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  1. Re:False Dillema on San Francisco To Stop Buying Apple Computers · · Score: 1

    According to apple, its 35 million iPhones and 12 million iPads last quarter. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/04/24Apple-Reports-Second-Quarter-Results.html

  2. Re:Has anyone seen... on Samsung Galaxy S III Launched, Hands-On Testing · · Score: 1

    That's not a bad idea. I'm of the opinion that there will always, always be a better phone around the corner and as long as your apps run and your vendor isn't making your phone unusable with software updates there's no need to upgrade out of cycle. Naturally, if you're a developer and require the newest models for what you do, that's a different story.

  3. Re:Believe? on Fedora Infrastructure Compromised · · Score: 1

    Look at his UID, he probably wrote that error.

  4. Obvious play? on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this because you can't patent a button but can patent multitouch gestures? Get enough people speaking your "language" and other manufacturers will have to pay to use your patented gestures.

  5. Re:Disturbing to see TSA still behind the curve. on TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes · · Score: 1

    If they were to wake up in transit though, the trip would end up taking LONGER THAN YOU THINK DAD!!! LONGER THAN YOU THINK

  6. Re:PDF on Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's what saving throws are for.

  7. Re:ew quicktime? on New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP · · Score: 1

    They're exploiting a third-party application using an exploit in the application. The application is at fault.

  8. Re:ew quicktime? on New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP · · Score: 1

    If the attack is using a third party application that does not properly implement the security features available, then the application is at fault.

  9. Re:ew quicktime? on New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP · · Score: 1

    Quicktime does not properly use either ASLR or DEP. The application is at fault.

  10. Re:I smell a turd... on Lenovo To Launch Chinese Gaming Platform Called Ebox · · Score: 1

    I knew the one was Tennis, but I had to do some digging to find Stampede as the second one.

  11. Re:Matrix Jokes ... on DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries · · Score: 4, Funny

    What other two Matrix movies?

  12. Re:New Expansion, many players excited! on First Age of Conan Expansion On the Way · · Score: 1

    As funny as this is, this is pretty much how it went with Asherons Call 2.

  13. Re:Overkill? on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was agreeing with you.

  14. Re:Overkill? on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then you'll be called paranoid and accused of FUD.

  15. Re:By Vulnerability, you mean... on Firefox 3.5's First Vulnerability "Self-Inflicted" · · Score: 1

    The answer I've seen elsewhere is yes, NoScript blocks this (unless you allow it).

  16. Re:Good to hear on New Zealand Introduces Internet Filtering · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There aren't enough resources available for doing that, only for the filtering. If you want to have the authorities actually investigate crimes against children you're going to have to have a 15 cent tax for that.

  17. Re:I'm completely shocked... on Four Missed Opportunities for Privacy · · Score: 1

    Specifically, third party scripts and cookies. There's nothing I hate more than having to reject a slew of cookies and also having to pick through noscript to find out what I need to allow just to view a webpage. If it's too non-intuitive to weed through all that garbage I just close the tab.

  18. Re:I'm completely shocked... on Four Missed Opportunities for Privacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it's been proven again and again that the only privacy available on the net is that which you go and secure for yourself. You almost have to become obsessive-compulsive fighting against cookies, scripts, and counters to protect yourself nowadays.

  19. Doubletake on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    I know I'm late on this, but I haven't seen it mentioned yet. Doubletake is fantastic, and I've yet to have it fail me when moving stuff from point a to b on Windows systems. You didn't mention cost as a factor in the summary but I should note that it is most certainly not free, but if you have to make sure it gets there it may be worth it.

  20. Re:Classic Controllers on In Defense of the Classic Controller · · Score: 1

    I have! I've used everything from the Odyssey through the Wii - I'm talking trackballs, light pens, R.O.B., the Atari paddle controllers (which are my 2nd favorite of all time thanks to Pong and Night Driver) and nothing has played as well as the SNES controller across so many games for any of the systems I've played. Heck, it was even useful in RPGs like FF3(6). On a related note, the worst controller of all time was the CDi.

  21. Classic Controllers on In Defense of the Classic Controller · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have always maintained that the original SNES controller is the best gaming controller ever developed. It has the right feel, just enough buttons, and great responsiveness. I haven't seen a better pad in 20+ years of gaming.

  22. Re:China on Sony Begins Shipping PCs With Green Dam In China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't claim credit for it as someone else on /. already said it, but who is to say that our western notions of freedom and democracy are right for the rest of the world?

  23. Re:Judgement on Spammer Alan Ralsky Pleads Guilty · · Score: 2, Informative

    I say we go green and focus a concave mirror on the guy. We get our pound of (burnt) flesh and the planet doesn't suffer for it!

  24. Re:I really hope so on Can Commercial Space Tech Get Off the Ground? · · Score: 1

    If it's one thing I know about the monetization of space its that the end result involves a xenomorph in your gullet and some son-of-a-bitch named Burke getting away with it by sabotaging certain freezers on the way home.

  25. Wrong country in Asia on Is China Creating the World's Largest Botnet Army? · · Score: 1

    I hope everyone's spam filters are up to date, because I'm sure crimeware authors would exploit it first..