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  1. Re:Japan is a lot smaller than the U.S. on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And in the UK, where we have a dense poulation, we are doing worse than the US. What's our excuse?

  2. Re:Euro/Japan envy is getting stupid on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    I live in Boston UK, and I can't get anything more than 2 down, 400 up. And that is dropping out all of the time, and throttled to hell.

    Cry me a river.

  3. Meanwhile... on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 1

    In the UK, It'll never get there.

  4. Done this for a while. on Let Your Theme Song be Your Password · · Score: 5, Informative

    TrueCrypt had an option like this. The best thing, in my opinion is to use a password and files. (Yes, multiple files).

    My favourite system was to set up a TrueCrypt volume with a hidden volume. You have two passwords, and a set of files on a CD. The normal volume is opened with a password and all the files on the CD. The hidden is with the passoword and a selection of the files (I called them 0-9 so it ended as a 'pin' of sorts).

    This means two things to know, and one to have, plus plausible deniablity, which isn't bad.

  5. MyOpenID on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    MyOpenID allows you to use a phone call to log in. When you try to login, they call, you, and you press hash, it logs you in. Free too.

  6. Re:Makes me wonder... on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    You should watch Gattaca. It'd make you feel better, I'm sure.

  7. And that's why I'm glad healthcare is public... on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    In the UK. I mean, I know our data is really secure, and could never get into the wrong hands. Right?

  8. Oblig. on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1
  9. Re:The question is, how long can they keep it up? on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 1

    Uh, The only people I know who consider themselves 'hardcore' play FPSs.

  10. Re:The question is, how long can they keep it up? on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, your point was? I said that Consoles were not a good platform for FPSes, and that I'm not "hardcore".

  11. Re:you are satan on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 1

    Or... I'm just making a joke. I don't honestly believe 666 has any real significance more than 13 or 777, 888 etc.. I don't know about you, must most people naturally spot paterns and things they recognise. It's just a joke. Lighten up.

  12. Re:The question is, how long can they keep it up? on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 1

    I don't consider myself 'hardcore' actually, The reason I put it in quotes is because I think it's a stupid phrase anyway. My gaming involves the Half Life Series, TF2, Garrys Mod, etc... UT2004, Empire Earth 2, stuff like that. I don't play that much either.
    Consoles are not a good platform for FPSes. It's a fact. The controls are not suited, which is why auto-aim is all around.

  13. Re:you are satan on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look at your balls, take the first one, realise it's not there, go fuck yourself for not having the balls to troll while logged in.

  14. Re:The question is, how long can they keep it up? on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The hardcore gamers will decide? Let me break it to you, there are a lot more people out there who are looking at gaming because of the Wii than there are hardcore gamers. The console wars will soon be swung by these people. True "hardcore" gamers don't play on a console anyway, that's what PCs are for.

  15. The number of the beast. on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Market-tracking firm NPD Group reports that 666,000 Wii consoles were sold in the United States in June

    (Emphasis Added)

    This is solid proof that Nintendo are sponsored by the devil.

  16. Re:Will this ever be usable in the US? on Researchers Test BitTorrent Live Streaming · · Score: 1

    Europeans? I don't know if you are aware, but Europe is not generally that great either. Some places have it good, but the UK, for example, has worse connectivity than the US by a long shot, and they throttle and traffic shape.

  17. Re:Good for him on Stephen Hawking Turned Down Knighthood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Medical Dr. vs Real Dr. is a fun one, as the majority of Medical Doctors, are not actually doctors (don't have a doctorate), and yet people often say that someone who is a doctor, but not a medical doctor, is a fake doctor, which in fact, it's the other way around.

    I was told a story about a Pharmacist in a hospital who had his name - 'Dr. Bob Smith' (example) on the door. Now, the hospital forced him to take the Dr off, despite him actually having a doctorate, unlike most of the doctors who have it on their doors in the hospital, because he wasn't a medical doctor and it'd confuse people. I, personally, think that's insane.

  18. Check it, your ISP throttles!... on Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... use Google TiSP instead!

  19. Easy. on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    Lie to them. Again. And Again. And Again. Until they don't believe a word out of your mouth, then get others to do the same.

  20. Re:Repeat after me... on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. The World, however, is with it.

  21. Hey, Americans! on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 1

    If you want to make a market back over there, you'll have to lower prices over here, to make it less profitable, what a shame that'd be.

  22. Re:Their traffic - shape it if you want on Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs · · Score: 1

    You know as well as I do that he wasn't saying that big companies should have elections.

  23. Re:Their traffic - shape it if you want on Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs · · Score: 1

    With corporations with more money in the bank than the GDP of many small nations, I think its time we start treating them as governments too and have some sort of restriction on how they behave. Restriction on how they behave? I don't know how you view a government, but, in theory at least, they don't have restrictions on how they behave set by any higher authority.
    Oh, of course, you mean that the US will nuke any company that steps out of line. Right?

  24. Re:The most successful FOSS product? on Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month · · Score: 2, Insightful

    End user, yes, otherwise I presume Apache is what we are all thinking of.

  25. Re:We haven't had faxes for 20 years on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    This applies to England in one main area:
    Copper Phone Lines.
    Sucks for us.