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  1. News for Nerds on Skype Makes U.S. Retail Debut · · Score: 1

    m'kay

  2. Re:tin, pfft on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 1

    It's informative because if you want to block radio waves, lead is the way to go. And I have direct experience that it works in the field against people trying to detect you.

    And I'll add in that my shoplifting was politically motivated. Stealing from the vivisectors & arms mongers was my civil disobedience.

    OBEY CONSUME DIE

  3. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    You have inserted the word "consumer"

  4. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    >heh.. because OS count is irrelevant.

    it is in this thread

    "Every modern OS has one built in."

    not desktop OS or installed OSes

    "modern OS"

  5. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    go on then, list theses (modern) "consumer OSes" and their built in web browsers

    Mac & Windows have already been listed

  6. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    you are confusing OS count with installed base

  7. Re:Great image for the FOSS movement on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 1

    A movement led by immature pranksters. Is that the image we want?

    yes

  8. tin, pfft on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 5, Informative

    lead is the only way to go

    I used to use a anti-xray film bag for shoplifting, works a treat

  9. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    no, that's exactly NOT what I meant

    and that's not what anyone would mean when they say "the majority of OSes"

  10. Re:Not Intel's fault; Microsoft's fault. c.f. Linu on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 1

    you do know that windows has priority levels too ?

  11. Breaking the EULA ? on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought you couldn't report any performance issues of MS SQL Server :)

  12. Re:Should we turn it off in PCs? on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 1

    What was the difference when you tried ?

  13. Re:The Truth about the "great scam" + clarificatio on The Deadly Dollar of Eve Online · · Score: 1

    Fantastic story, worthy of a book !

    I'm not an Eve player, though my friends and I did contemplate it pre-launch.

    Absolutely terrible to be on the receiving end, mind you.
    What I've not seen anywhere (and I haven't looked very hard) is what was the post-heist response of Mirial to her downfall.

    The real psychological effect must have been depressing. Try explaining that one to your shrink!

    any links ?

  14. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    oh yeah, i forgot about that. You have to install it in FreeBSD.

  15. Re:AJAX and Comet on Another Belated Microsoft Memo · · Score: 1

    You didn't NEED those, you CHOSE those

    You could have used Javascript in the client AND the server if you decided to.

    But anyway, boo hoo, so what ?

  16. Re:Huh! and is MS to be blamed for that?? on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Every modern OS has one built in.

    That's not true.

    Mac & Windows have them built in, but they are a minority.

    Which, pray, is the built in Web Browser for OpenBSD 3.8 ?

    How about Solaris 10 ?

    What Media Player does FreeBSD ship with ?

  17. Re:"underpants"? on 802.11 for Linux Non-Geeks? · · Score: 1

    > How are we supposed to communicate if you keep making crap up?

    Sorry I don't understand you.

    Perhaps you meant "making up crap" ?

  18. Re:Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL? on Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    > but with Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0, sites are now just as secure as a Linux and Apache setup.

    that isn't saying much, privilege escalation problems appear regularly for both systems

    root/administrator is a design fault, no amount of patching will ever get round that one

  19. Re:Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL? on Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    suexec

    each virtual host is assigned it's own user

    for a while there it sounded like you knew what you were talking about

  20. Re:Cheeky government on Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 · · Score: 1

    bah, my bad, that'll teach me to get my news from the front pages in the newspaper section of my local tesco express

  21. agghh my eyes on The Deadly Dollar of Eve Online · · Score: 1

    i'm white on black blind

  22. Re:Cheeky government on Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 · · Score: 1

    The licence fee is being doubled, it's a criminal offence not to have one and get *any* TV. Though old-age pensioners get them for free.

    The "subsidy" is for the retooling of the transmission equipment.

  23. Re:Buwahahaha! on The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved · · Score: 1

    yay for the obligatory spelling error

    s/insure/ensure/

  24. Re:Holographic? on Turner Testing Holographic Storage · · Score: 1

    what speed electrons ?

  25. Re:Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL? on Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL · · Score: 0

    your webhosts are losers, time to move on