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  1. Re:The cameras do nothing, neither do prisons on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I don't think junkies are more likely, per se to have health problems. There is not a slither of medical evidence for opiates or cannabinoids. And most (all?) stimulants are less problematic than overdoing it on caffeine (face it, if that was truly dangerous, slashdot would cease to exist in short order).

  2. Re:The cameras do nothing on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1

    Your idea is based on the presumption that people aren't moralistic idiots who won't misuse the given tools to make life miserable for people who don't match their stereotype of "proper". Case in point: drug prohibition. OK, that's partly a politically-entrenched economic problem, because of private prisons, etc., but it leverages social prejudice either way.

  3. Re:Good Call on Appeals Court Strikes Down California's Violent Game Ban · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  4. Re:Good Call on Appeals Court Strikes Down California's Violent Game Ban · · Score: 1

    Yours. American culture in general, (not only movies, but the Bible as well) glorify murder wayyy more than GTA. With GTA, the focus is the graphical effect, whilst the others focus on the act of depriving another human being of life.

  5. Re:But... on Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat · · Score: 1

    Why is this not open source? Seriously?

  6. Re:With friends like these... on Pirate Bay Founder Begs For Hacker Ceasefire · · Score: 1

    Like peaces of shit unworthy of breathing the same air as him? </advocate type="drug legalization">

  7. Re:Product naming, again on Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 File-Sharing Beta · · Score: 1

    iReally think iT's annoying, and iT's not like anybody else iS doing something like iT, right?

  8. Re:Clever, actually on Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 File-Sharing Beta · · Score: 1

    dyndns.com

  9. Re:A Little Late to the Game on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    I believe it was a printer...

  10. Re:The problem is with the trusting user, and can on Black Hat Presentation Highlights SSL Encryption Flaws · · Score: 1

    business class != general use;

    call me when you have to actively avoid getting one without a smartcard reader.

  11. Re:It's not a problem with SSL /per se/ on Black Hat Presentation Highlights SSL Encryption Flaws · · Score: 1

    Got a more secure implementation, sport?

  12. Re:Notepad on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Actually, a JS rendering engine might possibly come up with a *gasp* non-crappy DOM implementation. Though some Perl bindings might be needed. pQuery, anyone?

  13. Re:mainframe solutions, mainframe advantages. on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Amin, brother! Good thing we've got Java applet VNC viewers and shit, though.

  14. Re:WTF is it with undescribed acronyms? on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: 1

    ATA = Advanced Technology Attachment != Advanced Technology Attachment Peripheral Interface.

    IDE != (P)ATA;

    (P)ATA is a strict subset of the ISA standard, meant to only interface hard drives and nothing else. This is because hard drives used to be mounted along with the drive electronics on an ISA board. Since the slots weren't meant to bear the strain, it was problematic, so they moved the drive and electronics in a separated enclosure, linked by cables to the now much simplified ISA card, hence, giving (P)ATA drives the incorrect name IDE drives, since SCSI and FC drives could also integrate the drive electronics.

  15. Re:Why not? on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Real men do it over SSL-ed telnet, doing the handshake manually.

  16. Re:What? on In-Game Web Browser Round-Up · · Score: 1

    Can't they give a hand to the Gnash team? Better yet, make a cross-compiler for ActionScript to JavaScript bytecode, offloading the media to JavaFX and SVG?

  17. Re:On windshields? on In-Game Web Browser Round-Up · · Score: 1

    Worse - a classic American vehicle. *ducks*

  18. Re:No hulu for boxee means... on Boxee Drops Hulu Support · · Score: 1

    I Yodel KDE Window Interface Managers, Ain't I The Youngest Dope?

  19. Re:NVDIA's Plann on NVIDIA Responds To Intel Suit · · Score: 1

    You are correct. I don't get all the hype of turning the GPU in to a CPU, when a dedicated "do-simple-shit-fast" GPGPU would be a killer app on it's own. Now, wouldn't you just kill for a full fledged SAN at home, via GPU offloaded software RAID and file system operations + ATAoE enclosures? Mainframe tech going down to the consumer, yet again.

  20. Re:Decaying CPU business? on NVIDIA Responds To Intel Suit · · Score: 1

    Fuck that, I want GPU accelerated software RAID, possibly with file system offloading as well.

  21. Re:WOW on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    I'm on lithium salts, you insensitive clod!

  22. Re:Hopefully attacks like this won't be as prevole on Hackers Jump On Newest IE7 Bug · · Score: 1

    The underlying problem is that good security sucks for desktop use.

    Fixed that for you.

  23. Re:Comparing Apple's Release Cycle to MS on Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I felt a need to post here...

  24. Re:Just say no on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    That's because of kernel traps. IPC on *nix is usually on top of Berkley sockets, which means accessing the networking stack to get the drawing instruction to X11, and and other for X to perform it. Frankly, I think that the easiest workaround is getting a dummy network stack in usermode for local operations, which routes remote ones to the kernel.

  25. Re:Just say no on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    OH, yeah, because Ubuntu is just for pros, and takes a lot of fiddling to get it working right. Just observing.