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  1. Re:As has been said before... on UN Official Says UN Not Taking Over Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The UN actually works. Remember the Korean War? The ITU does an amazing job of managing radio frequencies. And what about all the successful peacekeeping operations the UN has conducted? Do you see smallpox around? A lot of the UN bashing in America is about how badly the UN works when America doesn't cooperate. And I would prefer to have essential functions under the control of a bueracracy that has no effective leadership when it comes to devisive issues then to a bueracracy that caves to special intrests every single time.

  2. Re:Why this is necessary. on Senate Bill Again Aims to Restrict Internet Radio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One idea I had would be to make a watermark that gets destroyed by downsampling by more then a certian amount. This would mean that low-rez copies would be permitted, but high-rez would not. Not because the recordering devices would fail, but the guy who made the song would cancel the account of the person who leaked the high-rez copy.

  3. Re:Here's the Problem on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    If we are coming out of an ice age, where is all the ice?

  4. Re:This is a good argument for school choice! on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and we could have a bunch of nuts who want the benefits of science without respecting it. I seriously think we should establish Coventry for guys like Harrison.

  5. Re:Gentlemen, I give you Be-12! on Wikipedia Used for Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Well, just filter out all Bloodhound Gang lyrics and we're ok.

  6. Re:Dangerous on Toyota Creating In-Vehicle Alcohol Detection System · · Score: 1

    Do they prevent you from using your car for driving? If a 18-wheeler is about to hit you, I don't think any of those devices would make collision inevitable. But this one would.

  7. Re:Doesn't make sense on A Case for Non-Net-Neutrality · · Score: 1

    My idea of a good interface. A list of websites and protocols the customer can control with a priority for each one. So it would say '$PRIORITY for $PROTOCOL_LONGNAME from $WEBSITE'. You could also have a thing for default priority for a protocol.

  8. Re:Heh, filler on Top U.S. Tech Cities · · Score: 1

    Pasaderna is near LA, and they count it in LA's score. But Berkley is near San Fransisco, and so San Fransisco deserves the rating.

  9. Re:I'll bet apples pissed. on IBM's New Processors To Exceed 5Ghz · · Score: 1

    Well, Ars Technica doesn't think so.

  10. Emacs! on Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, write it in Emacs Lisp. This will let you have a GUI and a command line interface with the same code.

  11. Re:High Density Feedlots on Creating Prion-Free Cows · · Score: 1

    That should be polyhedron farms. Face isn't greek.

  12. Re:There are likely thousands of security problems on Month of Apple Bugs - First Bug Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It's not needed. Remember the Lisp machines? And Haskell can be used to make an Operating system. So we don't need C anymore.

  13. Re:If Oxfam can't defend itself in response on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 2, Informative

    What did they bungle? If you just watched the two videos you have no idea who is telling the truth. But the Guardian published a story confirming Oxfam's position.

  14. Re:I buy fair-trade products too on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    I would like to point out that Friedman's work fails a crucial test: Actually being true.

  15. Re:Richard Feynmann on Scientist Organizes Resistance To Polygraphs · · Score: 1

    That's Oppenheimer who you are thinking of.

  16. Re:RIAA vs credit card companies? on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    Then EGold gets a lot more use and exposure.

  17. Re:GC, No Vm or performance hit on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Haskell has garbage collection and no VM.

  18. Re:Last Year's on What Are You Optimistic About? · · Score: 1

    How is that insightful? Everyone knows that probability is just a Boreal measure on the set of outcomes and you go from that.

  19. IPv6 on Wikipedia Blocks Qatar [Updated] · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's situations like this that should make small countries upgrade to IPv6. What surprises me is that they haven't already.

  20. Re:Windows scripting at its best on Geeks In Asia Use Clever Hacks To Get Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Sure. But that line would have a lot of semicolons!

  21. Re:PHB's Said So on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 1

    How does using a Microsoft solution for a video streaming problem pay better then using mpeg?

  22. Re:Dance Dance Revocation on HD DVD's AACS Protection Bypassed · · Score: 1, Informative

    The disk keys *cannot* be revoked as they are burned into the disk. That is what is being used to decrypt.

  23. Re:Randomize the clock on Computer's Heat May Unmask Anonymized PCs · · Score: 1

    It's not what you think the time is, it's what they think it is that you need to find out.

  24. Re:Fool. on Darwin Awards 2006 · · Score: 1

    If you actually bothered to look up the hot coffee case you would find out that the coffee was served at boiling. That's a good case for a lawsuit, being served toxic liquid at a restaurant instead of coffee.

  25. Re:Win32 API on Source Code Access Denied in Disputed Race · · Score: 1

    Actually it does. Also, the 2 browsers quote was about your list of exploits. You were counting these as being holes in OpenBSD. They would also count as Windows bugs if you used the same methodology for both.