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  1. I could have told you that. on Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why are kids bullied and rejected?

    Because sometimes, other kids are dicks. Next question?

  2. Re:Was pointing towards something like a CRL. on Mozilla Accepts Chinese CNNIC Root CA Certificate · · Score: 3, Informative

    Select "Tools", then "Options".

    Click "Advanced", "Encryption" and "View Certificates".

    Scroll down to "CNNIC" and select the "CNNIC Root" certificate.

    Finally click "Edit", uncheck "This certificate can identify web sites" and press OK until all the little windows go away.

    Now even if the root certs are updated, that cert remains untrusted.

    In IE you have to select "Tools", "Internet Options", "Content", "Certificates", "Trusted Root Certification Authorities", select the certificate you want, then click "Advanced", uncheck the "Server Authentication" role and then click "Ok", "Close", and "OK" again to finally make your change stick.

    What is ironic is that when you do that in IE with no problems, it actually takes more mouse clicks than doing the same thing in Firefox.

  3. Re:Jalopnik has been covering this... on Woz Cites "Scary" Prius Acceleration Software Problem · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you've got one firmly planted in the other, it's really no difference.

  4. Re:Because on Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because phones are for TALKING.

    And GAMING phones are for SIDE TALKING.

    This may be why they never quite caught on.

  5. Re:Cool game of scrabble? on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 3, Funny

    For $1600, I'd better be able to use words like "zoquou" and "ushnuu".

  6. Re:HaCKERZ on Meet the Military's Cyber-Security Forces · · Score: 1

    Does this mean the president will have his thumb on a little red button to release the HaCKERZ now?

    "Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:... They're trashing our rights man! They're trashing the flow of data! Hack the planet!"

  7. Re:Same as anyone else on Meet the Military's Cyber-Security Forces · · Score: 4, Funny

    4chan is not your personal army

    No, it's more like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. As Hannibal showed the Romans elephants may not consider themselves a part of your army, but once you point them in the right direction they can still get the job done.

  8. Interestingly enough, on Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses? · · Score: 1

    roughly one in five browsers has javascript disabled.

    Then again, that's probably artificially high based on what circles this story has been circulating in.

  9. Re:Confirmed! on Apple Tablet Rumor Wrap Up · · Score: 1

    And it also makes perfect paninis every time.

  10. Re:So... on Apple Tablet Rumor Wrap Up · · Score: 1

    That's just because your satellite doesn't have an orbital mind control laser on it.

  11. Re:Question on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Then again, it may have gone something like this:

    • Mozilla: Listen carefully, Debian. Mozilla controls everything it rests its eyes upon. It holds a trademark so massive it shakes the ground with its registration, so vast it drinks the coke machine dry. All the God-King Mozilla requires is this: a simple offering of signing an agreement. A token of Debian's submission to the trademark on the Firefox name.
    • Debian: Submission. Well, that's a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it that signing an agreement with Mozilla means that we would no longer be able to make changes to the version of Firefox we distribute and that clearly violates both our Social Contract and the Free Software Guidelines.
    • Debian: And of course Debian... has its reputation to consider.

    But I wasn't there so I don't know either. It's entirely possible that the whole event was just a simple adjustment meant to reconcile two conflicting requirements -- That Debian software remain unquestionably Free and that the Mozilla group retain control over the Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and SunBird trademarks so as to ensure the high quality of software distributed under their names. But then it wouldn't be nearly as exciting to watch and people would get bored.

    It's much more fun to imagine that license discussions were conducted while all parties had their shirts off and were threatening one another with giant Q-Tips while the Star Trek fight music played in the background.

  12. Re:There's Only One Way To Boil A Frog on UK Police Plan To Use Military-Style Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    Consulting the Oracle of Urban Mythology should be a required step before even mentioning frogs in casual conversation.

  13. Re:Telemarketer solution on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why would you want this?

    I've never understood it, but it seems that the majority of North American car owners do seem to prefer automatic transmissions.

    In fact many of them are willing to pay _extra_ for the joy of replacing the far more efficient manual transmission which the rest of the world enjoys.

    Maybe they're just all nuts.

  14. Re:Unsurprising on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's actually worse than that... they can take and freeze your money because they don't like what one of your business partners does...

    I think you're being overly generous. PayPal can take and freeze your money because they feel like it.

