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  1. Re:I Know!! on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly, some people also divide everything in two categories, and others don't. D'oh!

  2. Extra keyboard and mouse? on Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? · · Score: 1

    Inside the hood and sterilized with UV.

  3. Re:Key Generator on A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet · · Score: 4, Informative

    That can be effective, just make sure the answers are not correct in a naive way. For instance Mothers maiden name= FE31BB076800267D0BA etc...

  4. Re:Standards on Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about this:
    Switching printers when the ludicrously overpriced cartridge is empty would be way too easy if you didn't have to install new drivers and support software?

  5. Re:Why bother? on Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously · · Score: 3, Funny

    YAAC complainig that an unspecified piece of hardware doesn't work with an unspecified piece of software?
    Of course he has filed a detailed bug report.

  6. Re:Wait...so.... on T-Mobile G1 Rooted · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it's not more complex. The curious bit is that telnetd appears to set uid=0 after login, which allows you to make a setuid root shell.

  7. Re: mods on crack on Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I mod subsequent anonymous posts to -1 or 0 to encode my secret messages.

  8. Re:How it came to be lost? on In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry to disappoint you, but the careless attitude appears to be entirely that of the 'corporate world'. Oversight of the subjects has long been a privatised matter in the UK.

  9. Re:Sound rough on Memory Molecule Identified · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps it is a piece of research that will not result in a product that somebody can sell at a huge profit, but will only increase our understanding of the world a little.
    Or is that too silly to consider?

  10. Re:CHOOSE ALREADY! on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough the US seems to pick zero out of the three and still ends up paying more per capita for health care than any other nation.

  11. Re:Cuba? on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1
  12. Re:What's the advantage over doing it in software? on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 1

    why couldn't you just have the software display a rectangle that you can drag across the screen that affects what is displayed within the rectangle
    That's an excellent idea. We could even make it show dynamically an enlarged inset of the scene for closer inspection and give it a cool name like magnifyier.

  13. Re:Right... on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bonus if it sorts socks!
    Fixed that years ago: choose the kind of socks you like best and standardize. I can now even throw away a single sock without looking for the other one...

  14. Re:How long on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 2, Informative

    My guess: since the dawn of time
    Apparently they only stopped doing so in 1623.

  15. Re:National Debt!!! on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 1

    I STILL have no idea why tax cuts are such a hot issue, right up there with abortion and gay marriage.
    Two observations:
    - A citizen will be forced by law to partake in only one out of those three topics.
    - The US were founded because of a tax dispute with England, so not being interested in taxation is deeply unpatriotic.

  16. Re:And the Answer Is on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Chinese Russians Iranians etc. completely agree with you:
    They also prefer that the US keeps that technology IN the united states.

  17. Re:Usability Glitch? on Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes · · Score: 1

    I think you're a bit pessimistic. Only 17% of people are more than 1 standard deviation stupider than average.
    (but 83% aren't clever either)

  18. Re:Once again kids: on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 4, Informative

    Where and when did society decide that a problem is only a problem if it is found?
    496 - 406 B.C.?

  19. Re:Is this one of those "secret support" things? on Nintendo's Homebrew-Blocking Update Hacked · · Score: 1
  20. Re:When will they learn??? on Nintendo's Homebrew-Blocking Update Hacked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They do, however, keep honest men from temptation.
    Honest men aren't tempted by an unlocked door. Door locks are designed to convince the casual thief to rob your neighbour.

  21. Re:Please? on The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education · · Score: 2, Funny

    Easy.
    Mainframes are extinct dinosaurs.
    The cloud is a completely new paradigm of gigantic primitive reptilian computing.

  22. Re:So who is going to register... on ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    What worries me most that I read all of these noiselessly but still in a high pitched voice...

  23. Re:The real question... on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    ...And where can I dock my iPod?
    Must.
    not.
    bite.

  24. Re:Impossible on Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns · · Score: 1

    ...and are playing by their rules
    As opposed to merely staying within applicable law?

  25. Re:Rice? on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1