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  1. Re:How comforting... on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are altering the deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.

  2. Re:Not an unsafe language... on Millions At Risk From Critical Vulnerabilities From WordPress Plugins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Auditing isn't cool and takes time that could be better spent posting pictures of food with a sepia filter on Instagram.

  3. Yo' dawg... on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    I heard you like to shop while you shop, so we put a store in your store.

  4. Re:Axe on Researchers Discover Another Layer To the Cornea · · Score: 1

    WOOSH.

  5. Re:You can pry XP from my cold, dead hands on XP's End Will Do More For PC Sales Than Win 8, Says HP Exec · · Score: 1

    Corporate environments will be upgrading to Windows 7, not 8.

  6. Bait farm on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 1

    Insane UN recommendation spawns insane product recommendation. I'm not eating bugs, and I don't see anyone rushing out to start changing their diet to incorporate more insects. I have seen people farm insects at home. They do it to cultivate a steady supply of fishing bait and pet reptile food. They always wouldn't bother with this over-designed piece of junk; you can make something like this out of fine mesh, a few wooden posts, and some cardboard egg crates.

  7. environment maintenance on Phenomenon Discovered In Ultracold Atoms Brings Us a Step Closer To Atomtronics · · Score: 2

    I'm not even going to pretend I understand how this would work, but I doubt anyone but those with the deepest pockets could afford an ultracold computing device.

  8. Re:land of the free... on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 1

    You just outlined the fundamental hosting plan available to players of the Uplink game.

  9. Re:Stumped my ass on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An older engineer I worked with once told me a story about a car manufacturer (don't remember which one) using the CAN bus to control the side view mirrors. Well, the CAN bus is an electrical bus without any form of authentication or security, and car thieves started to make a habit of busted off one of the side mirrors and issuing the unlock doors message on the bus. Note that the authenticity of this story is what you should expect from typical water cooler gossip.

  10. That's a umask, not a permission.

  11. Re:Target Microsoft on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Do no evil" means "don't get caught doing something that will put handcuffs on our executives." Get your definitions straight.

  12. Google marketting on How Google Street View Keeps an Eye on Things Where There Are No Streets (Video) · · Score: 2

    It's good to see that Google finally figured out this whole marketing thing, but I didn't see an MSRP on this particular gadget.

  13. Re:Lesson learned on GIS Community Blocks Esri's Geospatial 'Open Standard' REST API · · Score: 1

    Didn't intend to come off with an accusatory tone in my earlier post, but there it is when I read it a second time. I like qgis, and it's much easier to fire it up to load some GeoTIFFs and DTED files for quick perusal. My primary complaint about GRASS is the obtuse process you have to go through simply to get a project started before you can actually, ya' know, view some geospatial data. There's some definite improvements that could be made (controlling layer rendering based on zoom level, OpenGL rendering, etc.), but it's pretty solid without having to dip my toes into the proprietary s/w markets for this use case.

  14. Re:Ubiquitous surveillance on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    Try waving your hands a little harder. I want my jetpack, damnit.

  15. Re:Lesson learned on GIS Community Blocks Esri's Geospatial 'Open Standard' REST API · · Score: 1

    Your list omits Quantum GIS (qgis). I've used it, and while it's not very enterprise-y, it seems to be better than the other FOSS offerings. Also appears to support connecting to a PostGIS system for layer info, but I haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet.

  16. Re:Tattoo permanency on Motorola Developing Pill and Tattoo Authentication Methods · · Score: 1

    18-bits is cryptographically insecure. PCI and DoD restrictions require atleast 128-bit AES keys, and prefer 256-bit or higher. Public key crypto requires even more, with 1024 as the typical recommendation and going up as high as 4096 bit for the uber-paranoid.

  17. Re:Tattoo Authentication Methods on Motorola Developing Pill and Tattoo Authentication Methods · · Score: 1

    If we mandated it be SH on the forehead, it would apply to corporeal smegheads equally well.

  18. Re:This solves ? on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    That is true, but this is an attempt to reduce the efficiently of a technology that is designed with a lethal intent in mind. It's pointless, though. Humankind's first tools were weapons and farming implements, and many would argue that they could easily have been the same tools used in different applications and only diverged as our technology became complex enough to mandate specialization.

    Again, people have an irrational fear of lethality in all circumstances and fail to realize that the universe is full of all sorts of terrestrial critters out to eat us all in one way or another, not just critters of our own species.

  19. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    This was solved on unix in the mid 70s. System configuration files exist within directory structures in /etc User configuration files exist within dotfiles (hidden files on unix) in the user's home directory, ie /home/JDG1980 You can make all the fancy UIs you want, and that's great, but I only care that they read from and write to the textfiles residing in /etc somewhere. Yeah, that's tons of files. I'm used to working with tons of files. Find, grep, sed, awk, bash, perl, et cetera ad infinitum work just fine for me even with filesets ranging in the thousands.

  20. Re:These failure rates are expected on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    Is it really that hard to properly anneal a photovoltaic?

  21. Re:Rising transportation costs on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    Considering that Mexico is within the boundaries of the two continents named "America", you're damn right you can. Made in the USA is tricky, but they do it if the only thing that happens in the US is assembly a few foreign made major subassemblies into a finished product and spraying it with a clear coat.

  22. Re:MLB has much bigger problems on Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball · · Score: 1

    MMA would be far more interesting if they flooded the arena and had mock naval battles.

  23. Re:This solves ? on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 2

    This solves nothing. It attempts to placate an irrational fear of lethal technology.

  24. Re:Dear Microsoft, Just Give us SHELL= on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    Ah, the days of .ini files. They were a mess of .ini files littered all over your C: drive, but they were STILL better than drilling into the BS that is the registry hives.

  25. Re:wayland on Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland · · Score: 1

    You should look into using disper.