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  1. GIT link on Wayland, a New X Server For Linux · · Score: 1
  2. KDE v3? on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I hope I'll have the KDE3 option as the KDE4 is still missing a number of key features from v3 and also stability seems weak.

  3. To defy PGP encryption ... on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    It's just enough to forget to destroy a data printout!
    Security in companies and institutes is also in procedures, as encrypted data will eventually get unencrypted for work. From there on poorly designed procedures will defy the encryption.

  4. Clones on Running Google Android On iPhone Clones · · Score: 1

    The China will later clone Android and finally Google itslef!

  5. Infrastructure changes? on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    With the tremendous proliferation of TLDs, the DNS could need a massive infrastructure change.
    The root zone will very likely grow from thousand fold to million fold, thus ramping the query load up on world root servers (13 clusters somehow spread all orund the world).
    Simply put, the current DNS infrastructure was not design for this!
    Maybe it could also be the time to implement EDNS

  6. What should then we install on our laptops? on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    Which Linux distro?
    Or even more radical, which OS?

  7. The solution on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Resign now!

  8. It will be a successfull on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 0

    waste of money and resources not to count the extra pollution!
    Why doing this? For fun? C-mon!

  9. This means also that on Researchers Build Logic Gates With RNA · · Score: 1

    even my stupid neighbour has plenty of intelligence!

  10. MPG? on Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want to show how good an autovehicle performs in terms of ecology, please provide these numbers:

    1. Kg of CO2 emitted to produce one
    2. Kg of CO2 emitted to run one for 100 Km
    3. Kg of CO2 emitted to fully dispose one

    Anything else is just buzzword and advertisement!

  11. Computers never make errors on Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap · · Score: 1

    As they are as stupid as cows.
    Errors are only made by Humans, from the design up to the operation level.
    These "announcements" are made just to hide some possibly high level human error.
    If a sensor is feeding wrong data it's because of either a human engineering error or because of some fault that goes undetected (by humans)!

  12. Mooooo on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 3, Funny

    Moooo!
    - Please, come back to the stable!
    Moooo!
    - OK, you force me to use brute force!
    Moooo ... bzzzzzz ... MOOOOOO!
    - I told you!

  13. Re: "physical media" on the way out? on Weird Al To Release Songs As He Records Them · · Score: 2, Insightful

    MP3 players ARE the physical media!

  14. Old Story on Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport · · Score: 1

    I've seen some time ago on BBC Lukas Gruenwald from Germany reading his own passport data.

  15. Re:Any advancement? on Credit Card Security Standard Issued · · Score: 1

    Cloning a chip+PIN doesn't seem to be a real challenge (try some of these pages), especially when you have modified POS equipment (like here).
    Maybe in the USA you have those authentication and authorisation features, but in Europe the CC PIN is seldom required, you cannot change it and when purchasing online is never asked.
    So, again, I would say that electronic payments need some real advancement both in technology and in architectures. In my opinion.

  16. Any advancement? on Credit Card Security Standard Issued · · Score: 1
    Real advancement would be:

    * very very very hard way to physically clone a CC/DC;

    * very very very strong encryption in communication;

    * user-changeable authentication and authorisation, so it won't be enough to have just a copy of the data printed on the CC sides to make a purchase on internet.
    Anything else, will simply suck as far as "security".

  17. Perspective adjust on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hope they'll make it more usable as in Krita.

  18. He's not a tourist at all! on Space Tourist Simonyi Prepares For Second Flight · · Score: 1

    If he's preparing for a mission, I would say he's not a tourist.
    The latter is supposed to go in the outer space just for fun.
    Or not?

  19. It'd be because of EULAs! on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 1

    An application (being it web or traditional) can be in BETA status because of a temporary, not yet finished or even absent EULA.

  20. Can they? on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet

    Can they really have one?

  21. That's normal on Tech Vs. Business? · · Score: 1

    There's always been a difference between people doing things and poeple talking (and doing business) with things.
    Of course, only the former rule.

  22. Re:Light and Matter on Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook · · Score: 1

    You're welcome.
    I highly appreciated your books, despite I'm not at school any more since very loooong time now.
    So it's my duty to thank you, not the other way around.
    My hint would also be a "popular text for the masses", a single volume to plug common people to the world of physics, from Newton to Hertz or (possibly) Higgs.

  23. Light and Matter on Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why reinventing warm water?
    Go to Light and Matter for a high quality book set about physics.
    By the way, CK-12,org already has one.

  24. 24 hours? on 24 Hour Laptops From HP? · · Score: 1

    With Windows software?

  25. Easy Solution on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Use the vignette.
    It's cheaper and already working in a number of countries.
    The drawback is that you cannot create ad hoc business ... :-)