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  1. Re:Manufacturers can solve this problem easily on California Passes Wi-Fi Guidance Law · · Score: 1

    No it won't. It will end up with a lot of returned routers. Are you going to include documentation for how to enter the key into the NIC? If these instructions don't include every single NIC and any driver revisions for those cards then they're useless. Oh and instructions on how to identify what brand and driver rev the user is using? Oh and they can't be on the web since this router very well may be their only means of net access.

    The average home user will not be able to make this device function.

  2. Re:Trust us! We're the government! on Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you know the NSA is currently hiring? If you want an application just call your mother and ask for one.

  3. We've come back to mainframes. on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 1

    I'm greatly amused that we've come back to what is essentially a new version of mainframe technology. This time with the bonus of much smarter terminals.

    Green beats amber!

  4. Re:Can a climate change skeptic answer ? on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    Nah you should take it to mean that I won a bet that I could string someone along for 3 days.

    Sorry man. Nothing personal.

  5. Re:Can a climate change skeptic answer ? on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    This is gibberish. You can accurately predict if you accept the extrapolation? Ok so if I say it's true then it's true? All of these predictions are untestable since we don't know how hot it was. A untestable theory is an unprovable theory.

    You're talking about things on a geologic scale here. 2000 years is yesterday.

    The whole purpose of this thread was to address skeptics but you've provided nothing but pictures from a propoganda site. You point to two bars both rising and claim it's obvious. As you said it is obvious and exact if you accept the premise. Skeptics don't do this. They reject the premise.

    Stop trying to convince people with data from an obviously biased site. Why not grab some of your opposition's data and debunk that?

  6. Re:Can a climate change skeptic answer ? on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    Yes I see the correlation. How ever I'm asking for the causation. Please provide that.

    Also what proof do you have that temps are rising. Sure this is hottest year in the last 150 but it's not the hottest year ever. If we have such a high level of C02, record levels some would say, why is it not the hottest year ever?

  7. Re:Can a climate change skeptic answer ? on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    You missed the point so I'll be explicit. All you're saying is that C02 lvels are rising, which is a normal occurance. You've done fuck all to show that this increase is some how causing global warming.

  8. Re:Can a climate change skeptic answer ? on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    . . . due to carbon flux from the burning of fossil fuels. I'm going to need some documentation on that.

  9. Re:Can a climate change skeptic answer ? on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    The earth has been both hotter and colder than it is right now. Do those 500,000 years of C02 levels match with those temperature trends? If they don't then this C02 data is worthless.

    For example where I'm sitting right now used to be covered by a glacier. Now its not. What caused the C02 emission that warmed the globe enough to melt that glacier? In fact to melt thousands of miles worth of it. What caused that global warming?

  10. Re:Can a climte change skeptic answer on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    I'm not confusing anything. You can't talk trends. We don't have nearly enough history of recorded climate or weather to judge any sort of trends in either climate or weather.

  11. Re:Can a climte change skeptic answer on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    Four.

    So you can perfectly predict weather patterns? So since this is the hottest recorded year ever the oceans will be warmer than last year. So we'll have more hurricanes than last year?

  12. Re:Pay for lyrics? on Music Industry Looking for Lyrics Payoff · · Score: 1

    You don't need to stop purchasing music. Just start buying it at the second hand stores. The music industry doesn't get a penny from these sales.

  13. Re:not a black and white case on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a "personal use" exemption to copyright in the US.

  14. Re:not a black and white case on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    "Bounty" does not tell me what I am allowed and not allowed to do with their paper towels, magazines do not prevent me from skipping through stories, so why is a plastic disc treated differently?

    I'll tell you why.

    Bounty paper towels: They are not protected from copyright. This example is simply invalid.

    Skipping through a magazine: This example too is invalid. Did the ruling say that people can't fast forward? No it did not. For the magazine examnple to be valid it would have to be, "magazines do not prevent me from cutting out parts of stories and reselling the magazine." In which case yes it is illegal according to copyright law.

  15. Re:Protecting privacy on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 1

    Corporatism muddies the process substantially, but ultimately, the politicians still need our votes.

    What happens when the politicians just contract with the Corporations to have them provide the vote?

    No you can't see how the magic voting box works!

    Ignore the man behind the curtain!

  16. Re:No different than Dell/McAfee on AOL Tries New Tactic to Keep Customers · · Score: 1

    Okay how about this one then. I've haven't used antivirus for at least 5 years. I regularly run hijack this and spybot. I have had nothing but tracking cookies in that time.

    Approaching 100% of the bas stuff out there requires user interaction.

    Don't click banners or popups.
    Don't use IE.
    Stay patched.
    Don't open attachments.

    Or as I tell my non tech friends. "Use firefox and don't click on every damn shiney little thing that catches your eye."

  17. It is not illegal to use SS numbers. on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1

    *sigh* This is a myth. It is illegal for the government to use SS for other things. Private entities can do what ever they want with it. Much in the same way a private group doesn't have to obey the first amendment.

    Here's more information.

    http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/1974ssnu.htm

  18. Re:Yes on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    Please go read the law. There are strong limits on what the government can do with SSNs. Private entities however are free to do almost anything they want with SSNs.

  19. Re:It is real, look out the window on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Your "past few hundred years" is all of nothing on a geological scale. Your sample set is statisticly insignificant.

    There is geological evidence that the world has been both warmer and colder than it currently is.

    Climate change is a regular part of a healthy and dynamic ecosystem.

  20. Slow on Going To Boot Camp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's sad when a web comic beats /. with news about this. Penny Arcade had this up yesterday.

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/

  21. Re:Logs? on PA Seizes Newspaper's Computers · · Score: 1

    Apparently I'm an idiot. Here's a working link.
    http://www.simpletech.com/commercial/simpleshare/

  22. Re:Logs? on PA Seizes Newspaper's Computers · · Score: 1

    Link to the mentioned device.
    http://www.simpletech.com/commercial/simpleshare/

    I see no mention of encryption on the product write up. Are you using a third party solution? Can you expound on your set up please?

  23. Re:I coded Tesco's system on PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever' · · Score: 1

    If I had coded it to steal the PIN this is eactly what I would say.

  24. This only hurts Perfect 10 on Partial Victory for Perfect 10? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perfect 10 wins suit. Perfect 10 no longer has images on the search engines. Perfect 10 receives less traffic since people can't tell what's on their site. Less people sign up for the sight or buy the magazine. Revenew goes down.

    Congrats you've protected your IP but lowered your revenue stream. Good job! *applause*

  25. Re:You never heard of USB? on Google PC to Hit Walmart? · · Score: 1

    No it's not. You completely missed the point.

    Where do you set the keyboard. On your lap? I tried many years ago to play computer games on my TV. It failed horribly because your using an interface designed for a desk while seated in an arm chair. I never found a comfortable way to play.