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  1. Re:Indeed on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Steam (and a lot of places) accept paypal, which can be linked directly to a bank account.

  2. Re:IE on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh, you know that triggers the OS to possibly bring up either task manager, a login window, an overscreen menu or anything else a network admin wants to set it to?

    Alt + f4 is the best tool for IE

    If you just wanted the task manager without a chance of other crud, try Ctrl + Shift + Esc

  3. Re:Or... on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    Uh, you could just press backspace...

  4. Re:O: on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    Yeah was wondering that, so many people using gesture pads, arthritis inducing key combos...

    Just Backspace.

  5. Re:Why it was made big on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    Would have been a tough one, was it informative for the tip, or was it insightful because of the use of fuckery or just plain underrated?

  6. Re:Stop raining on our OSS parade with your "facts on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 1

    Oh there was better, I had a wrapper that would cram an MP3 into the metadata of a wav file and leave it as a 1 sample long file, so you were left with all these wav files that were really short :)

  7. Re:Evidence, how? on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Yes against the ToS that she "digitally signed", a judge wouldn't look well upon that, it amounts to breaking a contract.

    As for your second point, well I am not sure about WoW (never played it) but every other MMOG I have played detects when a person is idle and kicks them after a specified amount of time (even if they are moving, I thought autofollowing a patroling NPC would stop it).

    Third point, why would someone who has hacked her account have interactions with her boyfriend?

    Why not? If the lawyer asks the judge and it doesn't seem too over the top to them (likely wouldn't) they would make a subpoena for what amounts to "chat logs".

  8. Re:video ripped off? on iPhone 3G vs. Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the other guy (the 100k+ views) also has part2, where he turns it over and the Li-ion battery ruptures :)

  9. Re:Evidence, how? on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Well the other 2 responders have covered points 1 and 4, so I might as well cover 2 and 3 :)

    2: part of the terms of service that you "electronically sign" when you made an account and every time you log in states you will not give out your password, so if she hasn't reported a stolen/hacked account and there's no evidence to say she was elsewhere, it was her.

    3: presumably the same was done for the "boyfriend", his login details were subpoenaed and he was presumably either in a group with her or nearby her during that time, hell even just chatting together (and yes, their private chat logs can be obtained from blizzard).

    Don't think, just because you pay them money, they won't screw you over if the law man asks them to.

  10. Re:"low popularity" - yea right. on Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror · · Score: 1

    Satellite or NextG? (either sucks for cost:download)

  11. Re:It's easy on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    No, that outcome is not specifically disallowed.

    It only states that one is a boy, he was born on a Tuesday.

  12. Re:Why is this news? on Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror · · Score: 1

    Because while it was "free for all to access" it didn't count towards their own customers downloads for the month, in effect it was a service to their customers, that they are now dropping.

  13. Re:"low popularity" - yea right. on Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror · · Score: 1

    Wow thats cheap, if you go with Internode easy broadband you only get 50GB a month for $59AU a month (cheaper if you bundle rental) on all the same lines as telstra (they provision both their own and telstra ADSL2+ ports).

    And no charge if you go over...

  14. Re:Move to another ISP? on Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they are, and they have telstra ports on their "easy broadband" thing.

    Internode are the best ISP in the country, not the largest, or the cheapest, but the best :)

  15. Re:I can get it done on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    You miscalculated by an order of magnitude on both figures.

    I can do your mom for $500 and be done in 20 seconds

    Oops, I meant the parent.

    I can do it for $1,250,000 and be finished in 30 months

    Or maybe that should be 2 orders of magnitude, this is a public sector contract after all...

  16. Re:Should be a fairly simple project. on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    Those are dangerous ideas, what you propose would absolutely destroy the companies and service providers who help keep our countries running.. err, well linping.

    They are the glue that binds the gears of modern government!

  17. Re:If all else fails, get out the camera on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    Well, from TFA they have at least digitised the microfiche, so now it just needs to be dumped into a database, have a nice search-able front end added, maybe even give the very nice people at google a call to get a high res satellite pic taken with links on each grave and memorial that go strait to a web front-end on the DB, heck see if they will bring a streetview car through so you can "walk the cemetery" online.

    All this shouldn't have taken more than $5M, but it looks like it will.

  18. Re:Where do I sign up for that job? on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    Interesting, and tell me, do you happen to have a DoD clearance? If so I may have some more work for you.

  19. Re:Just wait for insitutional stupidity ... on Australian Cybercrime Enquiry Report Released · · Score: 1

    Same, but from what I hear, re verizon-math, etc, I can't help but paint a terrible picture of them in my mind.

  20. Re:What a load of on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design · · Score: 1

    Woops, sorry parent, didn't meant to sound like I was annoyed at you, I meant to quote the cheesy line from Dlink about what the market wants :)

    Mainly, the market just wants a router/modem that works, a feature set Dlink seem not to put much stock into lately...

  21. Re:What a load of on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design · · Score: 1

    Bull shit, Dlinks market is not asking for it sure, because everyone has been bitten by their shoddy power adapters and tight wad customer support and brought a Billion router.

    Ahem, ADSL1/2/2+, gig-e 4 port switch, WAN port for future (read fibre or cable) modem use, wireless N, voip, firmware that doesn't crash daily, power adapter worth a damn, real phone support... and thats still just a consumer modem (7404VNPX). They (billion) are bringing out newer models with more bells and whistles, as well as their "ol' faithful" plain modems and stuff without having to astroturf about "oh woe is them".

    Dlink, your products suck, no informed customer wants them anymore, bye :)

  22. Re:Just wait for insitutional stupidity ... on Australian Cybercrime Enquiry Report Released · · Score: 1

    When I first got my DSL (about 9 years back now) I was having issues with the crappy USB modem they gave me with the deal, I called them, they asked "what OS" when I said my router was running freeBSD they happily told me where to get a driver for the modem, stepped me through any conf files related to its setup and got me up and running.

    Maybe American ISPs just suck for support?

  23. Re:NOT zero day attack. on Miscreants Exploit Google-Outed Windows XP Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    That definition defeats itself, as soon as we know theres a working attack, we know the exploit exists, so then its no longer 0-day...

  24. Re:measure something without changing it? on Why Intel Wants To Network Your Clothes Dryer · · Score: 1

    Was my thought too, aren't we supposed to be trying to do away with standby power devices?

  25. Re:NOT zero day attack. on Miscreants Exploit Google-Outed Windows XP Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Well, I haven't been part of the warez scene for a long time, but way-back-when a "0-day warez" meant a crack for a game or program that was not detectable by the software maker and would usually patch as normal.

    Not really that new a term, just that since we are now much more security conscious now its gained an extra field.