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  1. Re:I'll Be Damned on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 2

    The cost is zero to the telcos, but the profit is gravy.

    It is a complete rip-off scam to the consumer.

  2. Re:Donate it? on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or airline unclaimed baggage dept.

    I hear the selection is good.

  3. Re:Stability, reliability on Btrfs Is Not Yet the Performance King · · Score: 1

    Probably desired due to the low latency.

  4. Chilling effect on OIN Posts Details of Microsoft's Anti-Tom Tom Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I might as well not bring innovation to the stage and save myself the hassle.

    That is exactly what the darkside hopes.

  5. Re:How about earth? on Using Light's Handedness To Find Alien Life · · Score: 1

    No, the windows viruses are still nasty.

  6. Re:malicious code .. on Malicious Activity Grew At a Record Pace In 2008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are lots of Operating Systems involved.

    They just happen to originate from the same place.

  7. Darl? Is that you? on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    You would not be in those conditions if you hadn't started those dumb lawsuits against IBM and Novell.

  8. Re:Pidgin on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Pidgin is GPL, hack your own version so that
    it does not support the 'outside protocols'.

    It should be relatively straightforward.

  9. Re:hibernate instead of shutting down... on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    There is a workaround.

    Setup screen saver.
    Turn off monitor.

  10. Re:Third Party on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    I'll just point out that the Fed is neither a government agency, corporation, or a charity. It is the number one tool of the darkside. It is not the Treasury Department. The darkside loves to confuse people into believing that the Fed (the Federal Reserve Bank) is part of the U.S. Government. They are not. They are crooks of the highest order.

  11. Yeah, but on Cybercrime-As-a-Service Takes Off · · Score: 0, Redundant

    does it run on Linux?

  12. All security is distributed on US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns · · Score: 1
    If there is one entity 'in charge', you don't have security.

    You have a security hole.

  13. Re:I don't understand the fuss over UAC on UAC Whitelist Hole In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    It is 'Security Theater', it will not stop botnets from being formed.

  14. Re:Professional services cost money on Symantec Support Gone Rogue? · · Score: 1

    Well, he did say 'an antivirus program cannot be guaranteed to run on a corrupted OS installation', so I think he was implying that Windows is a corrupted OS installation, and does not have the proper tools to externally boot and clean up.

  15. Re:Very interesting. on Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on having enlightened management people.

    They've been on the endangered species list for 40 years.

  16. Nice shot of the Big Dipper on First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh wait, maybe that was dust on my monitor.

  17. Re:Ethernet on $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available · · Score: 1

    Add a USB-Ethernet connector, and make a router?

  18. Re:How much longer? on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 will be dead before the rovers.

  19. Re:There have been a lot of leaks of Windows 7 on Post-Beta Windows 7 Build Leaked With New IE8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be Steve, could be Bill.

  20. Re:Am I crazy? on Vim 7.2 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Smells like an EMACS conspiracy.

  21. Re:Spanning Tree on Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted · · Score: 1
    But it should not happen, right?

    STP

    The Spanning Tree Protocol is an OSI layer-2 protocol that ensures a loop-free topology for any bridged LAN.

    This would seem to be the clue:

    Luckily we don't have any machines deployed on [that row in that cabinet] yet so no machines are offline.

    No machines deployed == no machines are online

    There was no traffic there.

  22. Re:Saddening on Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have drank the koolaid.

    ACORN can not commit voter fraud.

    Bogus voter registrations is not voter fraud.

    You should wake up to reality.

  23. Re:What in the world is there to sort out? on RIAA Drops Enforcement Case To "Sort Out" Inaccuracies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It really sucks when you hire someone that turns out to
    have integrity and won't roll over and be your lackey.

    Sounds like RIAA could not afford to properly vet this lawyer.

  24. Re:Neat on Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record · · Score: 1

    Yes, most of them are buggy.

  25. Disk vendors are free to choose on Universal Disk Encryption Spec Finalized · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What about the owner?

    Why should this be trustable?