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  1. Tyranny at it's best on Stealth Sharks to Patrol the High Seas · · Score: 0

    Tyranny on the go. Double order please. Enough with this "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." The US government has for decades now been telling us that it has the right to govern those who don't give their consent. Why stop with humans?

  2. I click the link using safari but... on Mac OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole · · Score: 0

    It downloaded Secunia.mov.zip to my desktop. Thats it. When I hover over the link it says Secunia.mov.zip. Not very mysterious or successful.

    Is this a Tiger only thing? Perhaps I'm too behind the times still using 10.3.9. I can't wait to upgrade!

  3. The article isn't about religion on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 0

    Its about mass at-will web site defacement. My question would be about how all these sites were defaced so easily and what can I learn from it to protect my own sites from these tactics.

    Is Danish web security so poor that anyone can hack into their sites? Is it being done to just one web server or multiple? What OS were they running and what was exploited? Details, we need details.

    I don't care who is doing it or what they believe, all I care about is preventing it from happening to MY server. We can't let these people bring down the internet the next time they get offended. This issue seems much broader than offense and really an issue of web security. IMHO.

  4. The end result... on Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax' · · Score: 0

    If Bush and Co. lied about going into Iraq then there is no reason to trust the government. If Bush and Co. actually believed some sort of "mistaken" intelligence and started a freeking war based on it, then there is no reason to trust the government especially when it comes to spying and "intelligence".

    So the end result is that we should stop trusting government. I don't see a middle ground here and have been libertarian ever since the WMDs failed to materialize and the patriot act was signed.

  5. Why does it have to be a sinister plan? on Google to Create a Private Internet Alternative? · · Score: 0

    As much as I love polishing my tin foil hat and showing it off with the rest of the crowd here... all this really could mean is that Google is going to start competing with large network carriers like SBC or Time Warner. They will provide internet connectivity, TV, phone, whatever... nationwide.

  6. Re:This is trivial and obvious on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 0

    Ironically thats exactly how long we have been able to accurately measure the weather! So we measure the temps for 50 years and then say "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!". So what about all that weather we couldn't measure in the past thousands or millions of years? This whole thing seems like a religion based on myopic and incomplete weather measurement patters.

  7. Re:Here is a challenge to BellSouth customers... on BellSouth Will Charge Providers For Performance · · Score: 0

    What about sattelite?

  8. Re:Europeans on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 0
    Everyone knows that nuclear power is clean. Europeans are concerned about two other things:

    1. Disaster. Nuclear engineers say that the chance of a meltdown is very small, but this argument is worthless after Harrisburg and Chernobyl. People in general are mathematically clueless, but they do know that the risk is real and not small after these two events.

    2. Waste storage. Where do we put the waste products after burning it? People are afraid it might pollute the environment, perhaps not now but for furure generations. It will have to be stored for thousands of years. Shooting it out in space is not an option to most, having pictures of an explosing Columbia in the mind.

    1. The reactors that caused these meltdown disasters were old, at least 50 years old technology. There are many modern nuclear reactor designs that do not melt down and can be employed. One example is GA's GT-MHR and another is the Pebble Bed type reactor

    2. Nuclear waste does not need to be waste at all. There are new and exciting ways of recycling fuel, visit Argonne's website a link from an '03 press release. The fuel can be reprocessed and the left overs from the left overs have life spans of hundereds not hundereds of thousands of years. There are also new developments in transmutation technology. And more to come.

    I think it's important to remember that many of the problems that exist today have the potential to be solved (and maybe have already been solved). To have a mindset that criticizes technology that is 50 years old as if it's the end-all-be-all to that technology is ignorant at best. It seems to me the biggest problem with public perception of nuclear is that it is based on old or even false ideas. It has become a propaganda war instead of an educational issue.

  9. chroot on Security Focus Interviews Damien Miller · · Score: 0

    when will sftp chroot become integrated instead of a patch/hack?

  10. Re:Form Factor on Mac mini, Apple DVR? · · Score: 0

    It doesn't seem like you would need any other AV equipment other than speakers as a mini can take care of it all.

