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  1. Re:Secretly? on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    We shouldn't. But rember the tale of Lorenzo the Kind from Terry Prachet. Even after everyone knew about his pedastry they still felt Sam Vimes to be a murderer when he choped off the kings head. People are in awe of power. They don't like to challenge it.

  2. Re:I don't know what's worse... on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    No Shit Sherlock. Goverment is inefficient iff it is inefficient. (That's not a misspelling). That can't support any argument as it is a tautology.

  3. Re:Firefox Users on Inkscape 0.44 - Faster, Bigger, Better · · Score: 1

    What does that make your post?

  4. Re:A question from a non-US citizen on Amendment To Kill Broadcast and Audio Flags · · Score: 1

    What would happen is consumer electronics companies would offer 2 versions of their products, and sell one as crippled for America. That's in a perfect world. The alternative is they make one product for everybody.

  5. Re:Why not use their own weapon? on Amendment To Kill Broadcast and Audio Flags · · Score: 1

    Really? I'm sure that the bill permits copyright owners to agree to any implentation they want.

  6. Re:In a capitalistic soceity on Amendment To Kill Broadcast and Audio Flags · · Score: 1

    There is a current congressman,I don't know the name, who grew up as the son of a poor farmer in the south.

  7. Re:Actually cars offer absolute protection. on Mobile Phones and Lightning a Lethal Mix · · Score: 1

    If I touch the side of a Faraday cage I also would not get shocked. A Faraday cage shields the inside electrically from the outside up to a certian frequency of radio wave. The skin effect doesn't affect the person in the car, only the body of the car by making current flow on the outside.

  8. Re:Talking in the rain on Mobile Phones and Lightning a Lethal Mix · · Score: 1

    Even if you cannot see clouds above you, a thunderstorm could exist 10 km away.

  9. Re:Freedom? on DefectiveByDesign Supporters to Call on RIAA Execs · · Score: 1

    How are you going to use a phone number? Call it! Anyway, we are only calling the office lines, not the home lines, so all they have to do is go home early and the abuse stops. (And never show up again).

  10. Re:XSS - a bug... sometimes on XSS Vulnerabilities Reviewed and Re-Classified · · Score: 1

    or looking at where user input enters the page and restricting html to a limited number of tags. It's hard to think of all evil sequences. Thinking of what's good is simple.

  11. Re:Intercept box... on How Do I Filter Phone Calls on a Land Line? · · Score: 1

    Why would someone want to autodial an extension? They might need to call for different things a t different times?

  12. A hole is a hole on XSS Vulnerabilities Reviewed and Re-Classified · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Saying that these holes don't matter because websites can't avoid them with the standard method of doing things is just plain wrong from a security standpoint. If you are dealing with sensitive data, secure it. If the standard way won't let you, don't do it the standard way.

  13. Re:Queue up the proof by anecdote posts on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One thing is proof of global warming: global warming. An increase in the global mean tempature. Saying that you can't test this is just wrong. You can. You just measure a large number of evenly distributed points on the surface and take the mean. Then use statistics to determine how significant the warming is. If this couldn't be done, it wouldn't be published in scientific journals.

  14. Re:Propaganda in the UK on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 1

    But it's based on a real unit. Sorry, but I like reactive justice. Want to be proactive, go ahead and get martial arts training or a weapon like some mace or a tazer.

  15. Re:Yeah, cut them some slack on More PDF Blackout Follies · · Score: 1

    They could never do that. Something called the Americans with Disabilites Act would get in the way.

  16. Re:Translation of the Article on China Getting 'Serious' About Spam? · · Score: 1

    But the goverment has become better at cracking down down early. If one guy opens mouth and instantly gets shot, you can bet that no one around him is going to be very enthusiastic about a revolution.

  17. Re:I disagree on Chinese Students' Cheating Techniques - Don't Try at Home · · Score: 1

    Moron. Sorry, but you cannot survive without commiting a crime with a minimum wage job or going on some sort of charity. Why don't you try working at minimum wage and surviving on it. I got -7 dollars a month when I did a simulation.

  18. Re:Finally, some sense on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    Free markets inevetably become monopolies. Once a buisness begins to grow, economies of scale kick in, and make it grow faster. It goes downhill from there.

  19. Re:Fix the patent system altogether on Amazon Asks Congress to Curb Patent Abusers · · Score: 1

    Congress recognized this so they said mathematical truths could not be patented. But no-one informed the patent court that computer programs are mathematical in nature. One new line saying computer programs are mathematical and problem solved. An if you phrase it like that it is so unquestionably no one is lobbying against it.

  20. Re:Shock horror, virus writers target MSN on New Worm Starts Munching MSN Users · · Score: 1

    That's bears crap in the woods and the Pope lives in Rome for those to thick to get it.

  21. Re:What else on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    Then a mark-and-sweep is used. It only has to deal with a few unreachable objects as the generational collector was working on the active region. That's why generational GC is used. It is cheap, and makes other GC's cheaper when they are run.

  22. Re:Democracy on U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy · · Score: 1

    Mabey Not, depending on where courts hold the copying happens. Also note that the MPAA is making Bittorent downloads availible with licences that do not give the user permision to copy the movie, estopping them from arguing the user is making the copy with Bittorent. But IANAL.

  23. Re:I was one of the LA anti-DRM protestors on Slashback: Oklahoma Spyware, FSF DRM, Lenovo Linux · · Score: 1

    But they won't be worse off and might even be better off if they do.

  24. Managed Code on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System · · Score: 0

    Wasn't managed kernel code supposed to stop this from happening? Is Microsoft finally admiting that they messed up with managed code. We've had Smalltalk for 20 years, and C# doesn't have half the features Squek does.

  25. GPL on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community? · · Score: 1

    If Apple used the GPL they could wait for Microsoft to take the bait, run a comparision, and sue. They don't need to use BSD licences.