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  1. Huh...Initial impression is a little coredumpish.. on AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors · · Score: 0
    So I go to see the list of features via the above "nice list of benefits" link and...

    A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "". Database returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (localhost)".

    I am always a little more comfortable with something that will be in the guts of my systems if my very first exposure doesn't include a big fat oops.

  2. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 1

    In a Time of Universal Confusion, telling things clearly is a Revolutionary Act

    lollll...unless, of course, you're a politician - in which case telling things clearly would be a betrayal of your species.

  3. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 0

    Rather than extend this thread and have more people wasting mod points modding down, let me just say that rather than "Sounds like you're confused.", you might have tried "I wasn't clear; although I said 'bad guys' and so implied the existence of 'good guys', that was not my intent." Seems a bit more efficient than assuming that the reader counts telepathy among their skills.

    Over and out.

  4. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 2

    Might, perhaps, have been best to leave out the adjective "bad", which implies the existence of "good" and so leads those of us who are foolish enough to take someone literally into hypothesizing the existence of an anode in their cathode-only universe.

  5. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Interesting ego you have there. I bet you have to feed it a lot.

  6. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sounds like you're confused.

    Long as you're aware that someone competent that has uberhardware - much of which is not even available on the open market - is tracking you.

    By the way: Did you observe how I did that without incorporating a juvenile insult?

  7. Re:There are better ways to spend your money on Crowdsourcing Radiation Monitoring In Japan · · Score: 1

    Removes the dependency upon the government...interpretation...of the numbers, though. That alone is worth the price of admission, for what you learn from Japan applies to your own nation, should you have a nuclear facility - or if the neighbors do.

  8. Sorry about looking at the woman's butt, honey.... on Easily Distracted People May Have 'Too Much Brain' · · Score: 1

    "It was totally unintentional; my superabundance of grey matter causes me to be easily distracted." (Likely followed by the sound of frying pan meeting grey matter.)

  9. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 2

    I don't drink the kool-aid, but between privoxy and tor you can certainly avoid being tracked by all but the most devoted bad guys. However, if someone competent is targeting you specifically you're screwed no matter what you use, unless you're an uberhacker with access to some heavy hardware.

    Didn't you know? Is "the good guys" doing the most tracking these days.

    lolll..and as a rule you're paying them to watch you.

  10. I put those two bits of information together and.. on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 2
    When I put

    Parliament Member Melissa Lee stand up to speak in favor of the bill

    with

    hours after tweeting how she was enjoying a compilation of music put together for her by a friend

    I get "Just doing what she is told to do without knowing or even asking why."

    I.e., a good little corporate soldier.

  11. Here comes another business opportunity... on White House To Drop Details of Cyber ID On Tax Day · · Score: 1

    Like freedom? Don't like being under Big Brother's thumb? Dump the Internet, and catch a ride on the Internet's competition, the *Internot!!

    (*Yeah, stupid name...but Alternet and Outernet are taken.)

  12. Water... on Researchers Build Wearable Generators · · Score: 1

    Could see setting ribbons of the things fluttering in ocean currents and rivers...somewhat less harmful to the fish, I reckon; they've dealt with fluttering seaweed a lot longer than they have turbine blades.

  13. Re:PDF Files? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    lolll...make that "disposition".

  14. Re:PDF Files? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    I think PDF in 1869 meant "Patient Dispensation: Fatality".

  15. Too hard... I want to take the one... on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Dubya took.

  16. Re:Seriously, use a North Korean based mail host on Ask Slashdot: What Country Has the Best Email Privacy Laws? · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected; use the RNC email servers, instead.

  17. Re:Seriously, use a North Korean based mail host on Ask Slashdot: What Country Has the Best Email Privacy Laws? · · Score: 1

    lolll...guess I should have expanded all of the comments. Your idea is essentially the same as mine, giving yours the marks for originality.

  18. Might be a good start-up idea for the PRC on Ask Slashdot: What Country Has the Best Email Privacy Laws? · · Score: 1

    You know the People's Republicans of China are going to read your email, but would they share with any other government? Doubtful.

  19. I couldn't help but start laughing... on Threatening YouTube Video Lands Man In Prison · · Score: 1

    ...when I noted that none of the comments contain an assertion that Cantor is not pure evil.

  20. Re:Twitter..gossip for the technology age on 50% of Tweets Consumed Come From .05% of Users · · Score: 1

    lolll..thanks, but I get my weather from Wunderground on their sidebar gadget and from Forecast Fox in Firefox.

    Don't figure I need alerts to my cell, 'cuz when I'm dependent upon it I'm out in the weather.

  21. Twitter..gossip for the technology age on 50% of Tweets Consumed Come From .05% of Users · · Score: 2

    Twitter, to me, is just the combination of one fairly new concept - cell phone texting - and one old and antiquated concept - the POTS "party line". Consequently it takes interpersonal gossip and makes it broadcast gossip..

    The only thing I want to read in 140 words or less is the weather.

  22. Re:Alright! Since we're on the subject of energy.. on Browser Power Consumption Compared · · Score: 1

    Good to know that you're willing to rule out electric/battery, hydrogen, and fuel cell-powered cars as well as electric trains, buses, and other forms of mass transportation.

    Of course I should have clued in to your superior knowledge and ability to predict the future from the fact that you chose to use two words to inject your personality into your comment instead of one.

  23. Re:Good training for space travel? on Does 3D Make Your Head Happy Or Ache? · · Score: 1

    On a more serious note, I figured that since acid can result in mental activity - visual and auditory perception - that is unsupported by sensory input....

  24. Re:Good training for space travel? on Does 3D Make Your Head Happy Or Ache? · · Score: 1

    While I do sometimes feel slightly disoriented when tripping very hard (upwards of 4 moderate to strong tabs at once), it's nowhere near the level of bad I feel when I'm sea-sick, or watching something in fake-3D (which for me are sadly similar experiences).

    Which begs the question: Did you really write that, or are you currently having a conversation with the potted palm in the corner?

  25. Good training for space travel? on Does 3D Make Your Head Happy Or Ache? · · Score: 1

    The issue, doctors say, is that 3D works by tricking the brain into making you think you are physically moving in relation to your surroundings. But you aren't. So your inner ear is not experiencing the movement that corresponds to what the eyes are seeing.

    Seems like learning to handle confusion between what your eyes see and your inner ear experiences would be good training for space travel and free fall...maybe even for boating on the rollickin' ocean waves.

    Or for traveling via lysergic acid diethylamide.