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  1. Re:Okay, I Get That The Guy Didn't Download It, Bu on Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films · · Score: 2

    Answer: there is no Redbox DVD rental service in my location, you insensitive clod. :) The (legal) DVD stores in my location only sells old movies. The legal stores have actually reduced their price to match the price of an illegal DVD, but they still don't have the advantage of being able to sell the latest movies.

  2. Battlestar Galactica on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1

    In the world of BSG, fracking is always a good thing.

  3. Re:Supply and demand on Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... to perform the feat using a single box of Trefoil cookies — which could potentially yield $15 billion worth of graphene

    It could potentially reduce the price of $15 billion worth of graphene to a single box of Terfoil cookies. Here, fixed that for you.

  4. Just stick to Windows XP and Deep Freeze on Ask Slashdot: What OS For a Donated Computer? · · Score: 1

    Just stick to Windows XP, and install Deep Freeze. (Software) damage caused from toying around or from virus infection will instantly be "healed" when the computer is powered off at the end of the day. This is a practical solution that would save you tons of headache.

  5. Re:Meanwhile on earth ... on First Observational Test of the "Multiverse" · · Score: 1

    I sometimes wonder if a real universe comes out of existence, if only for a brief moment, whenever I dream of my own magical world inside of my head.

    What if we're living inside the mind of a supercomputer right now?

  6. Re:Is using another third party service on DIY Dropbox Alternatives · · Score: 1

    You might want to check your Web/WebDAV server. Initially, I experienced problems when I used lighttpd (locking issues, can't move/rename), but everything went fine when I switched to Apache. Apache may not be as fast as lighttpd or nginx, but its WebDAV implementation is more or less complete.

  7. Re:Is using another third party service on DIY Dropbox Alternatives · · Score: 2

    My experience with WebDAV is that Windows support for it beyond XP is sucky. Heck, even under XP you can't mount it as a drive (that's what users want and expect) if you're using https. There are commercial WebDAV clients and there is an abandonware Novell client, but isn't this stuff that should be supported out of the box? WebDAV is not a solution.

    I've just made a Dropbox-like alternative for a client. We used S3 for the storage and exposed it via WebDAV. Yeah, Windows support is sucky; however the trick into making it work is to use Digest Auth (not Basic), and to use a valid certificate (the CN should correctly match).

  8. bad assumption on The Loudness Wars May Be Ending · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Proposed solution: following a standard that limits loudness would remove the strategic advantage of loudness.
    What will happen: the standard would be ignored.

  9. Re:Not compromised, not hacked on Military and Government E-mails Compromised · · Score: 1

    In an ideal world, users use different passwords for different websites. In reality, however, these passwords are equivalent to the passwords for their accounts.

  10. Dear Mark on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    Dear Mark Suckerberg,

    May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits. Thank you for deleting my photos that I've uploaded via KDE.

    - Facebook User

  11. Re:Not the cause. on Violent Games Credited With Reducing Crime Levels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nope. Abortion selects against unwanted children, who are most likely to develop without loving parental guidance.

  12. A very real use case scenario on PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo · · Score: 1

    We need to protect users from buggy install scripts that execute rm -rf /usr.

  13. Link for master list of compromised accounts on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Found this on the Internet: http://pastebin.com/hN7PxRhc

  14. Re:Reason is not a weapon? on Reason Seen More As a Weapon Than a Path To Truth · · Score: 1

    No need for fiction. Just ask our friendly lawyers. :)

  15. Re:is there ever going to be a bitcoin bank? on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you can store your BitCoins inside a safe deposit box of a real bank.

  16. Re:Interesting on LulzSec Hacks the US Senate · · Score: 1

    Some BSD Developers are probably Chaotic Neutral, since I have the strong impression that they're more concerned on how their code would work. They don't care if companies would commercialize their code, and release them as closed source. GNU Developers (or devs that use GPL licenses) are probably Chaotic Good, because they're passionate on the principles of "Free Software". I don't agree with their Leftist ideals though.

    OT: I think Slashdot needs to fix their JavaScript GUI.

  17. Re:Interesting on LulzSec Hacks the US Senate · · Score: 1

    Chaotic Neutral: Youtube users, BitTorrent users
    Chaotic Evil: LulzSec
    Chaotic Good: Open Source developers, especially kernel hackers

  18. why most of us can't be a renaissance man on The Modern Day Renaissance Man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Jumping from field to field to pursue your passion sounds great, but unfortunately, most of us need to work. I think most geeks would opt to become a "Renaissance Man" given enough funds. :)

  19. Google's main weakness on Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology · · Score: 1

    I know some will see this as a flamebait or something, but the real "sluggish, overengineered Leviathans" in their system is Java.

  20. Re:Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    I don't know why, but many sites have AAAA records for www.example.org but not for example.org:

    $ host -t AAAA yahoo.com
    yahoo.com has no AAAA record

    $ host -t AAAA facebook.com
    facebook.com has no AAAA record

    $ host -t AAAA www.yahoo.com
    www.yahoo.com is an alias for fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
    fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:f011:1fe::3000
    fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:f011:1fe::3001

    $ host -t AAAA www.facebook.com
    www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c08:4000:face:b00c:0:2

  21. Re:Google logo on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    I was hoping to see a dancing turtle or something...

  22. Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was happy to see xkcd, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Plurk turn on their IPv6 capabilities, but I was quite sad that Slashdot didn't take part in the World IPv6 Day.

  23. Re:On the positive side... on Chinese Boy Sells Kidney For iPad2 · · Score: 0

    Whoa, compassion in Slashdot? You must be new here.

  24. Re:What are they trying to prove at this point? on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 1

    So ok there are dicks out there. They are on the internet.

    I agree. There are no girls in the Internet.

  25. FreeBSD Xen support on Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support · · Score: 2

    Dear FreeBSD,

    When will you ever have a Xen dom0 support?

    Thanks,

    Charlie Root
    FreeBSD Fanboi