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  1. Re:I've heard they're fast on Solar Power Becoming More Affordable · · Score: 2, Funny

    you seem to be a little uncertain about your position on this... how fast are you traveling?

  2. Re:leaked on Windows Vista Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Which is why I tag anything to do with Vista as defectivebydesign... same with any DRM related topics

  3. Re:Damnit... on PS3 Lines Already Forming In America · · Score: 1

    highly likely they're Sony employees being paid to queue and pretend to be customers...

  4. Couchsurfing definition? on "Couchsurfing" Travel Takes Off On the Web · · Score: 1

    I was convinced couchsurfing would be doing your "holiday" using webcams... ie. I couchsurfed to Hawaii today...

  5. Re:Pentax K100D Seconded but most importantly.... on 10 Reasons To Buy a DSLR · · Score: 1

    LightZone for Linux free as in beer, though not free as in speech...

  6. Re:Define qualified on IT Worker Shortages Everywhere · · Score: 1

    hmm, I'm damn glad my daughter is doing an IT diploma that requires them to do Java, C++, C#, .NET, PHP, Python and SQL

  7. Re:w00t! on Sun To Choose GPL For Open-Sourcing Java · · Score: 1

    frankly I don't give a toss... I'm too busy tagging everything Vista or DRM or Diebold related as defectivebydesign. Because they are... :)

  8. Re:Don't blame the victim! on Aggressive Botnet Activities Behind Spam Increase · · Score: 1
    Take the EGLY.OB example (heh, it's up 6% right now). It is a low priced (under a dollar) stock, so lots of shares are cheap. It has sufficient volume (100K shares/day) to be useful. If it is too thinly traded you can't accumulate shares on the cheap. If the volume is too high, the market will keep the dumpers shares low.

    so when are we gonna see SCOX in these spam schemes???

  9. I gave up trying to get through Guitar Hero on Guitar Hero Is Big Hit With Bands · · Score: 1

    I went out and got a real guitar instead... it's far, far easier...

  10. Re:Bad move by Novell on Microsoft/Novell Deal Could Create Two-Tier Linux Market · · Score: 3, Funny
    Not sure what Novell are thinking of here. Surprised IBM hasn't had something to say...

    give them time, they're busy reviving a fresh batch of lawyers from cold storage, then they've got to work out precisely who to let them loose on, Novell and/or Microsoft

  11. Come on, what about Linux on Google's Growing Love For the Mac · · Score: 1

    I would like to see two things from Google... firstly, some gee whizz apps appearing first for Linux, and secondly, them to come out with a Google branded Linux with full indemnity against any patent(s) that Microsoft may allege to be infringed by Linux...

  12. Re:Pointing out the obvious on Hacking the Free "La Fonera" Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    and what's to stop you from faking a network connection to Fon using another box and providing the correct string back? There's absolutely nothing to stop me from creating my own private sub internet with a DNS server and a webserver pretending to be the Fon service. A little listening to the real packets to and from the real Fon box and then set my dummy box up to provide the packets required.

    secondly, I do believe the GPL trumps the "contractual" agreement as Fon would be found to be not in compliance by preventing me from doing whatever the heck I want to do with it.

  13. And to quote direct from Steve Balmer's mouth... on Is the Microsoft/Novell Deal a Litigation Bomb? · · Score: 3, Informative
    The distributors of other versions of Linux cannot assure their customers that Microsoft won't sue for patent infringement. "If a customer says, 'Look, do we have liability for the use of your patented work?' Essentially, If you're using non-SUSE Linux, then I'd say the answer is yes," Ballmer said.

    "I suspect that [customers] will take that issue up with their distributor," Ballmer said. Or if customers are considering doing a direct download of a non-SUSE Linux version, "they'll think twice about that," he said.
    the link to the article is here

    I'll let you draw your own conclusions... but he is definitely banging the old "Linux infringes our patents" FUD drum...

