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  1. Re: Just What the Government Wants - Backdoors on Backdoor Account Found On Devices Used By White House, US Military (sec-consult.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 to you if I had the points.

  2. Par for the course at this point.

  3. Home solution on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    pfSense + snort.

  4. Re:CEOs are overrated on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Hipsters? I thought they were called iSheep. Meh, whatever.

  5. Re:Run your own servers and use encryption on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Skip the "cloud" and run your own solution.

  6. Sequel!? on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO · · Score: 1

    Sounds like there will be a sequel to "The Social Network". That should make Hollywood happy.

  7. Triumph on US Begins Sophisticated Wireless Jamming Project · · Score: 1

    So DIS is what killed off all those birds and fish in Arkansas. I keed! I keed!

  8. Keep it simple... on Android vs. iPhone — Who Wins In 2011? · · Score: 1

    "Droid Does"

  9. Re:Why? on USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s · · Score: 1

    It's this little processor known as 'The Cell'. Google it.

  10. Re:There is still long way to go on The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...most of the displays you see on walls in buildings are Windows.

    Yep. Don't forget about this incident! http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting

  11. Re:Food? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    Now for my shameless plug,

    Watch PBS this Wed. night at 7pm CST for a show called "Food, Inc." It's an excellent movie and yes, it will piss you off even further about Monsanto and their practices.

    http://www.foodincmovie.com/

  12. Re:gangstas on Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Leeeeeeeroooooooy Jjjjenkins!

    So do think that real life 'ganstas' have nerds that compute the "percentage of survival" if they do a drive by shooting?

    "Uhhhhh yeah, gimme a sec...I'm coming up with 32.33 uh repeating of course"

  13. Re:When are people going to learn to NOT buy Sony? on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 1

    After seeing this headline, I figured that Sony was just using this as a ploy to recoup some of the massive losses they've taken in the manufacturing-to-sales of the PS3 itself.

  14. Here's how you fix that Steve... on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Developers! Developers! Developers!

  15. Re:What about their business plan? on British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids · · Score: 1

    XENU!? Is that really you!?

  16. Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? on Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    If the D.O.D. (5220.22-M) recommends 3 passes and the NSA recommends 7 passes, then why should anyone believe this statement?

  17. Re:Firefox performance boost on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure why it isn't turned on by default.

    I use proxies at both home and work. I've used this performance tweak with my online banking sessions at home and I haven't had an issue with it yet.

    This tweak was posted for power users to consider. Try it and see what you think. I'm not implying in any way that all users should do this...just those that want to get better performance out of FF.

  18. Re:Firefox performance boost on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 1

    Did you even look at the article?

    The concept of Google must be above and beyond both Aunt Sally, Cousin Joe, and quite possibly, yourself.

    I simply added a performance tip and your all up in arms about the documentation for it. Start reading and perhaps your find what your looking for.

    If you insist on knowing how I found out about "about:config", I was annoyed at web address bar and the search results that it was displaying when I typed an address in. I simply Googled it and wouldn't you believe it! I found a story telling me how to shut off the "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults". It's set to 12 by default. I simply set mine to -1 and it's gone. THAT is how I found out about it.

    Aunt Sally, I don't think would ever know or care about it. But, if I said so for her to run it, that would be because she asked me what I run for a browser and I told her it was Firefox and she wanted to run the same thing. As for Cousin Joe, he'd probably start by looking for it. It's not that difficult really.

  19. Re:Firefox performance boost on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 3, Informative
  20. Firefox performance boost on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try this, Firefox users.

    Here's a way to speed up your Firefox and make it MUCH MUCH faster.

    1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter.

    2. In the filter field, find and alter the entries as follows:

    Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
    Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

    Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

    3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

    Enjoy!

  21. Re:Not news on Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates · · Score: 1

    I agree. Why is this newsworthy? Six days after the RC goes public, someone DIDN'T read the notice before the download so they decided to post this info?

  22. Re:Know your enemy. on The Making of the PlayStation · · Score: 1

    Nintendo might be selling consoles, but they aren't selling games.

    Wait until June 23rd and then we'll see what happens. 'The Conduit' is released that day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conduit

  23. Lame... on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    What the hell!? So this guy likes to work on PCs and has 2 of his own and then they [cops] see him with "unknown machines" and he's committing a crime...!? How lame and yet it's our tax money at work. Unforetunately, (if I'm not mistaken) most campus cops are 'state deputies'. I know this as I challenged one of them before for running a stop sign and getting a ticket for it. $15 for the fine but $18 for the processing. What a bunch of crap! It must have pissed him off enough for him to give me the ticket.

  24. Re:Use a tank on Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin · · Score: 1

    Wow...you obviously haven't seen Storm Chasers then. They shot footage in our city with an IMAX camera. Go watch the show.

  25. Re:Use a tank on Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They do have a vehicle for that. It's called the TIV or Tornado Intercept Vehicle. I live in the Midwest (one of the states mentioned above) and we heard (and saw) that the TIV was passing by last May when a F2 tornado tore through city. If your curious, the vehicle is featured on a show called Storm Chasers on Discovery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle