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  1. End of an era on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a big sign of the end of the era of user-maintainable cars.

    Almost as sad as when the last VW Beetle rolled off the line in 2003 (after more than 60 years).

  2. Re:It's like bicycles... on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    Track bikes do not have a front brake either. It would be unsafe for anybody to be able to stop that fast when riding so closely on a track.

  3. Re:Thinnish thick clients. on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    And they take up way more space and use way more energy than is necessary.

  4. Re:It's like bicycles... on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    The more you pay for a bicycle the less you get? What on Earth are you talking about?

    The only way that makes sense is if you are only referring to weight, but that is an undesired quality, and something the engineers try to reduce.

    It is like saying that the more you spend on a computer, the less slowness you get.

  5. Re:Some spam filters score on SPF on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    +1 for greylisting. I implemented in a few weeks ago, and my spam volume dropped by about 80%.

  6. Re:Use DomainKeys.. on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    I do not use SPF or DKIM. Many of the addresses on my server simply forward to other addresses, and SRS is way over the head of most of the recipients.

    I send very low volumes - fewer than 100 messages per month.

    Gmail delivers all of them.

    Yahoo and AOL mark some of them as spam until the recipients add me to their contact list.

    MSN/Hotmail, in violation of the SMTP RFC, accepts and promptly deletes them with no notification to the sender or recipient.

  7. enlightenment 17 on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    e17 handles it rather brilliantly.

    Each screen gets its own set of virtual desktops, and you can drag windows from one screen to another, or set up keyboard shortcuts to do it.

    I set up 2 screens side by side, each with a set of virtual desktops that I can switch between by moving the mouse to the right and left edges. If I move the mouse to the bottom edge of the right screen it shows up at the top of the left screen. It takes only a few minutes to get used to.

    Of course, you could give up the virtual desktop scrolling and have the more intuitive setup of the mouse hitting the left edge of the right screen and going to the right edge of the left screen.

  8. Re:Back in the days that Craigslist was useful... on Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes · · Score: 1

    It is hard to find a spouse on CL, but easy to find a widget on eBay.

    There is a lot of spam on a commercial services and stuff for sale site where people to go spend money, but not much on a tech discussion site.

    Oranges are orange and apples are not.

  9. Re:Proof that Linux does NOT promote peace... on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Proof that Linux does NOT promote peace... on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, Ubuntu is Debian de-gimped. Pay attention.

  11. Re:Help with history on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The standards were an attempt to provide a clear sensible path going forward, not to codify the garbage as it was.

  12. I'm not yet convinced on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Can it withstand the force of a 3 year old with a pair of scissors, a mushy banana, and a sharpie?

  13. Re:Why use digital signatures? on DNSSEC Implementation Held Up By Tech Delays · · Score: 0

    Only if the answer does not change. If the answer changes, somebody who can view your traffic can replay old responses.

    DNSCurve does not have this problem.

    http://dnscurve.org/replays.html

  14. Re:The comment may also be complex.. on If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless your code is running in IE5 or IE6. Then you get it to work by chance, and do not ever touch it again.

  15. Re:Someone please explain on Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off · · Score: 1

    I'm no American, but isn't it Congress that makes laws, not the President?

    Technically you are correct. But when one party controls both houses and has the president, Congress will pass whatever non-controversial bills the president proposes.

    And this would be non-controversial - a vast majority of the big campaign contributors would support it.

  16. Re:Censorship depends on the country. on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    The US press is entirely different. It censors itself, not due to political pressure, but due to advertising pressure. Nobody wants their ads run before or after a story about government corruption or incompetency. Everbody wants their ads run before or after a story about a kitten being saved from a tree or Paris Hilton's latest exploits.

  17. Re:Load Balancing on "Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes · · Score: 1

    Why can't this be done by appending a query parameter called something like, oh, I don't know, JSESSIONID?

  18. Re:the article is bullshit. on Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming · · Score: 1

    If it is a valid image, will not the browser display it as an image using the image rendering component? How is the flash portion going to be executing in the flash player?

  19. Re:Copying MS? on Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Obviously you live somewhere warm. Up north you show up to the airport an hour before your flight and wait three hours while they deice the planes.

  20. Re: Jurisdiction is a Nightmare on EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun · · Score: 1

    This has little to do with the US. If the companies want to merge and do business in the EU, they have to follow the EU's rules. What country the companies have their corporate headquarters in is entirely beside the point. If they would like to merge and not do business in the EU, they are welcome to.

  21. Re:BBC Bias on Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans · · Score: 1

    Now if the BBC would only (re-)learn that you can have multiple sentences per paragraph, it would actually be readable.

  22. Re:Netbeans just isn't there on Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans · · Score: 1

    Lack of platform applications means little. The point of an IDE is to create applications with it, not on top of it.

  23. Re:Original Firefox goals forgotten... on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Awesomebar.

  24. Re:When the system fails, shut the lights off. on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    In my experience, when the lights are out, a bunch of people will go through the intersection and then somebody will stop, at which point a bunch of people will go from the perpendicular direction. It works out quite well.

    There is one light that I pass through on my commute that goes out for an afternoon a few times a year. On those days, traffic improves noticeably as people are better able to judge which direction is more backed up at that particular moment than a computer is.

    The computers only have a few sensors, and do not know about accidents, effects of nearby construction, or temporary delays due to an old lady crossing the street at half a mile an hour. People can see these things and react. If even one of four is courteous enough to stop when appropriate, traffic flows nicely.

  25. When the system fails, shut the lights off. on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    No lights is better than badly times lights.