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  1. Re:Why this won't do any good on iPhone Root Password Hacked in Three Days · · Score: 1

    Actually, the reason these passwords won't do you any good is that you don't get any chances to enter them, because it doesn't have a login prompt on anything that's exposed in production phones.

    As far as you know . . . Case in point: Rockstar. No way in normal usage to get there, could be the same with the iPhone. Just because you don't see it in normal usage of the phone, does not preclude it being there.

  2. Woo hoo! New type of spam! on Fighting Online Game Cheating in Hardware · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for the new spam now.

    "Download Intel Anti-Cheat update here! http://foo.bar.baz/Intel_Update.exe"

    Now the spammers have a little bit of hardware to read keyboard input installed already for them?

  3. Uhh yea on Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy · · Score: 1

    thus requiring a would-be hacker to break every successive cartridge's code to make use of the cartridge

    Or they go out and buy a laser and give the finger to printer manufacturers.

  4. Re:I'd like to see on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 4, Informative

    However, I would like maybe to see the 3 or 4 major turns in the trip, or a close-up view of some smaller, complicated streets that don't really resolve in the map of the entire trip.

    See that number beside each point . . . try clicking it.

  5. ScuttleMonkey turn in your Editor Card on Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible · · Score: 1

    They have come a long way from even just a year ago.

    Or did I go through a time warp and suddenly it's January 14th, 1996 again?

  6. Kenya on Google Setting Up a Presence In Kenya · · Score: 4, Funny

    where can you see Google?
    only in kenya
    come to kenya we've got Google!

  7. Re:Google Maps on Tunguska Impact Crater Found? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doesn't seem 'natural' to me for an inlet and outlet to be positioned so close together on a lake--though the topography could indeed make that make sense if I could see a map of it.

    Go take a basic geography course. Easiest conclusion is that there was a sharp bend in the river there that eroded away and the stream filled in the low-lying areas.

    And using Google for comparing foliage is like using a rubber band to measure distances. Pictures could have been taken at different days, times, seasons, etc.

  8. Re:Steam isn't an energy source on The British Steam Car Challenge · · Score: 4, Informative
    Thank you for personifying the typical Slashdotter by not Reading the Farking Article.

    From TFA's Seventh Sentence:

    Motive power is from a two-stage steam turbine, fed by a boiler fired on LPG.


    Thank you, come again.
  9. Re:Megahertz myth on Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Sample Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know what "Turion 64 X2 TL56" means?

    Turion - Series
    64 - 64-bit CPU
    X2 - Dual-Core
    TL - Taylor Core
    56 - Dunno.

  10. Re:Their will be an outcry.... on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 1, Informative
    I'm glad somebody mentioned Republicans . . .

    Because I can guarantee you, every single Republican who voted for that Amnesty bill committed Political Suicide. Their approval ratings (from Republican voters) have plummeted faster then a greased up slip-n-slide.

    Here's some nice tidbits:

    Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress. This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994. By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list.


    And the kicker:

    The Zogby Interactive poll of 8,300 adults nationwide finds just 3% of Americans viewing Congress's handling of the immigration issue in favorable terms, while 9% say the same of the President-even as respondents in the survey rated it the second most important issue facing the country, after the war in Iraq.


    Yes . . Three Percent, out of everybody in America, there's only THREE percent that want that Shamnesty Bill. I think this is a topic that most Republicans and Democrats can agree on.
  11. Re:Free? on NASA Frees Their Robotics Software · · Score: 1

    If you're a US tax payer, you've already paid for this software.

    Erm . . . no you havent. Maybe if the Govt created it, but it came from Caltech, not NASA.

  12. Mod Parent Redundant/Wrong/Just Plain Stupid. on NASA Frees Their Robotics Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Err, nowhere in the summary does it mention the JPL as a license, it mentions the JPL as an entity which just so happens to be the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

    However if you did RTFA you'd notice that the license shouldn't be considered "Open Source."

  13. Re:The killing blow? I think not. on Zap2It Labs Discontinuing Free TV Guide Service · · Score: 1

    MythTV predates Zap2It and managed to do okay. Yes, it relied on screen scraping, but it worked.

