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  1. Re:As someone on Facebook mentioned... on Micro Plane That Perches On Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Mod insightful.

    That would require acquiring input regularly, processing said input, locating above-mentioned target, etc...

  2. Re:IBTL on Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP · · Score: 1

    The apprentice system tended to keep teens under their master's thumbs.

    Interesting point. What would young programmers / sysadmins be like if they have to go through a period of apprenticeship before they're allowed to make their own decisions, I wonder?

  3. Re:Digital Driver on Driverless Cars Begin 8,000-Mile Trek · · Score: 1

    Will it cause the vehicle to shake while travelling? If so, this may confuse the vehicle's inertial, gyro-metering and accelero-sensory systems.

  4. Re:"List of routers affected" is just a picture on Millions of Home Routers Are Hackable · · Score: 1

    Um ... 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3 ... I think they're neighbors. Such is the ubiquity of this vulnerability.

    Also, if your ISP supports IPv6, you can try ::1/128 ... very short list, I think we need to encourage more widespread adoption.

  5. Re:next time use better typos/mistakes on How the Mozilla Sniffer Backdoor Was Discovered · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The typos he has NOT made give it away, among other clues:

    Perhaps the first few words' proper capitalization, and the clean layout, and pastel background, gave us a positive first impression.

    I'm reading way too much into this. Someone, please mod this post redundant.

  6. Re:This study is nothing but Communist propaganda on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 1

    Ooooh, a troll bible! I'm so going to make this my anthem. Thank you for posting this.

  7. Re:why? on NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS · · Score: 1

    AH! My mistake. You're talking about the STORAGE SERVERS, not the individual drives.

    Duh! I'm such an in-duh-vidual. Timeout for me! *blushing furiously and hiding*

  8. Re:why? on NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS · · Score: 1

    Speaking of EtherDrives, it appears from Wikipedia that they don't connect using SMB, or anything that is TCP/IP based. They use another protocol called ATA over Ethernet.

    Not sure about Coraid's or NetApp's line of products, though.

  9. Re:Windows Read-only mode. on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 2, Informative

    AC has posted something similar, but with a lot lesser flames.

    Parent may be a lazy raging retard, but I don't understand the need to flame him.

    What has been most beneficial to me are not the exact steps, but the knowledge that it's possible with the setting of a registry entry (and the corresponding security permission). I've learnt a lot more from AC's kindly-worded post than your flames.

  10. Re:I wrote a Google CLI tool once on Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux · · Score: 1

    ... you could google the subject line of his email and get the answer.

    Oh, what I would GIVE to have other people write proper subject lines in their emails!

  11. Re:Aim for the real problem. on Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded Flamebait? While I don't agree with 4 of his sentences, I think 1 sentence makes sense.
    (And damn it, he receives more replies than me!)

  12. Re:Cost effective? on When Will the Automotive Internet Arrive? · · Score: 1

    Mass transit doesn't work because there are no "masses" to transport.

    As someone who grows up on a tiny island, with a population of 4.9 million people squeezed into a land area of 710 square kilometers (274 square miles), all I can say is ... HUH ???

    Your descriptions don't fit with my live experiences living on my tiny island. Unless I've read your post out of context?

    The fact that residential and industrial areas are randomly interleaved doesn't help either. No mass transit, short of personal computer-controlled taxis, can service such disorganized travelers.

    Every weekday morning when I travel to and from work, I will be swearing at the overcrowded buses and trains. But I swear their fuel economy is quite high, given the number of riders. The fare is, practically speaking, totaling US$1.40 to US$2.40 per trip, inclusive of bus-train-bus transfers.

    Yes, we hated that the trips are not direct, but we don't earn enough to splurge on taxicabs everyday.

    I still don't understand the point you're making. You're saying mass transit doesn't work? Because there are not many people to transport? And buses are wasting their time and fuel prying along roads, because the buses never transport passengers directly from A to B?

    You'd need several transfers, and if you dare carrying stuff with you (like 10 grocery bags) you'd start swearing at the gods of the domain well before you get home.