  11. Commercials are outdated on CBS, NBC to Offer TV Shows for 99 Cents · · Score: 0

    When will they realize that most people will pay to have everything "on demand" without commercials. We already pay large sums of money for cable and satellite yet we are slaves to "broadcasting". The customer should be able to simply watch any show once it becomes available, including whole seasons worth of content without having some kind of DVR. The commercial model is outdated. For me, commercals have become a huge turnoff when watching TV. After 5 minutes of commericals I usually turn of the TV and do something else. I would watch more if I could see any current episode of my show whenever I wanted to. So in my case they would increase their customer base. The technology exists today to do this.

  12. Re:So on Significant FBI Abuses of the Patriot Act · · Score: 0

    I thought thats why they made the Patriot Act. What is this "abuse" stuff?

  13. Re:If something gets shot down once... on Broadcast Flag Back in Congress · · Score: 0

    I've read the Constitution. It doesn't need to be interpreted. A child could understand it. The problem is that we simply don't do what it says and find all kinds of ways around what it really does say and then pretend that it really says what we would like it to say because we have "interpreted" it properly now.

  14. price point on Review: Monarch Computer's Nemesis FX-57 7800 SLI Gaming · · Score: 0

    After buying and owning Apple systems my whole life, I'd have to say that my Monarch system I bought a couple years ago was the cheapest and fastest computer I have ever owned. Still is.

  15. Re:You can always sniff out a snobby XYZ-phile on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 0

    "The Bose's direct/reflecting system made them sound unfocused: close your eyes and you've no idea where the sound comes from." Some folks actually like this effect. If they didnt', Bose would have gone out of business a long time ago no matter how many billboards they put up.

  16. Re:Well... on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 0

    BBC is the outlet for Chicken Little. Isn't that what you meant to say?

  17. Re:As a Massachusetts Resident on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 0

    You should say "either taxes or inflation" instead of "deficit". Since the Federal Government can print dollars out of thin air, they can inflate their way anywhere. The end result is higher prices for us as there become more dollars floating around. How do consumers get these dollars? They borrow them. Either way were doomed.

  18. Re:Word from Chicken Little on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 0
    There are leaders who could do something about it (or at least said they would), like Al Gore; blame the voters for sneering at his nerdiness and voting for people who tell them they can have it all and not pay for it. Don't give up on the system, participate and make it work, it's the only hope we have.
    So if organized nation-state leadership is a big dud, how is making bigger and more leadership a solution to the problem?
  19. Re:It's so much worse.. on Groups Slam FCC on Internet Phone Tap Rule · · Score: 0

    There won't be a Congress by then, simply an Imperial dictatorship with a rubber stamp senate. Not too hard to imagine since this currently seems to be the case anyway.

  20. vote libertarian on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 0

    honestly, why even complain if you are a Republican or Democrat. Its all your fault we are in this mess. Vote Libertarian and get us out of this mess. Its your patriotic duty. Our Decleration of Independence states that we have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness but that government is supposed to be instituted to protect these rights. These rights do not originate from men but it is our duty to protect them. Therefore the primary response should be to install a government that will protect those rights, then we can go back to enjoying our rights. And the current two big parties will not protect our rights any longer.

  21. Military Railguns are not fiction on Rail Guns Closer to Reality · · Score: 0

    http://www.ga.com/atg/railgun.php I'm not sure if the Z machine can really be termed a "railgun" but these things are in preliminary stages and can shoot projectiles.

  22. Re:RISC vs CISC deabte over on Desktop on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 0

    RISC/CISC have merged into practically the exact same thing so the issue has largely become moot. As Coward mentioned, current x86 chips are mutant hybrid RISC/CISC creations. Perhaps the only thing "x86" about them is the left over baggage?

  23. I guess religious nuts aren't the only nuts on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: -1, Troll

    I believe I just discovered a "Blind-evolutionistic-theory-believing fundamentalist-scientific-wacko". Thanks for coming out of the closet. And you might want to wipe the spitfoam off your keyboard so you don't get electrocuted (I say this as a labor of love).

  24. this just in on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    Unemployment in Europe just hit all time highs as people stopped being able to afford anything. The president of the EU said on Friday "This tax will go to help all those who are unemployed and seeking jobs." It remains unclear if all the ministers heads are stuck up the Presiden't ass, or just their own.

  25. product axe on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    They better not axe Dreamweaver because GoLive is pretty craptastic.