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  1. Re:Reading every EULA? on Man Finds $1,000 Prize in EULA · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think the real problem is that the first thing that comes to mind after hearing the words "PC Pitstop" are "what the hell is that?" I read my EULAs... if I had actually installed such software, I would have won the money. Maybe people who make more useful software should start implementing the same scheme.

  2. Re:Cheaper on Photo-Centric Handheld Can Be A Doom Console · · Score: 1

    I have this on mine, and break it out whenever somebody's brain needs breaking. Works quite well. Still have the ROM binary around. :-)

  3. Re:ipod mini.. on Apple Updates iPod · · Score: 1

    How can it be hip, when it's hip to be square, and the iPod's rounded corners are far from square? Just a thought.

  4. Mouse? on Top 100 Gadgets of All Time · · Score: 1

    You mean I can use my mouse as a calculator? Talk about feature creep!

  5. Explorer on Mono Progress In the Past Year · · Score: 1

    Actually, Ford Explorer would be closer to the original meaning of the word "explorer" than Internet Explorer was.

  6. Re:Is this really a big deal? on New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files · · Score: 1

    Virus scanners obviously already detect that sort of trick, as it's about the oldest trick in the book.

  7. Re:Handshaking on NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology · · Score: 1

    I bet sex would result in better conductivity than handshakes, too. If that's the case, then having sex would put you at a greater risk of infection.

  8. Re:More trouble than it's worth? on NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology · · Score: 1

    You inevitably have to fiddle with it for minutes to find the menu option that lists the devices that you have already registered with

    I would do this by clicking the KDE Bluetooth icon, and then clicking the device name... or simply right-clicking and choosing the device from the recent list, if I used it recently.

    I take it you are used to Microsoft's so-called user-friendly approach.

  9. Re:Arghh on Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down · · Score: 1

    As they say, Google does have a cache of all the articles. Maybe this really was Google's fault somehow. ;-)

  10. Re:Is this really a big deal? on New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files · · Score: 1

    The reason people should be surprised is that Base64 and UUEncode are extremely popular ways to encode data in email. A few pieces of software evidently send this data in the email body, incorrectly but perhaps intentionally. The process of a user manually UUEncoding data into the body of an email is supposedly pretty common in itself, and is one of the tricks email auditing software is expected to detect. :-)

  11. Re:Is this really a big deal? on New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If zip (or any) files are blocked, I like sending files encrypted, or merely scrambled.

    You would be surprised how few email filters detect an attachment which is simply sent as Base64 or UUEncoded text, in the body. As it's not an attachment, it frequently gets ignored.

  12. Re:Wait a minute... on Trouble Brewing at the W3C? · · Score: 1

    I find XForms the better idea, as it doesn't rely on the ludicrous assumption that HTML is the only markup language which forms will ever be used in.

  13. Re:Advantages of Linux on Mobile Phone with PC running Linux 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Jokes aside, Qt NetHack is actually pretty cool. :-)

  14. Re:i'm no crypto expert... on PGP Moving To Stronger SHA Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Tough, but not as hard as O(n^2). For various reasons, adding two hashes together doesn't actually make the work much harder than it already was. You get better security out of switching to a newer hash function.

  15. Re:Unpossible to Clean SpyWare? on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    That's assuming you even knew that the machine was infected when you downloaded the CD. :-)

  16. Re:Gee... on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Windows didn't come preconfigured to use directories either. :-)

  17. Re:Unpossible to Clean SpyWare? on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    What if the spyware intercepted the download of the disk you're using to check the spyware?

  18. Re:"Loses" on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I looked and noticed that nobody had said it yet, so it looked like a good idea.

  19. "Loses" on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    I would replace the word "Loses" with "Sells". And perhaps tack "To Terrorists" on the end for good luck.

  20. Internet Explorer breaks downloads too! on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    And I bet it's broken a lot more than 25 million. :-)

  21. Re:More = Better? on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    It's too bad IE still can't actually handle XHTML correctly. If it could, that would also make for easier web development.

  22. Re:More = Better? on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless, code designed while testing using Opera or Konqueror tends to work in Firefox, as do any other combination of those browsers. IE is the only browser which is consistently broken.

  23. Re:complete? on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 1

    Another way to look at it though, is to try to ignore the existence of the book. The first part of the original radio series was roughly 3 hours in length if you add it all up, and I'm sure it would be possible to cover all of that in a single movie, even if in a frantic fashion. The next 3 hours could be movie #2, and the next 3 hours could be movie #3. :-)

  24. Re:Known broken? on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 1

    The whole point behind stringprep (of which domainprep, which is supposed to be applied to all domain names, is a profile), is that two characters which look identical would be resolved to the same character. So the user shouldn't have such problems.

  25. Re:Known broken? on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 1

    I thought that stringprep was supposed to resolve these problems. Is it not?