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  1. Re:Ok brain scanner on Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At · · Score: 1

    what type of porn am I looking at now? Geek porn. Free on Slashdot! But sadly not really a turnon.
  2. Re:Facebook group in question .. on Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case · · Score: 1

    I for one, have decided to join it. It seems, once your in, the leaking of your privacy has started and you can't stop it anymore!
  3. What do you expect... on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 5, Interesting

    from a Microsoft employee?

  4. Re:Isn't it as easy as on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think they got that memo. Maybe you can put a demo on Youtube.
  5. Re:But how did they do it? on Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably just search for BGP routing and AS numbers on wikipedia. Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol/
  6. Re:Pronunciation of Gi-Fi on "GiFi" — Short-Range, 5-Gbps Wireless For $10/Chip · · Score: 1

    How do you pronounce Gi-Fi? "guy-fie"? "giffy"? "jiffy"? I think: Goofy! Then it can even apply to wireless fetching of your shoes.
  7. Re:Huh? on Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux · · Score: 1

    Google is hiring someone to fix and Adobe product? Isn't there some kind of rights infringement here? They are not going to fix Photoshop, but they will enhance Wine so it handles Photoshop better.
  8. Blu Ray Johnny on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 0

    I wonder when he will request a new nickname!

  9. Re:short answer on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 1

    It isn't even favoritism, it's outright stupid given CoS' past abuses. It makes you wonder what eBay has to gain from this. What's their connection to Scientology? Is Pierre Omidyar a member?
  10. Nothing will happen on Fidel Castro Resigns · · Score: 1

    This will not change anything, until he dies. As long as he is alive, they will respect him, and I doubt there will be something like a new revolution. When he dies, that's another story.

  11. Re:WIKILEAKS under fire... on WikiLeaks Under Fire · · Score: 1

    It is not UNDER fire, it is ON fire! No of course not. That's why it's leaking man! (Otherwise they would call it wikiheating wouldn't they?)
  12. Re:YAY! on Firefox 3 Beta 3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Yes I do, but how many average users are going to know that? I'd be willing to bet that the Parent didnt even know that...besides, thats only one of many features that its lacking in comparison to Opera, Avant, etc. There isnt much coding invlived to add a context menu on right-click, or even a tooltip saying "Yadda Yada for Yada!"
    And how many users know that you can do the same with forms? I didn't, until I tried it. So the form history manager is no longer needed! Thanks a lot for this excellent tip!!!
  13. Re:Ummmm on UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access · · Score: 0

    Encrypt your file sharing. Does anything else really need to be said? That sounds quite stupid. The purpose of anonymous filesharing is that the receiver can use the file. So if you encrypt it, it means you have to share the key as well. Then the government can get the key as easily as any user, and in the end the encryption (meant to hide your activities from the government) has no effect.
  14. Re:Hotmail? on Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I created my Hotmail account in October of 97. Two months later Microsoft bought Hotmail. Three minutes later (it took that long to find a phone number for Hotmail) I called Hotmail and demanded they delete my account and remove all information from their servers. I then proceeded to create an account on Yahoo. Ten years later and it's Déjà vu all over again! So you move to Google. I only hope you didn't set a pattern, because otherwise Microsoft will have to buy Google in, how many years?
  15. Hotmail? on Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The solution is simple enough -- spoofing the User Agent that Firefox reports. Another solution is not to use Hotmail at all.
  16. Re:ouch on IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior" · · Score: 1

    If it was RIAA in the tank, he would be 2D man. Well at least they could sell it to the MPAA then!
  17. Re:we've come a long way on IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior" · · Score: 1

    Of course there's a hidden agenda. Except that it's not so hidden. Let's refrase that: It's open! (Like in Open Document Type!)
  18. Re:No live data? on MIT Researchers Fight Gridlock with Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the Netherlands TomTom and Vodafone are experimenting with this. They track the movement of mobile phone users along the highway. That way they can see how the traffic is moving. You get the data on your TomTom if you take a subscription.

  19. Re:Marketing Slogan on Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows 7 - because Vista sucked 7 of 2009 says: Hasta la Vista!
  20. Re:Sun? on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 1

    And I even baked them a cake shaped like the internet! Man, what era are you from? Come over to Amsterdam! We have cakes shaped like space here!!! The internet, duh! Can't you do better than that?
  21. Re:Cracking on HD DVD Prices Slashed By Toshiba · · Score: 1

    "Why haven't there been more stories about Blue Ray being cracked recently?" Anybody? Well, that's simple. They are just waiting until all major labels have chosen for one type. That will save a lot of work. If this is the end of HDDVD, then they only have to crack Blu Ray.
  22. Re:Streisand effect on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    (In fact I believe only Robert Smith can prevent this....) But can he cure it?
  23. Re:Clippy on Microsoft Patents Frustration-Detection System · · Score: 1

    • Throw chair
    Might I suggest:
    • Throw Ballmer
    ... and keep the chair, although I'm afraid this will result in a Blue Face of Deception, because of too little process power.
  24. Re:Still have to pay for the OS on MS Drops Licensing Restrictions from Web Server 2008 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You just can have a linux box with apache doing reverse proxy and caching in front of it, and ... This is exactly what is not allowed, like I said already. The "user" is not a computer, but strangely enough a human being. Where is the world going...? :-P
  25. Re:Still have to pay for the OS on MS Drops Licensing Restrictions from Web Server 2008 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is silly though. Web services only need one "user" -- the user that connect to the database on behalf of the server. That is not the way Microsoft defines a user. A Microsoft "user" is any person who uses the website. So if you have thousands of users, you have to pay for thousands of CALs, or take a server-license (one price no matter how many users).