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  1. Re:work an election before you tout pen and paper. on 7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government · · Score: 1

    "Propositions" are indeed alien and in Europe it's what we pay our politicians to do. Sure, they should put major questions to referenda - like do we join the EU, do we allow part of the Kingdom to become independent - but anything else is part of their job description. If not, why don't we do away with politicians and put every single issue out to the public via some kind of X Factor mass participation programme?

  2. Re:No real opt-out on Facebook Adds Ads To News Feed · · Score: 1

    Whether I 'like' it or not has no real bearing on whether I want to receive continuous updates every time a product sprouts a new appendage.

  3. Re:and it becoming a memory pig and beach ball que on Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved · · Score: 1

    23 tabs over two windows and FF3.6 is using a working set of 358MB. I swear I've never seen the rabid memory problems that every other FF user apparently gets.

  4. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing on More On Why It Stinks To Work At Zynga · · Score: 1

    Not just the CEOs, but thre venture capitalists as well. An exit strategy of "sell as soon as we are mature" was probably part of the pitch.

  5. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    How would we know to look before the light photons reached us? Did we have all-sky neutrino detectors in 1987?

  6. Re:media choice on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 2

    Would Sir wish for a man to follow him around and wave a red flag each time there's a disaster?

    I'm not really sure what your point is. Are you one of these "I don't watch live TV or listen to the radio" crowd? And you turn off your mobile? How exactly do you expect to be warned, then?

  7. Re:The Death Star on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    I hear Iran has some big frickin' lasers, what you gonna do about it?

  8. Re:Can it make Lego? on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    Don't even buy them, LEGO CS is good enough that they will send you the necessary brick for free if you give them a call. At least they used to. My future wife was the one who took the calls and grappled with ancient instructions to identify the brick in question. Great days, I've never worked for a better company...

  9. I, for one on 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan · · Score: 1

    Will be glad to get 2012 out of the way.

  10. Re:Great on Mystery of Vanishing iTunes Credit Shows No Sign of Fading · · Score: 1

    Making them complex and writing them down on a piece of paper is probably one of the most secure method in these days of remote attacks. I'm starting to wonder why we told users to reject this method. Keep them different across important accounts and the only worry you have is a burglar.

  11. Re:Time to decommission desktop? on Google Kills Desktop Search and Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Proprietary obv

  12. Re:Time to decommission desktop? on Google Kills Desktop Search and Gadgets · · Score: 1

    It's Apple who are destroying computers. Having no alternative to a restricted tablet with propitiatory locked-down OS is a very real possibility in the next decade.

  13. Re:It's convenience and security. on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    The bottom line is, it's much more likely that someone on the internet will compromise any one of the points across which an email passes, than it is they will scale telephone poles or break into street cabinets or even break into internet-connected portions of the phone system. Yes it's security through obscurity but I can't believe that the phone system isn't "more secure" on that basis. Even by weight of numbers - there are many script kiddies out there who can use pre-packaged tools to break into a system. I would bet my house that there are much lower numbers of people trying to break into phone systems.

  14. Re:Option to connect to an old-school TV on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 2

    As new, perhaps, but I imagine that in my country about 95% of households will have an analogue TV which is now crying out for a use. (If they didn't send it to the tip having upgraded to HD)

  15. Re:Can I sit in... on Ticketmaster Lets You Sit With Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    Good idea. I expect the correlation between Facebook users and idiots who film the entire concert on their crappy mobile phones to be strong.

  16. Re:This is a sad day for the tech world on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    Let's be blunt. Only nerds on tech sites worry about "closeness."

    If we redefine "open" to be the ability to run whatever program I wish, then the issue touches people much beyond the "nerd" circle.

  17. Re:God Particle on No Higgs Just Yet · · Score: 1

    A scientist: the God particle may well be unfindable, but we're gonna keep on looking until we find something. A religious: don't bother looking for God, he's unfindable.

  18. Re:No sense at all on UK Men Get 4 Years For Trying to Incite Riots Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    They need to be reminded who's REALLY in charge.

  19. Re:It's a crime to attempt a crime, or incite othe on UK Men Get 4 Years For Trying to Incite Riots Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    There were some reports of disturbances in Cardiff.

    And this kind of thing is perpetrated by kids in NI every single weekend during the summer.

  20. Re:USE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED on Malicious Spam Spikes To 'Epic' Level · · Score: 1

    Must be a good parody of spam, because I scanned it for about four seconds and thought, "that's enough for me".

  21. Re:Sneakernet on BitTorrent Turns 10 · · Score: 2

    sneakernet

    I still want to see some kind of interface between mass storage devices, wireless and content, enabling WLAN content parties. You rock up, your device sees everyone else at the event and starts sharing, perhaps intelligently based on your preferences, Maybe smartphones hold the answer to this, but they may not offer lots of storage. However this could work on a small scale. You could just turn up to the pub and your device would sort out the rest. It could share your own content and look after the security. Could even base it on bittorrent for max efficiency. That would be very cool. Someone make it happen.

  22. Re:Is it even possible to roll back a bitcoin trad on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    Whereas if they hadn't done so and accounts sharing passwords were compromised, everyone would be all "stupid users" or "why didn't google reset everyone's password?". Invasion of privacy, wot a joke.

  23. Re:first post on LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard · · Score: 1

    They're not embarrassing large corporations over their poor security. They're running DDoS attacks which anyone would find difficult to defend against.

  24. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    cool, 5,000 soiled teddy bears and 10 grand of unusable electrical equipment!

  25. Re:What makes it different is the threat on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    This is the internet, who cares about real-life outcomes?