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  1. Re:How to benefit the consumer. on The Economist on Patent Reform · · Score: 1

    ...but I thought that's how it worked already!!

  2. 3.8?? on Intel's BTX Form Factor Launched Today · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    3.8??

    *Turns over and goes back to sleep*

    The size of the cache: OMG unprintably biiiiig!

    *Falls out of bed, rolling over the floor laughing*

    I'm sure they'll catch up with AMD64... someday!

    *Goes back to sleep, dreaming of being Torvald with his harem*

  3. Traduction in newspeak on Iraq law Requires Seed Licenses · · Score: 1


    "education" of a plant?

    Traduction: a plant that makes profit for Bush's friends. Other plants are "deluded terrorists" part of the "seed of evil".

  4. Re:Disproportion of punishment to crime... on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1


    People spent 567 years deleting his junk mail, as 1 second per mail.

    That's like taking 7 or 8 lifetimes away completely - from birth to old age!

    In bandwidth alone, he wasted 50 000$ a month at the receiver end. That's vandalism!

    Add the cost of commercial spam filters (plus the time installing a filter), and you'll forget about when the government wastes 1 billion, bub.

    9 years is kinda OK with me. But I have to agree I'd rather have him lose ALL his fraudulently-gained money than have the jail time; but ideally I'd want both.

  5. Re:The sentencing on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1


    But in Denmark, would the government be smart enough to seize ALL money made fraudulently?

    If not, then spammers might want to move to Denmark so they can get more $ per year in jail.

    Not to mention less prison rape, and more job training.

  6. Re:Another one born every minute on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1


    "We now have clinching proof that there exist at least 200,000 complete suckers in the world."

    Considering the spam in my inbox hasn't dropped by even 0.1%, I'd say there are 200,000,000 complete suckers in the net.

    Compute how many complete suckers there are OFF the net, and you might end up with a number not unlike the total number of Emails this spammer sent!

  7. Re:Penis enlargement pills for fellow inmates on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    ...but is he praying the pills work, or praying the pills don't work? (-;

  8. The law is making some progress! on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1


    According to the article with the picture, he was convicted for using false (fraudulent) informations in E-mail headers.

    If that's the case (journalists sometime 'make the facts more interesting' you know) then I'm all for that anti-spam law!

    If spammers aren't allowed to forge headers, their business is inherently illegal or at least less profitable...

  9. Re:All that money on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1


    "Well with 9 years in prison, all that money will probably be useful in bribing prison guards to protect him from some old-fashioned prison treatment" ...as some enlargement done with a penis instead of to a penis, and it works too? (-;

    If the spammer is allowed to keep the money from the fraud, most/all of it, WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?

    I should sell T-shirts: I got spammed and he got rich, but all I got was that enlargement revenge thing.

  10. Re:It doesn't matter if they can prove it on Novell vs. Microsoft, Again · · Score: 2, Interesting


    "no enforcement technique can control them [Microsoft]"

    I disagree; there is an enforcement technique to control them.

    On top of paying the money, let them lose copyright/patent over a percentage of their lines of codes/applications equivalent to the market share lost by the other company.

    Letting the other company choose what MS copyrights/patents are lost, of course. Otherwise MS would dump sol.exe and clippy. Think of the brain damage a free clippy would cause! (-;

    At that rate, ALL windows code should be free source in 10 years... so soon enough we'll get a Linux and a BSD with word, sol.exe, and that tax program you use only once a year that the government refuses to make for linux.

  11. Suspicious on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 1


    I'm suspicious of the quality - I couldn't get nice 600 X 800 pic of the holograms or anything close to that.

    Shouldn't a site like this have at least one high quality picture so we can show the quality of the hologram? Under different angles if possible?

    I'm suspecting they can't duplicate the cheap cat hologram on my watch.

  12. Re:Re: please on Schneier On Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    "They have no reason to exist at all, paper trails are absolute nonsense and are only useful in a recount."

    That's also the only reason I want a paper trail; for as long as the voting machines have bugs and a few decades more just to be 100% sure.

