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  1. Re:So glad to hear on Study Says Coffee Protects Against Cirrhosis · · Score: 0

    At 16 cups a day, your risk is reduced by 320%.
    In practical terms, this means that you heal people around you. I'll take the liberty to baptize this phenomenon as "passive coffee drinking".

  2. Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. on ASCII World Cup · · Score: 0

    Games for tomorrow (14th):

    15:00 Spain - Ukraine
    18:00 Tunisia - Saudi Arabia
    21:00 Germany - Poland


    These are local times - UTC+2

  3. I'm sure on New IP Treaty Looming? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Piratbyrån's opinion will be taken into account.

  4. Contained on RIAA Claims P2P Has Been Contained · · Score: 0

    We are proud to announce that we managed to contain this p2p issue within our planet.

  5. Re:It isn't needed. on The Pornographers vs. The Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SPAM also has a low clicks/emails rate (I think), but the few clicks are enough to make it profitable.
    Low-budget porn movies might also need a relatively small number of sales to make money, even if they are massively pirated.

  6. In the porn CEO's mouth on The Pornographers vs. The Pirates · · Score: 0, Funny
    "I'm gonna fucking kill these pirates!"

    Come on, you were expecting something else in his mouth, weren't ya?

  7. And if you need symbols... on Password Complexity in the Enterprise? · · Score: 0
    ... just toss a Shift at some of the digits:

    s1F0bgMaI becomes s!F0bgMaI

  8. Re:Cash Cow...er, Cat on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 0

    Cloning is not legal under the DMCA, it allows you to bypass their DRM neutering.

  9. Re:Standard Waste of Our Tax $ on NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites · · Score: 0
    If even regular people tend to post mis-information, do they actually think they will collect relevant terrorist information? Those are the guys with the most reasons not to use real data on the internet.

    Unless of course the S in NSA stands for Spying (as in all-purpose spying) and not for Security.

  10. Re:Why not just track the IMEI? on How Not to Steal a Sidekick · · Score: 0
    Yes, the carrier can indeed easily track the device. The question is - does it WANT to?

    AFAIK, these stolen/unlocked/... IMEI lists aren't honoured amongst competing carriers. If carrier C1 sells a network-locked phone, the customer unlocks it and starts using it with carrier C2, C1 can kindly ask C2 not to allow that device on its network, but I doubt that C2 will comply.

    Now, if the police asked Cx to track the usage of the IMEI on their networks, that's a different story. But I don't know what it takes for the police to handle the case.

  11. Low-level phoning on Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer · · Score: 0
    For the upcoming versions (critical update, BTW), the phoning will be done low level, bypassing any firewalls or blocking route table entries.
    Reason: to allow the tool to safely shut down, even in the presence of hostile 3rd party software.

    Wanna bet?

  12. Re:Conjugal visits on Hacker Resells VOIP For Profit · · Score: 1, Funny

    Conjugal!? We're talking about a hacker, remember?

  13. Re:Too many pages on Tom's Overly Detailed Vista Review · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean put all 53 paragraphs of the review in a single web page???

  14. Re:As a UK resident... on EU Considers Taxing SMS Messages, Email · · Score: 0

    It will be 50p for that comment you posted, sir.

  15. Re:is Microsoft this fragile? on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 0
    It must be reassuring to offer a product and not have to assume responsibility. What a unique privelege

    Can you name any wide-usage software where the supplier assumes the responsability?

  16. Proper English on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 0

    All your private keys belong to us
    (these ones speak proper english)

  17. Re:you know.... on Samsung Working On Fuel-Cell Powered Cell Phones · · Score: 0

    Relax, don't have a cow

  18. Re:RIAA STRIKES BACK !!! on Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez · · Score: 0

    Torrent link, please

  19. Re:Altruism? I have my doubts... on Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez · · Score: 0
    Fewer people for the RIAA to sue because their files got wiped out

    Since when would this make the RIAA forget about it? They'll probably sue anyone *thinking* about downloading files.

  20. Finally on John Carmack Discuss Mega Texturing · · Score: 0

    The development of Duke Nukem Forever can now continue. Believe me, it'll be worth the wait, when you see the results.

  21. Data gathering on Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification · · Score: 1, Funny
    How will they collect all the data they need for this? - what OS versions are infected, what are the worms trying to do, etc.

    I bet a little help from the MSUpdate ActiveX will be welcome, after all "When you check for updates, basic information about your computer, not you, is used to determine which updates your programs need".
    You don't need to know what's going on, just relax and trust them.

  22. Old stuff on 12.8 Petabytes, You Say? · · Score: 0

    This technology is kinda rusty

  23. Re:Earn Points...Claim Valuable Prizes on Vendor Pays OSS Developers for Enterprise Support · · Score: 0

    If there is a pre-established arrangement where you receive something, isn't that considered pay?
    This isn't the same as rewarding the guys afterwards with some goodies, this is the equivalent to a price list - do this, get that.

  24. Re:-1 for self-contradiction, -1 for lateness on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 0

    Hey, *I* posted that, give me the points instead.
    (Just kidding, keep your filthy points)

  25. Enough is enough on Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled · · Score: 0, Funny

    Stop with the JAVA-bashing already