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  1. Woo! on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 1

    I'm getting it next Wednesday!

  2. Re:ohhh ... EULA on Site Says 'Go Away!'; Federal Court Says No · · Score: 1

    And there's the cheat sites that only let you in if you agree you're not a game developer or anti-cheat developer. It seems like the ruling would apply between private parties and not law enforcement, who could probably enter anyway with a warrant (or these days, without a warrant).

  3. It's stupid. on Dotless Top Level Domains? · · Score: 1

    Two things: I use fake TLDs for private (192.168) networks. They resolve for me and nobody else. I don't want to have to keep changing it every time somebody registers my fake TLD. Secondly, single names are currently reserved for hostnames. When I type in "ssh anduril" I know it's going to hostname anduril and not domain name anduril.

  4. Obligatory LOTR Reference... on Carnegie Mellon Resists FBI Tapping Requirement · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The FBI only needs to speak, friend (mellon), and enter?

  5. Re:to watch it Happen... on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    this worked for me: watch -n1 date +%s

  6. Not my information on Consumers Data Stolen from LexisNexis · · Score: 1

    (or at least, I think so) because I had my name removed from list months ago. I did it to cut back on junk mail, but I guess avoiding identity theft is an even better reason. I recommend that everyone opt out of every list they can!

  7. Obligatory South Park reference... on Build Your Own Self-Balancing Unicycle · · Score: 1

    Now, IT is easily operated using four flexigrip handles. Two of them are on each side. Left side for throttle, right side for steering. The third flexigrip is gently inserted into the anus, to keep the driver in place...there we go. Now, the final flexigrip is directly in front of the driver so that its small switches can be operaterd with the mouth, as such. Put the four together and we're ready to go.

  8. Close, but not exactly. on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 1

    For me, the stability was lost with 1.0PR. the pre-prerelease versions were rock solid, then they changed stuff like the popup bar and the find bar at the last minute. It got unstable as hell on all my Gentoo boxen starting with the first PR. It just loves to crash in the middle GMail compositions. I'm writing my emails in vi and pasting them into GMail these days. I'm hoping for a return to the rock solid Firefox that i came to know and love, but maybe I'll switch back to Galeon for a while.

  9. We don't need no stinking paper trail! on 4503 Electronic Votes Lost in NC · · Score: 1

    Because obviously machines never fail. Wouldn't it make more sense if the machine refused to allow voting until the problem was fixed? Wouldn't one of 4,530 voters have noticed the warning? What the hell is really going on here?

  10. Re:Thanks Russia for cheap music downloads! on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1

    Plus, they have not ripped me off since May, and so far no one has shown how this is illegal. It took me a while to figure out that you didn't get ripped off in May...

  11. Re:Contempt of Congress on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    I would not want to be his secret service bodyguard after that!

  12. Re:odd background for a presidential candidate. on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    U.S. Constitution, Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. Income tax looks pretty legal to me.

  13. Re:Accepted before seen? on CeCILL: La Licence Francaise Du Logiciel Libre · · Score: 1

    loading the Software by any or all means, notably, by downloading from a remote server, or by loading from a physical medium

    Agreed that this is a problem. The thing people don't get about the GPL is that you only have to accept the license if you distribute the code. Otherwise, "all rights reserved", and you're not allowed to distribute copyrighted material. It's so annoying when people errantly put the GPL in clickthrough licenses.

    Maybe French copyright works differently so that this is necessary?

  14. Re:great.. on School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking' · · Score: 1

    Words take on the meaning that the majority use them for.

    Which is why the press isn't about to start calling people crackers. Sorry folks, you're going to have to get over it.

  15. here's how I understand it... on Sony Projector Gets Bright Images From Black Screen · · Score: 1

    An LCD project emits red, green, and blue light at specific frequencies. The screen is tuned to reflect these and only these frequencies as much as possible. Ambient "white" light includes the whole visible spectrum, the vast majority of which isn't reflected by the screen. Only those frequencies close enough to the LCD frequencies would be reflected.

  16. Googling the phone number... on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    gives us someone on Nichol Ave, Anderson, IN 46011. It looks like your typical small town strip mall street though no business is listed at the specific address. It seems to be residential and the number does not belong to Pete Bitar.

    Yet another example of New Scientist's fine journalism. When are we going to learn not to take them seriously?

  17. Re:A good time to disable compiler access on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 0

    Anybody with sense enough to use a compiler would presumably know how to copy a binary compiled on another machine. This does little aside from making life more painful for the admin and legitimate users.

  18. Re:What day is it launching on? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uh, yeah, the New York Times is printing a hoax. Right.

  19. Not all of DOI is offline. on U.S. Interior Dept. Unplugged... Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks like the Park Service, USGS , and Office of Aircraft Services are still online. Yet there are some seemingly unrelated divisions offline that probably shouldn't be. I don't see why the National Interagency Fire Center is offline. It seems somewhat important!

  20. XFree86 associated with porn? on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where would they get that idea?

  21. Re:Before you complain about "Obscurity" on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    In a way, it's just a password made of port numbers, with the feature of added obscurity.

  22. Re:Subject line is misleading on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the poster also needs to learn the difference between the Web and the Internet.

  23. get large metal racks on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Several local geeks swear by these things for storing their junk.

  24. horizontal scaling on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article doesn't ignore horizontal scaling. It scales to over twice the width of my browser.

  25. Listen to C3P0... on Kinko's Spy Case Illustrates Public Terminal Risk · · Score: 1

    "R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"