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  1. Re:Thanks EU on New EU Net Rules Set To Make Cookies Crumble · · Score: 1

    Whether you can block it or not is irrelevant.

    No, that is completely relevant. Obviously the government needs to step in because people can't be bothered to keep things they want private, private.

  2. Re:Thanks EU on New EU Net Rules Set To Make Cookies Crumble · · Score: 1

    No, it's just that it isn't that hard to either write, or in the case of browsers that support add-ins (IE, Firefox, Chrome -- maybe opera with 11+) to manage/deny cookies if you are that much of a privacy nut.

    Personally, I *like* advertising companies knowing more of what I like and don't like. That way I will stop getting bombarded by viagra/cialis products. I don't need them. If you are going to put an ad up, put one up that I might actually be interested in.

    As for the EU/Microsoft... The whole browser thing we all said was a farce when the EU was fining MS. They forced them to implement a browser ballot box to "prove" there was injustice, and finally level the playing field (Because EU residents are obviously all sheep and can't download their own browser). And what were the effects of all the EU bullshit? Nothing. Nothing at all. Ok, well, the 9th place browser manufacturer claiming they had their downloads per week nearly DOUBLE, statistics show that IE usage actually INCREASED shortly after the ballot box was introduced. Nice job EU.

    If you are going to trot out some bullshit about how the US has "typical anti-EU sentiment", please pick an example that doesn't show how ridiculously stupid the EU was being.

  3. Re:yea! on DOJ Anti-trust Investigation of MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    Nippon is Japan's AT&T.

  4. Re:yea! on DOJ Anti-trust Investigation of MPEG-LA · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hmm... The two best-known? I think the following companies would like to argue that point:
    Cisco Systems
    Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Fujitsu Limited
    Hewlett-Packard Company
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    LG Electronics Inc.
    Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Panasonic Corporation
    Robert Bosch GmbH*
    Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Sharp Corporation
    Siemens AG
    Sony Corporation
    Toshiba Corporation

  5. Re:wow, a SCO story? on SCO Found No Source Code In 2004 · · Score: 2

    That isn't evidence. The evidence is the source code. You are talking about analysis of evidence, which you aren't required to hand over.

    Pinning this up as a "win" would be paramount to asking why NASA is continuing to look for habitable planets when an expert (me), has spent countless days looking up at the sky, and I found absolutely none. If I wrote that in a report to NASA, and they paid me for it, could I then sue the government for wasting tax dollars on a frivolous pursuit to find something I told them didn't exist back in 1970?

  6. Re:FERPA on First Ever HIPAA Fine Is $4.3M · · Score: 2

    No, the real solution is that no one should expect SSN's to be a secret. It is not a password, and it should never be used as one.

  7. Re:Does it really matter? on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Pass.

  8. Re:Wrestling now on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. STU started out boring, but after 8 or so episodes they did a sharp turn and the last 3-4 episodes were good. I wanted to see where it was heading finally, and THEN they killed it.

  9. Re:airtight? big deal on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    Correction, sub-committees are more like a black hole, because no matter how much money and time you throw at them nothing ever comes out, and sub-committees can take an infinite amount of both without trying.

  10. Re:Betting pool on Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service · · Score: 1

    It's because people don't care what MHz the underlying technology uses, they only care about how much data they can send and receive per second.

  11. Re:Betting pool on Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service · · Score: 1

    That is what the very vast majority do. While that isn't everyone, he is correct.

  12. Re:Human dignity sold out for 27kg of drugs on New Internal Cavity X-ray Technology for Airports · · Score: 1

    Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor

    Wow the Aussies really do have something over the US. Are these home affairs an opt-in type of deal, or does your federal taxes pay for it. Lastly, can you deliver to the US?

  13. Re:Obvious on Retro Browser War: IE6 Vs. Netscape In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Firefox with IE Tab works well for that.

  14. Re:It's ridiculous. on Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor · · Score: 1

    Well, except that it takes approximately 7 gallons of oil to make an average tire, and your bike has two of them. Not including your seat, and possibly hand grips that also are made from oil. Don't forget all the plastic parts in your computer, and the rare minerals that were mined in order to make it.

    If you want to simplify your life, walk. Turn off the internet, and stop using modern conveniences.

  15. Re:It's ridiculous. on Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor · · Score: 2

    Then start my shutting off your internets.

  16. Re:Sounds like an ISP problem. on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 2

    EXIM can be configured as such.

  17. Re:We Need to find A Way to Break Free of ISPs on Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia · · Score: 2

    They supplied a service. If you wanted to connect to the internet, you had to get someone (or do it yourself) to run a connection to them, and they would route your data to/from the internet for you.

    An ISP isn't (necessarily) the guy who runs the connection between them and you. Nor is it (necessarily) the guy who has a bank of modems waiting for you to dial into them. The ISP is what lies beyond that, and provides the service that routes your data to and from the internet.

  18. Re:We Need to find A Way to Break Free of ISPs on Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia · · Score: 1

    No, actually there wasn't. When the very first two computers were connected in California, the owners of those computers became the first two internet service providers.

  19. Re:WHOAH Nelly on US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    Did the whole planet just run around drooling and bashing each other with clubs until we came along?

    Yes, and they still continue to do so.

  20. Re:Where are all the neo-luddites? on Dual-core Smartphone Runs Android and Ubuntu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just download the internet and put it on a SD card when you want to access it away from home.

  21. Re:srsly? on How Do Seeders Profit From BitTorrent? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kleenex.

  22. Re:They are behaving like a corporation or gov't on Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA · · Score: 1

    he received public death threats from US officials

    You make me laugh. Thanks for that.

  23. Re:almost tempted to buy some shares on Nokia Shareholders Fight Back · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few companies that did business with Microsoft that did and do very well. Like Intel. Like NVidia. Both were small players before Microsoft, and now are extremely huge.

  24. Re:Hybrid disks, and disk names on Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark · · Score: 1

    No thanks, I'd like to be able to upgrade each individually, or buy a SSD from one manufacturer and the HDD from a different one.

  25. Re:$200 for 80gb? on Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark · · Score: 1

    Third problem: Laptop now looks really funky with the duct taped hard drive. Oh and is much heavier!
    Solution: Don't know, any suggestions?

    Duct tape some helium balloons to it, which will also help to insulate the heat of the drives from your lap.