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  1. Re:Schoolkey on Walter Bender — Taking Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    You must be some kind of sadist. That is one scary monster, with big bright yellow eyes, and sharp teeth inside its lightning-bolt-shaped mouth. Sure to give any little kids nightmares.

  2. Re:Layman? on Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because model numbers tell you nothing about the specifications without a reference sheet handy. People understand "21 Ghz", but not the model number 12675100.

  3. NES computer? on $10 Laptop Downgraded By Reality; Now Fancy Storage Device · · Score: 1

    Why does this remind me of the $10 "Educational Computer" which was basically a NES?

  4. Re:Scumware, eh? on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't matter at all. Type in any .DLL file you can think of, and you will see all the "Remove Spyware Now!" type sites that catalog DLL files. Buried in the actual relevant content of the site, hidden beneath all the "Spyware is dangerous, you may have spyware" boilerplate content is a row in a table telling you that the DLL file you searched for is safe. You can't just trust results like that.

  5. Firefox? on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1

    Does Firefox still look like ass on KDE?

  6. Re:Do what I do on Fraudsters Abusing Canada's Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    This is why people have dialup modems. Loud modem noise works far better than any airhorn.

  7. Re:How to get around CAPTCHA for Porn? on Building a Better CAPTCHA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Captchas have right or wrong answers, which can be immediately verified.
    Spam or not spam can not. Some imbeciles can just make random selections without caring. Even if you give posts to multiple people to see if they agree, you can get enough imbeciles to ruin the system.

  8. Re:Seagate + Maxtor on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    What about upside-down M's?

  9. Re:I wonder what RSA has to say about this on Piracy and the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    RSA doesn't protect the cartridge games, only games which boot via Wi-fi. The cartridge encryption is done with a completely different method. It uses a random number generator with predefined 40-bit seeds combined with data from the cartridge, go read GBATEK for details. After the BIOS got dumped, it didn't take very long to figure out the process.

  10. Re:FireFox extensions on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    SRWare Iron (A modified version of Chrome) has built in adblocking, but it's nowhere near as good as what Adblock provides.

  11. BOOM, there goes the filesystem on Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards · · Score: 1

    There is no reason in this day and age to use an extended version of FAT for any reason. FAT and FAT32 are only used because they are ubiquitous, and compatible across most operating systems. They are technically inferior, and it is very easy for a software bug to overwrite the File Allocation Table with garbage, effectively killing a lot of files on the disk. There is no guarantee that the files will be stored contiguously on the disk. Even the typical use case of a digital camera will eventually enlarge a directory cluster. So you have a non-contiguous filesystem and suddenly some bug kills the FAT, your filesystem goes kaput.

    Using some descendant of FAT is only asking for data loss.

  12. Checked Google Trends lately? on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.google.com/trends
    At the time I loaded the page:
        1. zune frozen
        2. reset zune
        3. zune locked up
        4. zune troubleshooting

  13. Re:A Solution in Search of a Problem on Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster · · Score: 1

    What about Physical Randomness + Logging the numbers?

  14. The old "Fake Textarea" trick on Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? · · Score: 1

    I'm using the old "Fake Textarea" trick. If anyone fills in the fake textarea, the post is rejected. The fake textarea comes up first, but is hidden with CSS. I also modified the forum software so that the fake text field has the same form name as what the forum traditionally uses for the real field.
    I'm also using this in conjunction with blocking posts containing URLs from guests or users with no posts.

    Of course, this is all useless against Stock Ticker symbol spammers.

  15. Re:ha ha on World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call" · · Score: 1

    15c per megabyte? More like 15 DOLLARS per megabyte at the rates AT&T charge (1 cent per KB)

  16. Re:Ask. on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Don't authors give up their copyright when they publish?

  17. Re:Great, but needs guidelines. on Debian Packages Screenshots Repository Launched · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On Windows, you can always make up a screenshot of any DLL file by opening it in Dependency Walker, and listing the functions exported by the DLL. I'm sure there has to be something similar for Linux.

  18. Re:Just in time on OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If it gets ads, someone will fork it to remove them.

  19. Re:The Supreme Court knows fuck all about swearing on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    John Stewart already did the sexual image of the Supreme Court judges.

  20. Re:How dare they! on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now that's a ROFL.

    "WARNING - The system is either busy or has become unstable."
    An error has occurred in this application. Close / Ignore

    Windows 3.1 was full of random errors and crashes.

  21. Re:BTRFS? REALLY? on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think it reads more like "Bit Rot" filesystem, perfect for 20 year old EPROM chips.

  22. Re:Gnash 0.8.4 Released Yesterday on Linux Now an Equal Flash Player · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when there's a Windows binary available which doesn't immediately give an Assertion Error when I try to play a flash movie.

  23. Press Your Luck on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 1

    When Michael Larson was on the mid-1980's game show, "Press Your Luck", the scoreboard only held 5 digits and a dollar sign. When Michael broke the $100,000 barrier, they removed the dollar sign to accommodate the next digit. Sounds exactly like what happened here, except the national debt is no game show.

  24. Re:stop the discrimination! on Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence · · Score: 1

    Without the word "Integer" before "solutions", it is really easy to find solutions.

  25. Re:Better than root kits on Game Devs Using One-Time Bonuses to Fight Used Game Sales · · Score: 1

    But didn't Grandmothers end up passing on the diamond rings to their granddaughters?