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  1. Re:iFixit on Foxconn Thinks the iPhone 5 Is a Pain · · Score: 1

    .1mm of WHAT? Is that the mould specifications (fairly easy with a CNC and plastic injection), the battery placement specifications (impossible), hot-glue thickness, or screw tightness (invalid unit and I doubt it has any screws anyways).

  2. Re:Umm on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough....?

    Depends if you have backups.

  3. Re:Do Not Want on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 1

    Which part of "required under current regulations" did you not read?

  4. Re:Truly horrible. on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 1

    Bullying (making fun of people to elevate your social status) is not in and of itself bigotry, especially when performed by children who are usually to young to have developed biggoted opinions.

  5. Re:Order they are recieved? on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    "Hit a button at exactly 10:00am on December 5th" and "send in new copies now" are not exactly the same.

  6. Re:Why would you buy from either one? on Has Lenovo Taken the Top PC Manufacturer Spot From HP? · · Score: 1

    Nice to hear some feedback about their desktop machines. All I've ever heard before about Lenovo was regarding their laptops (got an x220 myself about 6 months ago and loving it).

  7. Re:So why even bother with secure boot on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Is everyone going to tell me they lock the doors to whichever rooms their computers live when they have guests over?

    Bull crap.

    I think you need to find some new friends....

  8. Re:One more option... on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    UEFI is not a problem! UEFI with SecureBoot enabled by default is a problem.

  9. Re:So why even bother with secure boot on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    And I'd be really fucking pissed off if my Linux PC didn't require a user present at the console to reboot. Seriously, how did they bypass my WDE?

    FTFY

  10. Re:So why even bother with secure boot on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    First they came for the Arms,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an Arm user.

    Also, *all* windows will require SecureBood, it just needs to be disable-able on non-Arm systems (for now).

  11. Re:Meh on EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Unless they can argue that the popcorn is "just that good!"

  12. Re:Yet another reason to dump FF on Mozilla Details How Old Plugins Will Be Blocked In Firefox 17 · · Score: 1

    That's what point releases are for. Also, I bet you that if you installed an old copy of FF2 on your modern machine, you may change your mind.

  13. Re:TLDs are pointless on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you live in the US where local businesses have pretty much take over .com ( you were SUPPOSED to use .us! ). Try going to Europe or Asia and then you will see that .com is MUCH more prevalent in North America than the rest of the world.

  14. Re:Yeah... on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    Would this be a knock-out tournament setup or have all 10,000 of them in one huge arena? Because I would PAY to see the later broadcast to the public!

  15. Re:GTLD blocker programs? on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    Just whitelist the existing TLD's on a personal DNS server.

  16. Re:Why is this so hard? on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    Simple auction website. Each gTLD gets its own auction page that expires after a 24 hour period of no bidding. You must pay a fixed sum entrance fee to access each gTLD auction page. If you chose a gTLD that does not yet have an auction page, one is automatically generated and you must bid the mininum amount. When a new gTLD auction is started, it is posted on an rss (or similar) feed that ONLY announces that the auction has started (each entrant must pay the entrance fee so see the page).

  17. Re:Order they are recieved? on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    Like they've been doing since the beginning anyways? Just have everyone re-submit a new copy and use that order.

  18. Re:Truly horrible. on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not all religious people are bigots (my personal experience is that very few actually are), however I have yet to meet a bigot who WASN'T religious, thus in my opinion the GP's statement appears to be fairly valid. Want proof? Just look at the list of organizations that supported proposition 8 in California.

  19. Re:It would still become a derived work of the ker on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, from what I understand in the GPL, that notice isn't an excemption added to the GPL, it is a notice that simply clarifies what is already in there.

  20. Re:Tachyons on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Says anonymous coward on a free website that posts links to other authors' content with summaries that are either 100% inaccurate or simply copy/pasted from the article's first paragraph...

  21. Re:Will it cover all possible uses? on US Navy Funds 'MacGyver' Robot · · Score: 1

    Something tells me he won't "BRB"...

  22. Re:Question... on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    How do you re-assemble the DNA of an archaic hominid accurately when it had DNA that was different from ours?

    With a threaded needle and a steady hand.

  23. Re:Oh don't worry on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    Maybe Hitler was like the 101st worst person in history and they only bothered killing off the top 100.

  24. Re:Deer cams on Ask Slashdot: Video Monitors For Areas That Are Off the Grid? · · Score: 1

    Why would you link to that site? Silent Witness is owned by Honeywell, they have a perfectly fine website of their own.

  25. Re:Two questions... on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1

    I must have missed that sailing because i have NEVER used a single site that required pdf's to be viewed by a plugin instead of an external application like they should be.

    Also, since you are probably running windows, have you tried turning it off and on again?