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  1. Re:Here you go on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 1

    Bah, they won't hire someone to immediately look at it. They'll swap it out and throw it in the pile and ship it to some service center.

  2. Re:Here you go on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes 'openwrt' which mocks new users and slams any questions with RTFM yet there is no manual and other obnoxious crap. Also their 'product' is as immature as they are with many user reports of bricked routers which the 'developers' h00t and h0ller and mock the user about.

  3. Re:Just build nuclear power plants already... on Arizona Trialing System That Lets Utility System Control Home A/Cs · · Score: 1

    The local electric company Duke Energy already does that in Indiana. If you agree to allow them to install the cut off they can stop your AC for a time. They PAY THE CONSUMER to do this a monthly fee even if they never turn off your AC. I think it's a few hundred dollars a year.

  4. Re:I'd pay it on Rumors of Hulu's Subscription Plans · · Score: 1

    They're blocking the X86_64 version of flash now. Screw them I'll pay a torrent site before I'll give them squat.

  5. Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    He's a toady who lost his master. I would call Doom3 high art but I'd also call a well built PC high art. I'd call Ebert a toad and should be fed wine and crumpets.

  6. Assholes mostly Re:older developers... on Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers · · Score: 1

    Someone reports a bug and goes to great lengths to set their system up to do debugging, run GDB, provide hardware specs and outputs etc. This is a show stopper for the user and several commenters yet the devs will ignore it or put 'won't fix' on it and close the bug with little or no explaination. Yea that's you newsfox.

    That's mild in comparison to some of the developers egoism. Gaim worked very well until the developers decided to defeature it. There was a fork for a time and that did force the developers to add the features back in just long enough to strangle the fork. Then they renamed it pigden and started defeaturing it again.

    In forums too numerous to mention there are old developers convincing new coders NOT to touch linux or free software development as it's becoming a sewer.

  7. Re:really? on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just paid 20 bux for World of Goo. They gave away the experimental version and have a demo version. It runs on about anything as it's Linux/Mac friendly. There is a native version for Linux, Mac and Windows. The Windows version even runs under wine fairly well.

  8. Doperville on Testing the Safety of Tasers On Meth-Addled Sheep · · Score: 1

    Why don't they test .45 ACP on meth'd sheep? It should be a fair and equal test. I'd like to know exact lethality figures and while they are at it lets settle the damned 9mm vs .45acp argument already and test 9mm.

  9. Re:The best password is: on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    And every time you get hollered at you increment the 2. Then they put anal password on and then the boss gets pissed and fires the IT piss monkey and everyone posts their forced password change on their monitor.

  10. Re:Sounds like a KDE-type cleanup on GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Over stupidify" defines guhnome but it's not as bad as KayDeeE

  11. Re:My gut is fine on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Let's Look At The Positives on Seeking Competitive Advantage, For Malware · · Score: 1

    Gun to the head of the relatives can work. It's a small enough commercial bank that they know our people and we know theirs. We do use technology but not for that last bit.

  13. Re:Let's Look At The Positives on Seeking Competitive Advantage, For Malware · · Score: 1

    No transaction can occur in at our bank without our signature. That means someone has to get off their dead ass and go to the bank and authorize it with proper credentials. It sucks. Someone has a job just to do this. All of the crap is generated on a computer but until that person toddles over there and signs off on it. Nothing happens.

  14. Re:Junk Mail on Finland To Try Scanning Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    In the US "junk mail" PAYS FOR THE POST OFFICE DAMMIT. It pays. It pays. It damn well fucking pays. It is one of the few reasons rural post offices can remain open.

    Couple that with the BTU's that marketers send and it is a double economic whammy!

    In one months time I get enough 'junk mail' that is safely burnable to lower my heating bill about $30. Eh carbon schmarben.

    Some of it is perfect for the masking needed for electrolytic etching of brass and the masking needed for other metals.

    What is not safely burnable can be in some way recycled or has other uses. There's a process that can turn newsprint to micarta like laminate which is durable and other than the paper is non-toxic. It's final toxicity is dependent on the paper.

    I know it's a hideous thought but you can get more junk mail.

  15. Re:April Fools! on Gnome 2.30 Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Thank you. Everything they go on and on about is stuff I rip out or chmod -x the executable or copy a bash script over the executable to get what I want.

  16. Re:There. Fixed that for you. on Lawmakers Ask For FTC Investigation of Google Buzz · · Score: 1

    If they bitch slap Google for this I'm for it. They did this in a highly obnoxious and offensive way. It took wading through their crap to turn it off when they gave up with the howling and just forced all my accounts to use it. I have no idea who got what even though I've turned that crap off.

    If they get raped with an annual privacy violation fee I expect a higher tax rebate and I'll cackle all the way to the bank.

  17. Re:A better test file. on New Method Could Hide Malware In PDFs, No Further Exploits Needed · · Score: 1

    Does not work with xpdf though some sort of window does pop up.

  18. Re:Rule by proclaimation? on Will ACTA Be Found Unconstitutional? · · Score: 1

    You should have posted that with with your current nym of convenience as it's something I've never quite been able to bring people to understand. I grant that "the people" are cowardly theives who prefer that their bosses stick guns in people faces rather than get their hands dirty but still it needs to be said.

     

  19. Re:Field notebooks on Rugged Laptop/Tablet Suggestions, 2010 Version? · · Score: 1

    MIL-STD-810F http://www.linux-laptop.net/rugged-laptop.html and a URL to a Linux friendly selection.

    I thought about making a 'transportable' one that has the guts in a dust proof box with a battery pack and a heat exchanger and no openings. It would use an industrial wireless mouse and keyboard and have a sealed bulkhead USB connector(s). A CD is a problem even if it's external. I doubt I'll get the funds soon.

  20. Re:Rule by proclaimation? on Will ACTA Be Found Unconstitutional? · · Score: 1

    You have to have a large and irritating change in a very short period of time coupled with a disconnection from the central authority. That disconnection has to be both ways and can be in travel time or in communication or preferably both.

    I do not think a revolution can happen in a 1st world country with the level of interconnections and communication we have unless that 1st world country devolves into a 3rd or 4th world country. It's possible that war, disease, natural disaster or other calamity could damage it enough for that to happen.

    A coup can happe if carefully orchestrated but not a popular revolution though I'm mostly basing that on Revolt in 2100 and some scholarly thought experiments that were the offspring of it.

  21. Rule by proclaimation? on Will ACTA Be Found Unconstitutional? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do we need a new revolution?

  22. Brown is down? on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: 0, Troll

    So brown is down and white is right?

    I am so glad I dumped them assholes when I had the chance.

  23. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    You can't get someone making something to do it your way without the standard requisites such as pay, food, sex, clothing, booze, snuggles, hugs, asking them to do it, influencing them to see doing it in such a positive light they do it, psychological or physical abuse, etc.

    Currently the more popular way is to get government to go beat them up for you.

  24. Re:Basic-alley on What Is Holding Back the Paperless Office? · · Score: 1

    Ignorant stupid people who can't function with any sort of technology.

    Ignorant stupid technology you can't trust will not lose that one critical bit of information that will lose you your job.

  25. I have to save the spam? on 1st Trial Under California Spam Law Slams Spammer · · Score: 1

    For 1k per I can sure as hell afford a petabyte array.