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  1. Re:It is possible on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 0

    So remove the chip it plugs into.

    Or better yet, build your jail in such a way that wifi does not work. Metal line everything. Then you won't need to worry about them smuggling in ipod touches and wireless base stations up their asses.

  2. Re:Emacs vs VIM: Who cares? on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    What would you replace it with?
    As far as I can tell no one has yet invented a suitable replacement.

  3. Re:I hate vim and emacs. on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    No, we are not idiots like you.
    Pico and Nano are for children and idiots.

  4. Re:still using it for remote admin on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Why would you have it on a webserver?
    What possible use would you have for it?

  5. Re:Goodbye Meego on Nokia Hints At Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 1

    Or get a new device and install the OS you want on it. If Meamo is that good someone will surely port it to new devices. The N9 would have been something, if it was released 6-12 months ago. Instead I will get a galaxy nexus and install Debian in a chroot.

  6. Re:still using it for remote admin on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ditto.
    For a web browser look into vimperator.

  7. Re:The problem is WiFi on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    Actually that would not be appropriate for any human. I don't want to live in Soviet Russia nor Nazi Germany, those are the kinds of places that do the stuff you are talking about.

    Those places did not get it right, they got everything wrong.

  8. Re:Glue might be chipped out. on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 0

    So unhook the antenna, just unsolder it from the board.

  9. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 0

    Because it is theirs. Why should they not have access to it?

  10. Re:Prison should be punishment on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fear and punishment might give you a stiffy but they don't work. What we want is rehabilitated prisoners not people more angry and violent than when they went in.

  11. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    Great idea, then you can spend even more money when they come back to prison again since all you did was make them more violent and more bitter. None of the tax dollars you don't pay anyway you poor fuck are going for this. These devices are bought with the prisoners own money. These are then used for reward and punishment and preventing riots thus saving the actual taxpayers loads of money.

  12. Re:PS2? on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 2

    What does that have to do with it?

    They are still people and we would prefer they come out better than they went in. These sorts of things are hugely useful in that respect, they also allow for a simple level of punishment and reward inside prison. Prisoners who misbehave can have their video games taken away.

  13. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 2

    From jobs they held before prison, from outside family members, form jobs they hold in prison?

    They are not being given money by the state you dumb fuck. Cable TV also costs them money to have in there cell. Quite often more then it would normally cost since they have a "captive" audience.

  14. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    Great idea, slave labor! Surely, no one would ever then bribe judges and police to place more people in jail longer so that his business had a steady source of cheap labor. No, no one should ever do such a thing.

    For obvious reasons prisons should cost the taxpayer money. They should also not provide undue profit to any private firm. There are too many possible perverse incentives that come into play.

  15. Re:Boo Friggin Hoo on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    No those are used after the riots start. It is preferred to not have the riot to begin with.

    Harsher prisons only lead to harsher ex-cons when they finally get out.

  16. Re:There is always a way on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you plan to use that to fill up 100% of their time? Idle hands and all that jazz.

    Harsher prisons only mean harsher people when they are finally let out.

  17. Re:It is possible on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    So open the joker up an desolder the antenna. I bet a business could make good money supplying modified for this sort of use Xboxes and updates via usb.

  18. Re:Endorsed by Glenn Beck on Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam · · Score: 1

    What made you think they cared about privacy or any rights?
    These are the very folks that egg on the War on Terruh, and the War on drugs. Of course not on the drugs they are addicted too. If I wanted to hear the ravings of a drug addict I could go down the local homeless shelter and see it live.

  19. Re:hmm on Angry Birds Downloads Pass Half-Billion Mark · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Castle Clout.

  20. Re:...Android Market on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 1

    It has more than 500k apps, so I am pretty sure people are profiting from it.

    What is up with the fanboys? The apple market is good and it works, so is the android market. The winphone market will get somewhere if people buy winphones.

  21. Re:There is plenty of proof on China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated · · Score: 1

    That is the BS internet rumor I was talking about. The picture is not even of a Chinese plane.

  22. Re:Why / How? on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 1

    I think the better question is why does it have to be word, as opposed to any other user space unprivileged process. My guess would be because of all the macros/scripting and other bad ideas in word.

  23. Re:It makes sense on The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet · · Score: 2

    That is their belief, but it will kill them in the end. Protecting current profit streams has killed a great many companies and will continue to do so. RIM is dieing of this disease right now.

  24. Re:Losing Allard was a real loss to MS on The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet · · Score: 1

    Microsoft needed the DRM more than the RIAA, in their own minds. They now they are on top only through vendor lock-in, there is no better lock-in than DRM.

  25. Re:There is plenty of proof on China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated · · Score: 1

    What stealth bomber?
    Links?
    As far as I can tell they don't have one, and only some internet rumors claimed they did.