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  1. Re:is it real on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but in the UK, the "huge freakin' knife" is just as illegal as the gun.

  2. Re:Just what they want Linux to become ? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    Did you use a 10-year-old Ubuntu? Err, wait there was no Ubuntu yet.

    Damn Microsoft for not supporting non-existent hardware with their installer! Windows XP RTM: August 24, 2001 SATA created: 2003 (Wikipedia).

  3. Re:Fun and polished game on Guild Wars 2 Release Date Announced · · Score: 2

    Instances are limited to some dungeons, personal story, and overflow. "Overflow" means that when there are too many people in the area, instead of making everyone else that wants to go there on that server sit in a queue watching a timer, a new copy of the zone is spawned, they're put in the overflow, and can move to the "real" zone as space is available, or just stay in the overflow.

  4. Re:Acer Aspire 11.6" on Ask Slashdot: Best Choice of Linux Laptops For Elementary School? · · Score: 1

    Except the current model linked has an AMD C60 and 2 GB of RAM. For $30 more you get 4 GB and a bigger hard drive. We have one here for a travel laptop. I would buy one to replace my older Aspire One if I weren't planning on a windows 8 convertible of some type.

  5. Re:Yeah, yeah, racist rants, again ! on China Secretly Clones Austrian Village · · Score: 1

    Oh, genetic difference. Never mind.

  6. Re:Yeah, yeah, racist rants, again ! on China Secretly Clones Austrian Village · · Score: 1

    About half an inch.

  7. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    If I am recalling correctly, pre-Kunark and pre-research change, the two runes required to research Ice Comet dropped one from Lord Nagafen and one from Lady Vox. Later (Kunark era?) the Staff of the Wheel quest was added, which will give you one of each. Of course, you can bone the combine and have to do it all over again.

  8. Re:This is a tech advance on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    Any one you want to use, if you put it in a Zip-Lock bag.

  9. Re:Don't euthanize the able-bodied on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1

    I used Acrobat to print to pdfs and alter pdfs (such as insert or delete pages).

    If that's all you were using it for, then you should look at PDFCreator.

  10. Re:It's not apple's fault... on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    So has Windows, since 2000 and XP (actually earlier, but I'm only counting common user versions), but stupid developers persist in writing software that can't run without Administrator privileges.

  11. Re:How to tell whether you are infected on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    "Mac vs PC" ads.

  12. Re:How to tell whether you are infected on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    Apparently you've never seen any of Apple's "PC" ads.

  13. Re:How to tell whether you are infected on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    And do the same thing if you're using a Windows machine with Vista or 7, and it works almost exactly the same way. There are still some ill-behaved programs that require administrator access though, even though Microsoft has been telling developers to stop putting stuff in the program directory for years.

  14. Re:There are many more Macs than Linux boxes on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    Because "Showing the finger to Goldman Sachs" isn't something you can make money on, it's just dick-waving. A thousand zombies that collect credit card & bank account details, MMO account details, and which you can also sell time on for DDOS or spamming is actually profitable.

  15. Re:Macs don't get hacked on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    Run as a regular user, not a user in the Administrators group. Create a new user the Administrators group, then demote your account to standard user.

  16. Re:See a pattern here? on Federal Court Tosses Colorado's Amazon Tax · · Score: 1

    The fucking 8% (or whatever local sales tax is) that Amazon didn't pay is not why Borders went out of business, not when you can order the same books from Amazon and still pay less than the Borders price even before the sales tax.

  17. Re:What's really going on on Federal Court Tosses Colorado's Amazon Tax · · Score: 1

    Form 1 instructions page 13, line 33 instructions:

    Taxpayers may use the following table to self-report a “safe-harbor” amount of use tax based on their Massachusetts adjusted gross income. A taxpayer may pay this amount in lieu of the actual amount of use tax that would otherwise be due with respect to such purchases. Individual taxpayers electing to report use tax under this method will not be assessed additional use tax on audit, even if the actual amount of use tax due would have been greater than the amount from the schedule.

    The estimated liability applies only to purchases of any individual items each having a total sales price of less than $1,000. For each taxable item purchased at a sales price of $1,000 or greater, the actual use tax liability for each purchase must be added to the amount of the estimated liability from the table below. See TIR 04-26 for more information.

    And I don't even live in Mass. New York has similar language in the instructions.

  18. Re:Market Analysis on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    aside from being able to read a physical book in say... the bathtub, and the worst case scenario is that I'm out $15 or so and a few days to get a new book

    Here's your solution. This is something that only works with e-readers, because it's hard to turn the fucking pages when you put a book in one of these.

  19. Re:All the better to watch you with, my dear on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 1

    Just windows does not come with a built in to do it.

    Yes it does, it's called regedit.exe. That's no less built-in (and no more obscure) than "add[ing] a variable like [MACADDR=12:34:56:78:90:ab] to the ifcfg-eth0 or similar file."

    Anyway, most NIC drivers have an entry right on the "Advanced" tab of the NIC properties in Device Manager for entering a MAC override, either "Network Address" or "Locally Administered Address," which sets the appropriate registry entry.

  20. Re:SHOULD "Apps" Cost Something? on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    If buying a car were like the Apple App Store, you'd hand over the check, take the keys, and drive one block before the engine fell out. Your only option would be to go back and buy another one. This time, when you get in and drive away, the shiny body stays behind and you find out you're really riding a Vespa with flat tires and a leaky gas tank pissing all over your shoes. Or you buy a "1 ton pickup," stop for some groceries on the way home, and the first bag you throw in the bed cracks the body in half.

  21. Re:That's nice.. on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Colony collapse disorder has many, many causes, not just one, but one of those causes is almost certainly the spread of pesticide-producing GM

    Holy [citation needed] Bat-Man!

  22. Re:Speak for yourself on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    (I still say BD isn't gonna make it, they haven't been able to get the price per disc down low enough to make them suitable for small backups or handing out to friends)

    They're down to $1 a disc for 25G BD-R, that's not cheap enough for you? Yeah it's almost twice the price of a DVD+R DL, but it's also nearly 3x the space. The drives are down to about $100 too.

  23. Re:People still use dd-wrt? on Teach Your Router New Tricks With DD-WRT · · Score: 1

    I have a WRT54G v5, dd-wrt micro is the only thing that will fit in the damn flash.

  24. Re:What button to view it in the other IE? on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    Much, much easier than finding the one in iOS Safari.

  25. Re:They all work as fax machines too on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    "Not editable?" Maybe when all fax machines were hard copy, but even the faxmodem I had in 1995 came with software that received the faxes as muti-page 1-bit TIFFs. Where did you get the idea that TIFFs aren't editable?