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  1. Re:And people wonder why hackers often... on Andrew Auernheimer Case Uncomfortably Similar To Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 0

    You are wrong. And it seems that you are a friend of security through obscurity. And prioritize economical interests of companies before security interests of the society.

  2. Re:America's response. on How Mobile Operators Are Caught In the Middle In the Middle East and Africa · · Score: 1

    Well, there could be seen as an important difference if did it 10 years ago or 1000 years ago...

  3. Re:On noes! The satellites! on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    You say " a decent microkernel needs a lot of development time". I thought the point of a microkernel architecture was the opposite ?

  4. Re:time to invade on Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City · · Score: 1

    No. South-Ossetia and Abkhazia was/is a part of Georgia. They are still only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu (and by partially recognized Transnistria and unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh. And each other).

    Georgia tried to use army forces to retake the control of South-Ossetia but was met with Russian forces which entered Georgia proper in fighting.
    Separatist forces in Abkhazia have with the help of Russian weapons and forces more or less complete control of Abkhazia.

    Regarding Kosovo, as something like 90% of the people was/is Albanians and more or less a war started 1998 between the Serbian army and Albanian rebel forces, a potential risk for homicide was lingering. 2008 declared Kosovo independence. Today is Kosovo recognized by most of the EU country's, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. Plus a couple of minor country's.

    As the former republic of Yugoslavia disintegrated, a war started 1991 between a couple of the former provinces/autonomous regions of Yugoslavia. At this point there were no commonly or at all recognized country in this area.

  5. Re:Half-FUD, Half-Fluff piece on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    Lets put it this way: Why would the Chinese *NOT* do as the article implies ? Assuming competence, there is in their own interest to do just his.

  6. Re:That's only one of the problems on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    Law and reason are not the same.

  7. Re:Parallelizing is easy, performance is hard on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 1

    It's rather that you have to *design* the application on a high level to get the most of the parallelism gains.

  8. Re:Simple lesson on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 2

    I can imagine that you felt like that.

    But people that routinely points loaded and unsecured guns at people - and you, will sometimes proceed in the automatic "drill" and fire.

  9. SSD's... on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 1

    I would rip to SSD's and then copy to HD's + 2 backup HD's.

    But then I'm a novice in the area.

  10. Re:About time on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    The downside with getting rid of "categorizing" is that the social/legal climate is such that you can in trouble with police due the behavior. With a "diagnose" the police have something to relate to when deciding how to treat a certain situation. I'm *not* talking about a criminal behavior, just e g an awkwardness in the response to the police.

     

  11. Re:Inredible bias here on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 2

    But 13 year old's can get adult prison sentences: get life without parole.
       

  12. This will boost the electric car market on Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you can reuse parts of your electric car for your household for economic benefit (and maybe as backup for blackouts) it makes these high priced cars more valuable and therefore expand the potential market.

    This will also potenially create a battery market for house backup for blackouts or accomodation to possible day to night price difference.
    Which also will expand the battery market. All this will lower the production unit costs for batteries.
    And here the cycle begin again... :)
     

  13. Re:It does not make sense. on Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit · · Score: 1

    Gamma rays don't "bounce".

  14. Re:And the downside? on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    Better: make it a felony for a cop to not have a functioning camera active. Third strike = 25 years in prison. :)

  15. Re:I'm loath to ask: on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 2

    A donor would be brain-dead (AFAIK) which means irreversible loss of activity in the brain. And that means there is no receiver of any pain signals. (Comparable to a head amputation.)

  16. Re:It's not subjective. on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    You are an extremely obvious example of a type of mind that will ultimately destroy what free speech is left.

    There seems to be some sort of a mental blockage in certain peoples thinking about human rights. Could be underlying drift towards a totalitarian state.

       

  17. Re:Haven't read TFA on Sweden Imports European Garbage To Power the Nation · · Score: 2

    Not necessarily. You have to transport whatever fuel You use. E g the oil from middle east. (By burning diesel...)

    Here You could have the fuel in the local district or in a neighbour country. And You have to take care of the trash anyway! *Which in itself costs energi*

  18. Re:Word on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I started coding I had to punch my programs in punchcards. A pity if You drop them and didn't have numbered them... :)

    Then I advanced to filling in the code in forms to be delivered to the girls in the punching department. As they were young and sweet I often delivered the code forms myself. :)

    After a Year we got these marvellous 3270 terminals where we could code in green on black - and could correct errors without Tipp-Ex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipp-Ex) !! I felt I was on the technical frontier!! :D

  19. Re:The Imams of the West on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 1

    * "outlaw any questioning of scientific theories" ??

    * Are You asking for a 5-billion-year-long experiment ??

    * Evolution isn't statistics. Geology isn't statistics. Cosmology isn't statistics. You have a PhD in statistics. It looks like You have a hammer and thinks everthing is a nail.

    * It seems that You think that every Scienticific progress since 1500 is an illusion based on wrong assumptions. I think the problem is that You have learned too little and therefore assumes that You know all.

  20. Re:Resentful of Dawkins on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 2

    Many posts here alleges that Dawkins is rude, or as You say, obscene. But noone seems to provide an example. And by that I mean from trueworthy source.
    Maybe You can give som links ?

  21. The KKK probably find it insulting if I say that black people has the same rights as white people. Should I therefore avoid saying that when a KKK member can hear it ?
     

  22. Re:Dawkins is just a bully on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 1

    I don't call that proof. AFAICS there is nothing that says that it really is Dawkins that posted it.

  23. Re:Dawkins is no Sagan on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 1

    Why should You be respectful to a totalitarian ideologi ?

  24. Re:doesn't matter on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm 57 years old. My experience is that *most* people can't/do not want to reevaluating their views. They have etablished their views many years ago and don't listen to any conflicting facts. At least as long there are no real problems that is affecting them due to the views.

  25. Re:Apparently? on IBM Reports Carbon Nanotube Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    This is maybe a post. Maybe by me. Could be a good post ... or a bad.
    (This was 3 quantbits.)