watch NBC" year and a half, so far. there's nothing worth watching on that channel.

  7. Re:Let the raging tardfight commence on Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada · · Score: 1

    what about the real programmers who set the universal constants at the start of the universe? =P

  8. Re:Which Enterprise? on IBM Touts Supercomputers for Enterprise · · Score: 5, Funny

    N-C-C one seven oh one. no bloody A, B, C, or D.

  9. Re:Anti-trust? on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that of course assumes that there is another company that doesn't throttle that you can switch to. without healthy competition, it simply won't work in that manner.

  10. Re:So you're saying... on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    or star trek.

    yes, yes, universal translators.

  11. Re:Awesome on British "X-files" Released to Public · · Score: 1

    But then New Mexico's tourist industry will collapse!

  12. Re:How come nobody ever learns from this? on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    hmm. interesting point.

    additionally, they seem to be working hard to distance themselves from the FLDS people, what with the whole thing in texas, so this seems to be a pretty good method for that.

  13. Re:Translation on UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs · · Score: 1

    Actually, they are receiving lots of money from MS. Last time I checked, they'd received some 900 million Euros so far in the form of fines from MS for not following EU antitrust regulations, this OOXML bit being part of that.

    They ARE looking into it.

  14. Re:Pipe on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    because they have to make as much profit as possible, at least for the next quarter. greed is good, dontchaknow?

  15. Re:Open-source technological solutions.... on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    3. Ignore the not-insignificant additional load added by HTTPS.

    HTTPS is an option, but not a very good one for this problem. something more efficient is needed, though i have no idea what.

  16. Re:Can a common carrier inspect content? on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    yes, but they do have a common-carrier-like exception in the copyright act.

  17. Re:Revoke common carrier status now on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    but they do have a common-carrier like status in the copyright act. can't remember the citation at this moment though.

  18. Re:Is it reasonable? on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    in a legal sense, no.

  19. Re:no capability of targeting any school? on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    more like a filter that throws away all schools that ARE A, B, and C, where A, B, and C have lots of lawyers-in-training, which could handily turn their methods and arguments into legal confetti.

  20. Re:Message to people who gripe about interfaces on Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that isn't "myth preceded" it's "fact preceded". we've been doing a trial of the thing where i work and after 6 months, we largely chucked it as practically all (about a dozen out of the 2 hundred liked the new interface) the test clients couldn't stand it anymore.

  21. Re:It will be fixed on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    i was sure that netscape problem was due to the US crypto export regs (the silly encryption=munitions thing) that limited the encryption to 40-bit keys.

  22. Re:First they came for the pirates... on Canada Considering A Three Strikes And You're Off The Internet Policy? · · Score: 1

    Political suicide on the federal level anyway. The pro-french stuff seems to have plenty of public support in Quebec, so they keep power.

  23. Re:What I don't get... on FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know. I never use those things though, because of the fees those damn things charge you. I've seen some that will charge you 5 bucks for a withdrawal.

  24. Re:Here's a better idea... on Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways · · Score: 1

    going by FTA, this way works faster.

  25. Re:Why not allow them to be implanted? on First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Under Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    for those wondering who that was

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brown (first in the world)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Jordan_Carr (first in the US)