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  1. Re:Yes. Encryption is rare. on A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs · · Score: 1

    "BitLocker may make encryption more mainstream."

    It would have, if Microsoft wouldn't have been such money grubbers that they only included it in the Business and Ultimate Editions.

  2. Re:Bias Language on Ballots on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is why any state would vote to write discrimination into the state constitution. I mean, if the same amendment said "All black people can never vote." it wouldn't pass. Why is gay marriage any different?

  3. Re:Freenet? on Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tor is your friend. Much, much faster than freenet ever was.

    http://www.torproject.org/

  4. Re:Serious issue! on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    How can you tell the polarity of the plug with a tester?

  5. Re:Why do they even try? on VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today · · Score: 1

    Yawn

    So what version are you using? Virtual PC for DOS?

    Hyper-V supports USB, no problem.

    and it installs in under a 2 meg footprint

    so what was your complaint again?

  6. Re:Thats what they get on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 1

    so what do you do if the steam game contains DRM ala Bioshock?

  7. Re:Wow! on Lessig On Corruption and Reform · · Score: 1

    Well buckley is dead, so maybe the mag will swing the other way now.

  8. Re:Barracuda makes the problem worse on Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I couldn't give a spit that the front end isn't open source. All I know is that I was able to get gateway level spam protection for under $5k for 200 users. Which would have cost well over $20k+ for a commercial solution that only works half as well. And, yes, I could have set all of that up from scratch and save a few thousand, but my time is better spent elsewhere.

  9. Re:My karma is so high that... on Wii Shortages Costing Nintendo 'A Billion' In Sales · · Score: 1

    Well, it is a japanese product, and you know what they say. (or so I watched on south park)

    It's funny you should mention that though, they had to stop advertising the Wii in the UK due to lack of supply and instead replaced the entire ad campaign to the DS line.

  10. Re:Jesus, give it up with the DRM already! on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But XP has much of the same DRM: Product Activation, WGA, etc...Same boat, different skin.

  11. Re:LEGO Star Wars on The Value of Your Saved Game · · Score: 1

    The sequel actually uses this file to unlock characters in the new game...so you might want to keep it around!

  12. Re:Sorry... on FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing · · Score: 1

    No, it won't. Read your damn history, it didn't work for the British in the early 1900s and it won't work for the US.

  13. Re:Call me sad but.. on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 1

    Throw a chair like my buddy Steve B.

  14. Re:Sign me up on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 1

    In MS defense, most of those performance drops are NOT ALWAYS due to DX10 or Vista. The Nvidia drivers have had a hellish effect on performance, but it's slowly getting better over time.

    and I stress s l o w l y .

  15. Re:Falling Prices? on Chicago Cancels Municipal Wi-Fi Plan · · Score: 1

    also ... it's not available for current customers. Requires Land line service.

    Since i'm now off their promo period for "lite" service, I'm getting hit to the tune of 24.95/month for 768/128.

  16. Re:The code snippet seems to be wrong on Did Russian Hackers Crash Skype? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's obviously a typo. Since it was Russian code, it was supposed to be xCCCP

  17. Re:Not sure how fare this comparison is... on Smartphone Shootout · · Score: 1

    But once you install JVM and Opera, everything changes.

    What do you mean? After I installed Opera, all I get is a bunch of halfway rendered, mostly unusable pages.

    Slashdot works fine, but don't try to login to ebay or any other javascript heavy site. Not to mention the browser is slow as molasses. You know it's struggling when
    crap blazer runs faster.

  18. Re:Front-ends were my worst problem on Project Arcade · · Score: 1

    I built mine about 5 years ago and (am still using) ArcadeOS, which was a great program, but very very complex to get setup and run correctly.

  19. Well you know what they say... on High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage · · Score: 0

    Plenty of nuts in that country.

  20. Re:Some people shouldn't code production systems on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    One thing that degrees have that certifications don't though...no expiration date.

    Steven V>
    (Holder of many MS and IBM certs and working on a bachelors)

  21. Re:It's all over, though, as soon as someone... on The Mainframe Still Lives! · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, I thought RPG sounded close enough to role playing game in a college catalog (even though I had no idea what it was) to get a 2 year degree in COBOL/RPG.

  22. Re:True, but.... on The Mainframe Still Lives! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of IBM's equipment can be equipped to dial home when a hardware failure occurs. We've had many times when our z-series lost a disk (or a power supply -- yikes) and the rep just shows up at the front door saying he needs to come replace a failed part.

    IBM's hardware logistics is amazing. I've had many a part some hand delivered from Birmingham to Tupelo MS.

  23. even more alarming on Pimp Your XP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is that both of those games are DX9! We still don't have any DX10 goodness (save for the Lost Planet DX 10 Demo and Company of Heroes if the patch came out)

  24. Re:mmhm... on The Sopranos Ends With a ... · · Score: 1

    That's OK, I understand, I read Neil Stephenson novels.

  25. directv on New AACS Fix Hacked in a Day · · Score: 1

    theoretical, hell, just look at a directTV box. The keys change every 60 seconds and the cards will fry when electrically stimulated.

    So far, uncrackable.

    That's what happens when you get hacked for years and finally decide to do it right...you hire the people that did the best hacking over to your team.