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  1. Re:A review review: this review sucks on NY Times Review of PS3 · · Score: 1

    All opinions are not equal. Some get published in a national newspaper viewed by millions, some get posted on a web site forum to troll a select few.

  2. Re:Lack of speed - disenfranchised voters on Information Technology and Voting · · Score: 1

    Some states make this paid timeoff. For those states that don't require paid timeoff, or do not require timeoff at all, go vote on your dime for someone that will make this happen! ;)

  3. Re:Lack of speed - disenfranchised voters on Information Technology and Voting · · Score: 1

    Most states have laws requiring employers to give adequate leave for their employees to vote. Perhaps I should find a busy polling place and use it as an excuse to take the day off, though I promise to send in my absentee ballot ;)

  4. Re:Whats so great about this? on Hacking the Free "La Fonera" Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    Well, it does seem to be based on "Open"WRT...

    But is the system just locked down per se or is there anything legally binding in the agreement against hacking it? The serial port headers are a well-known attack vector, almost as much as several cgi-bin scripts, if they are just using the standard ones... Makes me wonder if the default config allows access to those scripts only from a LAN wired port (as opposed to the WAN side), or if it potentially allows anyone to get in.

  5. Re:Why do people consider this an OR situation? on The End of the iPod Clickwheel · · Score: 1

    Reality denied. But in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter... Good day :)

  6. Re:Why do people consider this an OR situation? on The End of the iPod Clickwheel · · Score: 1

    InvestorWords
    Answers.com
    The Free Dictionary
    Asians who speak Engrish

    None of these limit the scope of the definition as you do.

    Can you provide any references for your alleged AppleSpeak? It seems you stand along clinging to your definition, unless there's some secret AMA handshake to get someone to agree with you.

    Seriously, you're fighting the wrong fight. Why are you on a troll for a stupid definition instead of standing up for your original point, or do you even remember what that was?

  7. Re:Why do people consider this an OR situation? on The End of the iPod Clickwheel · · Score: 1
    The Apple iPod is a product line, not just a brand-name... Funny how we can make our own definitions and change them on the fly to suit our arguments, eh?

    Wikipedia refers to all the iPods as a product line:
    The iPod Nano and Shuffle never supported FireWire, and FireWire support was finally dropped entirely from the product line with the launch of the USB-only 5th generation iPod.
    the product line (emphasis mine)...

    A definition for "product line"
    1. all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer. 2. a group of products of the same manufacturer having similar or related characteristics and intended for similar or related markets.
    Indeed, a "product line" could refer to all of Apple's products, just the "iPod" product line, or a specific "product line" of Nanos.

    Your moving definition present a weak argument. If you meant specifically only within a certain subset, make that argument rather than trying to reeducate us about "product line".
  8. Re:And here I was... on LCARS Themes in Development · · Score: 1

    You grab the tricorder, I'll take the wallet...

  9. Re:Can't do much with these disks on Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers · · Score: 1

    Not only boring gameplay, but it seems the red guys win everytime despite my score! WTF?

  10. Re:New tag on Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers · · Score: 2, Informative

    (To mod: Troll? WTF?)

    I agree - I don't have tons of time to surf anymore and I steal a glance at the tags before considering whether to actually RFTA or not. I can't imagine myself using the search function for anything in particular, as fish, relatives and /. articles all get a bit smelly after a few days.

    Yes, tags are the greasy new flavor feature, but if it's strictly for indexing, searching, whatever, why bother showing them on the front page? We as the users will abuse anything given a chance...err I mean use as we see fit.

  11. Re:your post falters in the second sentence. on Feds Start Small on Smart IDs · · Score: 1
  12. Security patches on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 5, Funny

    in 3..2..1...

  13. Re:As successful as UMD? on DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Bad Solution: USB extender cable
    Good Solution: Don't buy them

  14. Re:Stupid stupid idea on DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm not even considering how you would get this "key" into a computer with cramped usb slots.
    Not sure how I'd jam it into my DVD, car CD or portable CD player either. Seems like a nobrainer nonstarter.
    I, for one, do not welcome our USB-dongle-built-in DRM overlords...
  15. Re:Long Term Benefit? on Google Campus to Become Solar-powered · · Score: 1

    Just think if they bought an even bigger magnifying glass to mount over the panels!

