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  1. Bloat on Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Firefox supposed to be the anti-bloat fork of SeaMonkey? Are we going to have another fork in another year that's the anti-bloat version of Firefox?

  2. Re:Would be bloody hard to pull this off on The Future of Persistent Worlds In MMOs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can only imagine what will happen if 10000 casual gamers sign on and see all the collection and simple rescue quests are done and what remains is an epic battle requiring 300 players to complete (LFG 299 PST).

    And you missed the point entirely, once "Drive the orcs from the town" was done, it'd be replaced with something like "Help farmer bob from newly rescued town rebuild ...." Or like: "Collect $foo $bar for $baz" gets replaced with "Help $quux steal $foo $bar from $baz"

    Once the quest is done it's not gone forever, the entire point of the story is that there will always be quests, but not the exact same things.

  3. YRO Abuse on As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations · · Score: 0

    Can we please stop posting this crap to YRO? This is what the Politics section is for, so those of us who want to come to /. for News for Nerds rather then Daily Kos can read a decent site with the politics section turned off.

  4. Re:idiot on James Powderly of Graffiti Research Labs Detained In China · · Score: 1

    Not a laser, but interesting trick nonetheless.

    So rolling around a projector to . . . project an image is a clever trick? So what's the projectors normal function then?

  5. Re:Makes me happy on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 4, Informative

    It may be just me, but I always felt IPv6 is a solution looking for the problem. [..] And lots and lots of NAT or proxying.

    And NAT is a problem masquerading as a solution.

    Anyway, I am ready to bet some cash that IPv6 will never become a major transport protocol.
    I know I will do whatever I can to keep it far far away.

    And I'll keep on enjoying all the free services people provide for IPv6 enabled hosts.

  6. Re:Solution looking for a problem on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, most of the world is using Windows XP. Can you show me where in my TCP/IP settings panel I am supposed to enter my IPv6 information? Exactly.

    You don't. As is the benefit of IPv6, if it's installed it should be automagically configured. It shouldn't require manual configuration.

  7. Re:So let's get this straight on Defcon "Warballoon" Finds 1/3 of Wireless Networks Unsecured · · Score: 1

    Compared to the 1.2mil+ uid's, yea I'd consider ~100k low.

  8. Re:So let's get this straight on Defcon "Warballoon" Finds 1/3 of Wireless Networks Unsecured · · Score: 2, Funny

    If your UID wasn't so slow I'd have to say "Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here", but now I'm rather stumped on what to say.

  9. Re:Infringing your own copyright on RIAA's $222k Verdict Is Likely To Be Set Aside · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Undercover cops buy drugs in the course of performing their duties as a law enforcement officer and the state doesn't have to prosecute them for buying them.

    Fixed that for ya.

  10. Re:Let me guess.... on Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article about trolling is the next one down. Easy mistake to make.

  11. I said it once and I'll say it again on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they want to sell more of those Apteras to people besides the 'OMGTHEENVIROMENT' groups, they will seriously have to give that vehicle a better look.

  12. Re:I dunno. on How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos · · Score: 2, Informative

    To view the slideshow . . err I mean 'flowgram' (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean), you dont need to register.

  13. Re:Note to self on Huge Traffic On Wikipedia's Non-Profit Budget · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're not all in Tampa, they have a bunch in Netherlands and a few more in South Korea.

  14. Re:Nuked on Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well that shoulda been: irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-tech

    <Splarka> I clicked http://e-wikipedia.net/w/en/Special:Random and it's trying to load [[Leech_(computing)]] but not having much success
    <Splarka> > Access denied: remote loader detected.
    <Splarka> <3
    <brion> sorry folks, i ruined your fun
    <OverlordQ> awww
  15. Nuked on Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual · · Score: 1

    A simple notice to a dev/admin would of taken care of this a long time ago.

  16. Re:Correction on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're not allowed to do what you want with the device, you do not own it.

    You can do what you want with it after you buy it. You just need a contract to buy it, slightly different.

  17. Re:Responsibility? on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And/or simply 'Grow a pair'

  18. Re:Here's your warning: on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    I don't have to do that with the latest PC game.

    This is what I don't get. Where does this sense of entitlement come from? The "Well I wouldn't buy it in the first place" argument is full of shit. If you wouldn't buy it in the first place then obviously dont put much weight in it so why do you just *have* to download it? Can people just not go without? Has society turn into a bunch of self-entitled assholes?

  19. YouTube comment sums it up on Introducing Classical Guitar Hero · · Score: 5, Funny
    As much as I'm loathe to approve a YouTube comment as insightful, I believe this sums it up nicely:

    I feel sorry for the crowd. At least I could skip through, see that this sucks, and move on.
  20. Re:Orion, that's definitely a unique name.... on US Court Orders Company to Use Negative Keywords · · Score: 1

    Wrong. All the 'use utf8' pragma does it say your source code is in utf8, it has no effect on the value of your variables and such.

  21. Re:Yes.. on Google Pulls Open Source CoreAVC Project Over DMCA Complaint · · Score: 4, Informative
    And you appear to have missed the Editorial:

    (The takedown notice is not yet up at Chilling Effects, but Google's page has a link that will take you there when it is.)


    Hence:

    Notice Unavailable

    The cease-and-desist or legal threat you requested is not yet available.

    Chilling Effects will post the notice after we process it.
  22. Re:Except when it doesn't on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    And their usage as such has been deprecated for the last decade by the relevant standards bodies.

    Your point being what exactly?

  23. Re:General problem of spam with Google/Gmail on Is Google Neglecting Blogger? · · Score: 1

    That sounds exactly like SpamCop.

  24. Yay on Five Days Locked in a Room With GTA IV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remind me in a year or two when the PC version finally comes out.

  25. No . . . not really on British Police Use Facebook to Gather Evidence · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They may be able to see more of your data than your friends or network members can -- and you also expose your friends' data when you add the application

    Unless Facebook has given these people a special little hack into their API they can't get any more then any other facebook app can, and depending on your privacy settings, can turn out to be not much at all.