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  1. Re:Who wants to update?? on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    According to Apple, they're all upgrade versions, there's no such thing as a full version that doesn't come with a Mac.

  2. Re:Who wants to update?? on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 2, Informative
  3. Re:Soo... encryption isn't that useful to begin wi on UK Law Enforcement Is Against "3-Strikes" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IIRC, you are required to turn over keys if asked by the government in the UK, jail time if you don't.

    If they're currently trying to figure out who to ask keys from, if everyone does it, workload on figuring out what is malicious and requires them to ask everyone or figure out some way to narrow it down.

  4. Re:No worry, we'll never get close on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    There's a corollary somewhere that the speed of software halves every 18 months, it's been around for years.

  5. Re:It is kind of sad to think on Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing · · Score: 1

    They are like rare freaks of nature.

    Or of Science (NSFW pics)

  6. Re:Not really... on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 1

    Then the text becomes "Don't install blah". The requirement needs to be carefully written.

    On a side note, does iTunes even have the logo?

  7. Re:Not really... on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 1

    In services != kernel.

    These are not running at kernel level, all service run in user mode.

  8. Re:Sounds like... on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: 1

    Twit from a phone? Take pictures?

    With what electronics?

  9. Re:From the last Slashdot article and FYI: on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tailgating is not a zero risk event. Which is riskier?

  10. Re:1984? on Amazon Delaying Public Domain Submissions On Kindle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Public domain still isn't the same the world over. See 1984.

  11. Re:Inherintly unconstitutional on Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws · · Score: 1

    And I think people's rights are more important than state's rights.

    Free access to the laws and the state's views of those laws is paramount.

  12. Re:Make up your minds... on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    The Abrahamic god has pretty much been shot down. The specific claims are pretty much gone (no global flood, wrong order of creation). As specified in the bible, he's not omniscient nor omnipotent (can't defeat iron chariots, needs a marking of blood to find worshipers). Even if against that, you assume the omnipotence and fall back onto "god made it look that way", then god becomes the father of lies, not satan, making him not the Abrahamic one.

  13. Re:I just noticed a language trend on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 1

    multi-core != SMP. see: PS3.

  14. Re:Exactly like vendor lock-in on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you're saying gcc is being used for vendor lock in?

  15. Re:More heavy-handed every day on MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    Simpler solution:

    Don't go to theaters that do that. I've only gone to an independent chain after there was 33 (so much for your 10) minutes of ads before the feature, not counting previews. The only ads ad this chain are for events that the chain has.
    They also serve food and toss out people that talk.

  16. Re:I believe almost every free software I use has. on Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And so does every bit of commercial software. How do you differentiate?

  17. Re:How sites can embrace the AdBlock model on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's there, just prefix the block pattern with an @

  18. Re:HTML 5? on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 1

    I go out of my way to block the Google ads.

    "Download Episode 1 here!" - it was still in theaters
    "Get your free PS3!" - it wasn't out yet.

    You can't bother to vet your ads, I can't be bothered to view them, I don't care how unobtrusive they are, they're still offensive.

  19. Prior art on Twitter Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what year was wall created?

  20. Re:Not only that ... on RIAA Loses Bid To Keep Revenues Secret · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is commercially sensitive, but not in a direct manner.

    "They only made how much? I'm not going to sign with you for that"

  21. Re:I couldn't care less on Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What DRM laden music?

  22. Dear Sony on Sony's New Development Strategy For the PSP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I already buy few PSP games. Are you trying to make me completely stop? Digital distribution is a guaranteed way to do it.

  23. Re:Wow on ImageShack Hacked, Security Groups Threatened · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it's free speech, mind if I come and write graffiti on the side of your house? If you stop me, you're censoring my speech.

  24. Re:Symantec products are apparently the same. on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Nope. My company was acquired by them and I bailed FAST. I was the first dev out. They suck as a place to work.

    I had POC code that uninstalled Norton silently, even when there was a password. Didn't take me more than an hour to write.

  25. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Trying scaring someone on 8-bit arcade graphics.

    OK, done.