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  1. Re:Some more OSS goodies on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    I put Fish Fillets on my wife's Mini 9. She loves it. It's really well made, and brilliantly thought through.

  2. Re:Damned plankton eaters on McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch? · · Score: 1

    not if plankton feeds on spammers as well

  3. Why Don't They Compete? on IBM Bringing Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 1

    "Dont worry people, we won't compete with DSL." WTF, please do. I'm surrounded by DSL but it won't come to my house. I would like some option besides satellite and dial-up. Anything that make AT&T more competitive would be a good thing. I hate lobbyists.

  4. Re:Writing your own eulogy on How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? · · Score: 1

    Assuming you live in a metro area. In my area I can't even think of somebody qualified to replace me within a 30 minute drive.

  5. Why is the encryption married to the transmission? on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    We should be allowed to employ various encryption schemes IMO, rather than whatever ones come out of the box. Hows this for a possible workaround: a vpn host device hooked up to the WAN port of the wireless router, or VPN hosting built into the router's firmware. That way all the clients get to keep thier hardware the way it is, with a little added hassle when connecting. Does that work?

  6. Let's think about it seriously for a moment... on Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate · · Score: 1

    What sort of thing grants alcohol distilleries immunity from lawsuits leveling similar charges? It might simply be a warning label? WoW has notes like that in the manual (and tips on the loading screens).

  7. Re:Reason #1 this is useless to me on Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users · · Score: 1

    I've downloaded several movies that have audio language options and subtitles. Adding subs to the Netflix/Silverlight player will be no problem once they are extracted from the films. I'm sure about this. I bet the foreign ones are rasterized onto the video stream, for now. But when they work out a way to get the text off of the DVD, or have it otherwise delivered to them, subtitles will become an option.

  8. so to recap... on Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1

    Okay, so the story goes Der Spiegel picked Google to help them help themselves to people's data, and then made a big deal about helping themselves some other way because Google might end up mining the data. I'm missing the part where consumers are protected.

  9. juvenile nerd insult: on First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered · · Score: 1

    "[I'm] perturbed by the gravity of Uranus"

  10. Are we missing the obvious? on Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've found that the best IT Security people were already cynical before they ever took the job. The job didn't make anyone worse off. You'll notice a pattern in the comments on this page of an increase in happiness over time: You take a job, work with crappy people, move to a better job, afford a fun hobby.

  11. What's a Hard-To-Delete URL? on Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks · · Score: 1

    Can anyone give me an example?

  12. I like being asked. on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I want paper, and sometimes I want plastic. I reuse the bags for various things, and will have a need for one above the other.

  13. I know where I can stick my thumbdrive... on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    But how can I smuggle my record collection?

  14. The music's not great but, on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Dance Dance Revolution!

  15. That website... on Apogee Software Returns, Brings Duke Nukem to Handhelds · · Score: 1

    is also a tip of the hat to a bygone age.

  16. Re:Shareware on handhelds? on Apogee Software Returns, Brings Duke Nukem to Handhelds · · Score: 1

    You can download PSP demos using only the PSP, or at least you could...