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  1. Re:Alamo Drafthouses are the model of the future on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not just the beer, it's the reserved seating. That's my favorite feature of the Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco (which also has beer, wine, a full bar, snacks, etc). I think there's one in Houston now, too.

  2. Re:My car has a fail-safe device... on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    I used to own a compact Ford 4x4 pickup with a manual transmission and unfortunately the towing capacity was very low. Automatics are just a lot more heavy duty than the manuals they put into mass market trucks. As I recall the gross combined weight rating for the manual trans was some half a ton below that of the automatic.

  3. Re:Check the MPG on Mazda Stops Production of the Last Rotary Engine Powered Car · · Score: 1

    The FD is not in Super Stock, it's in A Stock. However, you are half right in that the FD is the oldest car in A Stock. This is more of a reflection of the fact that people like to auto-x them than anything else.

  4. Re:Annealing, anyone? on Video Shows Why Recharging Kills Batteries · · Score: 2

    Sure, they'll just need to develop the rest of the battery so it can survive temperatures above 300C for extended periods.

  5. Re:More of what's going on here. on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    Google OneBox launched in 2006. I have no idea when the Yahoo! thing you reference launched.

    If the idiot who wrote TFA wants to really have his mind blown, he should search for "Refinance" and look at the very first thing at the top of the page (above the featured adverts, even).

  6. Re:Eheh on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No actually, you obviously did not read the complaint. It appears that the DOI required a solution in the form of Microsoft's own hosted Exchange solution, which is only offered by Microsoft itself.

  7. Re:When you can't compete, sue... on Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings · · Score: 1

    But as the state's budget shortfall widens-to as much as $18 billion, or about 20% of the next two-year budget, according to the state legislature's latest analysis released earlier this month-critics are complaining that Mr. Perry's policies have left the state with little room to reduce spending.

    From the WSJ's article on Texas's massive budget deficity, which is substantially larger than California's.

  8. Re:Security issue? on Browser-Based Jailbreak For iPhone 4 Released · · Score: 1

    In which case the current story is non-news (as usual around here).

  9. Re:Security issue? on Browser-Based Jailbreak For iPhone 4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, but there has never been a time where Mobile Safari was free of remotely exploitable flaws. If you look at the history of the iPhone OS release notes, you will always find gaping holes that were closed in Safari, and many of them were uncovered by third parties. For example see the release notes of iOS 4.0 which contain nuggets like "Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution" due to CVE-2009-2195 in WebKit.

  10. Yawn on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In other news, people on your wired ethernet segment can also see your "private" traffic. If you care so much, use SSL. Next scaremongering non-story in 3, 2, 1.

  11. Re:Swing and a miss... on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. Here's another route which I think contradicts your theory.

    The only completely legal way to park your car on the local side of that block is to turn left onto it from Fell.

  12. Re:Swing and a miss... on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    Google has long advised people to make illegal turns in San Francisco, including at the infamous illegal right hand turn from Market onto the freeway at Octavia. Although that's been fixed, there are still problems surrounding the complicated four-divided-lane Octavia boulevard. For instance this route is perfectly illegal as can be seen in this street view.

  13. Re:So what happens if google says ok!? on Indian Government Threatens RIM, Skype With Ban · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bingo. End-to-end encryption is why Apple still hasn't put a dent in RIM's enterprise market share. India already pulled this crap once before, and RIM did indeed tell them to pound sand.

  14. Re:Wrong: The 1934 act does not authorize it. on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    Radio communications are in the preceding section c, so you're wrong there. And your interpretation of "wire communications" would be irrelevant at law. Check West for details.

  15. Re:Not News on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The Telecommunications Act of 1934 gives the executive branch sweeping powers to shut off any and all telecommunications for indefinite lengths of time.

    (d) Upon proclamation by the President that there exists a state or threat of war involving the United States, the President, if he deems it necessary in the interest of the national security and defense, may, during a period ending not later than six months after the termination of such state or threat of war and not later than such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate, (1) suspend or amend the rules and regulations applicable to any or all facilities or stations for wire communication within the jurisdiction of the United States as prescribed by the Commission, (2) cause the closing of any facility or station for wire communication and the removal therefrom of its apparatus and equipment, or (3) authorize the use or control of any such facility or station and its apparatus and equipment by any department of the Government under such regulations as he may prescribe, upon just compensation to the owners.

    The current proposal would severely curtail and circumscribe the executive powers in this area.

  16. Re:You're confused on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? · · Score: 1

    And ... why would you do this? Take a snapshot, back it up somewhere, and then delete it.

  17. Re:nspluginwrapper on Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    Indeed, nspluginwrapper is the only good way to run flash on any word size. Why would you want to run Flash in-process, regardless of 32/64 compatibility? nspluginwrapper makes the sun shine and the birds sing and the grass grow. It's awesome.

  18. Re:Intel Video Finally Working Well on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Actually there were some last-minute commits that screwed up those of us with Intel "Ironlake" graphics. Users of the ThinkPad X201 unfortunately need to pass kernel parameters to the live cd and must patch their kernels to make the installed system work.

  19. Re:Upgrading in place from the previous LTS? on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is a recipe for tragedy. The operating system itself upgrades perfectly well, but the GConf schemas are subtly incompatible and the GNOME people couldn't care less about solving this problem. If you're going from Hardy to Lucid I highly recommend a nuke-and-pave install and copy your homedir from a backup, without any of the dotfiles.

    I had a great deal of mysterious behavior on my laptop that was upgraded to every Ubuntu release since Hardy, and all of that stuff disappeared when I reinstalled and got rid of all my dotfiles.

  20. A solid review on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I never read Tom's any more, but maybe I'll start. I appreciate that they tracked down the cause of a performance regression between Hardy and Lucid. The only other site that routinely benchmarks Linux distributions is Phoronix, and those guys are prone to just throwing weird results out there with no explanation. The number of inexplicable, unrepeatable benchmark results posted over at Phoronix is huge and ever-growing. This benchmark from Tom's is much more useful.

  21. Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" on Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good? · · Score: 1

    In fact it's *exactly* the same API used for its competitor, Amazon S3. If you use boto to access AWS, you'll be right at home using boto to access Google Storage.

  22. On blackberry? Not so much on App Store-Aided Mobile Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Any app on the blackberry requires user intervention before it's allowed to fetch URLs, open raw sockets, read email, dial the phone, get your location, manipulate the address book, or do any other damned thing. And 90% of the APIs require the developer to be vetted through the app signing process. It actually seems much less vulnerable to trojans and spyware than a PC.

  23. Re:Right on Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat · · Score: 1

    Double true. Last time I looked at btrfs it was also thousands of times slower than ext4 (no joke). It's not ready for public consumption.

  24. Re:Transfer switches suck? on Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The answer is "yes". Transfer switches often fail and are rarely tested. This is also true of other power equipment. If it's rarely used the probability of it working in an emergency are somewhat low.

    However, in this case the transfer switch worked fine, but it had been misconfigured by Amazon technicians. According to their status email from yesterday (posted in their AWS status RSS feed) the outage was a result of the fact that one transfer switch had not been loaded with the same configuration as the rest of the transfer switches in the datacenter. The "failed" switch performed as configured and powered down.

  25. Re:Ouch on Pointing Stick Keyboard Roundup · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you buy a thinkpad new in the box, it comes with a little bag of replacement pointer tips in various styles. I prefer the original dot texture, but I do hate that it collects filth easily.