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  1. Re:A Violation of The Three Laws on Next-gen Robot Toys to Fetch Beer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we've all seen I Robot ;)

  2. Re:Not truly invisible on New "Dark" Freenet Available for Testing · · Score: 1

    HTTPS allows file uploads. SFTP (which is included in most SSH programs) allows bidirectional file transfers on the same tcp connection. So it's not so simple, but your point that traffic analysis can give info about the underlying protocol is obviously true. My original point was that simply checking for encrypted traffic coming in and out isn't enough.

  3. Re:Not truly invisible on New "Dark" Freenet Available for Testing · · Score: 1

    My point was that just checking for "a large quantity of encrypted traffic flowing in and out" isn't enough.

  4. Re:This sounds way overhyped on New "Dark" Freenet Available for Testing · · Score: 1

    You obviously know nothing about routing and encryption.

    PS: One reply should be enough for each troll, and preferably it should be smaller than the troll, to keep their energy expenses larger.

  5. Re:Not truly invisible on New "Dark" Freenet Available for Testing · · Score: 1

    Any entity which can tap your ISP's next-hop router can tell if you're running Freenet due to the large quantity of encrypted traffic flowing in and out.

    Oh so for example SSH/SFTP/HTTPS don't exist?

  6. Re:Enough with the April Fool's Crap on The Cure for Information Overload · · Score: 1

    Being right doesn't imply not being a troll.

  7. Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? on Paul Allen's Microsoft Experience · · Score: 1

    You sir, are an idiot. Do you know what the words "murderous" and "persecution" mean?

  8. Re:Heh. Stupid study. on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    [ironic voice]Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about.[/ironic voice]

  9. Re:Heh. Stupid study. on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    Firstly, I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I use my cell on both sides of my head.

    I don't, and I don't think most people do.

  10. Re:"gay" tag? on The Simpson's Movie Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Windows users aren't necessarily gay, you insensitive clod.

    Do you know what an homophobe is?

  11. Re:suprised? on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And how would you explain that the tumors were more likely to be located on the side of the head closest to where the user would put the phone?

  12. Re:Woe is me on SQL on Rails Launched · · Score: 1

    Where I work everyone calls it Sequel. I find it really stupid but I'm getting used to say it too, since I don't want to explain what I mean by S-Q-L everytime I say it...

  13. Re:The Blind Squirrel on Why Phishing Works · · Score: 1

    "this site requires additional addons, click here to install them" displayed on top of the page (and not in a dialog box).

    This has another disadvantage - it's easy to miss it. I imagine that lots of people have thought that Firefox sucks just because it's not showing some important part of a page (such as an online Flash game) because of missing plugins, while not noticing that Firefox is telling them about the problem.

  14. Re:no legal distinction on Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    That's never going to happen. Nanotech of that nature is basically fantasy, just like magic wands.

    How do you know? Just curious...

  15. Re:Windows is slow? on Why Windows is Slow · · Score: 1

    There are many devices which work without having to install any drivers. "Surprisingly" it's the same as linux - if the driver is installed you don't need to install it.

  16. Re:Windows is slow? on Why Windows is Slow · · Score: 1

    What the _hell_ is this concept of drivers, where I have to log in as administrator to install new hardware on my system?

    It's called security - low level drivers have high privileges.

  17. Re:The key to acceptance: on Consumer Problems with Blu-ray and HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    It's convenient for anybody who wants it to be convenient.

    That would be a slightly (even if not much) slanted view of convenience.

    Broadband performance/price is still increasing

    If I downloaded a few (not many) DVD movies per month I'd quickly exceed my free bandwidth limit and would start to pay extra charges, which are not cheap. And I know it's the same in many other countries. Downloading HD-DVDs or Blu-ray would be right out.

  18. Re:Would you do it? on Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chips · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume your body would die? Lots of things could happen in the cell reconstruction department (and everything related to medicine)...

  19. Re:Not correct on Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chips · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your lack of faith disturbs me.

  20. Re:The key to acceptance: on Consumer Problems with Blu-ray and HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    What you say makes sense (obviously), but I don't think it's accurate to say that it is convenient to download and store a ton 4.7 / 9.4 GB files from the internet! So, I think it will still take some time for it to be convenient to trade full HD-DVDs online...

  21. Re:hate to burst your bubble on 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta · · Score: 1

    1 used to be considered a prime number some time ago (a century maybe?). There was also a time when 2 wasn't considered a prime number (possibly those two times overlapped).

    The reason for dropping those considerations was that they learned that it only served to complicate otherwise simple mathematicas, because of forcing people to introduce special cases in definitions and proofs to account for those numbers.

    You can read more details about this here.

  22. Re:shattered? ok but... on New Data Transmission Speed Record · · Score: 1

    It's not error correction.

  23. Re:Collaboration on Office Delayed, Too · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you met voice-over-air.

  24. Re:yeah, but can a baby... on Babies Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months · · Score: 1

    How old are you? Just asking to get a lower bound on the age a human can levarage spelling ;)

  25. Re:Market? on Yahoo! Messenger Gets Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Starting Skype...

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