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  1. Re:Social Engineering skills would be cool on Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills · · Score: 1

    But you have to have social skills in order to understand the conversation enough to point the conversation in your direction.
    Wait, nvm, let me fix myself here:
    you need psychology in order to understand the human mind enough to point the conversation in your direction.
    Looks like I'm covered.

  2. Re:Extracurricular activites on Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills · · Score: 1

    I was a part of a homeschool soccer team, and a couple of other extracurricular co-ops. They are plentiful in Kentucky,USA.

  3. Re:I use Microsoft to fight the evil G$$Gle empire on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    You are totally right. dw is delete word and d482w deletes 482 words! How much more intuitive can you get? (vi/vim rocks!)

  4. Re:I use Microsoft to fight the evil G$$Gle empire on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Converse:
    What about its interface is intuitive?

    Familiar != Intuitive

  5. Re:I use Microsoft to fight the evil G$$Gle empire on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    No I didn't. You missed the sarcasm in mine. Which is probably because both of us forgot the [/sarcasm] tags.

  6. Re:I use Microsoft to fight the evil G$$Gle empire on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not free. The cost of Word was included in the computer price. That is how companies do it. Either MS pays them to in order to sell upgrades at a later point (in which case it was free) or the company buys bulk and puts it on there cheaper than you can, making it look free.

  7. Re:I use Microsoft to fight the evil G$$Gle empire on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where did you find MS Word for free? (I mean, besides torrent sites)
    And when did it's interface become intuitive?

  8. Re:Mod Up on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    There is none. The common term now for people who disagree on green is 'hypocrite' (been called one many times by greenies, usually without reason).

  9. Re:How stupid can I be? on Red Alert 3 Expansion Announced · · Score: 1

    Point taken. And I agree. TF2 and L4D haven't had the huge patches that HL has.

  10. Re:Freedom of Information?? on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    Do you want to access malware? If you do I say give up on your prank/revenge or find some pron sites.

  11. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    That would be the only reason I would do this :D. And of course I would quit my job and flee to Canada next.

  12. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    Your best bet is to make the program dependent on a dongle, and even then there are no guarrantees.

    I can just dd the dongle or disk image it in Windows, and then put that with the torrent.

  13. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    But the pirated software downloader didn't break in. He paid in full for the version that the pirater put up (which is $0). The pirater on the other hand may have broken in, in which case I would say nuke his HDD then his CPU. Good piraters pay for the game.

  14. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    But you could write the software to erase all copies of itself detected on the HDD and attached drives.

  15. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    You are right. People make this mistake a lot. (I live in the USA and am annoyed as much as you are)

  16. Re:Keygens on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    I don't think he reviewed it.

  17. Re:Keygens on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    Ever written a sub-500byte virus? The virus scanners will likely not catch it. Even with a definition (I wrote one such virus and submitted it to AVG. The definition came a couple of days later and only caught a couple of instances. I *did* write it in a cleanroom VM with no internet connection which was running windows over linux to prevent it spreading. As far as I know it never made it out of my jail or AVGs, and even if it did it had no payload)

  18. Re:Keygens on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    Except that ASM in windows is different than in linux. ASM for windows *might* run on linux, but likely not without being recompiled at the very least.

  19. Re:Running as admin is fun on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    True. But imo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root is much less cryptic once you learn it (file-(owner)readwrite-(group)read-(all)read)

  20. Re:Running as admin is fun on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 2, Informative

    And then some parts of the APIs have no docs or at least not ones that tell what a function does.

  21. Re:Running as admin is fun on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    But you can build and store the packages and just reuse. Kernel too in most cases if you use genkernel. If all machines are identical use dd with a large external drive.

  22. Re:Another possibility on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    Well lets look at that. Which torrent sites weren't blocked? Better get started, that list'll take you awhile.

  23. Re:Dear EA on Red Alert 3 Expansion Announced · · Score: 1

    That is true. But a certain plasma cannon with High Traj. is what I was thinking of. (it may not have been mobile, i don't remember)

    Still, there are some pretty huge maps out there. I have also made my own (pretty much blank slate huge) maps for play with friends.

  24. Re:How stupid can I be? on Red Alert 3 Expansion Announced · · Score: 1

    Ever debugged huge games? I didn't think so. Try debugging S.C.O.U.R.G.E. or Spring.

  25. Re:Dear EA on Red Alert 3 Expansion Announced · · Score: 1

    Not so. How big is the avg. US Military Artillery Unit. Now how far is its range?

    Seriously. Spring has SupCom beat because of easy SatView switching via [Tab], but other than that they are about even, besides the fact that SupCom is prettier