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  1. Re:Nonsense on Qwest Punished by NSA for Non-Cooperation · · Score: 1

    This is a common NSA / Homeland security tactics. If they company doesn't work with them, it dies. Or at least they try to kill it on a quiet note (They do similar things with people, but most of the time, they skip the killings, it gets too much attentions if that happens). This also is in the line of how the Bush administration has been working for the past six or so years.

    There actions are in all like the actions of a military type government, not a civil one.

  2. Case of stupidy on Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the article, it says that she did turn the hard drive over to the RIAA. That act is just stupid, as RIAA can plant there evidence there if they wanted to do so. Also, most computers on dial up and ADSL have dynamic ip, but as most here knows, that means the end user ip changes each time it is connected to the internet. That alone should have been able to cast the whole case in doubt. The jury is a case of people how have no understanding of computers or how the internet works.

    RIAA should also be sued for tampering with the evidence by demanding that people hand over there hard drives for them to "inspect" them. By there own specials investigators, but RIAA doesn't have the right to do so. Since they are not a police force of any type.

  3. Is Microsoft going to repeat SCO ? on Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Microsoft is going to repeat SCO history, that is make claims then go bankrupt. They may have a lot of money now, but the as the saying goes, it is a lot easer to spend money then to earn them. This also applies to companies, even the largest and richest onces (at the moment).

  4. Just stupid on Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued · · Score: 1

    This is just a case of stupid lawsuits by greedy IP holder (they started multiplying not long ago). The radio broadcast has already been paid for, so there claim of copyright breach (or whatever) doesn't hold a closer look. I am also pretty sure that this type of things falls under fair right use. This lawsuit is brought on by greedy stupid people, I hope that the court throws them and there case out.

  5. I first got to slashdot 1998 I think.... on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 1

    I think I first did sign up to slashdot in 1998, but because I only had limited dial up at the time, I didn't use that account, so it got deleted. I did return back here few months ago.

    Happy 10 years, may this web survive whatever it is thrown at it.

  6. Re:You mention cellphones on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    Is this a big hill ? Because satellites can be up to 15 degress above the horizon for that matter. He also should check satellite coverage, as they are from 61.5W to 148W in America, as it can be seen here. http://www.lyngsat.com/america.html

  7. Airport security ? on U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read · · Score: 1

    After my last experience with airport "security", I have come to the conclusion that it is in fact all just a smokescreen. My experience is based on that fact the many people how handle luggage are able to steal from it (I got a mobile phone stolen from me, a charger and a data cable), that fact tells me that security isn't good at all. If they terrorist wants to make a strike, he would do so with a luggage of some innocent passenger. If they can steal from your luggage, they sure as hell can place some stuff into it too.

    If anyone has seen a Sony Ericsson W300i phone in Netherlands with this IMEI number, send me a message.
    Stolen Sony Ericsson W300i IMEI number: 359988006567039

    Checking what people is reading is nothing more then sign of fascist government, that is on top of that paranoid and stupid (hence, Bush & Dick Chaney and co).

  8. Re:Fire that lawmaker on German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server · · Score: 1

    Without a IT, the rest of economic is going to go down the tube. One cannot be without the outer. Or did Europe suddenly stop using computer without me noticing ?

  9. Desprate on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    I guess they are getting desprate, since they there nonsense has been beaten to death more then once. Creatonist, like any other relgion group is unetical and dosent care about the truth. Since they do live on the lie and the cash that brings.

    Now, can someone please remove the creatonist videos off youtube, they actually kill brain cells.

  10. Fire that lawmaker on German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server · · Score: 2, Interesting

    However wrote that securty "law" sould be fired and never allowed to write anything close to a rules or laws. This laws are ofcourse only going to make Germany the favorite spot for virus makers, since securtie flaws dont get fixed.

    Happy new computer virus infected Germany!

    (Or rather, to hell with it.)

  11. Re:for the class of 2029, they forgot... on The Mindset of the Class of 2029 · · Score: 1

    It's aliens, not robots.

  12. Time bubble ? on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    This is one big gap in the fabric of space. My guess is that this is a time "bubble", problay containing time that is trillions of years older then the universe around it. That is why it is "empty" (more or less).

    At least this is a good idea, it is not like everyone else have a better idea on what this is.

  13. Re:Tubular on Study: Martian Soil Has Signs of Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not on Mars, it's too cold. Maybe on Venus if we have bad luck.

  14. Re:I hate.... on Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" · · Score: 1

    Probably a true silicon base lifeforms won't eat us. However, most of the live in the universe is not that simple, most of the live in the universe is based on three component or more. Most live on earth is nitrate-carbon-iron based, along with few other extra chemicals in the mix (the total of the other chemicals is less then 1% of the total sum).

