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  1. Re:It always seemed bloated... on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1

    No, a garbage collector is a digital pressure relief valve.

  2. Of course it wasn't real. on Telecom Plan To Take Over the Internet Isn't Real · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was a kdawson story. Duh.

    Seriously though, if you thought that was real, your BS detector is broken.

    That it not to say that it could not have been real, but you should not have believed it without independent verification.

  3. Re:Poor Mandrake on Mandriva Up For Sale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slackware and RedHat are still going strong.

  4. Re:What's the scariest part of this? on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm actually thinking that number seems low. Political leaders do not give a fuck about the environment, human rights, or anything besides their own aggrandizement.

    FTFY.

  5. Better auto-update on Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans · · Score: 1

    Why would the user have write access to the directory where the web browser is installed to even be able to auto-update?

    Are people running their web browsers as Administrator or root?!

  6. Re:In the same speech on Defense Chief Urges Big Cuts In Military Spending · · Score: 1

    Considering some of the decisions that SCOTUS has handed down, that might not be such a bad thing.

  7. Re:In the same speech on Defense Chief Urges Big Cuts In Military Spending · · Score: 1

    If you cannot pick up an iPod and figure out how to use it, I do not want you to be my president.

  8. Re:DNSSEC is an arduous solution on DNSSEC and the Geopolitical Future of the Internet · · Score: 1

    DNSCurve puts the public key in the DNS server name, so as long as you trust the roots, you could recursively resolve anything.

    If you do not trust your ISP, do not use its DNS caches.

  9. Re:I could care less... on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You couldn't care less.

  10. Re:Huh? on Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Y'know what gets people to slow down? A real cop, lighting you up, pulling you over, and having to sit by the side of the road (as you watch every car that was doing the speed limit glide on by for 20 minutes :) as you await your fate.

    Nope. I drive at completely reasonable speeds on limited access highways, which are often above the speed limit. I get a speeding ticket every few years. Most of the time they knock them down to non-moving violations. So every few years I have to pay $150 or so and usually have 1 or 2 points on my license. My insurance company does not seem to care.

    I more than make up that twenty minutes by driving fifteen to twenty over the limit for the next thirty thousand miles.

  11. Re:Because they are unreliable. on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Instead, we rely on "these 12 guys who have been struggling to stay awake during the proceedings think it's true, therefore he is guilty."

  12. Re:NX on Open Source Guacamole Puts VNC On the Web · · Score: 1

    You want an X11 server written in HTML5 and JavaScript?

    And you thought X was slow before. . .

  13. Re:A setup on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    I am not like most of my fellow constituents. I want no pork at all.

  14. Re:Attendence in college? on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 4, Funny

    I support Barack Obama, but not his mission.

    Great. Then I support Osama bin Laden, but not his mission.

  15. Re:Why? on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 1

    If the classes are so easy you do not need to show up, the university has bigger problems than overbooking seat space.

  16. Why? on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I could understand doing this for primary and secondary schools, but for a university?

    Who cares if the consumer does not show up to receive the service he paid for?

  17. Re:A setup on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Honestly, I would rather my senetor spend his time in the Senate looking at pictures of pretty girls than voting or cramming pork into every bill he can find.

  18. Re:Hmm... on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you have a filtering system that can identify pornography inside a video file inside a zip archive?

  19. Re:On the other hand... on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 1

    You are proposing deliberately misleading the IT staff and you think it will carry no risk of liability?!

  20. No. on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If they tell you that for security reasons you cannot connect your computer to their network unless you follow their guidelines, either follow their guidelines or leave your computer at home.

  21. Is DNSSEC going to kill djbdns? on DNSSEC May Cause Problems On May 5 · · Score: 1

    I realize that tinydns and dnscache will work just as they always have so long as the other servers still continue to support non-DNSSEC requests.

    Is it likely that at some point the root servers or common resolvers will be DNSSEC only?

  22. Re:Wait, also on Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    Check the author.

  23. Re:Improved driver support on Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What does that have to do with micro vs. monolithic kernel?

  24. Re:Answering the wrong question on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    The article also said that Childs had already emailed usernames and passwords to somebody before the whole thing blew up.

  25. Answering the wrong question on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    The questions were, first, did the defendant know he caused a disruption or a denial of computer service. It was rather easy for us to answer, "Yes there was a denial of service."

    They did not answer the question posed. They answered "Was there a denial of service?", not "Did the defendant knowingly cause a denial of service."

    If the jury did not consider the issue of whether the denial of service was caused by the defendant or by the procedure (or lack thereof), that is a problem. TFA did not explicitly indicate the issue was covered or not, but it reads to me like it was not covered.