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  1. Re:the audience? on China - We Don't Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    So how do we find out what is going on? This kind of self-censorship is what leads people into complacency and passivity. And we all know where that leads in a democracy.

  2. Re:bad units on New Solar Panel Technology Gaining Momentum · · Score: 1

    Able to output panels with total capacity of 500 megawatts every year? That would work.

  3. Re:I'm confused on 64-Bit Vista Kernel Will Be a "Black Box" · · Score: 1

    Well, you want an additional layer of containment between device drivers and the Operating System, but you also want to bar apps from sending things to devices directly.

  4. Re:I think MS is right on 64-Bit Vista Kernel Will Be a "Black Box" · · Score: 1

    So why not provide that API to intercept system calls? This is very important when debugging, and pirating software.

  5. Re:Copyright vs. election security on Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers · · Score: 1

    They could just go to a different vendor.

  6. Re:Can't do much with these disks on Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers · · Score: 1

    Or we could use Remote Attestation. Every machine would have a light attached that would glow if the Remote Attestation was successful. Switching the lights around would make an attack hard. Or we could use multiple machines to check the voting machines. Allow voters to bring their own.

  7. Re:Entertainment as well as education on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 3, Informative

    Shakespere is public domain.

  8. Re:My suggestions.. on Opening Diebold Source, the Hard Way · · Score: 1

    We could just use Trusted Computing for most of those points. While some people shout "Evil!" it does have its uses, and this is one of them. Linux has support for Trusted Computing in the kernel. But ideally we would use a PROM with the code blown in once. Make a tiny Scheme VM and write the rest in Scheme to make it easy to check correctness. And open source it. Possibly even include a TPM to verify that the code on the machine is what it should be.

  9. Re:Something they forgot on Slashback: IceWeasel, Online Gambling, GPU Folding, Evolution · · Score: 1

    It was patched up.

  10. I'm calling you on it on Reporter's Story — How HP Kept Tabs On Me · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Name one instance of illegal tatics used by a reporter leading to a Pulitzer Prize.

  11. Re:Common sense? on VDARE Fights Blocking By Censorware · · Score: 1

    But the sick and disgusting stuff is exactly what the parent (this posts grandparent) is saying should be blocked.

  12. Re:Good Job Kevin on MySpace Predator Caught By Code · · Score: 1

    Because forcing children to do something on the basis of you being an adult is an immoral and sickening action.

  13. Re:Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft = Oceana, East Asi on Friendster's Rise and Fall · · Score: 1

    How are they going to keep compeditors out on the internet especially ones focused on one thing? A lot of search engines got killed by Google, then Google expanded into their other buisnesses. When you have a lot of competing projects angling for resources you get problems. And it only takes 1 good idea to beat a lot of incremental improvements.

  14. Re:testing the waters? on Microsoft Agrees to Changes in Vista Security · · Score: 1

    Not really. Quality isn't about opinion, it is about what gets the job done best. For computing purposes, Unix wins hands down. FFTW, BLAS, LAPACK are all on unix. Getting them on windows is a PITA. The only thing Microsoft has going for it is Active Directory with its centeralized administration, as opposed to PAM+LDAP+NFS, as well as hardware support.

  15. Re:Unbelievable on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 1

    At MIT some students compute the energy of a students splattering the sidewalk. That's from The Idea Factory by Pepper White.

  16. Re:Easy way to remember pi to 8 decimal places on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 2, Funny

    How I wish I could enumerate pi easily, since all these fucking mnemonics prevent recalling any of pi's sequence more simply!

  17. Re:FOSS required for homeland security on The Third-Party Patching Conundrum · · Score: 1

    They could just tell everyone on 98 to switch to Linux+emulator.

  18. Why? on Apple iTunes Upsampling Higher Resolution Videos? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This makes no sense. Apple could use quicktime on all of the videos with ease, or resample. But instead they make the quality worse then if they had used Quicktime. I don't see how Apple wouldn't have used Quicktime in the first place considering they made it. Computer time really isn't an issue for Apple.

  19. Re:PAIIINNN on Intel Pledges 80 Core Processor in 5 Years · · Score: 1

    That's why C is reaching its limit. Things like Erlang and Clean, as well as parallizing Lisp compilers will become more widely used to handle these multiprocessing systems.

  20. Re:How totally unethical on French Doctors to Perform Zero-Gravity Surgery · · Score: 1

    That's safety, not efectiveness.

  21. Re:It does not matter if they are concerned on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    The student would have the rights. Not the school. The inventor owns the patent rights unless he transfers them, and he isn't transfering them by attending school. But IANAL.

  22. Re:Given the option between 2 scenarios... on PS3 Japanese Price Drop 'Ridiculous' · · Score: 1

    Unless they are manufacturing new ones. Then buying more means more of a loss.

  23. Re:2 simple rules on Running a Non-Partisan Political Forum? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot needs a +1 Pendantic for posts like the above.

  24. Re:LGPL is not practical: can't be verified, right on Linux Kernel Developers' Position on GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    You could compare the binaries. The point the GP is making is that there is no way to do that for statically linked libraries.

  25. Not possible on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1, Redundant
    1. The law of conservation of momentum is never violated.
    2. The drive is a closed system.
    3. So it cannot accelerate.
    Also he made a mistake in his calculations. The forces at the end might be different, but forces aren't only being exterted on the ends.