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  1. Pure evil. on ACTA Internet Chapter Leaked — Bad For Everyone · · Score: 1

    What's good for the *AA is good for us, right?

  2. Re:Ubuntu on Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Go-Ahead From EU, US DoJ · · Score: 1

    Might be a bit presumptuous, but I assume if they can manage to get linux installed, they can change their FF homepage, too.

  3. Re:I think... on Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Go-Ahead From EU, US DoJ · · Score: 1

    YahBing will (presumably) catch more eyes than one or the other, which means they will sell more ads, which means they will be more competitive with google. Not as good for the consumer though, I suppose.

    Myself, I haven't used anything but google since the launch. I don't particularly miss the dark ages.

  4. Re:Stupid on Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Go-Ahead From EU, US DoJ · · Score: 1

    Noogle, Newgle and neugel?
    I'd guess, like the baby bells, they would mostly rejoin in a few years anyways.

  5. Re:Obligatory on Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you go hunting and fishing, do you bring back deers, elks, geeses, fishes? and drink some beers?

    Cause I bring back deer, elk, geese and fish, and have a few beer. Well I would if I were a hunter.

  6. Re:Patent? on PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd better get a rush on a patent for "using pagerank on the internet" then. Take that google.

  7. Re:It's covered in the contract on Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company · · Score: 1

    They don't give you a 1995 lexus either, they give you the cash with the value of a 1995 in similar condition.

    So the insurance company should be giving these people the cash that a 3G costs, used, on eBay, or so... rather than a new 3GS.

  8. Re:Late to the party? on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    Scratch that, I'm half asleep. Canola. the yellow stuff.

  9. Re:Late to the party? on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It usually goes by the name "flax" these days.

  10. Re:You missed the unique part on How an Android Phone and Facebook Helped Route Haiti Rescuers · · Score: 1

    Bingo. Lets get rid of 9-1-1, air raid sirens, vehicle backup alarms, police sirens, and warning buzzers; Just post on facebook instead.

  11. Re:Set 32 sectors per track on Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives · · Score: 1

    RS-422 is great. I've got a 4 port card in this machine, and have direct control over 4 machines (on a different floor no less) with it, whether the network is up or not.
    Well, apart from a power switch.

  12. Re:Final cut pro == sad on Linux Foundation Announces 2010 "We're Linux" Video Contest · · Score: 1

    Eagle isn't free, though.

    kicad is pretty decent, it's GPL and cross platform (there's a win32 branch).

    gEDA is ok too, but there's something I don't like about it's schematic editor... Can't think of it right now though.

  13. Cut the fat on Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? · · Score: 1

    Instead of going full-bore typing, and not really absorbing the data, I prefer to read it, analyze it, and not write down the fluff. drop useless words, in my own sort of shorthand.

    Couple that system with a 2H pencil and some graph paper, and you're laughing.

  14. Re:Pulse Pen on Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? · · Score: 1

    You can print your own smart paper. However, doing so does require the use of an ink-jet printer from a rather limited set.

    So, effectively it's still $5 per notepad, correct?

  15. Re:If you drunk e-mail... on Craig Mundie Wants "Internet Driver's Licenses" · · Score: 1

    Using "u" and "ur" should be subject to summary execution.

  16. Re:gnu screen on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    dtach is tiny screen-like app, well, it does just the detach portion of it. Handy if you're running it on something pathetic (hacked router, fe.), and don't need all of GNU screen's bells and whistles.

    dtach

  17. Re:news flash on How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad they didn't apply this system to their horribly lame animal themed ads.

  18. Re:Too little, too late on Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source · · Score: 1

    It also has a large installed base, and it runs on much more pathetic hardware than android or maemo.
    There's still a marketplace for phones that aren't 1GHz, yet do more than talk and text. I don't know how many millions of phones out there run S60...

    Oh - they'll never adopt android, they have the superior Maemo for phones/tablets with some actual horsepower.

  19. Re:AT&T's E71x on Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source · · Score: 1

    You can definitely flash it to generic firmware, but you may need to use a fancy dongle (which uses something like JTAG, I presume) to do it, rather than usb/bootloaderish FW update. It depends on the phone.

  20. Re:web servers to app servers on The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    OpenBSD shipped with 1.x when I installed it (still does, I think), and that's what I'm running.

  21. Re:Prepare for the appeals! on Landmark Ruling Gives Australian ISPs Safe Harbor · · Score: 1

    For some reason I read it as "I am an awesome lawyer"... don't ask.

  22. Re:web servers to app servers on The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's on an old PIII board, sitting in the closet, running Apache 1.3, oddly enough ;)

  23. Re:Default settings on Verizon MiFi Owned By Simple Attack · · Score: 1

    Do you lock the door on your (car | house)?
    Obviously the person breaking into your house is committing a crime, but if you don't even bother to lock it, you're at least partly to blame, right?

  24. Re:web servers to app servers on The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can take my static web page from my cold dead hands.

  25. Re:Think bigger on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nickels and dimes add up, I guess.