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  1. No way on Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption · · Score: 0

    Sorry but it is a simple design of a circuit which "could in principle" do it. Problem is to keep the atoms entangled and so on. FUD as of yet. Pedro.

  2. I do not read newspaper's announcements on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 0

    Even though they are there.

    Is this really scarily THE WRONG THING?

    Pedro.

  3. Can't believe this is NEW on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 0

    New?

    Should this not be existing since... 1990's

    (probably before if some company is searching for Java programmer with 20 years' experience :)

    Seriously, I cannot believe this is NEW: applets exist since so long ago. Am I missing something?

    Pedro.

  4. Nuclear decay on Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram · · Score: 0

    and semidesintegration time, will they update the number of atoms?

    Just wondering.

  5. Speaking of "science" on The Big Bang Vs. the Big Rumble · · Score: -1

    Wow,

    Being a mathematician, I find it difficult to even believe in numbers, let alone BRANES.

    You call **that** SCIENCE?

    BTW, what was there before the branes "crashed"?

    I got it: a singular supermanifold!

    Pedro.

  6. Horses on mars on Earth Bacteria May Hitch A Ride To The Stars · · Score: 0

    This has already been filmed.

    And a good one, that is.

    www.horsesonmars.com

  7. TeX on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 0

    I am biased.

    TeX
    Metafont
    ghostscript

    You know, we people DO print out texts.

  8. Scary movie 1000111110011111111 on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 0

    So this is another try to take useful technology out
    in the name of ... let me see.....

    SCIENCE

    What the heck?

    Where are the statistics, the standard deviations, the
    chi-squares... C'mon I am getting tired of people trying
    to make me afraid.

    Of course 30% of the species are also going to disappear.

    Maybe global warming is due to cellphones as well.

    Unbelievable as it is.

    Defective by design.

  9. Electric supply on Preparing for the Worst in IT · · Score: 0

    One should worry about that first of all. Remember NYC say four/five years ago?

    Just in case. No Internet w/o electric current I guess.

    Pedro.

  10. 0.3% on Vista Taking a Nibble Out of Apple in OS Wars? · · Score: 0

    You know what NOISE is, do you not?

    Just so.

  11. Sounds like Lenin and Stalin's on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 0

    Quinquennial plans in steroids, doesn't it?

    Ah, the advantages of living in a free country...

  12. Unbelievably LOCAL on Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair · · Score: 0

    If you cannot cope with information, do not try to.

    That is what they should think: local elections cannot
    be legislated UNIVERSALLY. And... well, anyone with
    a camera and an internet connection can do it...

  13. No on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 0

    As easy as that.

  14. Ha, Ha, the EU. Yes, like the blue helmets on EU Official Labels Microsoft's Behavior Unacceptable · · Score: 0

    You can fine someone, but what happens if you do not
    have a POLICE?

    What Microsoft is doing: I am forbidden by the EU to
    do this, but, the EU? Where are its policemen?

  15. Human Language on Why the Semantic Web Will Fail · · Score: 0

    To me, that sounds the same as saying
    "human language will never succeed".

    OK, there may not be ONE and DEFINITIVE semantic web,
    there may be MANY.

    Better for the users. Like free market, you know?

    Moreover, you can see the different languages both
    as a problem and as a treasure. Depends on the point
    of view...

  16. So if I go jogging on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 3, Funny

    I will develop some mouse cells in my brain?

    What's the catch? Have I missed something?

    Do I need more jogging?

  17. And now.... on Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial" · · Score: 0

    Shall anyone come to his defence?

    Or will this dissident simply be left to himself because
    his dissension matches the Administration's thougt?

    Just a thought.

  18. According to GNU on Define - /etc? · · Score: 0

    /etc means etc's total crap uh?

  19. I've got another idea on A Free XML-Based Operating System · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about developing an OS on top of TeX?

    This way we would live in the best of the worlds, would we not?

    Moreover, this would threaten Google, Microsoft and the great scientific publishers.

    Actually, we could make it work on top of an emacs session. Pity that you need another OS to run emacs, but
    **it is emacs**, you know! and TeX, of course.

    Anyone joining the project?

  20. Publicity on Microsoft Threatened With Fines By EU Again · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Again.

    Did I hear this piece of news before? The rythm rings a bell....

    From the EU, a big cheers for this new waste of time and effort.

    Have they paid **anything**?

    I guess this "threaten" refers to XP and before? So old news again for Microsoft.

    "We don't develop XP anymore or IE6..."

  21. Instant messaging? on Building the Interplanetary Internet · · Score: 0

    I wonder what the name will become?

    Delayed Instant Messaging?

    Uninstant Messaging?

    20-minant Messaging?

    Please we ****need**** instant teleporting before our conversations get muddled in THE WAIT.

    "Oh, I was chatting with John, but he got asleep during THE WAIT"

    Or THE DELAY. At least that would be a *real* problem.

  22. DOS on Scientists Make Quantum Encryption Breakthrough · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Problem with what is today called qc is that it is not cryptography, it is a safe signing algorithm.

    So what if the eavesdropper makes the communication impossible just tainting each and every bit? As they are not safe, they are deemed worthless and the message needs to be re-sent...

    This seems to me the problem. You have not built a safe channel, you have built an eavesdropper-aware channel, which is not the same.

  23. Yes, it could on Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It also could not.

    Where is the news here?

  24. Still creeping on China Creates Massive Online ID Database · · Score: 1

    After all these years... Goodness! To prevent Fraud. I hope I am not "prevented".

  25. /. (I say, /.) on Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband · · Score: 0

    News for nerds, stuff that matters.

    Where?