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  1. Re:Scary and stupid on FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic.

    So why do you think that "we were meant to be the good guys that don't do this kind of thing" (I'm guessing you're from the US correct me if I'm wrong). Surely every shred of evidence in living memory and beyond points to the exact opposite?

  2. Re:Scary and stupid on FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" · · Score: 1

    mod parent funny

  3. Re:illegal? on Comcast Charges $1000 Per Wiretap · · Score: 1

    > 'illegal' *might* could be used

    Illegal might? That sounds scary.

  4. Bentleys on Very High Tech - Elevator Garages in an NYC Hi-Rise · · Score: 1

    "As long as there are un-bought Bentleys, there will be laywers"

  5. Re:Britain's never had analog broadcasts on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    Hm. When it's your own language being mangled it's not pedantry.

    You missed a full stop.

  6. Britain's never had analog broadcasts on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 2, Funny

    We've never had analog TV. It's been analogue since the first transmitters came online.

  7. Re:Equivalent? on BBC Quietly Announces Linux/Mac iPlayer · · Score: 1

    Not at first. They did run both systems alongside each other for long enough to make an informed choice. In the end I think it's the tanks of dangerous chemicals, fire risk and waste that won the day. Not a commercial deal.

  8. Lead scientists? on New Plastic to Cut CO2 Emissions and Purify Water · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surely that's a highly toxic metal (at least its compounds are)? Does that cancel out the good this will do?

  9. Re:French? on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    bouillon de poisson?

  10. French? on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fish poisson?

  11. Re:Another boardgame? Big deal on Cracking Go · · Score: 1

    The sad irony is that as software improves, compiler errors are easier and easier to guess. Now computers a few decades ago... they really knew how to play charades.

  12. Thunderbird on Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox · · Score: 1

    Is this what they forked Thunderbird for? To concentrate on this? Was it a trade?

  13. Odd typeface on Full Net Census Takes a Hint From xkcd · · Score: 1

    I don't know what typeface they used the image on for http://www.isi.edu/ant/address/ but it looks very odd. It's hard to concentrate on the whole image. I mean, look at the 'c's!

  14. Re:first we need to clarify on Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Um, sir, can't you see they're the same thing? I see no problem there.

  15. Re:Once the data's gone, it's gone... on Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt · · Score: 0

    So it may not be a determinate problem, but that doesn't mean that a probable solution or set of probable solutions can't be given. There are documented ways of un-blurring images (not edge-finding). Paradigms such as relational programming could have a part to play.

    The issue here wouldn't be do-ability but rather specificity and accuracy, which could give rise to some interesting computer-forensics legal questions.

  16. Nearly two years old? on Man Claims iPod Set His Pants Aflame · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA: "The nearly two year-old iPod caught fire".

    He kept commodity electronics more than six months! He did not consume, he is not a good citizen, he had it coming!

  17. American Universities on UC Berkeley Posts Full Lectures to YouTube · · Score: 0

    Berkley students are lucky to go to an American university.

    In Soviet Russia, Full lectures post YOU on youtube.

  18. Re:Try it backwards.. on Radiohead Says Name Your Own Price for New Album · · Score: 1

    Nobody in control of the process wants to know just how much the album is really worth.

  19. Re:Why intentionally destroy information? on Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't worry. Google won't be destroying anything...

  20. Gotta love US television on Staged Hack Causes Generator to Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Perhaps only in the US could a report on a vulnerability turn so quickly into dramatic eschatological nonsense.

    Also, did I see nixie tubes? How old is your infrastructure?

  21. Re:Illegal? on Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, house stands outside YOU.
    And most of the world, actually.

  22. Re:I'm crazy! I'll do it! on AC = Domestic Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    .... going by the sinister name of 'Anonymous Coward'...

  23. Non issue on Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients · · Score: 1

    The US has repeatedly demonstrated that such conventions mean nothing to them. International law is a complete non-issue to American authorities.

  24. Re:It may be fraud on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    That ann ammusing websit. At lest he has a sence off humour.

  25. Disney's website Security on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was once visiting the offices of a design firm that was doing some work for Disney. As far as I remember, the procedure for adding new content was:

    - Email the admins (with password), requesting an upload opportunity giving detail of content and approval reference
    - Admins create FTP account on a purpose-built server
    - Admins send back time-sensitive FTP details
    - Design company uploads to FTP server
    - Committees review content, send authorization to admins
    - Admins upload content.

    And this was for already-approved work. Kinda puts this level of security to shame...