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  1. Re:Isn't it ironic? on Beef Up Your Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    If you look closely you'll notice that it's unplugged!

  2. Pedesagittry on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Great! I knew what pablumfication meant but now I can't guess what pedesagittry is. Please explain.

  3. Re:Goddammit on British Military Deploys Skynet · · Score: 1

    Actually, the answer to the summary's question is ten years ago.

  4. Enough with the jokes already. on NASA Backs Quantum Computing Claim · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who's tired of all the "uncertainty jokes"? (Yes, I know I might or might not be). Too bad you don't really know if a comment is a (bad) joke until you read it.

  5. Quite true on Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP · · Score: 1

    Your point is very valid, and that is precisely the reason I have abandoned such antiquated input devices as "the mouse" in favor of the keyboard. The delay in that is like, zero.

  6. Well... on Scientists Make Quantum Encryption Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    unless someone invents some sort of video-recording device, something with a light sensor, perhaps.

  7. Re:"Never seen a presentation like this before" on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    I pity the word "literally", it has come to mean "metaphorically".

  8. Stealing? on Gates Foundation To Spend All Its Assets · · Score: 1

    Doing some good with the money you stole from people doesn't make up for the stealing.

    Last time I checked, MS hadn't taken from me any money that I didn't want to give them.

  9. Not really the same. on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The supercavitational bubble is vacuum, not air. This is also the reason why the torpedo cannot be manoeuvred with traditional means once fired (since there is no water anywhere around it).

  10. I don't know... on Gaia Project Agrees To Google Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    I rather like Google's "please stop, you're making us a saaaad panda" approach. At any rate, it's far better than "I AM ATTORNEY OF BORG, DESIST OR YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED". I think it could work even without IP laws.

  11. Re:'beta test' ? on Amazon Collapses Under Weight of 1,000 Xboxes · · Score: 1

    If their grid of who-knows-how-many computers couldn't handle serving pages, who's going to want to use it for other stuff?

  12. Microwave vs WiFi on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 1

    Plus it's the standing waves in the oven that heat the food. Even if you get the magnetron out of the oven and fire it you're unlikely to heat much up. I'm not sure about other side-effects.

  13. New word on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 1

    Really, we need a new word, for news which isn't functional information, but just amusing/entertaining.

    Amews?

  14. Re:Like the Mormons' tablets... on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 1

    Also, second to last line, "as the whole (something) is divided", and last line "elliptic"? I can't make anything else out, and most of the text is missing :/

  15. Re:Yeah RAH on Variable Star By Heinlein and Robinson · · Score: 1

    Or maybe some other kid is closing their copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and feeling that same sense of loss, and hope that Mike is still alive in their somewhere.

    Well, at least you've ruined that one for me. Seriously dude, courtesy spoiler warning next time.

  16. Way to invalidate IPv6's advantage. on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So far, I supported IPv6 mainly because it will provide so vast an address space that it will be impractical for worms to bruteforce (nowadays you can ping an IP address and it will probably reply). Now, Microsoft invalidates this advantage by adding hostnames for every machine. A 5 letter word is easier to brute force than an IPv4 address, and you KNOW there's someone running something vulnerable there. At least I hope to God it's not by default, using your network name or something (which is, thankfully, unlikely).

  17. Oh shut up. on 10 Reasons To Buy a DSLR · · Score: 1

    That's just fud.

  18. Hardware support is just flamebait. on Why the World Is Not Ready For Linux · · Score: 1

    OK, the summary's mention of hardware support is just flamebait. When I formatted my pc and installed windows I had to install 30 drivers from their respective CDs, when I installed Ubuntu everything ran out of the box, with the exception of maybe my TV tuner, which I didn't bother with (it might have worked, though).

    So, what's all this about no hardware support? Linux has better hardware support out of the box, but Windows has better 3rd party support for new hardware (since 3rd parties don't support linux...).

  19. Re:Lego needs to cut their losses on Lego Christmas Production Shortage · · Score: 1

    Jesus, they stopped making that car?! I've been wanting that since I saw it at a friend's house 10ish years ago. Nowadays I can't even find Lego at the large toystores, and the smaller ones only have some crappy themed ones. I want my Technics back :(

  20. Oh man... on Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested · · Score: 1

    Liakopoulos is crazy (well, if he believes what he says, anyway). He sells books and is always on about how Greeks are better than everyone else and how we've descended from aliens and will conquer the world. Odd that they'd actually raid a house based on what he says, though, I thought he was rather harmless (until now).

    I don't think this will go well for the authorities.

  21. Tabbed browsing? on Microsoft's IE Team Leader Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmm, what? The Wikipedia page says that Opera had tabbed browsing AT LEAST a year before the browser he talks about, and that others also had tabbed browsing a year before Opera independently developed it. So, wtf?

  22. Three words... on Creepy Windows XP Halloween mask · · Score: 1

    Guy Fawkes mask.

  23. Well, actually... on Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... in Exodus 34, there's a completely different set of commandments.

  24. Re:Indeed I do. on Opera to Start Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously. If they didn't know, how would they check?

  25. Okay... on Opera to Start Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    From Opera's RSS feed:

    When you browse to a site you have not visited before, the browser sends a request for site information to our server. The requests contains the domain name of the site and a hash value of the URL. We don't send the full URL, but we need a fingerprint of the full URL in case you visit a dangerous page on a site that is otherwise harmless.

    So yeah.