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  1. Re:The title should read... on UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist · · Score: 1

    Hint: GP agrees with you. He does think policy makers should understand their policy

  2. Re:The title should read... on UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist · · Score: 1

    How did you read:

    I do think it's reasonable to expect the policy makers [...] to understand how it works.

    in a way that would incite a reply of:

    You don't think that policy makers should understand how it works?

  3. Re:Add-on idea. on Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving · · Score: 1

    Isn't it great that the article tells you about an open-source plugin provided by Google that effectively performs that operation for you? Good job we all read it. No, I'm not new here.

  4. Re:evil? on Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving · · Score: 1

    The article here is all about the cookie and non-cookie based ways you *can* opt-out

  5. Re:evil? on Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving · · Score: 1

    TFA is all about Google giving you multiple ways to opt-out.

  6. Re:"Great news?" on YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    He's not joking.

    But it's not a license to own the radio, it's the right to have it on in a shop or office, or anywhere where people can hear it that isn't for personal use.

    Yes, it's ambiguous. Yes, it's pretty unenforcable. Yes, there are enough loopholes that I think a lot of people wouldn't even pay lip service to the idea. Yes, it's ridiculous but it's there as long as people are paying it

  7. Re:Affects highways, but that's it on Researchers Apply P2P Principles To Car Traffic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If everyone were using the same algorithm, it would likely compensate by sending you left with e.g. 70% chance and right with 30% chance, depending on the relative capacities of those routes. Of course there wouldn't be any guarantee that the drivers would listen to the recommendation but if too many people clogged up one route that information would soon filter back into the system.

  8. Re:Uh... on The Neurological Basis of Con Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    Answer: You ask the question "Did you know they're giving away free beer in Shelbyville?"

    A truth teller will answer "No" and head down the road to Shelbyville.

    A liar will answer "Yes" and head down the road to Shelbyville.

  9. Re:Uh... on The Neurological Basis of Con Games · · Score: 1

    You come to a fork in the road with no signpost. You know that one path leads to Ogdenville, the other to Shelbyville, but you don't know which. You have to get to Shelbyville.

    A man is at the fork in the road. You know (somehow) that he will either lie or tell the truth to a yes or no question, and he will only answer your first question.

    How can you get to Shelbyville with any certainty?

  10. Re:The Year Was 2005 ... on The Science of the Lightsaber · · Score: 2, Funny

    WHOOOOSH!

  11. Re:clue ? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I think that roofs of cars are significantly less reinforced than the front bumper region.

  12. Re:Provider only? on Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation · · Score: 1

    There's no incentive for anyone to build an OpenID consuming site until its users have an incentive to *get* an OpenID.

    If providers like Microsoft and Livejournal can ensure that huge amounts of users have OpenIDs, *then* you'll see more sites popping up where you can log in using those credentials. It'll start with personal blogs and small sites that can be set up quickly, but eventually it'll catch on with bigger sites.

    So, this is a big step towards adoption for OpenID, and not something to really complain about

  13. Re:Microchip - aargh on Integrated Circuit Is 50 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    Yum

  14. Re:From the US Government? on Software Patent Sanity on the Way? · · Score: 1

    Oh God! And the clue's in the name! John Dudas = Judas(!!)

  15. Re:It Was Close on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean like the old "using a paperclip to short the receiver against the coin slot on a payphone to make a free call trick"?
    Hi! It looks like you're trying to make a free call, would you like some assistance?
  16. Re:easy on What Could You Do With a Bogus Root Name Server? · · Score: 1
  17. Re:As far as US is concerned on Open Source Patent Donations? · · Score: 1

    Then putting it in a sealed envelope still adds no additional credibility

  18. Re:As far as US is concerned on Open Source Patent Donations? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately however, this is unlikely to be admissible in any serious context.

    Most postal services have absolutely no problem with letting you send an empty, open envelope to yourself; after which you have an open, registered and dated empty envelope which you can later fill with a pre-dated proof of invention and seal.

  19. Re:Good way to turn a positive thing negative on iPhone SDK Rules Block Skype, Firefox, Java ... · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah! And while we're at it - let me play snake on my microwave that I *OWN*!

  20. Re:looks like more wrist injuries coming on Levitating Haptics Joystick Gives Good Feedback · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The maglev interface can exert enough force to make objects feel reassuringly solid, says Hollis, resisting as much as 40 newtons of force before it shifts even a millimetre.


    What worries me about this is the reverse of this. If a little wand can resist a 40N force, a miscalculation in the simulation software could presumably easily apply a 40N force to a joint which shouldn't have 40N applied to it...

    Especially if the evolution of this device is to make it bigger/more immersive.
  21. Re:US Patent 7003500 on Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards · · Score: 1

    Even from TFS I can see that the patent in question relates to cards redeemable against a specific item, rather than against credit which can be used to purchase various items.

  22. Re:Wait a second? on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 1

    So if I want to make a new browser, I have to not only write it to display pages properly, but I now have to write it to display pages the same way as all the old versions of IE?

  23. Re:*This* is what's holding back virtual worlds? on Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the real world, trees know how to create themselves.

    Whether the lack of realistic trees in virtual worlds is a particularly bad "anchor" is probably more debatable

  24. Re:Huh? on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    Well your point about them only proving you were on the premesis certainly stands if you don't buy anything, although buildings can be licensed to disallow entry for certain ages. However, the law is that it is illegal to purchase alcohol if you are under the given age (or, separately, to purchase alcohol *for* a minor), and itemised tills certainly have an audit trail to show if you did that.

  25. Re:eh... on Tweaking The Math Behind Political Representation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just want to know who the one person is who gets the one vote. They're the person I want to find.