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Comment Not much... (Score 0) 190

It wouldn't take long before "alternative" versions of browsers and window managers were created that ignored these DRM requirements. Once the data is on a machine, there is no sure way to keep it secure. The longer such measures were in place, the more popular these alternative tools would become. It is impossible to put the genie back in the bottle...

Comment Re:Yay for government!!! (Score 1) 139

The solution is to mandate that the IMEI cannot be changed.. i.e. it is burned into a write once part of the phone. Currently manufacturers are resisting this idea. Then, all that needs to be done is to have international co-operation on sharing the IMEI blacklist, like is currently done all across western Europe. This is why currently phones need to be sold in eastern European countries like Poland or Hungary... but if the authorities really wanted to solve this problem they could easily get all operators worldwide to share the blacklist... As others have said, I believe that there is much more to this than theft prevention... more of the government pushing through things they want "for our own good"...

Comment The Big Fix (Score 1) 170

Many of the researchers making such claims have been funded by BP. There is evidence that the well has still not stopped leaking completely. The fishing and seafood business in the Gulf is devastated and may never recover. http://technorati.com/entertainment/film/article/the-big-fix-film-gulf-oil/

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