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  1. Raw document on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 4, Informative

    The raw document provides some more details but remains not especially explicit.

    "The fact that NSA/CSS has some capabilities against the encryption in TLS/SSL, HTTPS, SSH, VPNs, VoIP, WEBMAIL, and other network communication technologies".

    Capabilities are defined here as NSA/CSS ability to exploit a specific technology. This may encompass acquiring and processing plaintext data and/or acquiring, decrypting and processing encrypted data.

  2. Re:What was it? on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is indeed used very often in colloquial French. You can explode your budget, some limit/quota (overspend or overdo) and yes, you can explode your competition as the title of this article says.

  3. Gnome anniversary too! on 10 Years After Big Blue Beat Garry Kasparov · · Score: 1

    Gnome project was started also exactly 10 years ago! Happy anniversary, guys!
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-Augus t/msg00123.html

  4. 70% as a limit? on IE Dropping, Now Near 70% In Europe · · Score: 1

    I have read in a book on strategic thinking that once QWERTY (as opposed to Dvorak) would decline to 70% of overall usage, Dvorak would finally overtake it. Maybe it's the same thing here with Firefox.

  5. Re:Tant mieux pour la France! on Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing an economist on radio telling, a few weeks ago, that Sarkozy program was just a sum of ideas that were already tried and failed, and that Royale's programs were more interesting from the point of view of an economist.

    Here's one that has voted today for Sarkozy. And he gives some good reasons why.

    Well, we all know that N. Sarkozy is a brilliant speaker, so it's not such a good idea to use this debate as the main basis to compare the merit of programs.

    It's not only about Sarkozy, it's about Segolene. Why is she playing cheap cards like raped policewoman when they're talking about economic growth? In fact, I think was the best to show whom to vote for. Sarkozy had been asking her for about 5 minutes to tell us how she would return 2,5% economic growth to the country. As far as I remembered, except for "je le pourrais", she didn't say anything meaningful. Segolene has dreams but she has no idea of how to achieve them. That's why I put a reference to G.W.Bush (OK, I admit, it was unthoughtful) in my previous post: they both (would) do stupid things without listening to others.

  6. Tant mieux pour la France! on Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sarkozy had been forecasted to win this election since maybe 2002 and everyone knew he would be the next President. Gladly, this happened to be true. Besides, he is less conservative than a liberal, at least that's what his ideas represents especially concerning economic issues (and France has lots of them).

    If someone of you has seen the debates between the two a few days ago (you can watch it on YouTube now), you wouldn't have any doubts. I just can't understand those 47% who had. Mrs Royal didn't have a program. She didn't have any ideas of how to rebuild France. Everything I can remember from the debate from her words is "I will do it / I would be able to do it" or even "You're not credible Mr Sarkozy / You're politically immoral".

    Think of Royal as George W. Bush being a socialist woman. Damn scary.

  7. Re:Leave it alone! on BitTorrent, Inc. Acquires uTorrent · · Score: 1

    You may try Deluge. GTK-based, light and not overloaded with useless features. Though still in Alpha and there are some issues with download speed. By the way, AFAIK, no Windows version available.

  8. MOD PARENT FUNNY! on Microsoft's IE Team Leader Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    Really! I'm not joking! But apparently, Dean is...

  9. MS services are popular in Belgium on Google News Removes Belgian Newspaper · · Score: 1

    It's really hard to say how this would affect Google's positions in Belgium but what I noticed is that people here, especially the youth, lots of them are really affected by MS services. I mean 9 e-mails out of 10 belongs to hotmail and the second thing you might be asked (after your GSM number) is what's your MSN?

    Though Google search is really at the top here. Even guys at the universities recommends using it.
    I am sure they will find some kind of agreement. I wouldn't like to lose all the results coming from Le Soir, La Libre or whatever. And I surely won't change my favourite search engine.

  10. Re:This is very important on Belgium Chooses OpenDocument · · Score: 1

    There were neither three, nor nine. There were six countries who founded the EU: Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, Italy and Germany.

    Though three might be also true, but only to some extent if you think that the founding of Benelux should be considered as the start of the future EU.

  11. Re:Technology DID do it today... on Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You cannot juge a team by having seen only one match or even only one tournament. Ukraine lost 0:4 to Spain but they are surely not that bad. Denmark won European Championship in the 90s though they stepped into the tournament only because Yugoslavia wasn't allowed to play in the competition. And now you won't Danish national team in Germany. There are numerous exemples like that and I think that only a series of competitions can show whether a team really deserves to be in the TOP10.
    Since I'm from Europe, I don't see often USA in the pitch but I've noticed however that they are constantly getting much better.

    And here's a good and funny introduction to the world of football. Enjoy!

