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  1. Re:Too much information? on New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing · · Score: 1

    My first thought was "higher", "lower", "lower", "higher", etc.

  2. Company makes random decision, news at 11 on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 0

    Really, who cares?

  3. Re:prevented collapse? on US Federal Reserve Data On Loans During Crisis Released · · Score: 1

    These days, even small banks have internet banking. I'm far from rich, but I have no problem not having a "local" branch. My bank is nearly 300 miles away from me, has been for years, and has not been an issue, even when purchasing a house. Internet banking and old-school fax machines solve any need to actually set foot in a bank.

    As for minimum balances and fees.....again, small banks often don't have those. Get away from the "big" national banks and one can avoid the nonsense.

    That's not even considering the idea of small credit unions -- I've never dealt with them, so I can't claim to know anything about them or their practices.

  4. Page Size on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 0

    Home page of my personal web space is well under 1k. "This space intentionally left blank."

  5. Re:WINAMP! on Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that would be why I specified a version of Winamp. XMMS was decent the last time I could be bothered to use linux on the desktop. Now the desktop is either windows (games) or osx (most everything else) depending on what i'm working on, and the linux machines are remote command line shells.

    I don't care about finding lyrics, or album artwork, or "visualizations" or anything else. I just want a music player to play music.

  6. Re:WINAMP! on Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm not worried about remote code execution through mp3s since the vast majority of the music I've got is stuff I've ripped from my cd collection. Everything else came from a source I trust (Amazon's store).

  7. Re:WINAMP! on Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released · · Score: 1

    This. There's still a hell of a lot to be said for a simple, minimal mp3 player. I'll keep using 2.9.5 as long as it still runs.

  8. Re:Bleeding Edge Aviation on Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor · · Score: 2

    You haven't seen what they can charge for updates.

  9. Re:Hardly a fair comparison on The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List · · Score: 1

    Do you really think people buy 20+ books per order?

    Yes. I do, two or three times per year, and have for the last 6 years or so, and a 20+ book order is a hell of a lot more than $25.

    I also don't buy ebooks, mostly because the books I want to read aren't available in ebook form.

  10. Re:They Didn't Choose 'No One' on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    It has taken less than 45% of the eligible to vote population to elect a president in almost (if not every) election in the US.

  11. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    If you're going to call others idiots, you might want to make sure you have your facts straight: News of the World was closed down by their parent company; they were not forced to close by any government.

  12. Re:This just in... on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the returning plague of the "muscle car" in the US.

  13. Re:Evaporation on Chinese Government Ramps Up Weather Control Efforts · · Score: 1

    And your current bodily fluids are also tomorrow's weather...so they're messing with both the past and the future!

  14. Re:This just in... on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: 2

    Educated and caring are two different things.

    In my case, I simply don't give a rat's ass, and will have the car that's actually fun to drive -- and also still happens to manage 30+ mpg combined highway & city.

    Then again, if by "sports cars" you mean the return of ill-handling V8 powered land yachts, you may very well be right.

  15. Re:so can i break the GPL and claim fair use? on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 2

    You can claim anything you like. Whether it stands up in court is a different matter though.

  16. Re:Just another corrupt judge on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    She (the daughter) taped it. It happened often enough that she knew something was going to happen. The mother has since left him and also said that was normal behavior for him, and that she (the mother) was scared of him. That put it into context for you?

  17. Re:Just another corrupt judge on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Some judges are elected in my state. Some are appointed. It just depends on what level - city, county, or state.

  18. Just another corrupt judge on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and another example of a judge that should be removed from the bench by any means possible -- I don't know if you can recall a judge in texas, or if you have to wait until the next time that clown is up for reelection, or what the process is, but whatever the process, it needs to happen.

  19. Re:Not a good public rep on Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    A good number of us have not turned on him -- we just never cared for him in the first place.

    See also: Jimmy Wales.

  20. I expect these will be on thinkgeek next week on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    subject says it all

  21. Re:There aren't many... on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 1

    To be fair, a B52 isn't an airliner, either.

  22. Re:There aren't many... on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 1

    Call me silly, but I like the look of the old 707, especially wearing a classic airline's livery, and the 727 will always hold a special place in my mind as being the first airplane I ever flew on.

    Other than those two, planes quit being pretty when we quit putting big radial engines on them. The Douglas DC-3, the Lockheed Constellation, the Grumman Mallard, and the Boeing 314 were some of the prettiest airliners ever made.

  23. Article is late, like the plane on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 2

    The charter was yesterday, and covered by many more reputable sources including the BBC.

  24. Re:going open to closed on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    I can fix and modify all the BSD software I want. No restriction there. Same for GPL. Since, in your words, BSD allows you to remove freedom of others while GPL does not, clearly BSD is more free than GPL.

    I know, you're trying to refer to code that was released under the BSD and is now part of a closed-source piece of software. Which, is irrelevant since nothing prevents me from using and doing anything* I want with the original BSD release though.

    *as long as I maintain copyright notices

  25. Re:Relational search on MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Any chance that any of the vehicles involved were Saturns? That seems to be a repeating theme with them; almost like they only had a half-dozen different keys, so odds were pretty good that your saturn key would work with another one; year and model weren't really relevant.