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  1. Yes. on How Do I Disable My Gadgets' LEDs? · · Score: 1

    The perfect solution, sleep facing the wall.

  2. No. on Is Tableau The Next Google? · · Score: 1

    Tableau is the next Tableau.

  3. Difference. on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 1

    I think it is perfectly fine to put conditions on the "free" wi-fi service. The condition being that you have to be inside the library. That is perfectly acceptable. If this gentleman does not want to accept those conditions, priest or not, he is wrong. This is not some big thing to get worked up about. This would be like, putting up your own satellite dish and getting the signal for free.

  4. Re:Nothing wrong with this... on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 1

    The fact is that people didn't put that there, it is merchants or others putting other people's information out there in the open. And mods/admins, how responsible is it to post specific numbers like that that easily lead to links of names and addresses. I certainly would not want my personal information out there like that. That is very wreckless, never something I thought I would see from such smart people.

  5. Why do I read /. anymore? on Internet-Enabled Thermostat · · Score: 1

    The "articles" answer their own questions, and bring up nonsensical paranoid "what ifs". If I wanted bias, I would go elsewhere. Mod me down, I don't give a damn anymore.

  6. Stats. on A Day In The Life Of A Spammer · · Score: 1

    And 74% of stats are made up on the spot.

  7. Re:It's kinda cool on Combining Port Knocking With OS Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    The point is that they could, not that anyone is. The article clearly states "This makes it possible to allow, say, only Linux systems to connect to your SSH daemon." Why are these types of comments modded up?

  8. This. on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    This won't stop me from using Safari.

  9. Wow. on North Korea Opens Official Website · · Score: 1

    Their people eat grass, but they have a website, wow. Way to have your priorities straight.

  10. One of the first posts. on FCC's Chairman Powell Starts Blog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mood=Censory. I got a new CD this weeked, all of the bad words hurt my ears! And no, not even I know what the broadcast flag is for! :P

  11. Umm... on Bypassing Intel's Overclock Limit Reveals DDR2-667 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because you can overclock your memory to that speed does not mean the manufacturer is greedy. It just means it can be done. Safely? Maybe. Possible? Certainly.

  12. Re:Easy. on Getting Your Company to Migrate from IE? · · Score: 1

    No, and Explorer acts funny too, if you remove IE. Just remove all shortcuts to IE and replace them with FF links. They will use what is in front of them.

  13. Re:Easy. on Getting Your Company to Migrate from IE? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok then, it worked at the front receptionist's desk. Biggest culprit of spy/crap/malware in the whole place.

  14. Easy. on Getting Your Company to Migrate from IE? · · Score: 0

    By making it the only available browser. Hide all references to IE anywhere. The only thing it is good for is update, but even Automatic Updates takes care of that. Works for me at home with my sister. Once in a blue moon I have to allow a site to spawn pop-ups. So, just make FF the only choice and it will be used.

  15. Re:Flaming Death on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    That must be the new math.

  16. But. on New Radar Sees Through Walls · · Score: 1

    But can it see through fog like Chopper 4?

  17. Re:spilling acetone on a sony vaio laptop on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    Throw it in a blast furnace, just to see what happens.

  18. Re:the art or repeat selling on Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth Collecting? · · Score: 1

    He is not people, he is a person. So far 96,080,638 songs have been purchased from the iTunes music store since it's inception, what did you say again?

  19. Re:the art or repeat selling on Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth Collecting? · · Score: 1

    Not that I care. I stopped buying CDs a long time ago. The entire business is run by dishonorable people, and now it looks like that mentality is dragging down one of the computer industry's more principled companies.
    No it isn't, Apple hasn't even done this, they have done nothing but offer high-quality music in a format that people want and will buy instead of pirate, and you lambaste them for it? There is enough music out there, and enough consumers online for them to not resort to RIAA tactics to sell the same track 2-3 times. So you are getting preemptively upset at Apple for something other people have done? Wow. In that case, I am mad that the 2008 Toyota Prius only has 3 cupholders.

  20. Re:Two things. on Seagate Accuses Cornice of Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is pretty easy to sell something cheaper when you didn't develop it.

  21. Re:Two things. on Seagate Accuses Cornice of Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok, I will take the bait. You can't operate a business without money, so if people can just come along and steal your ideas, you're screwed. Some people innovate for genuine interest because they are already independently wealthy and can afford to not make money, the same is not true for corporations, who have shareholders to report to. If you want communism in America, then I guess you don't like eating, or having property, or not being shot/disappeared.

  22. Two things. on Seagate Accuses Cornice of Patent Infringement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Western Digital is suing them too, so obviously something is up. Full disclosure requires me to say that 6 members of my family work for Seagate. The gist I got from the article is that Cornice is infringing on Seagate's patents relating to 1-inch hard disk drives as one of the seven patents alleged to have been infringed. I know how /.ers feel about software patents, but it is right to extend that attitude to the hardware sector? These aren't ones and zeroes, these are platters and heads. The materials cost actual money, and thousands of actual people depend on those materials to make their living. If it was open season on everything, we would have nothing, we would still be in mud huts using two cups and a string to communicate. If there is no incentive for profit, most companies won't bother to make something. That is capitalism, you take the good with the bad.

  23. WTF? on Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This has to be the goofiest shit I have ever heard coming out of Washington. I take it all our other problems are solved? A computer by itself is not a weapon. It could, however, be used as one, as could a pencil or a brick.

  24. Re:GNAA ran a press release on the leak on Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC · · Score: -1

    Yeah, I noticed the GNAA tagline and told simoniker not to post it, I probably wasn't the only one though. I think someone got screenshots of the developer's preview in those GNAA shots. Automator is known as pipeline in the GNAA screenshots as well as the developer preview, among other similarities. I have been playing with the preview, and besides kernel panics, and some trickery to make it boot, it looks really freaking good. Can't wait until 1H2005.

  25. Wonderful. on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The MPAA is screaming poverty, yet they are outfitting movie theaters with night-vision goggles? Something is very wrong with that picture. Don't they know most pirating is an inside job? Where do they think the screener rips come from? Or the ones where someone scans the film, and rips the sound digitally? Certainly not Joe Moviegoer. In all those trailers where the workers of the movie industry ask us not to pirate (which is before a movie to which you just bought a $10 ticket), I try to spot who the real pirates are. I already paid to get in the movie, you don't have to tell me not to pirate. That would be like telling a Nun to be celibate.