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  1. Re:French thunderbirds rock on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Security fixes aren't around forever for old branches, so essentially yes.

  2. Re:Rubbish... on Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? · · Score: 1

    Glenn Beck's cock, I'd wager.

  3. Re:Why is this news? on UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity · · Score: 1

    Because it's the Internet! And censorship!

    Have to drive up page views to get ad revenue, donchaknow.

  4. Nothing wrong with a good old Laserjet 4 on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    aside from being huge, and only black-and-white. But! Replacement parts are dead easy to find, they're built like a tank, and toner is cheap and plentiful.

    If you don't need color, consider one of these.

  5. Re:Support Kodak's printers send the others a mess on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Also Canon.

  6. Re:POLL: have you ever mistyped .cm for .com? on Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware · · Score: 1

    Once just recently - I was holding my infant daughter so had to type one-handed.

    OpenDNS caught the error and warned me away from a malware site. Don't remember where I was going at the time.

  7. What's wrong with the good old 5"/38? on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mount deck guns on merchies traveling through that part of the world. Sink pirate boats when they approach. If you need something more close-in, perhaps surplus 20mm Oerlikon or 40mm Bofors guns from that same period would do.

  8. Re:Self-important Douchebag on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    That seems like a terrible waste of a single malt. If the stuff's worth drinking by itself, do it that way.

    Not to say I haven't been tempted to try some Bowmore with Irn Bru, but I can't bring myself to abuse the Scotch that way.

  9. Re:Yes, I do. But people don't call me one. on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    We desktop-support types have to be creative as well, just in a different way. If someone's got a problem you've never seen before, you have to figure it out, and sometimes I have to design a small custom... workflow, I suppose, for an individual user.

    Plus I'm the one who gets to clean up after bad developers, work up work-arounds, etc.

  10. Re:Self-important Douchebag on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    Poor people don't drink single-malt Scotch or eat pate de foi gras.

  11. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a Greasemonkey script (also works as a Chrome extension) to block Fox News & WSJ posts from Google News.

    WRT experts-exchange, you can click on the Google cache of the page, scroll down to the bottom, and there's your answers. That's their trick for getting Google to index them so highly. This trick also works if you set your browser's user agent to Googlebot's.

  12. Re:Convergence. on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next you're going to ask for Emacs to get a decent text editor.

  13. Re:Honestly on Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Low-contrast fonts are probably right out, since you don't want to disenfranchise old folks and others with vision problems.

  14. Re:User-level package manager on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 1

    Stow isn't quite what you want, but it's pretty close. I've used it for just about ten years for locally-compiled stuff.

    Generally what I do is ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/[PACKAGENAME-VERSION] && make && sudo make install, then cd /usr/local/stow and type "sudo stow [PACKAGENAME-VERSION]. Removal is a simple cd /usr/local/stow && sudo stow -D [PACKAGENAME-VERSION]. It doesn't worry about dependencies at all, and really all it does is make symlinks in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share, and so on.

    It would be trivial to set up a ~/stow directory and use that instead of /usr/local/stow.

    [PACKAGENAME-VERSION], such as nano-2.0.9.

  15. Re:Anti-competitive?.. on Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons · · Score: 1

    Mozilla isn't a monopoly, unlike Microsoft's operating system business.

  16. Re:Have they played the mission? on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    I take it you're not able to fire on the terrorists that you're "with", then? What happens if you try that?

  17. Re:Higher taxes needed on Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online · · Score: 1

    My wife's a public-school teacher, and she creates her lesson plans at home, after hours. She doesn't have /near/ enough prep time at work to do that there.

    In fact, she does a fuckton of stuff at home or after hours. Grading, research, committee work.

  18. Re:Joy on HP To Acquire 3com For $2.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Also needing the better part of an hour to install the gorram driver.

    HP's more expensive business-type printers have decent drivers that only need 10MB or less disk space, and don't have bloated installers, but you'd never know it from the consumer shit.

  19. Re:This is just baffling! on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    But it'll get the mouth-breathers excited and voting and teabagging, and keep them /believing/.

  20. Re:Anyone using Lynx? on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 1

    I like ELinks in console mode, but I still fire up lynx now and again for kicks. Back in '99 to '02 I used lynx exclusively and had it open images in zgv, so I could still read webcomics and see what weather was on the radar, and yet not wait ages for pages to load on the dorm's overloaded connection.

    Did you know that lynx has a very basic Usenet client built in? That's what I used before I settled on slrn.

  21. Re:No Joke on Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Could you speak up? The cocks in your mouth are muffling your voice.

  22. Re:No Joke on Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only as you're guilty of being retarded on the Internet.

  23. Summary: it affects ignorant fools on First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FFS, why is there even a default password on sshd for the jailbroken phones? It should default to being disabled and then require you enter your own password when it's enabled.

  24. Re:No Joke on Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" · · Score: 1

    They typically have no idea what ads they're actually running - the ad-server operators buy space and time on the major page, then sublet that out to random people.

    Best thing to do, based on limited correspondence with a website ads guy, is to contact the webmaster & let them know about the rogue ads, and then the site owner can block ads from the random sublet-ee in question.

  25. Re:No Joke on Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" · · Score: 1

    It's not the major sites, it's the compromised ad servers that are run by others.