    Back in the day when everything was nice plain HTML, but thanks to all this Web 2.0/Ajax/ZOMGPONIES bullshiat, you're going to find it a lot harder to scrape the same data.

  14. Re:What if I was to write a web service? on Zap2It Labs Discontinuing Free TV Guide Service · · Score: 1

    Like mentioned, serving the data is easy.

    The hard part is where do you get the data from now?

  15. Re:What a Busines on AMD Considering Getting Out of Fabrication Business · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you RTFA? AMD is low on funds, they couldn't afford the second s.

  16. Re:Uh Oh... on Michael Moore's New Film Leaked To BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    He's 'influential' because he loads the movie with half-truths and shades the full truth to project his opinion and nothing but his opinion even when the facts of the matter paint the matter the other way.

    I expect this to be modded to hell and back because I called the liberals 'Golden Child' on the very thing they claim the Right does.

  17. Re:They should make applets optional to viewers on Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties · · Score: 1

    They should allow logged viewers to disable various "features" on user pages

    You can . . . try clicking that little arrow in the sections you dont wanna see.

    Amazing isn't it.

  18. Re:Missing the point entirely on Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties · · Score: 1

    Has anybody actually taken a look at what these applications are doing to facebook in general? The nice thing about facebook, everybody had a simple looking page that was consistently the same. Since the applications have been coming out, everybody pages started looking like utter crap. Gone is the static page that was easy to read, and simple to load. With the ability to add all the apps, facebook is turning into myspace.

    BZZZT! WRONG. Try clicking that little arrow looking thing . . OH WOW, it minimizes that section. Sure you lose 40 pixels or however high that is, but it's a far cry from myspace which doesn't let you hide it.

  19. Re:I'll tell you about hard tests... on The Fallacy of Hard Tests · · Score: 1

    Unless you're dealing with one of the odd branches of Calculus, having taken Cal I and II, and looking through Cal III, I havent seen anything that should take you an hour to solve, nor anywhere close.

  20. Re:There may be unanswered questions on The Fallacy of Hard Tests · · Score: 1

    Jesus christ, hopefully you didn't get the job, it was harder then fuck to understand what the hell you just said.

  21. Err on Microsoft's Acoustic Caller ID Patent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wont this most likely violate wiretapping laws in two-party states?

  22. I'm waiting . . . on RIAA Uses Local Cops In Oregon Raid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a result, eight suspects were arrested and charged. Seized in total as a result of the enforcement actions were a total of 20,800 counterfeit CD-Rs, 71,428 counterfeit movie DVDs

    The enforcement resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 13,000 counterfeit / pirated CD-Rs and 6,505 counterfeit movie DVDs. An additional search on 8th Avenue resulted in five additional arrests and the seizure of 33,600 counterfeit CD-Rs and 19,104 counterfeit movie DVDs.

    Yup, it's still Fair Use. I mean everybody's been paid already right? Why should I have to spend more then I want to get something. I should only have to pay what I want to pay right? It doesn't matter how much they spent to make it right? Since they're an evil movie studio.

  23. Re:Corporations writing laws? on Texas Makes Green Computing Mandatory · · Score: 1

    I'm not naive--I know it happens all the time, but I still get the shivers every time I read things like this. Am I the only one uncomfortable with the concept of corporations drafting laws?

    It's either companies in the businesses affected writing them or, "The internet isn't a truck, it's a series of tube" Congresscritters.

    Personally, I'd rather have the businesses.

  24. Re:... Hurray for realplayer... on Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement · · Score: 1

    Lost is Sci-Fi? That's new to me.

  25. Re:Quit Crying!!! on TorrentSpy Ordered By Judge to Become MPAA Spy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what's broken with the mod system. I agree funny shouldn't get karma, but people voting informative/insightful should be M2'd as wrong, nothing informative or insightful about that no matter what you're attentions are.

    There's a reason funny doesn't get the karma bonus, it's to encourage GOOD DIALOG, not one-liners.