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  1. Blows doors off? I call bullshit. on Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If anyone's seen the results, it's in first place in speed but not in a "door blowing manner". It's just slightly faster than the next guy. "Blows doors off" reads like marketing spooge trying to overhype something that has a small or no advantage over the next contender. Misleading title.

  2. Re:I thought... on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Windows has a reputation for sucking and people not liking it. Toyota/Honda don't. Windows representatives making an ad that also sucks in a lame disappointing way shows, "we're pathetically trying to be cool and STILL, even IF we get it, don't know how to do it." It's so deep, it's distressingly pathetic.

  3. Re:I thought... on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But the end... the end... that setup, the punch line/butt wiggle and Jerry's response? Uhhh, just non funny, dumb and baffling. There are many things about Bill Gates that are not funny. The body he inhabits and all parts contained within qualify under that designation.
     
    Just. Bad.

  4. The train from Shanghai to the airport... on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 1

    The train from Shanghai to the airport (Pudong?) is already faster. It does over 400 KpH.

  5. Wow. Looks just like New Mexico on Rover Exiting Crater To Continue Martian Marathon · · Score: 3, Funny

    But without all the poverty.

  6. Re:Wait, what, man? on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you know people who code stoned? It might allow you to focus more on the task at hand.

  7. Simply put... on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    That's not honest. Don't know the truth in advertising laws in the UK but, there is a lot of the entire internet that you can't get on the iPhone. No Shockwave, WMV, Flash, etc, etc. It simply can not display all of what is on the internet, in fact, I doubt there is a computer that can.

  8. Re:Jerry Seinfeld on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 1

    Wait - Seinfeld is Jewish? Wow. You learn something new every day!

  9. Re:confirmed on mac os x 10.5.4 on Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks · · Score: 1

    Since Flash files are easily unptrotected and opened up, it would be interesting to see how this is happening. I'll bet that the flash file populates the clipboard several times a second as the flash frame advances. I'm interested how this flash movie stays in memory and keeps running. I seems like it attaches to something to keep its instance running.

  10. Shockwave... on Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'll bet you can do it too in Shockwave with copyToClipboard. It is a little trickier though as copytoClipboard holds the reference to the Director member copied IIRC. Thinking about it, any web service that supports the clipboard should be able to do this.

  11. Re:Reverse or reverse? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to Rove the situation? :]

  12. Re:Reverse or reverse? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1

    I've heard of Reverse Engineering but have never heard of a person called a reverse engineer. Should it be Code Reverse Engineerer? Should reverse engineer start with caps? Since Reverse Engineering is a thing, it's not proper to call someone who does reverse engineering a reverse engineer (or should it be Reverse Engineer?). It's like he works on part of a transmission. But then Reverse Engineering Engineer, though more accurate is also strange. I think the lack of caps threw me.

  13. Reverse or reverse? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    " Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool is planning to release it in two weeks."

    What is a "reverse engineer?"

    Is the product called reverse? If so, it should be Reverse, since names of things start with caps.

  14. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've had at least one idiot try to convert me to Christianity while I was trying to have dinner at a wine bar in Dallas. I've had another try to in a coffee shop.
    The IDIOT at the wine bar started asking me about Noah's Ark. Our discussion went somewhat like this:
    Me: Ok, explain why we don't have dinosaurs now?
    Idiot: They wouldn't fit on the ark.
    Me:
    Me:
    Me: WOW. Ok, what about the little ones? And what about the ones that didn't need an ark, like the ones in the ocean? Then why aren't our oceans FILLED with nothing but dinosaurs?
    Me: Ok then, what about all the animals that couldn't make it to the ark, like any animal from Australia, North America and South America?? Why do we have Koalas and Sloths if they couldn't make it to the Ark??
    Me: Are you REALLY that stupid?

    I hated that dinner.

  15. Used computers for kids on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    Many kids need computers to learn off of. If the computers aren't used for junk, but for education, even a 12 year old computer can be used to teach computer skills. I've shipped about a dozen over and have actually been to Namibia. As long as the computers aren't junk, there's a lot of good your old computer can do in poor communities.

  16. Re:Really find metal polish on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    I'll try some soft scrub tonight on my roommate's CDs. :]

  17. Re:Really find metal polish on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    OH! This might be too large a grit but what about baking soda tooth paste? Also, try some of the Soft Scrub bathroom polish on TEST CDs.

    Cheers,

  18. Really find metal polish on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    I've used polish for mag rims with great success. Some people mention toothpaste but I find that very fine grit polish works wonders. I think I used a German polish called Weenol and a polishing cloth. My rules: don't press hard. Just rub and rub and rub and rub. Think of a polish that is used to polish the clearcoat of the your paint on your car. It's 2500 grit. Basically, you need something with a very fine grit a flat surface, some TEST CDs a good polishing cloth and time.

    Good luck!

  19. Re:Here's a serious flaw with FileVault on Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled · · Score: 1

    What's the nature of the flaw? How does it fail?

  20. Re:Here's a serious flaw with FileVault on Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Yep. That's correct.

    After I found this out and knowing how often I fill my my root drive, there is no way in hell I'm using FileVault. It is a license to lose everything.

  21. Re:Steve is not impressed on Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Oh my god. I'm reporting that the software is not perfect and stating a historical precedent and I'm marked a Troll? You've got to be kidding me.

  22. Re:Steve is not impressed on Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are absolutely correct. It still sucks, it just sucks less.

    I remember the Apple internal code name for their sound manager in or around 1989. It was called Barking Pumpkin and their motto was "it just sucks less."

  23. Here's a serious flaw with FileVault on Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Create two accounts on your mac. One is a throaway with fileVault turned on.
    2. Log in to both and switch to your non FileVault account.
    3. Copy a large enough chunk of data to the drop box of the FileVault user so that you will ALMOST fill up the boot drive.
    4. Duplicate that data to another folder on your boot drive.
    5. Wait till the hard drive fills up and you have 0 K on the drive.
    6. Launch Safari and load a few web pages with lots of rotating ads. This is to guarantee that more data is being brought onto the hard drive.

    At some point, the FileVault account becomes corrupted. You can't log in to it, you can't recover it. It's gone.

  24. This violates the fourth amendment on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Bike to work on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    I lift as heavy as I possibly can without straining or using bad form. That, with less reps and end of range of motion reps helped me put on 18 lbs in 6 weeks. That said, 3 years later at 43, I'm in Texas during a 100 degree summer and cardiovascularly, I'm in need of improvement. Simply running around the block in the early morning tells my heart it needs to work. After we get to a certain age, our bodies naturally store pile on the fat. Even for skinny people like me. :/ Research the calories in what you eat and try not to eat out every meal. A Baja Fresh burrito has about 1600 calories.