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  1. Re:What the hell? on RIAA-Backed Warrantless Search Bill In California · · Score: 1

    The police have a right to work safely.

    And I have a right to be safe in my home.

    What if every citizen says "This unlawful, come in here and I'll shoot you!"

    That's a VERY good reason to announce your presence. The police are too stupid to understand that, and blame their obvious error on the homeowner who was just trying to defend himself. This is not how a free society is run.

  2. Re:Why? on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, the Next Round · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a tamper proof device. Any attempt to market such a device is fraudulent.

  3. Wow on XBMC4XBOX 3.0.1 Stable Released · · Score: 2

    I still use XBMC4XBOX every night. I will enjoy this immensely. Thanks!

  4. Re:So? on AppleCare Reps Told To Skirt Malware Questions · · Score: 1

    I agree. If you read the memo, installation of the "malware" requires authorization from the user. If you choose to do that, the OS vendors hands are clean. Apple isn't responsible for removing software you installed.

  5. Re:What the hell? on RIAA-Backed Warrantless Search Bill In California · · Score: 2

    Which is another way of saying we have no protection against unlawful entry at all. This is clearly not what was intended by the 4th amendment.

  6. Re:Security through obscurity on Siemens SCADA Hacking Talk Pulled From TakeDownCon · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows holes exist. Every non-trivial piece of software has holes in it.

  7. Re:Security through obscurity on Siemens SCADA Hacking Talk Pulled From TakeDownCon · · Score: 2

    Why would Siemens bother fixing holes nobody knows about?

  8. Re:What loss of pixels? on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    Throw it in the trash and get a superior CRT. Shouldn't cost more than $10.

  9. Re:What the hell? on RIAA-Backed Warrantless Search Bill In California · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Indiana Supreme Court wrote "We believe however that a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence."

    It is abundantly clear that modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is incompatible with the Fourth Amendment.

  10. Re:Why more grids?!? on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    This is absolutely correct. It is easier to find an object in a 1d list than a 2d matrix. With a list, you start at the top and move down. You are guaranteed to find your item. With a matrix, you have to reposition your eyes frequently.

    Sorted lists are objectively better for usability. Period.

  11. Re:Vimperator: surprisingly effective and liberati on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    If you really want a hard core browsing experience, try UZBL.

  12. Re:If my clients are any indication few will notic on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    this change will simply help facilitate that ignorance.

    I think that's actually Google's intention. Make a browser the ignorant can use.

  13. Re:What loss of pixels? on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    Who's using a resolution of 1280x1024 these days? I run my 10 year old CRT at 1600x1200.

  14. Re:Abandoned on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    Nice. A completely wrong post, and self-reply correcting it in one line nets you +5 insightful and +5 interesting. Good job.

  15. Re:no substitute for the real thing on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    And for godsakes keep it offline 'cause it's insecure as heck now.

    Firewall it. Use Dillo as the browser. With no ports visible to the internet, and a browser that doesn't even support javascript, there's very little surface area for an attacker to find a hole.

  16. Re:For DOS games, sure. on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    The PS2 is a bad example. What about the Xbox? It's a fairly standard X86 box with a custom windows 2000 build. Why hasn't anyone hacked VirtualBox into VirtualXbox yet?

  17. Re:I bit the bullet... on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 2

    Kids aren't interested unless you're interested. Don't go "hey kids look at this old crap!", that won't work. Play with it while they're around and they will be interested in what you're doing. It's monkey see, monkey do with kids.

  18. Re:Good riddance on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I just pulled out my old PI and PII systems, after most of a decade in the closet. Putting Dos on the one and 98SE on the other, and playing some of the games I missed. It's been a *lot* of fun.

  19. Re:Strange on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 1

    If you were native to the US, you used AIM. If you were native to Europe, you used MSN. If you were native to the internet, you used IRC.

  20. Re:Will this finally shut up on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    If you have more IPs than computers, then no you absolutely do not need NAT. A simple firewall would be more effective and cause fewer problems.

    The only reason NAT is common today is that there are more devices than ip addresses.

  21. Re:10% contract prostate cancer? on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nearly all men will get prostate cancer if they live long enough. It's slow growing and asymptomatic, so it might not even be the worst health problem grandpa has.

  22. Re:Well then, who does create jobs? on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    No you can't. A capitalist state with no social spending would have no brakes on the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Let that go on unfettered and you're just begging for a revolution. The French kind, not the warm and cuddly American kind.

    Capitalists in America complaining about social spending is like bitching about the food you have to feed the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  23. Re:Well then, who does create jobs? on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    Communist? Marx was actually a supply sider.

  24. Re:Will this finally shut up on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 2

    That's what DNS is for.

  25. Re:maybe you should study grub on GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS · · Score: 2

    I certainly can't claim to have never done anything stupid. But isn't it funny how I never did anything stupid when LILO was the popular boot loader?

    Sure, i'll cop to being an idiot. In fact, that's my whole point. LILO was idiot proof, Grub is not.