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  1. Re:Duh on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I really misunderstood that.

    However, I wouldn't call people the problem. We can't design humans yet but we do design organizational methods. Saying that humans are the problem because the organization failed is a cop out unless things have worked out elsewhere with other people.

  2. Re:Games on More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor · · Score: 1

    Since when does console games cost as much as PC games? In my experience they're usually 50% more expensive.

  3. Re:They have design a webmail site... on What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are we talking getting spam in the inbox or getting spam in the spam folder?

    First address: 10 letters, not indexed by google. It has 348 mails in the spam folder I received about 4 spam mails in the inbox over the same time period (60 days)

    Second address: 8 letters, indexed by google. It has 459 mails in the spam folder and I received about 4 spam mails in the inbox over the same time period

    Third address: 8 letters with spam as a suffix, indexed by google. It has 0 mails in the spam folder and I received 0 spam mails in the inbox over the same time period.

    It would appear that the safest way to not get spam is to have an address with the phrase spam contained in it. The spam suffix address is also the one I've been most promiscuous with yet no spam at all is received.

  4. Re:Physics... on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1

    I find it really hard to believe that tasers don't have either active or passive current limiting. Designing an entire weapon system and not taking the changing resistance of the human body into account would be idiotic. Any fool who has played with an ohmmeter knows that the resistance in the human body is highly variable.

    You need about 45mA across the heart to die. Something around 30mA to lose consciousness.

  5. Re:Claymore Mine on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1
    You're mixing up claymores with regular land mines. A claymore is not meant to take someone's foot off it's meant to put down a squad or half a platoon. I'd like to see a single source that claims that claymores are designed to lop off the legs.

    When the M18A1 is detonated, the explosion drives the matrix of 700 spherical fragments out of the mine at a velocity of 3,995 feet per second (1,200 m/s) [1], at the same time breaking the matrix into individual fragments. The spherical steel balls are projected in a 60 fan-shaped pattern that is two meters high (6 ft, 8 in) and 50 meters (165 ft) wide at a range of 50 meters (165 ft).


    I don't know of a single person with six feet tall legs.
  6. Re:Skype unbreakable? on Skype Encryption Stumps German Police · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmmm... If it was Keitel that coined the term he probably didn't mean it in a negative sense. Keitel is probably one of the greatest yes-men ever. It's not so surprising that he was the author of that sentence only he was serious. It looks like the ones who didn't like Hitler took that phrase and ran with it.

  7. Re:Skype unbreakable? on Skype Encryption Stumps German Police · · Score: 1

    From my WW-II books the term is Größte Feldherr aller Zeiten. As you say it was a disrespectful nickname for Hitler. If I remember correctly it's hinting to his meddling in his generals plans, mostly for the worse sometimes for the better.

  8. Re:About damned time on Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review · · Score: 1

    I've got in excess of 50 tabs open and has had firefox open for quite a while, probably more than 48 hours. And it's only using 290.6 MB of memory. Something is clearly wrong with your setup. It would be nice if you could find out what.

  9. Re:Or a different approach. on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 1

    There is a system like this in Sweden. Unfortunately it's a bit more fishable than your version. If you choose the bank payment option in the store you get redirected to the banks site and get presented with the invoice. Then you use the normal login for your bank account and the payment is executed. In my case it's a password and a certificate but there are other methods like a hardware token or one time pads.

  10. Re:How many IT professionals... on 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista · · Score: 1

    That's the supposed problem when Joe Public needs help. Slashdoters are not joe public.

  11. Re:Vista adoption higher among gamers? on Half-Life 2 Episode Two Stats Now Online · · Score: 1

    You assume wrong. It says right in the summary that 73% used DX9 SM3 which means that the rest had nvidia cards older than the 6600 or ATI cards newer than some product line I can't remember.

  12. Re:Stealing? Or Sharing? on Wi-Fi Piggybacking Widespread · · Score: 1

    The need for growth is really a reflection of the fact that we humans tend to get more and more efficient at doing things (usually due to competition). If the economy isn't stagnant or static but your company is then your company isn't doing as well as it could and the stock will reflect that. As long as we're talking about growth in sectors that are actually growing I don't see a problem. This also only applies to publicly traded companies.

    I think ISP's quite like the fact that using someones AP could be criminal. I think they should go fuck themselves and prohibit that themselves if that's what they and their customers want (I know the ISP market in the US is hardly a free market).

    Sharing is great and should be encouraged. If it comes at little or no cost to you then it's stupid not to.

