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  1. Wait a bit. on ASUS PQ321Q Monitor Brings Multi-Stream Tiled Displays Forward · · Score: 2

    It'll come down to only $3840 pretty soon.

  2. Die proxy servers on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 0

    Proxy servers are relic of a time before NAT. Please, please, please stop using this old hack to "share" your office Internet connection. If you want to prevent SMTP/FTP/IRC/etc traffic on your network, set up a proper firewall that blocks those port ranges. As you pointed out, using a proxy server in 2013 is going to give grief to anybody that has to touch it.

  3. reference for those that missed it on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 2
  4. Re:Why no real specs? on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 1

    Huh? I've had my old GoPhone SIM card (still branded as Cingular Wireless) in my N900 for years without any problems. I just swapped it out of my old clamshell and into the N900.

  5. Just run it twice! on Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher · · Score: 2

    If one pass of RC4 is too weak, just run it through again to make it ultra encrypted! :)

  6. Internet Air Gap on Utilities Racing To Secure Electric Grid · · Score: 1

    Mr. President, we must not allow... an Internet air gap!

  7. College does not have to cost that much. on Just Say No To College · · Score: 2

    My bachelors from a state school cost me about $4000/year or under $20000 total. Easily payable from working just part time during summer break. This includes dorm room (only un-air conditioned dormitory left at Texas A&M,) an incomplete but adequate amount of textbooks, and a very large amount of 10 cent ramen noodle packets.

    So with no financial help from parents and without any student loans, I was still able to get a degree from a real college. And now I have a proper education as well as this little piece of paper that so many jobs demand.

  8. Search Engine Friendly on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    The odd names of Ubuntu releases significantly help narrow Google search results. For a Linux distribution that uses alphabetically sequential animal names, I always assumed that they would use "penguin" when they got to the letter P. However, their usage of "pangolin" for the latest release turns out to be a far better choice. When I recently ran into a RAID bug, my Google for "pangolin" included far fewer results and allowed me to find the fix much faster than a more popular name would have allowed.

  9. Tau Alpha C on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    We just need to get to Tau Alpha C. I've heard the aliens there like to hitch-hike on star ships and can help us jump across galaxies with merely thought alone.

  10. Lament of a voter in Lamar's district on SOPA Provisions Being Introduced Piecemeal From Lamar Smith · · Score: 2

    I am a voter in Lamar's district (San Antonio, TX) and have been voting against him for the last 12+ years. He runs as a republican in a very "safe" republican district - no democrat will ever fill his spot.

    The best way to vote against him is to vote in the republican primary for another republican, in this case Richard Morgan. Unfortunately, my vote + my families vote + my other friends that I almost have drag to the polling booth don't seem to make much of a dent.

  11. Animosity vs Popularity and Hardness on What's To Love About C? · · Score: 1

    Although a number of things contribute, the popularity of a language certainly increases a perceived animosity. Heck, look at PHP.

    And, for those two languages, the ability of the user to shoot themselves in the foot probably doesn't help either.

  12. Installed by default on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1

    This app should be installed by default on all NFC phones. Maybe it will help highlight the gross stupidity of using contactless credit cards.

  13. 16 GB? on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 2

    The main reason for crashes in LibreOffice appears to be system memory. With sixteen gigabytes of RAM, Writer has yet to crash any document that I have opened -- something that I can't say about Word.

    Does anyone else think that having to have 16 GB of ram to prevent your word processor from crashing is a bit excessive?

  14. Re:what color temperature? on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    Over the past 18 months, its 910 lm design, which Philips says operates with an efficacy of 93.4 lm/W at a warm-white color temperature of 2727 K and offers a color rendering index of 93, has been put through extensive testing.

    I also prefer the daylight color temperature of 5000-6000K. Because hospitals and medical facilities use this range, some people associate this color light with sterile
    clean rooms, or worse, sickness and death.

  15. Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation causes your worst fears to come true.

  16. The Art of Unix Programming on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1

    The Art of Unix Programming by ESR
    http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/
    ISBN: 978-0131429017

  17. Re:I'm In, who else? on Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It? · · Score: 1

    me too

    and i have the _very_ expensive eff tshirt to prove it :)

  18. cgi is not allways faster on Carrot, an Open Source C++ scripting module for Apache · · Score: 1

    on some simple pages, an interpreter will be faster than fork&exec needed by a cgi program

  19. sendmail and outlook vs. bnetd and starcraft on Blizzard, Bnetd Respond on Bnetd Shutdown · · Score: 1

    You don't blame sendmail for Outlook viruses.
    You don't blame bnetd for StarCraft shortcomings.

    Blizard Entertainment has no right to interfere with an independent free software project.

  20. Destructive marketing tactics on Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project · · Score: 1

    From: tokiko
    To: sales@blizzard.com
    Subject: Destructive marketing tactics
    Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:55:48 -0600
    X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu)

    Please reconsider your position against the free software movement and
    your recent actions against bnetd.org.

    Neither DMCA nor current copyright law provide Blizzard Entertainment any
    legal presence over a legitimate free software package such as bnetd.

    Already, high volume sites such as NewsForge http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/21/1 344204&mode=thread
    and Slashdot http://slashdot.org/articles/02/02/21/0136256.shtm l?tid=127
    have posted articles and shed Blizzard in a negative light. Can Blizzard
    survive such destructive marketing tactics with the upcoming WarCraft
    release?

    Until Blizzard Entertainment reverses its policy, I will personally see
    that absolutely no individual or group I know will purchase another
    Blizzard product. Rest assured, you will see many hundred fewer copies
    being sold in every gaming circle, online resource, and area that I have
    influence in.