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  1. No way to kill P2P without killing the ISP market! on ISPs to Ban P2P With New European Telecom Package? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. A lot of customers, especially home ones, use internet almost just for the P2P applications.
    2. As they will close the P2P protocols, new ones will arise.
    3. Investments for heavy throttling will never pay back as people will find new interesting ways to bypass it or to switch to a different ISP!

  2. Hunger on OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting? · · Score: 1

    This is the sympton.
    Stupidity is the disease.
    The American operators will kill the SMS market and the value added services business (and the related premium rates).
    This is maybe the right time for the USA to give a closer look to the European business model.

  3. Americans' rights on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are not stronger than other country people's.

  4. Re:And why not on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    You are definitely right! Interesting article the one you mention.
    A 2GB micro-SD I have in my phone can easily pass any control without being noticed by dropping it into a pocket or a suitcase.
    Or you can ship it with snail mail.
    And yet holding "questionable contents".
    My basic idea still remains: those controls are a useless waste of time and money.

  5. Re:And why not on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    Don't think so: it'd take hours to check a single passenger. And skills, technology and ... a brain.

  6. And why not on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    also browsing the traveller's books, post-its (tm), cameras, camcorders, USB sticks, cell phone memory ... and so on?

  7. Useful tool on Multicolored Keyless Entry System · · Score: 4, Funny

    to make jokes to your color-blind friend: replace his front door lock!

  8. Re:Anything else out there? on The State of X.Org · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are few points here.
    Developers need (new) money.
    Developers need (new) ideas.
    Developers need (update) documentation.
    It could be also time for a brand new project, but those points still hold true, in my opinion.

  9. GPS is digital! on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: 0

    We can reasonably rely on GPS as the signals sent are digital. If you receive them, then they are (supposed to be) correct.
    The only problem could be when you don't receive any signal. But this is a different story.

  10. Swallowed bombs on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    Can this machine see also swallowed bombs?
    Or should we also have an X-ray body scanner?

  11. Very good results! on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    By doing so the boarding procedures will be slower, more people will prefer other ways to travel whenever possible, layoffs in the air travelling industry ... nice.
    Looks like a very good advancement.

  12. Use PGP/GPG for email! on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1

    For email there is a simple solution.
    For everything else ... we need to work it out!

  13. Forbidden by law on The One-Use, Self-Destructing DVD Returns · · Score: 2

    Someone should really forbide this practice by law, for the sake of the environment.
    And someone should really explain those i**ots that this way they'll give the pirates a simple cheap way to get DVD quality copies, without assles and a few pennies.

  14. These aren't news! on Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years · · Score: 1

    We don't need Gertner to know that!
    All those buzzwords have appeared dozens of times, at an increasing rate, in all our favourite IT news sites.
    Like SlashDot.
    User Interface and Ubiquitous computing are "the technologies of the future" since 30 years now!

  15. Start from here on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    Maybe this can be a starting point!

  16. Unification! on QGtkStyle Offers Native Gtk Look For Qt Programs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All we need is unification of thechnologies: one to rule them all. With less fragmentation in resources we could get better products, while the customisability would remain untouched.

  17. Phase IV on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a deja vu!

  18. Power of a single blogger on Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    If a single blogger can "undermine the prestige of a state and weaken a national morale", that he or she should be sentenced by death, as he's too much power in that country.
    Or maybe the case that that state has already a very low prestige and a very weak national morale that a single blogger can blow it away!

  19. eBay? on US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would give eBay a try to find them out!

  20. The aquator has eaten your armour! on Second Person · · Score: 1

    Rogue forever!

  21. PC architecture review? on AMD's Triple-Core Phenom X3 Processor Launched · · Score: 1

    Despite all these multiple core CPUs and, high speed I/O devices and 4D accelerating graphic cards, I still get stuck into RAM, bus or DMA bottlenecks.
    Wouldn't it be better to spend some research resources into a new PC architecture with things like crossbars in order to really exploit all those parallel CPU cycles?

  22. HA for messagins infrastructures! on Emergency Alerts Via Text Messaging · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This means that the messaging infrastructures are to be really highly available under all circumstances.
    Which seems no to be the case at least for GSM/3G cellular networks where these infrastructures are very complex.

  23. What'd be the source for the price list? on Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 · · Score: 1

    What'd be the source for the price list?
    Are those guys into this market?

  24. Modem or Router? on AT&T, 2Wire Ignoring Active Security Exploit [Updated] · · Score: 1

    The correct device type is router, as modems are just dumb devices with no DNS feature at all.
    The fact that a box attaches to a PC for Internet access doesn't imply it is a modem.

  25. Re:Lightning = Energy on Researchers Unravel Mystery of Lightning Diversity · · Score: 1

    Try discharge a lightning bolt down a swiming pool with grounding. You get a log of oxygen and hydrogen at once by electrolysis!
    It could be cheap.