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  1. Re:Why... on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    Cisco 851, a broadband router, sells for under $400. Of course, it comes with all those pesky security features and a "specialized/fancy" IOS.

  2. Re:Why... on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    So you haven't patched in 2 years? What's your IP again?

  3. Re:secret symbol was a crescent on Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project · · Score: 1

    What a great movie that was...right up until the very end. So much potential...then such a massive let-down. It's almost like the writers just gave up after Jodie Foster "blasts off" into space. PS: Movie is "Contact"

  4. Re:It is called engineering. on Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project · · Score: 1

    The first video says 1983 so the premier would have been Yuri Andropov. The second video says 1969 -- that premier would have been Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev got the boot in 1964.

  5. Re:While I don't like Flash. on Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Boo hoo. I have to point, click, and install. Woe is me. A whole 1.5mins of my life wasted so the remaining 33% of it spent on-line can enjoy a better browsing experience.

    /sarcasm

  6. Re:Google sniffing your clicks on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    "A screenshot for the happy few not having access to MS Windows machines would be nice ;-)"

    Fixed your typo...

  7. Re:A turn off? on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is sloppy. GoogleUpdate is called as a scheduled task on MS platforms. It claims that if Chrome is uninstalled, the scheduledtask will remove itself in "a few hours".

    Still, not using Add/Remove programs like other well-behaved apps is just shady.

  8. Re:Requiring NDA is changing the rules of the game on Lenovo Requires NDA For Windows License Refund · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh BS. Go buy a Dell then. Passing up a high-quality, feature-packed laptop over some NDA requirement is just being silly.

  9. Re:News for nerds and all that on Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLI · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps digg is more your speed:

    "Muppet Show to Return To TV After 27 Years

    telegraph.co.uk â" Kermit the frog and friends could return in the first new Muppet Show TV series for 27 years."

  10. Re:The latest indy on Lucas Researching Concept For New Indiana Jones Film · · Score: 1

    Well said. Even the previews of the latest Indy flick looked fake and superficial. All action but an awful plot.

    If I had mod points, you'd get them.

  11. Re:Mean-spirited? on FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars · · Score: 1

    Microsoft doesn't offer a "genius" bar with clueful people. Your comparison is pointless and irrelevant.

    (and I'm a damned Red Hat user. Go figure)

  12. Re:Well, you buy crap, what do you expect? on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    Amen. People get what they pay for. Cisco 851 here. It only reboots for IOS upgrades or power outages.

  13. Re:itunes? WTF? on Apple Launches ITunes App Store With 500+ Apps · · Score: 1

    Previous poster is probably referring to Apple's Safari Update fiasco where Safari was installed, by default, whenever an iTunes user updated his/her software.

  14. Re:ID vs Evolution on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    E. Keep your religious horseshit out of my child's head.

  15. Re:what's the big deal? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    You obviously learned about "Dawkins" and his theory of evolution from an ID teacher.

  16. Re:DJBDNS not affected. on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great! So the four people that actually use DJBDNS don't have to patch it. Thank you!

  17. Re:I think it's funny on Netflix Changes Its Mind, Will Keep Profiles Feature · · Score: 1

    Lenovo is a prime example of extreme customer-service. I submitted a warranty ticket around lunch time on a Tuesday. The support rep called me back by 4pm that day. The spare part was at my office by 8:30am the following morning.

    Didn't cost a cent either.

  18. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Commercial versions of VMware allow multiple snapshots. The version you refer to is the freeware version.

  19. Re:Fourth amendment?? on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    Nice strawman. Don't change the argument. He didn't suggest a "right to fly" he was talking about the freedom of unreasonable search and seizure.

  20. Seed, damn you! on Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    download pegged at 892KBps. An hour to snatch the DVD ISO!

    SEED, you bums! SEED!

  21. Re:Sounds good on Canada Considering A Three Strikes And You're Off The Internet Policy? · · Score: 2

    My kingdom for a mod point right now. Your response is so completely and totally spot-on. Superpages is notorious for showing listings for companies that are actually hundreds or miles away.

  22. Can Java help Sun's bottom line? on Interview With Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz · · Score: 2, Informative

    2500 people laid off and dismal stock price. Off 3% just today.

  23. Re:Also, google apps? on IBM's Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why people have such a problem with outsourcing their IT. Yes, Google could read your data - but so could a rogue employee. Many companies have external pressures that restrict data access and require accountability. HIPPA is the big one.

    And yes, google.com has been unavailable at times. A key disadvantage to outsourcing one's IT infrastructure is that the company must now rely on the Internet for access to apps/email. When rogue companies or entire countries decide to announce google.com IP blocks and your access to your outsourced IT apps disappears, who are you going to call?

    This actually happened when Pakistan decided to filter YouTube recently. They announced YouTube's IP space and suddenly, YouTube was inaccessible to large portions of the Internet.

  24. Re:Whither Fedora? on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    I didn't think that they denied that RHEL came from Fedora? I didn't say they denied RHEL came from Fedora. I said they denied, at one time, that Fedora was a testing ground or beta platform, for RHEL.

  25. Re:Whither Fedora? on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 2, Informative

    It'll be fine. They don't provide much (any?) financial support for Fedora anymore. I think the foundation takes care of that RHAT provides people, resources, money, hosting, and other assets to Fedora. There is even a Fedora group within RHAT HQ that works 100% of the time on Fedora. That doesn't even include the numerous bugfixes and other coding that RHAT corp developers do for Fedora.