  12. Re:Technology DID do it today... on Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Come on, don't be ridiculous. Brazil is far from being the team which won the World Cup in 2002. For the moment they are just average among all the participants. They didn't have any friendly matches before the tournament and their game is still struggling. But even this allows them to beat the Aussies while evidently dominating the second half. Honestly, Australia didn't create anything, it was Brazilians who were defending stupidly.
    By the way, FIFA rankings are absolute nonsense. What can you expect if friendly matches are also included into the ranking?..

  13. Just to be sure on A New Search for MySpace · · Score: 1

    > Structural markup would make it a lot easier to find the relevant info.

    Are we still talking about MySpace?

  14. Re:Frist Post on Why Ballmer Should Leave Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I think he had made a mix of English and French. In French a phrase started with que means something like let in English as in "Let the game begin". In French it would be "Que le jeu commence".

  15. Re:Very interesting on Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw · · Score: 1

    Come on... If you live in the US, you can send an SMS to get an invite. I'm not sure about other countries however. Besides, in each web forum you can find someone who has loads of invites. You could even try your luck by sending an e-mail to johnny, john.smith or whoever to ask an invite. That is really not a valuable argument.

  16. Re:Very interesting on Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw · · Score: 1

    But seriously, Yahoo Mail is nothing but a piece of crap. I wouldn't use it if it weren't for the groups which don't accept non Yahoo e-mail addresses. Reasons:
    1) slow while browsing and full of annoying ads;
    2) impossible to categorize my e-mails;
    3) but the worse is that Yahoo messes up my e-mails with non-latin symbols.
    GMail is far more convenient and just better.

  17. Re:Great... on Google Researchers Create TV Audio Analysis System · · Score: 2, Interesting
    For displaying ads. There's some info in TechCrunch.
    [...]to listen to the ambient audio in a room, determine what is being watched on TV and offer web-based supplemental information, services and shopping contextual to each program being watched.
  18. Counter-terrorists win on Where Should One Go for Unix/Linux Training? · · Score: 1
    I'm a CS master student
    Yes, I know what CS means but damn, the other meaning is just awfully funny in this case.
  19. Re:OMG THE SICKENING COLOR! :) on Working Model of MIT $100 Laptop a Hit · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've heard that orange is on average one of the most annoying colors for human beings. For instance, a room with orange painted walls would drive you nuts sooner than Russian pop music.

  20. Re:One thing I know about Nautilus. on Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus · · Score: 1

    2 Poor keyboard support. My main gripe with Nautilus is that you can't navigate by pressing a key to "walk round objects whose name starts with a letter" as you can in Konqueror, Windows Explorer etc. etc. For me this makes finding files a complete pain in the arse. It's such basic obvious, useful functionality I can't believe it's missing. Well, it's not missing under Gnome 2.14 as it works for me.

  21. Re:New most popular distro on Previewing Dapper And Edgy · · Score: 1

    Long waiting for?
    You mean you were waiting for this?
    I'm just wondering if there will be an entreprise edition so I can have 24x7 "technical" support!

    P.S. Sorry guys, it's in Russian. Can't do nothing about it.

  22. Chernobyl kid on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    I come from Lithuania. Well, it's relatively far from the Ukraine but not too far to avoid the passing radiation cloud. At the time of the disaster I didn't exist but I was born almost exactly 9 months later.

    Now I am allergic to lots of things (including food, dust, etc). Moreover, I have asthma. Well, I know that it's considered to be a disease of the cities but it's however weird as I'm the first in my family and Vilnius (city where I was born and where I live) isn't / wasn't too much polluted, all the more in the 80s.

    I've always wondered where my current health state was conditioned by Chernobyl. Could anyone explain if my mum is right when she laughingly calls me "Chernobyl kid"? Is it possible that a radiation cloud could affect the embryon? Personnaly, I do think that there is some truth in her words but it's only that I think. I'm not very talented in medicine, you know...

  23. Re:Just be better on Lessons from the Browser Wars · · Score: 1

    Makes me remember the famous Blue Ocean Strategy:
    Create uncostested market space and make competition irrelevant.

  24. In other news... on Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firefox is reported to pass the ACID2 test as well. Though it's just a development branch and there's still a load of work to do, it's nice to see they are finally getting to the finish.

  25. Why Gnome if there's XFCE? on Gnome 2.14 Released · · Score: 1

    I like Gnome, I like its style, I like its simpliness. But what I don't like, is that it's a bit cluttered. So far, I've noticed that Gnome looks really nice on monitors supporting resolutions higher than 1024x768, but since I'm forced to use the latter, I was always searching for something better. And I've finally found...
    Now using XFCE and Gnome hybrid instead. I had really been a Gnome addict till I discovered XFCE. Why do I have to install Evolution when I don't use it and GStreamer which never works?
    I'm definitely keeping this thing till I don't buy a better monitor. Or till there are some changes in Gnome itself.