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  1. The sooner on States Throw Out Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    ... the better!

  2. Re:x86-64? on VIA Nano CPU Benchmarked, Beats Intel Atom · · Score: 1

    Like comparing apples and pears or, at your will, a Motorola 68000 and an Intel 80386. They are different, running different machine codes.

  3. x86-64? on VIA Nano CPU Benchmarked, Beats Intel Atom · · Score: 1

    Besides having more cache and higher FSB freqency, the Nano is also x86-64!
    It's a nice thing indeed, but it'd be like comparing apples and pears.

  4. Squeezing costs on Cambridge N-Prize Team To Build Balloon-Assisted Rockets · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    By making sure there's no American onboard.

  5. How long will it take for the FBI to ride? on Hardware Hacking Guide — Citizen Engineer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I understand that they are just exploiting holes in design and implementation of telco stuff (SIMs, payphones, telco billing system),
    Maybe the fact that a hole is there doesn't mean you can expoit it.
    And, finally, does FBI understand it?

  6. Re:But does it work? on Opening Quantum Computing To the Public · · Score: 4, Informative

    Links forgotten: This and this one.

  7. But does it work? on Opening Quantum Computing To the Public · · Score: 2

    From an earlier experiment was even not clear whether the factorisation of 15 had really happened!

  8. Of course it is not a problem! on More Skype Back Door Speculation · · Score: 1

    As it is not for any other telco.
    Especially when one of the parties is behind a firewall, the Skype servers are needed for the communication and in some place there, it gets unencrypted.
    Real P2P encrypted voip communication (a-la Bit Torrent), would make it very difficult to eaves drop the communication.

  9. Less features on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    and more bugs, accordingly to bugs.kde.org.
    As it has less feature and stability than KDE3, fewer people will use it, thus degrading the use-report-fix cycle.

  10. More videos on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Are here

  11. Re:That's a maximum rating on the power supply on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    Isn't a standard 4 watts PSU cheaper than a 10W one?

  12. 2 watts? on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    From their (weird) web site:
    9vDC 2.5mm 10 watt AC-DC adapter power supply
    So the box is not eating 2 watts, but 10, unless you can pump in it 9VDC in a more efficient way.

  13. Saving the environment on Reusing and Recycling Code · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you think about how much energy is needed to produce (good) code, recycling it will also help to save the environment!
    Seriously!

  14. Harder demoting? on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd like to see demoting needing more than two or three votes in the same direction.

  15. Teach it! on 1200-Baud Archeology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that at least the basic interpreter should be taught to the new generations.
    They don't feel confortable enough in less than 1 GB, what if they had just 4 KB?

  16. Re:Misconceptions? on KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    Where you understand that the KDE 4 is not complete?

  17. Misconceptions? on KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Simply put, I had to revert to KDE3 in order to be able to work with my laptop.
    If KDE4 is not finished, why announcing it as a deliverable product?
    What everyone expects from a new major release is no less features and stability than the older ones.
    Whenever this is not the case, a flop is waiting at the corner (as a lot of people learned from Vista).

  18. Swap the Constitution with the Bible on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    It'd be much easier.

  19. Enhancements? on Gentoo 2008.0 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What about a plain search among all available packages?
    Are still they supporting only Postgresql 8.0, KDE 3.3, OpenOffice 2.0 and so on?
    I would say that a distribution that claims to be mainstream should support at least the lastest minor version numbers for all packages.
    Nothing more, nothing less.

  20. Use web based applications on Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs · · Score: 1

    And clean carefully the cashe when finished.

  21. Re:Telephone privacy on The Privacy Paradox · · Score: 1

    This means the the concept of privacy itself is fuzzy, as well as any related concern!

  22. eBay! on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    eBay!

  23. Telephone privacy on The Privacy Paradox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least in Italy, for the sake of privacy, you cannot know from your telco the exact phone numbers that have been dialed from YOUR own phone.

  24. I thought it was real estate! on The Microsoft Office Rental Program · · Score: 1

    That is you could rend some of the evergrowing number of empty offices in Redmond to host you own business ad a nice address.
    What a pity!

  25. Re:No way to kill P2P without killing the ISP mark on ISPs to Ban P2P With New European Telecom Package? · · Score: 1

    Still the throttling investments need to pay back.