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  1. I don't like that defense on Google Sued Over Privacy Invasion On Street View · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Telling people that there is no damage because you can ask for something to be removed is silly IMO, that doesn't cover the time it was up until the request was followed and I dislike the idea of opt-out in general, asking someone for permission should happen BEFORE acting, not just acting and telling people they have to come to you to revoke their permission.

  2. Re:ATV? on Europe's Automated Cargo Shuttle Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    And at least once for porn.

  3. Re:Additional character on Celebrity AD&D Character Sheets · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris has only one stat, Rounhouse Kick, but it can be applied successfully to any problem.

  4. Re:Don't bother visiting on Celebrity AD&D Character Sheets · · Score: 1

    I think this just proves that (vanilla) D&D is not suitable for modeling present-day people.

    Any attempt to depict Chuck Norris would require numbers over 9000.

  5. Re:What would have made a better article on Celebrity AD&D Character Sheets · · Score: 2, Funny

    he gains experience points through sleeping with every non-human female currently in play.

    Won't somebody please think of the tribbles?

  6. Re:Yawn on Matrix-Like VR Coming in the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    Also it's garbage. The uncanny valley comes from one aspect of the image being human-like but others not, e.g. a perfectly human 3d model but with a lighting system that makes it look like concrete and animations that are on par with animatronics. The theory was put forth by a robotics researcher and robots had very primitive movements at the time despite maybe having very humanlike appearances. Of course it's going to creep people out if you show them something that looks like a human when still but moves like animatronics. Games don't have the mechanical limitations of robots and a movement can have any "force" in it. Motion capture gets pretty damn close to real movements, enough to give it the appearance of being alive that the uncanny valley bots lacked.

  7. Re:What it means on Qutrits Bring Quantum Computers Closer · · Score: 1

    Of course you'll have to program it in TriINTERCAL...

  8. Re:convert qubits into qutrits...far more powerful on Qutrits Bring Quantum Computers Closer · · Score: 1

    I read it as qutris. Quantum Tetris would be... weird.

  9. Re:Personal cryptography users should be disappoin on Qutrits Bring Quantum Computers Closer · · Score: 1

    The limit for quantum computing is currently space, the number of qubits you can keep at the same time is still very limited and AFAIK current QCs don't have the space to store a 2048 bit key.

  10. Re:LARTing by text message on New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    And if it's spectacular maybe they get a darwin award!

  11. Re:I disagree... on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    And who watches the watchmen-watcher?

  12. Re:Strange... you missed the whole thing. on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    You have experience at shooting targets but do you have experience at close quarters combat?

  13. Re:That's a violation on New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    it wouldn't matter if Trapster doesn't divulge information to law enforcement (and why would they?)

    Subpoena? There's probably also a dozen of "antiterror" measures that would allow taking the data but I'm not familiar with those.

  14. Re:Real Texans keep their word. on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if most "conservatives" these days didn't even know what the word means and just assume it's what the party does.

  15. Re: terrorism on EU's Anti-Trust Investigation of OOXML Continues · · Score: 1

    Yes, with their wallets. Because they don't have to buy MS products and there's no way anyone would ever have to buy Office if he didn't like it. Didn't the libertarian brigade tell you anything about the magic of capitalism?

  16. Re:I call bullshit on Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism · · Score: 1

    "Department of Homeland Security" (my God, what an Orwellian phrase)

    It's pretty much what the soviet secret services for catching dissidents were called (KGB = Commitee for State Security, Stasi = Ministry for State Security).

  17. Re:Well duh on Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism · · Score: 1

    You can call conservatives, libertarians, social democrats, communists, nazis, etc the solution but it doesn't mean jack when none of them are running for office (or at least standing a chance at winning an election). By now I'm sure that even a "liberal" or "neo-con" (Dems, Reps) with integrity would be better. ANYONE with integrity and the will to actually push for his party's goals instead of his lobbyists' would probably do better.

  18. Re:Rule 11 on U. Maine Law Students Trying To Shut RIAA Down · · Score: 1

    I was considering it but the I thought about it the more I realized I really don't want to see that.

  19. Re:Rule 11 on U. Maine Law Students Trying To Shut RIAA Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd prefer to see Rule 37 used: There is no "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload."

  20. Re:To: central@iso.org on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 2, Informative

    ODF is already approved as an ISO standard.

  21. Re:they have a point on T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "tell them to go fornicate themselves"?

  22. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? on T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta · · Score: 1

    I recall hearing about the trademark years ago, back when DT was privatized IIRC.

  23. Re:Congratulations on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    We do (EUCD) but I don't think a cryptosystem like that counts as a copy protection. Though there might be some stupid anti-hacking laws on the books (remember the whole outcry over banning "hacker tools"?).

  24. Re:Transit passes... on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    With all the loopholes, legal corruption and crap going on these days it IS a rare sight for a wrong and unethical thing to be illegal.

  25. Re:For a determined person not too hard on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    You can probably leave the antenna in plain sight, as long as it's mounted on a van people will assume you're a radio technician or something and using the antenna for business.