    Current elections are NONTRACABLE. Mostly non-recountable. Owned by republican-donating corporations with convicted felons specialized in sophisticated computer fraud as coders.

    Paper trail good! Diebold bad! (-;

  13. LET'S SPIKE THE RESULTS! on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 1


    Let's spike the results ourselves and submit each "spiked" page to only one search engine so we know which engine copies which other!

    This would help us weed out complete parasites.

  14. Like my own life. on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1


    It has been twice this week people have been doing stories that look like my own life.

    -Ever got your vacantion cancelled by the boss on 15 minutes notice and reassigned arbitrarily to a date you didn't choose?

    -Been blamed for being late when you come it at 5 AM, after leaving the company at 1AM to sleep & eat the same day? (Not continually, but... weekly!)

    -Had the boss assign you to his private house moving or music studio, on overtime paid by the company who is nearly bankrupt?

    -Had the boss claim he didn't understand a thing you're saying, only to have him understand when another employee repeats word for word what you said (with voice imitation to boot so employees laugh at the boss)?

    -Have your obvious physical limits ignored (i.e. if you're in a wheelchair they want you to take the stairs)?

    -Had to prepare a rigged demo for tomorrow - in a language you don't understand - of a product that does not exist and was just invented for a nice-sounding promise by the boss 5 minute ago?

    -Had to work 72 hours in a row, because no one else in the company knows networking thanks to the boss' aversion to extreme programming or any meaningful know-how share in a very large software company?

    -Had to get pirated software as part of your continued employment?

    -Had to destroy your year-long record overtime, so your boss can claim there wasn't any?

    -Had your name erased from your code like everybody else (making maintenance or error origin finding impossible), because the boss wants all code to seemingly come from him so the coming bankruptcy doesn't cost him the code?

    -Have been paid late half the year, and corrently 6 months late on receiving paychecks?

    Geez. I think I could get myself a slashdot story. I think half the networking administrators could!!!

  15. CNN changes exit polls numbers after the fact!!! on Schneier On Electronic Voting · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This isn't a statistical proof anymore. CNN rigged the exit polls to hide the extremely unlikely discrepancy between votes and its published exit poll numbers!!!

    While this isn't tampering with the vote itself, it shows CNN is trying to help Bush cover the unlikely discrepancy! Perhaps we're living in interesting times and it was a one-in-a-billion discrepancy between votes and exit polls... but since we CAN'T VERIFY THE MACHINES my opinion is that vote tampering is much more likely than not and CNN covered the trail.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/3646/141 36

    (backup that entire web page please, we never know)

    Quote:
    "Let's first look at the women. In the first sample, 53% of 1,963 people can be anywhere from 1,030 to 1,050 women in the sample (try punching numbers outside that range into your calculator, it won't round to 53%). In the second sample, 53% of 2,020 people is anywhere from 1,061 to 1,080 women in the sample. So anywhere from 11 to 50 additional women were surveyed.

    Well, in the first sample, 53% of women went for Kerry, meaning an absolute minimum of 541 (541/1030) women to an absolute maximum of 561 (561/1050) women for Kerry. So in the first exit poll, somewhere between 541 and 561 women were for Kerry.

    Now for the second sample. 50% of women going for Kerry means an absolute minimum of 526 (526/1061) to an absolute maximum of 545 (545/1080). So in the second poll, somewhere between 526 and 545 women were for Kerry.

    So it is *technically* possible that, say, 542 women went for Kerry in the first sample, and almost all the women they interviewed afterwards went for Bush (say only 2 went for Kerry), and then you'd have 544 women say they're for Kerry. This is actually within reason. If we had the raw numbers, we could tell for sure. Or even percentages to the tenths place.

    *BUT*..... With the men, in the first sample there were between 913 to 933 men, and 940 to 959 men in the second sample. So anywhere from 7 to 46 additional men were surveyed. In the first sample, anywhere from 462 (425/913) to 480 (443/933) men were for Kerry. But in the second sample, anywhere from 438 (438/940) to 455 (455/959) men were for Kerry! You had at /least/ 462 men say they were for Kerry in the first sample, and the number DROPPED to a maximum of 455 in the second sample!

    THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. I've allowed for the biggest intervals possible that would still result in the given percentages. Something is very wrong here. This is mathematically impossible."

    So can any statistician give us an idea of why that kind of thing could be happening??

  16. Re:Ohio and Florida on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1


    So why would much, much, much more people lie on exit polls than before? And why would CNN change the exit poll numbers after the fact to match the votes???

    Exit polls liars can't explain everything. Especially not in the Diebold-using states as opposed to other states.

  17. Re:They do? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1


    So you're telling us not to bother until it's proven Diebold rigged the vote?

    1- Diebold has heavy political ties to Bush and his party. Indivuduals in Diebold have further ties to republicans.

    2- Two words describing a Diebold developper: "convicted felon". Of sophisticated computer fraud no less. So you expect him not to try for the computer fraud heaven at his fingertips???

    3- You CAN'T look at the machines, the code, and they don't do paper trails.

    So no wonder Kerry can't PROVE Diebold rigged the vote or allowed it to be rigged due to their sheer incompetence. KERRY ISN'T ALLOWED TO CHECK THE MACHINES THEMSELVES OR THE CODE!!!

    Elections, above all, should be as transparent as it is practical to make them. Both of Bush's elections were as opaque as he could make them without risking too much.

    For the record, I both oppose Bush and voting without papertrails.

  18. Noriega and Bush faking terrorism on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1



    "When Noriega addressed the packed courtroom at his sentencing 10 months after the trial began, he dropped crumbs for the media to follow. The two-hour statement mentioned U.S. involvement in a 1979 attempt to murder the Shah of Iran and the 1981 air explosion that killed his predecessor, Gen. Omar Torrijos. He accused a former head of the DEA of perjury and George Bush of instigating phony terrorist disturbances in the Panama Canal Zone when he was CIA director in the mid-'70s."

    Georges Bush instigating phony terrorist disturbances? Sounds familiar. I think I hear echo...

    Now can we put that in wikipedia and make it stick? No.

    Slashdot, for all its folly and opinionated people, still has somewhere portions of the truth other media do not. Somewhere between two arrogant opinions, usually. (-;

    Joy!

  19. Re:Dear Bush Supporters on The Battle Over Candidates' Wikipedia Entries · · Score: 1


    History books would do well to mention Stalin's approx 60 million deaths instead of Hitler's smaller 6 millions as the ultimate atrocity. Or something more than Stalin, if some historian can show us... it's amazing how ignorant of history we are... ...and not as many jews as they say in the holocaust (even if it was millions). They were also tzigans, gays, blacks, handicapped, people that annoyed certain key generals, the poor and uneducated, a few criminals big or small, and people the government doesn't like. Try getting that into an encyclopedia, much less a wiki, and you'll meet the anti-truth filters of some conservatives. People want to believe in a 6 million jews holocaust with much less of the other categories...

    And why not mention Bush's invasion of Irak civilian bodycount?? Oh yeah. Edit wars. Bush's censoring of school textbooks and deciding which encyclopedias are OK for school. Bummer!

    I'm not buying an encyclopedia until they mention how many civilians Bush killed and all those unpopular facts - as soon as the fact are proven beyond all doubts.

  20. Wikipedia's problem on The Battle Over Candidates' Wikipedia Entries · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Wikipedia has a problem with the truth in hotly debated issues; the article's opinion mostly has to do with the endurance of one side being more than the other.

    The global warming article is one example; while it's a very slow "edit war", you can't put the truth in the article and expect it to stay. Wikipedia is based on consensus, not truth.

    When a complicated scientific issue is raised, like fluoridation, the US's "scientific view" is mistaken for the scientific view of the world; wikipedia is american-like that way.

    I have yet to see an article linking tabbaco to cancer on wikipedia, or anything substantial about propaganda.

  21. Oppression in a democracy, for dummies on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1


    1- Pass a bad, vague law about terrorism in other nations (and NOT terrorism by our nation; that's counterterrorism).

    Optionnal: if after a terrorist event, attach last minute "immunity from lawsuits for bad vaccines" clause to homeland security bill to protect vaccines companies that generously donated for reelection.

