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  1. Re:Apple fanbois on Google Unveils First Android Phone · · Score: 1

    If you had bothered to look in the App Store you would have seen it's right there. If you'd rather be smugly upset, go for it. I'm just saying, there's a free unit converter, there for the pickin.

  2. Re:Apple fanbois on Google Unveils First Android Phone · · Score: 1

    You could download Units for free from the App Store, but I guess you wouldn't have anything to complain about then...

  3. Re:Like Android, don't like the G1 on Google Unveils First Android Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    True, bluetooth headphones are perfect when you have to take a #2.

  4. Re:From an Exchange Admin on Is There a Linux Client Solution for Exchange 2007? · · Score: 1

    As does Dovecot

  5. Re:many gadget sites are calling the "dream" on T-Mobile Will Be First To Use Android · · Score: 1

    Yeah, exactly. I had a "Dream" of a perfect phone made by Google. Then I woke up, walked down to the Apple Store, and bought an iPhone.

  6. Re:5x mass = 5x gravity on Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome Superman.

  7. Meh on The Ideal, Non-Proprietary Cloud · · Score: 1

    I'll wait for Cloud 2.0

  8. Re:Not a joke. on Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up! Good one.

  9. Re:A hardware firewall explained on OS X Leopard Firewall Flawed · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Downgrade on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "upgrading"?

  11. Re:wow - Bush AND Thompson in the same story on Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush · · Score: 1
    I think you're onto something here...we could be on the verge of the ultimate /. flamebait. Let's see, can we fit the following into a single story?

    • Jack Thompson
    • Bush's
    • Microsoft, Ballmer, Gates, etc.
    • Sony
    • Apple
    • Google
    • SCO
    • RIAA
    • anti-Linux/OSS fud
    • BSD is dead

    My god, the mind boggles. Surely I've missed at least half.

    Anyone up to the task?
  12. Re:That wiki makes my head hurt on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 1

    Eudora is basically like Thunderbird, and Penelope is an extension that works with either to make it behave like...Eudora? Wait, what?

    Right, and all of them look a hell of a lot like Apple Mail, down to the exact color scheme. Uh...wtf? Is Apple the only company in the frickin world that can/does design interfaces?
  13. Re:Its all for show anyway on Schneier Talks to the Head of TSA · · Score: 1

    Similar story -- flying from Las Vegas to San Francisco, I was busted twice for liquids, one of which was a bottle of water I purchased literally 10 feet from the gate in full view of the attendants. My friend who I was traveling with, however, easily made it through the entire trip carrying a large pocket knife in his pocket. He even put the damn knife through the belt scanner. This situation is a very un-funny joke.

  14. Re:Interesting idea but nonstandard on Matrox's Extio Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was hoping to read about a new standard monitor connection that replaces DVI (and HDMI) with fiber. That already exists.
  15. Re:Has anyone verified bug is exploitable yet? on Month of Apple Fixes · · Score: 2, Informative

    I tried the exploit on my Powerbook G4, and it did crash Quicktime, but no payload here as well.

  16. Re:Brazil on Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wtf?

  17. Re:Enough to look at aperture website from OS X on Apple Dumps Most of Aperture Dev. Team · · Score: 1

    Quicktime as a web-media player could be called a piece of shit. Quicktime as an aging codebase full of legacy cruft could be called a piece of shit. Granted. But nevertheless it fills a space that nothing else does, as far as I know -- a comprehensive, cross-platform system for time-based media manipulation. Every time I attempt to work with video in a professional context without the use of Quicktime (for instance when doing encoding or processing in Windows software that doesn't speak Quicktime) I am reminded that Quicktime is still the best/only game in town for doing real video work.

    Now, I'm probably wrong with that last statement, to some degree. So what's the alternative? And I'm not talking about a theoretical alternative, I'm talking about a system for getting real work done. Seriously, Quicktime is annoying in many ways. If there is something better, please enlighten.

  18. Re:Built-In Godwin on Policing Porn Isn't Part of The Job · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here is an interesting quote from the wikipedia article on the Gestapo:

    The role of the Gestapo was to investigate and combat "all tendencies dangerous to the State." It had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and on Germany.

    The law had been changed in such a way that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. Nazi jurist Dr. Werner Best stated, "As long as the [Gestapo] ... carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally." The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.

  19. Re:The title is misleading... on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 1

    Actually, a five-minute Google examination of "half-female" is surprisingly un-disturbing and rather interesting.

  20. Re:So what does this mean for cheaters? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    harder

  21. Is on SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate · · Score: 4, Funny

    It depends on what your definition of "is" is.

  22. Re:just wondering on iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 · · Score: 1

    Plus, the kernel isn't BSD, its Mach. Darwin is related to BSD, but the kernel isn't at all. I'm not sure that makes a big difference re portability, but there you are. Also, Arnold didn't run as a Republican, he ran as an Independant. People seem to get that wrong all the time too.

  23. Re:DONE on Mac OS X Buffer Overflow Found · · Score: 1

    This works on 10.3, but I couldn't compile the code on a 10.1 machine, presumably because the code is from a newer and incompatible version of Darwin. It would be very useful to have a 10.1 compatible version of this fix, because it is highly unlikely that Apple will release a patch for anything earlier than 10.2.x. Thanks though!