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  1. Re:You're doing it wrong! on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 1

    Why is this issue always trotted out when the possibilty of a male contraceptive is raised? I don't give a shit whether the woman trusts me or not. I just want to make absolutely sure that I'm taking control over my reproductive responsibilities. And, no, a condom is not an effective method of ensuring that. I have my second child thanks to the failure of a condom.

  2. Re:One thing is for certain... on Apple Rumored To Want To Buy Twitter · · Score: 1

    ... hooking up the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny Submesion Brain to an atomic vector plotter, suspended in a brownean motion producer (such as a nice hot cup of tea) to cause all the molecules in the hostesses undergarments to simultaneously leap one foot to the left ...

  3. Not necessarily on Researchers Show How To Take Control of Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The standard method of securing the data on your machine, which is what's important, is to encrypt it. So even if someone rips open the box, takes out the disk and puts it in another machine, the data should be safe, assuming the encryption algorithm and the user authentication processes are secure.

    However, if this exploit allows them access to the operating system on the disk, and allows them to subvert the user authentication process to grant themselves access to a user's account, then the data is compromised.

    So this exploit may have an application, not as an attack vector for writing a propagating worm or virus, but as a means to gain access to otherwise secure data.

  4. Re:My PSP is hacked. on Piracy and the PSP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Avoid superglue, unless you're very skillful with it. The vapours from the glue collect inside the casing and ruin the UMD. Almost all of my discs are in a similar condition to yours due to a poor game case choice.

  5. Re:He'll Be Back on Supreme Court Declines Jack Thompson Appeal · · Score: 1

    The problem with zealots and fanatics is that these kinds of setbacks only help to make them believe that they just need to fight harder. It's a sad, sick feedback loop where defeat reinforces their mania instead of chipping away at it. I seriously doubt this is the last we'll hear of Jack Thompson. He'll just come up with new and creative ways to be a thorn in the side of gamers and freethinkers.

    What you have just said could be reworded, with very little effort, to describe Richard M Stallman. While I can't comment specifically about Jack Thompson (I haven't followed the news about him in anything more than a cursory fashion), I think we should recognise that the sort of fanaticism described in this quote can often be a driving force for good, as well as *ahem* evil.

  6. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Then why not make a bit more out of his death? Why not do the job properly? Pull off his fingernails, rape him a few times, cut off his genitals, stuff like that?

    Why? Because the establishment should be a bit more evolved than that. This is not an eye for an eye game. This is supposed to be justice.

  7. Re:"Release early, release often" on It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't seem to remember many people complaining about Mozilla Phoenix/Firebird, not-so-many years ago when it hadn't even reached 1.0 ...

  8. Re:Not if you choose the correct games on UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" · · Score: 1

    We're talking about kids here. How many kids do you know that cycle above 30 km/h for an hour a day? Even healthy ones. The levels of activity required to keep kids healthy are completely different.

  9. Re:Fine, but... on UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" · · Score: 1

    With regard the Change4Life campaign, there have been TV advertisements suggesting that we complete a questionnaire regarding our children's lifestyles and send it in to them to essentially have it evaluated by them. The idea is that they will then send back suggestions regarding changes we can make to their lifestyle.

    Hey, Change4Life, how about you fuck right off instead, yeah?

  10. Re:I don't understand TFA on The State of the Homebrew Games Scene In 2009 · · Score: 1

    If you were seriously asking that question, the closest I think you'll get is Frets on Fire.

  11. Re:Poor reasons on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    Actually, for most of the people I know that download TV shows, point 3 does apply. Most people tend to take the path of least resistance, and hooking up a PC to the TV is just too much hassle, and I don't know many people who own DivX players either. So, in my experience, people who download stuff do just tend to watch it on their computer. And in fact, a lot of them watch stuff on youtube. I don't know how anyone could bear to watch an entire TV show on youtube, but they do.

  12. Re:Not my Grandmother on Happy 25th, Macintosh! · · Score: 2, Informative

    25 years ago, the Mac did not have Multifinder, and thus this was a non-issue. You could only have one application open at once.

  13. Re:Should Microsoft Worry? on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 1

    They already proved that the distro they cared about was SuSE.

  14. Re:Um, no? on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 1

    Did you put your shades on, put your hands on your hips and tilt your head at an angle when you said that?

  15. Tag? on UK Opens National Video Game Archive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which gibbering simpleton tagged this UK-based story yourtaxDOLLARSatwork?

  16. Asterisk on New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure that all the above and more is possible with an asterisk setup.

  17. Re:My opinion on Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows · · Score: 1

    Try using it on a corporate domain, with GPOs up the wazzoo, and your roaming profile stored at head office or in an off-site datacentre on the other end of a 10 meg leased line currently being hammered by the other sixty users in your office all trying to log in at once.

  18. Re:I have one of these already on New Nintendo DS to Include Camera, Music · · Score: 1

    It has a camera, plays music, and games.

    Plus, it has this extra bonus feature which allows it to replace my watch, and I can even phone people with it.

    However since it's a Nokia, it does none of these things well (including the last one).

  19. Re:Any chance? on OS X On the MSI Wind · · Score: 1

    1. arrange repair
    2. retrieve data from Time Machine backup

    What dp you mean your friend didn't have a backup? He's working on a machine with one USB port. Is he a moron?

    (Not a Mac user here, but surely these things are obvious)

  20. Re:not vetted/tried and true on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wish we had a -1 Bullshit mod

  21. Re:Aren't there others like this? on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's why I, and people like me, exist. Instead of pouring a ton of money down the black hole of Microsoft, they can hire a good consultancy who can take an open source solution and actually make it fit their needs, instead of making their needs fit what Microsoft deigns to provide.

  22. Re:Circles and Arrows on Scribbling On Digital Photos · · Score: 1

    Onto the group W bench with you!

  23. Re:Calling CleverNickName! on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 1

    He has blogged about this a few times over at WWdN

  24. Oblig on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Every time you operate one of these weird black controls, labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it"

  25. Re:USB on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you can get hold of a Blackberry Travel Charger, it serves as a very handy charging plug for all your USB powered devices. Except Sony Ericssons, which, for some reason, will ONLY charge from USB if the USB cable is connected to an actual computer.