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  1. Re:Fast forward... on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean you actually got it to play instead of stare at a play button? Can we please kill Flash already.

  2. Not a good source on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd probably consider myself right of center, but I also don't think World Net Daily is a very unbiased source.

  3. Re:80's tech on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Just seems like it could be done a lot easier shuttling around gzipped mbox files.

  4. Self-inflicted on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What, besides shutting down leaky old nuclear plants, could be done to better control release of tritium into the environment?"

    Well maybe if somebody, HINT HINT, would let us build new, safer, and more efficient ones, instead of having to rely on the older ones.

  5. Re:Why trust Sun? on Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any company can be bought out..

    No, not really. As pointed out one of those 'top 20' works at NTT. Lets compare revenues.

    NTT: $106.289 billion (2009)
    Oracle: $ 23.252 billion (2009)

    I think the buying out would go the other way.

  6. Re:What rights? on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 1

    How cheaper is it to volume license instead of buying individual copies? I mean how many computers does a Guitar Manufacturer need? If you dont Volume License can't you tell the BSA to stuff it?

  7. Re:Good thing on Testing a Pre-Release, Parallel Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Other browsers have already caught up to Firefox in speed, features, and standards support.

    They're lacking the 'Eat your Memory' feature.

  8. Cause on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 1, Funny

    After investigating further, the scientists found that the the star likely ate at Chipotle earlier in the day.

  9. Re:Do we finally have unicode support? on Cygwin 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    RTFA:

    - Default character set is now UTF-8, but other character sets are
        supported via an improved internationalization support. See
        http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html

  10. Why do I get on Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do I get the feeling that if it came down to it, it would be these library associations who would be charging large amounts of money to access their archives rather then Google.

  11. I believe I speak for everybody on DECAF Was Just a Stunt, Now Over · · Score: 5, Funny

    When after reading that I reply with "WTF?"

  12. Editor Fail on First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    Downloads are not here. Might try actually putting a full URL in there instead of MySQLServer5.5.0-m2

  13. Actual Largest Photo on 26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Legacy Project, they converted an old hanger into a pinhole camera.

  14. So dont use it. ~nt~ on Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! · · Score: 1

    ~nt~

  15. Oh noes on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 4, Informative

    So they recorded unencrypted OTA video feeds? While yes, they probably should have been encrypted in the first place and . . .

    The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said.

    Yea that's kinda bad and lazy of them,

    Senior military and intelligence officials said the U.S. was working to encrypt all of its drone video feeds from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but said it wasn't yet clear if the problem had been completely resolved.

    they're fixing it.

  16. Expect the worst, hope for the best on Heavy Rain Previews Show Promise · · Score: 1

    Same people that brought you Indigo Prophecy. Good idea, and the first half the game was great, then you got to the second half of the game that went snooker loopy. So I'll reserve judgement till I get a chance to play the whole thing.

  17. Re:Disable autorun, lock your computer on Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF · · Score: 1

    but if autorun is disabled you're suppose to use the file manager to browse to the USB device and execute it.

    That is why I said lock the computer, then they can't get to the file manager.

  18. Re:Conveniently forgetting the details on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given the other evidence they probably determined there was a statistically significant percentage that the laptop wasn't just a laptop, so they disposed of it how almost every group disables potential bombs, by shooting it.

  19. Disable autorun, lock your computer on Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF · · Score: 4, Informative

    AFAIK, if your computer is locked COFEE relies on autorun to work, so disable autorun and lock your computer will pretty much thwart COFEE, since it would somehow require bypassing MS's supplied GINA dll, which given it's Microsoft, might know how to do, but would find it highly unlikely.

  20. Re:And the wings might not even fall off in flight on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    Because it's been shown in the past that the airframe was a design failure and they had to patch it up and change the design.

    I too have very little confidence in it. Until it's done with testing and proves changes are adequate.

    No need to be hostile. He's voicing an opinion.

    You mean the design load test the FAA requires before the plane leaves the air? Yea, it passed that. They're debating on if an ultimate load test will happen in the spring.

  21. Re:And the wings might not even fall off in flight on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which they've fixed.

    Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner on Monday successfully completed the wing test the jet failed last May, and now looks set to fly before Christmas, according to two sources familiar with the test outcome.

    Engineers are still analyzing data from the repeat test and haven't yet given the official thumbs-up, but the composite fibers in the wing did not delaminate when it was bent to the same point as in the previous test, the sources said..

    Again, it has to pass the design limit test before the FAA will let it fly, so since it just flown, they've proven it's safe.

  22. Re:And the wings might not even fall off in flight on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    It has to exceed design load before the FAA will even let it fly, it's passed the design load, and they're expecting to test to ultimate load in the spring.

  23. Re:amazing... on Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out · · Score: -1, Troll

    DISCLAIMER: Yes, I know it's unlikely, but this is a what-if.

    Would you trust it to OpenOffice? Why? Couldn't it hold your files for ransom too? It couldn't? Because the source is open you say? Having the source out there before the fact didn't help in that case, so why would it help in this case?

  24. Re:like trying to offer proof to a Birther on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but you're not trying to convert them, as you said it wont happen. What you're doing is trying to convince the people on the fence. They see, somebody laying out refuting the points of the AGW crowd, which then responds with basically "U STUPID", that isn't going to gain any more fans.

  25. What? on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For some reason I don't think going, "Lalalalalala, I can't hear you" instead of refuting the points they bring up is going to engender somebody to change their viewpoint, rather the opposite. If somebody is already believing there is a cover-up this is about the only thing you could do, besides admit it, that reinforces that idea.