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  1. Re:Handy for testing on Safari on Mac OS X Running on Non-Apple Hardware · · Score: 1

    Or you could use any KHTML browser. Not perfect but very close.

  2. Re:Can only be a good thing on Another Step Towards BSD on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    More like OS X's bizzar ass unix-Linux issues. No, really, OS X is out there. I think what they are doing with, say, launchd is cool. They are moving most of the config files over to XML. But their documentation sucks (yes I know how man pages work) and wtf is up with FreeBSD on top of Mach?

  3. Re:Neat fab techniques but... on $20 Cellphones Possible with TI's New Chip · · Score: 1

    There must be real technical problems here. Phone companies subsadize phone costs, so there is no reason they wouldn't just put you on their plan if there wasn't some dirty hack to make her phone work on the towers.

    The phones are usually coded only to work with a certain network to try and prevent you from switching. You can hack them to seem like they were built natively for their network, just do some googling.

  4. Re:Will it help expand their service? on Speakeasy Unaffected by FCC Ruling · · Score: 1

    Yes,
    When I called asking about service they said that Convad was not here. They still offered me service but at a much higher cost and limited services.

  5. Social Security Security on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All the more reason all American's should have to use their SSN's, fingerprints, and cornea to sign into any internet café. Why Bush hasn't payed MS to change every internet sign in to the centralized .NET Jesus only knows.
    (chill, jk)

  6. Re:LNUX on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 1

    The linear scale is a bit more dramatic.

  7. Too bad it's with Linspire on Indiana Schools May Purchase 300K Linux Computers · · Score: 1

    Who's distro runs the default user as root, lied about using some new technology to run all Windows software nativly, and ran the worst ad campain that consisted of pissing MS off whenever possible. They give Linux a bad name. Want something windows like with Wine compatibility? Try Xandros. They are also pushing for centralized management areas. Something that, I believe, only Sun and MS are doing, with MS the only real complete set of tools.

  8. Re:Wondering the same... on Wikipedia Announces Tighter Editorial Control · · Score: 1

    Really? So you would say, trust traditional news sources? What about peer reviewed scientific studies? Government?

    Wikipedia has a lot of knowledge but it's more of a jumping point than a rock solid reference book, just like a regular encylopedia, regular news sources, and goverment. whenever someone is doing someething so important it really needs to be free of errors they need a body of evidence not just a single source!

  9. Not a debate of opinion on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    but a debate of morals. The reason why we think the way we do is investigaed by a wing of Cognative sciences. Conservatives and Liberals think the way they do for very specific reasons. It all ties in nicly, when you know why you think the way you do.

    Morals is usually an extension of a metaphor. Take crime and punishment. We view it as a monetary system. Paying ones debt to society is a good example of the uphamisms that we use when talking about crime and punishment. We very literally think that everyone needs to have a balanced moral book. You do enough good deeds other are in debt to you and visa versa.

    For more on this focusing upon the difference between Liberals and conservatives please read George Lackoffs work. His first book on the subject (Moral Politics) is very dry and acedemic. But a very good refence. Pick and choose the subjects that interest you.

    http://www.georgelakoff.com/books/
  10. Re:Loopy reviewer on Review of Apple's "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    Better yet we have proof via goms:
    Pointing + Control Button + Mouse Click
    Pinting + Mouse Click

    Less time, simple. Less confusing also.

    I know, that isn't standard GOMS, but for those that don't understand it I don't want to have to explain how it works. Just check Wikipedia people.

  11. Re:Damn Microsoft! on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 0, Troll

    Troll

  12. Re:Linksys? on FreeBSD Based Gaming Router · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can. But the Linksys can be underpowered. You could also theoretically use this PC for other tasks, mom's/roomate/kid/girlfriends email machine, have it as an OpenMosix station, a server, etc. Also a lot of people have an old PC around, and for 15 bucks (cost of additional ethernet card) you can have a router.

  13. Re:Not very smart on Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually · · Score: 1

    You seem to have lost your point somewhere there. If you meant that MS is trying to kill HD-DVD they are the one's vying for the format, and the licensing fees.

  14. Re:Not very smart on Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually · · Score: 1

    Thats bullshit. In a discusion on compressing 3D data a game developer weighed in. He was rather peeved at not having enough space, that they were always squeezed. He said texturing would look a lot better if they had the space for the lesser compressed files.

  15. It will kill all initial sales on Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Loss of initial sales means fewer number on the market. The fewer on the market means that developers have less reason to make games for that consol, and with less games it will mean fewer buyers.

    A similar occurance with the DreamCast. Fewer people bought it and was waiting for the "vastly more powerful" PS2. Now Sega no longer makes a console thanks to the above cycle.

  16. Apple did it on HP and Apple Separate; Apple gets Custody · · Score: 1

    For HP's expanded retail market presence.

  17. Re:Here's my (evil) argument on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    It would be legal too. A company paying for it through Mal-Ware companies won a case brought by a competitor.

  18. Re:Soft updates on FreeBSD Status Report for 2005 Q2 · · Score: 1

    Uh-oh. I didn't really know what soft updates were, the stuff I had been reading was a little too high level. From my latest googleing I am afraid I may have started a flame war, I apologize in advance.

  19. Soft updates on FreeBSD Status Report for 2005 Q2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I though soft updates made journaling unneeded and everything slower?

    Please enlighten.

  20. Re:And... on HP Fires Father of OOP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a troll.

    CS visionaries are smart people who work in a particular field. Every field of work has the same type of "real jobs" you are describing. From CS, to plumbing, to glass blowing! And that's from personal experience.

  21. Ellen Feiss is hot on Top 10 Web Fads · · Score: 1

    I mean, I don't think she was a fad. But she is really hot. And yeah, I do go for stoner chicks.
    http://ellenfeiss.net/

  22. Re:Realistically.... on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it ain't hard to walk into any building with most any excuse and get behind the firewall and throw a wireless router with a boosted signal on.

  23. Re:Ethereal on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1

    Actually its only on my bosses computer, really for his protection. I am working on training him to pull the plug. Problem is he doesn't take to bannanas, and a new boat is kinda expensive. I am trying to convince the secretary to help me out.

  24. Re:What do you use? on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1

    lol, without reading either of those, my post included monkeys too. Maybe this is a computing trend. Fuck, I am too lazy to find some free polling thingy as my DNS is down.

  25. Ethereal on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 5, Funny

    As soon as any Ethereal activity occurs I have shell script flash the screen red where a trained monkey pulls out the cat-5 cable.