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  1. Re:Shouting in German on CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security · · Score: 1

    Wär' schön, spielt's aber net...

    np: Marilies Jagsch - Daydream (Obituary For A Lost Mind)

  2. Re:Packer on Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware · · Score: 1

    It's pretty tough to sandbox things like debug registers.

    But it's also pretty tough to imagine a genuine, non-evil unpacker that actually needs to access those for unpacking...

    np: Tocotronic - Hamburg Rockt (7''-Version, 1994) (Digital Ist Besser)

  3. Re:Were they made by Sony? on Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware · · Score: 1

    Care to explain how a rootkit could be considered anything but malware?

    Well, this one is considered "security software" by the manufacturer. Then again - we all know how much security by obscurity helps... (hook up the drive to another machine, anyone?)

    np: Tocotronic - Letztes Jahr Im Sommer (7''-Version, 1994) (Digital Ist Besser)

  4. Re:You can fix that on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Is there a way to get that back?

    Use the sliders - you know, the ones in the bar with the story name.

    The first slider chooses what score to display full vs. what to display abbreviated, and the second one selects the score at which to hide comments.

    Just make sure to set the second slider two steps from the right and comments with score 0 or -1 are filtered out.

    np: Kid606 - Comeuppance (Pretty Girls Make Raves)

  5. Re:Looks like DDOS beats all on Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs · · Score: 1

    More like "/. subscribers seeing articles 30 minutes early" (but with comments disabled)...

    np: Tocotronic - Gegen Den Strich (Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen)

  6. Re:Stollen! on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    Christstollen? Gestohlen!

    *imagines your average English speaker trying to pronounce that*

    Gesundheit!

    (Ja ja, ich geh' ja schon... :P)

    np: Tocotronic - Neues Vom Trickser (Tocotronic)

  7. Re:Future Problems..... on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 1

    Looks pretty much the same speed as USB 6.0 to me, I'm sorry to say...

  8. Re:Future Problems..... on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    USB 7.0: Profit-Speed!

  9. Re:Will we see the return of Stacker? on Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Disk doublers were much more effective in the 1990s because a lower percentage of the data was already compressed.

    Not to mention that all modern OSes can do file system compression by themselves nowadays...

    np: Surf City - Canned Food (Surf City)

  10. Re:No.... on Will Consoles Merge Back Into PCs? · · Score: 1

    pay about 1500€ for a new rig in order to play GTA4 at acceptable rates.

    Slash that 1500€ in half and we can start talking. 1500 is way excessive for a recent dual-core CPU and mobo, 2 gigs of RAM, an ATI Radeon 4850, a harddrive and a case...

    I know I paid less than 600€ for an Intel Quad Core, a Gigabyte mainboard, 2 gigs of RAM, said ATI Radeon 4850 and a new PSU a few months ago. Sure, I had the hard drives, DVD drive, case, keyboard and mouse from my old box already, but those aren't expensive either.

    np: Boy Robot - Loving You Makes Me Nervous (Glamorizing Corporate Lifestyle)

  11. Re:Word on Five PC Power Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    I have thermal throttling and the other new power-saving standards all turned on[...].

    Uh... thermal throttling is what's supposed to prevent the CPU from frying itself when it's fan dies - it's tripped by the CPU temperature getting to high.

    You're probably thinking of Cool'n'Quiet/SpeedStep.

    np: Boy Robot - Set It For Me (Glamorizing Corporate Lifestyle)

  12. Re:Free (as in beer) music on Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download · · Score: 1

    Thinner.cc
    Sutemos.net

    np: Kuchen Meets Mapstation - Primary (Kuchen Meets Mapstation)

  13. Re:So, who is the victim of this 'crime'? on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 1

    The victims are supposedly the real children who get exploited in making real child porn. The theory is that these pornographic drawings contribute to an illicit market in child pornography and thereby encourage the creation of the real thing.

