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  1. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    UK police and security services are fully aware where Assange is (he's not hiding from them), but are not arresting him because of errors in the Interpol warrant. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334899/Scotland-Yard-arrest-wanted-WikiLeaks-boss-today.html

  2. LTE is not 4G (yet) on Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes · · Score: 1

    LTE is not 4G. Here in Norway, one provider is in some trouble for falsely advertising their upcoming LTE offering as 4G.

    Nokia explains that LTE is not 4G here.

  3. Re:A big deal on UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains · · Score: 1

    WikiLeaks is a reasonable point, but torrents really do not fall under free speech. You may well disagree with laws concerning copyright, but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.

  4. Re:What the hell on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 1

    My comment was a stupid joke -- because it's the pause, and not the tap, that determines wether you tap a . or a -
    Morse code is easier with beeps though.

  5. Re:What the hell on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 1

    How do you perform this "long tap"? :)

  6. Re:Irrelevant to the health issues... on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the authors of the letter of concern mention that, and point out that while the effects of this radiation is fairly well understood, the backscatter x-ray is not, because it only affects the skin, not the whole body.

  7. Re:4th on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    The word that's unclear to me in the 4th amendment is 'unreasonable', not 'effects'.

  8. Re:Vehicular travel IS a right on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Nah, but you probably have the right to buy up land, build your own sidewalk, and drive your rocket-propelled car on that.

  9. Re:Recent experience at IND on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    You don't have to stink, you can just wear pants coated in something sticky, preferably something that really irritates skin. And have some spare pants in your carry-on bag :)

  10. Re:Read the rest of my post on VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement · · Score: 1

    It doesn't nessescarily stop anything. But Apple is not allowed (does not have a license to) distribute VLC unless they follow the GPL, which amongst other things says that Apple must make the source available.

  11. Re:GPL requires no DRM? on VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement · · Score: 1

    APPLE is the distributor; THEY have to offer the source. And impose no further restrictions.

    They don't offer the source, and they do impose further restrictions on distribution. Hence, TFA.

  12. Re:The last 25% on BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well · · Score: 1

    Salmon farms use way more fish as fodder than they produce - and they spill tons of antibiotics into the oceans. Let's hope we can either come up with some better ways tofish, or in the alternative some better ways to farm.

  13. Re:What? on WikiLeaks Founder 'Free To Leave Sweden' · · Score: 1

    First, that's an exaggeration. Second, the icelandic banks followed the regulations put forth by the EU/EEC.

  14. Re:Get a clue on From Slaying Dragons To Dictators · · Score: 1

    While this is most certainly true, software like Haystack can prevent iranian intelligence from discovering "new" dissidents through surveillance of known ones.

  15. Re:Much ado about nothing on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 1

    When there are wind farms in enough places around the globe, we can be sure they will generate a certain minimum at all times - this can probably be modeled based on wind patterns, so that use of other sources (hydro, hydrogen reservoirs, nuclear) can be planned and adjusted accordingly.

  16. Re:Why trust the OS? on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because your paging algorithm will be much less tested, used and bugfixed than any OS paging algorithm. And the memory you allocated might be swapped out by the OS anyway.

  17. Re:Knuth didn't get anything wrong on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 1

    TFA writes about how the norwegian newspaper VG replaced 10 squid machines with 3 varnish machines and got much better performance. That switch was done 5 or so years ago, before varnish was first released as open source. He's not writing about beating squid _now_.

  18. Re:Developer Link on Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard · · Score: 1

    Open the link in a new tab, or copy-paste the adress linked to, in order to circumvent the evil javascript :)

    Pretty stupid that Apple doesn't have a "view anyway" button on the warning message, though.

  19. Re:Magic words... on Physicists Do What Einstein Thought Impossible · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, not that many sites have a moderation system like slashdot's :P

  20. Re:Wait... on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Exploitative Assholes on Google's Streetview Privacy Snafu Prompts Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really matter how stupid these users were, or how little privacy they had to begin with. Google seems to systematically collect personally identifiable information, and export it to a jurisdiction with weaker privacy laws.

    The export part is crucial. As I understand it, that's what makes this a crime.

  22. Re:Exploitative Assholes on Google's Streetview Privacy Snafu Prompts Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    You're confusing possible with legal. It should be obvious to anyone that breaking an encryption in order to see other peoples data, no matter how weak that encryption might be, is criminal.

  23. Re:Google shouldn't worry on Google's Streetview Privacy Snafu Prompts Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It's not catching the data that is the problem. It's storing it and exporting it to a country with weaker privacy laws than Germany. If any of the data is found to be private, then this is specifically forbidden.

  24. Re:Not really that disturbing on Nine Chip Makers Fined $400M In EU For Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Actually, a more interesting way of fining publically traded companies might be to disallow and/or heavily tax payouts to shareholders for the next few years.
    That would create a _real_ incentive to follow the law.

  25. Re:Why then on Firefox Arrives On Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless you want to help debug and/or develop, I doubt anyone expects or even wants you to.