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  1. Re:Viewing the presentation costs $180 on DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web · · Score: 1

    Requires Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office.

    If you are lazy, maybe.
    1 copy of standard linux distribution (free)
    1 copy of wine (free)
    Power point viewer from microsoft (free)

  2. Re:It's also a matter of ownership on Where To Draw the Line When Punishing Email Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Thus a company can monitor what you do at work, but not at home. If they want to install monitoring software on your work computer, that's their right. If they try to install it on your home computer without your permission, that's breaking the law.

    How does drug testing fit into all that then?
    Even the GAP drug tests, and you basically have to be high to want that job.

  3. Re:Hypocricy on The War Against Virtual Beer Pong · · Score: 1

    i dont think it's stilly to think that taking a young person, putting them through fairly stringent training, instilling a strong sense of duty and morals, and surrounding them with a fairly rigid social structure will make them mature a bit faster than the usual suburbanite kids.

    So laws shouldn't apply to them? I my parents were killed while I was in HS, and I raised my kid sister myself. That would give me fast-tracked maturity too. But you don't get a maturity license in this country.

    If laws are not applied equally, then whats the fucking point?

  4. Re:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    Who watches the watchers? The point becomes moot when everyone is a watcher.

    Trying to resist.
    But are you just testing the boundaries of Godwin's law?

  5. Re:Milking their cash ponies on Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead · · Score: 2, Funny
  6. Re:x264 on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    ...not to mention containers can contain malicious code such as launching a web browser to a malware site that tries to trick the user into downloading and running a trojan horse...

    The container doesn't do that, it is the player that would chose to do such a thing faced with a codec request it doesn't recognize.

  7. Re:Parents of Adults? on Video Game Labeling Law Passed In New York · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lock your door.

  8. Re:because the fix would have to be in-hardware on Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference · · Score: 1

    But then you'd have to input your passphrase each time

    I'm sure the is a middle ground. Some desktop managers allow you to "become root" to do administrative things, and this privilege persists until an event resets it. Most commonly this event is simply a time expiration, or locking your screen.

    The same could be done for your keys, and doesn't seem too onerous on the user who knew [s]he was going to have to sometimes enter a password to decrypt the files.

  9. Re:This seems to be a recurring problem. on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 1

    ...(women of mass distraction) and our plans to release hordes of them to achieve world domination...

    I never thought I would be so happy about the prospects of world domination.

  10. Re:Yea, on Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be so much easier if we all just got used to everything being lit by red lights? Or blue for that matter? :)

    The problem is with that idea is that RED light won't illuminate BLUE things all that well (and vice versa).

  11. Re:For me, it's all about the graphics. on AMD Loses $1.2 Billion and Its CEO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would rather drop a cheap nvidia card in a machine than deal with intel graphics 3d acceleration problems.

  12. Re:Shocked on Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    No, I'm referring to people who intentionally drink to excess. Those people are drunks. And no, I don't care if you disagree with me. I already know I have more experience than you in this matter, so your opinion really is quite irrelevant.

    I'ld like to know your experience, because everything I have ever read says the definition of an alcoholic is someone who does something regardless of the consequences. Meaning, it can be alcohol, pot, video games, or racing. If they do this thing despite it's negative effects on their relationships and personal goals, then they are addicted.
    If I grab a 24 pack on friday night with my best friend, and we finish it getting 'drunk'. And I still make it to see my mom on saturday, mow the lawn on sunday, and work on monday...I am not an alcoholic. Why? because my what I am doing in private is not negatively impacting my friends, family, coworkers, or society at large.
    The definition of alcoholism is all about ramifications and impact, not the act itself.

