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  1. Re:Death of cloud services in 3..2..1 on Google Backs Yahoo In Privacy Fight With DoJ · · Score: 1

    right. Paper refers to documents aka information, be they on paper, lambskin, stone tablets, knots on a string, magnetically charged platters or electrons quantum tunneled into a resistor.

  2. Re:What? on Google Backs Yahoo In Privacy Fight With DoJ · · Score: 1

    one problem with email from home, most residential providers restrict the email port.

    Another thing is: if the issue is alerting the suspect, then you use a wiretapping warrant.

    If the problem is no due cause? then you are shit out of luck.

  3. Re:More To It? on How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It probably wasn't even that hard. Once they own the domain, they can park a standard email server on it and capture email sent to the domain, they don't even need to implement the specific addresses.

  4. Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy? on Innocent Until Predicted Guilty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can do that without giving IBM millions of dollars.

    Its called nurturing, education and providing the opportunity to succeed.

  5. Re:Ehh... on Wear Some Camo On Your Wedding Day · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is in idle, the part of slashdot explicitly set aside for stuff that does not really matter.

  6. Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy? on Innocent Until Predicted Guilty · · Score: 1

    So are you suggesting that those with higher risk factors receive harsher punishment? or lesser?

    One of the biggest risk factors in the "criminality" of someone may be having this program identify you as a likely criminal. It is well known that harsh punishments are very strongly correlated with subsequent social dysfunction.

  7. Re:necessity of water on Microbial Life Found In Trinidadian Hydrocarbon Lake · · Score: 1

    For starters: The GP assertion is based on a faulty perspective.
    Water is valuable because it is corrosive and reactive. Water is a near universal solvent, one that can dissolve small amounts of nearly any mineral. Water is a magnetic polar fluid with high surface tension. This is valuable for forming membranes. It is also near the triple point of temperature on earth and its most common solid form is lighter than its liquid form.

    The closest alternative to water that we know of is ammonia, it has similar potential as a universal solvent, similar polarity, (I have no idea about surface tension, but it should be similar to water due to its relationship with molecular polarity), but its ice form is more dense than its liquid.

  8. Re:Sounds like a plan on Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem with not caring if other people know about it is this: in a lot of places, having viewed hentai drawings is sufficient for criminal charges, prison time and in a few rare cases execution.

  9. Re:Time to reinstall it all on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    Possible, likely even. But Ubuntu was sufficiently capable of overcoming whatever driver problems there were and windows 7 simply was not.

    I have not checked in a month or two, but the latest drivers for my hardware didn't fix the problem in windows 7.

  10. Re:George Orwell must be turning in his grave on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 1

    That just means you get rejected twice as often.

  11. Re:Time to reinstall it all on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    If it was not the OS, why does Ubuntu work flawlessly right out of the box?

  12. Re:Time to reinstall it all on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    "What TV do you have? On all three of my Win7 machines my panasoic plasma will show up when I plug it in. Rinse/repeat/plug/unplug, it will appear/disappear on queue. When it's present (by whatever means you're using), set it as default -- and you should be all set. "

    That does not work. Like I said before. the only way for audio to work (in windows 7, it works just fine in ubuntu 9.10) is if the tv is tuned to the hdmi channel while the computer boots, only then can I select hdmi as the audio output. And if the computer boots without the tv tuned, even though it was previously selected as default, it can not detect and does not work. The kind of TV I have is not relevant because it works perfectly in Ubuntu, Dynex if it matters.

    "Fat32 is not standard for SD cards - exfat is. What camera are you using?"

    Alright, that right there tells me you don't know what you are talking about. Fat and fat32 are the most common file systems used on sd and sdhc cards, period. ExFat was only really recommended for the SDXC format last year, and that is still a block level device supporting fat32.

  13. Re:Time to reinstall it all on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    I am running ubuntu 9.10 and quite happy with it. It could be possible that some of your problems are a result of using the beta testing version of ubuntu.

  14. Re:Time to reinstall it all on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    absolutely wrong.

    The hdmi audio output is not selectable in win 7 because it is "not plugged in" unless the tv is tuned to the hdmi channel during boot up of the machine, even if the cable is never unplugged.

    standard as in fat32, strait from a camera or any other computer. And no, they don't work. Because I have to format every time a card is plugged in, I can only remove files from the computer while in windows.

  15. Re:I have a better idea on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wrong. There is precedence that even growing your own wheat for personal consumption is regulated by the administrative branch an the concept that there is an interstate market of wheat, and your growth and consumption affects that market.

    The ATF can and will use its unnatural power however it sees fit.

    However, an the topic of home grown tobacco, it will still have a load of nasty crap in the smoke. Just less than manufactured cigs with formaldehyde, etc.

  16. Re:Time to reinstall it all on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    Not for me. I keep win7 for a few videogames that don't run on linux at all.

    If I want to watch something from my computer on my 42in HDTV and get sound through the hdmi cable?

    In windows 7 I must first turn my TV on and switch it to the apropriate hdmi channel, then reboot my computer or I get no audio.

    In ubuntu, it just works.

    If I plug an standard formatted SD memory card into my computer?

    In windows 7 it won't read the card unless it formats it first, even if it had previously formatted the exact same card card.

    In ubuntu it just works.

    Windows has only two advantages for me.
    It is easier to change my default monitor when using a stretched desktop.
    It runs a handful of video games that I like but don't work on ubuntu or even with wine.

  17. Re:Don't forget... on Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always say that choosing between democrat and republican is like deciding between Mephistopheles and Cthulhu. Its pretty damn hard to determine the lesser of two evils when both cause a buffer overflow error on the evil register.

  18. Re:Interesting, but... on The Genius In Apple's Vertical Platform · · Score: 1

    right, "die too big" could also mean they used a cheaper older fab technology with lower resolution.

  19. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    No. She would receive vastly more energy even on the limited wavelengths put out by an LED every second she spent in natural sunlight.

  20. Re:You're Not Like Me Nor Are You Stealing on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 4, Funny

    haha. Where I work the customer service phone monkeys in the cube farm next to me use the speakerphone. THE GOD DAMN SPEAKERPHONE.

  21. Re:Doubt it will ever get made on Joss Whedon To Direct The Avengers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was generally monster of the week with 5 minutes each episode dedicated to monster of the season. Monster of the season got 2 to 4 dedicated episodes, usually one at the beginning, two at the end and one in the middle where it demonstrates that Buffy is to weak to defeat him/her/it. But with the power of (heart/friendship/hot lesbian witches) they defeat the big bad after all.

    Even so, it was entertaining.

  22. Re:Cue the lawsuit from Nintendo on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 1

    It could be worse. It could be confused for a wii remote appliance with an even more similar name...

  23. Re:The shoulders of giants on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What? The IPad is hardly novel. Tablet computers have existed for a decade or more. Hell, my 5 year old laptop (and it wasn't even top of the line when I bought it) with a nearly dead battery had a flip around touch screen that worked in tablet mode.

  24. Re:Fixed that for ya. on Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek · · Score: 1

    And it requires no electricity to display and is organic. That means its green and good for the environment... right?

  25. Re:Fixed that for ya. on Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek · · Score: 1

    wtf. I swear that "his is" was originally "for his" when I typed it.