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  1. Re:$30 million on $300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal · · Score: 1

    Thanks,

    I read that and the first thing I thought was $300M doesn't sound like Raimi at all.

    I mean, isn't that about what he did the original Spider-Man for? It came across as way out of character to drop $300M for a movie.

  2. Re:What a load of crap on Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users · · Score: 1

    They allowed signed packages to be installed without entering the password.

    This was bad for multi-user, as it allowed someone to re-install a package, and alter settings (my understanding of the problem).

    It really I think has more to do with:
    1) FC people wanted to show off new security framework
    2) FC people not thinking multi-user.

    But I don't really know. I personally don't see a problem with allowing anyone that can sudo to install something, install the trusted packages without it.

  3. Re:Unsure. on The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza · · Score: 1

    Lorenzo's on South Street in Philly.

    They are some huge slices.

  4. Re:You get what you pay for on Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year · · Score: 1

    From the summary the article mentions this.

    45 days ship and wait vs within a week in your house. The warranty is generally better than the factory one.

  5. Re:No, really?! on FTC, Google Go After Scammers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I find funny, is that the block quote could have come strait off of one of the scam sites. The book itself (from context of the quote) could very well be a scam.

    The sites generally have quotes by the author of the program saying "all others are fake/dcams, use us", and the quote appears to say the same.

  6. Re:Not really on Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany · · Score: 1

    as a frequent hotel guest who is not an idiot I am sympathetic to many of those.

    How hard is it to get my damned name right so I can then get onto the internet? apparently way too hard for most hotels (and yes room number + name must match to get online often.

    And most hotels have internet on the TV, without a laptop. And paying for the cord would piss me off too (though I would take that if it meant I didn't need to share the wireless bandwidth from the hours of 7pm-1am).

    See previous, the internet often does not work. I have stayed at hotels with over 1 second ping times in those hours.

  7. Re:HTML 5 on Google Abandoning Gears · · Score: 1

    no, I was more referring to Past experience has shown great disappointment in all this hyperbole....

    I think that XMLHttpRequest is fantastic, and even if the only thing done with it was google maps, it would still be great.

    It originating by MS has nothing to do with it.

    Just as the power of that ActiveX object worked its way into standards to everyone's benefit and I think really lived up to expectations, HTML 5 is working in things such as gears and more. I expect it to be great in the end. Even if there is stuff that MS originated in there.

    and at this point it does have something to do with standards:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/

  8. Re:HTML 5 on Google Abandoning Gears · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty thrilled with what came out of AJAX myself.

    Just google maps alone makes it well worth it.

  9. Re:Several Reasons on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 1

    How many of the 50+ pirates would need to be offed to prevent the return fire vs finding a weaker target?

    How many of the few hundred to few thousand operating in the area would need to be eliminated before it is no longer worth the risk?

    I ask, because the pirates are doing it for a living, surely at some level of risk scooping up shit to sell for fuel is a more appealing job (don't know if they do that in Somalia, just the lowest income job I could think of). One doesn't need to defeat the pirates necessarily, it's just that currently there is no risk at all for the pirates.

    It would probably make more sense though to come up with a way to punish the pirates, as currently they are released back to Somalia, and go free.

  10. Re:Paging Bernie Madoff Clients... on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that the country itself can do this, for a fee.

    Countries could make some easy money and shipping companies can stop paying these criminal hacks.

    Most countries don't mind the weapons being lugged around, what they do mind is not having a monopoly on the weapon lugging within their borders.

  11. Re:I'm Not! on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is wikipedia's fault that they added this.

  12. Re:I think you've already decided... on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1

    Except active virus scanning destroys computer performance.

  13. Re:Wrong comparison on Recipient of First Software Patent Defends Them · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    Which is the problem with patents, they cripple supply to skew the pricing. It is there very purpose in fact.

  14. Re:games? on AMD Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Card Sweeps Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Informative

    better, like good hardware accelerated video decoding?

    Or are you comparing open source drivers?

    I know Nvidia has some suck in its drivers too, but the ATI ones are terrible.

  15. Re:Not Really on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    I rip to FLAC for the sake of speed in ripping though.

    My Athlon 3500+ is way faster creating FLAC than VBR MP3s

  16. Re:Dear NVidia, on NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100 · · Score: 1

    buy an after market cooler.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000110000+50001647+40000576&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&Subcategory=-1&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

    But shop sub $170 then. I still use my 6600 GT, so I am way behind, but one of these in silent mode cooled better than the stock by far (actually as a massive heatsink it compared to the stock GPU even).

  17. Re:Labelling. on What's Coming In KDE 4.4 · · Score: 1

    worth noting that gnome had become very polished too.

    I know Ubuntu (7.04) was the first time I had tried gnome in years.

    I have to say as a desktop it just felt right. With compositing now to stop bluring on window drag, I am thrilled with it. KDE3 was no longer on my radar.

  18. Re:Old Games on Faster Computers can be tough on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    And Wing Commander.

  19. Re:PDF of old paper was Slashdotted! on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they are all the best for some people?

    As generational sensibilities shift, perhaps best practices do too.

    If one looks at generational sensibilities as cyclical, than so too can methods of doing things be, most likely 1/2 generation behind too.

    cut generation times in half (to take into account that really you have blending and overlap), and you get roughly decade changes, and everyone can be best.

  20. Re:30 inch LCD, run at half resolution on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Bribery on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    I think robots.txt is retroactive on a page.

    Also, I am willing to bet many just show up if they are large.

    Example, I am interested in organic chemistry, currently I would go to wikipedia, after this change organic-chemistry.org (based on google results).

    I bet blogger.com pages show up in searches for people that would not go their too. True sites like facebook would not suffer as much, and it is those sites where the stradegy would work.

    I know people that type facebook into their google homepage to get results, and go to facebook (location bars purpose escapes them). if they were to not get to facebook that way, it would make google look terrible.

    http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook is not the result they want when typing facebook into google.

  22. Re:It's not just a "phone subsidy." on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    I have a G1 with 1500 minutes, unlimited data, and 400 messages.

    $69 is what I pay (with all fees added).

    I do not get free nights and weekends though, that would either add $10 (for unlimited minutes), or take my minutes down to 1000.

    Yours sounds expensive by us standards even.

  23. Re:It's not just a "phone subsidy." on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    How many billing issues have you had with them that you are not somehow responsible for?

    that alone actually sounds like a reason to leave.

  24. Re:It's not just a "phone subsidy." on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I've never had a problem with a billing dispute.

    Me with Cingular many years ago, dropped $350 to $100 (which is what I told them I expected the bill to be, it was a very busy month).

    Me with T-mobile 3.5 years ago retroactively upgraded my plan when I went over, and gave me a free months credit ($40) that applied 6 months done the road),

    My Wife with T-mobile 2 months ago. Knocked $100 off her bill when I slipped out of her fav five by accident.

    I have honestly had nothing but good experiences with cell phone providers, and this is even though I had a contract that stuck me with them for 6-12 months into the future at the time.

  25. Re:Seems reasonable... on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    How do they subsidize with those things if you cancel?