  15. Sure, but what are you writing? on Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Touch vs. Everything Else · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The tests were done using a 221 word long paragraph in English. How fast would any of these methods be at entering something like the Schrödinger Equation? Sure, you could type "i\hbar\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t} = \frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2\psi + V(\mathbf{r})\psi" on a keyboard just about as easily as "I have enough faith in my fellow creatures in Great Britain", but realizing that you've made a mistake and fixing it would be difficult.

    Some things are easier with a keyboard and some things that are just easier to do with a pen and paper, be they real or virtual.

  16. Re:The EVE Maxim on Genre Wars — the Downside of the RPG Takeover · · Score: 2, Funny

    That doesn't happen on the EVE boards, you know.

  17. Re: uncanny valley on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see a believable CG human character.

    No, you just have yet to see a CG human character who was unbelievable enough for you to notice.

    Come on, it's been two years already and you still think that Barack Obama is real.

  18. Re:Easy answer on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1

    And he refers to himself as "we".

  19. Re:Reboot how? on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    Peter Parker can't just be tormented by his parent's death and angst ridden/repressed by Mary Jane's repeated attempts to ignore him, he must be really conflicted--perhaps they'll have him kill Aunt May.

    Or perhaps they could go way out on a limb and try something completely unheard of and have him accidentally kill Gwen Stacy.

    Nah. The comic book fans would never go for that.

  20. Re:Let me present a third choice on How To Judge Legal Risk When Making a Game Clone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're dealing with a company like Atari (who? yes, they still exist!)

    No, they don't. Atari as a company ceased to exist in 1996. The name was picked up by Hasbro in 1998 and then by Infogrames in 2001, but apart from the name, logo and ownership of a truckload of copyrights the organization currently calling itself "Atari" has absolutely nothing in common with the company Nolan Bushnell founded back in 1972.

    This isn't a question of Theseus' Ship sitting in the harbour at Athens and being slowly replaced board by board until there is nothing left of the original, it's more like Theseus taking his ship out to sea for a wild party, dousing it with gasoline and burning it to the waterline, only to have Menelaus build an entirely new ship in Sparta with the name "Thezeus" on the prow two years later and then sailing it to Mycenae and selling it to Agamemnon who turns it into an amusement park where people pay large sums of money to play on half-finished rides and be beaten with sticks when they complain.

    The modern day Atari is the ship that Orestes built after termites destroyed that one. And it has trouble floating because he ran out of wood before the job was done. The Mycenaean QA department insists that the boat is good and that there is no need to patch it as any sinking problems are clearly the fault of the end users.

  21. Re:Privacy: Good for me, bad for you on Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy · · Score: 1

    I'll settle for being able to click on any Facebook ad and see exactly who placed it and how much they paid.

    After all, nobody wants privacy any more, do they?

  22. Why not SyFy? on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    Not long ago Wired ran their own list of which SciFi (not SyFy!) shows were in need of another go 'round

    Couldn't "SyFy" have a reboot? Maybe it could go back to having a less inane name and try airing programs that were worth watching.

  23. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    And really, what does having a personal website have to do with running web servers?

    Is it possible that you are replying to a comment from a different article entirely? We're talking about how having "a lame e-mail address" would affect one's chances of being hired, and specifically how a supposed IT professional applying for a position which requires a certain level of Internet-related clue, should not expect to make a good first impression on a prospective employer with their AOL.COM address.

    While there are a lot of good reasons for hanging on to such an address, and a number of fields such as freelance writing in which it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow, saying that you just couldn't get a new one because it's too expensive (hint: GMail is free, vanity domains cost less than Starbuck's coffee and can be hosted for free) and time consuming for you to be bothered with it is right up there with not wearing shoes or pants to an interview.

    It shows that you are either woefully ignorant about something which is job related or that you are really too lazy to be bothered to spend a few minutes improving an obvious flaw in your resume. Either way it's not a good sign.

    However, I wish you well in hiring many happy, well-adjusted, clueless, lazy people. Self-selection can be a wonderful thing.

  24. Re:Actually yes -- in some cases on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Given the cost-cutting trend we've seen in IT over the past decade, would the image of someone that spends additional money/time on unnecessary technology be appealing?

    Good thinking. We should all try to cut costs wherever possible, without worrying about possible consequences.

  25. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not everybody has 1. the cash for hosting for a site and 2. the time to maintain one.

    And these are not the people I want to hire to maintain my web servers.