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  1. Re: never heard of it on RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org) · · Score: 1

    5-digit UID? Newbie.

    I'm replying to this post cause I actually forgot what my UID looks like, it's been that long...

  2. Re:But... on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review · · Score: 1

    Dude, these days most of us are on unlimited texts! Ergo no one really cares...

  3. Re:Too short? on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 2

    Or we can just, you know, look it up

  4. Re:Whatever happened to passphrases? on Passwords Not Going Away Any Time Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually that's not the way that works. They are using a Zero-Knowledge protocol.

  5. Re:T-mobile pay as you go on Ask Slashdot: Best Smartphone Plan For a US Vacation? · · Score: 1

    Sure you can. You just walk in a store and pay cash. That's what I did... It's pay as you go after all... Make sure you get the APN details when you buy the card.

  6. T-mobile pay as you go on Ask Slashdot: Best Smartphone Plan For a US Vacation? · · Score: 2

    Just came back from a coast-2-coast. Faced the same problem. Get a T-mobile pay as you go. You have unlimited internet for $1.5/day with a web day pass that you purchase using your PAYG balance.

  7. Can you look at yourself in the mirror? on Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? · · Score: 1

    At the end of the day, the real question is can you do that job and look at yourself in the mirror? The guy decided that he couldn't. There are plenty of jobs I would not do, in fact I'd rather change my lifestyle than make certain compromises. Sadly lots of people have very silent consciences... For instance, how can you design weapons and sleep at night? Or more mundane I think the people that worked on the London congestion charge are unhethical :) If curses can affect your after life, I have no doubt they'll have some nasty surprises...

  8. Yahoo on Hotmail Launches Accounts You Can Throw Away · · Score: 1

    God, Yahoo had this for years! This is quite lame :S

  9. Re:Cut YouCut on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    By the US govt.? Try by the rest of the world. Just because the peaceniks in Europe march in the streets doesn't mean that their governments actually give a damn about what they are marching about. The world wants us on that wall. The world NEEDS us on that wall. We are Team America: World Police because dammit, we're the only ones who can do the job. Of course there is waste, but you can forget about the US hanging up its badge and turning in its weapons. Carriers are needed because they are. Just because you have a philosophical problem with that doesn't change anything. The world is still a dangerous place and would be even more dangerous if we weren't walking the beat.

    Is that supposed to be funny? Like in http://www.teamamerica.com/ I Hope it is...

  10. Re:Hooray for freedom on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    You think that's bad? In Austin, TX it's illegal to carry wire cutters in your pocket.

    But guns are fine, right? Even in a bar unless they have a sign saying otherwise?

  11. Re:So, what's the answer supposed to be? on Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He asks students to imagine if mainframe vendors had asked government to prop them up in the same way that General Motors recently was.

    Perhaps there would have been more supercomputers? Or the internet would have arrived sooner and networking would be more advanced? None of us know what would have happened. Assuming it would have been worse is just speculation.

    Given the history of such enterprises, learned speculation would tell it'd have to be worse... You are saying that since they didn't have a chance to screw that up, magically it would turn out to be their only success...

  12. Hang on... on Last.fm Strongly Denies Sharing Data With RIAA · · Score: 1

    ... They claim that they can't distinguish between streamed music and music from your collection. That would make sense unless they planned to rat out users with illegal collections. It seems a lot of trouble to go through and makes little sense to me...

  13. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    I remember them and @stake. And at some point I even tried to get a job there (to be honest, luckily it did not work out!). Then Symantec bought them. I can't think of a more disappointing outcome...

  14. Re:AdBlock Plus on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    I use adsweep and it rocks. I was a firefox user, but the javascript speedup is just unreal!

  15. But what about the ebay customers? on eBay Beats Tiffany In Net Trademark Case · · Score: 1

    I understand that anyone gets what they deserve... And idiots thinking a 50$ necklace is a true Tiffany probably deserve to be scammed... But there are plenty of bargain hunters that despite having plenty of sense get stiffed... Some accountability on ebay side would be nice...

  16. Re:maybe they should have stayed in the '60s on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that replacing JOVIAL code with C code is actually progress. If JOVIAL is anything like ALGOL 60, it's arguably a better programming language than C.

    Man I second that! Cheaper workforce, but they are getting themselves from a circle of hell they know to a brand new circle of hell !

  17. Re:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Anyone on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 1

    Well. Da Vinci had his own morals. I have mine. I'd rather work at McDonalds than for the military.

  18. Re:ebook reading on The eBook, Mark 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mobipocket is available for all Symbian phones (e.g. Sony Ericsson P900, Nokia N80, etc) I use my smartphone to read books and have done so for the past 2 years! It's great and such a space saver!

  19. And you ask this on slashdot?? on Microsoft or Google? · · Score: 1

    DOH!

  20. Re:Pfft. Nothing New Here on U.S. Lobbied EU Over Microsoft Fine · · Score: 1

    Can't believe we are being so nice and calling this "lobbying". Guys, this is pure corruption, very much in the style of the best Sopranos episode! It has nothing to do with culture, perposterous!

  21. Re:Show Me! on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 1

    Man, that's what happens when you try to replace plain common sense with laws! You can't define the obvious very easily, and more to the point it's very hard to define a moral system based on axiomatic rules (is it even possible?) and that's what they are trying to do! Everyone would not that St. Andres is way more violent than Mario but try to axiomatize the obvious and see how far you get!

  22. Re:And Microsoft rule on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 1

    awh, come on! They pay all right and obviously they get good people. Why would they have bad programmers is anyone's guess! I don't think they did rewrite the OS in 18 months: too many risks. But I'm pretty sure they could have!

  23. This does not make any business sense on The Portable Linux Based GP2X is Here · · Score: 1

    Ok, karma, there you go... :(

    I'm afraid this is hopeless. It costs 120 punds in the UK, well the PSP is 50 pounds more and it looks os much better it hurts! Plus it's got the whole marketing hype behind it. Plus they advertise the PSP on their own site: what's wrong with them??

    I think it's totally hopeless, and although it runs linux this will not make any difference. What does a kid care about the OS? He wants something cool to play with!

  24. Re:Yay on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    You mean you don't see the obvious irony?

  25. Re:I don't see the problem here.... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Right, sure, have you got one?

    A spare one as well?

    I actually have one and sure as hell sweated blood to get it. Plus independently of how much blood you spill, work can only get you so far...

    In 99% of the places getting a Ph.d. will be a painful, difficult and challenging task. Not everyone in grad school gets a Ph.d, I've seen lots of people fail, it's tough and n, not everyone can do it!