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  1. White Album on Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Guess this means I'll have to buy the white album again..."

  2. Dual Format Dirves on Another Format War: DVD -R9 v. +R9 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as they keep making +/- drives, I really don't care. Most all systems can read from either of them, and has long as you have a +/- drive you can write to either of them.

  3. SPF for Websites on Anti-Phishing Tools · · Score: 1

    What about using something similar to the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for web sites. Create a list of known good websites for your company, and if the browser attempts to access something say eBay related, it will look at eBay's SPF list and see wether it's an authorized server or not.

  4. Re:Dell is by far the worst... on Annual Customer Support Rankings · · Score: 1

    I'll chime in... I'm a Dell customer who is happy with their support. But I guess it all comes down to which support you get. I've only had to deal with enterprise level support and have only had an issue with them once or twice.

    Once was when they tried migrating the enterprise support to India (that failed real quick). The other is sometimes stupid support people trying to go through everything in the book even though I've already narrowed it down for them.

    For the most part though, I call them up, tell them I need a part shipped out, and bam, it's on it's way. Their corporate support is great IMO, though I can't say a thing about their home support.

  5. Re:This is insane on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Eh? I question some of your points...

    * Email, the dominant form of online communication, which most of us have regarded as fairly secure, is now grabable by federal authorities or police *without a warrant*.

    It's plain text, I'd hardly consider that secure in any form.

    * Your employer may now read all your email --

    Don't know what company you work for, but email is company property, they have the right to look at it whenever, wherever... check your employee manual.

    * Free email providers like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google now are free to do anything they want with all the mail that you've ever sent or has been sent to you.

    Again, the bits aren't in your control. You can't trust them.

    The point I am getting at here is that you should be assured of being able to get data from point A to point B without anyone intercepting that, but once those bits are sitting on someone's server, it's going to be fair game to someone who wants it. If you don't want that, then encrypt your stuff or run your own servers. At least if you encrypt it, you have a better case if someone is trying to look at your mail or whatever than if it's in plain text.

  6. Re:Slashdotted and Farked on Forward This Article And Get Paid $203.15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...that we offer them our condolences on the loss of their servers."

    Yeah you're right... do you have a link for it?

  7. From the all-your-fault dept. on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 1

    Gah, you know you've been brainwashed by a phrase when you see all-your-fault
    and you immediately complete it with "are belong to us."

  8. Re:The answer is ... jedit on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The answer is ... jedit

    For a second I read "jedi"... I was like: What? Use the force to move bits now :)

  9. Re:Makes you wonder on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 1

    "Of course, I'm sure that the fact you've done this is recorded all over the ECU..."

    Actually, you're not too far off the mark. Launch Assist (which actually revs the engine to 3500rpm, not 5000 like the link said) is recorded each time it is executed. The warranty for the American version states it can only be used 15 times before it'll void it. I forgot what the number is for the European M3's.

  10. Re:Though it's sacriledge to say so... on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 2, Funny

    "left their cellphone on their desk, and it just plays over and over and over..."

    My favorite remedy to this? Take their cell phone and put it up in the ceiling tile. Then when they come back, call their phone and laugh as they franticly look around for it. Done this to a couple of co-workers.

  11. Re:SMP Gaming, quit it already! on Small Form Factor Dual Opteron · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, I can tell you from experience that UT 2004 is SMP... but not in the way you may think. I have noticed whenever I am running a listening server and playing a match (with people connecting to me) it spawns the servers processes on my second processor and leaves the first processor handling the game. Both use about 30 - 55% of my CPU (no prob since it's the only thing I'm doing at the time).

    I have also noticed this in the single player mode which leads me to believe it's doing the same thing (except not taking incoming connections). Coupled with a FX 5600, and I can host up to 20 players (bots or not), run 1280x1024 and still not lag.

    Also with today's OS's becoming more and more optimized for SMP there is always a reason to drool over new and faster hardware: we're all geeks at heart. :)

  12. City? on City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall · · Score: 1

    Are we talking Podunk or NYC? Could I get this in Library of Congresses??

  13. Re:I am still confident... on Data Transfer Has A Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Each single-layered DVD has a capacity of 4.7 GB

    Well, Mr. Anal... I am too tired this morning to calculate this, but what if you are using dual layered 9.6GB dvd's... then you're up to a 1.08TB/s speed...

  14. Re:We're talking about Samba and Linux here... on Samba 3 By Example · · Score: 1

    Guess I should have spelled that out for the linuxites who aren't familiar with the registy. Thanks for expanding that. It all comes down to a matter of what you are used to using.

  15. Re:We're talking about Samba and Linux here... on Samba 3 By Example · · Score: 1

    "...far easier than poring through regedit.exe"

    Eh? I'll call you on this one. How hard is it to open regedit and hit F3 to search for something? Also the registry is pretty logically layed out. HKLM for machine wide configurations, HKCU for per person settings. It's pretty straight forward once you learn it.

  16. Sharpies on More E-voting Problems in California · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damnit, now they're really going to outlaw Sharpies... first CDs now ballots.

  17. Re:Great on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 1

    How long till I have to upgrade/patch the OS on my underwear?

    If you have to patch your underwear, it's already too late.

  18. One Megapixel Dimensions? on How Spirit Takes Pictures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Serious question here... the article says "One megapixel is a million pixels set up in an array equal to 1,000 by 1,000."

    Is this like hard drives using one GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes or is 1MP truely 1,000 x 1,000 and not 1,024 x 1,024?

  19. Evil Bit on Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nah, they're going to solve the packet shaping
    issue by appending the "Evil bit" to the
    virus packets :)

  20. Re:Gamers? on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    Don't you remember when you could run Doom with multiple monitors? Set up three workstations with monitors at 90 degree angles, and launch doom with a command line option (something like -left or -right) and it would show you the different views. Or was that Quake... think it was Doom.

  21. Re:Ha! on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'll agree with that. For myself I bought the Denon DVD-2900 which came it at just around $1100. I use this to it's fullest (DVD A/V, SACD, MP3, etc.), but for my parents they have my original Pioneer DV-525 that I bought over 5 years ago and they are perfectly happy with it.

  22. Battletoads anyone? on Grid Processing · · Score: 1

    My first thought when I saw "Trips" was "Total Reality Intrgrated Playing System" from Battletoads... What's next, we're going to get sucked into the gamescape? :)

  23. Poll Options on Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True · · Score: 1

    - Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.

    - This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

  24. Quote from the article on Details of Linux-in-Munich Deal Revealed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ballmer cast open-source software as having 'no center of gravity'

    What it means is "We don't know where to attack, because we can't buy them out"

  25. Obvious question... on Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes · · Score: 1

    To the pilot, it would feel like fighting an external force, such as a strong wind. "When you reach a certain critical point, the pilot is banking as hard to the left as the aircraft will go - as far as he can tell - and that is only just cancelling the force, so the aircraft is still going straight," says Lee.

    Okay so that is great if they are turning into a no fly zone, but what if they are heading straight at it?