    Many silicon based lifeforms are silicon-iron-plutonium-oxygen based. That makes us on there menu.

    I do have to make this note, silicon based lifeforms thrive best in a environment that is more then 300C warm. Anything colder then that, they risk death.

    I am also not joking, am really serious. However, nobody believes me, not even the ufo nut jobs.

  15. I hate.... on Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" · · Score: 1

    I hate silicon based lifeforms. As they look at us carbon based lifeforms as food or something bad. This mostly applies to the primitive ones, the intelligent types of live forms that are silicon or non-carbon based don't interact with carbon based live forms much on the universe scale.

    I got some alien infos. To my horror.

  16. Re:100 Billion ? on Bandwidth Crunch Looms for Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    For being a executive for a big cable cable company, your not doing your job. Sweden for instance offers 100Mbps fiber connections, cheap. While U.S barely can offer 8Mbps connections over ADSL or Cable, fiber connection isn't even offered far as I know.

  17. Re:Territory on The Fermi Paradox is Back · · Score: 1

    Earth is problay is located in a space that has no claims over it, since the human race has not put a claim on the space surrounding our solar system, not even 0.5 light years or the space around earth. Also, the human race hasn't even gotten out of it's own solar system and still runs most of its machines on fossil fuels. In the eyes of a species that can travel between solar systems, we are primitive, not worthy of contact. However, we might be subject to any type of invasion of the species in question is of that nature. But at best, I don't expect the human race to have defenses in the beginning of such nightmare.

  18. Re:Am I the only one OK with this? on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    The law of the MPAA did make it wrong (MPAA "lobby" (buy) the U.S congress for corporation laws). However, your attitude is just wrong, wrong. 20 seconds if some film isn't going to make a world of difference. Specially since 20 seconds aren't a whole movie. This case should be dismissed and thrown out of court.

  19. Puppet at congress on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    The problem lies in the MPAA making the law the fits there own agenda and passing them trough congress pay paying some asshole congress man to do that. This is the problem, this is a sample of laws that shouldn't exist. They are making criminals by making more stupid laws.

    "Copying a motion picture from a theater performance is a felony under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, punishable by up to three years in a federal prison. Several states, including Virginia, also have anti-piracy laws."

  20. Re:Problem on Web 2.0 Bubble May Be Worst Burst Yet · · Score: 1

    There is a stock market bubble going on. Haven't you noticed the ridicules prices the shares are on at the moment. The bubble problay is going to burst in the next few days or weeks, or months (I really don't have a clue when it is going to burst), but when it goes, it is going to be bad for many countries and companies.

    I am expecting to see a lot of fiber going dark when that happens.

  21. Slashdot lag on iPods Don't Run OS X · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Slashdot must have set a new record in posting April fools late.

  22. Re:AT&T shutting down the internet... on AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content · · Score: 1

    I guess you haven't been to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland or Iceland or other parts of Europe. They are a nice model that actually works it is also based on socialist models, among other things. In the U.S however, nobody cares for the people and we know what that means. For Europe (all of it?), even Democrats are right winged, far on the right wing of politics.

    I don't think that censorship like AT&T is suggesting is going to work in Europe, not even UK (one can hope, at least). It would be thrown in the trash right away. Europe has a bad history of censorship and other dictator like issues. Maybe U.S is finally getting to the point where it is becoming a dictator like country. I guess rest of the world is going to know how that goes in less then 50 years. Countries can be formed, they can also be dismantled, U.S is no difference.

    Anyone jumping of a cliff is the person how agrees with AT&T. I don't care if they excuse them selfs with the "piracy needs to be blocked" clause. This is nothing but hardcore censorship that they are starting. They start with "piracy", then end on the common people. Before you know it, they are going to be arresting people how voice the opinion agent the government (congress included) and the president.

    I am also in no doubt that the U.S government has it's finger in the AT&T plans to censor the internet. Otherwise it would not go past the regulation system and the laws.

  23. Re:AT&T shutting down the internet... on AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content · · Score: 1

    >Mr President? Is that you??

    Learn Icelandic, let's see how spelling error free you are going to be then!

  24. Re:AT&T shutting down the internet... on AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try to speak my native language (Icelandic) before you come with that comment. Then we can speak on even terms.

    Also, Republicans in the U.S are mostly nothing but a group of losers with a thing for 1699 and a lot of money. They don't care if they destroy the planet in the progress and censor everyone how disagree with them. Just as the make one more buck on it and in between.

  25. Re:AT&T shutting down the internet... on AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content · · Score: 1

    Actually it doesn't. It are just losers like you how claim it. After all, we all know that censorship doesn't work. Not even in China or other countries that use it. So there is no basis for it to work in the U.S.

    Bush is stupid, his actions speak for them self.