  16. Re:useless suggestion on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 1
    So why even have an NVidia card? You could get cards with open source drivers that offer much better 2d acceleration, and pay less doing it.
    I actually wouldn't mind getting a few since I tend to usually do fine with text, but I can't seem to find a non-ATI and non-nVidia card for less than $40.

    PCI would be ok... can't find any at BestBuy, CompUSA, several local computer stores as well
    AGP... same places, all ATI or nVidia and > $40
    Not using PCI-E in my farm yet, so that's no worry

    I actually have several old ISA and VLB cards, but nothing to stick them in anymore :(
    While I agree with your statement and am willing to go along with it, at least in the places I've been looking, finding such a beast appears to be non-trivial.

    Any pointers?
  17. Re:xfs for ever on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    I think it may be a bug, but with XFS I noticed all these "." and ".." files all over the place. After I tried to removed them, my whole filesystem was zero'd out!

    Methinks this bears investigation...

  18. Re:Huh? on Stopping "PattyMail" Email Bugs · · Score: 1

    For this specific case, that is correct, but I believe this thread is discussion what could be done to prevent the abuse of email bugs in all cases. While I may have missed the boat by not RTFA (can't reach TFA from work, sorry), I think the general case would be the other way around as I described.

    Setting a trap as your describe FTFA is quite ingenious, actually, privacy issues aside.

  19. Re:Huh? on Stopping "PattyMail" Email Bugs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In HP's case, I believe they would be more interested in who leaked the email rather than who receives it, therefore each authorized recipient would get their own trackable bug.

    Even one hit from a cache with an IP address not belonging to HP would indicate a potential breach of confidence and finger who forwarded the mail or exposed it to an insecure network.

  20. Re:Trolls on Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak · · Score: 2, Insightful
    (in case you aren't aware assault is threatening someone, and doesn't even have to be vocalized, battery on the other hand is actually attacking someone).

    Just FYI - the legal definitions for assault and battery (together or seperate) vary widely between jurisdictions (different states, US Federal and of other nations). It's amazing how some places use a legal definition that does not make sense to the layman (or Webster for that matter) who thinks they understand what "assault" means.

    No flame, just pointing out that what we think of common law may be drastically different where the crime took place, and probably not make sense in the context we are used to...

  21. Re:hmm... on Warrantless Surveillance To Continue For Now · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Well, I thought he was pointing out the unwarrented behavior of editoralizing in a news post. He has already decided that they must be "unconstitutional and controversial". Saying they are controversial is acceptable, prejudging that they are unconstitutional is opinion.
    I believe this was the court's opinion, not the submitter's, through the formal process of judging, not prejudiced.

    That's what the judges in courts do...

    Where's the editorial again?

  22. Re:hmm... on Warrantless Surveillance To Continue For Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    I appeal to your sense of compassion to stop the bad puns, as you're only trying to court the trolls. We'll be watching...

  23. Re:mine's bigger. on Raising Your Gamerscore By PowerLeveling · · Score: 1
    Ahhh.. so this is how they are doing this, eh?

    I still maintain my friend has no life, however...

  24. Re:mine's bigger. on Raising Your Gamerscore By PowerLeveling · · Score: 1
    A friend of mine is within 1800 points of the possible maximum, as he is only missing one game and has completed the achievements of most of the others... Of course he has no life, either.

    Just wondering what would happen if he signed up for this with it impossible for them to fulfil the contract?

  25. Re:Reducing clutter on Plasma: The Next-Generation KDE Environment Review · · Score: 3, Funny
    Simply re-compiling a trivial GUI app from QT3 to QT4 will give noticable performance and memory usage improvement (even if you do not change the code at all).

    # emerge --update --newuse world

    ...and the Gentoo crowd goes wild!