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  1. Interesting, but... on VoIP Data and Google Maps Mashup Shows Live Calls · · Score: 2

    Too expensive... https://www.callcentric.com/ and others are still cheaper by a significant margin...

  2. How do you not see such a device... on Chinese Spying Devices Installed On Hong Kong Cars · · Score: 1, Informative

    When, according to the article, it "is taped onto the vehicle’s front window".

  3. No... on Could PayPal Be an In-Store Option? · · Score: 1

    Please... just No... Bad idea all around.

  4. Draw or produce? on The Challenges of Tapping Blood Flow For Power · · Score: 1

    The turbines draw power? You probably mean produce power. There's quite a difference between the two... *sigh*

  5. Re:Of course: all OSS consumed by Oracle improves on Mickos Says MySQL Code Better Than Ever Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Jenkins (well, actually Hudson is now the fork of itself)

  6. Then why was that on the UNEP website? on What Happened To the Climate Refugees? · · Score: 1

    Then why were the pages on the UNEP website? The UNEP is part of the UN (yes, that's United Nations). It is not relevant whether or not UN University or United Nations came up with the data - it was published on the UNEP site, and is now gone.

  7. Read the article carefully on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the article carefully - it neither denies nor confirms anything. This is a report documenting what an informant said, and does not suggest any first hand knowledge about anything...

  8. Re:plain-text OS? on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    > Doubly amusing when you think how important French assistance was to the American forces in the war of independence.

    If it wasn't for the USA you'd be speaking German right now...

  9. This stupid MS extension broke my Adblock Plus on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    While using my (sigh) windows box this AM I found that Adblock Plus was no longer working. Here's the fix: https://adblockplus.org/blog/the-return-of-net-framework-assistant

  10. Re:Love the Yahoo on Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal · · Score: 1

    Oh, don't worry about that! Microsoft will be sure that Yahoo kills Zimbra and anything else that stomps on their territory!

  11. Malwarebytes is NOT free! on Symantec Support Gone Rogue? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Malwarebytes has a trial offer that is free, but the full product is not...

  12. Blah Blah Blah on FSF-Sponsored gNewSense 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Blah Blah Blah... This is silly, if you want Ubuntu, use {,k,x}ubuntu - this more politics than interesting...

  13. Yuil was proof that Cuil is a joke on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    If this is the bubble, it's pretty weak, when you consider that Yuil was hacked together in a day and provides basically the same thing as Cuil from a front-end perspective (and the last thing we need is yet another crawler)... It took Cuil a year? Oh, guess they have a lot of investor's money to burn.

  14. TranSys on Caltrain? on Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've noticed that TranSys terminals have appeared along Caltrain here in the San Francisco Bay Area in the past couple of weeks. I wonder if this means Caltrain is moving to the system - and also if they are using a version with the same flaws?

  15. Re:Buffalo anyone? on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, no... Buffalo stopped sales of all their wifi products as of November 2007 due to an injunction against them from Australia. Go Google for it, but you won't be buying a Buffalo wifi router anytime in the near future...

  16. Re:out of the server market? on IBM & Sun Agreement Puts Pressure on HP · · Score: 0, Troll

    > I don't know, Sun is investing quite a bit in their new niagra processors,
    > so why would they get out of the server business?

    Because for those that can see past the marketing and know the hardware side of things, Sun doesn't have a hardware platform to stand on. They are touting the Niagra, but those in the know realize what a piece of junk it is (seriously, lots of issues with even the second generation), and the Opteron platforms don't scale above 4 socket/8 cores (you wonder why Sun is the only one selling 8 socket/16 core systems? It's because there's a technical problem there).

  17. Re:People Against Censorship on XM Satellite Radio Backlash · · Score: 1

    "It's hardly a censorship issue. XM, as a private company can hire ad fire whoever they like, so long as they don't violate anyones rights."

    Bingo! Thank you for being one of the few /. people who gets that.

  18. Re:Rachel is cool on DMCA Takedown Notice For a Fake ID · · Score: 1

    You, StickyPad are a good example of what's wrong with society.

    I'm happy to see Rachel promoting ethics and responsibility, while doing her part to back up the law. That is what we, as citizens should be doing - providing social pressure against those doing the wrong thing.

  19. Notice is posted on TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus · · Score: 1

    The notice IS posted on the official tomtom website: http://www.tomtom.com/news/category.php?ID=2&NID=3 49&Language=1

  20. Democracy can't play many of the formats it d/l on Democracy Player is 0.9.2 and Growing Up Fast · · Score: 2, Informative

    The thing I don't like about democracy is it will download content with formats that it doesn't know how to play, which completely defeats the point of it, forcing you to use an external player anyway. mplayer plays them (everything) fine, so I don't think it's a codec issue.

    The other issue is content. After spending about an hour searching for and downloading content I didn't end up with anything that I thought was particularly worthwhile. A replacement for TV it is far from...

  21. Re:Gentoo is why I switched to Ubuntu! on Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare" · · Score: 1

    Me too.... After the latest 2006 Gentoo profile/gcc4.0 upgrade completely hosed my system and I spent a week trying to get things recompiled (about 1 in 10 ebuilds wouldn't even compile), I reinstalled with kubuntu and couldn't be happier. I've converted 4 of about 10 systems over to {k}ubuntu as well, with the remainder to follow at some point.

    I've only updated one system so far from dapper to edge (working on the next right now), but had no problems at all - upgrade worked perfectly out of the box.

  22. Re:DAR = Disk ARchive on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    Been using dar for a couple of years, and it works nicely. dar_manager is pretty cool too, so you can create catalogs of full and differential backups, and let the software figure out which archive you need to restore (the way it should be).

    And yes, there are binaries for win32 etc. And even some GUI frontends like kdar...

  23. Re:Any information on charges? on Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE · · Score: 1

    Riiiight... Bet you had a crack lab in the basement.

  24. Re:Manual vs. Automatic on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    Why would one need batch-sized automatic image editing?

    I do this all the time. I take all my digital camera pictures at camera res (2048x1536), but I scale them to 640x480 or 800x600 (depending) before posting. Sometimes it's just one or two pictures, sometimes it's a hundred. ImageMagick makes this incredibly painless and easy, not to mention quick.

    There's just one example...

  25. Re:Would gaming companies target this platform? on Cedega 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, IBM already tests the Notes client to ensure that it functions properly under Wine (or at least as well as it does under Windows).

    I wish. For what it's worth, we use notes at work and it doesn't run well at all for me under either wine or cxoffice. Sure, it doesn't run all that great even on it's native platform, but there are enough problems I resorted to rdesktop'ing to run it.