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  1. Violates point of 1st Amendment on TSA Internally Blocking Websites With 'Controversial Opinions' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The point of the 1st Amendment is to protect UNPOPULAR speech!.

    What has happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?"

    And what has happened to the promise of the most open and transparent in history?

  2. Who decides what is 'controversial opinion'? on TSA Internally Blocking Websites With 'Controversial Opinions' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A bureaucrat? A czar?

  3. Re:Server vs. Client? on YouTube Hit By HTML Injection Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The first bug I found was that a new user could insert script tags in their username (any field, really), my employers response was "Why would anyone want to hack a website?"... I wouldn't drop the issue, so they dropped me.

    Did you then DROP their tables?

  4. Craigslist? on Information On Philips' "Coffee" Machine? · · Score: 1

    Consider posting an announcement (or whatever) on Craigslist Ontario

  5. Re:Because it's in the upper-left? on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    You're presuming left-to-right languages. Some languages are right-to-left (e.g., Arabic), so of course "top right" would apply in this case.

  6. Re:Did Microsoft REALLY just patent the diode brid on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 2, Interesting

    'LATFPITFA' is certainly unique: Google returns one search result for it! Congratulations!

  7. Re:Why charge? on Solar-Powered Flight Grounded By Equipment Bug · · Score: 1

    I must be misunderstanding something... it says it's an around-the-world flight that would last 24 hours...

    You are misunderstanding something--big time.

    Consider: the circumference of the earth at the equator is about 24,900 miles; divide that by 24 hours and you get about 1,037 MPH. Not bad for a solar powered plane, eh?

  8. Re:Note to self on Solar-Powered Flight Grounded By Equipment Bug · · Score: 1

    Star Light Star bright,

    The first star I see tonight,

    I wish I may, I wish I might,

    Oh, shit, no flight at night!

  9. Re:Solar plane... on Solar-Powered Flight Grounded By Equipment Bug · · Score: 1

    I'm not worried; I've already got a Mr. Fusion (TM) Home Energy Reactor (TM)

  10. Ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 3, Funny

    General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

    Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, no, I can't say I have.

  11. Re:can't resist on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 2, Funny
  12. Re:Fuck Chase on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 1

    Why stop there?

    Pretty much all corporations "think" like Chase, so fuck 'em all.

  13. Re:"The internet is complicated" on China Bans Military Personnel From Blogging · · Score: 1

    How can a series of tubes be complicated?

  14. What if the Chi-Comms had done the opposite? on China Bans Military Personnel From Blogging · · Score: 1

    Imagine if the Chi-Comms had mandated that all 2.4 million soldiers must blog--except that they must post miss-information and etc. originating from their propaganda ministry and covert ops--think of the burden it would have had on other nation's resources trying to monitor that!

    So, yeah, IFO am glad the Chi-Comms shut up.

  15. Start with Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS) on Security For Open Source Web Projects? · · Score: 3, Informative

    For a start, consider using LIDS

    (The name is a misnomer because it prevents alteration of protected components (even as root).)

  16. Re:Sounds like troll bait on Security For Open Source Web Projects? · · Score: 1

    How would using a different platform for the server solve all of his problems?

    He was being sarcastic.

  17. Re:The practical solution on SanDisk WORM SD Card Can Store Data For 100 Years · · Score: 1

    I challenge you to go more than five years without wanting to watch your kids walk for the first time. This helps remind me when it's time to update.

    Oh. So that explains why all your kids are separated in age by five years.

  18. Only 100 years? on SanDisk WORM SD Card Can Store Data For 100 Years · · Score: 1

    Only 100 years?

    Now if they had announced 1010 years then, yeah, that would have been interesting.

  19. Re:Why did this take so long? on ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    Rule 34 in the making right there...

    OMG--there really is a wetriffs.com web site

  20. Re:What is Google HOSTING, exactly? on UK's RIAA Goes After Google Using the US DMCA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Read TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 5 > 512(d) Information Location Tools.

    chillingeffects.org addresses this:

    Why does a search engine get DMCA takedown notices for materials in its search listings?

    Answer: Many copyright claimants are making complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Section 512(d), a safe-harbor for providers of "information location tools." These safe harbors give providers immunity from liability for users' possible copyright infringement -- if they "expeditiously" remove material when they get complaints. Whether or not the provider would have been liable for infringement by users' materials it links to, the provider can avoid the possibility of a lawsuit for money damages by following the DMCA's takedown procedure when it gets a complaint.

  21. Re:Enough acronyms? on Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration · · Score: 2, Funny

    ACRONYM - A Completely Ridiculous Obsolete Noun You'll Misspell

  22. Re:What on Washington's IT Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  23. Re:Crank it to 11 on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 1

    1010 = 12 in binary

    Sadly, no.

  24. Re:Crank it to 11 on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 times faster? Yawn. Wake me up when it's 11 times faster.

    And wake me up when it's 1010 times faster.

  25. Re:This is news? on Microsoft's Sleep Proxy Lowers PC Energy Use · · Score: 1

    Compare (emphasis added):

    Microsoft's research group isn't the first to work on a sleep proxy -- or even the only one presenting sleep proxy research at Usenix -- but Microsoft contends that most previous work has evaluated sleep proxies only in small testbeds or simulations.

    vs.

    Microsoft has deployed the sleep proxy system to more than 50 active users in the Building 99 research facility in Redmond, Wash.,

    So the prior art was with "small" testbeds or simulations. And now MS claims "more than 50 active users."

    Maybe it's just me but the latter is still "small" given the number of "active users" in a university or Fortune 1000 company.