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  1. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    If you're thinking "fairplay", that's from Apple for encrypting media bought from iTunes..

  2. Re:OpenGL and the rant about marketing on Why You Should Use OpenGL and Not DirectX · · Score: 1

    And so did games too - only games supporting OpenGL was those based on Quake engine, and even they had DirectX engine too (HL did at least)

    Unreal and Unreal 2 engines supported OGL as well.

  3. Re:One standard on Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With "Blio" E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Or Walmart's DRM encumbered mp3 files for which they switched off their verification servers.

    Unless there has been an update since October of 2008, they changed their minds...

  4. Re:Keepass on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I have a keepass database on my local machine, but it requires both a password and a key file that I have on my at all times (on a physically tiny flash drive on my keychain)

  5. Re:Truecrypt on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    KeepassX works on Windows, Linux, and OSX, and is compatible with Keepass databases.

  6. Re:MMmmmm... my head will explode. on Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC · · Score: 1

    ..don't miss sharing space with a waterfall of loud, annoying retards.

    Yet, you come to slashdot...

  7. Re:Pay afterward... on World of Goo Creators Try Pick-Your-Price Experiment · · Score: 1

    Why make someone pick a price to pay up front when they don't know what the game is like?

    Well, they do have a demo available...

  8. Re:I'm sorry... on World of Goo Creators Try Pick-Your-Price Experiment · · Score: 1

    Well, it is a little different considering that when you buy World of Goo directly from the developers, you get a download link for Windows, Linux, and OS X versions of the game so you can download the one that's appropriate for your platform or all of them at the same time.

  9. Re:floating point works fine in my kernel on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth audio isn't just used for headsets. For example, there are bluetooth headphones. I've never used them, but I'm aware that they exist.

  10. Re:It's working great for me on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 5, Funny
  11. Re:Last time I bought a laptop... on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/272/

  12. Re:ATI cards. on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    I'm going to have to echo this feeling. I bought a Dell with Ubuntu preloaded in 2007. This system came with an nvidia card and I've had no problems with the drivers from nvidia. My work system is running openSuSE and has an ATI card. The first attempt at installing the driver resulted in a system that I couldn't even ssh into. I've had better luck using the rpms from openSuSE's repositories, but the system has hung when I switched from X to a virtual terminal. I don't run compiz because I don't want the system to lockup on me.

  13. Re:Effective way to keep screens locked on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 3, Funny

    The real fun is to create a new folder before doing the screenshot and then deleting it right after.

  14. Re:Don't be a policeman on Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs · · Score: 1

    When my car's "check engine" light comes on, there is almost always a real problem

    Mine likes to come on if I don't have my gas cap screwed on tight enough.

  15. Re:wow, first post on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 1

    I've played around with the Linux Novell Client before and it's been spotty. It only seems to work on SuSE and they don't even have a non beta version for OpenSuSE 11 or SLED 11. It'd be nice if they provided a generic .tgz or .sh (or .deb) so it could be installed easily on non-Novell Linux distros.

  16. Re:It would be really nice... on Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home · · Score: 1

    Yes, PS2 (and PS1) games store save games on a virtual memory card on the PS3's hard disk. If you already have game saves on physical cards, you need to buy the adapter to import them.

  17. Re:Layer DRM on top? on Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format · · Score: 1

    Apple did the same thing with AAC when the iTunes music store first came out.

  18. Re:Nice job... on Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records · · Score: 3, Funny

    0118999881999119725...... 3

  19. Re:State of the art on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, I can get money orders with no fee at the service desk at my local grocery store.

  20. Re:"World first?" on Tetraktys · · Score: 1

    I'm currently struggling to get through Cryptonomicon, though that may be because of Stephenson's verbosity. (Owning and having previously read Snow Crash and Anathem, I really should nave known what I was getting into). On the other hand, Daemon is a book that I had a hard time putting down.

  21. Re:Before we act too hastily.. on AT&T Blocks Part of 4chan · · Score: 1

    In fact, severa of my very computer-savvy friends have managed to infect their PCs [...] someone decided to infect the self-extracting .EXE file that extracted the multi-sgement .RAR files they downloaded.

    Self-extracting RAR archives? Some free advice: The safe way to extract them is to open them in WinRAR and extract them like you would normal archives. That way if the self-extracting executable part is infected it won't affect your machine because you aren't ever running

    He didn't say Self-extracting RAR archives. He said self extracting EXEs that come from multi-segmented RAR files. So no matter which tool use use to extract the EXE, it's still infected.

  22. Re:US? on Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle · · Score: 1

    I just don't see what's stopping Entrepreneur OEM Rig Setter-Upper from buying hardware, putting it together, slapping Ubuntu on it, and selling it. Maybe that's just not profitable enough to sustain?

    You mean like System76?

  23. Re:Is this the photo of... on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would assume he's referring to the licenses under which some software is published and the view of some that open source software must be given away and that those who write it are unable to reap a profit from such work.

  24. Re:Role Playing on The Essentials of RPG Design · · Score: 1

    I went to a Vampire LARP session once...


    ..once.

  25. Re:Caps lock will be the end of unintended shoutin on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    I'm typing on a 4000 right now. So far, I like it, but the space bar seems a little stiff, which seems to be a common complaint. My only other complaint is that I wish the "zoom" slider in the middle was a scroll wheel (an older Logitech KB that I owned had one, which was nice). Strangely enough, the slider acts as a scroll which on most Windows applications thought it will randomly zoom or resize text; when I SSH/X to a Linux box, X apps zoom/resize text.