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  1. Re:Uh, tough? on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    Really? So, you published images onto the public internet that you want to be kept secret and not copied? Well, clearly google and anyone who looks at the images must be at fault here.

  2. Re:Steam-punk appeal on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    Hey - that's the same watch I've got.

    It works brilliantly, but it's a bit on the big side though not as big as my Suunto dive computer.

  3. Re:Not surprising on Spanish Copyright Society Raided For Embezzlement · · Score: 1

    It should be easy enough to gather around plenty of witnesses from the wedding guests to say that the other guy started the fight and that you were just acting in self-defence.

  4. Re: Would otherwise have purchased them? on Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's more like forcing pavement (sidewalk for you american-english speakers) makers to rip up the street to prevent you from going to a gun shop.

  5. Re:Facebook? Has he sold out or what? on Geohot Joins Facebook As Product Developer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a PS3 owner and I thank Geohot for all his work on the platform. Sony can pretty much rot in hell for all I care after the stunts they pulled with regards to the PS3.

  6. Re:This is bad because? on Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This fallacy was explored by a recent BBC documentary (All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace). Ecosystems aren't balanced equilibriums at all - they are constantly changing and have always been changing (i.e. before humans were around).

    However, this doesn't mean that a particular change is going to be good for us humans.

  7. Re:Do they have an IT dept? on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Swordfish?

  8. Re:good point on FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia · · Score: 1

    You're comparing apples to oranges there.

    There are reasons to scan trucks on a PUBLIC highway, but they'd need a warrant to do it on PRIVATE property.

    The servers seized were most definitely private and thus they should have had a warrant to seize them.

  9. Re:Solution on FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia · · Score: 1

    The Principality of Sealand?

  10. Re:Regression testing on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    Why not? Surely block level dedupe is the only way to dedupe if they can't access the unencrypted files.

  11. Re:Log files on Citi Bank Reveals Attack... One Month Late · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't if the log files are on paper!

    There's other ways of ensuring that log files aren't altered - it's trivial to set up a syslog server that accepts logs from other machines but can be hardened (only have local console logons enabled) to ensure that the logs arent altered.

    It's also pretty easy to put a copy of logs onto a multi-session dvd that's effectively write only.

  12. Re:If You Are Right on Why the US Govt Should Be Happy About Wikileaks · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You Sir, are an idiot.

  13. Re:We all know what happens when stories like this on New Superbug Strain Found In Cows and People · · Score: 1

    Actually, the US allows an "acceptable" level of antibiotics in milk. Antibiotics are routinely added to feed as the cows grow larger when given a low level dose of antibiotics.

    Unfortunately, the over-use of antibiotics (in animal feed; washing up liquid; hand soap etc) allows pathogens to develop resistance to them which can lead to "superbug" strains.

  14. Re:We all know what happens when stories like this on New Superbug Strain Found In Cows and People · · Score: 1

    Almost, but not quite. It's free range because the cows can walk around past-your-eyes.

  15. Re:The hackers will be punished. Severely. on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 1

    How do you know the hackers are American?

  16. Re:Sounds like on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    What? Bananas aren't genetically modified even though they are sterile. You can take cuttings from herbs to propagate more of them and they'll be genetically identical.

    Here in europe, we don't have much genetically modified fruits and veg in the shops.

  17. Re:Finding of fact? on FDA Sued To Stop Antibiotic Abuse On Factory Farms · · Score: 1

    Isn't the onus on farmers to provide numbers demonstrating the absolute safety of adding antibiotics? Surely they can't just randomly add chemicals and then say "show me the numbers demonstrating the harm or we'll carry on"?

  18. Re:Somehow.. on Malware Scanner Finds 5% of Windows PCs Infected · · Score: 1

    That sounds like the problem is with windows not having proper package management. On linux, you'd be getting the updates through the package manager, so you'd immediately know that SkypeUpdate.exe was fake.

    Do you run firefox with adblock and noscript? That's probably the best way to defeat 99.9% of accidental infections.

  19. Re:Color on Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess With Blue Goo · · Score: 1

    I thought the protocol was for amber, not blue

  20. Re:Software Patents. on HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you're confusing patents and copyright. They'd still own copyright on the code. Other people would then have been able to write their own implementations which may have been better or worse. It's kind of how the free market is supposed to work.

  21. Is this for real? on DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, is this some kind of joke? Why do we keep paying these people to suggest things like this - what value are they bringing to our lives?

  22. Re:Finally... on Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? · · Score: 1

    Completely incompatible? I run xubuntu and can quite happily use kde and gnome applications with no problems.

  23. Re:RHEL on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster? · · Score: 1

    If you need to be running a closed-source package, then it would make sense to run the OS that the package was written for.

    If you're not tied to an awkward close source package, then I'd recommend Ubuntu server - you don't need to worry about license fees and yet you can still get all the security patches (if you want them, I'd imagine that a compute cluster wouldn't be internet facing).

  24. Re:Was it really worth it, Sony? on Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    It was definitely advertised. There's a slightly modified version of the original page at http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html

  25. Re:Was it really worth it, Sony? on Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    The OtherOS option was most definitely advertised as a feature on their website.

    Sony more or less forced me to upgrade as some of the games I'd already bought require access to the playstation network. I paid for a games console that also had the OtherOS feature, but now all I've got is a games console.

    Guess which company will never get any of my custom again?