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  1. Re:Hold on a second. on Samsung Keylogger Stories a False Alarm · · Score: 1

    Do we even have confirmation that Samsung's tech support is India-based, or is this more FUD/speculation?

  2. Thoughts on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    Is it me, or does the writing suggest that he wrote every other letter spaced out, then went back in and wrote every other letter in the blanks?

    Perhaps the parentheses indicate sets of letters where he did this...?

  3. Re:Hackers... on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 2

    The Gibson name was used because Clay or SGI wouldn't lend them their name, iirc.

  4. Re:This Is A Vote For Freedom (Seriously) on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Infrastructure that wouldn't exist in the first place without sizable grants and monopoly assignment by our government.

    So more like your sweat and our money.

    Break up the area DSL/cable duopolies and force the lines to open up, then allow ISPs to kill off net neutrality in their area when there are at least 10 viable competitors, rather than two services that both suck.

  5. Re:I call no-way on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I had the same issue searching for scrotwm, a window manager I was checking the man page for.

  6. Re:Fucking magnets, how do they work? on Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos · · Score: 1

    I saw them just after Columbine, the quote I remember from J on-stage was: "If those two had been juggalos, they would have gotten the whole damn school."

  7. Bah, Apple. on iPad Progress Report · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wanted a tablet, but wasn't looking to get anything by Apple or something Windows based. Linux's touch support seems pretty dodgy, so I ended up settling on an Entourage Edge. It looks pretty horrible asthetically, but has been incredibly useful/fun. It's an android-based ereader/tablet with two screens, a WACOM-stylus eink on one side, and a typical touch screen LCD on the other. After using it for a about a week now, I definitely recommend it to others. www.entourageedge.com

  8. Re:Well, this seems subpar. on US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, I will admit, DARPA seems to be an exception to the rule. It's an exception to a lot of rules.. like their hiring process completely ignores civil service regulatons... in fact, without actually looking into it, I'd guess the reason DARPA is so useful is because they don't have to play by the normal bureaucracy bulldada.

  9. Well, this seems subpar. on US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As far as I've noticed, the more the U.S. government gets involved with something, the lower the quality that something ends up being. This is pretty much the opposite of what the Internet needs to proliferate.

  10. Re:This is just baffling! on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.foxnews.com/google_news_index.xml

    Murdoch is so intent on blocking Google News that his site automatically generates the feed necessary for the import.

    Wait.. I think I missed something.

  11. ASciencePad on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciencepad/asciencepad.html

    It's TiddlyWiki, a self-contained-self-editing-in-one-HTML-file wiki, and this particular flavor includes a WYSIWYG formula editor.

    Works great in Firefox. Works in IE. Supposedly works in Safari. I haven't been able to get it to work in Chrome (can read, but cannot write)

  12. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look into the Phonebook filesystem. Not quite what you mentioned, but almost as good.

  13. Re:That's enough of a proof on Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler · · Score: 1

    For example, to prove "7 is a prime number", listing out 1,2,3,4,5,6 and then showing all are not a factor of 7 is a valid proof that "7 is a prime number".

    1 isn't a factor of 7? *THIS* gets modded "Informative"?

  14. Go Samy! on Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go Samy! We're rooting for you over at EFnet #olsentwins!@

  15. Mutant League Football on Only NFL Game This Year Gets Lukewarm Response · · Score: 2

    http://www.petitiononline.com/MLF/

    Mutant League Football managed to be one of the most entertaining football games ever released for a video game system, eschewing petty realism and NFL line-ups in favor of silly things like mutated robotic alien players and playbooks that included such classics as "Kill the Ref".

    Instead of churning out the same old 3D crap over and over year after year they should take a look at putting out titles that sacrifice some of the realism in exchange for something unique.

    Bring Back Mutant League Football!!

    http://www.petitiononline.com/MLF/

  16. Re:Obligatory? Bring it on. on Sony's Robot Attends Pre-School · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that the Shrub had worked his way up to a preschool reading comprehension level.

  17. Re:Hrm on E-Mail Controls in Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    I said 'stop', not 'slow down'.

  18. Hrm on E-Mail Controls in Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    So what's stopping a third-party from making their own client that can read the e-mails and doesn't give a damn about DRM or any sort of document expiration?

    Regarding my e-mail address... mind the gap, please.

  19. Re:Gets out but stays in? on Verisign Gets Out of the Registrar Biz, Keeps .com Registry · · Score: 1

    I think they're no longer dealing with customers... only with domain name resellers.

  20. Re:Lies on Psst! Eight Bits Gets You "The Two Towers" In China · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that EFnet is the One True Network.

    irc.rt.ru irc.easynews.com irc.secsup.uu.net all come to mind.

  21. Pokemon/TMNT on Ready, Steady, Evolve · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course, the mutations are also released when your Pokemon hits a certain level (depending on the Pokemon), or is exposed one of several rare stones, or even becomes extremely attached to its trainer.

    Shredder has many vials of a substance called "Mutagen" that can also release these mutations.

  22. Egads on Atari Announces an Official Portable 2600 System · · Score: 1
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

    Oh.. oh.. I'm getting moist.

  23. Re:Transforming our minds... on Transformers On the Move Again · · Score: 1

    Step 7: ????

  24. Re:It's funny, laugh. (IHNRTA) on 1024-bit RSA keys In Danger Of Compromise? · · Score: 1

    QCrack? Isn't that the software used to crack the old Quake Shareware CD?

  25. Mind-Altering Substances? on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I seriously doubt anyone is stupid enough to pull those kinda tricks when their mind is clear.