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  1. Ridiculous on Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's ridiculous. A-DATA sells crap. Reformatting will not change that.

  2. Interesting... Links to info on Gulf of Mexico Gets Wave-Powered Desalination Plant · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://inri.us/index.php/SEADOG Looks promising actually.

  3. Re:Do as I say--- on Warner Bros. Accused of Pirating Anti-Pirating Tech · · Score: 1

    Well that's how feudalism works - one set of laws for the serfs and another set for the masters. We need to go back to the ideals of the revolution, where everyone was treated equally under the law. WB should be fined several million dollars.

    If they bring this to court in the US WB could theoretically be on the hook for 100K per infringement.

  4. Re:Self regulating? on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Now, the stock market is a closed system - any buck that the day trader made, someone else had to put in.

    Can you say d-i-v-i-d-e-n-d? Good.

  5. Re:Wrong People on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    When you submit an app to Apple you agree not to sell it through any other channel.

  6. Re:Um... on NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill · · Score: 1

    They're pumping out 5K barrels of oil/water mixture, that's a pretty big difference.

  7. Re:Can someone explain the point of hypervisors? on Work Underway To Return Xen Support To Fedora 13 · · Score: 1

    I believe they had discovered uses for using VMs within VMs up to four layers deep

    Space heater?

  8. Re:Sure it will on Secure Communication Comes To Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    More importantly gmail does not support S/MIME, which is the widely supported signing/encryption mechanism for email. (although basically nobody uses it).

  9. Re:Disappointed that they released w/o source code on Secure Communication Comes To Android · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably removing all the colorful comments :P

  10. Re:Apple topic? on Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux · · Score: 1

    To be fair chrome is based on WebKit which is apples fork of KHTML.

  11. Re:this is gonna be interesting on Google Audits Street View Data Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd rather see Google's corporate license revoked. Let them operate as a proprietorship whose owner(s) have full liability for his company's actions

    You are seriously arguing that a single person should be responsible for the actions of twenty thousand other people?

    REALLY?

  12. Wait What? Dont you mean IE? on Adobe Founders On Flash and Internet Standards · · Score: 1

    It is so frustrating that this many years later we're still in an environment where someone says if you really want this to work you have to use Firefox.

    Wait what? Forced to use Firefox? uhhhhh ... right

  13. Re:MitM only? on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that it's pretty clear the three letter agencies have gotten CA cert signed by verisign or some other company.

  14. Arbitration is Binding on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 4, Informative

    Arbitration in the US is binding. They can huff and puff and try to blow the decision down, but they are going to lose.

    Either she gets her job back or they end up paying her not to do her job.

  15. Publish Owners Names on Stem Cell Patent Halts Hospital's Collection · · Score: 1

    This could probably be resolved by publishing the names of those responsible for StemCells far and wide.

  16. Re:GPLv3 on Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mod parent up. He is 100% correct.

  17. I Have THE Solution! on New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash · · Score: 1

    It is so obviously simple. Simply forbid selling anything on the NYSE at a price lower than you purchased it at! We would all be RICH I TELL YOU!!!

  18. Re:The Bad Guys on MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments · · Score: 1

    This man deserves to be modded down for nothing more than the bit.ly link. FOR SHAME.

  19. Re:Secure wipes? on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    If a phone implements that correctly, any three-letter-agency without a magic quantum computer stolen from the Greys isn't going to be able to do much about it. If there is some nasty flaw in their implementation, or if they use an inferior system of some sort, it is quite possible that fairly trivial attacks will reveal most or all of the information.

    Quantum computers would not help at all with breaking symmetric encryption and you certainly would not be using RSA to encrypt the contents of flash memory.

  20. Re:hang on slashdot on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 1

    That dude really should have been asking "Am I under arrest?".

  21. Re:Is anything not political? on California Moves To Block Texas' Textbook Changes · · Score: 1

    As someone who went to high school in California I can telly you that there is already a fairly strong political spin on the curriculum, which by the way is 100% dictated by the state legislature for the ENTIRE state (ya know including the almost 40% who vote strongly republican?.

  22. Re:Willing to bet that 60% figure is bunk on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Actually that sounds about right. Seriously search gnutella, most of the peers are limewire.

  23. Corporate Veil on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah but will they be able to pierce the corporate veil and hold the CEO personally accountable? Otherwise his company becomes worthless and he keeps all the money that he's been paid in salary.

  24. Re:The carriers have won. on Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone · · Score: 1

    After the carrier subsidy period is over, they are mandated by law to unlock your phone if you ask. The phone is yours, you paid for it.

    The same is true in the US and most carriers will unlock your phone before your contract expires if you ask nicely.

  25. Re:Another overblown statements in TFS today... on Chemical Cocktail Can Keep a Heart Viable 10 Days, Outside the Body · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You should have n^2 hot chicks! Just rinse and repeat.