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  1. Re:regulation? on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    But you can put the executives in charge of it in jail, can't you?

    Oh, wait, companies are protected from that.

    I'd LOVE to see companies be put in jail.

    Or, give companies the death penalty for breaking into government systems. Force them to dissolve.

  2. Re: It uses ACPI on Linux beats Windows to Intel iMac · · Score: 1

    And Linux has facilities to control SpeedStep.

    However, the laptop cooling system design that does not let a CPU running at 100% load, 100% clockspeed, 100% voltage run for long is a BAD cooling design.

    A laptop cooling system should be able to keep a CPU running at the full clockspeed with 100% CPU load within it's safe temperature range, and preferably keep the bottom of the laptop cool.

  3. Re:It is really comes as surprise? on RIAA: Ripping CDs to iPod not 'Fair Use' · · Score: 1

    I want to see someone comply with this, and have to file for bankruptcy, relicensing all of their music.

    I want to see them say that because of the RIAA's changing the terms after the sale, they are now bankrupt.

    Actually, I want to see someone starve to death because of the RIAA's greed. Then the RIAA can be called a murderer.

  4. Re:Pretty easy on the eyes. on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    Just to make things clear, I am using 8.51, not 9.0TP1 or TP2 (although I've got TP1 on this lappy). I guess that could be making the difference.

  5. Re:Pretty easy on the eyes. on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    I'm the one that discovered that GMail was sniffing and sending some corrupt pages to Opera, FWIW.

    My ua.ini is set to mask as IE, without any sign that it's Opera, IIRC. (Yes, you can do that in ua.ini.)

    It should work, no?

  6. Re:Pretty easy on the eyes. on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 2, Informative

    GTalk in GMail doesn't work in Opera Desktop, FWIW.

    I've tried.

    (It works in IE, I haven't tried in Firefox.)

  7. Re:Aquarius! It's all I could afford on my allowan on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1

    I owned one for about a month, but I had very little software, and the cartridge port wasn't working very well.

  8. Re:Commodore 64, baby! on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1

    A green flat panel? That's a new one - I thought the LCD was a wide-aspect non-square-pixel 6" model.

    Anyway, I had a 9" green CRT on mine.

  9. Re:Bloomberg thus joins the ranks on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 1

    Draw single cards in a Draw Three game
    Everytime you flip the top stack of cards, hold down CTRL-ALT-SHIFT and instead of flipping three card you only flip one card. This way you can draw single cards but still have the higher score of a "Draw Three" game.

    Force Victory
    Press Alt+Shift+2

    Infinite Points
    In the Windows XP version of solitaire, draw from the deck at least twice. Hold control and drag a card down from the deck. Click the "A" key and then let go of the left mouse key. You will get 10 points for this. Continue doing this for infinite points!

    Infinite points
    To do this trick, finish a game of solitaire with the time bonus option on. The cards will start bouncing. Click on the solitaire screen and the play again box will pop up. Select no, so the solitaire screen is just blank green. Use the instant win cheat (Alt+Shift+2) and you will recieve the time bonus you got last game will be added to your last game's score. For example, if your time bonus was 5000, and your final score was 6000, after using this glitch, you will have a score of 11000. This glitch can be used as many times as you want.

    Move a card to an illegal position
    Use the left mouse button and drag a card onto any legal position, just as you normally would, but do not let go of the left mouse button. While holding the card over the position, hit the Escape key once, then release the left mouse button. Now left click once on any face-up card at all and it will teleport to that position. You may also use the space bar and directional arrows to do this, however the final click to teleport the card must still be done with the left mouse button.

  10. Re:No, Google is only dictating how you Do No Evil on Google Delists BMW-Germany · · Score: 1

    They tried that, and the SEOs were just finding new strategies to get around it.

    This way, they can just directly (in effect) shut down SEOs by delisting them.

  11. Re:No, Google is only dictating how you Do No Evil on Google Delists BMW-Germany · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, CSS can reformat for the handheld media, no separate page needed.

  12. Re:Wicked Idea on Tagging Devices To Aid In Car Chases · · Score: 1

    Umm... actually, my car DOES have a vacuum pump. Go look up "volkswagen diesel vacuum pump" on Google ;)

    Also, plenty of turbocharged gassers have vacuum pumps as well. (FWIW, my car's naturally aspirated, but still has a vac pump. Diesels kinda need them.)

  13. Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats on Wine vs Windows Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    joke

          noun 1 a statement made or short story told in order to cause amusement. 2 a trick played for fun. 3 informal a ridiculously inadequate or inappropriate thing.

  14. Re:biodiesel is unquestionably energy-positive on Is Ethanol the Answer to the Energy Dilemma? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I deal with my car being slow :P

    52 horsepower. It's almost at the fastest it can go at 70MPH. (SUPPOSEDLY, it's been to 85MPH. I don't believe it, unless it was downhill with a tailwind.) At least that's what traffic does around here.

  15. Re:biodiesel is unquestionably energy-positive on Is Ethanol the Answer to the Energy Dilemma? · · Score: 1

    You can vary the RPM on a naturally aspirated diesel no problem.

