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  1. Re: Dammit... on Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI · · Score: 2

    Get a PhD

  2. Same with DB dumps on War and Nookd — eBook Regex Gone Haywire · · Score: 2

    I once saw the same issue when a db dump was edited. A user 'bend' was replaced with 'ainsleyj' globally - hilarity ensued.

  3. can it run android? on Nokia 900 Being Given Away Due To Software Glitch · · Score: 1

    Would it be foolish to buy one hoping to be able to put android on it?

  4. Re:Passwords are for philistines on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 2

    Agreed! - this seems like the simplest tweak to bypass brute-force attacks -- After all why attack a server that isn't listening on port 22 when so many are?

  5. Game Developement on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Try a different kind of development? - maybe Game Development? You man still deal with the same issues - but at least it's more light-hearted and the business rules of the app are still arbitrary but more fun.

  6. Re: All natural on Quantifying, and Dealing With, the Deepwater Spill · · Score: 1

    you actually wrote a letter to your pollycritter

    Where did you pick-up this word? I tried to goggle it and got 2 results.

  7. Re:Try these on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    I agree the Ender's game series was the first thing to pop into my head.

  8. Re:I'll be ordering online on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    Well, it is not a self-signed certificate-- It is signed by cacert.org.
    What really concerns me is that under linux, Firefox reports that the certificate has been revoked.

    Under IE and FF I breeze right on through (after installing the root certifiate).
    So what is really going on?

  9. Re:So? on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Yea, maybe, But I would not buy that device if it doesn't do some kind of checksum on an image before applying an update.

  10. Re:Nokia n810? on Best Technology For Long-Distance Travel? · · Score: 1

    I have an n810, so this was my first though also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810

  11. Re:The obvoius counterpoint on A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions) · · Score: 1

    There is also no business reason for free software to exist right? -- oh wait, support! So there you have it

  12. Re:Fertilizing your lawn? on Countering the Arguments Against Unbundling Windows · · Score: 1

    Seriously you think they assemble a hard drive and then discover one of the platters is bad?

    Can that even happen?

    This doesn't seem right,
      please someone who actually knows something about hard drives manufacturing post a comment.

  13. *paying you to learn*, Take what you're given. on Advocating Linux / OSS to Management. · · Score: 1

    The submitter is an *expert* LAMP developer.
    Each of these technologies (linux apache etc..) is in flux.
    You will always have to learn something new.
    SO...
    If you will never consent to learn ASP/IIS, then quit.
    However if the company is willing to pay for you to learn a new technology (that will make you more flexible/valuable). Go with the flow!

  14. Re:This Should Scare... on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Um... Isn't there a business relationship (formal or informal) between Apple, Google and AT&T?

    So it shouldn't scare them it should improve confidence.

  15. Re:Ok, the end of the Internet is here... on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    Well actually, if they really wanted to help protect children they should setup a public internet proxy that allows for logging and filtering and could be reviewed by some kind of child advocacy group. A parent could then elect for all of that child's internet traffic to be routed through the proxy.
     
      Although, a situation like this has serious privacy conserns... but then again what doesn't nowadays?

  16. Re:Not fast enough yet... on Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    Hey, you did the overloards joke wrong.

    I for one, welcome the new faster-video encoding.... ...(nah that doesn't work)

  17. Re:"Sensationalism" is correct. on FSF Rattles Tivo Saber At Apple · · Score: 3, Funny

    (either denouncing the iphone or heralding it as the second cumming) Did you mean "coming", I mean the iPhone is really cool but...
  18. Re:Other reviews on Walt Mossberg Reviews the iPhone · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to see is an honest comparision between the nokia n800 (yes I know it's not a phone), and the iPhone.

    Sofar I've loved my n800, it does support flash(i.e. youtube), and has 2 sd slots (despite not advertising this fact, I can use 4 gig sd cards in it.)
    Also.. it runs linux and has a built in package manager, so you can install apps on the fly (no 'sync-ing').

    I usually connect via bluetooth to my sprint phone, and can use the ssh client to tunnel into my home network and use rdesktop or vncviewer.

    NOTE: I've just referenced alot of 3rd party software available from various feeds throughout the net.
    Which remindes me: the nokia n800 DOES support 3rd party apps.

  19. Re:How much is it a problem? on Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would think the best thing to do would be to learn how to make a bogus credit card. That way you could visit a store out of the way w/ no surveillance and could spend money while signing with some bogus scribble.

  20. Re:Awesome book reader! on Linux Based Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    So does that mean you found map packs to work, or doe the ones that came with your bluetooth reciever work. I have an n800 and the OpenMaps that came with it only had europe... unless I didn't download the right stuff.

  21. Re:Jerry Maguire on Dresses Made from Wine · · Score: 1

    Please mod parent up, that was great!

  22. Re:It's Hard Because it's being done wrong. on Why Software is Hard · · Score: 1

    The science of software has failed or been distracted from the genuine objective of identifying and defining abstraction physics. For it is Abstraction that is the essence of programming, and there most certainly is a physics that applies to our creation and use of abstractions. I really don't understand your post, but this sounds alot like a description of the fake language used in Star Trek: LCARS.
    You also seem to be using the word abstraction way too much..
    ---I think you need to talk about abstracting abstractions more abstractly.
  23. Re:No cash value on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 1

    Could those three little words prevent the IRS from taxing this particular contest? It's not like the guy actually won $138000 in cash. It's a trip, it is not income. So should Oracle have put "No cash value" somewhere in the rules of the contest and save the winner from having to pay tax? Does that mean that since he opted not to take the trip he could redeem it for the cash value?
    $138000 - $25000 = still a good prize.
  24. Re:So does the law require them to charge $4.99? on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1

    Has to be at least $1.00. Probably costs 'em several dollars to handle the dollar
    Don't forget about credit card transaction fees,
    and what about an increase in tech support calls about why their 'new' wireless card isn't working properly.
    Users that choose not to upgrade, or are capable of doing it without assistance wouldn't cost them anything hence no charge.
  25. Re:Or here is a better idea on Get Fired. Delete Colleague's Account. Go To Jail. · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on. This is not multiple choice. Do you really think that because this guy is in jail that a Child molester is free?? How about in more sensational: "...I guess it makes sense to eat babies and keep a dangerous hacker behind bars..." Gimme a break!