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  1. Re:Well... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 2

    How is enforcing gender equality standards across Europe pandering to Sharia? Please explain how legislation intended to prohibit unequal treatment of genders and alternative sexuality adhere to the man-first-women-last-gays-dead version of life that Sharia proposes?

  2. Re:First Post on The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation · · Score: 1

    Well let me add my 2 cents here, and as you can see, I'm posting as myself so that you can feel free to block me and insulate your tiny little eggshell thick world from all the people that say things your brain can't handle. p.Actually, fuck it, I'm not gonna bother explaining it anymore than the AC did. He got it right and you should learn to filter, otherwise you'll never survive in the real world.

  3. Re:You bloody fucking idiots! on A New Version of MS Office Every 90 Days · · Score: 1

    How does Microsoft make profit on the non upgraders?

    By charging annually for a campus agreement that allows X users to use any version of Windows/Office etc.

  4. Re:latest log on SpaceX Launching Dragon Capsule to ISS Today · · Score: 1

    All four thruster pods are now online and fully operational. They are transferring to a higher orbit as of 20 minutes ago according to Elon on Twitter.

    Elon Musk â@elonmusk

    Thruster pods one through four are now operating nominally. Preparing to raise orbit. All systems green.

  5. Re:And blaming Forbes on SpaceX Launching Dragon Capsule to ISS Today · · Score: 1

    Roger Krone, have you taken to posting anonymously and referring to 2 year old articles have you. Smacks of desperation as yet another launch goes off without exploding.

    Show me a launch company anywhere in history who didn't have failures in the development phase, who didn't increase prices and got there on time. His price might have increased since the proposal stages, but he is still cheaper than the swollen, over-sized pork-barrel receivers.

  6. Re:This is a great day for the private space progr on SpaceX Launching Dragon Capsule to ISS Today · · Score: 1

    At least the only head to roll will be the chap tasked with painting the name on the side.

  7. Re:How is it used for phishing? on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 4, Informative

    My university has been targetted too. They create a form on top of a spreadsheet, make it look legitimate because it can be customized and then email it around. http://www.gfi.com/blog/google-docs-phishing/

    It gets past a lot of protection layers because Google Docs is trusted/whitelisted by most IPS filter lists.

  8. Re:It's a Google problem on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 2

    They've gotten better. If I hit the Report Abuse link at the bottom of the document, it normally disappears inside three hours.

  9. Re:Report Abuse on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 5, Informative

    You got it at the end. They set up a form on Google Docs, make it look vaguely professional and mail my users pretending to be me.

    Most non-IT academics and just about all admin staff at my university seem to believe anything they have emailed. The phishers are relying on the IT administrators' reticence to block all of docs.google.com. If I see a specialized URL, I'll probably block the whole site, but killing all of Google Docs is a big decision. So they get a longer time of access than the specialized site would give them.

    Yes, they are stupud, yes they don't listen. No, I have no idea what to do beyond a name and shame campaign that my bosses don't like.

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

    Um, no. Maybe. If you have a ServeRaid family member, probably. Otherwise nope.

  11. Re:Yes on What To Do When an Advised BIOS Upgrade Is Bad? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Present each physical disk as an individual volume via the raid controller. I've done this with the IBM ServeRAID controllers in 2 x3650 M3 machines we used for proxy servers. The WebGUI firmware configuration allows 1 disk in a volume.

    For the HP servers, the same should apply, but I have no experience with them.

  12. Re:No problem here on iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users · · Score: 1

    On my Sandisk Sansa player, each time the shuffled playlist completes, it reshuffles the list. If I go back and forward in the list, I'll hear the same sequence until I run off the far end, then it randomizes them again.

    The only time I hear the same song twice in a row is if it was at the end of the shuffled list and then at the start of the new list. 1 in 1392!2 chance of that.

  13. Re:exciting on IE Patch To Fix 57 Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    He's obviously got 107 zero-day attack vectors all lined up for a Valentine's Day massacre and Oracle patched away most of them and MS is gonna kill the rest come Tuesday.

  14. Spam, scams or commercially deceptive? on Printable AR-15 Mag Gets More Reliable; YouTube Pulls Video of Demo · · Score: 2

    Now the question, is that because someone has figured out it is the best way to get Google to react fast, or because a AR-15 magazine manufacturer is protecting his business?

    Without being able to see the video, how much of a commercial sales pitch could this be anyway?

  15. Re:$3600 ship on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    Come back to the galaxy, Incarna is like Windows ME now, forgotten and ignored. They've done a lot of good work on the internet spaceships side since.

  16. Re:How to fix YouTube on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    Youtube plugin is working fine in 12.0. The only issue I've experienced with XBMC's break/fix of plugins is that while you are alerted that a plugin as marked broken, there isn't a corresponding alert that it has been fixed.

  17. Re:Hardly "spoils" on Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote · · Score: 1

    Dumbledore's dead. Damn you, I was just getting ready to start reading book three.

  18. Re:Imagine... on Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google · · Score: 1

    Aren't there laws in the US against sending spam faxes because it uses the paper up? That might be used against the sender of the print job.

    If the printers are simple JetDirect boxes, there will probably be no logging of where the jobs came from. If they're bigger multifunction machines with hard drives, you'll be logged.

  19. Re:Wrong xkcd on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 2

    But you can compare month to month trends with the same months for previous years. If Nov 2011 to Jan 2012 shows an overall increase and Nov 2012 to Jan 2013 shows an overall falloff, you can draw a decent conclusion.

  20. Re:Viets learned about astroturfing from watching on Vietnam Admits Deploying Bloggers · · Score: 2

    So soon do the young forget. MS wasn't the first, Big tobacco was doing it in the 50s already, Rockefeller was doing it for kerosene in the 1800s. Edison did it for direct current back then.

  21. Re:Welcome back to 2005 on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    (4) He was getting BD, so he has a BD player. It might have a decent upscaler in it, especially since he was a videophile in the past. Switch that off, or use a cheap DVD player without upscaling and he'll probably find the difference.

  22. Re:I have no problem.... on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    Why, oh why do I not have modpoints? Quick, +5 Funny to the most illogical argument of the decade.

  23. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    250ml, 500ml, 1l, 2l, 5l. That's on my shelves. You'll be looking at a 500ml cream box and a 2l milk bottle.

  24. Re:Hmm on Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    You want to put a picture of your window with the newspaper in it in the newspaper and then put the paper with your window in your window? Just make sure you have an exit case.

  25. Re:I always enjoy the unsaid parts of the story on What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows · · Score: 1

    The recovery isn't too much of a problem. Even if the launch was 100% secret, as soon as the bird pops off the ground, she'll appear on the SK radar screens and they'll track it along with whoever else is watching the region.

    Spooling a destroyer or two to recover the wreckage from where it landed shouldn't take more than a day or two once you know where it went down.