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  1. transcript or GTFO on A Critique of the Boston Bombing News Coverage (Video) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I wanted video I'd be on Youtube.

  2. Re:Points at David Coursey on A Critique of the Boston Bombing News Coverage (Video) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Die in a fire, chobit.

  3. Re:Will they ship without a sudo that works with l on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 1

    Hell you can even use it to authenticate against a Windows domain! Very helpful if you have to cooperate.

    For example, my SVN server authenticates against the Windows domain, so everyone can continue to use their domain credentials seamlessly.

  4. Re:Jeffersons on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 1

    ...or it was named after the Toy Story character, as it is well known that is how they codename Debian.

  5. Re:I hereby request an easier mail/http server set on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 1

    It's not all that hard, but you do know you can run Webmin on top of Debian?

    Don't leave webmin hanging out on the internet and you should be just fine. Firewall it and use SSH tunneling to access.

  6. Re:Wheezy on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 1

    I appreciate their using Sid for development, but part of me thinks Buggy would have been just as appropriate, and hilarious at the same time.

  7. Re:Named in honor of... on Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May · · Score: 2

    Debian's been named this way since, well, forever.

    You can't sue for use of first names, especially when they are common or adjectives.

  8. Re:Points at Google on Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage · · Score: 1

    ... someone just discovered Chobits it seems.

  9. er, what? on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Update: 04/17 16:25 GMT by U L : And the substance is ricin. Apparently, air filters another facility have also testing positive for ricin.

    What? "air filters another facility?"

    You a word or two.

  10. Re:Tip of the iceberg on FCC Issues Forfeiture Notices to Two Business for Jamming Cellular Frequencies · · Score: 1

    It could just be EMI, not necessarily intentional jamming.

  11. Re:Pythons on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 1

    Methinks the fire ants (courtesy of Argentina) will rule the world, come the end of days.

  12. Re:Points at Giant Snails on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, and they come with a very tasteful dash of rat lungworm to finish the meal.

  13. Re:Similar to some existing systems on DARPA Develops Non-GPS Navigation Chip · · Score: 1

    So what we have here is a ground implementation of an aviation INS (with data linkages to various sensors, such as wheel speed).

    Not exactly new. What would be new is getting a decent level of accuracy in something smaller than this.

  14. Re:uncollimated light vs. collimated light on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 2

    No, not at all :)

    However, I am an amateur radio operator, so I think about electromagnetic wave behavior more than the average joe. I might be a bit "beyond" the average ham as well, in that I consider light and radio to be the same thing (because it is) governed by the same behaviors.

  15. Re:Station security today? on Hackers Could Abuse Electric Car Chargers To Cripple the Grid, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    The difference is the 'fear of the unknown' at play. Most people understand fuel and fires. Those that do not, typically do not live long enough to breed.

    Electricity, however, is one of those newfangled things you can't see. Shit like that's just ain't no natural.

  16. I've got an even better idea! We could take two different metals, and mate them together, and press them against another contact. Kind of like a spring. If you machine the strip right, if it gets too hot it will flex away and break circuit contact! For extra safety, you could even design a catch system so that it can't automatically re-engage when it cools back down.

    Now I just need to come up for a good name for these things.

  17. Re:Avoid CFL mistakes on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just like hard drives!

  18. Re:tl;dr: 9 month test required + uniform radial f on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    I think by "radial flux" they meant uncollimated light. At least that's my first take when I read it.

  19. Re:...Evidon, who also owns Rapleaf? on RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    Just a note: I'm sure some of those trackers are actually from the advertisements, which are loaded from third-party systems that the site does not have immediate control over.

    Did/does the site have any kind of advertisements on it that you noticed?

  20. Re:...Evidon, who also owns Rapleaf? on RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever · · Score: 2

    AdblockPlus + easylist + easyprivacy + noscript (for the extra careful). Kind of hard for doubleclick to track me if I don't load resource from them and don't run their scripts!

    I'm sure there are some items that slip through, but implementing them requires more significantly more coordination between the trackers and the site itself. I'd wager this gets rid of nearly all of it.

    (and advertisements in general, which I -do-not-want- anyway. I know that's how sites get paid, frankly I don't care. Friendly fire. You all ruined that party yourselves - had you not been stupid assholes about it for so long, I might not block you like I do now.)

  21. Re:Opt Out? on RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    Does it actually block it, or does it only say that it does?

  22. Re:Opt Out? on RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    The difference is that you have explicitly told them not to track you. If they continue to do so, things are a little bit differently, legally.

  23. Re:Follow the money on RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the "clueless legions" you speak of have every right to place different values/definitions on their privacy, right? They do not have to care about it.

    They should, but they don't have to. That's the wonderful thing about this world - we don't all think the same way.

  24. Re:Fantastic. on Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that by building an application for x86, it's DRM because it won't run in a PPC?

  25. Re:And... it's gone on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Al Qaeda: actually attacked us.
    Iraq: no comment. I think this one was stupid as well.
    North Korea: China's autistic little brother.

    Surely you might see why blowing up NK might not be a wise choice...