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  1. Re:I know it may sound insensitive on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I really severely misread your post. I didn't mean to imply that it was an obligation, but I guess I came off that way.

  2. Re:I know it may sound insensitive on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 2

    I don't have as common a name as the submitter apparently does, but just two weeks ago I got mail from a sheriff's office concerning a domestic dispute the intended recipient had been involved in. It was probably just clerical error, but I'm very glad I was able to correct the mistake.

  3. Re:First Step... on AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU · · Score: 2

    To use OpenCL, you need any device that has an OpenCL driver written for it, and the driver. These devices include, but are not limited to:
    AMD graphics cards
    NVIDIA graphics cards
    AMD CPUs (not just the new Fusion ones)
    Intel CPUs
    Multiple IBM products, including the Cell processor
    Some chipsets / embedded systems.

    To get started with an x86 processor, just download the AMD APP (accelerated parallel processing) SDK and follow the tutorials.

  4. Re:And all for what? on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    'note that the new "Compact" view still includes a "Search" field to the left of the tabs.'

    The picture in TFA shows a search bar up there, but the current flag only has the forward/back buttons, your tabs, the new-tab button, the settings wrench, and the window controls. I like it like this.

    To open up the URL bar, you can click on the selected tab, and it will drop down (along with the refresh button and the bookmark button). Or, you can hit ctrl-L to drop it down and select the text in it, and then start typing your new URL (my preferred method).

  5. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You need Google to figure out what file might have the proper setting under Linux, but you know
    "REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet /v EnableActiveProbing /t REG_DWORD /d 0" without looking it up?

  6. Re:Ideation on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    You're right, I should have said buzzwords, not non-words.

  7. Ideation on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "This ideation, as expressed in the patent, enabled a building block for others to build on and create more value."

    I'm pretty sure that the use of non-words like "ideation" is inversely proportional to the originality of that idea.

  8. Re:How is this possible? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    It's not very hard to know if you're in a VM. http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/10/27/Can-Operating-Systems-tell-if-they_2700_re-running-in-a-Virtual-Machine_3F00_.aspx

    There's no reason, in principle, you couldn't create an OS that is hack-proof. But exploits continue to exist.

  9. Not such a terrible idea? on NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Let's see, 100,000 subscribers, all subscribing at $3.75 a week (the cheapest plan), and costing 40 million to develop...
    At the current rate, they'll have made their money back in just about 2 years. Maybe the absurdly high cost was worth it after all.

    Note: The 100k figure *does* include those who subscribed with a promotion, so the actual figure could be significantly less. Or more, if many users are paying for the more expensive levels of service.

  10. Re:4th Amendment? on NYPD Anti-Terrorism Cameras Used For Much More · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

    I'm confused - are the police using their cameras to search your person, house, papers or effects? Or are they seizing them?

  11. Re:Link? List? on Five of the Best Free Linux Disk Encryption Tools · · Score: 1

    You must have fixed it, because when it first went up there was no link.

  12. Re:IT'S A GAME! Fuck the money. on Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson · · Score: 1

    Welcome to democracy. Sometimes, you pay for things that you don't want. For example, that road connecting your mother-in-law's house to yours.

  13. Re:Except it'd be stupid to use a phone per se on Testing Mobile Phones For Controlling Space Missions · · Score: 1

    You couldn't even finish reading the summary? They're putting chipsets designed for smartphones into space, not using mobile devices to remotely control spacecraft.

  14. Re:Right... on Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header · · Score: 2

    99.999999%? I didn't realize there were less than a hundred people that cared. It'd be nice if this vocal minority would calm down, and let the rest of us rest our ears a while.

  15. Re:All Phones? on Fake GSM Base Station Trick Targets IPhones · · Score: 1

    Though you may find it hard to believe, simply saying dumb things doesn't count as humor.

  16. Dual-stack mode on Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’ · · Score: 1

    From TFA, it appears that they are supporting IPv6 in dual-stack mode. Most users without IPv6 connectivity should still be able to access their sites on June 8th.

  17. Re:We've *never* had net neutrality on BT Content Connect May Impact Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Dozens to choose from? In my city, there is one cable company (Time Warner), and a few unreliable DSL providers to choose from, with peak transfer rates below one megabyte/second. And trying to play even casual realtime online games with satellite is an exercise in frustration. Who, exactly, should I switch to?

  18. Re:Their choice on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    Stephen King did always say that he wanted to write a cookbook.

  19. Re:Scott McNealy said it most greedily and ignoran on The First Truly Honest Privacy Policy · · Score: 0

    What about Zuckerberg's and McNealy's rights to tell people the things you freely told them? I don't think "freedom from gossip" is in our constitution.

  20. Re:Halo is About Multi-Player on Review: Halo: Reach · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's true. But when I put down $60 for a game, it's not for the enjoyment that I'll get 25 years from now.

  21. Felt this from 2 miles away on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was actually kind of scary, my whole office building felt & heard this from two miles away. I can't imagine what it would have been like to see up close.

    It wasn't until a while later that we found out what had happened, though. Luckily, I hear that there was only one injury though.

  22. Re:from The Guide on Touchless Gesture User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Thank you! I was amazed that this wasn't the first reply.

  23. Re:You're going down Atari & Namco! on NCsoft Sued For Making Lineage II 'Too Addictive' · · Score: 1

    Plus, we should blow up the moon. Thank you.

    They've got a shirt for that: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=ASW-BLOWMOON&Category_Code=ASW

  24. Re:This is flat out bad advice on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 1

    We won't run out of MAC address space anytime soon because "16 bits" means sixty-five thousand times the space. It also provides enough space for every man, woman and child to have forty-seven thousand MAC addresses.

  25. Re:Yay! on New Jaguar XJ Suffers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're not, though. The car didn't BSOD, and TFA makes no mention of them running any Microsoft software. They did, however, mention Linux.