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  1. Re:Yes on What To Do When an Advised BIOS Upgrade Is Bad? · · Score: 1

    Look harder.

    There's no way Dell had the only copies of those firmwares.

  2. Re:Yes on What To Do When an Advised BIOS Upgrade Is Bad? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We protect the vendors from consumers, around here.

  3. Re:memo to hardware producers on Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific · · Score: 1

    Breaking Windows is different than breaking the hardware. I'm sure this will not end well.

    All it takes is one asshole with an axe to grind. They can include it in their botnet package, so if the victim isn't vulnerable to this, they just get added to the attack network.

  4. Re:This is news? on No Wi-Fi Around Huge Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because when I got my license, a 9-year-old girl was getting hers as well.

    She kicked our asses, incidentally.

  5. Re:I hope this guy's good... on E-Mail Hack Exposes Bush Family Pictures, Correspondence · · Score: 1

    they are out of power

    Bwahahaha!

    Not while they have money and ties to Oil.

  6. Re:Unneeded on Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space · · Score: 1

    Does your company do any kind of development with hardware? If so, someone somewhere probably needs it for debugging, and so it's in the list for machines used by developers.

  7. Re:Unneeded on Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space · · Score: 1

    Your VM host is broken.

  8. Re:Going that way for a while now on Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD should still be good for you. If not, go play with OpenBSD.

  9. Re:New ant traps based on emitting emergency sound on Ants Use Sound To Communicate · · Score: 1

    Damn sugar ants around here. Even if you're clean, the fuckers mob your sink for the water!

    You'll get a drop of water with a ring of ants. Who get into everything. They even make it a few inches into the freezer before they die, leaving a nice border of ant corpses around the freezer seal. Which doesn't seem to not be sealed, so I have no idea how they get through.

  10. Re:Hypocrite. on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    Fair and true. Where it gets murky is... was it illegal or considered wrong where it was recorded?

  11. Re:We need broadband meter readers on Thumb On the Scale? Study Finds 5 of 7 Broadband Meters Inaccurate · · Score: 2

    Someone who thinks it should be at -1 even though it's not troll, offtopic, redundant, or flamebait?

    For example, wrong information, or a superbly silly statement/question that still manages to apply to the topic. Not that this applies here, I'm just answering your question.

  12. Re:Try NewEgg on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Most of the time, your browser reports your OS in the user agent. For some reason.

  13. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    It -is- computing. You just can't reprogram it (easily).

    What did you think it was doing? It's reading sensor information and tuning/changing parameters based on this input.

  14. Re:Justified? That depends... on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's not punishment. You're already storing the components, the only extra cost would involve sales/shipping of them. Hand the costs down if you feel like it.

  15. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    You should note the words are capitalized. This is important.

    Twat.

  16. Re:Yeah, right on Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye · · Score: 3

    Don't forget facebook.net and fb.net! (probably fb.com too).

    Not to mention anything that goes through EC2 or akamai.

    (not so perfect a solution these days, is my point)

  17. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    I am stating fact, not opinion. Sorry.

  18. Re:and so it begins... on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    Then enforce your rules on your population and leave other countries alone.

  19. Re:Hypocrite. on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 2

    "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." comes to mind!

  20. Re:It's not arbitrary. on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    Fine then, remove obesity from the list. Now we're down to homosexuality, ugliness, and mixed-race.

  21. Re:and so it begins... on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    Well, that's one way. The real problem is the inconsistency.

  22. Re:tl;dr? on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Yes, can anyone summarize the summary for me? Jeez.

  23. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    I suppose the fact that Personal Computers (PCs) are a subset of computers is entirely lost on you?

    Yes, anything with a microcontroller can be a computer. That does not make them Personal Computers.

    Computer and Personal Computer are not interchangeable terms.

  24. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Personal Computers are subsets of Computers. Calling your microwave a computer though doesn't really work. More than likely it just has a lot of complex digital logic circuits, but it is not a computer.

    Your desktop and tablet can both be computers without them both being PCs (Personal Computer)

  25. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    An open architecture is one that you are free to design peripherals for, such as ISA, PCI, PCIe cards in the x86 architecture.