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  1. Re:So, how long has the NSA had one? on Lockheed Martin Purchases First Commercial Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Forget ciphering, imagine all the bitcoins you could mine with this thing!

  2. Re:Go Google! on Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome... ah never mind.

  3. Re:Or you could just pay for your own services on EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open · · Score: 1

    How about your underware?

    I'm not familiar with that app, do I even wanna know....?

  4. Programmer Tools on Open Source Programming Tools On the Rise · · Score: 1

    programmers sure know how to fiddle with their tools.

    There's an understatement.

  5. Re:Finally. on Google Sends Repeat Infringers To Copyright School · · Score: 1

    Dailymotion is less restrictive and you can even show boobs :D
    However, based on France's recent draconian data retention law I think I'll be closing my Dailymotion account.

  6. Re:Finally. on Google Sends Repeat Infringers To Copyright School · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better 'Tube Girl' than 'Tub Girl'.
    I'll spare you the link.

  7. Re:Simple Solution on US Police Increasingly Peeping At Email, IMs · · Score: 1

    An ISP that blocks ANY connections isn't an ISP.

    FTFY

  8. Re:Security? on Five of the Best Free Linux Disk Encryption Tools · · Score: 2

    You're missing the point. whether or not my data is worth compromising (which I whole heatedly believe that it is), is irrelevant.
    Setting aside the fact that I may have cached passwords and financial information stored on my hard drive, the fourth amendment
    is meant to guard against unreasonable searches and seizures. Since the US government has chosen to ignore the constitution, I believe that a "better safe than sorry" approach is quite prudent to say the least. You might want to check if you're currently located in a Constitution Free Zone as well.

  9. w/e on US May Issue Terror Alerts On Facebook, Twitter · · Score: 2

    Sounds like they're gearing up for yet another fear mongering campaign given the fact that the fear of terrorism has all but evaporated in the general populous.

  10. Re:DVR on The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom · · Score: 1

    TiVo's senior director of IT, Richard Rothschild, for instance, explained how those set-top boxes track everything you watch for advertising and marketing and then combine the information with supermarket membership card data to determine how effective ad campaigns are.

    Fuck that shit, I've been running MythTV for probably 7 years now and it is (and always has been) far superior to any of that bullshit Tivo has ever delivered.

    When it was reported by Tivo that Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" was the most replayed moment ever in Tivo history, I just laughed my ass off, as what I had always suspected had just been confirmed... they're watching everything you do.

    I wouldn't pause too long on that teeny bopper in a swimsuit if I were you, as it just might get your ass v&.

  11. Re:Humanity's single greatest embarrassment... on Denmark Now Supports EU Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 1

    At the very least religion seems to make for effective conditioning in that healthy skepticism and logical reasoning don't appear to be valued by society at large (at least in the US). Alas, questioning authority is frowned upon by a sizable portion of the population.

  12. Seriuously WTF? on Google Loses Autocomplete Defamation Case · · Score: 0
    Complete and utter bullshit.
    I really hate how society has evolved.
    Everyone's a complete and utter pussy incapable of rolling with the punches.

    Sometimes I just wish an asteroid would smash into the Earth and send us back to a simpler time.

  13. Re:Why all the complaining? on Google Is Introducing the +1 Button · · Score: 1

    I'll be blocking the Google +1 button just like I do with the Digg and the Facebook Like button.

  14. Re:Why are they against the domain? on India To Ban .xxx Domain · · Score: 2
    Genesis 19:32-36 (King James Version)

    Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

    And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

    And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

    And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

    Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

  15. Splinternet on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 3, Funny
    FTFA

    Back then, the Internet was one - a global web, similar regardless of weather

    Well I can attest to the fact that "back then" during stormy weather my internet went down on several occasions.
    No phone = no internet.

  16. Re:Will it leak? on Paramount Pictures To Release Film On Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    I really don't think there's even remotely a shortage of people to sue.

  17. What Data Mining Firms Know About You on What Data Mining Firms Know About You · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of the people who actually find the Ads Preferences page — and these must be people pretty into privacy — only 1 in 8 asks to opt out of being tracked.

    That's probably because people who are into privacy know that opting out will most likely show up in somebody else's DB as another data point, i.e. somebody who's concerned about privacy.

    Personally I'm more comfortable using no script, adlock plus, proxies, etc.

  18. Re:Go for it on Judge Allows Subpoenas For GeoHot YouTube Viewers, Blog Visitors · · Score: 1

    For added fun I'm going to watch these videos over and over via Tor, changing my IP with each viewing.
    I hope they enjoy pursuing untamed ornithoids without cause.

  19. Re:IceWM FTW on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    KDE has gotten way to bloated for my taste.
    I haven't used Gnome for over 10 years so I have no comment in that regard.
    For me, XFCE strikes the perfect balance between form and function. YMMV

  20. Re:"Dumbing Up" on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    poppycock! I don't need your fancy schmancy graphical user interfaces and widgets.
    Back in my day we did everything via CLI and we liked it..
    Lynx is still the best browser out there.
    Now get off my lawn!

  21. Re:Better than not having it on Playing Around With Tracking Protection In IE9 · · Score: 2

    Personally, I don't want to see ad-blocking go main stream (I feel the same way about Linux too, but that's another rant)
    Over the years I've become quite adept at writing rules for adblock to block ads, trackers, and otherwise undesirable content.
    This will only serve to make advertisers come up ways to make advertising more difficult to block and ultimately more obtrusive.

  22. Re:Because consumers are stupid on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    A light should not be producing heat

    My iguana would tend to disagree with this statement.

  23. Re:Because consumers are stupid on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    And at only $8.50 per bulb they're quite the bargain.

  24. Re:Oh boy on USB Autorun Attacks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure I trust BSD code to be secure.

  25. Re:Fire hose on Tethered, Water-Powered Jetpack Provides Two Hours of Flight Time · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of Super Mario Sunshine.