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  1. Disabling security worse than outright shutdown on Microsoft Denies the Windows Kill Switch · · Score: 1
    it just disables your ability to install patches which, given the frequency of OS exploits, is tantamount to the same thing as disabling your computer.
    Which is worse for everyone, because it means exploits can get in much more easily, and therefore strike legitimate installs faster.
  2. Re:In case anyone is still stuck.... on VW Raises the Bar for Self-Driving Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Base 13.

  3. Re:Illegal? on NSA Had Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One is assumed innocent until proven guilty. Jack the Ripper was never found either. But since he was never indicted, did he break the law?

  4. Re:anonymity on Anonymous Online Publication - Fad or Trend? · · Score: 1
    The real John Fenley
    Dammit, and I thought that I had finally got that Eminem song out of my head for good!
  5. Re:Sig on Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Reviewed · · Score: 1
    python>>> q="'";s='q="%c";s=%c%s%c;print s%%(q,q,s,q)';print s%(q,q,s,q)
    Nice quine.
  6. Re:Telco Miscalc on Google Explains ISP Rumors · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Well... on IBM using Napoleon Dynamite Quote to Encrypt Data · · Score: 1, Informative

    You forgot one: password.

  8. Re:FLASH WARNING on HL2 Episode One Panorama Shots · · Score: 1

    Yay! I have a SlashStalker now too!

  9. Re:FLASH WARNING on HL2 Episode One Panorama Shots · · Score: 1

    On Gentoo, to have a 32-bit Firefox you have to use the binary package. Binary packages, by default, have a different compiled-in featureset than your USE flag default, meaning that it often excludes features you want or includes those you don't. The hassle of a binary package isn't worth the majority of Flash on the web. If I want to watch Homestar Runner that badly I can go into Windows.

  10. Re:Patent Reform on On Software Patent Lawsuits Against OSS · · Score: 1

    The new Star gates come out in two weeks.

  11. Re:Motivating Me To Move on Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends · · Score: 1

    Oh, you want your system to Just Work. Well, I want to be king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat.

  12. Re:OMFGPONIEZ!!! Apple laptops have problems ?! on MacBook Users Fix Trackpad Problem with Origami Paper · · Score: 1

    Hence my sig. (If I decide to change it in the future, or you have sigs disabled, it currently says: "Nothing Just Works.")

  13. Re:Communism will never 'end' on MacBook Users Fix Trackpad Problem with Origami Paper · · Score: 1

    Lowercase-c communism may not end, uppercase-C Communism(i.e. with the Communist Party, the Soviet Union and its satellites) was ending in the early 90s. But I'm now in the murky territory between syntax and semantics.

  14. Re:Paper Over Hot Battery? on MacBook Users Fix Trackpad Problem with Origami Paper · · Score: 1

    Not a nuclear weapon.

  15. Re:FLASH WARNING on HL2 Episode One Panorama Shots · · Score: 1

    Oops, I just assumed it was flash because it was a plugin and the majority of those are flash. Either way it annoys me because neither of those can be used on 64-bit *nices.

  16. Re:Paging Pot, Kettle Calling on MA Senator Decries OpenDocument Decision · · Score: 1

    Six hundred dollars, says an earlier post in the thread.

  17. Real Theory of Everything. on Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny
    But 99% of everyone is an idiot.
    Now this is the real Theory of Everything.
  18. Re:It's becomming obligatory on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 1

    It works when the peasants are pissed and have very little to lose. I don't see that happening in the US for at least a decade or two--we're slowly getting the 'pissed' part but the 'little to lose' part, not so much.

  19. Re:not the funniest joke on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1

    Which is why the Offspring are in jail right now.

  20. Re:Incomplete study... on Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers · · Score: 1

    I took Driver's Ed a few months ago and was told that most accidents occur on intersections.

  21. FLASH WARNING on HL2 Episode One Panorama Shots · · Score: 0

    (no text)

  22. Re:Slightly more OT: Status Bar? on Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends · · Score: 1

    What browser are you using? It works fine for me on Firefox.

  23. Re:"I cant put my bag overhead,my pipe bomb's ther on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1
    (of course, there WAS that case about the lawyers suing these guys who were making lawyer jokes in front of them... but I think it was on grounds of harassment---still over the top to sue, though, IMHO.)
    Why does that sound so much like a lawyer joke?
  24. Re:Ah... good plan on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Should we arrest every hip hop artist now?
    Yes, but because of the damage done to the ears of so many people, not anything related to violent lyrics.
  25. Re:Pro-SCO on IBM Motion to Limit SCO Claims Granted · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, it won't be enough to come close to pulling SCO out of the red, which means that it will still end up belonging to IBM or Novell.