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  1. Re:Flash for the iPhone WHEN??? on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    I've heard some rumors that Steve himself is responsible for the exploit ;-)

  2. Re:Google is Big Brother on China Criticizes Google's "US Ties" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, or like people who think the moon landing actually happened... Heh, those idiots.

  3. Re:Not a flaw in the system on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 1

    If a call involved a fall of more than 6 feet it was designated a lower priority 'category B response' despite the presence of life-threatening conditions which were supposed to receive the most urgent category A response.

    Even if other factors should have given the situation an A level, it would be B because the fall wasn't "high enough". That's the flaw in the system here, if I understand the article correctly.

  4. Re:Well... on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    I guess you're right, then... *stares at blackboard for five seconds* naah, on to Slashdotting

  5. Re:And they call it... on Quantum Encryption Implementation Broken · · Score: 1

    Until you check your terminal, it's both broken...and it isn't... You both have the plaintext, and you don't...

  6. Re:careful what you wish for on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    There are options for extra legs, a second tail, and (however quite expensive) an extra head. By the way, you can get AppleCare for your iPony too. And, obviously, if you teach it things that Apple didn't want it to know, AppleCare is revoked (but you can unteach it so they don't notice) and the next firmware update for your iPony will kill it right away... A few years later, Apple will be sued and forced to release iPony firmware update release code, to see if that was on purpose.

  7. Re:Solve this on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, that works for math too, in a metaphorical way of "taking some" and for "the day after" you read "until the day after" ;-)

  8. Re:Windows Upgrades on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's what everybody always says or thinks. I never had any problems with Ubuntu either, yet there they are. I'm a developer for an instant messaging client, and hell, I've really never had any of the bugs all those users are screaming about! I don't know if you intended to say "Damn all you Windows haters", or that I just made that up while reading your reply, but it's really a problem every software project always has. I'd know what Apple would say if I said libxml was totally broken for me after upgrading my Macbook to Snow Leopard.... (Bonus mod points for everybody who replies "I didn't have that problem, you Apple hater!")

  9. Re:From the awesome-for-pr0n dept. on Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Alas, I think you can only view your own sites with the Googlebot... So unless you can sneak in the "yes, this domain is mine" HTML file or DNS entry, in which case you probably don't need to worry about this anyway, probably not a chance... ;)

  10. Re:OK on Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, because in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, as the name indicates, the userspace is GNU, not BSD. Therefore, GNU/FreeBSD. (in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the k stands for "kernel".)

  11. Re:Verizon are just protecting you on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Invalid for IP's? IPv6 has it! *proceeds to ping6 2001:666:666:666:666:666:666:666*

  12. Re:i dont need ssh on OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting. Would you mind telling me what host and port this is, so I can.. um... diagnose the uh.. problem?

  13. Re:Internet Addresses in Other Languages? on US Relaxes Control Over ICANN · · Score: 1

    Yeah, probably domain names. My first thought was related to IP addresses too: maybe they mean allocation of subnets to countries where English is not an understood, let alone spoken, language. Such communication problems would make the process slow... But then again, that thought was probably just stupid :P

  14. Re:Any systems depend on a pulse on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    So they give her a fake heart, and it's *still* not Cyborg enough for you? Can't you ever be *happy* with what you get, damnit? ;)

  15. Re:great on Using Encryption Garners Exemption For Data Breach Notification · · Score: 1

    I heard the new supercomputers at the NSA can already break rot1040.... Oh, technology nowadays! Amazing.

  16. Re:simple. on How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money · · Score: 1

    It would make 2009 the Year of the Linu--- ah fuck it.

  17. Marble cake, also, the game on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    This was actually done by the guys at 4chan /b/: http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/

  18. Names on Google Data Liberation Group Seeks To Unlock Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google More Obvious Name Group Seeks To Make Names More Obvious

  19. Re:My Cells can no longer breathe.... on Scientists Find Master Gene To Switch On Immune Cells · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apart from that you're exaggerating, YOU LIVE! I'm sure doctors world-wide will be very happy to give a cancer patient as many blood transfusions as he needs after this treatment, if it dramatically improves the chances he survives.

  20. Re:Why not P2P? on Google Groups Used To Control Botnets · · Score: 1

    Thank you, sir, for destroying what was left of the Internets.

  21. Re:Stability on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm running Firefox in Mac right now. If it counts, I barely ever restart my macbook (it just goes on standby), so if that counts, Firefox has been running for 7 days (taken into consideration that it's usually in standby at night etc). I currently have 120 tabs open, and albeit it's getting a little slow now, I'm having no problems at all. This is on a new model MacBook Pro 13", 2.26 GHz and 4 GB RAM, Firefox 3.5.2, Mac OS 10.5.8.

  22. Re:Gnash? on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it works, but in the default Firefox on Ubuntu, I can switch live between Gnash and Adobe Flash by a "plugins" button to the bottom right corner of every window. Maybe it's Ubufox doing that, not sure. Last time I used it it was a little buggy sometimes, but overall it works quite well.

  23. Re:re comments on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 1

    Also, of course, Microsoft wants this in the Linux kernel for their Hyper-V product. So, they want Linux to have their code compiled in. To make it easier for customers, they want every Linux build to have the option of compiling in "Hyper-V enhancements", instead of having to provide their customers with binary builds of Linux, or patches to have them compile it all.

    And don't say "they can provide binary modules". If they could, they would've. Apparently this requires some core changes to Linux itself, not solvable by modules.

  24. Re:Why would I want this? on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    Taking all the obvious unix-like parts out of it really is required to get your grandmother to use it on her netbook. Think about explaining /usr /lib /etc to grandma. It requires a complete rewrite.

    What the censor is this bullcensor? Grandma never learned about C:\Program Files. Why the censor would she need to learn about /usr? Nowadays, most Linux distro's come with shiny GUI's which do most of the work for you, and everything like finding documents is made *much easier* than it is on Windows now. Especially for grandma. People need to learn the difference between "difficult" and "need to get used to it". And saying a complete rewrite is needed because grandma doesn't understand /usr is... Absurd, to say the least. Get out of your Linux From Scratch shell and start using modern distributions...

  25. Re:Huh? on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    I actually think they mean Android, since that's also targeting netbooks and was also made by Google. (Other than that, an OS focusing on speed, simplicity and security isn't big news nowadays, is it...)