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  1. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The proper response? Bill Toyota right back for each and every takedown.

  2. Re:Just in time on OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work from explorer rather than from OpenOffice. A sever delay when I double click something is a royal pain. This is the same reason Adobe Reader sucks.

  3. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand on Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net · · Score: 1

    Left wing has a tendency to write laws as a solution to problems. Need I remind you which president signed the DMCA?

  4. Re:Nice form factor but... on Plastic Logic E-Newspaper · · Score: 1

    Somebody mod this man up!

  5. Re:Actual Red URL on RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is what's the yield on the 617 sensor? 1 for every 100 wafers? It almost sounds like vaporware as even most incredibly expensive 6x6 backs actually use a 4x4 sensor.

  6. Re:Vaporware technology on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    At least they aren't claiming to separate the traces to sell by mass spectrometry.

  7. Re:Does anyone use this OS any more? on Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making · · Score: 1

    It may help though that you don't have to be independently wealthy to teach yourself Unix administration these days. I'll bet that the amateur Linux admins who know their way around /etc far outweighs the amateur windows admins who can figure out on their own what registry key they need to tweak to get the job done when they can't sift through enough trash returns on Google.

  8. Re:Encryption on Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use · · Score: 1

    You verify them against the first copy of the certificate you receive?

  9. Re:Nope, there isn't. on Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? · · Score: 1

    You could play around with the Wiimote hacks and see if you can use the retroreflective finger tip thing. At least those could be made disposable.

  10. Re:At last! on Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code · · Score: 1

    I find console commands are almost easier to talk someone through over the phone than digging 5 layers deep into some menus I can't see. That said my parents are unusually technically apt.

  11. Re:Not many options on Low-Bandwidth, Truly Remote Management? · · Score: 1

    With that kind of round trip even a console's going to be disorienting. I think alot of us are dependent on immediate feedback to spot our typos as we make them.

  12. Re:Not many options on Low-Bandwidth, Truly Remote Management? · · Score: 1

    I thought NoMachine worked in precisely these kinds of situations.

  13. Re:Useful Idiots on How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes · · Score: 1

    Actually I know alot of people who seem to believe the party packages. That said I live in California so this may not be indicative of places in the country people have more sense than money.

  14. Re:Not exactly true on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    Similar thought is why the voting age is now 18. It used to be higher but people got real pissed when they could get drafted for a war they couldn't have voted for.

  15. Re:As always with DRM on Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ · · Score: 1

    I was assuming there might be an accidental vulnerability in at least one player. Although said vulnerability might involve buying the player and hacking out the ROM chips to dump with a PC. The point of this isn't to have software that's actually legal, but to force the BD guys to permanently screw their own adoption by creating incompatibility with early players.

  16. Re:dupe on MBR Trojan Approaching the 3-Year Mark · · Score: 1

    So you build a bootable read only disk and scan from outside the OS. I suppose being effective is less important than "easy" for these vendors.

  17. Re:As always with DRM on Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So what you do is shotgun it. You hack away at memory until you find the player key for every software player you can, and see if you can get a few hardware player keys while your at it. You then build a failover into your code so they have to disable play on a significant useful fraction of the players out there in order to keep you from copying a disk.

  18. if(isroot = 1){ on Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this remind anyone else of the time someone tried to replace a conditional with an assignment and check it into the linux kernel to make a trigerable security hole?

  19. Re:Of course they should concentrate on the server on Shuttleworth Says Canonical Is Not Cash-Flow Positive · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always thought the commercial should go something like:

    Hello I'm a Mac.

    And, I'm a PC. And so is he. And so is that guy with the beard over there.

    Hi, I'm a Linux box.

    In fact my buddies the server and the workstation are PC's too. Even this little guy.

    Hi, I'm a netbook!

    Is a PC.


    Of course it's more of an Intel commercial than an MS one.

  20. Re:Usability Glitch? on Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes · · Score: 1

    If you're making a deposit you might.

  21. Re:It's too bad on Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter push or pull, the one providing data is uploading to the one acquiring data. The one acquiring data is downloading from the one providing data. Most file sharers are doing both simultaneously.

  22. Re:Improper disclosure? on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 1

    If he could do it with his own password I'd argue he WAS authorized. He shouldn't have been, but he was.

  23. Re:Agreed, Very Interesting repercussions on Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit · · Score: 1

    Hawking explosion?

  24. Re:Umm... on White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches · · Score: 1

    It'll kick ass in a place like Colorado Springs though.

  25. Re:Insightful my ass! on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    Switching to another distro is likely to be a mixed bag. If the problem is in the underlying components then everybody using them in their distro should be slow.