  13. Re:Stealing? Or Sharing? on Wi-Fi Piggybacking Widespread · · Score: 1

    NB: Capitalism for me means laissez faire.

    I would say that you have every right to sell knock-off iPhones as long as you don't say they're the real deal (in my perfect world anyhow).

    The discussion was about criminal law not civil law. If it says in your contract that you can't share your connection then it's up to the phone company to enforce that clause and you to follow it if you can't take the consequences. It could hardly be called as theft unless new speak reaches a new high.

    We don't have matter creators and infinite energy and infinite time yet. It's easy to define ownership without value, worth or price. If I made it with my stuff or traded my stuff for some of your stuff it's mine. If you want it then make an offer. If we had matter creators (and infinite energy) ownership would be more fuzzy (or rather less meaningful) but as long as physical objects can't exist in several places at once and sentimental value exists there will be ownership. Even if I could leech off my neighbors AP I wouldn't want to due to latency and bandwidth. There also can't be an infinite number of leechers on a single AP and a single AP can't reach around the globe. Nevermind let's just say it's a limited resource and under capitalism it will be self correcting.

    If resources aren't limited then capitalism will lose much of its meaning but as long as there are limits there will be capitalism (or at least it will work barring some major changes).

    You might want to read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson if you want an interesting take on what would happen if we had matter compilers but without infinite energy.

  14. Re:Stealing? Or Sharing? on Wi-Fi Piggybacking Widespread · · Score: 1

    Damnit! I'd just modded you up for that part about your band sucking but then I got to the capitalism part. Captitalism just doesn't enter into sharing or not sharing. Capitalism just says that you shall not be kept from owning and selling stuff. It doesn't say that you must sell stuff.

  15. Re:Duh on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I'm not anti-business, just honest. The problems come from the people, not the organizational method. The organizational method is supposed to be a way of compensating for the problems while minimizing the bad side-effects.


    This implies that all ways of organization are equal or that there aren't any common denominators in humans. Both of which are false.
  16. Re:Next week is bigger... on US Sees Blockbuster Games Release Week · · Score: 1

    I think the control lag (if it isn't the keyboard) could be the weapon inertia. Turn it down in one of the menus.

    I had a strange sound problem in the demo though. I changed the suit voice to female before starting to play and all the NPC sounds and suit sounds were lagging. The sound didn't activate with the current action but the next one. Strangely enough that disappeared when I switched the voice back to male. The full game does the same thing but with both female and male suit voices.

  17. Re:what is radiohead? on 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album · · Score: 1

    What kind of fucktard moderators would mod this down as well? Modding the original post flamebait for lack of funny is one thing but it's another thing to mod down his non flamebait response.

    Fuck you all.

  18. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right. I was thinking of sodium dithionite not sodium hypochlorite. I don't think clorox contains sodium dithionite but I can't find a table of contents for it.

    Thanks for the correction.

  19. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    It looks like clorox contains sodium hypochlorate which when mixed with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) produces hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Sodium hypochlorate could probably react with other oxidizers as well.
    The gas is pretty toxic and as you noted smells foul. So it's a good idea to leave the area if you release large amounts of it. As I recall the gas from the reaction looked greenish or yellowish but according to wikipedia it's colorless.

    When I was young we used that reaction as a stink bomb. In retrospect that seems stupid but I knew the gas was toxic so we only used very small amounts.

    This probably contained lots of errors because it was a good while since I did high school chemistry and it was in another language.

  20. Re:On the other hand... on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1

    I don't think you should listen to anyone who either wants to keep or delete. I mean if they care they can't be NPOV.

  21. Re:Linux on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure. I more or less learned typing from chatting inside games. When I was younger I used all the abbreviations but when I got older I decided I didn't need the abbreviations because my typing was fast enough. Now all I need to learn is correct placement of hands but that isn't going to happen.

    I'm not saying it's a good way to learn but I am saying that it probably isn't as detrimental as you seem to think.

  22. Re:He Knows This on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    But we are talking federal level, arent we?

    I don't pay taxes in the US so it's even less likely for me to get anything back.

  23. Re:He Knows This on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    So you have school vouchers now?

  24. Re:He Knows This on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    Abolishing a government monopoly and replacing it with another monopoly is not what I have in mind and I supect not what Ron Paul has in mind. Natural monopolies are a problem but the Department of Education or whatever is hardly a natural monopoly.

  25. Re:He Knows This on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    Less force in the world combined with more efficient services?