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  1. Torture will always give you a confession... on CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...whether the person being tortured did it or not.

    Confessing to a crime is always better than being tortured by another.

  2. Re:Copying Music in General on EFF Calls RIAA Tactics 'Reign of Terror' · · Score: 1

    Some news for my fellow Rush fans...
    http://www.neilpeart.net/news/index.html

    He picks up scraps of information ---
    He's adept at adaptation
    'Cause for strangers and arrangers
    Constant change is here to stay

  3. SCO Source Code Omission on SCO Accuses IBM of Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 4, Funny

    First of all, I almost went blind and had trouble reading the article after seeing Steve Forbes' face pop up on my screen to tell me about how great he is.

    FTA: Hatch, SCO's attorney, says SCO learned about the destruction of code when it took depositions from IBM programmers. This is the first time SCO has made the allegation in public, though Hatch says the claim was part of a motion SCO filed in March 2006, which has remained sealed.
    Hatch says the allegation has become relevant now, because it helps explain why SCO could not meet demands to cite source code.

    IBM declined to comment, citing a policy of not discussing ongoing litigation.


    So, who here feels sorry for the SCO lawyers?

    *Crickets*

  4. Click ME! on PowerPoint 0-Day Points to Corporate Espionage · · Score: 2, Funny
    • Subject: Click on this attachment, and all your wildest dreams will come true.


    Well, it worked for Napoleon Dynamite....."CLICK"

    ----->BSOD: All Your Assets Are Belong To Us!
  5. Re:Bad day on EFF Calls RIAA Tactics 'Reign of Terror' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Songs suck now a days. No need to buy CDs, nor even test them out.

    Oh come on man! You just...(strike up the chords)

    had a bad day
    You're taking one down
    You sing a sad song just to turn it around
    You say you don't know
    You tell me don't lie
    You work up a smile and you go for a ride
    You had a bad day
    The camera don't lie
    You're coming back down and you really don't mind
    You had a bad day
    You had a bad day


    Sorry, I just wanted to remind you of how bad music is these days.
    You're beautiful-it's true.

  6. Copying Music in General on EFF Calls RIAA Tactics 'Reign of Terror' · · Score: 3, Funny

    So where was the RIAA in 1982 when I taped Rush's 'Signals' album from my friend?
    Should I be worried?

  7. Genuine Disadvantage on Paul Thurrott Bitten by WGA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Didn't you know?
    You have to keep buying your Windows software every year or two in order to update it, how else is Microsoft going to stay the biggest software company in the world?

  8. Re:The Gattaca Solution on The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing? · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the end, there's no truly safe solution, except for multiple layers of passwords, biometrics, DNA samples, and the like, and even then, a determined foe will find a way to breach it. What Mankind can create, Mankind can subvert.

    Sorry, your identical human clone has already cleared out your bank account and stolen your wife as you read this.
    Better luck next time!

  9. Re:The only thing safe and secure... on The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    My tinfoil hat has three layers to ensure that I am extra-protected.

    I still don't see why everyone is snickering at me when I go to the gym to workout?

  10. The only thing safe and secure... on The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    ...are the thoughts in your own mind.

    Well, that's what I used to think.

    No, you can't moderate me as paranoid.

    Of course.

    Really now, is that what you think?

  11. Bush Makes His Own Rules - I Do What I Want! on President Bush Blocks NSA Wireless Tapping Probe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's funny how Bush loves to pontificate about the spreading of 'Freedom' and 'Democracy' around the world, yet he is so good at suppressing it at home.
    Apparently, he can do whatever he wants and not even the US Justice Department can overrule him.
    Now I have to ask, do we really live in a 'Democracy?'

    For futher reading, see: '1984' and 'V for Vendetta'

  12. Re:Can we also file a Public Interest Litigation.. on Indian Government Lifts Ban on Blogs · · Score: 1

    The truth is out there....on the internets!

  13. Can we also file a Public Interest Litigation... on Indian Government Lifts Ban on Blogs · · Score: 1

    ...against the US Mainstream Media?

  14. Kentsfield Panini on Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other words, the Kentsfield is two Core 2 Duo dice sandwiched into a single package, and likewise with the Xeon-based Clovertown part.

    How long before we have a Core 2 duo meltdown and Core 2 core breach??
    One Kentsfield sandwich please, extra hot! I'll take that to go in my 4x4.

  15. Re:insecurity 101 on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to know everyone's face.

    Maybe in an apartment building, but surely at a secure workplace. Look, I am no security expert but I do know you can memorize more than 200 faces.
    Just think of all the people you have met in your life (school, work, etc.,) I am sure it is well over 200 and you would recognize most in an instant.
    And don't feel bad for not holding open the door, that is how a friend of mine in Manhattan got tied up and robbed - by the same person they held the door open for.
    It is an insecure world, especially in New York City.

  16. Falun Gong Show on Google Accessible Search Released · · Score: 1, Insightful
  17. The Man Trap on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 4, Funny

    they could just use the transporter and beam into any secure area, all they need are the coordinates and blammo, they're in.

    But, you forgot, after you beam down there could be an extremely attractive woman just waiting to suck all the salt out of you!

  18. insecurity 101 on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe...

    1) Have a photo ID badge that is the only card that can be swiped to get in to the location
    2) Install fingerprint readers and cameras for employees to gain entry
    3) Lock all doors/locations not in use, & again use ID Badges and fingerprint readers to gain entry
    4) Have have all passwords on keychains updated every few minutes
    5) And finally, have all employees meet regularly so they know each other by name and by face

    Just a thought.

  19. These are not the droids your looking for. on Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aldebaran Robotics was founded in early 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier. The company employs about a dozen, is 5 percent employee-owned, and has 17 investors, led by Maisonnier, who holds a 58 percent stake.

    Wait a minute, wasn't Alderaan Robotics completely destroyed by Grand Moff Tarkin a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away?

  20. Re:In Search Of... on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 1

    You were right!
    They did help me find it sitting underneath my nearly-completed Renewable Energy Machine I was building in my basement - right after they confiscated it.

  21. In Search Of... on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 2, Funny

    Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities that make information more productive.

    Yes, but can they tell me where in the hell I left my car keys??

  22. Re:You forgot one... on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 1

    That would be the Christopher Walken method mentioned above.

    Now I know why people say that new music today all sounds like sh*t

  23. You forgot one... on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 1

    ...the iPod in Uranus method.

  24. MySpace Invaders on Banner Ad on Myspace Serves Adware to 1 Million · · Score: 1

    MySpace: A place to go and get spyware, adware, stalkers and moral police supervision.
    Sounds GREAT! Where do I sign up???

  25. Top Edge PHP Attack on Pro PHP Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    The physical book itself also has only one weakness...Specifically, the bottom and side edges of the book are cut cleanly, while the top edge is quite rough.

    This is because someone tried to do a physical attack on the top edge of the PHP Security book.
    However, the Page's Horizontal Periphery security kept it from getting through.