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  1. Re:publicly available, but... on Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested · · Score: 2, Informative

    She was charged and has thus far declined to pay the $750 bail. It's in the first paragraph in the article.

  2. Re:Dumb. on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IMO, unless you work directly with cash or are in a position where fraud would be easy, employers have no right to that information.

    Hardly. If you can't be bothered to keep your own personal finances in check, why on earth would I want to trust you with the operation of my business? You've already shown what little regard you have for things that should matter.

  3. Re:6 out of 11 is not "virtually every" on No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners · · Score: 1

    Thanks for posting this, it's too bad it's not higher up the page. There will be a big backlash when people figure out Intel has been using this as a price point and only the premium laptop chips can run XP Mode. "Sorry, you only spent $800 on your laptop? Buh-bye."

  4. Unlikely on Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks? · · Score: 1

    The Dell Mini 12 had a horrible graphics chipset and 1 GB memory soldered onto the motherboard, which couldn't be upgraded. It wasn't cutting into profits *anywhere*.

  5. Re:"Branded verticals"? on AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media · · Score: 1

    Engadget and Joystiq are linked here multiple times per day, so they must be doing something right.

  6. Re:Slideshow on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1
  7. Re:This is stupid on Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts · · Score: 1

    Scare tactic. We've been living in close proximity with mold for hundreds of years on this planet. It wasn't a problem until people realized they could make money on it. Yes, even black mold.

  8. Re:What MORON keeps tagging articles as HARDHACK? on Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hardhack isn't a tag, it's a category. It stands for Hardware Hacking and is included by default. Try mousing over the story icon.

  9. Re:Their loss on Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey · · Score: 1

    Kind of sad that Microsoft peaked with XP SP2, no?

  10. Re:age discrimination on Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape · · Score: 0

    "So the 24-year-old coming out of Stanford will have a view of technology that the 29-year-old â" who was 24 just five years ago â" would never think of," say Andreessen. "We love that kind of thing."

    Great. More age discrimination in software development hiring practices.

    I'm obsolete at 36.

    I know a lot of 20-25 year old people in universities. My 60+ year old dad keeps up with technology, especially internet technology, better than any of them. Andreeson's delusional thinking shouldn't be trusted.

    The plural of "anecdote" isn't "data."

  11. Re:Do we really need GPS to track mileage ? on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much of your mileage isn't on public roads? For most people, I'd guess almost none (up and down the driveway doesn't account for much for my trip into work each day). So, tough shit. No system is going to be perfect.

    And if 99% was good enough, you'd be missing a paycheck every two years.

  12. Re:China on Sony Begins Shipping PCs With Green Dam In China · · Score: 1

    Why do people still live there again? Seriously though, I wonder what the morale of people who live there is like? Do they all hate it but have nowhere else to go, or are they just culturally complacent with their rights being trampled on?

    We've been wondering the same thing about Americans for the past decade or so (DMCA, Patriot Act, etc). Are you planning your migration yet?

  13. Re:Wake me up when.. on You're (Probably) Not Going To Be a Pro Blogger · · Score: 1

    Things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. Just because you think your Magic: The Gathering card collection is worth $100K doesn't mean it is.

  14. Re:DMV on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting. Mine was done two weeks ago through an online form that didn't require me leaving my chair and used only the minimum amount of personally identifying information.

  15. Re:Well, the cable industry should know. on Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Additionally, you'd save more money ditching those cable boxes that are sucking 60-80W 24x7x365 (even when "off") than you would carving out your channel lineup.

  16. Re:Please repost your article. on A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Re:Wow, the RIAA is bad at this on Court Rejects RIAA's Proposed Protective Order · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I agree with you. I would come down very hard on attorneys who try to game the system as the RIAA's attorneys do, were I a judge.

    Thankfully that's not the case. The last thing we need are more activist judges.

  18. Some of Ulrich Drepper's finer points on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From TFA: 1 2 3 4

  19. Re:Specialist skills on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    Skills, yes. Trade secrets, no.

  20. Re:Not like that... on OpenBSD 4.5 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Security is something we should get on top of the other features, not with the cost of other features. I am talking about usability and features here.

    Security is not a feature. Thinking it is has led to most of the Internet's larger failings as present today.

  21. Re:Why? on Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project · · Score: 1

    They weren't. Unfortunately, some simpleton decided it was easier to plug his laptop into the secure network without first disabling his Wifi connection to the public network. "Oops."

  22. Re:The Ends Don't Justify The Means on The Secret History of the FBI's Classified Spyware · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA.

    But the documents released Thursday under the Freedom of Information Act show the FBI has quietly obtained court authorization to deploy the CIPAV in a wide variety of cases, ranging from major hacker investigations, to someone posing as an FBI agent online.

  23. writeinjackthompson on Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, had to be said.

  24. Re:the workaround is bad design on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 1

    Short version: "We're sorry we changed something that worked and everyone was used to, but hey -- it's compliant with a standard." If this were Microsoft, we'd give them a healthy helping of humble pie

    Really? I thought we praised them for following standards when they did exactly that with IE8's default rendering mode.

  25. Re:Could rewrite, EU tries to kick Americans out. on How To Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you protect your markets you destroy your exports.

    Japan seems to be doing just fine with it. Compare who made your TV and their TVs. Your phone and their phones (yeah yeah, excluding iPhones).