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  1. Re:In other news... on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    The laws of the country whose flag they're flying.

  2. Re:In other news... on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    It just wanted to index and cache your insides. If you don't have anything to hide what are you worried about?

  3. Re:That's pretty damning for the CIA and Bush admi on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    Clearly we need to find terrorists and deliver better recording equipment to them so we don't have to argue about what they said 10 years later because we couldn't hear what they were saying.
    A law that says transcripts must be provided for all propaganda materials would also be a good start.

  4. Re:What a summary on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    The distance they're talking about (7 miles offshore) won't even get you past the continental shelf. Hardly beneficial for deep ocean research.

  5. Re:What a summary on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    But what happens if they tag it itsatrap? Will Google Navy(tm) be able to turn before they hit the shields?

  6. Re:What a summary on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    You jest, but i would definitely join the Google military. After all, "Do no evil" is a better constitution than most sovereign nations can claim to have.

  7. Re:' UNION UPDATE `users` SET karma='godlike';-- on SQL Injection Turns BusinessWeek Into Viral Replicator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're going to do something malicious for profit you should make it look like nothing ever happened. While swapping the headlines would be funny it would definitely lessen the amount of time the flaw went unnoticed.

  8. Re:Popular Mechanics cannot be trusted. on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    Why is it so unfathomable that the building could fall straight down? If I step on a can to crush it it's going to collapse roughly in the direction that my foot is going. It's not going to topple over like a tree. If you equate the mass of the building above the collapse to the foot stomping then you can see the similarities.
    It's also fairly easy to see that heated steel loses much of its strength long before it melts, initiating such a collapse.

  9. Re:Nothing Surprising on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    I wish i had mod points, I'd mod you +11 insightful. Nobody seems to understand that his real hatred is for Saudi Arabia and he's lashing out at the US because we support them.

  10. Re:Online Storage scares me on Online Storage With a Twist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're looking at it the pessimistic way! Their houses burning down are making your house statistically invincible. It can't be very probable to have that many houses burn down in one neighborhood.
    Unless of course the same contractor wired them all poorly, or there's a real good arsonist around.

  11. Re:Sorry, not waste on Why Email Has Become Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Not only is the argument flawed, but I'd like to know who actually participated in this survey. That 64 seconds figure seems absurdly long. Maybe my job doesn't really require that much concentration, but it takes me about the time it takes to close the window to remember what i was doing before i looked at the email.
    I'd actually be in favor of instant messaging at work. Our emails take about a minute to get to the recipient and with the number of "come take a look at this and tell me what you think" emails that fly around I'm willing to bet that it would actually save time.

  12. Re:clarifying on Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries · · Score: 1

    Nobody can dig up and steal your satellite.

  13. Re:Horsepucky. on Why Starting a Legal Online Music Vendor Is Tough · · Score: 1

    I've never seen it. I just felt like being contrary.

  14. Re:Horsepucky. on Why Starting a Legal Online Music Vendor Is Tough · · Score: 2, Informative

    That movie is an exercise in propaganda. He purposefully ate too much in order to gain weight and make a sensational movie. I would take a lifetime of Big Macs any day. Nobody ever said you had to eat the whole thing.

  15. Re:First Cunt more like it! on McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly · · Score: 1

    What good is getting first post if you do it anonymously though? Gotta do that shit logged in properly to get your interblag merit badge.

  16. Re:Reading it into the public record. on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    It would at least be excellent material for a filibuster. Far more amusing than the phone book.

  17. Re:"Extreme Density" computing can be hazardous on One Data Center To Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    So that's why the homesteading programs i read about in the back of Popular Science all those years ago were shut down.

  18. Re:Bringing down Scientology by on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    I guess they do need money to pay for their lives, and their involvement with scientology kinda hurts their credibility with real lawyerly work.

  19. Re:A biit of overstatement on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 2, Funny

    But his will be called the iMail and will use proven technology to do things other devices already do in a proprietary vaguely patentable way. In spite of this he will fail to achieve any results himself and after the patent expires he will then make his money by being paid to act as a coprorate shill in a scam lawsuit.

  20. Re:Bringing down Scientology by on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 3, Informative

    Legal expenses? Their lawyers are probably scientologists and doing their work for free in exchange for moving up the ranks.

  21. Quick action on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    Other than a strange misuse of the DMCA I mostly feel sorry for whoever had to go through and delete all those videos that quickly. They must have a hell of a dedicated workforce in that department.

  22. Re:Yes you can on Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com · · Score: 1

    I managed to set my status to "is reading about bugmenot.com" so they either changed it or this article is a sham for publicity.

  23. Re:D'oh! on Comcast Appeals FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    Do you mean you don't actually have the phone wiring to your living space or that you don't have phone service.
    I currently have Qwest dsl and don't pay for phone service. The up to 7mbps service is more than fast enough for my bandwidth needs and the ping times when playing games are better than my neighbor downstairs who has the local cable provider's (mediacom) offering.
    For the record i live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

  24. Re:Cruise Missiles are childs play on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 1

    That's not a very good example. A cruise missile is not a ground to air missile. The target of a cruise missile isn't going to move.

  25. Re:I disagree about some things. on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 1

    Whats keeping them from repairing the plants? You said it yourself. It's been three years and the oil companies have been operating with record profits all the while. They have no need to do it.