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  1. Re:At least porn doesn't pop up when you google on Online Nicknames Google better than Real? · · Score: 1

    kdawson Jameson, is that you?

  2. Re:1984 on Protecting IM From Big Brother · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stein, Berg, what's the difference at 3am? I guess I had better just take a break and watch some old Spielstein movies. He hasn't done Frankenberg yet by chance?

  3. 1984 on Protecting IM From Big Brother · · Score: 3, Funny

    I find it fitting that someone named Goldberg is warning us about Big Brother.

  4. Bad title on Mark Cuban Calls on ISPs to Block P2P · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else read the title as meaning that in order to block P2P, ISPs would need to mark calls to Cuba?

  5. Re:It's a joke. on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 1

    I was using figurative speech to suggest that he either roll on a condom, or boot into an alternative ...er... system. Her throat, for instance.

  6. Why so much trouble? on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    Why so much trouble? On my home machine I've got a 500GB drive that set me back about $150 USD (things are expensive here), in addition to the main 160GB unit. The root file system is on one partition of the 160GB drive, /home is on another, and swap on a third. Every night I rsync /home/user to the 500GB drive (mounted as /home/backup though that is arbitrary) and once a week I rsync the whole system. No seperate computer to make noise, waste electricity, and possibly fail.

  7. Re:Yes, another kdawson masterpiece. on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 1

    that the admins use just to get our goats. You're missing an "e" at the end of the last word there, pal.
  8. Re:It's a joke. on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 1

    If he's wearing a firewall he'll be fine. -- alternative version -- If he's booting into Ubuntu he'll be fine.

  9. How about this wording? on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 1

    They could simply word the dialog "Do you answer Yes to all security dialogs?". Those who answer Yes are given a message that their system is not secure enough for the transaction, with a link to solving "common problems". One of the "common problems" would be "Answering Yes to all security dialogs".

  10. Re:How original on The Happiest Days of Our Lives · · Score: 1

    It's mutual. You should have seen what Wil blogged about me.

  11. How original on The Happiest Days of Our Lives · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How original the whiny little star trek boy is! Who'd ever have thought: a book about a half-geek half-father! I'm sure that no /.ers meet that description.

  12. Re:WTF? What does C|Net know about FOSS?? on CNet Promotes Essential Open-Source Software to Joe Public · · Score: 1

    That's a good point. I read Outlook as "Outlook Express". My bad. I sometimes forget that Outlook (sans express) really is a decent, full featured program. If insecure. Somebody please mod parent.

  13. WTF? What does C|Net know about FOSS?? on CNet Promotes Essential Open-Source Software to Joe Public · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Office comes with Outlook, which is vital for most business users. For this reason, OpenOffice isn't an alternative to Microsoft's corporate solutions. Ever hear of THUNDERBIRD?!??
  14. ODF please... on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Could someone please copy and paste the contents of TFA. It's in a proprietary file format and Stallman has forbidden me from opening it.

  15. Re:A novel idea... on Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Too bad when certain freedoms were declared, corresponding responsibilities were not drawn up as well. Such as, the right to bear arms would have an attached responsibility to secure the weapon from theft and children. Likewise, the right to free speech would have some responsibility and accountability attached. Just a dream.

  16. Re:Easy to read edition on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    I didn't look at the article that way, but yeah, I guess you're right. Although, advertisements usually have, you know, PICTURES of the product...

  17. Re:40 second boot time an improvement? on Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details · · Score: 1

    I prefer a much nicer term like "safe sleep" which brings to my mind visions of a baby sleeping in a crib peacefully under the watchful protective gaze of its parents. "Safe sleep" brings to my mind visions of a condom.
  18. Re:Python is part of the answer on Open Source Math · · Score: 2, Funny
  19. Re:A novel idea... on Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet · · Score: 1

    I know that it wasn't exactly a "Myspace-assisted suicide" but the fact is that the journalist took the oppourtunity to run with the popular Myspace-bashing that the media now loves. It'll be at facebook soon enough, I'm sure. And yes, I did skim the article with half an eye while simultaniously baking cookies and pwning the neighborhood scamps on the wireless.

  20. Re:Easy to read edition on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    It's so small, I didn't even notice it.

    (Strange, I'm usually the one hearing that instead of saying it.)

  21. Easy to read edition on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 2, Informative
  22. Can it run... on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, but can it run... never mind.

    I'd at least like a _picture_ of the thing. Or are the letters running across the guy's face indicative of what the device is _really_ meant for: bringing porno within reach of the toilet/bathtub/bed where the computer won't reach?

  23. A novel idea... on Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's a more novel idea... Don't even print the things that don't need to be printed. Anytime Myspace in particular or the Internet in general can be connected to a crime || suicide || nuclear war the press goes nuts with the idea. There is no story here other than a girl committed suicide, like hundreds of other troubled teens. Yes, it's a horrible phenomenon, but it's no story in itself. The journalist could have written about the suicide phenomenon (which goes back as far as history does) but that's not interesting. Myspace-assisted suicide apparently is.

  24. Sun's pretty hot on Sun to Create Underground Japanese Datacenter · · Score: 1

    Sun to Create Underground Japanese Datacenter How do they expect it not to melt at those tempuratures?
  25. Not strange, but... on Anatomically Strange Dinosaur Vacuumed Up Food · · Score: 4, Funny

    If this dinosaur were female, it would not be called (as per the title) "anatomically strange". It would be called "anatomically correct".