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  1. Re:Next thing you know on Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet · · Score: 1

    I thought that was Genesis.

  2. Re:Better idea on IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I did RTFM. What I meant is that each router along the path should check to make sure the route specified is not stupid, that is having the same IP address twice. If it does they should fix it.

  3. Better idea on IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't route stuff stupidly. Instead of banning RH0, make sure it doesn't do redundant routes.

  4. Re:You've got that kinda right. on Bill Bans NSA Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Even more so. The computer alerts a human when certain key words are said. It's like using a drug-sniffing dog to clear people when making a checkpoint. Just because it's using something less physically intrusive then a search doesn't mean it's not as much an intrusion into privacy.

  5. Re:So... on For Democrats, Florida Primary May Not Count · · Score: 1

    No, it is the voters. Only most of them rely on the traditional media to an insane degree.

  6. Re:Not going to happen. on For Democrats, Florida Primary May Not Count · · Score: 1

    Wrong problem. People really do group like that on political issues. But the big problem is that abortion and gay marriage are so unimportant compared to social justice, but we never hear any debate about it.

  7. Re:Privacy on Long Range Eye Tracking for Advertisers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's before you hook it up to a face recognition system. The correct time to legislate is before foreseeable abuses happen, not after.

  8. I deftly own all of you on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1

    I used pi. All your numbers are belong to me.

  9. Re:International disquiet on Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID · · Score: 1

    So Vietnam, Italy, Chile, Guatamala all freely decided to follow the United States? Read something other then the Wall Street Journal for once, like Empire, or any Noam Chomsky.

  10. Re:humanity vs capitalism on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    The federal government pays for a lot of the basic research that goes into the making of new drugs.

  11. Re:Real terrorists on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    And they are proud of it. That's not even counting the fearmongering.

  12. Re:Cue oft-used Leia quote... on AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Points 1 and 2 don't apply. Point 1 doesn't work as the key is used for accessing the works. Point 2 doesn't work as it is used in all HDDVD players. Point 3 doesn't work because I cannot be accountable for third person's action. If I advertise a CPU as being able to circumvent AACS, is this going to make CPU's illegal? So I think just posting the key is fine. Also, it says market. Is passively noting its use illegal? After all, we are not attempting to sell it. IANAL, so I have no idea how right or wrong this is.

  13. Re:Easy on Creating a Homebrew Industrial Process Monitor? · · Score: 1

    That's what a rotary encoder is for.

  14. Re:Some interesting hypocrisy on Prosecutor Announces Charges Against Pirate Bay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The United States forgot to put in that it's not terrorism if you are on the payroll. ex. Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, Palestine, Iran, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Haiti, Hawaii, Florida, Saudi Arabia, Italy all suffered from American terrorism.

  15. Re:So C# is .Net? on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    malloc()/free() is not the speed demon everyone thinks it is. If you are making a large number of small allocations a semi-space or compacting GC is much faster then other methods. GC can also run in its own concurrent thread, which means interactive tasks don't have to wait for it. The age of long GC pauses is behind us, unless you are using a bad GC.

  16. Re:Easy on How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology? · · Score: 1

    Immunizations for those rich enough to afford them. It was the government that funded the smallpox irradiation effort. As for those duopolys, most of them were created instead of having the post office do it because of anti-government nuts like you. Look at European infrastructure for an example of how government can do some things much better then the free market can. In particular, compare ISDN pricing over there and over here.

  17. Re:Uh on Lineage III Source Code Stolen? · · Score: 1

    The difference is that confidential information derives some of its value from being confidential. So when it is released, it loses value. That would not be theft exactly, but close enough.

  18. Re:Easy on How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Easy for you to say in the comfort of your well-policed neighborhood, where everyone has a somewhat safe job and no one dies from smallpox, over the internet, with a bank account that won't vanish overnight. Or do you live in Somalia?

  19. We already have on Is It Time For an Open Source Certificate Authority? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's called GPG. It can be used with TLS as GNU TLS demonstrates. The one issue is making sure that GPG/TLS is implemented more widely.

  20. Re:Debates are a farce anyway on NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse · · Score: 1

    This was a primary debate.

  21. Re:Not News on OLPC to Run Windows, Come to the US · · Score: 2

    And so they increased the specs to make it more expensive? The most important thing about this was that it was cheap and reliable. Moving to Windows is a step back on both fronts.

  22. Re:This just in... on The Solar Oxygen Crisis · · Score: 1

    No reputable study ever indicated power lines cause cancer or that magnets lead to health and prosperity. And the global ice age was a product of media hype. Most of the climatologists were far more qualified in their opinions then the headlines might lead you to predict.

  23. Re:Dear Mr. Thompson, on Kotaku Games Blog Sued By Jack Thompson · · Score: 1

    JT is actually sane. But I don't know why the judge would order an evaluation of the attorney's sanity in a case.

  24. Re:Winnable is not the whole point on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    No, he is in command of the armed forces, and is therefore accountable for their actions. I thought the Nuremberg trials settled this. And he did approve the new security plan himself, knowing about the abuses Iraq security forces commit.

  25. Re:Partisan politics isn't getting worse... on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Europe is doing much better then we are from an economic standpoint.