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  1. Re:There are no details on Pumping Sunlight Into Homes · · Score: 1

    What do shared bathrooms in 1960's Brooklyn apartment buildings have to do with Abe Lincoln?

  2. Re:Don't worry on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Modpoints here, not a denier but I'm still tempted. Painting all skeptics with the same piss-soaked brush doesn't help, it just makes YOU look like a fanatic.

  3. Re:Tastes great on Indian Military Hopes to Weaponize the Searing "Ghost Pepper" · · Score: 1

    (1) It instantly blisters skin on contact
    (3) Not only is it good for eating...

    I'm having a hard time reconciling the first clause of fact #3 with fact #1.

  4. Re:Ubuntu needs two things added. on Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that encouraging novices to google, copy and paste random shell code, and grant it root access is a security nightmare.

    (I mean SURE we've all done it, but the more common this gets, the more it'll be used for malicious purposes.)

  5. Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    SELinux and VistA occur, off the top of my head.

  6. Re:Or for paying half on tolls... on Hungarian Electric Car Splits Into Two Smaller Cars · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! These are *extremely practical* ideas. Unfortunately, upon examining the design of these things (http://www.solo-duo.hu/main.php?category=126) I believe that when attaching two Solos, you'd end up with two leftover Solo rear ends -- basically just the back window and a free axle. I doubt there's any way to stow those inside the combined vehicle; I guess they expect you to keep them at home in your car-hole.

  7. Great for parallel parking on Hungarian Electric Car Splits Into Two Smaller Cars · · Score: 1

    There are always half a dozen spots about a foot too small on my block... so break up the car and park each half separately! Brilliant!

  8. Re:poor thieves on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty long odds for the itchy trigger finger set... They'd soon get bored waiting and try to sweeten the pot.

    12:00 - leaving 4 grandmas, back in 2 weeks
    16:00 - plenty of beer in the fridge for when I get back tho, hope it doesn't get skunky
    18:00 - crap, left my rolex on the nitestand
    21:00 - crap, wife left her diamonds
    22:00 - crap, left the keys in the door
    22:30 - crap, left the keys in the truck too
    22:45 - crap, told the neighbor some moving guys were coming by around midnight

  9. Re:Forced to include in EU? on Opera For iPhone To Test Apple's Resolve · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But they didn't do that. In any way. They simply didn't include everyone else's browser by default.

    A little more egregious than that. They intentionally deviated from HTML standards to cause incompatibilities with other browsers, and they used "security" updates to reset IE as the default browser.

    It's nowhere in the same ballpark as what Apple has with the iPhone. But it's a very different beast -- a primary appeal of a Windows machine is the huge list of compatible software. The iPhone wasn't conceived that way -- but it's steadily heading into that territory; wouldn't be surprised if Warren G pays them a visit before too long.

  10. Re:Does that mean on Google Gets Its iPhone Voice · · Score: 1

    Aha, makes sense.

  11. Re:Does that mean on Google Gets Its iPhone Voice · · Score: 1

    when you place a call from your cell phone, the target sees your Google voice on their caller ID, not your cell number, so when they call back, it;s routed through Google voice.

    Just to be clear about this -- Google Voice does not and cannot change the outgoing caller ID of any of your phones. Instead, the Google Voice server calls both of you at the same time (the number you're "dialing" using the Google Voice interface and the number of the phone you want to use on your end) and conferences them. That's how they can control what caller ID your callee sees.

  12. Re:Zero Day on Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    Supposed you watched the Firefox commits when they do a security update (or reverse-engineered an IE patch) and discovered how to exploit a fixed vulnerability 2 days after the update. You could call that a 2-day vulnerability, and the small number of days means that a lot of people haven't patched yet.

    So a zero-day vulnerability means that nobody's gotten a chance to patch yet, because the security hole is discovered before a patch is available.

  13. Re:Blunderware... on Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed · · Score: 1

    You aren't important enough for anyone to want your information.

    Incorrect if...

    • you have a bank account with cash
    • you have a credit card or decent credit
    • you've pissed off someone who's tech-savvy, or who'll hire a tech-savvy private investigator
    • you have an attractive cousin
    • cetera...
  14. Re:Good on Judge Rejects Sheriff's Suit Against Craigslist · · Score: 1

    College kids *pay* for poon? I could barely afford gin...

  15. Re:How about free secure wireless? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1

    That's not free secure wireless. That's free wireless OR secure wireless. The open network isn't secure, and the secure network isn't open.

    Ah, I understand now. Reading back, that's what TheLink (130905) was asking for too.

    The closest thing I can think of would be to have the PSK included in the SSID (PSK=123abc456def, SSID=Password123abc456def).

    I know better than to believe everything I read, but according to ctuffli's post on this page, your secure network isn't secure either -- users can still sniff each other's traffic with a little luck and a little math.

  16. Re:How about free secure wireless? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And don't forget to set them for different channels.

    Alternately, if you run dd-wrt, you can try setting up mutltiple virtual wireless networks and have them broadcast separate SSIDs so it looks like you've got two routers.

  17. The harvesting bots are definitely getting smarter on Has Google Broken JavaScript Spam Munging? · · Score: 1

    When they learn to subtract pi, we're all hosed.

  18. Re:It's so obvious on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rhymes with Barium? That'll be a boon for Tom Lehrer...

  19. Re:Empirical, right? on Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement · · Score: 1

    And when I'm finished processing that content I will gladly return it to the closest RIAA representative.

  20. Re:$31 for pressed CDs? on Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman · · Score: 4, Funny

    from pressing to delivery

    Maybe they mean pressing the "burn" button in Nero.

  21. Re:States rights on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's talking about the period from around 1890 to 1960 when most southern states used their states' rights to prevent blacks from voting or holding office, and to prevent criminal punishment for racially motivated lynchings.

  22. Re:Be Skeptical of Drug Company "Scientific" Claim on Drug Company Merck Drew Up Doctor "Hit List" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously we need more gay doctors.

  23. nanoTouch! on Microsoft's "Pseudo-Transparent" and Fold-Up PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like an improvement over last years' disaster, the Microsoft PowerbookNewton.

    (Actually looks pretty damn cool.)

  24. Pretty easy list on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    -Standard USB data/charging cable
    -USB mass storage support
    -Video recording
    -Tethering
    -Multitasking
    -MMS

  25. Re:Selective memory on Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Very true. ASCII art is good enough for me.