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  1. Re:security holes of releasing source code on Microsoft Opens Source Code To KGB's Successor Agency · · Score: 0

    Clearly you have no idea how SELinux works. It's an enormous pain in the ass to setup correctly. Simply enabling it will do nothing at all.

  2. Re:Remediation Theatre on Oil-Spotting Blimp Arrives In the Gulf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And rather than have experienced Dutch crews immediately operate the oil-skimming equipment, to appease labour unions the U.S. postponed the clean-up operation to allow U.S. crews to be trained.

    Can we please dissolve the unions now?

  3. a web interface? on Willow Garage Robot Fetches Beer, Engineers Rejoice · · Score: 1

    Why a web interface? seriously...

  4. Re:To be fair... on Daily Kos Pollster Made Up Numbers · · Score: 1

    I guess the PBS News Hour doesnt count?

    They do it every single day at the end of the program.

  5. Re:Not sure how much this will help you specifical on Where Does IT Fall Within Your Organization? · · Score: 1

    So are you Bill or Minda?

  6. Solar Panels on the top of the bulb on Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously how many light bulbs to you have where there is sunlight hittinng the top of the bulb regularly?

  7. Flash Free Videos on The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA · · Score: 1
  8. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would a drone using forward looking infrared even have hit the geese in the first place though?

  9. Re:But, but, but,,, on Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing To Lending Books · · Score: 1

    Selling reselling the same thing over and over again? Without any further investments?? And expect to be paid the same money forever???

    So what they just charge the first person to buy it 110% of the cost of production and then give it away for free?

  10. Re:Just curious if BP has used some risk mitigatio on US Confirms Underwater Oil Plume · · Score: 1

    We know the company operating the drilling platform was a separate company (owned by BP)

    Transocean is not owned by BP. Transocean is a separate company entirely.

  11. Re:Well, just you just keep on driving on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 0

    lxtoc_1 was simply a matter of the mexican national oil company ignoring something that almost exclusively effected the Texas coast.

    Not to mention it was in 1979.

  12. Re:It's fully functional. on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Just so that it's exceptionally clear, ALL of the benchmarks used to show that safari is faster were written by apple. SunSpider specifically has a history of intentionally not fixing bugs in the public version that adversally effect firefox javascript performance.

    Take their results with a grain of salt the size of texas.

  13. Re:$355 per capita? on NZ Plan For Fiber To the Home · · Score: 1

    $355 per person over 10 years is dirt cheap.

    no it's impossibly cheap (which was my point).

    And no, they're not going to get everyone. The title of TFA is "75% of New Zealanders to get 100Mbps fiber by 2020"

    Whatever it's still only like 450 USD. Good luck to them, but it seems REALLY low ball.

  14. $355 per capita? on NZ Plan For Fiber To the Home · · Score: 1

    First of all we should be able to mark the article a troll. That's just ridiculous.

    Second that's only 355 USD per person I'm guessing they're not going to get everybody for that.

  15. Take their tests on Hooked On Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price · · Score: 1

    I took their tests and scored perfectly in the first one and better than average in the second.

    I'm a heavy multitasker.

    SHENANIGANS

  16. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecies on Econophysicists Develop and Test "Bubble Index" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The key to the efficient market hypothesis is universal knowledge. Everybody must know everything, reality does not conform.

  17. Re:MACS???!?! on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    It was not too long ago that the swap file on OS X was world readable.

  18. Re:A 2nd "Chinese".... on Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released · · Score: 1

    Funny every CPU I see on that list is manufactured in china...

  19. Re:My Brain Pain Increased by Two-Thirds ... on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 1

    By facial expression.

    http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=facial+expression+mice+pain+&meta=

    It's a phishing attack!! Everybody knows google is in AMERICA! Crazy frenchy.

    :P

  20. Yay Poster! on How To Take a Big Vendor To Small Claims and Win · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a print link. Yay poster!

  21. Re:Accidentally or Tactically Aquired data on Congressman Steps Up Pressure On Google, Facebook · · Score: 1

    No it's not.

  22. Re:Accidentally or Tactically Aquired data on Congressman Steps Up Pressure On Google, Facebook · · Score: 2, Informative

    So if your wifi logging happens to be detailed enough you could definitely "accidentally" collect that data just by having the wifi on with a default of connecting to any open network.

    They did not connect to anybodies network. They simply sniffed over the air broadcasts. They did not actively do anything.

  23. Re:Hmmmm....Can someone explain...... on A New Neutral, Long-Haul Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should have another look at 47 U.S.C. 253(c). Local utility districts hardly ever allow multiple utilities to do the same job.

  24. Re:Hmmmm....Can someone explain...... on A New Neutral, Long-Haul Fiber Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The incumbents are almost universally public utilities. They are granted a local monopoly as having more than one company digging up the streets to lay cable/phone/fiber would be insanity.

    This will have absolutely no effect at all on the consumers situation.

  25. Re:Software alone wont ever solve this problem. on How Viruses Evolve Into All-Purpose Malware · · Score: 1

    Sure there is. Whitelists, but nobody has the patience to do it.