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  1. Re:Phishing is serious crime - Spam is just annoyi on First Anti-Phishing Law Enacted in California · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's why the EU wants an international governing body for the internet, instead of letting the US controlled ICANN run everything; because the US isn't doing all that great of a job.

  2. Re:Pendergast is a lobbyist. on Open Source In Public Sector Meeting Opposition · · Score: 1

    only problem is, unrealistic five year plans worked. They just had the unfortunate side effect of killing people and destroying the purpose of communism. But they did increase production, and therefore succeeded.

    Then again, by destroying the ideals of communism from the very beginning, that certainly wasn't good for the concept of communism. Hopefully the lobbying is centralized enough that microsoft will act like the USSR and fall apart.

  3. Re:The question is on Building an Open Source "Clicker"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the people who are overly social don't raise their hands because they are clueless, it can work well to determine how many people actually know certain things, because they don't know what their smarter friends pressed.

    Or you can use it for quick self-quizes.

    But mainly, the use of these systems are for laughs. Laugh at the anonymous person who doesen't know the difference between a positive and negative slope on a graph. Laugh when your class manages to freeze it a fourth time, and hundreds of other students have used it without it freezing once. Use a digital camera on night setting to record everyone answering, upload the video, and make everyone tell you their impressions of it without knowing what the video is of. The optimum usage is definitely the entertainment value.

  4. Re:Great but... on Toshiba to Demo New Fuel Cell MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    No, a cat-5 powered MP3 player. Right now you still have to buy a usb plug build it yourself.

  5. Re:All we need is... on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 1

    Please, don't attack him for attacking you. Show mistakes without showing hatred. Regardless of whether he's on the attack, remember that he is no more a sinner than you(or anyone else including me), and that we are worse for sinning knowing our offense than he is sinning in ignorance. We therefore deserve harsher punishment if anything, but "the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair." And please remember James 2:10, "For whoever keeps the whole law, but falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it."

    I am sorry that I have no way to bring this matter to your attention privately, as the bible instructs. In Christ, Jeff D.

  6. Re:Living the lie on RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    Then record audio feeds from the store. He said, she said, here's the proof.

  7. Re:Redbox for keyboards now? on Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking · · Score: 1

    Wrong solution. Just type the password one-handed, while hitting any keys on a spare keyboard.

  8. Re:Science is great on Kuiper Object Discoveries Formally Announced · · Score: 1

    Is running round earth stealing stuff that much worse? After all, that's how we get everything now.

  9. Re:Great Concept... on Self-Repairing Spacecraft Uses Ant Logic · · Score: 1

    When did we start using impact sensors to see whether neighboring computers were transmitting data? Obviously, it is also intended that each tile can detect damage which does not reach the circuitry, such as big-shallow-crushed-surfaces like the one that caused Columbia to break up. It also says they hope to be able to discern between different types of damage. Types of damage do not matter for routing communication, nor is there any reason that rerouting would only be done rapidly in certain cases. This information is only needed if the purpose is so that the tiles can be physically replaced.

  10. Re:Obviously on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Each server, running an instance of Exchange handling 1 user, should also be able to run another app handling at least 1 more user, so you're guaranteed the ability to handle 2 users per server. And microsoft still supplies tech lack-of-support for half the capacity. Or you can assume that you only need microsoft to set up 1000 servers, because immediately upon instalation, you wipe them, install linux, and ignore the capacity of Exchange

  11. Re:you know... on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    But really, can you blame FEMA for having been taken over by the DHS, cannabalized, and rearanged to fight terrorism?

  12. Re:How does it come out? on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1

    2H202H2+02+energy When you get the hydrogen from the water, that requires more energy than making the hydrogen back into water. If you store hydrogen in water, split it, and put it back together, you have less usable energy than you started with. Otherwise, it would be perpetual motion. It must require less energy to get the hydrogen from storage than is obtained by combining the hydrogen with oxygen. Otherwise, the vehicle runs out of energy. The hydrogen must already be separated from the water, but free hydrogen is too combustable, so it must be bound to something. They bind it with something that they can be split apart with less energy than the fuel cell produces.

  13. Re:using other containers have same 'crime'? on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    aah, but you were just a few feet and an hour apart when you killed the dog, and the death of his nonexistant dog caused him severe mental distress, reducing his ability to preform his duties and costing lexmark potentially millions of dollars. And no court ever throws a case out when it involves severe emotional distress.

  14. Re:using other containers have same 'crime'? on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    but if the terms of their warranty require that it must have a cartridge when you need a reparir, you have to either buy a new one or let them find out

  15. Re:Thinking like a geek on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 1

    M$ integrates an ad and the feature into MSN Messenger, and they'll instantly have a LOT of people. No having to download additional software, no setup, no confusing additional software that may or may not hurt your computer... just works. 'just works' as in, requires 2 critical patches so your computer isn't taken over, and another one to fix one of those patches, and becomes incompatable with newer versions after someone breaks the encryption scheme microsoft uses to prevent wiretaps on the wire to the speaker? We were talking about microsoft, right?

  16. Re:Wow - miniature satallites on Mini Satellites Could Revolutionize Space Industry · · Score: 1

    As far as I know there aren't. However, If you can prove that nobody on the planet can lift it, I'm certain that you can make some money at the expense of the manufacturer.

  17. Re:great, another point of failure on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 1

    if you live in the subburbs, you might just have to drive to work. Or the train/bus station, in which case you'd still need the key. Or maybe your work is somewhere you can't get on public transportation, or it would cost more than the public transportation. Where I live, most people still drive at least part of the way to work because there are no other reasonable options.