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  1. Re:In China? on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 5, Funny

    If any high tech company is going to come out of the closet, it would be apple.

  2. Re:Sony on The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    But will it blend?

  3. Re:Man in the Middle on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can try. It might even work this time. But they can also choose to misdirect the request based on the IP address because they literally are the man in the middle, your traffic must pass through their routers.

  4. Re:Jury of Peers on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We also don't know what evidence was WITHHELD from the jury that may have been accessible to us outsiders.

    From what I know about this case, either the jury was unquestionably idiotic, the defense was unfathomably negligent or the prosecution unbelievable corrupt.

  5. Re:Case in point on NASA Expands Role of International Space Station · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I did read the parent post. Did you?

    Tell me how you can put 10 million people at the bottom of 7 miles of ocean for a hundred years (and have them not be dead in a fraction of a second).

    That is a much harder problem to solve that building a space station capable of supporting the same population in orbit for a hundred years.

  6. Re:HTML5: The failure of the decade. on Ogg Format Accusations Refuted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1: ok.

    2: what does that have to do with this topic?

    3: I have been complaining about html5 for the better part of 2 years.

    4: I've had to shelve a few xhtml2 projects I had started when I heard the spec was being cancelled. I have reason to complain.

  7. Re:Free market, right? on Supreme Court To Consider First Sale of Imports · · Score: 1

    Free? Have you seen the prices on hookers and blow recently?

  8. Re:Case in point on NASA Expands Role of International Space Station · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is actually quite false.

    Building an air tight pressure vessel capable of supporting an internal pressure 1 atmosphere higher than the outside pressure is a solved problem. Hell, we can even make it inflatable and almost but not quite arbitrary size and shape.

    Building an water tight pressure vessel capable of supporting an internal pressure over a thousand atmospheres less than the outside pressure is a ridiculously hard problem that is almost but not quite solved for a 6ft wide sphere with a skin taking up more than 10% of its diameter. Without revolutionary new materials, that proportion of the thickness of the wall increases dramatically as the size of the space increases and in most cases is not even approaching practical for shapes other than a nearly perfect sphere.

    The big cost in dealing with space colonization is getting raw material from the bottom of our relatively deep gravity well. And that is a problem that can be mitigated by bringing material from the much shallower gravity wells of the moon and asteroids once there is some infrastructure out there.

    However the big costs of colonizing the deep sea will always be the engineering and material required to keep 7 miles of water from finding even the tiniest path to the inside of the vessel.

  9. Re:Why use an unknown AV program? on Fake Antivirus Peddlers Outpacing Real AV Firms · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was once infected at my work computer, which runs Windows XP SP3, while visiting the website of a private porn torrent tracker, with lots of ads. I did not click any links or solicited the installation of the program, but somehow some sort of "Antispyware 2010" appeared there. It must have been a browser exploit or something like that. It wasn't too difficult to get rid of, I just needed Malwarebytes antimalware (the free version). Anyway, now I turn off Flash and JS before browsing porn at work.

    Let me guess... You work at the SEC?

  10. Re:To Give The Devil His Due... on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 2, Funny

    And don't forget those poster sized flip books that were all the rage in the 80's and 90's before digital projectors became commonplace.

  11. Re:My plate is pretty full right now... on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are being over optimistic about compatibility mode. It isn't identical to what it is supposed to emulate.

  12. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you know what other species gets hopped up on fast food, nasty drugs and a sedentary lifestyle leading to obesity?

    Cows. And they taste pretty damn good.

  13. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Interstellar spacecraft are weapons of mass destruction.

    Above a significant fraction of the speed of light, any normal matter has an energy density greater than a nuclear weapon.
    Above a larger fraction of the speed of light, any normal matter has an energy density greater than an anti-matter reaction involving the same rest mass.

  14. Re:points to an increasing problem with modern tec on The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy Continues · · Score: 1

    He must have made a poor selection with his parts car. The best parts cars are retired long before they wear out significantly, preferably from a rear end collision that will leave most of the parts subject to wear intact.

  15. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    That guy only survived because his helmet got ripped off and blew the engine to pieces before he reached the blades.

  16. Re:For what application? on EComStation 2.0 GA To Be Released May 14 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And most of those people don't care what OS comes on their new computer as long as they can figure out how to get to google and play farmville.

    How many people out there are explicitly buying windows 7? Hardly anyone.

  17. Re:Is JASON related to JOSHUA? on Looking Back at 1984 Report On "Radical Computing" · · Score: 1

    You joke, but I recently watched that movie again. If you don't count how they finally defeated the AI, it is unquestionably the most realistic depiction of computer hacking in any movie, ever.

  18. My employer dodged a bullet on this one. on McAfee Retracts Lowball Bug Damage Estimate · · Score: 1

    Everything here is windows xp sp3 with McAfee installed.

    Fortunately for us, all software updates are filtered through and managed by an internal server due to security restrictions on some of the work we do for the government.

  19. Re:If you don't like it don't buy it on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am pretty sure that there is a huge drive to make is so that it doesn't matter if you have an ATI or NVidia graphics card. I remember the old days where some you needed the exact model of soundblaster and graphics hardware expected by a videogame. Hell, I am very glad that steam and valve titles are on their way to linux at the moment.

  20. Re:Perhaps nobody else cares? on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    I had "the snap thing" in Ubuntu before I had it in windows 7.

  21. Re:ARM mini-ITX on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    No SATA, but you can use a usb 2.0 hard disk.

    Expansion boards are possible for the beagle board. I do not know of any sata expansion boards, but you might be able to hack one together if you have enough EE knowledge (I sure don't).

    The only SATA enabled arm card I could find is the hawk board, but it is a less powerful arm 9 based processor.

  22. Re:Buying ARM for a leg? on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    You are right, when I said "standard arm chips", I should have been more specific as I was referring to Cortex A8 based chips. The snapdragon is the only such chip with multiple cores.

  23. Re:Huh? on Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, stay right there, I need to get my gun."

  24. Re:in other words... on Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dwarf Fortress.

    Aurora.

    Nethack.

  25. Re:and again.... on Facebook and the "Social Graph" · · Score: 1

    I don't know, if facebook was a data mining front for the CIA, I would hope that they would be interested in keeping their valuable intel to themselves. Unless of course they are merely using the insecurity of the system to gather intel instead of having an official back door.