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  1. Re:Crysis? on Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support · · Score: 1

    Some of your optimizations for 64 bit don't carry over to the big chunk of the population still running 32 bit.

    Screw those doofuses. There are few things more retarded than running a 32 bit OS on 64 bit hardware. (Such things include running 64 bit Windows XP on any hardware.)

  2. Re:My Thought Was Similar But Different on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    Yet the value of a gold coin as a currency far exceeds the utility of the constituent gold. Just as the value of a dollar bill as a currency far exceeds the value of the paper it's printed on.

  3. Re:Is this the way we want to go? on US Pays $2B To Develop Concentrating Solar Power Projects · · Score: 1

    No. It wouldn't make sense. The economies of scale just aren't there for distributed generation. It is a libertarian pipe dream.

  4. Re:Good list... on PC Gaming's 10 Commandments · · Score: 1

    ...(annoying, unmoddable) intervace;

    Not quite:

    DarkUI'd DarN
    Toggleable Quantity Prompt

  5. Re:An apology to the international community on First Challenge To US Domain Seizures Filed · · Score: 2

    No. Technical solutions are always superior to legal solutions. The solution is weighted web-of-trust DNS, with a great deal of caching.

  6. My Password dictionary thanks you. on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    My Password dictionary thanks you.

    awk -F '|' '{print $2}' pronz.txt | sort -u >> passwords.txt

  7. Re:Who? on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    Fortunately for us freeloaders, orgasms are fucking awesome. Many people try different things to make their orgasms more frequent, or more awesome. One of these things people do is post video of themselves on the Internet. These people are called 'exhibitionists'.

    The material produced by these 'exhibitionists' is erotically superior to commercially produced pornography, and with the continuous improvement of consumer video equipment, the graphical quality is catching up quickly. Really, the only area where the commercial stuff is still winning is glamor photography. Medium format CCDs are expensive, and in the absence of sound and motion it is difficult to ruin the mood with ridiculous slutty vocalizations or an excess of blowjobs./p.

  8. Re:horseshit on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 1

    Text messages are nearly real-time. More importantly, they are asynchronous, and will eventually get through with even the poorest signal.

  9. Re:Good reason for camera access on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 0

    Or, perhaps, they wanted to leave their work up overnight so that it would be ready in the morning. A PC in a personal office is effectively an single-user machine. It is a reasonable expectation that the UI state doesn't change when one isn't looking. OSs have become stable enough that a single session can reliably continue functioning for weeks. Why would you go and disrupt that?

  10. Re:Note to zee Germans: Jews are not carbon-neutra on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Yes they are. Where, pray tell, does the carbon in the Jews come from?

  11. Re:Yes. on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Or even an underdressed minor in a sexually suggestive pose.

  12. Re:If we didn't have nuclear power, we would be fi on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    the most dangerous substance known to man....

    You should perhaps re-examine the data.

    Botulinum Toxin

  13. Re:Why? Nuclear is the *safest* form of power.. on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    It's okay to make uneducated rural people (probably not) suffer, because there aren't very many of them in the danger zone. Population density they call it.

  14. Re:And it could be even more safe on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Shorter half-life -> more decay events per unit time -> less safe.

  15. Re:Crossley declaired bankrupt on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 2

    The word is comeuppance you dumbass.

  16. Re:I'm a file sharer/downloader on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 1

    Paying to pirate.

    Jdownloader is free. In many cases the captchas have been broken.

  17. Re:Data privacy out the window on Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster · · Score: 1

    example.com -> cloudfire's CDN ssl.example.com -> example.com's authentication server.

    Duh.

  18. Re:long random passwords on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Password reuse. Consider an admin who uses the same password for local root on all Windows XP, Windows 7, and OSX machines in a facility. XP's shitty hashes doom them all. What if that same admin uses the same password for all the managed switches in the building?

  19. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    #! /bin/bash

    # This script generates strong random alphanumeric passwords of specified
    # length.  It takes a single argument: the length of the password to generate.
    #
    # usage:
    #
    #     ./genpass [length]
    #     *wiggle mouse spastically until password is done*
    #
    #
    # This shell script is made availiable under the terms of the GPL, version 3.
    # The full text of this license may be found at gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
    #

    NUM=5;  #generate a 5 character string by default
    if [ -n "$1" ]
    then
        NUM=$1 #first command line argument is the number of characters to generate
    fi

    for (( i=0; i<$NUM; i++ ))
    do
        CHARA=''
        while [ "$CHARA" = '' ] #keep getting characters until one is kept
        do
            #Get a random byte and keep if it's an alphanumeric ASCII code
            #If you want to include other characters, change 'a-z0-9' as desired.
            CHARA=`head -c1 /dev/random | tr -dc a-z0-9`
        done
        #print characters
        echo -n $CHARA
    done

    #print a newline
    echo ''

  20. Re:They forgot the most important feature of all.. on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    At the cost of useful features like wake on lan, and the extra effort of flipping several switches to bring your machine up, you will save a few hundred dollars over the course of your life. Good show.

  21. Re:Questioning the constitutionality... on Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman · · Score: 0

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  22. Re:I tried the roll your own approach... on Are Streaming Media Players a Passing Fad · · Score: 1

    Your PCs don't come out of S3 suspend in 4 seconds? Mine do.

  23. Re:Amazon's next Kindle.. on Are Streaming Media Players a Passing Fad · · Score: 1

    If I hadn't already posted elsewhere in this story to similar effect I'd mod you up.

  24. Re:Are PC's a passing fad too? on Are Streaming Media Players a Passing Fad · · Score: 1

    I somewhat doubt that blueray players are decoding h.264 in software. They are likely using ASICs, in which case they could be dog slow for content in other codecs or if the standard is extended.

  25. Re:Let me explain. on Are Streaming Media Players a Passing Fad · · Score: 1

    Was "Osborne" the early codename for the iMac sitting in front of me right now?

    Ah, yes. The dubious achievement of integrating a $1000 2560x1440 IPS panel with an usable lifespan of at least 10 years and a $600 PC with a useful lifespan of 4. What innovation.