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  1. Re:Fuck you PC World. on Europeans Bury "Digital DNA" Inside a Mountain · · Score: 1

    I love the song.

  2. Re:And nothing of value was lost on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    No , those peer will simply download another client.
    And trust me , there are a lot of different clients on the gnuttela network.

    For instance Bearshare , etc ...

    The fact is , some years ago , Frostwire ( a spin off of Limewire ) was created for this reason ( they felt the heat coming ).

  3. Re:Is It Just Me ... on Open Source Utilities For Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    SQL was developed in the early 1970's . So that's exactly 40 years old.
    I know , time flies by quickly.

    Not sure what you mean by "constructs that a true relational database should support" though .

  4. Re:Addicted. on Chrome Private Mode Not Quite Private · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We are the Google , you will indexed " ?

  5. Re:And nothing of value was lost on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From other clients that use the gnutella network ?

    Really , limewire just uses the gnutella network . It's like banning edonkey2000 , which uses the edonkey network.
      Unless they ban the entire network , but that's not likely to happen , as it's a decentralized network.

    So , in other words , it sucks for limewire , but someone else will take over when they fall.

  6. Re:Looking back at my Internet history... on Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well , it's a combination of both :

    - You work your ass off trying to earn money
    - I sit and watch TV or internet all day, and then I suck the cash out of your wallet to pay my bills (food stamps, housing, doctors' bills, welfare, and other free stuff).
    - You lose your legs in a work accident
    - You get some money , but it doesn't cover your medical costs at all , it barely covers your loss of income .

    Really : i pay quite a lot of taxes , which i would expect to go to those who need it , but those people barely get anything from it ( i have a grandmother who worked her whole live , while also raising 4 kinds on her own , and she barely gets enough from her pension to live by ).

    Instead it goes to people who know how to game the system.

    So , it's a good idea in theory , but the problem is it can easily be abused , which results in the taxpayer paying too much , and those in need getting too little.
    Offcourse , I'm talking from my own country's perspective ( Belgium ) . In some other European countries , like Sweden , it's a lot better ( you pay a little more taxpayes , but the medical care is a whole lot better ) .

  7. Re:Just under three thousand people would disagree on 9/11 Made Us Safer, Says Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Yes , i meant decades :-)

  8. Re:Just under three thousand people would disagree on 9/11 Made Us Safer, Says Bruce Schneier · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well , in both cases ( WW I and WW II ) , they German people suffered heavily after the wars :

    After WW I , there was an enormous inflation , and general poverty . That's actually one of the reason WW II started : the people had nothing , so they were easy to manipulate.

    After WW II , the country was split up in two , with Western Germany leading a relatively acceptable life , but for Eastern Germany , it was centuries of suffer .

  9. Re:Melt on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    Well , they will certainly melt if they get too close to the sun , that's for sure.

  10. Re:Sure they can on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how the ISP hijacks the request. If I type "slashdot" doesn't Firefox automatically convert that to "google.com/search?q=slashdot" and produce results? I don't see how the ISP can interrupt a valid URL request.

    Easy : the request and response passes trough them , so they can force you to redirect to anything.
    When my download limit is reached , for example , my ISP redirects me to a page displaying this.

    They can easily apply that logic depending on the request you send . Whether it's legal ( privacy ? ) is another question.

  11. Re:Twitter's 140 Characters on Best Alternatives To the Big Name Social Media? · · Score: 1

    I sure hope he's not talking about sending physical letters. I've tried it once and the lag was incredibly high.

    Yeah, but the chance of a hacker intercepting the message is practically nil!

    It depends on your mailbox . Some of them you can easily open from the top , and than it easy to intercept , if you know the adress.

    When comparing to electronic mail , regular mail is quite unsafe , as it can get lost , it can end up on the wrong adress , someone can accidentally open it , etc ...

  12. Re:finally... on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well , i am skeptical towards this "proof" .

    It just proves that there is a chemical reactions when you die , which explains the tunnels of light you see when you have a near death experience.
    In other words , it explains that this experience itself, is not really heaven , but just a physical reaction . It doesn't say anything about heaven itself.

