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  1. Re:And yet... on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1

    Iran has the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel.

  2. Re:Want to know how to kill a bank? on Bank Julius Baer Issues Statement On WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Cash is cash, whether electronic or physical. It fits in the same line of the bank balance sheet. The fractional reserve multiplier applies to the issuing of loans. If you transfer the money in, and withdraw it, then you have done nothing as the reserves are the same at the end of the day.

  3. Re:Isn't it as easy as on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 1

    Pics or it didn't happen. Civilian areas are crappy launch sites as they have buildings, and the missiles are way too big to fire from inside. They are launched from trucks parked in open ground. The US Army frequently claims human shields are the cause of massive civilian casualties, but they are lying a vast amount of the time. I have just searched the New York Times archive, a pro-Israel source, for any incidents like those you described and found none.

  4. Re:External Pressures Ruin Engineering on Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Engineering · · Score: 1

    Companies decide what products to introduce based on surveys.

  5. Re:How do other groups do it? on Cringely Looks at the WikiLeaks Debacle · · Score: 1

    Anonymous leaflet in the middle of the night. Or a call to the New York Times from a payphone in the middle of nowhere.

  6. Re:Once again... on A Comparative Study of Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    The injunction requested was against Dynadot. It was not against wikileaks. Dynadot didn't contest it as they didn't want to spend the money. So what the judge did was ineffective, but it was what Julius Baer wanted.

  7. Re:Property on Fidel Castro Resigns · · Score: 2, Informative

    Brothers to the Rescue violated Cuban airspace. Havana had intelligence indicating a possible military operation. They fucked up, but understandably so. It's not like the US would never fire on a civilian plane.

  8. Re:Who owns my education? Who owns my mind? on Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break · · Score: 1

    That's not going to help. It doesn't change the regressive nature of a consumption tax for anyone who is not payed. It also makes smuggling a lot more lucrative.

  9. Re:It'll take off when cosmetic replacement is her on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you really think the ADA will be against a procedure that requires much oral surgery, and associated fees? They don't make money off people without teeth, so it is their best interest to encourage you to keep them.

  10. Re:Thank god the USA invaded that country on Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what makes Islam different from Judaism? After all the Torah says that we should execute those who plant two crops in the same field or are drunk, enslave those who surrender to us in war, and that slavery is permitted.

  11. Re:TCP/IP still needs a rewrite on Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are just wrong half the time, and half wrong all the time. First off, a firewall is a piece of software that prevents packets from getting through. It can work with IPv6 just fine. Tunneling and VPN is what IPSec is for in tunnel mode. IPv6 mandates IPSec support, so I don't see how that is a kludge. Finally the mobility of IP addresses across ISPs leads to exploding routing tables. It's just not an option.

  12. Re:it's kdawson day on Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port · · Score: 1

    Time-and-motion studies are avalible today, but if you look in a Chinese sweetshop what do you see? Those same 16 hour days that any rational capitalist would abolish to keep his workers happy. Why don't you go to China and make money doing that?

  13. Re:it's kdawson day on Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port · · Score: 1

    But do you see anything about alienation, about economic cycles, about the general increase in rights over time in Roman political writing? Marx isn't cynical either: Capitalism is a positive force because it ended feudalism and gave everyone political rights. He praises capitalism for leading to technological progress. The ideas you attribute to Marx are more properly associated with Robert Owens and the other utopian socialists. Marx also never talks about a conspiracy. It's the fact that hundreds of people want the same job as you do that leads to poverty. By the way, we have enough food to feed everyone, and yet people starve to death. By reorganizing the way food is distributed we could improve everyone's life. And who is more cynical, the one who believes that life will never improve, or the one who works to change it?

  14. Re:Mod Parent Way The Hell Up... on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is that if you are a startup with a legitimate patent then you get to choose between stopping infringers from getting to market and having financing.