  14. Re:Heatsink is supposed to be that hot... on Cooking With the XBox 360 · · Score: 1

    and because of the way that heatsinks work, the CPU side is even hotter...

  15. Re:what about RAW wounds? on Krita 1.6 — State of the Art · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Drop the FUD: read the ACTUAL Miami Herald Arti on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    how many others just blindly voted and didn't check the review screen??? probably just enough for this "manipulation" to tip the balance.

  17. and if you couldn't serve the process??? on How To Sue the Auto Dialers · · Score: 1

    then what... the article above presupposes that your process was successfully served...

  18. Re:AI to Stop the Spam on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 1
    still helps to have a white list...

    In Kmail, I run all incoming mail against a set of rules and the final rule set is the one that passes the stuff that isn't on the "whitelist" of rules or "immediate shitcan list" of rules through bogofilter. Only after piping through bogofilter do the final rules apply which dumps classified spam into the spamtrap and unclassified stuff into the manual handling folder.

    saves a lot of wasted processing through bogofilter for stuff that's known good.

  19. Re:AI to Stop the Spam on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 1
    I only train it on uncertain mails. [...] So far, my false positives have only been from my boss sending me one-liners with just urls in them.

    You really need to "train" your boss... :)

  20. effectively a shakedown for protection money on Speculation on Google / YouTube "Hardball" · · Score: 1

    dat's a nice website (shop) you've got der... you wouldn't want anything to happen to it now would you... I mean, copyright suits (fires) are happening all over da place... who knows where it'll happen next...

  21. Re:Crap on Why Gaming Sucks On Linux · · Score: 1
    I run Harpoon Classic using wine and Harpoon 2 using dosbox... both run fine. I'm slightly biased, I was playing Harpoon right from day one as a wargame with miniatures. As far as I'm concerned, those games are classics. The only way they can be improved is to have online opponents... but that causes hassles with accelerated time... there's no way I'd really want to fight a trans-atlantic convoy battle in 1 to 1 time for the entire crossing...

    Mind you, an AI that learns and can be updated from the web would be great. If there's one thing I hate it's AI that effectively cheats by being told where you are and knows what your objectives are and the routes you've set.

  22. corrected the link for you on Why Gaming Sucks On Linux · · Score: 1

    LGP

  23. Re:The evaders will win on MySpace to Use Audio Fingerprinting · · Score: 1
    They'd have to add a whitelisting mechanism to allow legitimate music through

    How's it gonna cope with a recording of a symphony done in 1920 and a recording of the same symphony done in 1990??? the notes are the same. What about me doing my own performance of a blues number written way back in 1920 and (say) a recording of Stevie Ray Vaughan doing the same blues number??? (apart from the fact I couldn't possibly hope to fill SRV's shoes though)

    the problem is you have the copyright on the recording and the copyright on the composition...

  24. Re:Appropriate For Apple's Current Quality Level on New Mac-o-Lantern · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Ever since IBM decided to stop making PPC chips for Apple for Jobs to turn to Intel

    Woah... nice revisionism there... IBM didn't decide to stop making PPC chips for Apple... Apple pulled the plug on IBM because IBM wasn't going on a route that Apple wanted. They cooked up a lot of FUD about PPC chips not being powerfull enough or being too hot for them to justify their switch to Intel. Funny how previously with the macheads it was all sweetness and light with PPC being the bees knees and Intel chips were for pussies.

  25. Re:New Hardware Found..... on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1
    Last reboot was to clean the fans and such...

    didn't even do that, just got a compressed air line and blew all the fluff out of the heatsink in one good blast (had a vacuum cleaner running alongside to catch the dust as if came free)

    advoc1@broken-drum:~$ uptime
    22:29:46 up 52 days, 3:11, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.32, 0.37

    I have had the magic 497 days from my under desk fileserver... bloody thing rolled over back to zero... I've since upgraded it to Sarge.