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  1. Re:You got it all wrong! on UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop kidding yourself, there is nothing dangerous or offensive on the internet.

    Seriously though, I think that you shouldn't try to protect your kids through blocking but instead by teaching them how to get around said blocks... umm... I mean teaching them how to use the internet safely.

  2. Re:Looks on VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement · · Score: 1

    But it's hard to install unless you know how to jailbreak your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad. I'd prefer that people buy a less locked-down device in the first place, but there isn't really an "Android pod touch" in the United States yet.

    Well, actually Archos is releasing Android based Media/Internet tablets, from 2.8" for $100, up to $300 for the 10" tablet. They already have released the 3.2" version for $150. I plan on buying the 4.3" one after it is released.

  3. Let me get this straight... on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So when it comes to Flash HTML5 is the best thing in the world, but when its just HTML but it self its a terrible mess of kludges that doesn't work very well?

    Why can't we just start over with an entirely new web standard that would be designed in a more efficient manner? HTML5 is going to take a lot of work to fully implement and to get rid of flash, or why don't they do a serious over haul on HTML removing a lot of the security risks to make it as safe as it could be while still keeping most of the same syntax?

  4. Re:might be interesting to host it? on Geocities To Be Made Available As a 900GB Torrent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Torrents, not just for Linux .iso's any more.

  5. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We all know that a lightning strike provides *exactly* 1.21 jiggawatts (or gigawatts). Didn't you guys pay attention during Back to the Future?

  6. Sure, it has serial on The iPhone Serial Port Hack · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know and you'll be able to make a phone call on your iPhone.

  7. Re:A laptop AND a tablet? on Some Aussie High Schools Moving To Two Devices Per Child · · Score: 1

    Just carry a couple UPS's along with you for power, problem solved.

  8. Re:Great. on Free E-Books, With a Catch — Advertising · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course! And eventually they are going to want to put ads on your children to get rid of the cost of hospital bills.

  9. Re:Only 825 Mbps? on Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of SSDs on ostriches..

  10. Re:And yet, I'm stuck on Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL · · Score: 1

    I wish I had that. Right now I'm stuck with a terrible connection to frontier (was on Verizon DSL) and its the worst service I have ever had. I get a 1mbit down, 384kbits up and I'm usually stuck with a 600-700ms latency.

  11. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    Here's another citation for you needing to be able to speak English to be a citizen citation .

    And if thats not official enough for you, then I don't what is.

  12. Re:Tall statement on New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code · · Score: 1

    I would say Good and Cheap, as the development of Linux isn't exactly the world's fastest thing.

  13. Re:OneNote on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I find that there really aren't a lot of good linux equivalents for some microsoft products, mostly their office suite. Office is really a lot easier to use than OpenOffice and has more functionality. Sure OO will do your basics for you, but it is in no way superior to Office. As a result I proudly run Microsoft Office under Wine (with some help from wine-tricks) and love using it on my stable Linux base.

  14. Re:CVS or SVN on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1

    If someone was just doing this on a smaller scale wouldn't something like dropbox be easier/more effective?

  15. Re:Whatever works for you on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1

    The OP might find something like mind42 to be useful as well.

  16. Re:Whatever works for you on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For passwords I use a combination of Dropbox and Keepass. With that I can access my passwords from any computer that I have internet access to, and you could keep it on a flash drive as well, you would just need to update your password database file manually.

  17. Sad day... on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    Not even the chatbox will talk to me...

  18. Re:Lies. on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I would expect Steve to take away peoples ability to "root" on a Mac soon. You know he wouldn't want them having control over their own computer that they bought. Plus, Darth Steve always knows whats best ;)

  19. Just what we need... on Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player · · Score: 1

    This is just what we need, Adobe making something that could work well into something that will work slowly. Next thing we know, and html5 will be just as bad as flash and we will all be saying just wait until HTML6, that will solve everything...

  20. Re:Hitting the brakes slows you down. on Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math · · Score: 1

    Did you even look at the FA? If look at the picture displaying how they should run it shows them curving through all 4 bases.

  21. Re:where's the hybrid? on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    There are hybrid drives that offer a type of transition device. But those usually will do a smart cacheing of the most used things and put those on its small (~4GB) of SLC flash storage. You could also have two disks, one small 8GB flash disk for your OS, and than a standard HDD for your files.

  22. Surprise? on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    Does this really surprise anyone? I know that it doesn't surprise me. Another great reason why all of your passwords should not be the same thing.

  23. Re:elements on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Copper is actually better at conducting electricity than gold. Its just that gold doesn't tarnish, rust or react to very many things. Silver is actually the best conducting (pure) metal out there, followed by copper and then gold.

  24. Re:This is not for students on Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls · · Score: 1

    yeah, well I'm stuck with a nice and crappy plan from Verizon, but now its switched over to "Frontier" and things have only gotten worse. I have a 1Mbit connection :/

  25. Re:Great... on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, wikipedia says that it is an OS. refers to the family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel

    Hell, even kernel.org says "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix". Which implies that Linux is an operating system. Sure there are different distros of it that change it a little bit, but its still considered to be in the "top 3" for desktop OSs. You don't say that Windows, OS X and Ubuntu are the top 3, you would most likely say that Windows, OS X and Linux are the top 3.