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  1. Re:What is next... on Missing Matter... Still Missing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somehow, I think the search for WIMPs will be more successful than the search for WMDs.

  2. Re:Cool, but... on Linux Smartphones On The Rise · · Score: 1

    you can install crappy ringtone versions of "Toxic"

    Well, now you can get:
    The Free Software Song
    Don't Copy That Floppy
    the "All Your Base" flash song

    Am I leaving any off?

  3. Re:Using vi will be a bitch... on Linux Smartphones On The Rise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My a, q, and 9 all look the same. I doubt any handwriting-recognition software could figure out the difference without context (vi != English, after all).

  4. Re:Wow! on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    IE is the cause of many more security holes than Mozilla is. To you, playing dangerously is worth a few seconds of startup time. I marvel at your sense of priority.

  5. Re:Fundmental Numbers on Passwords That Should Never Be Used · · Score: 1

    The first passnumber I ever put on my voice mail was pi to 15 digits.

    Needless to say, that was going a bit overboard.

  6. Random thoughts on US Gov't Representatives - Who's Who? · · Score: 1

    The phrase "and for other purposes" sends chills down my spine. Has it ever been used beneficially?

    We have such a legislative mess because our laws are kludgy and unconcise.

    That is all.

  7. vulnerability on Sprint Routers Stolen; NYC Internet Outage Ensues · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Everybody is so concerned with security online. It means nothing if somebody can just walk into your building and take your stuff.

  8. hahaha on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 1

    Bathers get revenge!

  9. Re:Why this on Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Having many people actively (as opposed to automatically) participate against scammers indicates a mass disapproval of them. Each node in a manual DDoS requires one human being deciding that participating is worth his time.

  10. Re:Net no long Wild-West on U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1

    Except that there always will be people who run the network. Ultimately, if you incur the ire of these people, they will take it down (i.e., somebody always has root).

    I should just hope that if matters ever come to that, somebody will be kind enough to do it.

    Though, perhaps that would just allow control to completely transfer to those who do not have our interests in mind...

  11. Re:Not a good effort. on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 2, Informative

    The majority just use the goods and have nothing to do with the original illegal activities.

  12. Perhaps on Does A Good Game Make A Good Movie Idea? · · Score: 1

    They could make really good independent films and do make awful big budget movies.

    In order to portray the story correctly, you actually have to be able to tell a story...

  13. exercises for the wrists on Getting Treatment for Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    (Randomly throwing in the WebMD section on CTS)

    I learned some exercises to open up the carpal tunnel. Now, IANAD and cannot verify their effectiveness, but they Work For Me(TM). Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to explain it in words. The site I learned it from had pictures. Much easier.

  14. Re:Insurance on OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    This is why there are reinsurance companies: to insure the insurance companies in case they actually have to pay up.

  15. Re:Keep in mind what this is about on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let me rephrase.

    We need a distro that, at its simplest, can be used by the average grandmother; and yet it can be used by competent users without being demeaningly simple.

    What you describe already exists. It's called $FAVORITE_DISTRO and is currently being used productively on many office workstations around the world.

    Fool.

  16. Re:configurability on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 1

    Slackware is not your kind of distro, then. If you think that typing mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/usb or (god forbid) adding an entry to /etc/fstab to shorten it to mount /mnt/usb is annoying, don't use it.

    Standardizing the very popular distros is OK and necessary for general desktop accessability; but don't ruin it for those of us who don't need (or, in my case, want) the extra baggage of a Red Hat-like distro.

    (Why do I have the feeling that this will be interpreted as flamebait?)

  17. Re:Keep in mind what this is about on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 1

    We need a dedicated Grandma disro. Plain and simple. Something that "just works" more than anything we have now.

  18. Is Valve... on Team Fortress 2's Fate Unearthed In Missing Games Feature · · Score: -1, Troll

    TRYING to make TF2 into a joke?!

  19. Re:Howard Stern on ClearChannel Complains About XM, Sirius Radio · · Score: 1

    I'm going to argue that they could carry Howard Stern. Compare XM to cable (not the best analogy, I know); surely if HBO can put half the crap that they produce on, so could an analogous station on XM.

    But hey, IANA FCC censor.

  20. Re:rising temps cause iceage theory? on A New Ice Age? · · Score: 1

    The way I heard this is that the melting ice will significantly decrease salt concentration. This is related (can't remember if it's cause or effect) to a slowing down of the entire system of oceanic currents and submarine rivers, essentially fucking everything up.

  21. Re:who's the brain-damaged one here? on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, the fact that the Karma is the only current mp3 player to support fully gapless playback makes it utterly essential for the kind of music I like.

    You can rip a whole CD as one track.
    cdda2wav -d999999 (or any number of seconds enough to cover the whole CD) will work, and some Windows ripping software does it as well (wouldn't know which, though).

  22. or rather the GP is on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 1

    wrong reply level

  23. Oddly, you're actually telling the truth. on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 4, Informative
  24. two words: on Gmail Commentary and Responses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (maybe because no one uses MSN or Yahoo as a search engine these days, but still)

    Yahoo Groups

    You'd be surprised how many people use it

  25. Re:Let's See More of That Idea! on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are too powerful.

    It's as simple as that.

    Microsoft has to go.

    Hopefully it's still not too late...