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  1. Re:Excellent article on Wii Gets Custom Firmware, Purported PSP Emulator · · Score: 2, Funny

    I also heard that someone got some custom firmware running on the Wii!

    http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/wii-gets-custom-firmware-purported-psp-emulator/

  2. Re:CACert on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My hosting provider requests Thawte SSL123 certs for me. I get is an e-mail from Thawte requesting approval.... Click a link, verify info, that's it! If e-mail address verification is all that is needed to approve an SSL certificate, it seems to me that a "free" service could be just as secure.

  3. Re:Have they even tried the synthetic urine? on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 1

    The Connecticut-based company building the Orion toilet needs the large volume of urine (about the daily output of 30 people) to work on urine acidity problems, said spokesman Leo Makowski.

    The Yellow River synthetic urine that has the right PH levels and passes all the lab tests. I'm not sure what the Whizzinator folks would do if they got an order for 2000 vials of synthetic urine....

    They gotta talk to the people in the right industries (faking drug tests)

  4. Have they even tried the synthetic urine? on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe they're just looking to cut costs? Yellow River Synthetic Urine is available for $12 for 90cc. Computes to about $4000/day for their needs. https://www.whizzinator.com/order.html (NSFW)

  5. paid ad? on Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously wondering if this is a paid ad by someone in the Mandriva camp to get exposure... Are they even a relevant distro anymore?

  6. Re:More Expensive on Full Review of the iPhone 2 On Launch Day · · Score: 1

    I believe you can switch your iPhone SIM card over to some dumb phone, adjust your plan to include unlimited data for dumb phones (costs less than unlimited data for smart phones)... and then put that SIM card back in the iPhone.

  7. Re:Hmmm.... on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    OH THE HUMANITIES!

  8. Does it run on Windows? on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This sounds great... but I couldn't find any downloads that run on Windows!

  9. Re:Quick! on Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session · · Score: 1

    And while we're at it, let's throw in the rest of Asia too.

    Killing yourself by playing computer games is an Oriental thing. People in the Orient do it all the time.
  10. Re:Think of the goodwill on Viacom Yields to YouTuber Who DMCA Counterclaimed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you RTFA? "YouTube should be commended for notifying their users when they get take-down notices," von Lohmann continued. "They tell you that a notice has been received, and they tell you that you have the right to counter-notice. Not everyone does that."

  11. Maybe not stolen? on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 1

    Maybe the landscapers just thought it was debris...

  12. Developers abandon KHTML for the WebKit fork on The Unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit Begins · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a more accurate subject line. If you read the article, it is clear that the original developers are moving to WebKit instead of KHTML.

    From TFA:

    While there are still a few reservations, the consensus is to develop a Webkit KPart for embedding into Konqueror at the earliest opportunity and to take a more active role in the development of Webkit itself. This was hinted at earlier in an Ars interview with Lars Knoll, but now it is more or less the official word.

    Now, KHTML won't be deleted right away since there are features in it that need to be ported into Webkit. For example, KHTML (in KDE 4) implements portions of the definition of the CSS3 standard, which will need to be adopted into Webkit and so forth. But the big deal is that the coders that invented the underlying layers that power Konqueror, some Nokia browsers, Abrowse, Safari, Adobe's Air, and now Epiphany and a few other projects that are in the works, are now back in the fold.

  13. Re:No it doesn't on Zap2It Labs Discontinuing Free TV Guide Service · · Score: 1

    >do the FF and REW overshoot compensation when you press play? MythTV has an intelligent commercial skip. When a commercial starts, you press the "commercial skip" button and it skips the 2 minutes or 3 minutes or whatever amount of time is taken by the commercials. Tivo could never do this because they'd be killed by the networks..

  14. Re:Can you say... on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically, he could have been out a lot quicker had his parents hired a lawyer and bailed him out, but the parents probably believe the police and thought he did it too. They might have even told the cops to keep him in there to teach him a lesson! who knows. Point being, yes he was in jail but not because he was guilty until proven innocent.

    Technically, his parents did hire a lawyer:
    "The teen said he did call the school's delay hot line early Sunday, March 11. But that was an hour before the bomb threat was phoned in, said the family's attorney, Tim Andrews. After Webb's parents obtained his cell phone records, Andrews found the call times did not match."

    "Webb's parents, Linda and Budd Webb, arrived at the school and listened to the recorded bomb threat. Linda Webb told administrators it wasn't her son."

    "He was released to his parents' custody that day after Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge John Driscoll continued the hearing when the state police failed to appear."

    http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news /westmoreland/s_501066.html