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  1. Poor me on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 2

    I bought a car and I had to buy a welder, socket set, wrenches, pulley pullers, spanners, hammers, tool boxes, pliers, compressors, testers, probes, programmers, and a GD screw driver.

    It's the end of the world, I need a cool looking star ended screw driver to take apart my iPhone.

    That's nothing like the fricken 17mm alen wrench I needed to change the oil in my Jetta.

  2. No Action on BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled · · Score: 1

    I was hoping for a show about robots kicking ass and all I got was a show about terrorists smoking and bombing people.

    No wonder why it's canceled.

  3. wow on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 1

    Wow... I liked the movie. I didn't realize that it was awful. Strange. Maybe I should watch it again. I've certainly seen worse movies over the past few years.

    I had no idea about the Scientologists part.

  4. SSH Key on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Instead of generating passwords, have your users supply their SSH key and turn off passwords. Much better solution.

  5. Re:So? on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    Until you get 10,000 machines trying to brute force your password at 120 times per second. Then you'll think twice about log and forget.

  6. Project Pane on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 1

    I would be happy with just a project pane, like Textmate has, that doesn't look like ass. I love VIM, but that's pretty much the only thing holding me back from dropping Textmate.

  7. Re:I don't blame them on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    It does nothing for dog piss though. Stupid people. I need to burn this house down and replace it.

  8. Re:My sudden-acceleration Audi experience on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    I have a 93 Dodge 2500 pickup truck. I came to a stop light and the truck was trying to push through the brakes. Ended up being the cruse control. It was on, but not enabled. It somehow enabled and was trying to take off. Even though I was holding the brakes, it was still trying to go. I finally realized and turned off the control.

    So it's not only foreign/new cars that have this issue.

  9. Re:Cortical Copyright Infringement on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 1

    No, it's not an "unauthorized copy". You are allowed to watch it. So no lawyers at your door.

  10. Re:Why I chose Apple for my dev laptop on Best Developer's Laptop? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I love mine, and the 6 hour battery life can just about get me through the whole work day without wires.

  11. Re:Death to IE6! on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    Why don't these corporations have a SSB (single site browser) for their web apps? Then they can use IE8 or whatever they want and still have the SSB for their apps. Is there a SSB that is IE6?

  12. Re:Very promising! on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Gasoline doesn't blow up. You watch too many movies.

  13. Re:But will it be capped? on Verizon Promises 4G Wireless For Rural America · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I 2nd this. Metered bandwidth is the way to go. Grandpa can afford to send his three emails a month and I can do my remote development 6 days a week.

  14. Re:foot shooting on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Oh, by the way, I'm on a Mac.

  15. Re:Aside from that... that isn't scientific litera on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the update.

    I don't say that I'm the brightest, and I might believe in God and all that, but I'm pretty sure we can't know what happened so long ago. For all we know, we could be some science experiment to determine life, the universe, and everything.... And 42 just doesn't answer it unless you know the question.

  16. Pre-Paid Wireless on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    It's all about Pre-Paid wireless. They pay for a block of bandwidth, when it's used up, they pay again for another block.

    I wrote some software for my WISP that allows customers to add as much as they want. They want 40GB, they buy it.

    That way I can pay for the bandwidth and they get the service they want.

  17. Re:Aside from that... that isn't scientific litera on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Opinion question? Whether humans (who have been around for less than a million years no matter how loosely you define human) and dinosaurs (which have been dead for over 60 million years"

    And obviously you were there to know this as fact.

    As if we can be absolutely sure that carbon dating is accurate to that length of time. As if we can be absolutely sure of anything over 2000 years ago. What, do you have a time machine?

  18. Network Terminals on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    You can just log into any computer and you have your own desktop with your own apps. Doesn't matter where you are. The environment follows your login.

    Like Sun did.... 15 years ago....

  19. foot shooting on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has been trying to commit suicide for 20 year, and people are just now realizing it. How many company's to they have to kill, how many people do they have to piss off before people start looking elsewhere. A lot!

  20. Give Dem Da Boot on Anti-Piracy Firm Offering ISPs Money For Outing File-Sharers · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm booting customers off all the time for p2p filesharing. I might as well get paid for it. My ISP clearly states that it's not allowed, and clearly states that the network is a shared resource. So I'm not tricking anyone. I even tell them when I set them up that p2p is not allowed and it causes bandwidth issues for everyone else.

    Just yesterday some lady downloaded 23GB of stuff. Not sure what it was, but it pretty much knocked out internet for about 30 other people. 1500+ connections open to that one computer. I gave her the boot. Told her good luck finding internet access out here in the middle of nowhere. Dial-up doesn't even work.

    I reserve the right to deny access to my network to anyone for any reason. Especially illegal activity. No, downloading music for free is not legal. No downloading movies for free is not legal. Gesh, just get Netflix or something.

  21. Re:It's a plant on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I killed those five people when I drove over them in my car. I didn't know how to stop, I've never drove a manual transmission. I have only drove automatic transmissions.

  22. Re:Obvious? on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    My Nana has Alzheimer's, and she has been a vegetarian for most of her life. I've ate fast food all my life and I'm perfectly healthy. 5.9 and 140-160 pounds. I think it's the whole make fast food evil thing thats been going on for years.

  23. Re:Safari? Safari what? on Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, I use the Webkit nightly builds. Webkit runs circles around everything else, plus it renders the Acid 3 test 100%. Yet reviewers will review beta/alpha browsers and leave Webkit out.

  24. Re:The BASIC of the 21st century on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 1

    and I'm migrating them over to Ruby on Rails or Merb. PHP is lame.

  25. 20MPH in my truck on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    Everywhere I drive, I drive the posted speed limit.

    My Dodge 350 with the Cummings Turbo Diesel gets 20MPG. I drive about 250 miles per week.
    My VW Jetta 2.0L Gas engine gets about 30MPG. 400 miles per week.
    My Suzuki Samurai gets 17MPG (modified for offroad). 100 miles per month.
    My offroad 4x4 rock crawler gets 50MPG with a VW Turbo Diesel. But I don't go over 25MPH in it. 50 miles per month.
    My Ford 250 Gasser gets 10MPG. What to buy it? $1000.