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  1. Re:.onion on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 1

    .onion +1

    Other than that, domains in alternate TLDs registered with OpenNIC.

  2. Installed Games *with DRM* on Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games · · Score: 1

    The major advantage of an installed game that is not defective by design is that you can play it without a fucking internet connection.

  3. Re:Ethics on Book Review: Digital Evidence and Computer Crime · · Score: 1

    and there was this huge thing about how a guy got off the hook because of the book and how liable the author was, etc...

    For false advertising? If it had been a perfect murder we wouldn't have heard about it...

  4. Re:Caveat Emptor on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, none of us here are ever going to buy crap like that... unless we collectively become insignificant enough as a market that no PC manufacturer will build or sell anything other than this. That would suck.

  5. Idiots on DigiNotar Goes Bankrupt After Hack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We have strong indications that the CA-servers, although physically very securely placed in a tempest proof environment, were accessible over the network from the management LAN.

    It is at once hilarious and depressing that there are tech and security managers who take steps to shield equipment from electromagnetic detection and then leave that equipment open to remote access. Wrap your computer in tinfoil and then stick your password on the screen.

  6. Re:Open, but poisoned. on Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't anyone who cared about this issue enough to switch to a fork also avoid binary extensions in the first place? It's not as though they are essential to MySQL - or if they are, their functionality will be replicated in forks soon enough.

  7. Using HIV to cure leukemia on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    And leukemia to cure HIV.

    (Yeah, that's actually completely wrong because the HIV was cured as a side-effect of the treatment against leukemia. Still, nicely circular.)

  8. Re:WTF on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 2

    It's denial. The poor people who defend such policies are desperately trying to convince themselves they are wealthy, because there is no worse sin in the United States of America than being poor.

  9. Re:That's the reason. SUUUURE! on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 1

    ensuing fallout

    *RIMSHOT*

  10. Re:Lessor of two evils... on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's good that you mention the word "truth" three times, because with your complete lack of sources I would otherwise have worried that your post might be bullshit.

  11. Re:Now we have the support of the German people... on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 1

    "Polish hackers were attacking our telecommunications infrastructure at Gliwice! We have been pinging back since 5:45 AM!"

  12. Re:No surprises here..., on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 1

    That so is? All this time I have, been use an Auto-Translator from das Google, ja. ;-)

    [But seriously, even in German, "Piraterie" has been used in a copyright context for many years. Even those who don't speak English associate it with filesharing at least as much as with Johnny Depp or Somalia.]

  13. Re:Libertarian on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 1

    The copyright and education reforms are aimed at creating and nurturing a public good (ie. knowledge), and privacy laws are directed at corporations at least as much as government institutions. Also, I have heard no Pirate argue for tax reductions on business.

    While conservatives might label them as anarchist for their civil rights views, many self-styled libertarians in the US would therefore call them socialist. In other words, most of them are in the south-west quadrant on the Political Compass (which, keep in mind, is calibrated for the US, whose mainstream would be hard-right in Europe), though not at the extreme end of it. It would be inaccurate to call the Pirate Party a libertarian movement in the way that term is used in America.

  14. Arrr, matey on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 1

    This be happenin' on a most auspicious day, me hearties! Haul anchor!

    [2011-09-19 00:17 local time]

  15. Re:Reactions of other parties on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure. Minus the creationism, gold standard and crazy stuff, of course.

  16. Re:But where on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 2

    That kind of sucks when trying to campaign.

  17. Re:What a headline on Artificial Blood Vessels Created On a 3D Printer · · Score: 4, Informative

    (person at the hospital) "What do you mean you don't have this type of blood? Why don't you just print some, I read it on the news."

    Blood vessel != blood cell. Or is that the joke?

    The headline doesn't exaggerate. They need to make artificial capillaries for synthetic tissue, and now they've come up with a way to make them. It'll be years before this will have progressed far enough to be an actual product (let alone one that is routinely used on human patients), but that's how all research works.

  18. Kudos on Ballmer Hints At 'Metro-ization' of Office · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After Ribbons, it has become extremely difficult to think up ways to make MS Office worse. Continuing to do so shows an unbelievable level of commitment and effort.

  19. What if you are attacked at the opera by a trumpet-playing turtle hitting you with a lamp post? What about that shit, huh?

  20. Wow on theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles · · Score: 1

    They really picked the perfect name.

  21. Bullshit. on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    Just add the choice to kill civilians, and punish the player for doing so. It's greater realism (avoid the obvious cynical response), and it also adds another level of challenge. Particularly in a game setting where the "enemy" is made up of insurgents or something not trivial to distinguish from civilians, players might actually be forced to think before mindlessly shooting everything that moves.

    I have to conclude that this justification is bullshit, and the real reason to keep civilians out is exactly the opposite: They don't want to withhold the ability to commit simulated atrocities; they just want to avoid facing the player with any kind of moral dilemma, because most players hate having to think at that level.

  22. Re:Really no surprise on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    But that would mean rich people actually have to pay taxes. We can't have that!

    (Seriously, though, politicians' campaigns are sponsored by corporations and people with money, so a tax code that doesn't outrageously benefit them is pretty much out of the question.)

  23. SSL certificate expired on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    Almost a month ago, too. Given recent events, my trust in SSL certs is already shaken enough.

  24. Re:China shows the way: one child family on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    Is China's population declining?

  25. Re:Backup and fill-in on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    still trying to find

    We're not looking terribly hard, though. We're kind of happier not knowing.