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  1. Re:The only problem... is PEBKAC? on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by no thumbnail view "in gnome"? That's like saying no thumbnail view "in windows". You must have been in some application in windows to be able to do that.

    I just tried it in Nautilus (Gnome file manager), which defaults to thumbnail view. To bring Nautilus up, I clicked Home Folder under the Places menu. Nautilus allowed me to select two pictures, right-click on them, and select to send them by email in the resulting pop-up. Up came an Evolution compose window with the pictures attached and ready to send. Cake.

    I didn't see any option for sending a resized version, but is that alone really what makes her vehemently against "Linux"?

  2. Re:Back to M$ on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    A solid money managing app: Moneydance

  3. Re:Why walk... on 3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole · · Score: 1

    The ice is not consistently thick enough to support machines of any sort

    Nuts

    If they want to have an adventure, nothing wrong with that, all for it. But these blokes are suggesting what they are doing can't be done any other way than on an arduous 3-month walking tour, which is hogwash.

  4. Re:Why walk... on 3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole · · Score: 1

    The answer is in the text.

    No it isn't. They aren't doing anything from the sledges that you can't do by stopping the truck, opening the door, and getting out.

  5. Re:Why walk... on 3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole · · Score: 1

    If you had RTFR (Read The Fucking Reference), you would know the Hilux can survive being awash in seawater for hours.

    (Not to mention being set on fire, imploded with a building, and having a caravan dropped on it...)

  6. Why walk... on 3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole · · Score: 1, Interesting

    When you can drive? If this is urgent information, shouldn't they use the appropriate means to gather it in about three days instead of three months?

  7. Not Wall Street. Us. on The Formula That Killed Wall Street · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't killing Wall Street. Those jokers are getting $billions$ in free money.

    It's killing us, the people who work for a living and have to provide all those $billions$ or suffer the inflationary consequences when the Feds just print it.

  8. Ablation Cascade: This is how it starts on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is one way the theoretical Ablation Cascade could start. At least then we wouldn't have to worry about getting to the Moon. We couldn't.

    Bummer if it happens before the Webb Space Telescope launches...

  9. FACTS, not "truth". on Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wikipedia isn't interested in truth, only facts.

  10. Re:Look at that bottled water opportunity! on Lots of Pure Water Ice At Mars North Pole · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried drinking that once. I prefer water.

  11. Re:how it happened on Agora Android Phone Delayed By Glitches · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two of them? Two by two? Were they wearing blue gloves?

  12. Re:Good luck with that! on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    First, how the fuck is my blood not a part of me, and therefore not protected by the Fifth Amendment?

    Second, some states now authorize police officers to unconstitutionally force you to bear witness against yourself. That is, the policeman can now take a suspect's blood, with minimal training. Even forcefully if the suspect refuses.

  13. It is Tivoized? on A Sony Camera Running Linux · · Score: 1

    Will owners be able to modify firmware/software to suit their own purposes as the developers of the included GPL software intended? Or is it Tivoized? TFA doesn't say.

  14. No Archive.org either on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 5, Informative

    They also purposely blocked archive.org via a robots.txt exclusion, so the bloggers can't use that to try and recover some of their blogs.

  15. How hard is it to remember: on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mirroring: High availability
    Backups: High reliability

  16. Re:still don't grasp the obvious... on Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest · · Score: 1

    Ummmm... The huge cost difference?

  17. Re:It is completely ignorant to think... on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Titanic was an example of what should be called Cockyisms. (The beliefe that one is better or their product is better than it truly is.) in this case, Unsinkable...and we all know how THAT turned out!

    There already is a word: Hubris

  18. Re:goodluckwiththat on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    That requires a 'net connection. How does that work when I have no 'net connection because it's been pulled?

  19. Re:goodluckwiththat on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    The problem I've always had with that quote is that there has to be another route to take. If they pull your only 'net connection, how do you "route around it"?

  20. Re:Better be a mighty fine flashlight for $170 on Ultracapacitor LED Flashlight Charges In 90 Seconds · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ultracapacitors have very low self-discharge rates. Lower than most battery technologies.

  21. Re:Make it easy on Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? · · Score: 1

    DO NOT PUT IT IN YOUR SAFE DEPOSIT BOX. If you are deceased the bank is not supposed to grant access to anyone until your estate is in probate, which will be tough if your will's in the box.

    A better way is do put it in your safe deposit box, but put a trusted family member as a cosigner on the box. That way when you die, they will have ready probate-free access to your safe deposit box to carry out your last wishes.

  22. Re:Why internet radio is hit harder on Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. An FCC license.
    2. Commercial broadcast hardware.

    Have you priced either? Very effective at excluding undesirables...

  23. Another industry gets offshored on Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Won't this just mean that there won't be any U.S. Internet radio stations? They'll either fold up or move off-shore. They won't be able to conduct any "business" in the U.S., but short of the Great Firewall of Comrizon/Vericast, the MAFIAA won't be able to stop U.S. users from streaming.

  24. Re:WINDOWS ONLY. on Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How many Windows viruses, trojans, and other malware programs are there successfully spreading in the wild? Thousands? TENS of thousands?

    OK, now how many Linux, BSD, or OS X viruses, trojans, other malware programs are successfully spreading in the wild? ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, ZIP.

    So you tell me: How difficult is it to secure Windows? Must be damn near impossible.

    You even admit that despite your self-proclaimed superior ability to secure Windows, you were still a victim of a trojan.

  25. Re:WINDOWS ONLY. on Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course you can also run Windows and avoid doing unsafe, stupid things.

    Um, running Windows is unsafe and stupid.