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  1. Re:Stupid on Does Shareware X-Chat for Windows Violate the GPL? · · Score: 1

    What about hydrairc? It's got a really nice layout, especially if you're on multiple IRC networks and multiple channels. Much better than any of the competetion IMO (xchat, mirc, trillian).

  2. Re:Rig the election with procmail! on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm.. What's this vote for John Bush?

  3. Re:MX700 on Microsoft Unveils A Designer Mouse · · Score: 1

    No. The part that bends is seperated by the divider in the middle, so pushing one side doesn't push the other. It's no harder than doing it on a normal mouse. Instead of a hinge (or whatever it is on a normal mouse), it just bends a little.

  4. Re:MX700 on Microsoft Unveils A Designer Mouse · · Score: 1

    They're right where they should be. Just press down :). The silver part isn't attached to the greyish-blackish part at the button-end, so it depresses nicely.

  5. Re:Zero Sales? on Half-Life 2 Going Gold on Monday? [updated] · · Score: 1

    I did point out to them that they are going to have a problem with people selling their copies and still using the cdkey on their accounts since steam doesn't require the cd to be in the drive.

    Which is a good thing. Why should I have to carry around a bundle of cd's just so I can find the right one to stick in the computer when I played a game. Usually one of the first things I do when I buy a game that has this arcane requirement is to download a no-cd patch. Copy protection only hurts the paying customers.

  6. Re:Equivalency? on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    No, it would be more equatable to quarter-life because the term half-life tends to mean the time it takes for a radioactive chemical to degerate to half the size it was previously.

  7. Re:google..... on Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    67% of people are more gulliable than average.

  8. Oh the Irony on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    I don't know why, but I find it ironic that the only paper I ever cheated on in High school or college was the paper on Great Gatsby my Junior year of high school. Damn that book sucked and I didn't understand it at all. I didn't copy/paste the entire paper, but I was very liberal with reading another person's paper and just changed a lot of the words. Even re-reading it again and having a teacher explain it to me a second time didn't help. I guess I'm terrible at reading and getting meanings that are embedded in three layers deep. I ended up doing my paper on the symbolism of colours in different areas meaning different things, or something like that. Good thing I've paid off that bad karma by now (hopefully at least).

  9. Re:Deleted scene on DVD on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoops that's the wrong deleted scene. This is the one I meant:

    http://void.lbstone.com/CDCTRNZQOZ/holo.wmv

    (or google for holo.wmv)

  10. Deleted scene on DVD on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.limpfish.com/starwars/

    Sorry, I couldn't resist posting this. Mod me down if you want.

  11. whoops a better formatted version. on Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released · · Score: 1

    Err that's what I get for not using preview.. Better:

    That's what I said.. "The only addition of permissions in moz is being able to link to other file: locations." By link I don't just mean <a href>. <iframe> can link too, and since they're the same "zone", you can read their innerHtml, which usually contains the contents of the file.

    "Local Zone" in IE means you get access to a lot of ActiveX objects that aren't allowed in web objects, like ADODB.Stream, which can actually *write* files to your hard drive.

  12. Re:The four vulnerabilities... on Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released · · Score: 1

    That's what I said.. "The only addition of permissions in moz is being able to link to other file: locations." By link I don't just mean . can link too, and since they're the same "zone", you can read their innerHtml, which usually contains the contents of the file.

    "Local Zone" in IE means you get access to a lot of ActiveX objects that aren't allowed in web objects, like ADODB.Stream, which can actually *write* files to your hard drive.

  13. Re:The four vulnerabilities... on Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released · · Score: 2

    #250906 null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file)
    # fake extense aren't exploits

    Except this would allow text files (on your hard drive) to be parsed as html files (and get the javascript associated with them). However, it's not earthshattering as it would be in IE because if it were IE, it would get extra "local zone" permissions. The only addition of permissions in moz is being able to link to other file: locations.

    # 251381 new libpng buffer overflow vulnerabilities
    # okay that is an exploit

    However, this exploit also happens in IE, so it's not a Mozilla specific bug. Score one for Mozilla for getting it out faster than M$.

    #253121 lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload docume...
    # that is not an exploit either

    Yes it is. Check out the second test case in the attachments of the bug. Phishing would be very easy if this bug was not quashed as fast as it was.

  14. Re:Typing IS a necessary computer skill on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    In your own touch typing system that you've developed, do the "natural" keyboards that microsoft came out with a few years ago (I think logitech has one too, among others) impede you using them? I've found I can't use them because certain keys in the middle are on the wrong side of the split.. Like I use my right hand to type the letter b, whereas it's on the left side of the keyboard.

  15. Re:Yes, I must have one... on Nintendo DS Gets Sleeker Final Design, Same Name · · Score: 1

    Back in *my* day, my handhelds only had one screen, four colours, three of which were green and the other was a different green. Of course, I'm only 21 so I don't know..

  16. Re:Can't this be throttled? on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    This is what slashdot does when you try to check their feeds too often.

  17. Re:not really on Software Usability As A Technical Problem · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the features of RDP is that you can automagically not have it show the remote desktop image. So I suggest you allow yourself to have something pretty on the background of your monitor when no applications are running.

  18. Re:Poker on ESPN on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1

    Poker is a sport! Get it in athens: http://www.pokerinathens.org/

  19. Re:I disagree... on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How do you play "defense" in any of the track and field games, swimming, gymnastics, figure skating, etc. Certainly these are sports.

  20. Star Trekkers^H^H^Hies^U Star Trek people? on Wearable Customizable Displays · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it me, or does the shirt remind anyone else of a Star Trek Medical Uniform? Certainly the type of person that would want to wear one of these shirts. (For the record my parents were members of a Star Trek club in Sacramento, and I participated some when I was a child)

  21. Re:Medical uses on Wearable Customizable Displays · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not "Help I'm having a heart attack.. wait let me send these electric wires into your heart and send some current to restart it." Seems better to me :)

  22. Re:No, it doesn't. on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Apps remove the difference on Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Create a shortcut on the desktop to the program you want, right click->properties, then click on the shortcut key box, then press win-a, and then click ok. It might work from the quick launch too.

  24. Re:Just emerged it! on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    there's a significant difference when there's dependencies involved.. For instance `emerge mythtv` is much more simple than tar xzvf mythtv.tar.gz; cd mythtv; configure -prefix=...; make; make install, since there's about 20 other different packages it installs first. A moderate plus is that there is significantly less typing the former than the ladder.

  25. Re:I don't get this on AMD Announces New Low-End Processor Line · · Score: 1

    The three times I've gone in for one of these mobo/cpu combo's they've had them in stock (at the Sacramento store at least). They use cheap ECS motherboards, but they still work. Also, the $90 for the retail version comes with a fan -- this mobo/cpu combo doesn't, so add another $20-30 to it.