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  1. Re:Fear mongering 101 on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    I hear rumors that Sid is hoarding yellowcake in his locker.

  2. Re:I disagree, sorry on Righthaven To Explain Why Reposting Isn't Fair Use · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who came up with this magic 10%? The law says "substantial portions". It's up to a judge to decide what that mean on a case by case basis.

  3. Data loss != Bricked on When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone · · Score: 1

    It wasn't "not bricked" because the data was restorable from backup. The iPhone was still completely functional after the data wipe hence it was "not bricked" because nothing was done to render it inoperable, even without a backup.

  4. Re:Audio-based cards = low security on Crooks Hack Music Players For ATM Skimmers · · Score: 1

    The last image in the article shows a screenshot of a tool that has decoded a waveform skimmed from a magstripe. It's clearly showing flux reversals from Manchester encoded data and not any sort of "audio" signal.

  5. Re:funny and ironic on Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that the concept behind an SLR is outmoded in the digital era anyway. Not many professional photographers compose shots with the optical viewfinder anymore. There are professional grade non-SLR cameras that have large enough optics or interchangeable lenses to permit higher quality photography.

  6. Re:Instruction set... on Intel Talks 1000-Core Processors · · Score: 1

    Before you keep spouting off, consider that every x86 processor since the Pentium Pro has been a RISC core with a section translating the CISC ISA into an internal representation (with 40 registers at its disposal). The x86 ISA is compressed compared to its RISC equivalent. In fact ARM and MIPS provide options to do exactly the same thing to alleviate the bloat of having 32-bit-everything in the instruction stream. Your atypical worst case example doesn't count for much in the real world.

  7. Re:1984 on Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design · · Score: 1

    The war is with Eastasia. Eurasia is our ally and always has been.

  8. Re:Time for him to invoke the china visit policy.. on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    Remember to prime the drive with /dev/random before its formatted so they get to puzzle over how to extract the "encrypted" data that's hidden there.

  9. Not biasing results on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 2

    Google has only claimed that they don't bias results of one third party in favor of another (provided no one is playing SEO games). They've never claimed to treat their own services impartially in their search results. They shouldn't be expected to.

  10. Re:Also from the article on Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that it causes any servers to come into existence.

    But we can presume that if it did they would be moody.

  11. Re:Entirely new! on Review of Dell Inspiron Tablet/Laptop Hybrid · · Score: 1

    No that's not it. The one I remember was older and a real PC made by one of the major manufacturers of the day.

  12. Re:Russian OS? on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    Linux is not a Russian OS

    Neither is Windows! I don't see the relevance of that statement.

    It's an old Jedi mind trick. It just doesn't work on the /. crowd.

  13. Re:EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN... on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh, Belgium!

  14. Re:Entirely new! on Review of Dell Inspiron Tablet/Laptop Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Actually there was a convertible from the 90's that used essentially the same mechanism although it didn't carry the outer frame around to the front/top of the screen. I can't remember who made it though.

  15. Re:Easy there nerd boy on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 1

    I'm confused by all the fancy buttons. I'll wait until a rotary version comes out, or better yet, one with just a hook I can release to ring up central and ask for who I want to talk to.

  16. Re:My god, it's full of troll. on An Illustrated Version Control Timeline · · Score: 1

    Actually Bazaar and Mercurial do work with the much simpler feel of RCS in that there is no real effort needed to set things up. It can be refreshing to not have to mess around with repository configuration for simple projects.

  17. They got it wrong on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    It's obviously a double amputee woman carrying a purse.

  18. Fleas Knees on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    There is another tiny font in development Flea's Knees that also exploits subpixel rendering to aid legibility.

  19. Re:This was always my biggest problem with Linux on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you cut back on the eye candy most distros have in their default desktop environments you'll wipe away any sluggishness. Switching to a simple window manager that doesn't use pixmaps for everything will significantly improve X's performance.

  20. Collecting data on Critics Call For Probe Into Google Government Ties · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google only logged publicly accessible information. How is that a privacy violation? They didn't attempt to crack any encrypted sessions. It seems rather unfair to hold them accountable because of someone else's lax security. Consider the amount of information that other, older data mining companies have on us, what Google did was nothing to be bothered by.

  21. Re:Spotify Not Available to Me on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 1

    If you need to search with characters outside Latin-1 your choices are limited. Limewire is one of only two Gnutella clients available for Windows that support Unicode. Unfortunately they're both Java apps to you basically have to pick your poison.

  22. Re:Weren't the bombs on cargo planes? on TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes · · Score: 1

    One of them was on a Quatar Airlines passenger flight. The passenger airlines regularly carry mail freight and depend on it as a significant source of revenue. That's why there will never be an outright ban on the practice.

  23. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    Can we please go back to car analogies?

    Can they be pimped out cars?

  24. Re:No You Didn't ... on Typewriter Hacked To Play Zork · · Score: 1

    This level of interaction is unique and I've never seen a "printer" with that sort of functionality.

    Before CRTs became commonplace it was routine to interact with a computer through a teletype. That is the primary reason for the terseness of the standard unix commands. Line editors like ed are much less opaque when your command input is being recorded on paper.

  25. Re:huh on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1

    It always befuddles me that software engineers get hardons over the latest fad 2D diagramming tools when in the electrical engineering world there has been a move away from schematics to HDLs for digital logic design. With 2D diagramming you waste a lot of time maintaining the layout and rearranging things for visual presentation. Vendor lock-in is much more of a problem than with standardized code. For smaller problems diagramming has its merits but it doesn't scale up as easily as code does.