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  1. Re:Simple Solution. on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1

    But a college age kid doing burglary? Yeah, he should know he's doing something stupid.

    If convicted of burglary, yes. But the summary merely states that "he had been charged with burglary".* If I am named as a suspect to a crime in my neighbourhood, and the suspicion is dropped at some later point, I wouldn't like it if someone in HR didn't find the article mentioning that they had found the real criminal.

    *Whether or not he commited the crime may be in the article, but you know we can't read that.

  2. Re:No VGA out? on Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market · · Score: 1

    I find it more likely that Starter edition just won't be on OEM devices with larger screens.

  3. Re:Might wait to see if this turns out to be true on Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market · · Score: 1

    ..when installing Linux on those machines we'll waste much less money on the "Microsoft tax".

    A whitebox doesn't have the MS tax.

  4. Re:lacking info on Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem has become that there is simply nothing left to improve in a typical OS for the vast majority of users.

    "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

  5. Re:What is NASA to Americans? on Obama Taps Charles Bolden To Lead NASA · · Score: 1

    Like others have said, that's not NASA's area of expertise. That's more a job for DARPA, IMHO.

  6. Re:Oh expoitable on Safari 4's Messy Trail · · Score: 1

    The people who make Easylist for Adblock Plus also have a filterset for adult/dating ads.

    Homepage
    Adult/Dating filterset
    MySpace filterset
    RickRoll blacklist
    EasyPrivacy

  7. Re:Old version = old news on Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption · · Score: 2, Funny
    Here's the lynx output:

    The program 'lynx' can be found in the following packages:
    * lynx-cur
    * lynx-cur-wrapper
    Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
    bash: lynx: command not found

  8. Re:Fantastic! on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    My parent's box that I set up a few years ago (no firewall or antivirus, but has Spybot and CCleaner) continues to chug along without complaint.

  9. Re:No plug in support on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Needs to support an Adblock function at the bare minimum before it would be even marginally accepted by the masses.

    You only say that because it's how IE became so popular.~

  10. Re:OKay on Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption · · Score: 3, Informative

    On my Ubuntu boxes, it's already 5.1...

    The fix is in 5.2

  11. Re:Old version = old news on Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption · · Score: 1

    What distro are you using?

  12. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think Tubal-Cain's choice of the spelling on the word implies its disambiguation.

    Or it's a typo.

  13. "That time of year"? on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    Well, it's that time of year again, when the latest version of Ubuntu is released

    You mean Autumn?

  14. Re:hi on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Off Topic.

  15. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    Replicators as in StarTrek, not Replicators as in StarGate.

    I was intentionally being dense.

  16. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd prefer we aviod making Replicaters, thankyouverymuch.

  17. Re:What does this have to do with the Clinton Admi on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 1

    I was a pro-science, anti-science, libertarian...

  18. Re:How about NOT stealing your music? on RIAA Victim Jammie Thomas Gets a New Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Innocent until proven guilty, you know?

    IIRC, that's not applicable in civil cases.

  19. Re:Young lawyer != good lawyer on RIAA Victim Jammie Thomas Gets a New Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Winning this trial would go a long way towards getting both.

  20. Re:Cue Anti-Military Responses on DARPA Shows Off Their Latest Shinies · · Score: 1

    Note how only one theme is dedicated to the creation of more powerful weapons.

    More powerful? I dunno. Will probably be more incapacitating than lethal for some time (only causing skin burns unless you focus it on one spot). But definitely longer range and more accurate.

  21. Re:Even more interesting HIV news on Gene Transfer Immunizes Against Monkey HIV Analog · · Score: 1

    Very interesting, but is the effect permanent (and inheritable)?

  22. Re:that's good news.... on Gene Transfer Immunizes Against Monkey HIV Analog · · Score: 1

    Congresschimp?

    Mozilla's might get some flak from feminists groups for this. It highlighted Congresschimp as being spelled incorrectly, so I opened the context menu to find out what spellcheck thought I was trying to say. After 'Congress chimp' and 'Congress-chimp' is 'Congresswomen' and 'Congresswoman'.

  23. Re:Chose a sense on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 1

    I've been to all 7 but people still think (and teach) that there are 5.

    I consider there to be 6 continents (Eurasia), but I don't dismiss arguments for counting only 4: Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica.

  24. Re:Link is fine, text: on Toshiba Sues Over DVD Patents · · Score: 1

    I've been having trouble burning disc images to Memorex DVDs.

  25. Re:Mostly just for cars on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Apterra's website mentions that it should seat someone 6'1" comfortably. If other cars also have recommended heights, you might have a problem with that.