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  1. Re:Well, Opera Mini isn't strictly a browser... on Opera For iPhone To Test Apple's Resolve · · Score: 1

    If you do not trust Opera Software, make sure you do not use our application to enter any kind of sensitive information.

    Which of course applies to any web browser you're using, regardless of whether it uses an intermediate server to do some of the HTML parsing. Their directness and honesty are refreshing!

  2. Re:Why is this news? on New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals · · Score: 1

    Why is this notable? There's always someone going around commenting on how nothing is notable.

  3. Re:So is this a /vertisement or a serious rant? on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the WTF link about gloves. It fits in with my current premature optimizer recovery program. And here I was thinking "removable grips that have water or other material you heat up before you ride".

  4. Re:liquid nitrogen on Hearts Actually Can Break · · Score: 1

    Liquid N2 can also break your heart. Shatter it actually

    Yeah, I hate it when that happens. Wait, what were we talking about again?

  5. Re:So Iran's standards then? on Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards · · Score: 2, Funny

    This whole community standard nonsense to allow cenorship is wrong. My neighbors should have absolutely NO say on the content of books, movies, music, or video games I play in my own home.

    Yeah, but this is about what they can view in their homes. By having this available, you're forcing them to run the risk of accidentally visiting those sites. After all, hardcoreporn.com is so easy to mistype when you meant naturescenes.com, since the keys are so close together after all.

  6. Re:I have a very similar machine from 1983 on XCore's EduBook, a Netbook That Runs on AA Batteries · · Score: 1

    Yes, but your Model 100 doesn't run Linux.

    (I have a 102, and it was a great machine to learn machine language on, and hardware interfacing... I still have it a few feet away, for hardware interfacing and stuff)

  7. Re:Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries? on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it's warning the batteries that they will be warned, kind of like recently with Windows 7 RC. Trust me, you don't want to startle a Li-ion battery.

  8. Re:I read it as: free, not open source, but effect on The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals · · Score: 1

    "not necessarily effective" doesn't mean "ineffective". By saying "free but x", you're saying that free implies "not x", not just "not necessarily x". If it were the latter, you wouldn't describe it as being apparently contradictory to it being free.

  9. Free doesn't imply ineffective (and vice-versa) on The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're free and they're effective

    There, fixed that for you. Saying "free but effective" suggests that free implies ineffective.

  10. Re:This is what I usually do. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    Then I throw out that number completely, and just multiply the time it took me to develop that script by five. This method has proven disturbingly accurate.

    So in other words, you could offer to the one asking for an estimate, "I can give you an estimate, or complete the project 17% faster; your choice."

  11. Re:When will they learn on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 1

    Thanks; I stand corrected, and now consider my original message trollish.

  12. Re:When will they learn on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 1

    Do you REALLY consider any form of encryption as impossible to crack? I'd say all of them are a matter of time.

    One time pad. If you're trying to guess the pad, you might as well just try to guess the message itself, without even bothering with the encrypted data.

  13. Re:Thats why theres lucene on Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix · · Score: 1

    BTW: What does FAST do, anyway?

    Not require constant feeding? Just a guess...

  14. Re:When will they learn on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Obviously a mod who doesn't understand TPM. Or maybe he picked up on the (entirely appropriate) negative undertone of my message, directed at those who want to lock you out of your own computer.

  15. Re:When will they learn on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't really call any hack that requires "physical access" to be a genuine danger. If someone has physical access to your box you've got greater worries.

    Yes, but remember that TPM is about keeping you our of your own computer, so those who would like to do so are worried about this.

  16. Linus who? on Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    The only smartphone Linus Torvalds doesn't hate is that much less unlikable now that Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One.

    It'd be nice if the summary told us who Linus Torvalds is, rather than just assuming we know everyone in the tech world.

  17. Re:I feel split in this matter on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I meant for my original post to be modded funny, not insightful. So yeah, agreed all the way.

  18. Re:exorcise? on Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    excise

    How do you know the old code they were removing wasn't an evil spirit or malign influence?

  19. Re:I feel split in this matter on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On hand hand this is malignant censorship, the forebode to a society with no free information. On the other hand, this is 4chan.....

    First they came for 4chan, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a 4chan member...

  20. Re:So that's who that is! on Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate" · · Score: 1

    please tell me you really are joking.

    I guess that means I dead-panned it properly.

  21. Re:What constitutes "fake" hardware? on Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake Cisco Sales · · Score: 1

    Cheap lead-based solder could be used with the RoHS label.

    Sorry, what? Lead-based solder is more reliable than that RoHS crap that's pushed on us these days. I agree that using lead solder in a process suited only for lead-free solder would be a disaster.

  22. Re:Signals little for Google et. al. on Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake Cisco Sales · · Score: 1

    security specialists highly recommend formatting any new computers or equipment and installing fresh software/firmware from a known good source.

    Here's something I can never solve: how do you reliably reflash a compromised device's firmware? If it's compromised, it could just patch the new firmware you send to it, or claim it reflashed it when it didn't do anything.

  23. Re:Huh? on SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking · · Score: 1

    Why does the USA government not build a firewall to prevent exporting any American byte to the restricted list?

    Have you got a list of the restricted bytes? Actually, it'd be simpler if you just listed which bits are restricted, 0s, 1s, or possibly both...

  24. Re:Nooo ! on Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    Who said I was talking about the latest XCode? This was back in the Tiger days. Old? Sure, but I can point you to several programs that should have worked fine on 10.3.9, but don't, due to this issue.

  25. So that's who that is! on Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones.

    Finally, an article summary that explainings who some obscure person is, rather than assuming we know everyone in the tech universe.