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  1. Re:Don't use bootcamp, but I use Fusion on Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? · · Score: 1

    I'd probably call the guy who forgot to bring the DC to AC converter.

  2. Re:ASCII Delimited Security Issues on XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected · · Score: 1
    It says plenty which is why I added the second half of what I said.

    It is still unlikely that you will find it but the most important thing after something like this is found is to add it to your unit tests and look for similar mistakes elsewhere.

    I've found that unit testing will catch obvious things and things that you have seen before. Now that this has been found if they unit test for it, not just in the location where it happened but anywhere it makes sense, they can be more sure that it does not happen again.

  3. Re:ASCII Delimited Security Issues on XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected · · Score: 1

    A properly written unit test might have a chance of finding it if you take the approach of writing your unit tests by looking at how the function can fail. It is still unlikely that you will find it but the most important thing after something like this is found is to add it to your unit tests and look for similar mistakes elsewhere.

  4. Re:How about a garbage collector appreciation day? on 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Yes, Unicorn Flatulence.... Or more typically another power source so that your control systems are not dependent on the thing that you are controlling.

  5. Re:How about a garbage collector appreciation day? on 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    And without a sys-admin the Power-plant engineers, electricians and A/C maintenance folks sit around waiting for the systems to come back online before they start work again. We have reached the time where there are very few major things that happen without a computer controlling it.

    I am not a sys-admin I work on software that is used in power plants and a lot of other areas.

  6. Re:A browser ballot is stupid on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 1

    step 10: wonder why they mysteriously always finish at +4

    I was wondering that and have decided that it is likely because the default viewing mode adds a +1 to anyone with good karma so your +4 post looks like a +5.

  7. Re:Between a rock and a hard place? on Bars' Scanning of ID Violates BC Privacy Laws · · Score: 3, Insightful
  8. Re:wtf is a DD-WRT? on Critical Flaw Discovered In DD-WRT · · Score: 4, Informative

    DD-WRT is custom firmware that supports more than 200 different devices. This page will tell you if your device is supported. Someone who wants to use DD-WRT needs to get one of those devices then install this firmware. To answer your question no, someone can not find a list of actual routers that are affect by this. It is likely though that only geeks have it installed and that means that it is more likely that they will patch it.

  9. Re:Yeeeaaaaahh... on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 1

    The only time I've heard of the glitch that favoured the consumer is when they are on a man hunt to find the family that ran away with the $100 million that suddenly popped up in their bank account.

  10. Twitter on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This Twitter search reflects the jubilation breaking out all over the Net

    All that twitter search shows is that people who use twitter are commenting on it. It does not show jubilation breaking out all over the Net.

  11. Re:Return on investment on Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later · · Score: 1
    And there is a difference between
    • an investment of $38000 which pays $3000 per annum for 12 years after which it is worth $38000
    • an investment of $38000 which pays $3000 per annum for 12 years after which it is worth $0
    • an investment of $38000 which pays $3000 per annum for much longer than 12 but after the first 12 years starts making you money

    just saying that the guy will not have something worth $0 after the 12 years he'll have something that is worth $3000 a year after 12 years

  12. Mr. Sparkle on Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague · · Score: 1

    Now the Czech Republic only has 11 more years of the Simpsons to catch up on.

  13. Re:Use the line to pull other lines into your outl on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    The place I just bought had Cat5 run for the phone jacks to every single room in the house. I have since converted most of the ends to ethernet and use them for my desktops and xbox, easiest home network setup I have ever done, replace some ends and setup my wireless router where the old phone connections terminated.

  14. IP TV on Microsoft Gaming Patents — Where They're Going · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wasn't Microsoft working on this a while ago. There were going to add IP-TV functionality with a DVR to the 360. I was really looking forward to it but as far as I remember it was never actually released.

  15. Re:what is needed for this to work...??? on Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack · · Score: 1

    Sure it is a lot of work, but you only need to have it work once on a targeted individual for it to be very profitable. From stories I've seen here and elsewhere these criminals have large networks so it probably isn't that hard for them to pay someone to target a specific person and steal their SIM card.

  16. Re:Did he still steal stuff? on NY Court Says Police Can't Track Suspect With GPS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I meant and said poorly, is that there must have been some sort of stolen goods that the guy had in his possession. That alone should be good enough for the guy to be put in jail. The fact that police followed improper procedures needs to be addressed in a very harsh manner. However, I still think that someone should not be able to get away with a crime on a technicality.

  17. Did he still steal stuff? on NY Court Says Police Can't Track Suspect With GPS · · Score: 0

    From the skimming I did of the summary it looks like the sentence was over turned because they didn't get a warrant for using GPS to track the guy. Should someone who committed a crime be let go because some did not follow procedures NO, should there be discipline for not using proper procedures absolutely. Improper procedures should not cause a case to be overturned unless of course it could be shown that the person was guilty only because of the improper procedures.

  18. RIAA needs to learn something on Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project · · Score: 1

    However it can be extremely difficult to determine the true origin because it is easy to mask identities online.

    If the government acted like the RIAA some poor farmer in China with a 10 GB hard drive would already be in jail because it was clearly them who broke in to the network as the intruding IP address belonged to them.

    Sometimes it is nice to see a bit of common sense involved.

  19. Re:Yeah this reader's _____ on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 1

    If you do not like the level of service you get from them, cancel your paper subscription and start getting all of your news from google news. Make sure that when you cancel you tell them that you are canceling your subscription because you do not get a decent enough level of service and as such you are going to get your news from google news instead.

  20. Re:Shenanigans on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    The proposal could always be modified to handle that sort of thing better. Have some sort of reasonable time limit for non-emergency bills and a shorter reasonable time limit for the emergency bills. The main thing that is annoying about the whole situation is that it seems to me the people we choose to run our country can do whatever they want, including not running the country, and we need to find some sort of way to have them actually do what they are elected and paid to do.

  21. Re:Shenanigans on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which leads to the question "Why does a vote have to be an immediate thing at all?" I think that votes should remain open until everyone has voted. This would make it so that sneaky politicians who want to vote yes but can't because their constituents would not vote them back into the office can't get away with that crap anymore.

  22. Re:is this so hard? on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    Then have a nap... Then start ze revolution

  23. Re:This is new how? on Brave New World of Open-Source Game Design · · Score: 1

    Don't do that, now you have me craving McSushi.

  24. Re:Job?? He's in Prison! on Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly he doesn't even have access to a typewriter which is why all of his law suits are handwritten.

  25. Re:Thanks from the reminder on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    So they would have finally found the song that lets people in to imagination land then? I'm not sure if that would be better then the way things are now.