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  1. Re:Where'd my AJAX posting box go? on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design · · Score: 1
  2. "quarter million sensitive cables" on Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe I missed that update, but last time I heard WikiLeaks never confirmed they had any sensitive cables, in fact, so far they have denied it.

  3. Re:Not the method, but the users on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't have to find out, I the "Long URL please" extension for Firefox.

  4. Re:Not the method, but the users on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your comment is 136 characters long, which is below the maximum tweet length. So either your comment is useless, or the answer is yes. Besides, a lot of tweets contain a link.

  5. Parenting on Home Computers Equal Lower Test Scores · · Score: 1

    I'm sure parenting has nothing to do with it, right? The mere presence of computers must be the only factor here.

  6. Re:"Think of the children" on Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Why does that work?

    It works because about half the population is dumber than the average person.

  7. Re:No name-based virtual hosting on Firefox Extension HTTPS Everywhere Does What It Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    And if you read that page you'll notice that a large part of the world has no support for it (most browsers don't support SNI on Windows XP).

  8. Re:So... on Location Services Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, I think I saw that movie. Didn't you board the wrong plane a year later?

  9. Re:so honestly... on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Nudity or art?

    This reminds be of the Simpsons episode where the statue of David by Michelangelo makes a visit to Springfield, but S.N.U.H. wants it to be censored because of the nudity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_&_Scratchy_&_Marge

    Besides, I don't think Apple has any problems with nudity because afaik they do have a Playboy and Sports Illustrated app. I think the problem was with "low brow porn". If the problem was with nudity every person shown in an app should be wearing a burqa.

  10. Jealousy on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason why these government bodies are going after Google is because Google did by accident what these bodies never imagined they could do.

    And now that people have been made aware of this by Google's slip up the government cannot pull the same trick (any time soon).

  11. Re:In case anybody still took them seriously... on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Or to put it differently, more than 10% of the US national dept.

  12. Re:iAds on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    No, it's "inter-Active Denial System"

  13. Re:Great on Google Relents, Will Hand Over European Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    Actually, I trust Google more than the Government because Google can be held accountable, the Government cannot.

    If Google accidentally let this information slip into the world it will seriously harm their business. And so far Google has done a good job at keeping the information they have locked away. According to my count it's 1 incident where they were actively hacked.

    Now for Governments, they regularly leak highly sensitive information by carelessness of their employees. And that's not even counting targeted attacks. And when there is another incident, not a single head rolls because of it. They just spend a shit load of extra money on regulations that they think will prevent another incident.

  14. Re:How do you get a kid to play football? on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you get a kid into coding? Guess.

    Take them outside, throw an exception to them and ask them to throw it back?

  15. Re:MPEG_LA Isn't the devil on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like saying Satan is not evil because there's also Cthulhu.

  16. Re:Surely this is a moot point? on H.264 and VP8 Compared · · Score: 1

    Who says that those (H.264) patents were not owned by On2 in the first place, or that On2 created that stuff before those patents were even written (e.g. prior art)

  17. Death and Repudiation License is peanuts on Would You Die To Respect a Software License? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Death and Repudiation License is nothing compared to the EULA of iPhone OS 5.1

  18. Re:Math license on Would You Die To Respect a Software License? · · Score: 1

    The Sonny Bono License.

  19. Not about Duke Nukem on Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damnit, I though this news item would be about Duke Nukem.

  20. Re:Doom on How PC Game Modders Are Evolving · · Score: 1

    Or Duke Nukem 3D for that matter. I think that's the first game to ship with all the developer tools. It even allowed you to write completely new game logic.

  21. Re:Leader AND innovator? on Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com Over Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An not to forget:
    - Clippy and the Windows XP Search Dog

    Also I think Microsoft is the main innovator on user annoyance technology.

  22. Re:Then the companies should not get copyright. on In AU, Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods" · · Score: 1

    Software is to "arbitrary" bytes, as a story is to "arbitrary" words. But they are not arbitrary, they are specially crafted.
    The story is copyrighted, not the physical book.

  23. Re:Civ was my offline game on Civilization V To Use Steamworks · · Score: 1

    (Not sure if you're dense or just one of those fanboys HungryHobo talked about a few replies earlier. But I'll bite.)

    Ok, so I have to disable all updating of games and go into offline mode before my ISP is starting to get network issues. And during that time I should never ever turn off my computer, or at least not close Steam. Because when Steam starts up it demands to go into online mode.

    Also, after a few days in offline mode Steam will try to get back to online mode.

  24. Re:Civ was my offline game on Civilization V To Use Steamworks · · Score: 5, Informative

    That direct link will still first start Steam. And steam in offline mode doesn't work as well as a lot of people claim. When I was playing the game Torchlight my ISP sucked big time and had a very unstable internet, or no internet connection at all. Due to the fact that the PC was connected to an internal network I had to wait for the Steam connection to timeout before it allowed me to go into offline mode, so I had to wait 5 minutes before the game would start. If I simply disabled all network connections on that machine it would prompt for offline mode within a minute. Another problem is that steam constantly tries to go out of offline mode. One time it managed to get through to the steam servers and saw there was an update for Torchlight. The result, I could no longer play Torchlight in offline mode because there was an update I was required to install. Of course with my ISP still sucking big time I could not download the files.

    During this who crappy ISP period I regularly used tethering through my phone (using tetherbot) to browse the web, read email, etc. But what I couldn't do was tell Steam to connect to the proxy so it could access the internet so that I could finally unlock the game again.

  25. Re:Not Very Accurate on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 1

    Indeed, juries are much more reliable.