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  1. Re:Criminal investigation? on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    Large enough damages and it's a federal crime. The FBI doesn't investigate civil incidents - there's a minimum threshold before they will intervene.

  2. Re:Criminal investigation? on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    Can't we have both?

    Hang em, and just after the kicking starts to slow, shoot em. No blanks, the whole team has live rounds. Several of them each. Large caliber. Automatic, preferably.

    Then, they can burn the remains on a pyre of their burning infrastructure. (don't forget the gas masks!)

  3. Re:subtitles on VLC Hits the Device Market · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Aside from the troll on line 1, the rest of this post is valid.

    I don't have any answers, however... but this is a good question.

  4. Re:I think there are laws. . . on TJX Fires Employee For Disclosing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    They do. They also impose fines. PCI Compliance and PAPB.

  5. Re:Wii Sports Experiment on Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On · · Score: 1

    9 pounds in 6 weeks is very good! Project that to a year and you get 72 pounds - that is a LOT of weight. And in general, a gentle loss is much healthier and likely to be kept than a sharp loss.

  6. Re:Wee Fit on Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On · · Score: 1

    It's better than a burger and fries, with a soda.

  7. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    You can't spell, therefore I have so little faith in the likelihood that you might be an intelligent person that I'm not even going to bother to read what you wrote.


    Ah, the adult version of "Nya Nya, I'm not listening!"
  8. Re:Hater Redux (to tears) on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    Your points are well taken, I had no real idea how the text entry works. I'm still a bit put-off by the idea of virtual keyboards (I have a buckling spring keyboard, if that gives you any insight) - but if it works for you, go for it.

    As far as all the Apple hating/fanboism - I seem to have developed an instinctual annoyance with anything Apple, which is entirely the communities fault - not Apple. IE, "Apple does blah" and "the iWidget does foo" result in me immediately rolling my eyes and skimming over the rest of the text (or ignoring the conversation, if in the real world). Just conditioned response to all the imbecile flaming/trolling. Likely my asshole response to you was partly due to that - and I apologize.

  9. Re:Hater Redux (to tears) on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    I hold no opinion on the actual subject, aside from elsewhere where I assert that predictive text for a shell is... not appropriate. As far as the iPhone goes, I've never used one - so I hold no opinion.

    I do have an opinion on people being asses to each other however, and like to point out such behavior (but I guess you were friendly-fire)

  10. Re:First Hater Alert on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    No. I do not want software to assume ANYTHING when I am in a remote shell. That is:

    1. Dangerous
    2. Stupid
    3. Unnecessary

    IE, Oops, just rm -Rf'd your / instead of /foo?

  11. Re:Hater Redux (to tears) on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    Why so condescending? Someone hurt that special place in your heart you keep pristine for your idol of Steve?

  12. Re:First Hater Alert on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    All that predictive text is worthless when you are in a shell - typing straight English will be fine... but we are not talking about text messaging.

  13. Re:First fanboy alert. on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    There is a telnet/SSH client available to download from t-mobile for like $15. It's good - but slow.

  14. Re:I hope so. on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the fun about stupid. You can only look smart to a point, but there is no end to idiot.

  15. Re:Excuse me while I gouge my eyes out with a spoo on I Will Derive · · Score: 1

    Wow, there was a point to that. You sure showed us, Mr. Anonymous Prick.

  16. Re:What a stupid anti-fat drug this can become on Cell Metabolism Artificially Enhanced · · Score: 1

    No. If you are maintaining a stable (but high) weight, even a 100-kcal reduction on your daily intake will cause a net weight loss.

    Raising your metabolism by 20,000 kcal/day would likely cause you to consume your fat, muscles, and die of starvation within a fortnight.

    I think you underestimate the power of the processes that we use internally.

  17. Re:Hawking external antennas on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    How does that work? On a linksys WRT54*, one antenna is transmit and the other is receive - either way, only one communication direction will span the distance to the other building.

  18. Re:Doable with 802.11g on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    Lasers. If you have direct line-of-sight and clear air, sighting lasers is both more efficient and safer.

    Reasoning:
    Powering a solid state laser is a lot cheaper than powering a radio mast of any kind. Radios will, even unidirectional, "shotgun" the signal a little. Also, it's hard to have interference problems with a laser.

    Of course, if it gets foggy... your screwed, unless it's the right wavelength laser.

  19. Re:Consider the do it yourself way... on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.aeiwireless.com/

    Directional radio or laser is the way to solve this problem. If you build it right, you won't need to maintain it much - the only condition is if something breaks or moves. Again, once everything is sighted, lock it down - to the point of building a box around the thing with only the openings you require.

  20. Re:Consider the do it yourself way... on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    BTW: 1500 feet of cat 5 does not work well for ethernet. get a pair of sdsl modems and put one at each end of the wire and you can go for 20 miles. That was said, and a solution was provided as well (rather than a simple "won't work") - that wasn't very helpful!
  21. Re:Do it like Cox. on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Expensive cable testers have some means of "bouncing" a signal down a conductor and measuring the return, using that along with knowing what the conductor is made of, they calculate the distance to the fault. It's quite neat, but unless you've dropped more than $500 on a tester you don't have that option.

  22. Re:DjangoBook.com on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 1

    The article is asking particularly about fiction - djangobook is (i hope!) not fiction.

  23. Re:Why Not? on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 1

    No, more like "off topic".

    Perhaps a pop quiz on the definition of various terms such as "flamebait" "off-topic" and "troll" prior to dispensing modpoints would be prudent.

  24. Re:Read-only switch on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    Flashing requires you to latch open and rewrite the actual ROM/PROM/whatever the BIOS is on. BIOS configuration is stored in the CMOS chip.

  25. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    vxworks. Ick.

    I've got a WRT54G v5, i got dd-wrt on that. Of course, it barely does anything, but it seems to be better off than with the linksys firmware. It didn't lose any functionality though, so yea.