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  1. Simple step to doulbe the speed of chrome... on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Install and run NoScript.

    Honestly, 90% of the websites out there are written by morons. Their javascript and flash are so convoluted and a mess that it even causes lockups on the browser.

    Even slashdot has far too much JS in it for what the site is presenting.

  2. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Mostly because of double digit inflation that they will not admit to.

  3. Re:This looks like gross error on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: 2

    Did you even look at the video? It's obvious that there was an engine failure that also caught fire. it was probably laterally thrusting while it was burning.

  4. Re:Lets Speculate on Apple Files Trademark For "iWatch" In Japan · · Score: 1

    Because he expects to use it the same as a tablet. Lots of very wierd people with uneducated expectations in the tech world today.

    I dont want ANY touch on it at all. give me 4 buttons two on each side.

  5. Re:Not for hourly workers they don't. on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 4, Informative

    too bad you do not work in a state that protects workers. here you document your time and turn it in to the labor board. They get fined and forced to pay you 2X your pay for that missing time. they CAN NOT LEGALLY make you clock out to be searched by security.

  6. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's called money management. You don't go and burn it all as soon as you get paid.

  7. Re:Surpassing Vista on Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share · · Score: 2

    "Unless you are a volume license customer, coming up with a copy of Win7 that passes activation is your problem"

    no it's not. In fact Windows 7 is easier to deal with in this regard compared to windows XP and Vista. just find an OEM disc, then use one of the windows loader variants to crack the OEM crud. after that you can automate a keychanger to use your legal key and get around all the garbage for activation.

    I have made several automatic install disks that do all of this for me from a DELL OEM windows 7 professional DVD

  8. Re:Surpassing Vista on Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share · · Score: 1

    "More to the point, how long do you suppose WE the users can hold out until Windows 9?"

    Scumbag hardware makers are your problem. if you cant get Win7 drivers it is because the hardware maker was a scumbag and set the minimum OS id at Win8. the underlying kernel and driver substructure is 100% identical for Vista, Win7,Win8.

    That would be the only reason to switch. to prolong your windows 7 bliss, research any hardware you buy for the next 4 years to make sure that windows 7 drivers exist.

  9. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1

    Recent? I have had Dell laptops with that for 3 years now.

  10. Re:sounds reasonable on Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    WE are talking about a moving magnetic field, that much particle matter drags a LOT of magnetic field effects with them.

  11. Stupid as hell. on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    Grandstanding and penis waving by prosecutors trying to get as much publicity as possible out of this.

    This is not a trial for justice, it's a freaking side show and is already going off the rails.

  12. Re:Tea, Earl Grey, hot. on Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    Then just replicate farmers.. DUH!

  13. Re:sounds reasonable on Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    Feel free to make a coil of wire and then run a magnet through it while you touch the ends to your toungue.

    I suggest wrapping about 50 feet of a single internal wire of cat 5 around a piece of PVC and then pass a magnet through it back and forth rapidly.

    Electricity 050 introduction to wires level of stuff.

  14. Re:Micrometeorites on Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields · · Score: 2

    And you realize that Voyager 1 and 2 are frigging miracles that they are still alive after making it through the Oort Cloud and the trashbin that is our interplanetary space.

  15. Used Disentegrator L@@K RARE! on PayPal Spaces Out With Paypal Galactic · · Score: 1

    Used only once on Omicron Persie 8, Reactor still holds 80% charge, rarely tries to go critical. Scratches from holster on the sides.

    AS-IS only ships to verified Paypal planets.

  16. Re:Which is why.... on Black Hat Talks To Outline Attacks On Home Automation Systems · · Score: 1

    And nobody... NOBODY uses it. 99.97% of all installs are hard wired.

    Want to try again and look through their catalog to see what else you can bring up?

  17. Re:Skype NSA surveillance from Microsoft on Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors After NSA Documents Leak · · Score: 1

    Want secure skype?

    SIP software, point to point VPN. Good luck NSA decoding that encrypted tunnel.

  18. Re:Abandoning the cloud ? on Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors After NSA Documents Leak · · Score: 1

    Anyone that has a secure network does just that.

    It's not fear, it's trust. and no, I do not TRUST the cloud with things that if they are lost I lose money. Only a complete fool would trust another company with their critical data and a TOS that says ,"we are not liable"

  19. Anything to PROVE it's the one? on Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly if it does not have the full paperwork and possibly all the actors signing the lid back then, it could be ANY Altair8080

  20. Re:Sometimes less "tech" really is better. on Black Hat Talks To Outline Attacks On Home Automation Systems · · Score: 1

    wonderfully said by a poor plebe that can ever afford it. I love how you guys seethe hate.
    And yes full, real home automation DOES make your life better.

  21. Which is why.... on Black Hat Talks To Outline Attacks On Home Automation Systems · · Score: 1

    Only the low end stuff for home automation uses Z-wave.

    AMX and Crestron dont.

  22. Re:My reccomendation. on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    Yes you can, and again only a moron would say " I have a list of your dead...." In state of emergency situations HIPPA does not apply.

    sending a list of names and their status at a location is normal and happens all the time in EOC.

  23. Re:Opening up HR to https will save it on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    You think that is magic.... While camping talk to the guys on the ISS in realtime while you track the ISS by hand with a portable yagi. THAT one kicks the crud out of anything anyone can do on the internet.

    I just wish there was more 2meter sideband activity out there. ICOM and other manufacturers fault for only selling FM handhelds.

  24. Re:Encryption is the way forward on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    Thank you mister FUD. Do you have anything else for our daily dose of Fear and Misinformation?

  25. My reccomendation. on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    NO. Never, do not allow it.

    Their argument that "it is needed" for emergency situations is bovine fecies.. this is the WORST time to obscure your communications.

    The ham bands are not for private communication. I hope the FCC does not let these fools ruin ham radio.