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  1. Re:Better solution on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Which explains why London has a higher violent crime rate than any major city in the US.

  2. Re:TrueCrypt's method is not detectable on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    No they couldn't, the most a decent lawyer could do would be to posit the possibility of there being a second, third, or even fourth key, but could in no way shape or form prove the existence of such a key.

  3. Re:Heat & Light vs Wire? on "Stealth" Plasma Antennas · · Score: 1

    Eh, if it's designed as a fragmentation kill vehicle, close certainly does count.

  4. Re:Not if you fly if from a stealth-plasma flagpol on "Stealth" Plasma Antennas · · Score: 1

    No, because to burn something has to oxidize. Plasma is not an oxidization effect. Hippies 0, him 1

  5. Re:Democrats are socialists? on Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans · · Score: 1

    ? The amount of cognitive dissonance in those last two sentences is amazing. In the latter sentence you basically say that the opinion of those voting politics in one country is irrelevant. While in the former sentence you say that every body else's(read europe's) opinion somehow matter.

  6. Re:Censorship? on US Internet Control To Be Topic #1 In Rio · · Score: 1

    The administrative control that the US currently has as no major effect on the US's, specifically No Such Agency's ability to monitor that traffic. It may make it slightly easier, but really not all THAT easier. However, there's a reason the main proponents of this are Iran, China, and Russia. And it ain't because they want to spread warm fuzzy feelings to their citizens.

  7. Re:same story on Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the thousands of Spaceballs references that would subsequently end up destroying the universe.

  8. First paragraph of article. on Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Funny as hell, and it shows the author is an idiot. If you chose the yellow car that had bad gas mileage over the blue "sensible" car, than you probably weren't rating gas mileage as an important consideration. Your were probably considering the options/engine displacement as being higher on your objectives list. Different people have different preferences, which is why someone else would rate high gas mileage as more important. Now, if the cars were the exact same except for color and gas milage, than you could be said to have a sub-optimal intellect. Or neon yellow could be you favorite color and you could find blue dreadfully dull. Again, the example given has nothing to do with the study, or rather shouldn't if the study measures what it claims, which I doubt.

  9. Re:Why not impeach 'em all? on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You mean the CIA non-spy? Who in fact was never going to get handed any undercover ops ever again after being posted at an embassy? After her husband had already through several public instances outed the fact that his husband was a CIA agent? And who had other internet searchable indicators of her employment? There was a reason that the only crime charged was over perjury. Which was a complete bullshit charge btw. It was over the exact day of something being said, and was literally one person's word against anothers. Not to mention the fact that the judge denied the defenses use of a memory expert to testify that in fact it is perfectly plausible that he wouldn't remember the exact day.

  10. Re:Why not impeach 'em all? on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 1

    Actually, it has to do with perhaps picking Kerry for their candidate. If Howard Dean had been picked, he probably would have had a better chance. Kerry had the Swift Boat problem, and for all his accusations of their untruth, he has neither to sue the group for libel and slander or fully release his war documents to the public(instead releasing them to a friendly newspaper which then omitted some of them from public view).

  11. Re:a little tweak on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 1

    "Vanish from the pages of time" That sorta kinda fucking definitely implies a controlling power that has erased all mention of the Israeli government. Which in turn implies that they have killed everyone involved in the Israeli government. If you were to say that mention of me and mine were to be vanished from the pages of time, you can bet your ass that I would take that as a major threat.

  12. Bwahahaaahahhahhahahaaa on Microsoft Wants 360 To Have PS2-Like Lifespan · · Score: -1, Troll

    hahhhahahhahhahhhha *wheeze* hahhhahhahhhhahhaaahhhahahhaahhahahha. Ye fucking gods they can't be serious. Firstly, as long as they force compliance with the 360 core, their games are never going to be as good as they could be. Long term, that's going to be a major irritant to sales. And of course if they drop core, that's going to result in major backlash. Secondly, the PS2 already had the wildly successful PS1 to build upon and was fully backwards compatible. Not so with the 360. It has some backwards compatibility, but not all that much. The newer PS3s don't either, but most of those with the biggest ps2 game collections probably already bought one. Moreover they were able to 4 years later shrink the ps2 to truly miniature proportions, which probably won't be possible in another 2 years with the 360. Then there's the fact that long term is even better for the PS3 simply because more and more peopple will have learned to program for the PS3 architecture by then which leaves the tech advantage to the PS3. With the penetration of the Wii among the cheap and casual market, it's unlikely that MS will be able to emulate the PS1s success, let along the PS2

  13. Re:Confusing The Issue on Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, all Broderick did in war games was attempt to connect to different computers. There wasn't any actual hacking involved. As for FB, he did it explicitly for himself, and did not take any money for it. Moreover, the hacking itself did not actually improve his standing in the school, it just meant he didn't get penalized for missing class. He was still keeping up with his work.

