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  1. Re:Now bidding on Auction Site To Sell Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    In order to get bids, you will have to post a good description. OSS devs will then be able to have some remote idea of the exploit, and might be able to fix it. But if the flaw is kept hidden in the underworld, it can be exploited without OSS devs knowing anything about it.

    I suspect that many other people will think the same way, and so I think this site will tend to be used mostly by "white-hats" who have enough morals not to exploit their exploits.

  2. Re:Not Evil on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    Ok, you're right. I should have said socialism, not communism.

  3. Re:Now.. on Software Speeds Response To Road Accidents · · Score: 2, Informative

    In California police have been experimenting with setting up black tarps around accidents, and it seems to work very well.

  4. Re:Not Evil on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    Healthcare is a personal utility, not public utility.

  5. Re:Time to test Darwin... on Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger" · · Score: 1

    We are part of nature.

  6. Re:Not Evil on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Universal health care" is a meaningless term. The correct way to identify if it is socialism or not is to see who pays for it. If the government pays for it through taxes, it is communism.

  7. Re:Time to test Darwin... on Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger" · · Score: 1

    Exactly right - death and destruction are part of evolution, just like Rev. Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. People shouldn't have to spend all this brainpower on preserving life; nature fixes itself.

  8. Re:ch-ch-ch-turn and face the strange choices on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Besides, TFA also says there are issues with 3G chips, including power consumption AND physical size. There's a limit to the numbr of discreet chips you can cram into a device before you also start having to increase the form factor. More power hungry chips means a bigger battery to get to the same life, which also translates into a larger form factor. Large, hungry chips crammed into a tiny space with a super-compact battery also tend to burn your ear off.
  9. Re:deep integration is a good idea on Zero Day Hole In Google Desktop · · Score: 1

    I just tried entering "mail.google.com" into the Firefox address bar, and it doesn't redirect...

  10. Re:Why do they still do these studies?? on Boys with Longer Ring Fingers are Better at Math · · Score: 1

    The point is to understand genetics.

  11. Re:Already down on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 1

    Here's a mirror of the image: http://www.bsgprogrammers.com/pics/ultimate_reset_ button4.jpg

    For even more fun, label it "Any" and give it to someone who thinks they know more about computers than you do.

  12. Re:deep integration is a good idea on Zero Day Hole In Google Desktop · · Score: 1

    And Google should automatically reroute http://mail.google.com/ to https://mail.google.com./ I get very tired of manually typing the https:/// and it seems like a no-brainer. (yeah, there's always a special case, so just add an explicit option not to.)

  13. Re:If it's viewable, it's hackable on New AACS Fix Hacked in a Day · · Score: 1

    Look farther. Black box hardware is the future.

  14. Re:Well that's perfectly reasonable on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    A different subject, but how do you know that it's a van? I wasted a lot of time going up and down San Fransisco trying to find a reflection of the vehicle.

    Personally, I'm more interested in how Google took the photos than what they took photos of. If appears that they just drove around with a camera rotating very quickly and streamed it to disks or something. And what's with the horrible streaking from bright lights?

  15. Re:bogus remarks on A Look at BSD Rootkits · · Score: 1

    Well, with the increase in sector size, boot sector viruses would increase. But I guess that still wouldn't affect Live CD's.

  16. Re:Ben Edelman, here on Spyware Still Cheating Merchants · · Score: 1

    The clicks are usually made by rival companies trying to waste your money.

  17. "Bugs" on June Will Be Month of Search Engine Bugs · · Score: 1

    To let users of search engines and web community as a whole to understand all risks, which search engines bring to them. What impressive language skills our editors have!
  18. Re:Russia or Russians? on Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia · · Score: 0

    I'm a high school student, and Dad tells me that I will see the rise of communism in my lifetime. I sure hope we get another president like Reagan who isn't afraid to denounce an evil empire.

  19. Re:Poor judgement on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!!!!!

  20. Re:The big problem is that... on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's true that Vista is not worth it today, but the same was originally true with 98-XP. The newer hardware support will eventually win out, and by that time there will be a some service packs and the hardware requirements won't look so bad.

  21. Re:NOT COOL. on IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    He said that because Estonia has 100Mbs internet connections.

  22. Re:What will they do with this efficiency, though? on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    You sound like my dad. The only reason not to use breeder reactors is that they (gasp) produce weapons-grade waste. Simple solution: put it in a weapon. Then you have cheap power, a big stick, and it will help with defense spending. But propaganda Rosie prevails.

  23. Re:Fixed it for ya! on IE Devs Criticize Bank Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with banking on an unencrypted network, if the whole site is https. All banks should have their whole site encrypted; plaintext ought not be an option.

    Hooray for https://mail.google.com/

  24. Re:Personally... on Sprint Nextel Vs. 41 Schools and Non-Profits · · Score: 1

    I very am glad to see there are some sane people here. Thanks for straightening that out.

  25. Re:McDonalds Retiree on Can Technology Fix the Health Care System? · · Score: 1
    The New Deal was the single biggest disaster in the history of the US government, in my opinion. Before we had that, the national debt was actually paid off some years. Then, government involvement in personal life inflated astronomically, and we now have a cradle-to-the-grave society. The problem with health care is the same problem education has: Socialism. The spore of communism right under our noses.

    We must elect someone who will spend his term deleting, not creating govenment programs. We must demand free choice in education. And above all else, we must protect America's first freedom: the right to keep and bear arms. Because when the political system eventually sours, we will have no other way to protect ourselves from becoming a part of the next Iron Curtain.

    Remember the words of Samuel Adams, the Father of the Constitution: "The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."

    "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." -Adolf Hitler
    I also suggest the you read Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, the greatest economic genius of our time.