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  1. Re:Google on TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure · · Score: 1

    While Censorship and restraint are very different issues. One I wish Wikipedia would learn when clicking on various biology articles. Oh I wonder what that illness is (MY EYES!!).

    $ lynx http://enwp.org/Insert_illness_here

  2. Re:Scratch a Liberal, find an Autocrat. on Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Offtopic:this
    ObTopic: new RFC: To perform a (D)DoS, one MUST go through 4chan first.

  3. Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it... on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the 14th amendment fucked that up pretty well... Maybe that's why the tea party wants to repeal it? If so, I'm now even more afraid of them than I already was!

  4. Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it... on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    She was still splitting hairs, I saw the thing. Although "separation" doesn't appear, it's pretty well established. She also asked her opponent what the 14th amendment says... when it's on the Tea Party's platform!

  5. Re:Gnome screensaver config on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was called xscreensaver and it's supposedly still maintained (it's in the Ubuntu repo's anyway).

  6. Re:another Obama disappointment... on EPIC Files Lawsuit To Suspend Airport Body Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    Try Googling "Security theater".

  7. Re:so much for being open on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    How about WiFi tethering (i.e. the phone makes its own WiFi network)?

  8. Re:so much for being open on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    What's more, it's not just wiretapping, but arguably "hacking" laws as well.

  9. Re:I must be missing the point here on Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Is there an actual law on the books somewhere that restricts the sale of 'R' rated movies?

    Fuck no!

  10. Re:No thanks on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    Some frames of the basic captcha looked ridiculously easy to OCR, to my eye at least (letters were cleanly separable).

  11. Re:It Hurts on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    How they managed to lose the war with a very stable ~~25% market share (tilde reduplication intentional) is beyond me.

  12. Re:It Hurts on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    Ability to "tear out" a tab into its own window, and to re-combine tabs into existing windows (Opera, Chrome, IE9).

    Not sure whether that comes with vanilla Firefox, but have a look at this. I'm sure that you can do it in the latest version of Firefox (not beta) with that addon, and possibly without.

  13. Re:It Hurts on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    This. They're supposedly working on other browsers, but for now, Firefox is the only way to get this addon, which is truly marvelous (I'm a student, I would know).

  14. Re:This could be a problem... on Hobbit Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D · · Score: 1

    This is Hollywood! Don't bring "facts" into it!

  15. Re:Wow on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait a minute, have you ever tried to configure gnome-screensaver? They basically removed ~all configuration besides "which screen saver do you want and when do you want it?" It does have better encapsulation than xscreensaver, but ironically enough, all the settings that they nicely encapsulated are now hidden behind various semi-standard text files.

    </rant>
    Gnome != Windows

  16. Re:Use md5 (or something) over the wire on Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial · · Score: 1

    Leaving aside md5 cracks, WTF do you mean by "un-md5 it"? You can't do that!

  17. Re:FUD! on Beware the Garden of Steven · · Score: 5, Funny

    (which I'm sure happens with Linux repos too. I can't imagine they accept any piece of trash "hello world" app just because it was submitted.)

    $ aptitude show hello
    Package: hello
    State: not installed
    Version: 2.4-3 [wtf?]
    [blah blah blah]
    Description: The classic greeting, and a good example
      The GNU hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It allows
      non-programmers to use a classic computer science tool which would otherwise be
      unavailable to them.

      Seriously, though: this is an example of how to do a Debian package. It is the
      Debian version of the GNU Project's `hello world' program (which is itself an
      example for the GNU Project).

  18. Re:Mac... on Beware the Garden of Steven · · Score: 3, Insightful

    * Is it that (you think) root access beat all DRM?

    All DRM is inherently broken, and root access can only make that task easier.

  19. Re:No, google admits to collecting wifi packet dat on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    knowing what local businesses are nearby through the use of a tool: is almost the definition of advertising.

    If I asked for a piece of information and Google responded with exactly the information I wanted, I wouldn't consider the response to be advertising, and I certainly wouldn't be upset about receiving such information (and neither would any reasonable person IMHO).

  20. Re:not really single-player on Blizzard Suing Creators of StarCraft II Hacks · · Score: 1

    So why don't they provide a mechanism to disable the achievements and leave offline single-player intact?

  21. Re:not really single-player on Blizzard Suing Creators of StarCraft II Hacks · · Score: 1

    Do patterns count as cheating? (a pattern is a very precise description of how to win a given level. The PRNG from pacman is seeded with some part of the internal game state, so the game is totally deterministic. Given the low resolution of movements (characters and maps are "blocky" in terms of gameplay), it is possible to determine exactly how to win a level and maximize your score, just by moving the joystick exactly the right way, without even thinking about where pacman is in relation to the ghosts). What about patterns that exploit a certain bug (if pacman and a ghost are in exactly the right positions, it's possible for them to pass through each other)?

  22. Re:Water? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    Do you have any evidence chicken producers do that? A URL or anything?

    What are you, crazy? This is /.!

  23. Re:Lenz v. Universal on Universal Sends DMCA Takedown On 1980 Report · · Score: 1

    Then whoever wrote that DMCA claim is guilty of perjury, or else it isn't a valid (properly written) claim.

  24. Re:This could be a problem... on Hobbit Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D · · Score: 0

    1. Record the Gandalf half of the scene (two cameras)
    2. Record the Bilbo half, on a smaller but identical set (two cameras)
    3. Hollywood Magic (TM)
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

  25. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Well Duh, If you kill all your enemies you can't justify continuing the eternal war

    We have always been at war with Eastasia.