    2- Abuse vague new laws on every nonterrorist case. Keep a few (probably innocent) axe-of-evil citizens in jail without trial or even questionning them about *anything* for good measure; this "validates" the antiterrorism laws in the warped mind of CNN.

    3- When the courts puts the bad parts of the bad law in the shredder until only the name of the law remains, just make another vague, bad law. Nominate some more extreme-right supreme court judges so you don't have to make laws too often.

    Optional: take a month's vacation to avoid being in contact with official intelligence reports. This official vacations has nothing to do with coordonating false terrorist events and carlyle group profits together, of course!

    4- Forge photos of "liberating Irak" to get reelected (see link in my .sig) and go a little short of book burning when it comes to global warming textbooks while you're at it.

    5- Be reminded to do the same with elections. Abuse until the courts say what's a bad voting machine, then use another bad voting machine. Make sure there is a chance in 10000000000000000000000 that the exit polls are that far apart from the voting so it stays "credible". Except for all the things CNN didn't mention.

    6- ???

    7- Profit! (Or "avenge the Xtian crusaders", or whatever)

  22. Re:Kim Peek not "autistic" on Kim Peek, aka Rain Man Focus of NASA Study · · Score: 1


    Mercury causes brain damage. There is the Minamata, Japan case to prove it beyond all doubt, as well as those fish advisories that won't allow you to eat fish with a fraction of the mercury you'd get in a vaccine or amalgam.

    Among others the mercury miner tragedies have left plenty of evidence, and some of those people are still alive, that mercury does NOT cause autism. At any age or stage of developpement.

    In fact, the Minamata case HAD NO RISE IN AUTISM. Autism rates were surprisingly low. Such a statistical anomaly would point to the unability of autistics to detoxify mercury... (i.e. many more than normal could have died before statistics were made). This correlates with the Amy Holmes study of autistic hair. Of course the "autism makes mercury detoxification weaker than normal" part is a bit theorical, but no study has shown mercury to be a CAUSE of autism. Even if some vaccines are suspect.

    Yet you'll still find chelation doctors claim a cure for autism, and mercury as the "obvious" cause of "most" autism. Because that claim outsells truth 100 to 1. Because families want a "cure" for autism rather than a cure for all the secondary problems of mercury poisoning.

    Added to that, asperger diagnosis are partly a fad; most people with the diagnosis ARE asperger, but those who aren't... including a few people who fake it rather than think it... are so much trouble and so much manipulations of those with the real asperger! The fox in the poultry house. Ya know?

  23. Re:Kim Peek not "autistic" on Kim Peek, aka Rain Man Focus of NASA Study · · Score: 1


    Your brain stem will still be 1/6 of the size it should be, chelation or not. That's 99% of autistics (as listed in Scientific American. Search for Susan Bryson).

    Of course without the colateral damage, you can cope with it rather well; better than the

    But can you recognize eye language competently?

    Your autistic base strenghts, as well as the base weaknesses, are as intact as mine. We're now out of a diagnosis, but we work very differently internally. There are a battery of tests to prove it.

  24. A Noam Chomsky oversimplification! on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1


    It's very important to the party in power (but not the government or citizens) to protect our terrorists against other terrorists. Indy media are interfering with manufacturing consent!

  25. Nonplussed about your translation on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    Tsk, tsk, tsk. Watch your newspeak! If the thought police notices you you're good for 5 year of rehab at the minister of love!!

    The way to say it is "People who interfer with the press job of manufacturing consent for the war are non-citizens anyway, let's lock them without due process or warning their family as illegal combatants".

    Or "People who cost a single american job are enemies of the state's right to pollute enough to kill one american life instead".

    Just remember not to mention deaths in other countries due to pollution, global warming, depleted uranium, or the vaccine companie's immunity from lawsuits due to excessive use of mercury as attached to the Homeland security bill. The three-letter acronyms hate it when you do that.

    And by the way. The minister of truth has missed one here:

    The first church of common sense:
    http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/

    So go close it already! AND AVENGE THE CRUSADERS!!!