    If you've got a TDI, disconnect the N75 valve to simulate a naturally aspirated diesel (although it'll be even slower).

    The NA diesel is less efficient, because there's less air being put in (due to there not being a turbo), so the fuel isn't as completely burned. Also, it's less powerful, because of the same reason.

  16. Re:biodiesel is unquestionably energy-positive on Is Ethanol the Answer to the Energy Dilemma? · · Score: 1

    And they're more reliable (don't go there - note that VW's problems are NOT with TDI engine reliability. It's with electrical gremlins and early 1.8T turbogasser engine reliability.)

    Myself, I just bought a 1985 Jetta Diesel. Not even a turbodiesel. And even though we THINK it's got 275,000 miles (we can't know for sure - VW's problems back then were with making reliable odometers :P), it's still running really strong.

    FWIW, I bought this car specifically to use it with biodiesel.

  17. Re:Opera Mini vs. Openwave on Mobiletracker on Opera Mini Mobile Browser Officially Released · · Score: 1

    OK, try browsing the REAL mobile web with Openwave, then use Opera Mini.

    Openwave doesn't support much of the formatting at all. It doesn't support large pages at all. It barfs on complex pages.

    Also, note that Opera fixed the centering thing in this release of Opera Mini ;)

  18. Re:Boycott / ban on Officer's Group Calls for Ban On 25 To Life · · Score: 1

    Which tells me that that was done by an editor that was sensationalizing it.

  19. Re:But.. on Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007 · · Score: 1

    Win95 had one, but it was also sold as Windows 95 OSR1, version 4.00.950 A. Kinda like how MS markets the copies of XP that have SP2 slipstreamed into them as the SP2 version.

    NT 3.51 had five.

    It could be argued that NT 4 had a service pack 7 - but the features in it were either split into individual downloads, or put into SP6a, which was also THE bugfix for SP6's major deal-breaking bugs.

  20. Re:XP Didn't ditch the whole 9x base on Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007 · · Score: 1

    You REALLY weren't paying attention.

    I've installed every version of Windows NT, except for 3.50. I wasn't paying much attention to 3.10, because there were other problems, but I did install it.

    On every version from 4.0 on up, I had the option to format as NTFS or FAT. 2000 and XP give the option to format as FAT or FAT32 on partitions that can handle both formats.

    On 3.51, IIRC, I had the choice, but if I picked NTFS, it would format it as FAT, and then convert it to NTFS on the first boot. Ditto for 3.10, IIRC.

  21. Re:If there were no logs of searches... on U.S. Government Wants Google Search Records · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IIRC, Google's PageRank also takes into account how many users click a link in search results, and it refines them based on that.

    AFAICT, they've GOT a Bayesian filter running on search results for logged in users. If I search for an "interesting" search term, it'll give me sites that are somewhat more relevant to what I click. Either that, or the Bayesian will go overboard, and give me stuff that I wrote :P

  22. Re:Biodiesel on Toyota Prius Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Hmm...

    The Audi A4, BTW, is essentially a more upscale VW Passat. At this time, we don't have any Passat TDIs available, but the ones that we had in 2004 and 2005 had 134 horsepower 2.0L TDIs.

    As for older diesels being slow, that's mainly because most people got naturally aspirated diesels, and not the faster turbodiesels. (Of course, direct injection on modern diesels DID help.) My car is actually a NA diesel, though...

    As for the sulfur content, by June, 80% of diesel produced is supposed to have 15 ppm or less sulfur, and that 15 ppm diesel has to get to pumps by October, IIRC.

  23. Re:Easy Solution. on Toyota Prius Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I'll say that the hybrid owners at least deserve SOME praise for TRYING to save oil, as opposed to the H2 drivers or something like that.

    And this coming from a diesel driver that thinks that the hybrid drivers are very misguided...

  24. Re:That's just it though... on Toyota Prius Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Well, what about biodiesel?

    The main reason I'm interested in diesel is NOT the emissions. BTW, a gasoline powered car DOES degrade in emissions much more noticeably than a diesel car. And, what about the resources used in manufacturing the car? There's a lot less in manufacturing diesels if people don't flip them every few years. And, diesel takes less energy to refine.

    Anyway... the main reason I'm interested in diesel is because biodiesel's a very viable biofuel. Using CURRENT practices, biodiesel yields 3.2 units of energy for every unit of petroleum energy put in to obtaining it. That can be reduced to almost ZERO units of petroleum energy, using other fertilizers (or algae), and using biodiesel in the tractors used to harvest the crops.

    This is opposed to ethanol, which, using current practices, yields a mere 1.1 units of energy for every unit of petroleum energy put in. That can be improved, but you're still using a lot of energy to produce it, and there gets to be a point where you need lots of land to do this. Biodiesel, therefore, is a lot better idea.

    Oh, and did I mention that biodiesel has no sulfur?

  25. Re:That's just it though... on Toyota Prius Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Nitrogen DIoxide is worse - it helps create ozone, and can cause acid rain. Nitrogen MONoxide can actually neutralize ozone.

    However, note that NO is much more common in diesel exhaust than NO2. Also, by far, the primary contributor to acid rain is SULFUR dioxide, not nitrogen dioxide.