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  1. Re:That's why I'm going to buy it. on OS X Snow Leopard Details · · Score: 3, Funny

    (remember when Windows 7 was supposed to be a clean new start?) It was a clean new start! It had Drag and Drop. And Balloon Help!!!

    Oh, never mind; I thought you said "System 7."
  2. Re:One wonders... on OS X Snow Leopard Details · · Score: 1

    Heck, the Exchange support in Mail is a bit spotty as well, so touching that up would be great as well. "Spotty"? I'm impressed you can use Exchange with Mail at all. They just moved to Exchange where I work and I had to say goodbye to Mail and get used to (yecch) Entourage.

    But what would really be great (and very much in line with the whole "embracing enterprise" thing) would be native support for Cisco IPsec VPN connections. As it stands, you have to use Cisco's own clunky client; if you could use the built-in client you could connect via a menubar icon. (Shimo does this pretty nicely, but it just became crippleware.) Here here! Definitely something that I thought would have been fixed at least as far back as 10.3. The VPN stuff is there, just no support for Cisco, which requires another level of authentication. Frustrating.
  3. well it's not quite the headline you are awaiting on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    but enjoy.

  4. Hate to spoil the punchline... on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 2, Informative

    I mean really...think how many geeks you might endager with a headline of "Openly Gay Republican Elected to Office" Just for the record, this openly gay man was elected to Congress after coming out, and at the local level there are probably quite a few folks like this guy.
  5. Thank God on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    someone posted a car analogy. Now I can understand this story.

  6. Here come the edit wars.... on CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts · · Score: 4, Funny
    • (cur) (last) 11:57, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,528 bytes) (reverting per BLP. Please see [[WP:CIVIL]] and stop making personal attacks, jerk!)
    • (cur) (last) 11:46, 16 May 2008 CocaineImportAgent (Talk | contribs) (46,589 bytes) (revert; please stop censoring well-sourced material just because it is critical of your terrorist hero, douchebag!) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 11:38, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,589 bytes) (revert per BLP--this text suggests sources say things they do not to cast a living person in a negative light. it is a textbook poorly sourced negative entry, which is a textbook BLP violation.) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 11:35, 16 May 2008 Spook4Hire (Talk | contribs) (48,131 bytes) (change to "considered by many to be a terrorist" in order to address intelguy's BLP concerns) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 11:33, 16 May 2008 CocaineImportAgent (Talk | contribs) (48,117 bytes) (rv no BLP violation has been substantiated in talk; this is notable criticism from notable organizations that IntelGuy is disruptively censoring. IntelGuy please see WP:DE!) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 11:31, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,589 bytes) (revert BLP violation) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 11:19, 16 May 2008 CocaineImportAgent (Talk | contribs) (48,117 bytes) (restore legitimate and well-sourced section on notable criticism) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 11:01, 16 May 2008 IntelGuy (Talk | contribs) (46,528 bytes) (reverting per BLP. another 6 FBI references do not address my concerns. It still says "bin Ladin is considered a terrorist." There is still no consensus for this negative info in a Biography of Living Persons) (undo)
    • (cur) (last) 10:46, 16 May 2008 Spook4Hire (Talk | contribs) (47,990 bytes) (-->Allegations of Terrorism) (undo)
  7. Mod parent up on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Clinton thing was blown out of proportion because they had a provable lie under oath. The fact that it was a lie about a trivial matter (trivial to the public anyway; obviously not trivial to the Clinton family) was irrelevant to the right-wingers who attacked him on what many of them saw as a matter of principal. The problem is the same principals are ignored when one of their own engages in provable lie after provable lie about matters of grave public importance such as war and peace. But Bush and co. have been smart enough not to find themselves in the position of uttering provable lies under oath (they avoided this simply by refusing to take an oath when testifying to the 911 Commission, for example, and by refusing to testify altogether). So we don't have the "gotcha" moment that we had with Clinton. I can agree that Clinton's lies were shameful whether under oath or not and that perhaps I'd have more respect for him had he come clean, but it doesn't change the fact that the issue he lied about was one I had no business knowing anything about in the first place. Whereas Bush & Co's lies have been about issues that the public does have a right to know, and thousands of Americans have died as a direct result of these lies. I hope people can see the difference.

  8. No Wireless/Less Space on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 1

    Looks like Apple has picked up on the slashdot meme and turned it from a bug into a feature -- look at http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/wireless.html on the bottom right it advertises the phone as having "More wireless. Less space." And given that iTunes is installed, they could have easily added, "LAME."

  9. problem with units on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 1

    Oh and for our european friends: It's merely â126, Four our british friends: it's merely £100 Thanks for the conversion, but how much is that in Libraries of Congress?
  10. Update -- scientists not so surprised on Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming · · Score: 1

    when they figured out that it was the earth's blogosphere, not the biosphere, that was booming. In other news, they may have found the source of a lot of the hot air that has led to global warming.

  11. Peer review is done online on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    What else do you call +5 informative?

  12. typo on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    and 10.5.3 just came in the other day (and things actually seem a bit snappier) Fixed that for you.
  13. so what? on Music Industry Tells Advertisers to Boycott "Pirate" Baidu · · Score: 1

    The page is useless. All the links are in Chinese!

  14. Awww... on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 4, Funny

    And so soon after it made the list.

  15. second time this week?? on How To Frame a Printer For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    It's the second time on this page!

  16. Or perhaps on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    It's a "false flag" attempt to frame some third party for extortion. It's quite possible that whoever programmed this knows damn well that there's no way he/she's going to make any money doing it.

  17. Re:But were they smart, or stupid? on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    STOP.

  18. Re:This isn't Insightful.. It's disgusting... on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 1

    ... when we all know McCain is aware enough .... I'm not so sure about that...
  19. APBNews.com on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A daily fix of news about crime and criminal justice delivered with a sense of humor. You can look through the old ones using the wayback machine. It's a little like what thesmokinggun would have been with real editors and reporters. They went under around 2002 but it used to be one of my daily browsing spots.

    That and our own nofuncharlie, which went under not because of lack of funding (there never was any in the first place), but because we let some domain-snatchers grab the domain out from under us....

  20. Re:Why? on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can use google docs to store your files pass US customs and download them again quickly and easily once you have passed customs. Awesome! Can you please post instructions for how to do this using drugs instead of files?
  21. Don't be silly on Texas Governor As E3 Keynote Speaker Causes Strife · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's clearly the Entomological Society of America, who was concerned because of E3's promotion of buggy software.

    Yeah, they were pretty bugged about the whole thing.

  22. Marine Mud on Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old · · Score: 1

    the species is related genetically to certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some plants I'm not surprised it was found in Marine mud; those guys' boots get really dirty after all that traipsing around. There must be all kinds of bacteria in that muck!
  23. Re:Neeeehhh, What's up, Doc? on GPLv3's Implications Hitting Home For Lawyers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bugs Bunny isn't the only source of this term as an insult, however; besides its rather obsolete meaning in terms of descendants of runaway slaves, a "maroon" is someone isolated -- "marooned" as it were -- and can be used to refer to someone who is sheltered, who hasn't traveled, or who is simply closed-minded. So it's not just a synonym for "moron."

  24. he did rebut them on China's All-Seeing Eye · · Score: 1

    he said they were disproven by slashdot comments a few weeks ago. Heck, if it was in a slashdot comment it must be true!

  25. Re:eMate was NOT powered by AAs on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Agree - the emate was the perfect laptop in many ways and Apple - or someone - should bring back that form factor. But as far as the batteries go, you're right, but you can actually power the thing with regular AA batteries if you are willing to getyour hands dirty a bit.