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  1. Re:Hey! on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1

    Including that the UK government admitted its methodology was "robust", and in line with best epidemiological practice?

    Loads of (right-wing) people said it was rubbish but no-one pointed out any specific flaws which I think is pretty telling.

  2. Re:Ms Smith during the debate on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I leave the country for a couple of years and when I come back it's in this state. You should be ashamed of yourselves all of you. You're all grounded until further notice! And no more loud music either.

  3. Re:Hey! on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at their word. This week, the BBC reported that the government's own scientists advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable. This paper was published in the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American- and British-led invasion in March 2003." -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/27/countingthecost

    Yes, "only" 650,000 from March 2003 - March 2007. Well done indeed.

    PS. Linear extrapolation would give ~800,000 by this March.

  4. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1
    How MPs voted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7448372.stm

    I'll be voting against Labour come the next election - ie. for the strongest non-Labour contender. In my case Stephen Williams, Lib Dem, holds Bristol West so I'll be voting for him.

    Fuck New Labour, and fuck you too Mr. Brown.

  5. Root certs should use >1024 bit on Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I'd be deploying 4096 bit - it's not like verifying the signature every now and then is going to bring the Internet to its knees.

  6. Re:U5? on Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    No, that's the *four* most prominent English-speaking countries, plus America.

  7. Re:Perspective? on Cell-based "Roadrunner" Tops Elusive Petaflop Mark · · Score: 1

    ...especially since the number of people on Earth is known to be a constant.

  8. Re:PhD Fail on Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down? · · Score: 1

    Dude, it takes like 60 people to switch that damn thing on, let alone do anything with it. That's why you see hundreds of names on a typical particle physics paper.

  9. Re:More details on the outage on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    Yeah - funny how everyone feels the need for a backup MX but no-one has offsite DNS. If they can't contact your mail server, they will queue mail for you. If there's no MX record, mail starts bouncing RIGHT NOW.

    At my last place they tended to put the same kind of servers next to each other in racks, sharing power and ethernet switch - ie. both of the campus DNS servers - so the "racks were tidy".

  10. Re:I don't really get the Java hate around here on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and maybe you could tell Tony Hoare how to write a sort routine while you're at it, give Andy Tanenbaum an update on Operating System theory, or lecture RMS on how to write a good editor.

  11. Re:First WTF on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    I think they're saying they're going to check with the site admin before illegally DDoS-ing them off the net?

  12. Re:(cue piano music) on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You haven't really experienced "Imagine" until you've heard it in the original Klingon.

  13. Re:Conundrum on Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    But they are not allowed to break the law to do so - which they almost certainly have done.

  14. Re:Not clear if customer records are affected on Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    I worked briefly as a summer student at British Telecom - this was expressly illegal there and that was back in '97. We had to sign a couple of documents about it even though we were nothing to do with phones.
    I can't believe the UK privacy laws are better than the German ones, so odds on are it's illegal.

  15. Re:method is more important than issues on McCain vs. Obama on Tech Issues · · Score: 1

    "Oh my god! This war on terror is gonna rule. I can't wait until it's over and there's no more terrorism"
    "I know! Remember when the US had a drug problem and we declared a war on drugs and now you can't buy drugs any more? It'll be just like that."

    http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

  16. Re:Do you really think they have opinions? on McCain vs. Obama on Tech Issues · · Score: 1

    Respect. This guy's obviously tried every damn beer in the world at 100+ degrees - otherwise how could he know?

  17. Re:In English... on The Phoenix Has Landed · · Score: 1

    But Mr Anderson, what good is a warranty when your nearest dealership is 3 light minutes away?

  18. Re:Good on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1
    Totally different conflict, sadly still plenty of war crimes to go around. http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/kosovo98/timeline.shtml

    Notice how both sides are cited here - I am not particularly anti-Serbian; most wars since WWII have had way too many civilian casualties. But to suggest that it was just a 'normal' war is not - IMHO - accurate.

  19. MODS ON CRACK AGAIN - that was funny on To Whom Should I Donate? · · Score: 1

    or maybe they have no sense of humour whatsoever.

  20. Re:Seriously, what is wrong with the United Kingdo on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 1
    Sorry, but they've got no business modding something Insightful/Informative, if they don't know if something's true.

    Given that there are 1.2 billion Indians and only 60 million British people (a 200:1 ratio), you'd think it would be damn obvious that not everyone from an ex-colony gets a British passport.

  21. Re:Good on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    What, 10,000 dead, of which 2,000 were Serb civilians? That's not genocide - that's war. Neither side was clean, that's for sure, but to blame the Serbs for the conflict is just ignorant.
    Sure! They just put Milosevic on trial for a laugh, like? And these two - http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/kar-ii951116e.htm . Whatever you say, a lot of civilians died at the hands of Serb army and militias during the Balkan conflicts.
  22. Google bar kills my FF3 on Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    You have been warned :)

    Recovery is to delete the plugin, something like this:
    egrep -ri google .mozilla | grep toolbar
    .. ( see where it lives ) ..
    rm -rf .mozilla/firefox/zy8uo2wh.default/extensions/\{3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c\}

  23. Re:In other news on Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Half true. BP at least are investing in alternative energy, while some like Exxon are, well, being fuckwits to such an extent some of their shareholders are up in arms. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/01/exxonmobil.oil

  24. Re:Seriously, what is wrong with the United Kingdo on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 4, Informative
    This is in no way true.If you live in say, Pakistan, you do not get a British passport- you get a Pakistani passport. Recent immigration has mostly been from EU countries - none of them former colonies.

    Mods really are on crack today, or else don't know *anything* about the UK. (Or possibly the original poster is Melanie Phillips.)

  25. Re:The truth is... on The World's Spookiest Weapons · · Score: 1
    Well... France's monarchy had gone long before, and Belgium and Netherlands still have one, as do Sweden, Norway and Spain. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_in_Europe ).

    But apart from that, spot on :p