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  1. Since when on Judge Rules Against RealDVD · · Score: 1

    Does a contract provision trump a Federal law?

  2. Re:Vaporware on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    "Beta" means "it's not done yet"

    There could be one last tweak on the day before rollout that reduces performance by 20%. You can't tell me you've never seen this in software: "Oh, we forgot to call fsync()"

  3. Re:Vaporware on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    Where can I buy one today?

    It's vaporware until you can drive one off the lot

    In the meantime there will be tweaks that may reduce the final results

    Anyone who works in software knows to ignore benchmarks of unreleased products.

  4. Area is a bogus argument on US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because the US does NOT have universal GSM coverage. For example, a GSM phone is pretty useless in New Hampshire if you live north of Concord.

    There are vast areas of the US with no cell coverage at all.

  5. Not the cost of the computer on Chrome OS Designed To Start Microsoft Death Spiral · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you really expect anyone to believe that the cost of the computer is the cost of your computing?

    Intelligent people who also factor in other costs often end up choosing Macs as the TOTAL low-cost alternative.

    I bought a Mac for my wife, it is by far the cheapest solution because I spend zero time fixing it for her.

  6. Too Late, Hot Plate on Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They could have raised these complaints a long time ago. There is a process for this and they chose to ignore it.

  7. How is any of this new? on Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents · · Score: 1

    XML already provides the ability to ignore things that are not understood.

    My head just hurts trying to think of how one could consider this patentable.

  8. Not really on How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    Not if you run it from a LiveCD on a dedicated system that you have set up with a bridge like the post above.

  9. HOW on Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can you expect "power savings" when VMware is running? You are basically running two computers at once.

  10. Only if you disregard FIXING THE BROWSER on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    The browser could show a page with the same information as the DNS hijacker.

    You don't fix a broken user interface by breaking network protocols.

  11. Not necessarily on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    How can you tell that your ISP is not hijacking ALL of your DNS requests? You really think that Comcast cannot redirect your DNS queries to their server?

  12. Re:Rating on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    "Red" and "Sox" are also nice names.

  13. SMB still sucks on Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Windows network file service is just as slow and as network-chatty as ever.

    When you compare it to NFS4, it is most miserable. With SMB, the client and server shoot packets at each other all day and barely any data gets transferred. NFS4 will totally saturate my gigabit ethernet and it's almost all data in those packets.

    Microsoft should just embrace NFS4 and drop SMB like a hot potato. It serves noone's interests to have such a crappy file service system in this day and age.

  14. Yeah, right on Null-Prefix SSL Attacks Enabled In New sslsniff · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is the first thing they think of. You can bet your lunch money that they statically link their crypto library, and then obfuscate the binary for good measure.

  15. She should sue them on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 4, Funny

    For not teaching her about how stupid it is to file frivolous lawsuits.

  16. It's the law on A Hypothesis On Segway Hate · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can't use a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk in most places.

    You're out of your mind if you drive one in the street.

    So where exactly are you supposed to ride them?

    Indoors in a crowded place it's just an accident waiting to happen.

    As a practical matter they are just toys for the few who can afford them.

  17. We need to lock everyone in their houses on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or else the great outdoors is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly.

  18. Homemade music is best on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My wife can bang out old Beatles classics on her guitar all day, and it cheers me up a thousand times more than any of the crap on the radio or the Internet.

    Sometimes I suggest a song to her that she doesn't know. She takes this as a challenge, learns the song, and then serenades me with it.

    Life is good.

  19. Re:As usual secrets are best kept in brain case on Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption · · Score: 1

    Why don't you read the comment that I was responding to:

    "As usual secrets are best kept in brain case"

    I was asserting the falsehood of that statement., not shilling for USB key dongles.

  20. Re:As usual secrets are best kept in brain case on Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tell that to the doctor in the emergency room when he needs to look up your patient records to decide if it's safe to administer a drug to you.

  21. Slashdot is the Huffington Post of computing on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Semi-literate stories, completely ignorant comments

  22. Re:Compiled binaries? on How Wolfram Alpha's Copyright Claims Could Change Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is there a distinction or not?

  23. Re:Runs in the background.... on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 1

    That's NOT why the feature is there

    It is there so you can leave sessions running and come back to them later, even from a different console

    emacs starts up instantly on any modern machine so this is not an issue

    You have a lot of nerve calling emacs "bloated" when you have a whole desktop full of bloated gnome or KDE stuff running.

  24. gedit uses more ram than emacs on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 1

    look for yourself!

  25. emacs is not a text editor on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 1

    emacs is an IDE

    If you want a text editor, use nano