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  1. Re:In other words on Boot Camp Finally Supports Windows 7 On Macs · · Score: 1

    So because you can't figure out wtf is wrong it must be a faulty network stack, right. I'm calling user error. My network stack is working so you must be wrong.

  2. Re:So much for "free software", eh? on 75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which is why there are ready to play distributions such as ubuntu for the masses. I've installed countless ubuntu systems on people with little technical expertise that don't understand why they have 10 browser tool bars in their IE install and wonder why their computers run like shit. In every case I give them little information, and they are fine finding the "start" menu at the top of the screen and running a web broswer to waste hours on youtube, or finding a suitable mail client equivalent. At what point did they have to use the CLI and compile something by hand to get a working GUI? As far as I know, this was all built in ready to run.

  3. Re:EditDns is Gone too on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Reboot Star Wars without George Lucas on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    I can tolerate SW 4-5-6..

    Fixed that for you.

  5. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Are the cserve id's not octal and thus wouldn't contain 8 or 9's?

  6. Re:Meanwhile in Canada... on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Fwoosh.

  7. Re:Useful? on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    I would consider these "modifiers and triggers" not dormant if they played a role.

  8. Re:Meanwhile in Canada... on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Maybe they force him to use 128-bit RSA. He didn't really specify.

  9. It is only a matter of time on World's First Integrated Twin-Lens 3D Camcorder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Before we receive some epic amateur porn.

  10. Re:does not compute on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    I saw this as the intention and was referring to developers in the sense of microsoft's own. On a related but side note, the navigation of a long list of unrelated, albietly grouped, tweaks doesn't make it very easy to navigate.

  11. Re:does not compute on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    Developers are not end users and Microsoft's probable line of thinking is that the current implementation is appropriate for the masses as being easier to use.

  12. Microsoft Knows on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    it is a good day to die

  13. Useful? on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is any of that DNA in use or are those parts dormant? What effect do these modifications have on us beyond the initial use of replication and further propagation of viruses?

  14. Re:How Many shuttles? on NASA’s Contest To Design the Last Shuttle Patch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would indeed count it among the other shuttles in the program, it seems that some at NASA found it meaningful as well. Others though find it as only an incremental footnote of history.

  15. Re:How Many shuttles? on NASA’s Contest To Design the Last Shuttle Patch · · Score: 5, Informative

    To quote wikipedia "The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere.[2] It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight. Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.[2] However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for flight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article.[2] Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.[2][3]"

  16. Re:Wonder... on Aboriginal Folklore Leads To Meteorite Crater · · Score: 1

    Evidence of the unas?

  17. Suspicious Pictures of Chair... on Boy Killed By Exploding Office Chair · · Score: 1

    The second picture of the chair totally looks like a goatse. Amirite? http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/33373__448x_exploded-chair-gas-cylinder.jpg

  18. Deja Fark on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    I totally just did a double take when it said only 6 comments,then I realized its not news, its idle.

  19. 16 MP? on The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Subby has it wrong. These are not 16 megapixel. You went through all that trouble to mention it's a Mark II. ( They are in the 21 megapixel range. )

  20. Re:Robotic head on Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head · · Score: 1

    I can watch.

  21. Unavailable for comment.. on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1

    is Principle Skinner. "I dont have any opinions anymore. All I know is that no one is better than anyone else and everyone is the best at everything."

  22. Why not let them use our cables. on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 1

    Why not give em the cables and monitor everything coming down them? Oh I remember why, surely our government would never do such a thing. /tinfoil hat time

  23. Re:I'm not committing to anything. on Firefox Goes for World Download Record · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sorry the BETA did not behave as expected. Be sure to skip out on the release.

  24. Re:"Brick" on Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch · · Score: 1

    Well, no, wrong, you can brick MANY things by the definition of bricking. I can brick my processor by overheating it etc. How exactly are you going to salvage an overheated processor? So no, my definition is generally what people used when the word first came into computing/hardware use. When you can revive a device by simply downloading a software fix from apple, that is NO WHERE NEAR a brick.

  25. Re:"Brick" on Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Brick means the only thing the device is good for, is being a brick. It means the device is irrevocably damaged, ie can NEVER be fixed. I bet a quick software update can fix this issue.