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  1. Re:simple fix on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 1

    Use http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/ To make your referrer Google and scroll to the end of the page to see the answers they normally conceal from the causal browser.

  2. Re:just wait till the fanboys find out on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems · · Score: 1

    Not to mention it totally fails at resurrection. Back from the dead turtleneck sales projections will take a nosedive.
    Padme will also remain dead. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

  3. Re:When do we get compression? on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Use them as cache under ZFS. let the software make intelligent decisions on what needs to go on the disk instead of making wild-assed-guesses as to what needs to be there. http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/04/15/explanation-of-arc-and-l2arc/

  4. Not enough on Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android · · Score: 1

    Sorry Siri is not good enough of a reason to give up my freedom of choice on what I can run on the hardware I purchase. Thanks for the offer, but you can keep your choking black turtleneck.
    P.S. You can keep your offer to stael 30% of the revenue I might generate for development of anything tossed into that rectal ring.

  5. New ECMA compatabiliy on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 1

    #666 Fall prey to exploit like docx

  6. Re:Two servers using ZFS on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    Throw a couple of SSDs in there for caching.

    Expounding upon that for the ZFS neophytes.
    L2ARC sits in-between, extending the main memory cache using fast storage devices - such as flash memory based SSDs
    http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/04/15/explanation-of-arc-and-l2arc/

  7. truth in labeling on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    They must be required to have electronic signage providing up to date reporting of the following Rolling totals:
    Cost to the taxpayers of that VIPR mission to that point in time.
    Cost to taxpayer per hour, per day.
    Number of CITIZENS groped
    # of not-so-scaryists plots prevented
    Avg # plots prevented per VIPR mission
    Cost $$$ per Citizen of groping
    Cost $$$ per plot defeated
    Finally a Direct phone line to John Pistole to express an opinion on his decision to violate their 4th amendment rights.

  8. Truth in labeling legislation needed ... on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    All UEFI based equipment that do not provide the user an ability to maintain the PK must have a URF'D florescent orange sticker 110% of the size of any MS sticker.

  9. Re:Wow on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Its like pissing up a rope, except in reverse and with a gravity assist.

  10. Re:Antitrust but verify on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Windows ... integrity
    One of these things is not like the other.

  11. Re:Antitrust but verify on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    How would it ask or push the key into the system when it doesn't have permission to execute?

  12. Re:Really needed? on ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    The MB per Angry Bird requirement is ever increasing. The much anticipated neural net selection & genetic pruning algorithms will see to that.

  13. Re:Why is web-space wasted on this? on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    Ignorance of tektronix 4014 protocols is not something of which I am ashamed.

  14. Re:Baloney on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    The ironing is delicious. or alternatively, God is an Iron, especially if they use the output to power some despondent chicks' droud.

  15. Re:electromagnetic plan on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    Is that the one for polarized products available for the special price of $19.95 (plus shipping & handling)?

  16. Re:Cleaning? on Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside · · Score: 1

    misc dust and cat hairs.

    Perhaps categorized dust and cat hairs (maybe by length) would help?

  17. Good luck with that on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    Given the addiction that marketdroids have to execute their poorly designed crap on other peoples machines via javascript and flash, its ad-block + no-script + ghostery FTW.

  18. Re:I've heard of bean counters, but ... on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 1

    Even easier, count the antennae and shift right 1 bit

  19. Re:Goldfingerism on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 1

    By requiring a ransom of 1 Beellion pollinating insects

  20. Re:Weird abstract... on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    bored with the current generation of game hardware

    Post had a typo: s/bored/boned/

  21. Mod Parent insightful on UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent insightful

  22. Re:No, Thank You, Dear Government on UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' · · Score: 1

    Additionally, why would I trust applications written by Banks who have a well documented history of forcing their consumers to bend over and take what they give them. The probability of their marketdroids will create some horrendous steaming pile of code that will be shoved with no little proper design, QA or thought for collateral effects and completely bork your system approaches 100%.

  23. Re:Change cannot be stopped on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 1

    It is about protecting the public by keeping an incentive for the produces of works of art, to keep producing. That incentive is financial compensation.

    Absolutely, Harry CHapin, John Lennon, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck are all incentivised to keep producing their works of genius for public enjoyment and personal remuneration... oh wait.

  24. Re:probably on Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I got it for free on my ipad

    No, you didn't. It was paid for by the outrageous markup you turned your head and coughed up for having PHB decide what you can and cannot run on hardware for which you were way overcharged.

  25. Re:Social Interaction? on Analysis of 250,000 Hacker Conversations · · Score: 1

    Dear Sir, Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter detailing how to customize a chick for enhanced performance.