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  1. Re:High Frequency Trading on Scalpers Bought Tickets With CAPTCHA-Busting Botnet · · Score: 1

    Differences being

    1. They're using a botnet, not their own servers.

    2. They're purchasing the tickets under false identities, which is fraud.

  2. Re:which one is 'right'? on Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch · · Score: 1

    Open source is not a panacea. It's perfectly possible to hide optimized settings in plain sight, though then it's not so much "secret" as "not advertised".

  3. Re:I'm torn on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't be much point. The usual current limit on residential phones is pretty low, only about 25 milliamps, which would net you just over 1 Watt at standard 45V.

  4. Re:I'm torn on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    I presume you live in a high rise apartment building or something in a large city. That's the only instance I can think of where the loss of mains power will kill the phones, and only then if the building owners are too lazy/cheap to set up proper backup power for the system.

  5. Re:Not everyone is 20 on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Your whitepages must be different than mine, as mine has businesses listed in addition to people.

  6. Re:Sad news for believers on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Christianity?

  7. Re:Call me retro on Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK · · Score: 1

    68k times assuming everything gets a /48 (2^80 addresses), which is only for now AFAICT so that routing tables don't become ginormous and cause systems to break down and cry.

    Also, it will be possible to reclaim space and shove stuff onto smaller subnets as needed, as we won't have legacy blocks, class E, etc. taking up large sections of the address space.

  8. Re:How much dumberer do we have to get about gifts on Amazon Patents Bad Gift Protection · · Score: 1

    but I tried very hard to think about every gift and how it matched that person

    I see this more as a solution to "2 other people did the same thinking and came up with the same gift" issue, which seems to plague me at least every other birthday/Christmas.

  9. Re:I understand the concept on Amazon Patents Bad Gift Protection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see it in a third way, as stated in the summery, with the "I already have X, I don't want another one" option. I've had this problem a number of times, where a new book in a series I like comes out near Christmas/my birthday/etc. and I get three people buying me the book, which I already bought myself.

  10. Re:Missing Skill on Amazon Patents Bad Gift Protection · · Score: 1

    The $3.99 is not for the actual sweater, it's for the pattern to follow to make the sweater by hand with your own yarn.

  11. Re:US Employment Rights on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 1

    Political views, for instance.

    Also height, weight, martial status, family status, medical conditions, sexual orientation, legal use of drugs (for example, you might have a legal prescription for marijuana, but they can still fire you for failing a drug test for it), place of birth, and that's just off the top of my head.

  12. Re:Reverse causation on Sex Drugs and Texting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depends on your definition of "drugs".

    Alcohol and marijuana are fine, given some degree of moderation.

    But start talking about stuff like methamphetamines, and I think there's a problem.

  13. Re:Heh on Sex Drugs and Texting · · Score: 1

    And when this hits the 6pm news (or some city counsel or state legislature), you can be sure that sentence will somehow get overlooked.

  14. Re:US Employment Rights on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 1

    FMLA + OSHA, I'll let you look up those two. There are restrictions on hours worked and mandated breaks for non-exempt employees..

    With exempt categories large enough to sail oil tankers through. Also, the OSHA is pretty toothless compared to other countries safety laws.

    Really? REALLY? Just because it happens and people can get away with it doesn't mean it's legal.

    The only things that are covered by federal law are race, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (if over 40, they can discriminate all they like under that.), military service (but can discriminate based on anything other than an honourable discharge), bankruptcy or bad debts, genetics, or citizenship status. Anything else is fair game barring state laws, which are pretty patchy.

  15. Re:Inquiring minds want to know... on Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    Office - no idea, don't use it.

    Windows 7 has a few nice things over XP, such as the WGF. No more losing the GUI if a 3D game crashes or hangs in the wrong manner, for instance.

  16. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    The command line method still requires fewer keystrokes.

    winkey-r
    cmd
    enter
    path %path%;c:\program files\gnuwin32
    enter
    done.

  17. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, it isn't stored in any human readable config file. Just use the path command.

    path %path%;newpath is much simpler. It just appends the new thing you want to add (C:\program files\gnuwin32, for example) onto the old path.

  18. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Control panel, system, advanced, environmental variables.

  19. Re:Is ANYONE surprised at this development? on TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes · · Score: 1

    Close the door? More like close one of the semi-infinite series of doors, leaving the rest wide open.

  20. Re:Wait... what? on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a plot. Almost always a mindlessly superficial plot which people ignore and wish wasn't getting in the way, but is included to get around the Miller test, but it is a plot.

  21. Re:1945-1963: American Upper Tax Rate: 92% on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Be sure to adjust that for inflation. That $200k is about $2.5 million today.

  22. Re:Had to happen.. on MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you mean by "calculator". The windows 7 version (might also be in vista) adds some stuff like mortgage calculations and unit conversions that you would have needed a different program for previously

  23. Re:No need to fuss on MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects · · Score: 1

    They did rewrite it and it was a good program (but not really worth the price) for a couple years, then in classic fashion, fucked it back up again. it's not as bad as legend goes, but it is far from the top choice now. I believe the current best, in terms of detecting stuff, is a German bunch called G Data.

  24. Re:Nothing wrong with that on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    mean, they're not just sitting around in the middle of this revolution with their thumb up their arse. Right?

    Nope, they're not doing that at all. They're implementing their own streaming services and implementing caps to keep others out of their god-given right to a monopoly on content delivery.

  25. Re:OK Republicans, on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    India.