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  1. reinstall? on Lenovo Service Disables Laptops With a Text Message · · Score: 1

    and what happens if they just reinstall the OS?

  2. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    i love it since my normal commute is almost entirely highway speeds i get about about 580-600 miles a tank, i only have to fill it up about every two weeks.

  3. Re:Lord have mercy! on Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible · · Score: 1

    i think all that was Sulu's doing....

  4. Re:Lord have mercy! on Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible · · Score: 1

    except that nomad had nothing to do with the whales.

  5. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    its a rebuilt head with perfect maximum (according to the spec) compression, with a manual transmission, no carbon in the cylinder and with better tires, i also redid a small bit of the intake to let more air in.

  6. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my 15 year old volvo 240 gets 40mpg, built like a tank (very safe still) and meets current emissions without being even near the limits.

  7. Re:Well on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    and for a system using alsa, without oss emulation ls -lRa /usr | aplay

  8. Re:I find volume is like a drug tolerance on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    until someone starts talking about it and makes you stop to think about it and you bring it right back into the foreground.

  9. Re:Apple fanbois on Google Unveils First Android Phone · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually there is a "Windows Mobile", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile

  10. Re:Forgive my ignorance on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 1

    why would you need the extra byte for context? without it you could represent any Mersenne prime up to one with 4294967295 digits with ease.

  11. Re:Squid on Providing a Whitelisted Wireless Hotspot? · · Score: 2, Informative

    thats not exactly true, you can have many per ip address for both http and https, BUT along with a squid proxy, you could also filter dns queries to other domains since https doesn't cover that.

  12. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    and currently in perl 5 my %params=(key=> value, key2 => value2); somefunction(%params); or if you want to avoid the temporary variable somefunction(key => value, key2 => value2); though the function has to know to be expecting this.

  13. Re:Moore's Law on Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. (yes i hate that phrase too) If the computer was given more time it wouldn't matter, BUT a professional Go game is almost always played with a clock, sort of like chess.

  14. Re:Impossible? That's laying it on a bit thick. on Diablo III Designer Defends New Look and Feel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    mostly what he refers to as impossible are some of the more elaborate shadows (e.g. dynamic ones from the enemies off of the spells being cast) and things like that.

  15. Re:Or you could just oh I don't know on Toyota Announces the Winglet, Wannabe Segway Killer · · Score: 1

    those are typically known as mopeds, capable of being driven by a gas motor, (there are some electrics out there), and by pedals. they typically get exceptional milage (70-90mpg)

  16. Re:Poor analysis on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 1

    i'd venture then that earth is finally starting to do its job, what with global warming and all. i mean how many ice ages did it have? how do you keep your drink warm during one of those?

  17. Re:Honestly... on RIAA Gets Nervous, Brings In Big Gun · · Score: 1

    http://perl.plover.com/obfuscated/bestever.pl it doesn't have three meanings specifically, but its a program that can run as a perl script, OR a postscript document, and produces different output as each.

  18. Re:Well? on To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    but thats valid perl still. the last statement in a block does not need the ;

  19. Re:Today Usenet on Usenet Blocking Intensifies · · Score: 1

    its not that i went looking for it, theres board for sharing "links" (not sure what to call them) on, and when you go look at that its pretty much full of either kiddy porn or other sick things i wouldn't be interested in (people who get off on goatse style stuff)

  20. Re:Today Usenet on Usenet Blocking Intensifies · · Score: 1

    there's something similar albiet slow and not as good on Freenet called frost, though last time i looked at it, it was used for what Freenet is stereotypically used for...

  21. Re:Spam Spam Spam Humbug. on Dungeons and Desktops · · Score: 1

    This is no troll, you mods need to play more Ultima 6, and listen to Iolo a little more.

  22. Re:Screen works welll on Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? · · Score: 1

    screen -xr

  23. Re:Free speech. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slander and defamation are crimes, even when they're true (or rather, especially when they're true), so speech is never free. actually in the US (and i THINK many other countries) the truth is an absolute defense against defamation and slander, because both require that what was said be false in order to be either, the truth is not slander or defamation in the US (despite what many may want you to think)
  24. Remote images? on User Not Found, Email Drops Silently · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about decent clients that won't automatically load remote images and don't support javascript?

  25. Re:I'll second that on Long-Range Wireless Keyboard/Mouse? · · Score: 2, Informative

    i've got one of their mice, through several walls i'd say i easily get at least 35-40 feet, i tried it once with line of site and got at least 80, though i don't know how well apparant battery life is at those distances (e.g. how long before the rf power drops to where it can't talk)