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  1. Re: PHP vs Perl on Perl 6 Released (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I And aren't you really sick and tired of writing my ($self,$foo,$bar,$baz) = @_; YET? I know I sure am!

    I for one will never get tired of writing: bless $self

  2. Renewable energy? on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    I would have expected better from slashdot. There is no such thing as renewable energy, it would contradict the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Damn neo liberal ecological right wing leftists, their brainwashing seems to work.

  3. Re:Because they are useful on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 1

    http://wwiionline.com/scripts/wwiionline/index.jsp

    WWII Online is a pure PvP Simulation of the World War II from 1940-42. Every unit you see on the map is player controlled (except for AI flak/Pak/Mgs). The High Commands Ranks of all armies are players well.

    We have camping too, but thank god you can always spawn with your squad one city/airfield behind the camped armybase/airfield, sneak onto the fraggers and give em hell.

  4. Finally on Smart Sunglasses · · Score: 2, Funny

    W00t, we have sunglasses that _can_ turn dark in case of extreme danger.

  5. Re:Cue all the anarcho-capitalists.... on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 0

    Never said that there is such a thing as "required read". And for the pompous attitude, I already stated that I am leeeet because I read his books.

  6. Re:Cue all the anarcho-capitalists.... on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You obviously haven't read one of his books... judging from the tone of your post you never will. That's probably for your own good, as you wouldn't grasp them anyway (Yeah, I am soooo 133337 because i read his books). And you know sh*t about him... seems to entitle you at least for some cynicism. I hope you will have the same fate when you grow old. I had a lot of fun while reading his books and will help him out.

  7. Re:Google powerful enough?? on Googling for ATM Master Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's already there, just use it.

  8. Re:Rest in peace on Stanislaw Lem Dies in Krakow · · Score: 1

    R.I.P. He and his books had a great influence on my life. gnork

  9. Re:Nothing to see here on UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. It's a radio signal transmitted over radio that triggers the mechanism. Come on, thats an old hat. It's implemented in us american military technology for ages.

  10. Re:of course it matters on Does Faster Broadband Matter? · · Score: 1

    Uhm, you got that wrong ... it's bad for your spinal cord.

  11. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice on Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    I was always wondering why they used "xp" for character twiddling ...

  12. Re:Read Lem! on Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses? · · Score: 1

    I already had lost hope ... all I can say, I enjoy(ed) reading Lem. Luckily I didnt have access to western scifi until I read most books written by him. He even can be funny (The Flop or Sterntagebuecher) - dont know the english translation of the title.

    He became somewhat philisophical in his later books or created new type of literature as in "The absolute vacuum", a book consisting of forewords to never written books.

    To be honest, I was kind of disgusted when I read Perry Rhodan for the first time, but maybe that's just me.

  13. Re:Why? on DOJ Wants ISPs to Retain All Customer Records · · Score: 1

    This may be true for e-mail, but would you say it is true for credit card transactions with an https server as well?

    If I was an evil government, then my answer would be "Yes, you are communicating encrypted, so you have something to hide. If you kindly provide your key to us, so we can check out that you are doing nothing illegal. Then we will consider removing you from the people-who-use-encryption-and-therefore-are-suspec ted-criminals/terrorists-list."

    Just because you are sending encrypted e-mail does not mean that your messages are suspect.

    What was the name of the crypto chip with a government backdoor/key escrow in it? IIRC here in germany it was Pluto. These plans were withdrawed for now, but I think we will see something like that again. TCPA would be a good start.

    I was more after the fact, that even encrypted communication exposes you communicate(d) at all. If there was a way to fill all lines with white noise, then encrypted communication would be indistinguishable from the noise. And yes, I know that would be cost intensive for the ISPs or the customer without a flat rate and is a rather tinfoil approach. *tips his hat*

    A nice example for that is "Chaffing an winnowing for emails".

    As an asside, how are they going to enforce such logging?

    I know (the rack is three rooms away from me) that providers with a certain number of customers have to provide a tapping possibility to snoop emails of suspected criminals. Once in widespread use, who cares or can control what else is going down these lines directly to the police/TLAs? Dont tell me noone can dig through that much information. Even if that is true today, there will be a point where processing power and programming techniqes are slightly more advanced and will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data.

    gnork

  14. Re:Why? on DOJ Wants ISPs to Retain All Customer Records · · Score: 1

    Thats's no way out, because then encryption would be a sign that you have something bad in your mind and therefore you are a stinking terrorist.

    THEY are able to break anything anyway. The fact that you are sending an encrypted email may hide what you have to say, but it doesnt hide the communication itself.