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  1. Extra points for creative use of 'shorn' on Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model · · Score: 1

    I had no idea of what that word meant.
    On topic, I doubt any of this information
    would be available after a few passes
    through some image magick utilities.

  2. Re:pay us money to help us profit from your work on Guitar Hero World Tour Equipment Problems, Subscription Possibilities? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >>> Why are mainstream game publishers run by such douche bags?
    >> You haven't seen anything yet.
    > Yeah.

    Almost similar. Except that you don't have to pay to participate.
    You get an edge by paying.. now for GH I'm not even sure how they
    distribute user tracks, but if the company made a way for it to
    work in game and seamlessly (I saw people burning discs to play
    customs ....) then it would definitally be cool - but paying for
    *all* access would be lame. Paying to get some tracks earlier
    would add privilege. But maybe that segment is used to paying
    for .. every .. little .. thing when it comes to online content.

    The way he said it though. It just sounded matter of factly, kind
    of disgusting.

  3. Baffled on The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The people on the plane were baffled when they saw *porn* on the ceiling . ." and you thought cell phones were annoying when they came out . .

  4. Re:well ... on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Isn't that how they initially became Americans in the first place? (ducks)

  5. 1575.42 Mhz on Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars · · Score: 1

    So will scanners that can monitor 1575.42 (the GPS frequency) be outlawed?

    In the 90's, drug dealers used cellular phones (and probably cordless, too...)
    but as it became apparent that they werent secure, these 'one time use' prepaid
    cell phones became popular ..

    What will the criminals do to circumvent this? A scanner could be had relatively
    cheaply.

    In terms of privacy issues, it seems like there are a number of cases where this
    was very useful, and indeed did catch a criminal. However, being suspicious of people
    with power, and especially of cops with high school diplomas, it seems very easy for
    it to be abused - GPS transmitters for consumers are pretty cheap, and for the police
    it might become so commonplace that they could use it on *anyone*..

    "I don't like that guys looks .. I'm going to throw GPS 443 on him and see where he goes .."

    Maybe devices that jam 1575.42 will be created. Or devices that send out false information. I found little about this in a cursory google search, does anyone
    else have any more information on this?

    Oh. And if I found one, its either getting dissected, or sold on ebay in another country.. But how many criminals will think (or have thought, since they seem to have
    been doing this for several years now...) to check their car for locators?

    Man, the future will be way more futuristic than we previously envisioned ..

  6. PSP - N770 on Touchscreen Project For PSP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now a PSP can be more like an internet tablet..

  7. Tagged: finally on Bill Gates's Last Speech · · Score: 1

    fixed that for ya.

  8. Re:DS Lite, bitches on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    Well since you're going to bring up gaming systems, what about a PSP with a foldaway keyboard?

    (and a u.fl pigtail, connected to a cantenna... but I digress.)

  9. Re:Less overhead, more messages - but .. on Cisco To Open-Source New Messaging Protocol · · Score: 1

    I don't want to get *too* into it, but I'm talking about how instant messaging makes *money*.

  10. Less overhead, more messages - but .. on Cisco To Open-Source New Messaging Protocol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will the big three instant messaging providers use it?

    Less overhead means things like this will be easier.

    The problem is if none of the popular services utilize the protocol, it will make no money.

    (See: IRC & Jabber)

  11. Next up: What he does the next $100,000 on Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder how hes going to turn that $20k into $100k so he can actually get a college degree.

  12. You all get dork-creds on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1, Funny

    For finding various things to nit-pick over, while not addressing the original purpose of the article.

    (I know, I do it too ...)

    *This is not the post you are willing to moderate*
    (slowly waves hand)

  13. Everyone express your dissent now! on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 0

    Because soon you won't be able to.

  14. Here, take this on 3 Rugged Notebooks Take a Beating · · Score: 0

    *smacks the author of this article square upside the head with his 10 year old toughbook*

  15. FF Fantasies on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 0

    Hey man, first off, let me say, Mr Mozilla, that I love your
    software; the last time there was a big upgrade and I couldn't
    afford the cost of the bandwidth, I sold one of my children.

    Yea, so anyway, before I switched to Firefox I used Opera;
    and even though I fully believe in a majority of standard
    software being open source, opera compelled me with one
    major feature: The Ability To Zoom The Entire Page to Size.

    The other day I was accidentially using Internet Exploder,
    and the internet exploded, but thats another story, after
    the patch orgy I noticed that it had similar functionality!
    I was blown away; it worked well, but then I remembered
    that Opera was the only browser with full resume support for
    downloaded files.

    So all I'm saying is that I write code like you guys, only in
    english, and its write once execute once or twice, and I have
    no responsibilities, but I tell anyone I contact about you,
    and wish you well, and wish your interface was less blocky
    and more new-agey! maybe half way!

    Anyway. choice is good; especially when its an alternative
    between the rock and the hard place. Or an update and (another) kid.

    -- moved to: feature-requests

  16. (insert dildo jokes here) on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 0

    the world is your canvas.

  17. I wonder if they used Storm for computing on Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked · · Score: 0

    It would be really convenient for them.

    They could just waltz down the street, ask a shady guy in an alley for a few more
    hours of computing time, then waltz right back home in a matter of minutes, being
    rewarded with more time in less time than it takes to boot up a windows pc
    (which is coincidentally left on all day unmonitored).

    - ad russia tempest?

  18. My first thoughts on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 0

    "Protest! I've had it up to here!"

    Second thoughts ..

    Sub machine gun? What?

  19. Re:Open and Shut Case of Police Harrasment on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 0

    Well put.

  20. Re:"It's not a bug, it's a limitation." on MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems · · Score: 0

    Well put.

  21. Yet another .. human error .. on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 0

    Why is it, that everything we have discovered thus far, is taken as concrete fact, until something else is discovered?
    How can such brazen destruction of the natural environment be taken in vain, until some new "scientific discovery" comes
    about, saying how (obviously) destructive the past ways have been .. Oh, I don't expect any notice to be said, until the
    world is on the brink of extinction ..

    Seems we keep going forward, until we get the chance to look back and see, that the guys living in the bushes, had it all
    worked out, and had been here before, with the gadgets, and the great disconnection from the earth, living in their heads,
    and had been close to total elimination of the species, and had just went "Hmm, maybe we don't need cell phones .."

    Just a general outlash on all the stupidity of the recent "scientific" "discoveries" posted here. Such crap.

    Quote on the page:

    "HELLO, everybody, I'm a HUMAN!!"

  22. at least they are not hackers .. on "DNS Forgery Pharming" Attack Against BIND 9 · · Score: 0

    nice change of terminology there. quite refreshing, fraudsters . .. . .

  23. And what about the Xbox Half Life 3/Steorn joke.. on Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals · · Score: 0

    How could something that should change the world just .. disappear ..
    Not well known enough, I guess.

  24. Brought to you by ... on Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel? · · Score: 1, Funny

    This blue screen of death brought to you by amazon.com.
    Please allow for a short reboot so that we may introduce you to
    our new and exciting product lineup!

  25. maybe he should ask microsoft on Man Finally Makes the Weed-Removing Robot · · Score: 0

    they seem to be funding all types of zany ideas nowadays. the laser thing is especially attractive.