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  1. NOT hackers! on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1

    Can I just say it again? LOIC is an application anyone can download and use to participate in a DDOS attack. It takes no skill whatsoever.

  2. Re:headline FAIL on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. My thoughts exactly.

  3. Re:Anything that alters consciousness is a narcoti on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    then the "drug war" is more about denying people access to their own minds.

    I submit that this is what the drug war has always been about. /tinfoil hat

  4. CCProxy on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    I've used CCProxy before when I didn't have access to my own linux box, or time, etc. It was fairly easy to guide my non-technical friends over the phone through installation and configuration. It's free for up to 3 users.

  5. Re:Android on Best Phone For a Wi-Fi-Only Location? · · Score: 1

    Google Voice is open to all comers now. An android phone and your google number forwarded to skype or another free incoming SIP provider might be a good solution. You get the added convenience of SMS and voicemail transcription (although the transcription is spotty).

  6. Re:Chinese puns on Chinese Subvert Censorship With a Popular Pun · · Score: 1

    Thus you have "qiche" (two characters) meaning "car" or "to ride a bicycle

    Just in case anyone's about to try and impress their Mandarin-speaking friends by calling a bicycle a "keesh", you might want to know it's approximated by the sounds "chee" and "chuh".

  7. Re:It would be cool on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you mean by a 'cheap' bottle of wine. I've had a $200 bottle that tasted like rubbish, and many $14-$20 bottles that were quite good. I've never drank a $5 bottle of wine that was very good. I'm no expert on wine by any means, but I enjoy drinking it, and know what I like and don't like. It really does come down to the quality of the process and the fruit used, and good!=expensive. If you do your homework, you can find a lot of good $20 bottles. It's just that, like a lot of other things, price gets used as a shortcut for the people who aren't knowledgeable. One possibility: a certain winery makes a wine that is very good for 4 or 5 years, it generates buzz, demand grows, and the price grows with it. Maybe the winery gets bought by a conglomerate, and they start brewing in larger batches to cash in on the name. The quality goes down, etc. Check out tv.winelibrary.com for some fun, non-uptight talk about wine.

  8. Re:Simpler Tools on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    I haven't personally looked at average rate increases in electricity, but the difference between efficient and additional construction expenses versus long term energy price fluctuations probably looks very good.

    Eric Schmidt thinks so. He gave an interesting talk to the Corporate Eco Forum a couple weeks ago about what google's doing, and spent a bit of time on the economics. It's worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MlC959hjRM

  9. Re:More olive oil, more cream-- less weight on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 1

    Ah, good point. I take it all back :-)

  10. Re:More olive oil, more cream-- less weight on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it possible that your weight loss is due to "cutting out enormous amounts of carbs and sugars," including the 1k calories and soda, and not to the extra olive oil and cream? Congrats on losing the weight, I don't want to undercut that, but the subject line of your comment seems like a bit of a logical leap.

  11. Re:not really on TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers" · · Score: 1

    Crazy American Christians prefer trucks loaded with explosives parked beneath daycare centers.

  12. Re:posting the emails was illegal and unproductive on Republican Aide Tries to Hire Hackers · · Score: 1
    From the disclaimer at attrition.org:
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