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  1. Re:Late.. on Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation · · Score: 1

    No. It's just that next year's April Fool's came 8 months and 6 days early.

  2. Re:So in one fell swoop on San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords · · Score: 1

    [...] and accidentally revealing the truth that someone is innocent doesn't necessarily ruin their case.

    Yes it does. Revealing that someone is innocent while trying to prove they are guilty is exactly ruining the case against the person. Unless you're judging the quality of a case by its outcome. But that's a poor criterion for judging the quality of a case; one which only an attorney would accept :-p

  3. Re:So in one fell swoop on San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords · · Score: 1

    The DA both PROVED they where wrong in locking him up, AND completely and utterly ruined their case

    Isn't proving they were wrong in locking him up the same thing as ruining their case?

  4. Re:I understand running away from prison... but on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > This wasn't a normal father. He was a criminal.

    That's not fair. There are many criminals, who are also fathers, who love and don't harm their children.

  5. Re:Installation over eye-candy on Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON · · Score: 1

    > Yes, apt-get is good, but it's not yet in the Mac's "drag-and-drop" league.

    Hehe. That's a joke.... right?

  6. Re:I got this much on Kaminsky's DNS Attack Disclosed, Then Pulled · · Score: 1

    INFORMATION SHOULD BE FREE (rather than anthropomorphised.)

    You're right. I asked my information his opinion on the matter, and he clearly said that he should be free, not so much that he wants to be free.

    You know, I asked my data for their opinion, and they said the very same thing.

    As for my datum, it disagrees. An argumentative little datum it is.

  7. Re:I got this much on Kaminsky's DNS Attack Disclosed, Then Pulled · · Score: 1

    INFORMATION SHOULD BE FREE (rather than anthropomorphised.)

    You're right. I asked my information his opinion on the matter, and he clearly said that he should be free, not so much that he wants to be free.

  8. Re:Ocean of Acid on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 4, Funny

    Epic Fale.

    What's that? Like a really big Samoan thatched roof house?

  9. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 1

    ... but they can upgrade to the latest version of Camino.

  10. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 1

    Neither can Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) users.

  11. Re:Capturing machines with full disk encryption on Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference · · Score: 3, Funny

    13. Try not to get hit by truck as you maneuver Frogger machine across street.

  12. Re:Heh, heh, heh. on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forgot to say that his VERY OPPRESSIVE PARENTS installed the device on his car...

    Only to protect him from the cops.

  13. Re:Get A Mac on Schneier, UW Team Show Flaw In TrueCrypt Deniability · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what about deniability, then?

    You could try TrueCrypt. I think it works on Macs.

  14. Re:Get A Mac on Schneier, UW Team Show Flaw In TrueCrypt Deniability · · Score: 2, Funny

    yup, ...until some folks showed flaws in TrueCrypt deniability

    You should just use a Mac. I've never experienced any bugs with its built-in encryption options.

  15. Re:Get A Mac on Schneier, UW Team Show Flaw In TrueCrypt Deniability · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, just to play along, what software do you propose to use on the mac to provide deniable encryption?

    You could try this program called TrueCrypt. It seems to work okay.

  16. Re:but wait... on Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley · · Score: 1

    There's a piece of ASCII art depicting a stick figure with something whooshing over its head waiting to be posted in reply to that.

  17. Re:Terminate accounts not instances? on Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware · · Score: 1

    I agree of course, but how exactly do you go about identifying these people so that they don't open another account? Credit card numbers? PayPal accounts?

    Yes.

  18. Re:I don't think that means what you think it mean on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 2

    From your link:

    exploitation, esp. of those who cannot prevent or counter it.

    That is what "ripping off" means in this context, but that is not what it literally means. Literally it means something more like, "to break off with a shearing force." It's humorous how often English speakers use the word literally when they mean the actually mean the thing figuratively.

  19. Re:I want embedded javascript on Brendan Eich Discusses the Future of JavaScript · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many of these would probably suit you: List of ECMAScript Engines.

    Some helpful documentation:
    How to embed SpiderMonkey in your C/C++ program (try Rhino for Java apps).

    Although in my opinion Lua is so similar to JavaScript in all the right ways, and is so easily embedded, that it might be a better choice anyway.

  20. Re:Yeah, right on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 2, Informative

    among quite a few other mathematical and scientific breakthroughs over the last few millennia.

    There, fixed it.
  21. Re:Zoroastrianism on Next Prince of Persia Game Promises Fresh Start · · Score: 1

    Which came first, the Abraham or the Zarathustra?

  22. Re:Best Prince of Persia games? on Next Prince of Persia Game Promises Fresh Start · · Score: 1

    The best port of the original PoP that I've played is definitely the classic Mac version. And yes, it stands up to the test of time (or the sands of time?).

  23. Re:either the game or this story got it wrong: on Next Prince of Persia Game Promises Fresh Start · · Score: 3, Informative

    Zoroastrianism is quite dualistic (though, as I understand it, ultimately the good, uncreated God will win). It also predates Manichaeism by about a millennium.

    Zoroastrian

  24. Re:Why Not a New One? on Next Prince of Persia Game Promises Fresh Start · · Score: 1

    The first of the series (SoT)

    There were four versions which preceded the Sands of Time. But maybe you meant in the current series? I've only played the first two, on my Color Classic Mac. I remember seeing the first 3D version... the graphics were quite painful compared to the smooth animation the the 2D versions. I think most video games jumped to 3D about 15 years before they should have.

  25. Re:I like the choice. on Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada · · Score: 1

    Use a masochistic language to break a German code...groovy.

    He used Ada, not Groovy