    You got THIS right! We'd end up hailing a taxicab, costing US$2.15 to board, plus $0.15 every 350 metres (average).

  13. Re:This shit has to stop on Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update · · Score: 1

    Good idea, perhaps Firefox can allow automatic install if the machine is joined to a domain, and if the add-ons can be authenticated somehow.

    But what about domain-joined machines that receive Microsoft updates? After all, these updates run at SYSTEM-level privileges.

    And do we really want anti-tampering measures in Firefox?

    Something is nagging at me about the feasibility of implementing such measures, but I don't know enough to put it in words.

  14. Re:I'm betting on McDonald's, Cadmium, and Thermo Electron Niton Guns · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... so she flew to Malaysia (which she was going to do anyway) and got it done for ten bucks (our money)... Those things were obviously invented to trick smart people like her out of their savings.

    Trick smart people? Huh?

    According to this journal entry written in 2007, the Malaysian government subsidised 98% of healthcare bills. It costed US$0.30 for an entire outpatient visit in a government clinic. I presume similar rates applied to dental treatment as well.

  15. Re:I'm betting on McDonald's, Cadmium, and Thermo Electron Niton Guns · · Score: 1

    You know, I actually searched Wolfram Alpha, trying to get the name of this compound.

    No wonder I feel so windy today!

  16. Re:President Obama on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your reply. It's enlightening reading all the various viewpoints, including yours. I just wish I know which side to take.

  17. Re:President Obama on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... seize BP and all its assets. Take the assets of ALL the top level execs and board, use that to pay for the clean up. Hold those same people criminally responsible for ALL of this and imprison them.

    Hypothetically, that sounds like what dictators of certain countries would love to do to companies and newspaper publishers that don't support them. Just find an excuse, or create one.

    You honestly think this is a correct course of action?

  18. Re:Joke explained on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 1

    on a *mayan* calendar roll-over, it should be appropriate to celebrate by drinking a *mesoamerican (mayan)* alcoholic beverage.

    (emphasis mine)

    Ohhhhhhhh, NOW I get it! Thanks for explaining.

    *blushing furiously* Okay, okay, I've learnt my lesson. Next time, I'll RTFA before asking.

  19. Re:Hmmmm....Can someone explain...... on A New Neutral, Long-Haul Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    whenever a friend buys a house, they end up dropping almost 9K in networking gear with me. and their house does exactly what they want it to do at any given time.

    Lucky basket. Enjoying your next-gen-definition TV streaming via your FTTH connections?

    In my tiny country, our renovation loans are kept separate from our housing loans (as far as I know), and thus are usually charged a higher interest rate, with a shorter repayment duration (as far as I know). We don't even have FTTH.

  20. Re:The Indiana Jones of Alcohol on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 1

    Did he have to escape rolling boulders, fly planes, fall in love with women, and so forth?

  21. Re:Excellent! on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the joke. Are we referring to the Olympics, Mayan, Turing, NEO, Commonwealth, US Census, Korea Military, World Expo, Solar Eclipse, or what?

    2012

  22. Re:Preggers? on The Sun's Odd Behavior · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine how large the diapers will have to be for mini-Sun? Where will we get to throw them?

    (Good one, pal!)

  23. Re:Slow news day... on STIX Project Releases v1.0 of Its Scientific Fonts Set · · Score: 1

    Why would we want to create another Viner Hand? That would be like reinventing the wheel.

  24. Re:What is a book? on The Hobbit On Hold · · Score: 1

    They're a new invention: something like ebooks, but operate using WORM displays (write-once-read-many). They have a MTBF of several decades.

    Original definition

  25. Re:Bin it and call it lesson learned. on Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    You need to learn you lesson for patronizing vendors of cheap garbage technology.

    True, but harshly worded.

    Why did you not pay a little more for your flash drives and get something more reliable? If you want to go to the trouble of resurrecting your half-dead flash drives you can spend the $10-20 on a new one from a major brand name.

    Because sometimes you'd never know. A cheaper brand may sell good quality products. A more expensive brand may sell inferior products. Even the brand may not know, as they may outsource their manufacturing.