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  1. Twitter to start selling flowers? on Twitter To Start Selling Followers · · Score: 1

    Oh, Followers. Free service sells user info? Move along, nothing new here..

  2. Re:Interesting (highly speculative) link to Israel on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    Nope.

  3. Re:not protects on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    +1 for you. My kids have trashed all their DVDs, some of mine and have killed my CDs (fortunately I ripped them all in 2001 when I got my first iPod). Fair use. Shit plastic media.

  4. Re:Does mold count? on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    I had the same issues. Since I swapped out my soap for bleach -as suggested on Yahoo Answers - the problem went away. Also I look like I've caught the sun all year round and people think I'm an avid swimmer!

  5. Re:Hidden OS on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Probably way less than you think

  6. Re:The Cathedral and the Mustard Jar on Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? · · Score: 1

    In the end he got it out by using an open sauce jar file

  7. Re:So now our jobs go to Georgia? on Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become IT Tax Haven · · Score: 1

    I think the concern would be that the Russian government and army keeps its nose out of business affairs.

  8. Re:IF they get big, FB will NOMNOM them on Creating a Better Facebook · · Score: 1

    And those servers sit magically in the cloud where they will run for free

  9. Re:Personal opinion != Government policy on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 2

    In other words "Barrack's just this guy, y'know"

  10. Re:Cross-platform on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 1

    Something tells me that you're not using *BSD because of the range of available games.

  11. Re:Well you know what they're like on Israel Repeals iPad Ban · · Score: 1

    Kind of but banana republics have better duty free stores and more bananas.

  12. Re:Well you know what they're like on Israel Repeals iPad Ban · · Score: 1

    1. There's only one international airport so it's easy to enforce
    2. The government and their departments have no problem with looking like complete fools (it's like a daily occurrence)
    3. Oh yeah, and the president's son is an investor in the local Apple distributor (iDigital)

    It's probably some mix of those 3 ingredients but I'm not sure in which proportions.

  13. Re:A high speed railway on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it's such a good idea, you go first. No, actually, if culling is so humane, I'd like to see you do it with your bare hands.

    I'm sorry to inform you that you appear to be an extremist lunatic. It's OK, I once had some similar opinions about population control, and about "engineering-style" solutions to geopolitical problems.

    When I realised that I wouldn't be able to bring myself to actually implement those ideas myself, but rather prefer to stand at the side cheering "Way to go, guys!" I realised I was an opinionated coward.

    So, before you go publicly recommending death, starvation and natural disasters on hundreds of thousands of people, you may want to go stand in front of a mirror and repeat "Who the fuck do I think I am?". Don't take this personally, I am frightened of the short step between "this would be a great solution" and "Yes, Sir, we'll get right on it".

  14. Re: It's Not Just The Rabbis on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those Orthodox rabbis need to get control of their minds and stop with these ancient laws and notions.

    Er, then they'd be out of a job. Would turkeys vote for an early Christmas?

  15. Re:Why they shouldn't.. on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    They have trans-mog-rified!

  16. Re:Time discrepancy on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    The Chinese are smart. Our year 2010 is the Chinese year 4707. They have an ANCIENT culture.

    Ergo, all Chinese people pre-date modern western history and all of them know, agree upon and recall perfectly all political games played there.

  17. Re:The why needs explanation on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    Nah and it probably won't even get investigated. You'll be lucky getting anything out of the army unless there's a media furore or a governmental tribunal. I don't think they give a shit about being sued for damages.

    Main news items are about Iran's new long range missile tests, Palestinian groups trying to arrest senior government officials in countries which exercise Universal Jurisdiction, settlers fighting with cops stopping them from building new houses, prospects of peace with Syria and Hamas threatening to attack Israel with Hezbollah if Iran nuclear facilities are attacked by Israel i.e. just another day in the Middle East (just randomly re-arrange the names of the players in the stories and you'll have next weeks news, and next years...).

    This kind of stuff goes on every day at border crossings - my feeling is that this one only got reported as the girl has a blog.

  18. Would not surprise me in the least on Israeli ISPs Caught Interfering With P2P Traffic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Given that:
    1) the ISP situation is completely wacko in this country you pay first for a physical line connection (from Phone Monopoly or from Cable Monopoly) and then extra for a completely separate ISP (who are the ones investigated here) where both need extra payment for faster connections
    2) the physical line companies are upgrading their infrastructure to give 50 mbps level speed and movie/TV content service and/or also provide VOD services

    I would be surprised if this is NOT happening.

    Israeli telecoms/utilities companies are not renowned for good value for money and there are plenty of IP-traffic related companies looking for cheap pilot installations which they can leverage as references when they go to sell in global markets.

    Aside from Israelis not liking to pay for anything unless they have to, there are few legal purchasing outlets for digital content and if you want music/movies your choice is pretty much:
    1) buy a CD (remember them!)
    2) download it from P2P
    3) have a credit card and bank account in a foreign country that does have an iTunes Music Store (for example)

  19. Re:I see it coming... on Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software · · Score: 1

    Anyone know what they call pole dancing in Warsaw?

  20. Scary shit on Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra · · Score: 1

    Hope they're not hoping to sell many tickets for performances just yet.

  21. Re:Better take the alternative on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    There is no reason to take out Sushi in particular.

    Unless you can't be bothered to wait at the restaurant :-P

  22. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Your first paragraph is particularly ill-informed:
    - the village of Kfar Etzion was completely overrun by the Jordanian Legion and destroyed. That was in military fighting, women and children had been evacuated.
    - Have you not read about the Hebron Massacre ,the Arab Revolt of the 30's, or the abandonment of the (now rebuilt) Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City in 1948?
    - even today , there are the remains of trucks sent to break the Arab seige of Jerusalem left as a memory on the main road into West Jerusalem (where, and in answer to your next post about Israelis bulldozing, you will see the intact and abandoned village of Lifta). The convoys of food, water and of course arms, were routinely attacked by the villages in the Jerusalem corridor - not armies, armed villagers. Those villages were destroyed.

    Highly recommend you read "One Palestine, Complete" by Israeli "New historian" Tom Segev

  23. Being attacked by the Marshmellow Man! on 250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan · · Score: 4, Funny

    As for the LEMV: a 40-foot long, 15-foot wide area behind the only sometimes-manned cockpit will carry intelligence systems, like radar and wide-area motion sensors, that will beam information back to commanders on the ground.

    sometimes-manned.

    "Guys, I had to parachute down to get some more water supplies and left the thing running at 20,000 feet. How do I get back up?"

  24. Re:Ozone depletion... on Laughing Gas Is Major Threat To Ozone Layer · · Score: 1

    Better get used to those needles coz soon you'll have to buy offset credits!

  25. Re:Solaris to Linux? on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling that it's a little late for that now. The fact is that they didn't and now have 1400 production servers.