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  1. Re:Not being a troll, Serious question. on Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released · · Score: 1

    Whoosh!

  2. Re:Google does the same on Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico · · Score: 1

    A one hundred sixty word response, complete with link, less than one minute after the story goes live, from a seven digit UID. Uncanny.
    May I hire your services? I need to disrupt freerepublic next month.

  3. Huh? on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    "Wealthy. You keep using that word."

  4. Re:Facebook? on Facebook Responds to EPIC FTC Timeline Complaint · · Score: 1

    What communication feature does Facebook have that email/IM does not?

  5. Re:Spellink chekers. Duh! on The Curious Case of Increasing Misspelling Rates On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Not that anyone else does this, but one of the first changes I make in my browser settings is deactivating automatic spell checking. Call it a holdover from the days where leaving it on meant the top rate of entering text would be about one or two characters per second.
    The performance difference is non-zero.

  6. Re:Telnet on Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail · · Score: 1

    You know, I could have sworn slimjim8094 had just outlined a different reason why colleges give out emails. You may consider it insufficient justification, but I think it is actually a factor that must be considered. The ITU stats on internet penetration have yet to reveal a 100% mark anywhere in the world.
    Telling someone they must sign up for hotmail to further their education is the epitome of unprofessional. I feel your pain that you were ordered and paid to do it.

  7. Re:Isn't that kind of the point? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wikipedia frowns upon original research.

  8. Re:Someone here actually suggested it before on Google Throws /. Under Bus To Snag Patent · · Score: 1

    You (and Google) have made some basic factual errors about how /. moderation works - in Google's case, "there is no restriction on the users that may participate" and in your case, "If they are on your friend lists, their moderation carries more value." - guess what? It's possible to set up your account to do that, but it's not the default and it's not obvious.

  9. Re:repeating a tweet: if just, why 1am on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Was following this until feed gave out. Press were barred because part of the plan is to take all the equipment of all the arrested people and throw it into compacting dump trucks. Concealing this little detail failed, because every other person in NYC has a cell phone that can record video, and their attempts to block everyone on ground level were, shall we say, not fully thought through. Garbage truck drivers don't have the same "us vs. them" mentality of police officers, less discipline, and even less threat assessment training.
    It's an action that is (i) probably going to be extremely effective at preventing quite a lot of people from assembling anywhere again for more than eight hours, and (ii) should make every Libertarian brain go splodey.They're going to be hard pressed to reconcile "Taser the Hippies" and "Personal Property is SACRED" if ever this little detail gets widespread attention.

  10. Re:To quote GWB on Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders? · · Score: 2

    Bush didn't say it, he did it. Actions speak so much louder than words.

  11. Re:freaky on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    If you had actually read 1984 at some point, you'd remember that Orwell explicitly included a how-to.

  12. Re:All Anonymous and Lulzsec have to do now... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Oh, because maybe the bank isn't offering me a service I want at a price I'm willing to pay? See cousin posts for particulars.

    I see you take after your namesake. You're badly informed if you think credit union accounts are free.

    Your "surmises" reveal much prejudice. I have an assumption of my own, but I'll be explict about it rather than make you think about it: how's your Tea Party member card serving you?

  13. Yes, it's facebook. on Facebook Files For a Patent To Track Its Users On Other Sites · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the names on the patent. Then ask where they work. No, I'm not going to google that for you.

  14. Re:Easy. on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    It's a shame there's no online equivalent of a snort of derision. You're a fool to think the differences trivial, and I wouldn't trust any of my data to you. If you have a boss, the organization would be better off with you fired.

    That you have not had problems so far is not debian's fault, or yours.

    Or do you read and subscribe to every one of the 2500-odd release-critical bugs and determine that they don't apply to software you have installed? I'm trying to imagine such an unhappy life, and eeeeww. If this is your life, I'm sorry.

  15. Re:Easy. on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    Pay no attention to the troll, it lies. I notice you said this was personal, as in, not a non-profit. Anyways, non-profits have no lesser need of stability.
    Debian's testing branch is something that they are, well, testing. As in, they're not sure it works. One offhand combination of installing scheme9 and apache-mod-lisp could bring things to a grinding halt. If anyone other than yourself is expecting it to be available in the morning, use debian stable. Heck, if you'd like it to be available in the morning without being up part of the night, use debian stable.

    As for the CLI, I've got news you might think bad, but it's not. Administering a LAMP stack without basic familiarity with a shell is like using a web browser without knowing what a scrollbar is - you may be able to do stuff, but not a lot, and not well. The tools that debian includes are command line oriented (as in, no webmin) because point-and-click interfaces require pointing and clicking, and are truly resistant to automation. Automation makes life easier, freeing up time better spent with wine and women (and/or moonshine and men, depending).

    The good news is, shells are not terribly difficult to learn the basics of, though it is possible to go into very intricate depth. If you settle on bash, I recommend visiting http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ once in a while.

  16. Re:If you can't be bothered to RTF... on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    Why? Some of us have working memories.
    Microsoft would love nothing more than to lock out other operating systems at the hardware level, and the bootloader is the critical first step. Why isn't 55% of the computing world using BeOS? Because MS controlled the bootloader via OEM contracts, possible only because of their monopoly position.

    "I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it."
    --Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO of Be

    I believe the reason we will have to fight OEMs is because MS will tell them, "Unlockable UEFI? bulk rate = $35. Locked? bulk rate = $22

    As for the phones, what monopoly has Google ever had on the phone market?

  17. Re:Not necessarily... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 1

    Nobody has the right to not be offended. Not you, not me, not even Mr. Atkinson.

  18. Re:Obigtory..... on Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent · · Score: 1

    I think you may well have intended something previous.

  19. Closing quote on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    "I can't believe even Facebook would do this intentionally"
    Dan must be new to this internet thing.

  20. Re:One day we will be done with java... on Java 7: What's In It For Developers · · Score: 1

    You never owned a mac, right? PowerPC, not Intel. All kinds of fun with not working, on MacOS, OS X, and GNU/Linux.
    Pardon me for remembering more than the last decade of my life.

  21. Re:So what if on DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not nanny state. The aim is interference, not nurturing.

  22. Re:Unenumerated Rights on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    Slight glitch with this: What if I have a microphone capable of recording frequencies up to 33 kHz, beyond the capacity of 99% of all humans? Or a low-light mode camera, capable of resolving things the human eye could never interpret?
    Your idea has merit; the devil will be in the details.

  23. Re:man on Hamstersoft Ebook App Rips Off GPL3 Code, Say Calibre Devs · · Score: 1

    For jet fighters in public hands, you'll need SAMs, not pitchforks.

  24. Re:So there is no standard. on GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Moron AC much? The post could be held up as an alternative canonical example of trolling - presenting plausible, but wrong, information as authoritatitve.
    There IS a standard involved here, and GNOME is trying* to not simply ignore it, but break it.

    * Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from active malice

  25. Re:Old Laws Before Automation on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    It should worry you MORE that said people are behaving in a sane and reasonable manner.