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  1. Re:Important fact about McMaster on Craigslist Fires Back Over Adult Services Accusations · · Score: 1

    How does any fee charged by Craigslist (or lack of fee as you suggest) have anything to do with whether the content is obscene?

  2. bluetooth on Top 10 Disappointing Technologies · · Score: 1
    Can someone translate this article into English? A couple excerpts:

    But, said the manufacturers, if you buy our products there are no compatibility products. Go hang said consumers.

    Many of the high-end features out of the realm of even some brand new systems.

    Copy edit much?

  3. staple? on Maddog's New Hampshire "Unix" Plate Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    ... fake New Hampshire license plates naming Unix or its various flavors, including Linux, are a staple of the computing industry.

    I don't think that author understands the meaning of staple.

  4. Re:These have been around for a while on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 1

    I shudder to think needing to access my iPhone from anywhere on the Internet .

    Shouldn't it be in my pocket?

  5. Re:what iphone needs on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Jailbroken ones have a central repository and the App Store is basically a repository for legit apps. I just downloaded the freebit app for free, it's available.

  6. Re:How long until... on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 1

    Through colos and datacenters, not consumer plans.

  7. Re:Hah, you wish on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 1

    That's as likely as your water utility billing you for water that you drank at a restaurant.

  8. Re:Nonsequitor in the summary on Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made Chrono Trigger Sequel · · Score: 1

    I don't have those memories

  9. Re:Screw your alternative timeline! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Good thing he's not 23, seeing how Captain Nero had a 25 year absence between the day of Kirk's birth and when he attacked Vulcan.

  10. Re:Been there, done that. on Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 1

    That's not true in northern California, I get great 3G reception in boondocks areas (talking 100+ miles), better than I get in some of the major cities.

  11. Re:Better reception with this unit on Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 1

    One reason I love dd-wrt is that I can choose a channel that isn't approved in the states by the FCC, so I know there is going to be less interference from all my neighbors in the complex.

    Open this hardware up to support every wifi channel and those who are tech-savvy won't have that problem.

  12. Re:Surprising on RIAA Filed 62 New Cases In April Alone · · Score: 1

    Well, they sometimes do serve a few of their McCafe offerings at a temperature that is way too cold. Hell, there's freaking solid ice crystals in it!

  13. Re:The MPAA went on to say that on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Where does one acquire old Itchy and Scratchy reels?

  14. Re:Well, you won't make that mistake again on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 1

    If you've never heard of Alienware, I fail to see how your comment has any value at all to the discussion.

  15. Re:Let me get this straight on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how it is like bacon. My bacon is very poor at performing processing commands, perhaps I should switch away from this organic stuff.

  16. Re:but, they dont sell it on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 1

    Not only is the timeline very suspicious, he lost my favor at the snotty e-mail comment.

    Impoliteness, disparaging comments about people without a brain and threats about a response deadline or he'll post it somewhere prominent aren't something a considerate and smart consumer would do. A smart person would write a plea for assistance and be courteous about it.

    No wonder it's a kdawson story...

  17. Re:Unclean? on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    I don't get why everybody doesn't use DBAN, private or government (as long as it meets their needs). I proudly tell my staff members that machines have been wiped to DoD levels before disposal.

  18. Re:Well, not quite... on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    My experience has been XP works ok with 256, just not once you install SP2/3 or Symantec Antivirus...

  19. Re:3 years? Pfffft. on Torpig Botnet Hijacked and Dissected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, consumers with their Dell OEM CD from seven years ago have easy access to slipstreamed SP3 CDs and know how to use Linux.

    He'll be good until iTunes or some niche piece of software doesn't install and then he'll just be pissed at you.

    We know better and we try to educate Joe Consumer, but Joe Consumer doesn't have our skills or knowledge, which was the point of my original post. The consumer is not to blame.

  20. Re:3 years? Pfffft. on Torpig Botnet Hijacked and Dissected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's say I reinstall XP SP1 and somehow MS manages to have included a nic driver for my card. I then need that Internet access to download AV from my uni, patches from MS, etc. How do you expect a consumer to have a machine fully patched prior to the initial network connection?

  21. Re:What gives? on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    FB wouldn't a tracker in this instance, more like an index or directory, hell they're just links. TPB will still be the tracker.

  22. retractions? on Update — No DRM In New iPod Shuffle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So are all those sites that posted rumors going to retract? iLounge, Consumerist, Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. The only honest source during this whole controversy was boingboing, who said that they are not electrical engineers and can't be sure of what it does.

  23. Re:Guh. on Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial · · Score: 1

    You are believing the TFS?! Try reading the articles. Ars shows that he was tweeting during breaks. Pertinent or not, discussing an ongoing case while a juror is a big fuck-up

  24. Re:Ahem... it's SF on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    It's definitely not just the snobs, even when you get past the bay and go north in the Sacramento Valley or up into the Sierra Nevada, San Francisco is "the city" and the other major cities have their own nicknames. Sac for instance...

  25. Re:Next time they sever their own fibers, on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 0

    Dell techs fix your printers? Wouldn't a printer vendor be a better source?