  14. Re:Carbon credits = lame on Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits · · Score: 1

    Overwhelming consensi(consensuses?) in a less than 100 year old scientific field are about as reliable as a 1970 Gremlin today. When the precious computer models can accurately account for things like albedo change, cloud/weather interaction, and can properly model the last 50 years without date input and open source their code, then they will have some real credibility. Until then it's the equivalent of a government funded circle-jerk. And just for the record, unless it's someone I trust, I assume that the people in the above professions are probably doing something to rip me off. Fortunately I haven't needed to see a doctor for anything major for quite a while, I can run basic wiring quite well on my own thank you, and since I don't have money out the wazoo, I don't need an electrician for anything since I'm not doing anything truly complex. As for auto mechanics, I've got 3 separate relatives who work on cars. I don't go to an auto mechanicsexcept for things like alignment, and I know exactly how much that should cost.

  15. Re:Where are the games? on Kmart Drops Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1

    Go Svedish taxings!

  16. Re: No Blue Light special on Blue Ray on Kmart Drops Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1

    I want to know how many people who have HD capable TV sets regularly shop at Kmart for their electronics needs that aren't college kids. Seriously, the amount of people who fit in this category HAS to be low.

  17. Re:MMOG :) on LucasArts, BioWare Announce Partnership · · Score: 1

    The original campaign was awful, the 2 sequels were quite good, HoTU being better than SoU.

  18. Re:No they want to eliminate all copying on Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack · · Score: 1

    AES is good, for certain things. Like sayyyy, encrypting data for yourself. Or sending a file one time to someone else with the keys. They never said it was a good idea to use it in a DRM system that constantly is decrypting the information when the hardware is being used, while the hardware is out of the control of the maker.

  19. Re:One problem with this plan on States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    How about, none of the computer models are remotely accurate and are attempting to rely on chaos theory to explain their results even though chaos theory, while not expecting you to know the exact values of the variables present, at least expects you to be able to IDENTIFY said variables or be able to monitor said environment for a period of time related to it's complexity(of which the 40 years we've had weather sats is considered a damned fucking small period of time). None of the computer models that I'm aware of can properly account for the effects of cloud formation, albedo change from cities(A much greater and greater problem as time goes on, especially if it ends up being a significant variable), etc... etc... Many of the signatories to the IPCC studies were in fact not signatories at all, but just worked on one or two separate parts of the project, and a whole host of other problems. Not to mention that even the basic data trends from the 1900's tend not to back it up assuming the models were correct.

  20. Re:One problem with this plan on States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    Although I doubt this would be true if you would count any taxes that went to the upkeep of said power stations. For instance, are the employees paid strictly from the profits from the power stations, or from city taxes?

  21. Re:In other news on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    Given that money is NOTHING but a system of worth exchange, LETS is the exact same bloody thing, just without scrip. Ergo, you in fact CAN'T imagine a world without money, or rather a world without what money truly is, rather than just fluttering pieces of paper.

  22. Re:Teflon on Famous Criminal Opines that Technology Breeds Crime · · Score: 1

    Actually, assuming no trauma plates, it will allow smaller caliber rifle fire to penetrate easier if the round has not started to tumble. But for most pistol calibers it doesn't help. Of course, the number of bank robberies that use rifles is rather low, so it's an irrelevant point, but still.

  23. Re:and that is the threat to the big labels; on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, if the businesses were truly capitalistic, they would have flourished, as the entire idea behind capitalism is that if there is a need for something, you can make money doing it. As need for that thing drops, you will struggle. So, any true capitalist must either continually adjust his produt to suit current need(, get into a static need business(like fuel), or somehow guarantee a continued want/need for their product(the govt.).

  24. Re:The Real Story on 360 And Halo 3 Push Past the Wii's Sales · · Score: 1

    If the 360 was outselling the PS3 5:1 when games like GT5, FFXIII, etc... etc... were coming out, you MIGHT have a point. As it is, the PS3 had no major releases, while the 360 had literally the biggest new release of it's history, and only managed to boost output 5 times over the PS3. Not too impressive. Whereas the Wii would have readily outsold the 360 had units been easily available.

  25. Re:Testing before testing. on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1

    The difference is that, unlike current AI tech, humans can think on their own, and both look for and create black markets, so inevitably any attempt to restrict smallarms is doomed to inefficiency and failure.