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  1. Re:If it 'snot good enough for the feds... on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    If there was any way to recover wiped data, drive manufacturers would incorporate the technology to increase capacities, and then there would be no way to recover that data if you wiped it.

  2. Edge on Infineon Chipset May Be Cause of IPhone 3G Issues · · Score: 1

    I think the 3G chipset problems and all these 3G phones failing back to Edge has made my iPhone V1 drop more calls and suck more. I never got great Edge reception at my house but since the 3G came out my phone drops calls all the time.

  3. look over here! Standards! on Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    microsoft made this decision in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that ie8 can't properly render any content, standards-compliant or not. They are just trying to push the work off on web developers. Ie8 won't be any more standards compliant than ie7, it probably still won't support XHTML, svg, or even completely support PNG.

  4. Re:Gravel! Turn back! on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 1

    Exactly!! There's probably a street sign too. Hopefully some kids will come along and steal their bullshit street sign.

  5. Re:What is the real problem? on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    Chinese people are smaller, but the planes are the same size.

  6. Hypocrisy at its finest on H-P's Dunn Enters No Plea, Charges Dismissed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone who commits a real crime gets off scott free due to illness, whereas,
    on the same day,
    in the same state,
    this http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics& id=5122773 dying woman is loses her appeal,
    and is sent to prison for smoking dope.

  7. NVidia GEForce MX440 on Where Can You Find Cheap DVI Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    Get an old NVidia GEForce MX440 of ebay for $10. It can output any of the fancy schmancy resolutions out its DVI port and has hardware MPEG scaling, so its a good little card for MythTV too.

  8. From a fellow software developer's perspective on State Trooper Fights For His Source Code · · Score: 1

    1. He's a cop.
    2. FTA: He writes 2000 tickets a year, several times more than his fellow officers.

    Fuck him.

  9. Re:anyone have an example? on Google's Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling they weren't looking for the obvious solution of generating all the letter permutations and looking them up in the dictionary. Probably something along the lines of loop over all the words in the dictionary once, calculating the dial sequence, stick it all in a hashtable and have an O(1) lookup on any phone number. Still pretty damn obvious though.

  10. Re:Airport Security is a joke on TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker · · Score: 1

    The hole was trivially easy to exploit. Microsoft Word makes it possible to circumvent security it.

  11. Re:Airport Security is a joke on TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker · · Score: 1

    A code, even if it wasn't plainly visible to everyone, probably isn't adequate security. I assume from the layout of the ticket counter etc. that you would have access to passenger bags there, at a minimum.

  12. Airport Security is a joke on TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Airport security is a joke, and all he did is point that out. I will point something else out. When I was waiting in the immensely long line for United Domestic Check-In, I noticed they controlled access to the door behind the ticket counter with a simple mechanical combination lock. I observed several United Airlines employees entering and every time I could clearly see the code being entered. I felt very secure.

  13. Re:US Health Care Costs on Health Insurance for the Self-Employed? · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies take over 1/3 of all money spent on healthcare as pure profit.

  14. Re:Does this mean.. on Details On IE7 CSS Changes · · Score: 1

    Well, you see, when you reply to a comment, you should well, understand the comment in the first place. I was in no way talking about a CSS hack, but about Alpha filters. Conditional comments would do nothing in this situation. Microsoft broke their own, nonstandard Alpha filters in a small but annoying way.

  15. Re:Virtual Machines on Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    The only slowdown I see from VMWare et all is when the two OSes are competing for the same resource, whether it is CPU or memory. In general a cpu-intensive task isn't going to run any slower in a Virtual Machine. Are you confusing emulation with virtualization?

  16. Re:IE7 Text Rendering on IE7 From a Firefox User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    It always uses Cleartype, except when it renders text above an AlphaFilter. Then, never. For example, a transparent region using Alpha transparency, or a png image loaded the IE6 way, using the AlphaImageFilter.

  17. Re:Does this mean.. on Details On IE7 CSS Changes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Alpha filters still work... With the exception that any text rendered over an Alpha filter (e.g. a .png or an Alpha transparency) looks like ragged shit, as for some reason it is not rendered anti-aliased. For .pngs you can remove the Alpha png filter nonsense, but so far I have no solution for text on top of an alpha transparency.
    Why am I not surprised that in fixing IE they have broken the previous, non-standard hack crap?

  18. Misfits of Science on KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its not an X-Men ripoff - Its a ripoff of Misfits of Science, which was the best television show ever.

  19. Re:If you want to spend less on gas on Much Ado About Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    If an imperial gallon is only 20 fl oz. you would get way less than 30mpg. Also apparently in college I put away 24 gallons of beer in one sitting. Milwaukee's Best Light Ice must have even less alcohol in it than I remember.

  20. Re:Police charity response on Is the Do Not Call System Working? · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of the classic get-out-of-a-speeding ticket joke. A blonde is pulled over for speeding. She bats her eyes at the cop, and asks "Can't I just buy a ticket to the policeman's ball?". The cop responds with "Policemen don't have balls.", realizes what he just said, turns red, and lets her go.

  21. Re:My main complaint on Java Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried this, but I suppose you could stick the regex's in a .properties file.

  22. Re:Like saying 'A Ferrari outperforms a Mini' on OSS Web Stacks Outperformed by .Net? · · Score: 1

    The new Mustang GTs are faster than 350zs...

  23. Re:Shareholders? on Google Admits Compromising Principles in China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Google could also make a lot of money selling illegal drugs. So it would be in the shareholders interests for them to start doing so. Therefore, they are required by law to do it.

  24. Re:VB isn't _that_ bad on Making an Argument Against Using Visual-Basic? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just made the exact opposite point you were trying. It took a team of developers 7 years, at least 195.53 times the CPU performance, and your optimizations to emulate an 8-bit game machine. VB sucks for video game emulation in addition to all the other things it sucks at.

  25. Dibs on O'Reilly and CMP Exercise Trademark on 'Web 2.0' · · Score: 1

    Dibs on Web 95OSR2, and Web ME.