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  1. Re:stupid on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    Would have been slightly better if he was shoving a Verizon phone instead of an AT&T.

  2. Re:Should have geeked it out on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 1

    So that's ASCII...but half hex and half decimal? That's not geek, that's confusing!

  3. Someone who has nothing better to do... on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    Someone who has nothing better to do should grab all the flash forwards, flash backwards, and plot and re-edit them into chronological order. That would be an interesting watch. You know what? I'd even like to try watching a version of the series with no flash-anywheres. Just the people on the island. Sure, the whole series might only last 2 hours that way. But I would watch it.

  4. Re:A disappointment... Only if you let it. on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    In other words, let's hope that in 20 years, Abrams doesn't decide to do a 6-season prequel and re-release the original show with re-written pieces of storyline.

  5. Re:Lazy, lazy writing on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    I agree with every bit. That ending was so tacked on it wasn't even funny. They clearly had a whole different intent for the flash-sideways.

  6. Re:Easy answer. on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    Are you getting Bob Denver confused with John Denver? Or do you know more of his personal life than most people?

  7. Re:6th season was unnecessary... on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    Polar bears is sort of answered twofold, though not directly. One, the DHARMA people probably brought them over to experiment with. There are cages for them where Sawyer and Kate are held by the Others. Two, the magnetic pockets across the earth and are connected to each other. Similar to how Ben ended up in Tunisia after turning the wheel. Perhaps a polar bear wandered into a similar arctic pocket. I would side more with the DHARMA explanation, since they did experiment on them.

  8. Re:Mumbo Jumbo on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    Don't act like that was just the finale. The whole series has had religious references from all world religions:

    http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Religion_and_ideologies

  9. Re:Just pull the battery out! on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Last time I powered off it was because the OS froze. A hard power off is holding the home and sleep button for 10 seconds.

  10. Re:It's not really that uniquely identifying... on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    The article describes data that isn't gathered in Apache's logs. Things that can only be found through CSS, Javascript or Flash tricks. Screen resolution, Flash Version, installed fonts, visited web sites (in certain versions of Firefox, at least).

  11. Re:Just pull the battery out! on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Sure, why not? You think the flash chip will be erased by a little sledgehammer force? But seriously, it does take forever to turn an iPhone/iPod Touch off the proper way. It's holding down two buttons for 10 full seconds before it even responds to the request. Airplane mode would be quicker on an iPhone.

  12. Re:damn. on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Then the IP address is enough identifying information. This article would be irrelevant.

  13. Just pull the battery out! on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't waste a moment waiting on the phone to power down on its own.

  14. Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's what I get for responding too quickly. You're totally right.

  15. Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly what I was implying (see up-thread).

  16. Re:Legacy be damned. on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    While it's true that FAT32 with 4K cluster size is limited to 2TB, Windows XP defaults to NTFS which can go MUCH higher than 100TB.
     
    LBA also uses 4K sectors, and that's how the BIOS and Windows address the disk. That's as high as you can go with the current implementation of LBA and it goes much deeper than partitioning.

  17. Re:Everything old is new again. And again. And aga on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It's not a filesystem problem, it's an LBA problem.

  18. Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Informative

    And if their sectors don't fall on a physical boundary, then you've just used 8KB on the physical drive.

  19. Re:Hypocrisy on Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates · · Score: 1

    But we're still stuck with the DMCA. So modifying without distributing just to make something work right is still illegal.

  20. Re:Duke Nukem Forever Released on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    You have been lied to. Visit obmoz.com for re-education.

  21. Re:Of course it's hype, just SHARPer :-) on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    That's how they do native-24, unless you buy a screen that can't be used to watch normal TV (720p @ 30fps). Each movie frame is shown for 5 tics of 120Hz. I think you're getting confused between 120Hz as a refresh rate and 120Hz as used with motion interpolation.

  22. Re:FCC, FDA, etc on FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs · · Score: 1

    Wait...you must be new here. There you go, just properly using the word "cue." And no confusion with the word queue spawning a long thread of grammar nazis. I'm not sure what's going on here.

  23. Re:Start Navigation Sound on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    What really annoys me is the recorded "shutter" sound that cheap digital cameras play when you take a picture. Actually, I think a lot of people think that sound is real. But it doesn't actually go off right when the picture is captured, so it's quite misleading. Not to mention it doesn't change based on shutter speed.

  24. Re:My personal favorite on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    Then why can't these IP's start with 10.
     
    It's a reserved address space similar to 555.

  25. Re:Make lemonade on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 1

    With enough memory as a requirement, you could forego swap altogether.