  15. Re:Perhaps countries should obey non-Cyber laws fi on Cyberwarfare in International Law · · Score: 1

    It's also the only country where 38 million people going hungry is a non-issue. The US also does not protect the secrecy of correspondence to the extent Europe does. The freedom of the press is also absolute in the Netherlands, as well as many other European countries.

  16. Re:In archaic terms... on The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your still screwed by "to keep and bear arms". You only have a right to keep arms if you are also bearing them. You have no right to keep them for duck hunting, or deer hunting, or any other use other then bearing them.

  17. Re:it's kdawson day on Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port · · Score: 1

    Got any radical new ideas for the 21st century then? Because Capital is not going to vanish from the bestseller lists any time soon. Karl Marx was one of the few geniuses who redefines the way we look at the world. He creates the idea of all behavior being economic. The economic models he makes were the first in the world. Sure, he might have been wrong, but the debate he started advanced economics and sociology in a way no other thinker has.

  18. Re:Respect to this guy... on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Going from a backwards, improvished, nation that had been crushed in a disastrous war to one of two superpowers in only 32 years is a pretty strange definition of failure. Or are you talking about the small South Asian country who defeated one of the strongest military in the world, then overthrew Pol Pot? Or the Balkan nation with over 40 years of economic growth? Or the only country in the Caribbean where homelessness is not a problem? The regions of Mexico which have no prisons, and no crime? If communism was as obvious a failure as you claim it was, then the Communist Party would not be one of the biggest parties in Italy, an educated and industrialized country. Today the Communist Party is standing up against Vladimir Putin, while your liberal parties whine to the West about how bad he is. How many protesters do you see holding up signs with capitalist slogans? An estimated 10 million people are going to lose their homes over the next year, and yet you insist that capitalism is superior. Economic freedom means nothing to those who have nothing to sell but their freedom.

  19. Re:Worrisome? RTFA on PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics · · Score: 5, Informative

    The bills being considered are only about forensic evidence presented in court.

  20. Re:IDEs too? on UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools' · · Score: 1

    While companies never even try to lock down your computer so that only their software will run. Oh, and what else do you think the preamble to the Constitution is saying when they say ``to promote the general welfare''? Are they not saying that the government exists to promote the general welfare?

  21. Re:Not hardly on The UK's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Then after PRIAM beats ACHILLES, and ULYSSES uses a clever trick to reclaim the top spot, a few computer designs survive the implosion of the TROJAN collaberation: AENEAS, which along with DIDO claims the top for a while (until DIDO suffers a tragic meltdown due to a malfunctioning cooling fan when AENEAS leaves), and then ROMULUS manages to take the top spot. Eventually we get to three name computers: GAIUS JULLIUS CAESAR being the first. Anyway, this has been an epic series of puns.

  22. Re:Corruption is part of the culture of Africa on LANCOR v. OLPC Case Continues In Nigerian Court · · Score: 1

    Africa has been in contact with Europe since antiquity. Unless you are forgetting about Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt. Asia was even more isolated then Africa from Europe, but has mostly turned out better. The big difference was in the 1950's: The Green Revolution affected Asia more then Africa, and so Asia could feed itself. Africa was involved in very brutal struggles for independence at the time, and so did not benefit. Because of this they remain dependent on imports, and so are forced into making policies that do not benefit their own nations. The best example is subsidized fertilizer. Subsidized fertilizer makes a big difference in the amount of food a country can grow, and in the wealth of the rural poor, but a lot of donor countries put pressure for them not to subsidize fertilizer, even when the donors subsidize farmers a lot.

  23. Re:HECToR... Really? on The UK's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    If you think Hector is cute name, you need to read some more Homer. He kills Patroclus, leading to the reentry of Achilles into the fighting.

  24. Re:Fishing line on How and Why Knots Spontaneously Form · · Score: 1

    That's because applying a forgetful functor to an epic results in multiple morphisms in the preimage connecting the ends of the arrow, hence loops in the graph.

  25. Re:and? on Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD · · Score: 1

    It seems you never learned about the Kriegsspiel the Prussian army used in the nineteenth century to train officers.