  13. Re:Interesting Idea on MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have learned today that putting 'grand' and 'unified' at the title of an idea in science is very powerful for marketing.

    I admit "MIT Finds Theory of AI " does sound a lot less interesting , though it's probably closer to the truth.

  14. Re:Who are you to cast aspersions? on Gamers Pay To Play With Girls · · Score: 1

    I would think 'stifling' would be a good thing in that kind of business.

  15. Re:Emi on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    Sadly , then you will have to pay for 'sales they would have had " , claiming they lost it to piracy. ( regardless of whether it would be pirated or not , they just assume that's were there lost sales went ).

  16. Re:Emi on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    All in all , it's just another song on itunes.

  17. Re:So will he get a mug shot now? on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 1

    No , because reasonable doubt means it can't be proven whether someone if guilty or not , and in that case , the ruling is in favor of the defense ( the idea is that it's worse to lock up an innocent man , than to let a guilty man go free ).

  18. Re:Programming == Cut & Paste on Whatever Happened To Programming? · · Score: 1

    Wrong about what ?

    The case your present clearly shows that a lot of extra work could have been prevented , if there was already a well customizable cash register system fitting all your needs .
    Since yours is a very limited case , you really have the pleasure of inventing the wheel. But still , you would be wise to split it up in multiple parts , so it will be easier to manage ( and prefferably let the parts be worked out by different people , who sit together regularly ).

    The great thing is that , after all the work is done , you not only have a cash register system , you will also have worked out the components.
    So you could sell this knowledge ( for example : interfacing with RFID ) , so someone else doesn't have to lose time thinking out the same thing you did.

  19. Re:Quality isn't such a simple metric, never will on Why Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality · · Score: 1

    Here you go :

    You can easily have an extremely high quality, 100% accurate and in-depth Wikipedia article without a single external reference.

  20. Re:Quality isn't such a simple metric, never will on Why Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to bet 90% of the current problems with wikipedia would disappear overnight if the admins lost their anonymity. Much of the neofascist behavior, and agenda-ism, would certainly disappear. It solves the "who watches the watchers" problem overnight.

    I'm not so sure about that. If the admins lose there anonimity , it becomes very easy for someone with enough power , to pressure them.

    For example , you could write something about a local politician , which that politician doesn't like ( even if it's true ) . If your identity is known , that person can easily pressure you into changing your story.

  21. Re:Programming == Cut & Paste on Whatever Happened To Programming? · · Score: 1

    That's because , for nearly every situation , code has already been written.
    So , for most cases , the best programming solution has already been worked out.

    So why would you reinvent the wheel, when someone who specializes in wheels as already created the best wheel , and is continuing the improve it ?

    Offcourse, it can be interesting to create your own 'wheel' , but only for learning how it works .When you need to deliver a product , it's pointless ( and costly ) to write something that already exists ( and is probably better ).

  22. Re:The very worst on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 1

    They'll still continue to pull numbers out of their butts to represent the sales they "could have" and "should have" had, and claim anything less than that as piracy.

    Well, then they would have to admit that their new anti-piracy solution doesn't work as well as they want everyone to believe.

  23. Re:Sweet spot on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just from reading the summary , i already see a possible way this protection will be broken.

    It's based on a verification server , meaning the game connects to a certain ip.
    So all you have to do is make the game believe it's connecting to the verification server , while instead it is going to a fake one ( has been done before ).

    Only added thing is that server also needs to store the savegames , but i'm sure this can be deduced from analysing the traffic.

    Offcourse , if they encrypt this traffic , it will be a little more difficult to crack , but that's just a matter of time.

  24. Re:Many boffins died ... on Lost Nazi Uranium Found In a Dutch Scrapyard · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing he means "fled Europe" , rather than fled Germany. Like "fled from the Germans" .

  25. Re:All the more reason... on Hearts Actually Can Break · · Score: 1

    You have a point, i guess it depends on the type of person you are ( extroverted or introverted).

    An extroverted person will probably have a lot of shallow friendships , and then it won't matter if some of them break contact.

    Introverted people tend to have fewer friends, but which deeper relationships. In that case, it will surely hurt if they break contact.