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  1. Re:I think that on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The iphone has plenty of faults, but it is by an order of magnitude better than any other phone I've ever had, and I say this having been using my 3G for a year, so that "new gadget love" phase has long since passed.

  2. Re:What is this dashboard thing? on Twitter To Add Money-Making Features · · Score: 1

    where they are, where the people tweeting about you are

    Yes, because I totally want people to know where I am, so when I'm out of the house, burglars can tweet me to tell me they're robbing me, and prove to me that they're in my house..

  3. Re:this patenting thing ... on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 1

    It's a shame no one has actually tried this.. Imagine what would happen if IBM held the patent on, "Creating a company for the sole purpose of making loose fitting and generic patents with the intention of making monetary gains by suing productive companies that infringe upon their rights." If I had the cash, I would totally apply for such a patent..

  4. House on Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't this the very premise of House MD?

  5. Re:Just IT people? on Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness · · Score: 1

    If you work in a hospital, clearly you'll prefer people like Gregory House.. even when he's completely insane and a drug addict.

  6. Re:Its been done for years already on Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier to remember and think that 1 terabyte is 1 000 000 megabytes, even if its not technically so because of binary system and even if I know that - I still think so just for the easy of it.

    Negative. Mega-Byte means one million bytes since the prefix Mega means million. Just because computers don't count in decimal does not change the counting scheme used by humans. If I say 1TB I mean one trillion bytes.

  7. Re:Windows 7 on Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28 · · Score: 1

    I've found that OSX can slow down over time too (I did a reinstall after 3.5 years), but this is only because of OSX's lack of an uninstaller. Sure, when you have simple programs that are "drag to the Applications folder to install", it's very easy to uninstall, but for all those other ones that install libraries and helper processes, then they slowly bog down the system and don't always go away when you try to uninstall (assuming you kept the original installer). OSX *really* needs a good uninstaller type app. AppZapper is nice, but hardly efficient since it often misses files.

  8. Re:Are you crazy if you rush out and install it? on Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28 · · Score: 1

    I'll share my perspective having used Mac's since 10.1 (everything earlier I considered unusable,) Windows since 2.0, Linux since 0.99 and a plethora of random crap before that back to about 1978.

    You considered Windows 2.0 usable, but not OS 7? Interesting.

  9. Re:Congratulations! on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know, is why did it take that much power to generate the number? I generated the first million digits in python on a celeron in 4 hours.. http://city17.ca/pi.html

  10. Re:Lets look at this on Twitter Offline Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    1) Millions of people use it 2) It allows people to follow people that are interesting to them. Not just gossip, but science information, events. 3) Nearly instant knowledge of world events. 4) Allows protesters to disseminate information 5) Is allowing for a deeper understanding of human nature in large societies. 6) It's another tool for expression. So I would say that it does have value.

    You've successfully listed what every single site on the web can do.

  11. Re:Goodnight, Sweet AP. on AP Will Sell You a "License" To Words It Doesn't Own · · Score: 1

    But bottled water has MINERALS.. and my body needs minerals and shit, right? Therefore, bottled water is better for me than regular water. Yes, people actually believe this.

  12. Re:Forever? on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    When you go to a movie theater, everyone knows you're paying to see the show one time. At no point has purchasing music ever meant "You get X number of plays", this is an entirely new thing and it hasn't even been stated by the record companies as to how many plays you should be getting.

  13. Re:Forever? on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is illegal to knowingly sell someone a defective product under the guise of it being functional, it's called fraud.

  14. Re:That's why... on 12% of E-mail Users Have Responded To Spam · · Score: 1

    That's why I switched my email to gmail.. i get at most 3 spams a day in my inbox.. most days I get none.

  15. Re:My Server on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1

    How does SFTP stop someone from getting ahold of a user's password and uploading another malicious script, then running it via web? Sounds like you had a web accessible directory that a user could upload to, unless you change this, the same thing can happen again. The only thing you changed was you encrypted the file transfer process..

  16. Re:Not just unknown, incompatible on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1

    I've worked with many different FTPS server and they're all very easy to use. Mind you, I was always using windows (FileZilla server, Ability FTP Server).

  17. Re:FTPS on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1

    SFTP isn't useful if you want to jail users to a certain directory. Setting up SFTP to work that way is a huge pain in the ass. Most FTP(S) servers were designed with this in mind.

  18. Re:So why on PostgreSQL 8.4 Out · · Score: 1

    Where can I find these rabid MySQL fans? I use mysql and have never met someone that has claimed mysql is better than postgresql, but I never hear the end of it from postgresql users..

  19. Re:Horray on PHP 5.3 Released · · Score: 1

    They just haven't been introduced to htmlspecialchars() yet. Best damn encryption I've ever seen, and the cool part is you can read some of the encrypted data, that way you can better organize it without having to decrypt it.

  20. Re:Namespaces on PHP 5.3 Released · · Score: 1

    That's probably because no one will be using them due to their hideousness.

  21. Horray on PHP 5.3 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    So does this mean I should upgrade from PHP 3.2? Are there any incompatibilities with my existing code?

    Maybe someone can look over my login script and tell me if this will work in PHP5?

    $query_login="select * FROM user";
    $result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");
    //$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login);
    while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login))
    {
    $username=$row["username"];
    if ($username==$username1)
    {
    echo "";
    echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';";
    echo "";
    exit;
    }
    }

  22. Re:Stay away from Canada on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Wanker? Don't you mean hoser?

  23. Re:Well, the cable industry should know. on Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Who cares. Disney is to culture what thyroid cancer is to metabolism. I wouldn't waste a 2400bps connection on their drivel.

    Disney owns Pixar.

  24. Re:Uh oh... on Software Bug Adds 5K Votes To Election · · Score: 3, Funny

    No no no, it's clearly a glitch. Counting numbers (e.g. 1+1) really isn't a computer's strong suit, so it's understandable that it would sometimes do this, 1+ 1 + 1 + 1 + 5000 + 1 + 1.

  25. MyDomain.com on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use a subdomain, 'profile.mydomain.com',

    BAD BAD BAD.

    mydomain.com is a privately owned domain. When demonstrating a domain, you use profile.example.com!