  13. Re:A reverse lookup phone book is much harder to f on Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users · · Score: 1

    Not all databases are indexed by google. Have you gone through any effort to mark your phone number as unlisted? I'ld say post it here...but that would probably be a bad idea; unless you want to find out if a phone number can get /.'ed

    USA? Try: http://www.anywho.com/rl.html

  14. Re:What about recovery? on Notebook Storage SSDs and HDs Compared · · Score: 1

    ...Also, I run many programs which mmap() many large files, and for some reason the VFS often decides to swap out inactive dirty pages rather than drop (clean) data from the page cache.

    Have you tried changing the swapiness?
    (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness)
    or the dirty_ratio?

  15. Companies Viacom ownes on Viacom Vs. YouTube, Beyond Privacy · · Score: 2, Informative

    There seemed to be some misunderstanding so:
    According to http://www.cjr.org/resources/
    Viacom ownes:
    Cable
            MTV
            MTV2
            mtvU
            Nickelodeon
            BET
            Nick at Nite
            TV Land
            NOGGIN
            VH1
            Spike TV
            CMT
            Comedy Central
            Showtime
            The Movie Channel
            Flix
            Sundance Channel
    Film
            Paramount Pictures
            Paramount Home Entertainment
    Other
            Famous Music

  16. Re:Yes, it IS lying on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 1

    Game, Set, and match. I do believe I lost that one. Good show.

  17. Re:Should result in a nice price hike on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 1

    There might have been some misspellings. Sorry it was late, and I was laughing. I promise I'll try harder next time. ;-)

  18. Re:Yes, it IS lying on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 1

    ...Do you intend to open the box while it's in the center of the sun, in order to verify that they're dead?

    If not, they may just live forever.

    Scary.

    I'll take a not-in-my-backyard approach. They don't have to die; I just don't want them here.

  19. Re:Should result in a nice price hike on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 5, Funny

    back alley disk defragmentation...

    heh, that image cracks me up.

    Hooded seller: "You disk is in order, your seektimes should be better"

    Hodded buyer: "Thanks man, your a f* lifesaver"

    Hodded seller: "if anyone body asks, you don't know me. You mention my name to anyone, we never do business again. Not for malware, or a browser upgrade"

  20. Re:Where's my $200 laptop on Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000 · · Score: 2

    I agree with you completely. You only misinterpreted what I said because the AC annoyed me and I didn't give a complete picture of the world economy.

    If the Euro, Yen, Yuan, or Dollar crashes, very bad things happen for the US. And as a net foreign debtor the US would be in a particularly bad position.

    I just don't like people stereotyping ALL Americans as...well anything. If one wants to negatively characterize the recent US government and its actions, I might even join with you. But I was being called stupid and self-important-- for no good reason.

    Had [s]he been modded troll before I read it, I might not have even responded; but as it was, I had no mod points.

  21. Re:Where's my $200 laptop on Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the world does not revolve around the US dollar.

    Maybe not revolve, but if the world is certainly not independent of it. If the US went into a true depression, do you think europe, japan, china, and the middle east would be completely immune?

    If so you better quote-a-source or flash-an-econ-degree because everything I see has every major foreign market tied in multiple ways to the US's.

    Or did you really just want to claim that all Americans are pompous?

  22. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    ...Odds of W, X, Y, Z all being true and suspect being innocent: 1/4000000000000...

    That math assumes independence. Which is almost always a faulty assumption.

  23. Re:How about photovoltaic pavement instead? on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing there would be a "wear 'n tear" problem.

  24. Re:$1,000,000 prize to be collected then if true on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    yeah, cause that movie needed to get darker...
    How many scenes where a dog in a bag is tortured do I really need to see? (don't answer)

  25. Re:No Offence To The Devs or Firefox on Mozilla Pitches Firefox 3.1 Alpha For July Release · · Score: 1

    Remember that version numbers are more of a marketing issue than a coding issue.

    After all, where is Windows NT v1.0 and 2.0?

    Only if you are trying to grab customers through hype.

    Plenty of OS projects use version numbers to actually tell something.
    I've seen the following:
    Major=ABI change
    Minor=functionality change
    Revision=bug fix only