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  1. Re:Geek squad is a fraud. on Best Buy Institutes Extreme Flex Time · · Score: 1

    You seems to be one of those wonderfull customers that really make the life of underpayed workers easier.

  2. Re:Australia was woken up as well. on UK Report Suggests Tougher Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Maybe because it sounds like murder, I'm not quite sure what makes in manslaughter. The court said:
    You could have left the scene. But you delivered a forceful blow to a man who was no threat to you at all.

  3. Re:Ahhh... on Intel to Make Cheap Flash Laptop · · Score: 1

    Actually you should take a look at the software being developed for OLPC, there are some cool things that lets you be very creative without reading.

  4. Re:Flashlight! on Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone · · Score: 1

    Problem is that keyboard plastic get loose really easy. Perhaps they have solved the issue but that material looks like shit after a year of use.. ;-/

  5. The otherway around on Does Your Employer Still Use SSNs? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it shouldn't be so easy to missuse SSNs? Why do you have companies that allow the use of just SSNs to signup for something? SSNs and their equals are a very good identifiers but only if you have a password or something else that has been established as yours already.

    SSNs are the perfect single sign on.

    I don't see the problem at all...

  6. Does DVI LCD count? on Xbox 360 adds 1080p Support · · Score: 0

    me, but I guess I never am going to be able to connect my LCD to a gaming rig..

  7. Re:IPv6 on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    That would be 32bit:32bit:32bit:32bit because you can write it as e.g. 32bit:8bit.8bit.8bit.8bit:32bit:32bit

  8. Re:Who writes this junk? on Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August · · Score: 1
    Are you talking about OSX (Tiger, Leopard, what have you) just RUNNING on commodity PCs or Apple supporting it? Because Tiger has been running on beige boxes since 10.4.1, just unsupported.


    If by unsupported you mean hacked together by a bunch of higly elite hackers from Kazakstan, yes then you are right..
  9. Shut them down on BPI Sue AllOfMp3 In British Courts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These people basically pay no royalities at all to the muscians, and they give you a false feeling of buying legitimate stuff. I don't think this is nice at all, sure the the music industry is crooked, but these guys really are pirates for profit. They make money by selling stuff they have no right to sell.

    Allofmp3 are money hungry low lifes.

  10. Re:Wikipedia is not reliable on VW Raises the Bar for Self-Driving Vehicles · · Score: 1

    You are wrong, you won't get extra precision by mounting more cheap GPS:es. You need to be in the same spot for a very long time (couple of hours), monitoring the analog radio data, and have access to DGPS data.

  11. Re:More Fun With Statistics!!! on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 1

    Sigh! You are a gun zealot, there are 3 types of lies and the third is Statistics. I don't know where to begin in attacking you stats, but lets just say I believe alote more people use their cars than their guns. With your stats that means 3 guns per household...

    More statistics:
    2/3 who dies in cars don't use seatbelts

    44000/235 = 187 deaths per capita per year in USA
    440/9 = 48 deaths per capita per year in Swedean
    187/44 = 4 times more in the US than Sweden

    Oh darn you got me flaming. Sigh...

  12. One time payoff on Billions Donated to Charity · · Score: 1

    It takes 12 years for Sweden to give away that amount of money to development countries, and we have had a goal of paying that amount since at least 1968. So I'm not really impressed.

  13. Re:The positive side on Google's Secretive Data Center · · Score: 1

    I don't think there will be 200 permanent jobs, the article said 60-200, I betting more on 60 than 200. You don't want these things to cost you that much in maintenace. Sure the googleplex is big but the people wont be working on site.

    This is more akin to a tranport company that setup a wharehouse in the middle of "no where". Though a wharehouse probably employs more people.

  14. Re:DIY clone? on Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop · · Score: 1

    that should be usually no dma

  15. Re:DIY clone? on Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop · · Score: 1

    Except that I would like to see you make a raid on a laptop just to put those four 8GB CF cards together.. And further CF cards are really slow compared to harddrives (no DMA).

  16. Israeli tech.. on Would You Wear Video Glasses? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  17. HD version of this would be nice. on Would You Wear Video Glasses? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is clearly a step forward and will lower the cost of wearable screens, we can just hope it's not as much vaporware as it sounds. I also have some issues with the whole wearable screen tech business: Every "videoglasses" producer has always promised 40" TV, for as long as these have been sold, but usually the let down is quality. You know a laptop 12" screen can also seem to be 40" as long as you have it close enough, and a laptop screen has better resolution.

    I've used the Sony version that you plugged into a TV, and that version was very low res, about 400px in height. I'm not sure you can make "affordable" wearable displays with any good resolution. Even though Mirage, the makers of this device, are using a single OLED/LCD it still going to cost a lot to produce enough pixels to satisfy the eye.

    And I can't figure out how my glasses are going to fit in there.

  18. Re:It's about using the camera on Megapixels & Camera Phones · · Score: 1

    Yes, my first Troll mod. Uhm I wonder why I got it.... Not the most brilliant piece of writing I've produced, but why was I a labeled Troll?

  19. It's about using the camera on Megapixels & Camera Phones · · Score: 1, Troll

    This article is FUD.

    I use my mobilep hone camera, it's a lousy 1MP. Using a 2MP camera phone really makes it possible to see details and colours. You can argue that this has nothing to do with the amount of Mega Pixels your camera has; e.g. the lense, the CMOS area, is more important etc etc. But more megapixels usually means better quality.

    Should you buy a new phone just because it's a 2MP camera, why not! If you take pictures, tell my why I wouldn't want them in better resolution?

    Last year amounted to 20MB (~200-300 pics) of photos from my phone. Most of them would never have been shot if I didn't have a mobile phone with a camera, and I assure you that I want to keep alot of them.

  20. Re:PGP? on Gmail vs Pine · · Score: 1

    S/MIME is the answer my friend.. There is an extension for encrypting emails directly in Gmail.

    http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-smime /gmail-smime.html

  21. Just 23%, should be higher on Why Phishing Works · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised but I'm guessing this paper used students at MIT to do the research. I would think that 90% of all users didn't look at the URL bar, and if they did use it they only did a fast check to see if it was SSL and almost the same name as usual. This is important because you can still register a fake domain that looks like bank.example.com and get SSL certificates for it.

    I've actually tried this on my mother in law, where I took a dump of the frontpage of her bank and placed it at bank.example.com/, she didn't notice. I believe MITM attacks will be on the rise, and they can probably be very sophisticated if you have access to the local machine.

  22. Re:Wow on Review of GMail for Your Domain · · Score: 1

    So? Just use gmail an you have pop3 access for free as well without any added slogans on the bottom of your mails.

  23. V1agra11111!11 on The Creative Power of Second Life · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the article:
    last year I met a guy who sells genitals in Second Life. Yup - stick-on genitals, because the default avatar has none.


    He he! with all these in game terminals and AIM api being free, soon you will get "get larger" IMs and mails in game as well as in real life.
  24. There is a reason for this on AIM Now (Mostly) Open To Developers · · Score: 1

    Well this would hinder Microsoft from including AIM support in its IM client, and I guess that is quite important to aim?

  25. Re:Another use? on Linux Support for Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do about speed, you will not gain speed by using the flash, it's just a way to write data to the harddrive without spinning up. This will earn you
    1. power consumption (alot)
    2. less wear on the HD

    nothing else.