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  1. Re:I Actually Side with Dick's Estate on Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate · · Score: 5, Funny

    The flame that burns +1, Funny burns -1, Long.
    And you have burned so very, very +1, Funny Bottles.

  2. Maths is everywhere on Which Math For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    ...I started becoming increasingly more convinced...

    I lol'd at this - OP managed to take the 4th derivative of 'convinced' in his post.

  3. Re:Mossberg is an Apple fanboi, valid point though on Google's Nexus One Phone Launches · · Score: 1

    I have no idea whatsoever where the 190MB he listed comes from.

    Presumably it's what's left over once you put an OS and some built-in apps on that 512Mb of flash.

  4. Re:Actually this illustrates the problem well on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The frame would have switched back to the activation screen again. The owner would've scratched his head, shrugged, followed the activation instructions and re-upped his photos, innocent to the dark forces swirling beneath the surface of his friendly-looking gadgets.

  5. Re:Looks like you can also reset accounts..... on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 1

    They really need to take this site down now.

    From your mouth to the framemedia's ears:
    "We are unable to activate your frame at this time. Please email support@framemedia.com for help resolving this issue."

  6. Re:Well... on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 1

    5 digits doesn't give many options.

    It's 5 alphanumeric chars, so that's around 60m combinations. A limit of 60m activations in-flight at any one time seems reasonable to me.

  7. Re:Competition: on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 1

    Looks like the guy who broke the story has been visited by the frame-fairy.

  8. Re:Looks like you can also reset accounts..... on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 1

    Yep, verified.
    Mod parent up - as someone else said, this enables a whole new level of nastiness.

  9. Re:Mac address anatomy on Kodak Wireless Picture Frames Open To Public · · Score: 1

    Whoever owns that frame sure has some interesting family photos...

  10. Re:What happened to their plan from a few days ago on End of the Road For NASA's Mars Rover? · · Score: 1

    What bits of equipment would you remove to compensate for the extra weight?

  11. Re:What happened to their plan from a few days ago on End of the Road For NASA's Mars Rover? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems to me that the simplest solution would be to send a manned mission and have the astronauts follow the rovers around with a rag and a bottle of windex.

  12. What the f**k... on Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer · · Score: 1

    ...does PCLOADVISCERA mean, dammit?

  13. Re:Hmm... on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 1

    Orthogonal, not parallel.

  14. Re:Not really, andnot insightful at all on Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The converse argument to that of OP would be:
    "It fascinates me that Microsoft thinks they can bug China about software theft while simultaneously stealing Chinese IP"

  15. Re:It fascinates me... on Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pretty easy to make the same argument but with the opposite emphasis, no?

  16. America gets it far worse on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US military spends half the game trying to recapture a Burger King and the other half trying not to bomb their own White House. At least the Russians get portrayed as *competent* terrorists.

  17. Re:Big deal on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 1

    I'll start celebrating when these assholes are in jail and their asses have been seized. I doubt I'll be celebrating any time soon. If ever.

    I'll start celebrating when these assholes are in jail and their asses have seized. I doubt I'll be celebrating any time soon. If ever.

    Fixed it some more.

  18. Re:Management on The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability · · Score: 1

    Cloud computing benefit - the one system is a single point of failure, but it's also a single point of 'we must keep this working at all costs'.

    This argument, while very reasonable-sounding, probably needs to be reexamined in the light of Microsoft accidentally flushing half a billion dollars worth of their own data down the toilet.

  19. Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" on Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are plausible reports as to how this happened here.

    tl;dr - They tried upgrading their SAN without making a backup first, and the upgrade somehow hosed the entire SAN.

  20. C2 Rower on Open Access To Exercise Data? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Concept2 rowers will dump their full workout log to CSV, and also allow realtime monitoring via USB + a supplied SDK.
    I've got my rower hooked up to a WinAmp plugin I wrote which pipes heartrate, rowing speed and stroke rate into the visualisation system. This gets projected onto a 2m wide screen, so the harder I work, the more intense and psychedelic the visuals get.

    My next project will be to connect the playback speed of VLC to the rower so I have to keep rowing at my target rate to keep watching House.

  21. Hunt the Link on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    This article presents some twitter-size programs that trigger the bug.

    Out of interest, what's the justification for linking to the article on "programs that trigger the bug" and not in the blindingly obvious place ("This article")?
    I ask because it seems to be in-line with some kind of brain-dead in-house Slashdot linking style, and I'm curious to know the reasoning behind it.

  22. Re:Technology progresses. Japanese are tech expert on iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan · · Score: 1

    Sure, it may be the same old Corolla on the outside, but on the inside it's running a VTEC

    Bad analogy just kicked in yo.

  23. Re:anonymous? on In the UK, a Plan To Criminalize Illegal Downloaders · · Score: 1

    They are an opaque identifier assigned to you by the ISP.

    When DIsney tells your ISP that you downloaded High School Musical 2, the ISP will not give Disney any of your personal info but instead will give them a persistent ID number for you. This lets Disney connect different infringements together and determine they were done by the same person, but without requiring ISPs to give out names or addresses.

    Think of them as cookies, but not deletable.

  24. Re:Highly misleading value on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe that battery-only portion of the 51 miles is counted by determining how much the batteries cost to charge and converting that into an equivalent amount of gasoline.
    Ie. The figure makes sense if you think of gasoline as a unit of currency rather than a fuel.

  25. Re:Not in a row on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    Does it also annoy you that the Bugatti Veyron claims a top speed of 254mph, yet can't drive 254 miles in 1 hour?