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  1. Re:Think about that. on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god. If I changed my .sig to "I'm inserting my virtual penis into your unwilling virtual vagina", would I become the worlds most prolific serial virtual rapist? That would be virtually awesome!

  2. Re:Think about that. on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 1

    And if you refused to answer their questions, there would be virtual electrodes strapped to your virtual head, and, no, NO, NOT THE VIRTUAL PROBE!

  3. Re:Well there you go... on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    Is pr0n a spectator sport now?

  4. Re:Defensive? on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase for those with poor reading comprehension.

    Your argument in no way countered the claim you were trying to counter.

  5. Re:Defensive? on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Thank you for making yourself sound special. You've by so doing removed yourself from the mass market which the largest seller of digital cameras in the world - Nokia - was targetting, and ensured that you are always part of the an elite minority which will do nothing to counter the claim that "we could start to see a decline in dedicated digital cameras sales and an increase in camera phone sales". Unfortunately that was the claim you were trying to counter by your argument. You didn't quite think it through enough, because like so many other DSLR owners you couldn't resist telling us how _huge_ your zoom lens is.

  6. Re:It's possible. on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT - 6x digital zoom.

    I'm aghast at how many people are making bold statements about "cameraphones do this", "DSLRs do that", etc. and almost none of them are actualy based on facts, most just on incorrect guesswork.

  7. Re:Warhol he aint on Report of Net Art Theft Draws Lawyer Threats · · Score: 1

    "fine art"

    He'll soon find out how true that description is.

  8. Re:And, as we all know... on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Ant Attack was one of the biggest wastes of time ever. And I mean that in the most positive way possible.
    Days, weeks, who knows how much time I spent playing that.

  9. Re:And, as we all know... on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum · · Score: 1

    I was a speccy owner (original 48k, plus interface 1 & microdrives too), and in retrospect, the BBC model B was about 10 times better, and only 2.5 times the price. The basic was vastly better in almost very way, inline assembler too, more ports, vastly better graphics, incomparably better sound, and more expansion capability.

    But I love my old speccy. Seeing my first self-generated full-screen mandelbrot after 27 hours of computation was something I will never forget!

  10. Re:Linux is fading away? on Exhaustive Data Compressor Comparison · · Score: 1

    But by that metric opera's doing well.

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=firefox%2C+internet +explorer%2C+opera&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

    By any other metric it isn't doing particularly well, despite it being a fairly competant browser.

  11. Re:Volumes not areas? on The Math of Text Readability · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the article is codswallop.

    Look at the colophon example:
        http://blog.wired.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/u ncategorized/2007/04/17/lov.jpg
    which they insist has equal volumes of yellow between each letter.
    Then look at the 2nd and 3rd yellow areas - vastly different.

    This reduces the credibility of the author to approximately zero.

  12. Re:Remember, kids... on Xeroxing Personal Data From Your Browsing History · · Score: 1

    Ah, OK, I've not seen enough of those __utm* ones to notice the pattern. However, they do sound like they're worth rejecting. Thanks for the heads up.

  13. Re:Remember, kids... on Xeroxing Personal Data From Your Browsing History · · Score: 1

    Just be careful not to block utm.edu - the university of Tennessee at Martin!
    However, anything with 'click', 'track', or 'xch' in its URL seems to be bin-worthy.

  14. Re:Sorry but the list is BS on Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid · · Score: 1

    Nope, you need greasemonkey to block those.

    Oooh, I wonder if greasemonkey was on the worse 10 list, he asked him knowingly.

  15. Re:If you have physical access, you already won. on Researcher Has New Attack For Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    That's one of the security levels, yes. 3rd level out of the 4, IIRC. Uses a challenge-response to verify the emulator connected to the JTAG is a valid one, so one can't even use a replay attack. It's probably the most sensible level to release hardware at.

  16. Re:If you have physical access, you already won. on Researcher Has New Attack For Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    In theory. Often, as this story seems to support, not all possible security is turned on.

    I have just quit a gig at Freescale Semiconductor, and I can assure you that the security capabilities of their mobile platforms are absolutely spot on - you can nail absolutely *everything* down. However, if you want to debug models that have failed in the field, then you need to at ship them with the secure JTAG cranked down to a not-totally-disabled (by e-fuses, no way back) setting. For work at service centres, rather than at FSL's (customers') labs, you need to crank the security several notches. Too secure, and the thing turns into a paperweight if it ever fails.

  17. Re:Rediscovered on New Tools Help Create Cellphone-Friendly Web Sites · · Score: 1

    If you didn't want your content to be 24" wide, why did you make the window in which you displayed that content 24" wide?

    Join the computing elite - learn how to resize windows!

  18. Re:If you have physical access, you already won. on Researcher Has New Attack For Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. For example Nokia let you hold Nokia hardware, with TI chipsets, in your hands. They do not want you breaking out of the sandbox that they've set up. If that's not physical access to the device I don't know what is, and there are a billion instances of that in the world.

  19. Re:Rediscovered on New Tools Help Create Cellphone-Friendly Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Unlikely. I seem to remember heading off to yahoo's wap homepage a few months ago, and being greeted with nothing but relatively large logos, weighing in at about 160K/page.

    You have to _chose_ to put large images on your website. It's always been easy to design sites which are lightweight, it's just that numbnutted people persistently chose not to. At least that's one thing that google still do right.

    FatPhil

  20. Re:There were no injuries on Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator · · Score: 1

    "Luria is acting very strangely, laughing while attempting to apprehend "Babyshoes""
    "... large quantities of marijuana."
    "shooting the corpse in the head ... seemingly to Foreman's amusement."

    They've remade Reefer Madness, by the sound of it.

  21. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator · · Score: 1

    I never thought I'd see a half-life reference cascade, let alone create one.

  22. Re:he published a paper? on Newton's Second Law, Revisited · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    It's a paper, even if it's a preprint.
    It's been published, even if it's been published somewhere where anyone can publish stuff.

    The concept you're missing is that of _review_ (and acceptance).

  23. Re:Not peer reviewed yet... on Newton's Second Law, Revisited · · Score: 1

    It's not a stretch at all to say it's been published. This thing has been published in every sane definition of the word. Publishing is about the making available of information to the public. That has been done.

    It's not been reviewed by a suitable panel, that's all.

    Your conflation of the two concepts would make me worry about your ability to critically review anything written in the English language.

  24. Re:One thing about this... on Newton's Second Law, Revisited · · Score: 1

    If he claims to have tested it positively, but the situations under which it can be tested are so rare, he's set up a claim that can never be debunked.

    He may as well say "god did it" if he's going to be that much of a cheat. He should just bite the bullet (nebula), and admit he's bullshitting us.

  25. Re:easy to use? on Ulteo, The New 'World's Easiest Linux' · · Score: 1

    Yes, the mouseover stuff is shit. However, if you click UlteoOS, that becomes the top level section that you're part of, and the Screenshots 2nd level stays visible even when the mouse is off the menu.