    Why not chop down the Amazonian rain forests next? I'm pretty sure the oxygen produced there also contributes a tiny little bit to the same illicit market...

    np: Boy Robot - The Last Dance (Glamorizing Corporate Lifestyle)

  14. Re:It's the commies! on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1

    General Jack D. Ripper called - he wants his paranoia back!

    np: Bobby And Blumm - In Future Present (Everybody Loves...)

  15. I knew it... on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    All those rickrolls GoogTube serves each day would come back to haunt 'em...

    np: Benni Hemm Hemm - Jag Tyclate Hon Sa LÃnnlÃi (Ein à Leyni)

  16. Re:Probably true on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension DOUBLE FAIL. Clbuttic.

    It would have been less surreal if you hadn't written the exact same thing that he-sk had stated in your own response(s)...

    np: Benni Hemm Hemm - Riotmand (Ein à Leyni)

  17. Re:Bandwidth hog? on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    I think the ISPs are complaining that their customers are using the internet connection they paid for to watch youtube videos.

    Customers are using what they paid for?

    HOW DARE THEY!!1!one

    *g,d&r*

    np: Benni Hemm Hemm - FrifpjÃfur Og IngibjÃrg (Ein à Leyni)

  18. Re:When the opportunity for a...memory lane. on Atari Talks Ghostbusters Date, Popular Franchises · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I can't think of a movie made this century that I'd care to play a game of.

    How about "Max Payne: The Movie: The Game"? :D

    np: Mr. Scruff - Bang The Floor (with Danny Breaks) (Ninja Tuna)

  19. Re:Here's hoping on Street Fighter HD Remix Launches With Fan-Made Soundtrack · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:The end of natural on Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's already been lost. I know someone personally who has a boob job, she got them inserted through her navel.

    You have to wonder what they're gonna do next - brain surgery through the sole?

    np: B. Fleischmann - As If (Welcome Tourist (Disc 1))

  21. Re:Woah if you zoom in, you can see the ships! on Google Map To Real Piracy · · Score: 1

    And if you follow this link you can even see the pirates and ships up close!

    np: Rhythm & Sound with Paul St. Hilaire - Free For All (See Mi Yah)

  22. Re:Why? on BluWiki Seeks iPodHash Author, Hopes for Help From EFF · · Score: 1

    If not, what happens when you increment the play count for a song on your portable device and give it a rating and then sync with your computer?

    Simple: I don't know, as I have no need for either of those features - updating my last.fm playlist is enough for me...

    But I guess those two features are still on the Requests list...

    np: Max Tundra - My Night Out (Parallax Error Beheads You)

  23. Re:Why? on BluWiki Seeks iPodHash Author, Hopes for Help From EFF · · Score: 1

    But if you own more than a few hundred media files you'll quickly find that organization by folder is inefficient if not totally unmanageable, and iTunes is designed to address that issue.

    I'm not sure what stuff you were smoking, but managing my ~1250 folders of albums ripped to MP3 files is very convenient, especially outside of any media player you're locked into otherwise.

    And for browsing everything in those folders (and filling my iPod classic 30GB) there's always foobar2000 or Windows Explorer's search function, thankyouverymuch.

    np: The Year Of - Bees Be (Slow Days)

  24. Re:hilarious on Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users · · Score: 1

    They know they can't kill the Linux version off entirely, due to the number of hih end effects houses who are quite happy to have a mixed Linux/Mac environment and don;t want to change out their Shake boxes for Mac Pros, but they want anyone who wants to start up in the field to go all-Mac.

    What, like they couldn't kill off the Windows version of Logic?

    I doubt it.

  25. Re:clue ? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    A 40 pound child is a little more...yielding than a 40 pound chunk of metal. Also, the 40 pound chunk of metal would presumably be falling on the car from above, not hitting the car head-on. So yah, it may not actually reduce the entire car to a smoking crater, but it would likely total it.

    Here's a visualisation for those that can't quite imagine it... *ducks & runs*

    np: Vladislav Delay - Part 07 (Anima)