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  1. Re:Aren't there laws against this? on Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy · · Score: 1

    so then this happens:

    *something other than your crappy vigilante software deletes a file, perhaps you, unawares*

    (you: so, your crappy program i paid for deleted my file.
    vigilante: no it didnt) * 50,000 cases = shooting self in foot

  2. whats the deal with this killer thing on Lightroom Vs. Aperture · · Score: 1

    have there been any killers that killed yet? i take it with all the seriousness that comes on a 3rd grade playground.

    bleeding-edge... you know, i bet i have an easier time reading english from the 1700s than people 100 years from now will have reading our interesting version here.

    yeah yeah, guilty, i do it too. i guess when i read something that's as horrible sounding as something i wrote myself, i cringe.

  3. that doesnt make sense on Sign Language Via Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Although text messaging is a viable alternative for everyone, signing -- like speech -- is a much faster and more convenient form of communication

    Speech is flavored in languages, like text. So speech is not convenient at all if this is what they are saying. Otherwise, signing is not more convenient because only a small fraction of people already know it. I'm confused. Someone explain it to me.

  4. haha i love it-- on Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos · · Score: 1

    Further, if these pictures are ultimately released, future damage may be done to these minors' careers or personal lives. These children are not mature enough to make rational decisions concerning all the possible negative implications of producing these videos.

    So instead of "if these pictures are ultimately released", they are doing them the favor of damaging their careers and personal lives FOR SURE by the inevitable registration as sex offenders they will be branded for the rest of their lives. Instead of "if these pictures are ultimately released", let's instead have "no living next to schools, being around minors unsupervised, and let's just keep an eye on where you're living for the next 70 years if you dont mind, because you are a foul perversion of a human who doesn't deserve rights." Yeah that makes sense.

  5. Re:What a disgusting waste of fuel on A New Twist On Skywriting · · Score: 2, Informative

    "On a New York-to-Denver flight, a commercial jet would generate 840 to 1,660 pounds of carbon dioxide per passenger. That's about what an SUV generates in a month." -- http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2006-12-18- jet-pollution-usat_x.htm

    NYC to Denver: 1629 miles -- http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/cursortrail. html

    "4508 09322 GEP DPR RECAP MLS LWT BZN DBS FFU HVE RSK ALS PUB DVV RLG DVV PUB TBE LAA SNY RAP LBF ANY OVR HARPI" -- well I don't know how many miles that is. Cheers,

  6. kvm versus vmware on Linux Kernel 2.6.20 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    VMWare released their server product recently, for free, and it's basically the same thing as VMWare workstation, except workstation is expensive and does slightly less. (So VMWare server is pretty sweet. Check it out if you havent heard of it. We use it to virtualize several windows XP guests on a linux host).

    I've looked at a KVM whitepaper and it doesn't look like it's quite stable yet. The paper did however mention that it's usably fast on a current processor. (Given it requires the VT extensions, it's inevitable not to have a current processor!)

    Can anyone comment on whether KVM is a reasonable alternative to the VMWare Server product?

  7. yeah and how much on The True Cost of One Laptop Per Child · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah and how much of that wad will go to local business people who figured out they can make a living off it? why is this a bad thing?

  8. Re:Obligatory Shakespeare Reference on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    that quote refers to what happens to us after we kill ourselves.

  9. Re:Not in the USA on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1
    European societies tend to focus more on manners and personal responsibility, so this clearly wouldn't work in the US. ;)

    Seriously though,


    You really weren't serious? You sounded serious and I agreed with you. Why retract?
  10. what am i not getting? on Utube Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    The lawsuit, filed this week in US District Court, asks that YouTube stop using the youtube.com or pay Universal Tube's cost for creating a new domain. It did not specify damages.

    Creating a new domain? Yikes. I hope google can caught up the 15 bucks for a new one if they lose the suit ...

  11. Re:Vision issues on How Practical are 20-inch Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I'm just worried it'll be too big to use on the dashboard of my car on the way to work...

  12. Re:This is a timely thread on Keeping Web Discussions Open, Yet Civilized? · · Score: 1

    This post will almost certainly get modded into the basement, but what the hell.

    It's ok to be more confident in yourself. You don't have to start a post with a disclaimer that you expect to lose.

  13. the need to prove one's self on Rethinking IM Privacy For Kids · · Score: 1

    I remember being 15 years old back in 1995 when we got the internet for the first time. My dad tried to scare the hell out of me: "Now there's a history in this thing so don't figure you can go looking at whatever you want, cause by God I'll know about all of it". What greater need might a developing ego have than to prove one's self against such a tyrannical claim? Of course 4 hours later I had figured out the entire thing -- it issue of course being the same software I was using was made for CEOs who wanted to download playboy pictures off yahoo's "links of the day" website. And so a click or two later all the evidence was gone and all I learned was that I had a green card to do just about whatever the hell I wanted. The only things that ever truely scared me were a few websites that had blinking text, echoed my IP (unknown that it was just an environment variable), and told me my IP was logged and the police had been called. That was a scary night, and I don't recall doing anything to deserve it.

