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  1. Re:And what happens.... on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    You reap what you sow.

  2. Re:Next up on Scientists Create World's Smallest Steam Engine · · Score: 1

    So we could drive our train through quantum tunnels?

  3. Re:Really ? on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    Here here.

    I do work for an online game. All compiling and testing is done on the servers, but I still need a good editor ( mostly I use notepad++ ) a web interface and a good telnet/muck client.

    Currently I am using a pair of 24" screens and am considering adding a third (at the moment, one is taken up with clients and interfaces the other switches between web page and notepad++ ) I have no idea how I could handle doing this on a tablet, I was restricted to a laptop for a week and nearly died having to only use one screen.

    Yes, if you aren't really doing work on it, a tablet is great, it's also good if you need to reference stuff while not at a pc.

  4. Re:Simple on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 1
  5. Re:This is News to Them? on Microsoft Dumps Partner For Fake Support Call Scam · · Score: 1

    Nope, you go the other way, see how much personal information you can find out about your caller. It can get fun, I even found out the colour of the guys underwear one time (had him check for me as he couldn't remember at the time).

  6. Singing! on PETA To Launch Pornography Website · · Score: 5, Funny

    Supersadomasochistinecrobestiality.

    Its when you get a hard-on making Lassie a fatality!

  7. Re:Blech on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    No, because you still have this huge bloody ribbon thing, that 99% of the time I don't need to use at all, dominating the top of my windows. All files have context menus, I don't need all this junk at the top, side, bottom or wherever. If I wanted that info I would right click the parent folder and, following the context menu, get the info.

    Why could they not just push the info panel stuff to the side in the current explorer and recover another 10 files of real estate that way? rather than then putting in all this stuff that is, most of the time, not needed and lose 6 of those files to an unneeded interface item?

  8. Re:Blech on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    /me points at the part where he justifies it all by comparing real estate between a windows 7 file manager (without the huge waste of space at the bottom disabled) with a windows 8 file manager (conspicuously missing said waste of space), claiming you can see 4 more files.

    Shit, you could see another 10 on windows 7 if you turn off that pox riddled status bar.

  9. Beaten by Cheezburger network... on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Good thing on New Video Brings Portal To Life · · Score: 1

    This is why they went through 18 subjects before one finally got the idea.

  11. Re:Everything costs more in Australia on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    Not to mention ARIA and their cd price fixing in Australia.

    Maybe throw in the computer game industry and their insistence that top shelf games in Australia must cost $89 ($91USD).

  12. Re:If you don't like it on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    Oh, hey, yeah.

    And while we are at it, lets revoke the licenses for the noise filter tech used in 802.11n (owned by CSIRO, a federally funded research outfit) while we are at it, well, okay, we will revoke it only from apple.

  13. Re:What about... on Low Violence Red Orchestra 2 For Australia · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is illegal to bring it into the country, it will get confiscated in customs as media that is NC (Not Classified)

  14. Re:Massacre on The Oslo Massacre and Violent Video Games: the Facts · · Score: 1

    Don't make me come over there and terror your arse!

  15. Re:Queue the puns. on Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest · · Score: 1

    Okay, here goes...

    ... researchers aren't sure exactly how it produces so loud a song.

    Answer: Like a BOSS

  16. Re:Not as bad as Opera on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    Actually, you don't need that line any more, 64bit assumes that, but you do need the 3GB address bit flipped in the executable, not 100% if Firefox has it (would be stupid not to) but I am guessing so, still if the parent is seeing an app hit 3GB of memory used, it will die right there and then, that is the upper limit for ram usage (not that I have ever seen Firefox break the 1.1GB barrier, even after four months of constant usage).

  17. Re:Not as bad as Opera on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    3GB? Really? There is a limit for how much memory a 32bit application can address, 3GB being it (if running on 64bit system with extended memory support set in the executable, otherwise its 2GB) so I doubt you would ever see it reach that number as the client would crash due to memory allocation error right about then.

    I have never seen FireFox break the 500M mark myself, I keep my browser running for months on end (only shut down for hardware upgrades) and open 50+ tabs at least twice daily.

    Not that I care, it could use 4GB of ram for all I care, its the features I crave, noscript being the primary, I have room for it to grow and don't care unless it tops out the 12GB of ram in my box :)

  18. Re:Nothing can possibly go wrong on Mac OS Update Detects, Kills MacDefender Scareware · · Score: 1

    Yup, this is the beginning of the arms race for malware on Mac, just as windows has its own fighting the malware toolkits. Wait and see how long it takes for an updated toolkit that not only bypasses this fix but also disables future fixes.

  19. Re:Still.... on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    I agree, but the standard for all homes built here is that the meter boxes be mounted on an exterior wall, and has been for a very very long time.

    Of course it wasn't the property owners charged for these meters, it was the consumers, I had mine installed 3 days before I was served an eviction notice, think about that, I not only paid for their smart meter to be installed as a capital improvement but then had to leave the premises right away.

  20. Re:Still.... on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    Not sure what your 'smart' meters are like then, the one I just had installed uses a wireless network to upload the data.

  21. Re:First CS, then.... on Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike · · Score: 1

    2fort is the new 2fort, it has more of what made 2fort so 2fortish.

  22. Re:Just what me need... on Gitionary: the Git Party Game · · Score: 1

    Yay, the first person to link to something that tells me what GIT is.

    Here I was thinking they were all excited about a windows based inform script player...

  23. Re:Pointless... on Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier · · Score: 1

    Problem is the standard US .50 cal rifle is the Barrat, which last time I looked was 4moa, not bad for hitting cars at that range, but hitting a person? That is why those things have a 5-10 round clip ;)

  24. Re:My secure erase method still works! on Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    Its military standard for erasure so why not?

    Would take less than a handful of thermite (or thermate if you have that handy) to securly erase one of these little things.

  25. Re:So? on Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee · · Score: 1

    No, but if you cut all the extra mass from the heavyweight it would become a much easier fight for the featherweight...