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  1. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Why not just stick 20 'F's in front of all of your passwords? Easy to remember, hard to brute force.

    Not any more.....

  2. Re:Probably their login method on Pandora Subpoenaed In Probe of Mobile-App Privacy · · Score: 1

    What, exactly, is wrong with them connecting your Pandora account to the UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE ID for YOUR phone?

  3. Re:What did they spend the $40-50 million on? on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    What else offers so little for so much?

    Government?

  4. Re:Looks pretty bad here. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Is shaving off the left edge of every article part of the plan, or just a bonus?

    This is my big complaint also. I use NoSquint and the left edge is cut off unless I make the text so small that it's hard to read.

    A big thumbs down from me.

    P.S. Is there any way to REMOVE the topics at the left? I can't find it in the options.

  5. Re:Ayup... on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised how easy it is to respect copyright when you have a subscription to a service like Netflix, and can get what you want on demand.

    At a reasonable price, of course. On demand is not so great if it is costly.

  6. Re:Real question is... on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 1

    One reason could be that Yahoo still provides co-branded DSL services through SBC.

    That's AT&T, for the last several years, but yeah.

    It may be AT&T now, but many of our "Yahoo" email addresses still end in @sbcglobal.net

  7. Re:Learning to use and making it work on Open Source More Expensive Says MS Report · · Score: 1

    How hard would it have been to have a help section geared towards showing you how the old way translates into the new way?

    Well... first they would have to figure this out for themselves, now wouldn't they?

  8. Re:What's next? on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    Isn't the day 24 hours long in Alaska ?

    Only in the summer and only if you're far enough north.

  9. Ok on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 0

    About time, I guess

  10. Re:My biggest complaint about Bill Clinton on Tevatron To Shut Down At End of 2011 · · Score: 1

    The guy was an economic genius and what this country needs to get itself out of debt, but he failed in that situation.

    Now I know why your user name has Crazy in it!

  11. Re:PEBCAK on BendDesk Merges Computer, Monitor and Desk · · Score: 1
    You certainly have a PEBKAC

    You can't even get the acronym correct!

  12. Re:Hmm. on IE9 May Not Be Enough To Save IE · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (Does Ford know that they've hijacked the "Explorer" name?)

    You do know that the Ford Explorer is not a web browser, right?

  13. Re:Dont hate, educate on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    People have an exaggerated confidence in their own abilities.

    That is correct. 85% of people think that they are better than average drivers.

  14. Re:So what? on The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel · · Score: 1
    Did you even read the article? I doubt it, nobody ever does.

    Here is his conclusion for those who missed it:

    The bottom line: Oracle's kernel is much ado about very little. They've tweaked and tuned a newer mainstream kernel, stuck it on top of another company's Linux distribution, and are touting it as a major accomplishment. The magic ingredient here is spin, not innovation.

  15. Missing in the comparison on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's quite interesting that PRICE is missing from the comparison. I'd say that based on their own scoring system, that would make it dead even!

  16. Re:Mom will love it! on Android Fork Brings Froyo To 12 Smartphones · · Score: 1

    No offense but who gives a flying fuck whether you can change your background on a phone? I don't put stickers on the lid of my laptop, hang gonks from the mirror of my car, tattoo my shins or graffiti the nearest public wall. A sense of self worth shouldn't be reliant on decorating things. You don't speak for people who like tech. You speak for immature people who like tech.

    I must see your rec room....

    Oh, wait, your Moms rec room!

  17. Re:Not really, no on Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they just liked beer.. I'm pretty sure most people consuming large doses of beer these days aren't doing it for the health benefits.

    I am!

  18. Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME? on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Better spending tax dollars on saving the human race than blowing it up in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Ah yes, the old false dichotomy.... I love it.

    Is it possible that I might not want to spend MY MONEY on either of THESE. Yes indeed, that is not only possible but it is is TRUE.

    But thanks for playing....

  19. Re:Meh on Hands On With the BlackBerry Torch 9800 · · Score: 1

    It's also flipping all your damned apostrophes around!!!

  20. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 2, Informative

    With java you have independence. You're not tied to Windows or Linux.

    Or ruby, or python, or perl, or .....

  21. Re:Sounds as if... on Defeating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1
    This really makes old sayings come to life.....

    Expect the unexpected!

  22. Yes... ve must get moose and scveral!

  23. Re:2005 Dell... same sh*t 5 years later. on 'Bloatware' Becoming a Problem On Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Make sure you create a new disk image once you get the crap off that machine. Then it's a bit easier the next time. There are plenty of free and open source solutions to that nowadays.

  24. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Google's Free Satnav Outperforms TomTom · · Score: 1

    - no way of storing favorites (with three taps I can find my way home or get a list of favorites on my tomtom)

    You can easily create "direct navigation" shortcuts on your home screen that direct you to any address in your contacts. That would take you two taps......

  25. People still don't get it.... on Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Passwords have a number of things that biological features don't have.

    1) They are a secret
    2) They can be changed at will
    3) They don't require a physical feature (you can keep them in your mind).

    Biological features are thought to be great because of their uniqueness. But the problem is that once they are compromised, it is permanent. So they are never good by themselves.