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  1. Re:Modded Funny but not a Joke on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    The problem starts when people start "photoshopping" with GIMP and Corel (if that is still around), so it is a somewhat valid concern.

  2. Re:Yep, The Best! on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Not shipping?

  3. Modded Funny but not a Joke on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 4, Informative

    just to clarify that they aren't kidding

  4. Re:Knowing how PC the US is these days... on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    Look at the hand

  5. Never on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 3, Funny

    My boss however *only* does coding tricks. And he puts them in one big 1k line function.

    And is proud of it.

  6. Re:Do you have non anecdotal evidence? on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    So maybe it's time for both kernel developers and distribution packagers to focus a little bit more on which hardware users are buying.

    Which is not multi (4+) core servers, but rather cheap laptops and netbooks.

    And, anyway, lower power consumption and better efficiency will probably also benefit the "big iron".

    Chrome OS to the rescue.

    Sadly, I suspect it will be the only rescue.

  7. Re:Chromium Not Chrome on Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit · · Score: 1

    I use this version and don't experience any problems with flash. Although I miss some plugins from firefox, chromium is much faster and I use it as my primary browser.

  8. Re:Counterintuitive conclusions on Obstacles Near Emergency Exits Speed Evacuation · · Score: 1

    It's shocking that anyone in this day and age still finds it surprising when scientific experiments produce counterintuitive results.

    I bet your intuition was different.

  9. Re:Oh no! on Irish ISP To Block Access To Pirate Bay · · Score: 1
  10. Re:pwned on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    It factors in when comparing defects in a products total lifetime.

  11. Re:pwned on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    Be careful when comparing Linux and Windows

    Kernel 2.0, which I wouldn't pitch as a secure software product anyways, was introduced in 1997. Windows 2000 Server on the other hand was introduced three years later.

    It is also worth noting that Kernel 2.6 was introduced in 2004 and Windows Server 2008 four years later.

  12. Re:Major Disapppointment on Google Previews New Search Infrastructure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My head is fine without any tinfoil, thank you. I have much personal information on google and don't care much about anonymity. I often use my real name on the Internet (maybe even here someday).

    But I know that difference of using a site that says "I promise you anonymity" and Tor.

  13. Re:Major Disapppointment on Google Previews New Search Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Again, with this approach you have to trust some invisible code running on a foreign machine.

  14. Re:Major Disapppointment on Google Previews New Search Infrastructure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seem to equate "features" with quality of the search engine.

    Some value

    - speed
    - a clean interface and
    - relevance of the search results (which can be improved by analyzing my previous searches)

    If you want to surf the web anonymously, use TOR. Trusting the site saying "we don't have server logs, PROMISE" is silly.

  15. Re:Major Disapppointment on Google Previews New Search Infrastructure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when is "putting cruft on search results page so that it is barely usable" and "not implementing sessions and cookies" evolution? Google won because it was nice and clean compared to altavista and yahoo.

  16. Re:more interesting hack hinted at in last paragra on The iPhone SMS Hack Explained · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He didn't prove anything, he was just guessing that sending 500 malformed SMS messages *could* affect the towers negatively and the carriers probably wouldn't like that.

  17. Re:Open source on XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected · · Score: 1

    I agree that if these vulnerabilities have been found with fuzzing tools, they would have been detected just as easy in closed source software. But they could have crafted the input data a little according to the structure of the parser code.

    But yes, you are right, I was basically backtrolling a troll and it shouldn't be modded up..

  18. Re:Open source on XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected · · Score: 3, Informative
  19. Re:Midwinter for Amiga on From Doom To Dunia — the History of 3D Engines · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of Stunts 4D from 1990. Boy did I have fun with this game as a kid.

  20. Re:Crazy people on English DJ Claims Wi-Fi Allergy · · Score: 1

    Thanks for finally explaining the CRT noise. Always wondered where that came from.

  21. Re:A browser ballot is stupid on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 1

    How do you call the economic system that allows people to trade goods without government regulation?

  22. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    So cursive isn't really superior, it is just mandated by law in your case. The mandated security practices are even worse than say digitally signed documents.

    I also don't really see why the Unicode- or ASCII-standard would change in 70 years. It's been around since the 1960s.

  23. Re:don't believe it on Artificial Brain '10 Years Away' · · Score: 1

    It took evolution millions of years before any organisms could just walk

    So what does Asimo tell you about human ingenuity?

  24. Re:DotA - fun game, horrible community on New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client · · Score: 1

    Get hamachi, mumble, a headset and play with your mates

  25. Re:100% off topic - a small complaint on BT Drops Phorm, Citing More Pressing Priorities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That firehose thingy has a few dozen submissions, but hitting the "+" doesn't really do anything.