    Anyways, to be honest I can't think of anything my parents could have done to keep me from looking at things I wasn't supposed to. The only thing they could have done was treated me as an adult, and let adult content just be something fun for grownups to know about, instead of romaticizing it into this holy grail -- possesion was ego, as it were. So basically this point says nothing insightful at all, but just reminds us that if you tell a kid he can't do something, that's the only thing he's going to focus on until he can.

    Cruising the web is halfway to letting your kids drive to the mall to hangout with strangers. If you're paranoid your kids are going to grow up too fast, just take away the damned keys. (Course then they'll hitchhike!)

  14. Re:Bah on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    *tips hat* bravo

  15. Equal to. on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 1

    I just make mine equal to my ram these days.

  16. Re:Obligatory on Original Star Trek Getting CGI Makeover · · Score: 1

    ha, i own that site.

    http://khaaan.com/really.html

  17. Re:Wait for the revolution on What Could YouTube Be Worth? · · Score: 1

    If this mentality had existed 800 years ago, we'd still be in the dark ages.

    If the mentality of 800 years ago existed today, everyone would have pirated multiple copies of every media in reach.

  18. I love this model on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 1

    I use VMWare workstation on a Linux host (xorg/e16) on the right half of a dual head. Inside it, I run two legal copies of windows XP- one for myself and one for my girlfriend. Neither of us game, so the hardware restrictions are not noticable. I could list all the things we use it for, but you already know because you are also the average internet user at home. The thing that makes it BETTER than "running it for real" is the Snapshot function: I can take incremental snapshots of the running operating systems, and if I fubar, I simply revert. I have no worries of viruses, spyware, or some mild forms of data loss. (It's not really a user-data protection though). USB support so far hasn't missed anything. The litmus test for me was the day we moved in -- she plugged her weird Sony music player in and used it as normal. When I came around the corner, I saw it and told her I would set it up for her -- she rolled her eyes and gave me that you-lamer-geek look, and sighed "What are you talking about?" True story. Then I found five bucks.

  19. Re:Good bye, laptop! on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    dude, it's a laptop, not a spleen. yeah it's retarded and we shouldn't have to, but being distracted by the real world for 6 hours isn't going to kill you. it can't, i mean you won't have anything on your person to do it with anyways.

  20. Re:False Positives on Google to Continue Storing Search Requests · · Score: 1

    Well, we could just arrest all the people that were looking, too. Actually, I was going to make one of those cliched "guilty nothing to hide" references, but then it dawned on me -- if we arrested enough of America, won't it eventually get to a halfway point where we just all switch? We get inherent access to prisons for safety, and criminals get kicked out into the real world? I'd live in a cell block if it had free HBO and muffins.

  21. kinda cool on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This sort of looks like a crappy TOE - TCP Offload Engine. You can get a TOE NIC from Chelsio for a grand that'll do gig rates. Anyone ever try to get gigabit speeds out of their NIC? It's not so easy. It takes a lot of overhead to encapsulate data inside ethernet frames. Offloading that job to your ethernet card is a nice way to keep your CPU doing the stuff you want it focused on.

    It's sort of clever, I think. If your CPU is pegged calculating physics for a video game, or however you kids crunch math, having the NIC doing the actual packetization of your location info is a small step towards getting better response times. Honestly, I could see this being like those riceboys -- adding so much "bling" to your car that it actually slows it down in an attempt to make it look faster. *Shrug* Either way, I think this company will sell a few of these, and by a few, I literally mean few.

    The fastest we've ever gotten a machine to spit data out the line was with a 10 gig ethernet card, with a TOE in it, and that rate was 1.2 gigabit/second. The bus could handle 7.6 gigabit max, but we got nowhere near that due to the framing involved. We were just piping /dev/random over a netcat connection and into /dev/null, too. Couldn't figure out how to do anything faster. Any ideas? Cause we were stumped.

  22. Re:wow... on Google Signs $900m MySpace Deal · · Score: 1

    i think you just burst my spleen with metaphors.

  23. Re:We are indeed building them ourselves, with Myt on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 1

    I wonder when Myth will support DLNA. It's a really cool way of streaming media off a server to be viewable by a television, basically. And all the big manufactureres are getting certified for it RIGHT NOW.

  24. Re:WideBand beats the crap out of Cisco on OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking · · Score: 1

    And did I mention that they can even do Gigabit over CAT-3 and barbed wire?

    Source?

  25. On and On they go on Pricing For Retro Games on the Wii · · Score: 4, Funny

    Working stiffs like me, mid to late 20s, and a nice Gaussian distribution around me, we eat this stuff up. 40 years from now Nintendo is going to still be rereleasing 8 bit Mario Brothers onto whatever the game platform of the day is, and I'm still going to be paying for it every time it comes out, plus a nice contour with inflation. When I'm 60 years old, hopefully a bit vested, and starting to slow down a bit, think I'll toss down 200 bucks in 2040 dollars to regain 3 hours of my youth? Those damned MIDI tracks so far etched into my brain that it's literally part of my Id? That erotic twinge I get when I rescue the Princhess Toadstool (Peach?) TMI? PERHAPS! But the truth has been spoken. I might very well have a Triforce on my gravestone, and I bet more of you are with me! Don't deny your digital heritage!