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  1. Re:GPL Violation? on Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder · · Score: 1

    For the most part, aye -- I know you can download Maps independently from the Market (have to do this every now and then for an upgrade).

    I really don't see the big idea with this -- just unbunble the apps, and let's get back to work. You can use the damn web browser to access gmail on your phone if you need to, anyway.

  2. Re:PCs without a graphic card on AMD Radeon HD 5870 Adds DX11, Multi-Monitor Gaming · · Score: 1

    Aye, it's almost as fast as the 9200SE I bought 5 years ago, aye. :(

  3. Re:Security issues with Google Chrome? on Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure · · Score: 1

    This behaviour has changed in Firefox 3.5, anyway.

  4. Re:PCs without a graphic card on AMD Radeon HD 5870 Adds DX11, Multi-Monitor Gaming · · Score: 1

    Don't sully the name of the Voodoo cards by comparing Intel to them. :P

    Intel's graphic performance is beyond terrible, considering the resources the company has to work with.

  5. Re:Time to move up on AMD Radeon HD 5870 Adds DX11, Multi-Monitor Gaming · · Score: 1

    BluRay is 1920x1080. Though your 1900x1200 screen should support that, too.

  6. Re:Before the days of HD ... on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    That one had a much better soundtrack, too. 4 stars.

  7. Re:There's a reason this doesn't happen often on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    You should wait until it gets to the top when the baloon bursts, and it starts falling.

    I was fine up until then.

  8. Well, ain't that something. on ASCIIpOrtal Has Been Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm both proud in a weird way and horrified in a weird way that there exists 64-bit Linux binaries for this but no 32-bit. :P

  9. Re:Going paperless on T-Mobile Backs Off Plan To Charge $1.50 For Paper Bills · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, you don't. I have T-Mobile -- signed up for paperless billing, but no where was I required to sign up for any sort of automatic debit. They don't even have a card number on file for me.

  10. Re:One word... on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 1

    Zing!

  11. Re:Xubuntu (or your favorite) for Netbooks on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    No, but they can sure download that Mah Jong application from the website. You know, the totally legit Mah Jong website you get when you search for "Mah Jong" on the Intertubes?

  12. Re:Xubuntu (or your favorite) for Netbooks on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    But granny can't install the Mah Jong CD she got 10 years ago on Linux, therefore, it just won't do.

  13. Re:My job is to apply "The Formula" on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    A new computer built with my company's OS gets on the Internet. The TCP/IP stack is exploited. The customer's identity is stolen. Now: do we spend the money to patch it? Take the number of installations in the field (A), multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of a new Macbook (C). A times B times C equals X...

    If X is less that the cost of fixing the patch, we don't do one.

    Better?

  14. Re:With Yucca Mountain closed? on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, the whole purpose of making the "pebble bed" type of reactors was that they produced dramatically much less waste. Yucca Mountain may not be necessary at all in the end.

  15. Re:Big wow on Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, we read the first three lines of the Wikipedia link, too.

  16. Re:Well that sounds reasonable on Homeland Security Changes Laptop Search Policy · · Score: 1

    By that argument, if a gang of thugs flew into the United States, never left the international arrivals area, and committed heinous crimes while there---plotting assassinations, designing nuclear weapons, calling for hits on their enemies, execution-style murders, gang rape, etc.---they would not be in the U.S. and thus could not be prosecuted under U.S. law. For that matter, any sort of crime---mugging, graffiti, public urination, public drunkenness, public nudity, arson, etc.---would be completely legal as long as you don't leave the international arrivals area. Does arson only become a crime when the fire spreads outside the international arrivals area?

    As has been seen by the War on Terror(tm), the US government has no problem with extending its authority beyond its own borders whenever it sees fit. I don't see how a silly "international arrivals area" would stop a country that has shown to arbitrarily invade entire countries based upon only the most spurious of information.

  17. Re:Interesting angle on social engineering... on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 1

    Just steal the laptops then.

    Or -- I don't know -- just be the country that makes them (China) where you have virtually unlimited access to the stock, anyway.

  18. Re:Nuclear Power on the Moon FTW! on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really -- got these things called "Space Suits," I think -- you could place the reactor away from the colony, theoretically. We'd still have to test these "Space Suits" to see if they work, possibly land some men on the moon beforehand to see if they operate correctly, of course.

  19. Re:Q6600 on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 1

    False, Intel kept this marketing strategy going well into the 2000's. -_-'

  20. Re:Q6600 on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The newer batches of the Q6600 (2.4 GHz stock, by the way) are terrible overclockers -- you'll have to buy one of the older ones off of Ebay to have any chance of getting it above 3.2 GHz (even experienced overclockers had tons of trouble with the newest Q6600's).

    Just get a Q9400 -- it's both faster, cooler, and has more overclocking headroom.

  21. Re:FAIL on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You were running 95 watts at stock (2.83 GHz). You're way, way over that by now!

  22. Re:A thought experiment on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but you just made an excellent case for getting things like TrueCrypt outlawed entirely.

  23. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Then they don't find what they're looking for after they've decrypted it, and continue beating you with the rusty wrench until you give up everything you know. :(

    http://xkcd.com/538/

  24. Re:Self-incrimination becoming mandatory on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    So, just a healthy modicum of "snu-snu," then. I'm game.

  25. Re:No problem. So what's the alternative? on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks. Always wondered about that.

    The weird thing is, I listen to a lot of NPR, and the only example I can think of is those darn chairs. :P