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  1. Re:He's got it all wrong on How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the confirmation. Glad I didn't buy one with my Kindle.

    Now, did he stumble onto the real problem or was he just recreating the scene for the pics?

  2. Re:He's got it all wrong on How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle · · Score: 1

    With a multimeter with only one ohm setting, no frequency, HFE or cap tester, he's just a glorified plug-tester.

    Now, can someone with a Kindle cover and a proper meter please test for us to settle it.

  3. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Exhibit A: You add new DHCP scopes to company A to move their machines out of the collision space, update your VLAN routers with the new subnets and shut/no shut all the switch ports. Then you port-scan the subnets, find the static hosts and fix them. What? You weren't running a dynamic network for 5000 machines? What a poor network admin you are then.

    Exhibit B: Depends on your VPN product, but I can see the problem there.

  4. Re:One of Our Cancers on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 1

    .com sites are under the jurisdiction of the US government, as .za sites are under the South African government. Just because the rest of the world can register in either one without being a citizen, doesn't change this. A court order to seize a .com can only be issued by a US court, and only the domain can be seized if the physical servers are not on US soil.

  5. Cool..... on GNU/Linux and Enlightenment Running On a Fridge · · Score: 1

    It's cold out here all alone at the top with a nice UI.

  6. Re:What if.. on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 1

    Or just boot init=/bin/sh and reset the password. I'm amazed how few people actually understand how I can get into their server when they've forgotten the root password. That's why securing the console is so damned important.

  7. Re:Good Guys or Bad Guys? on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 1

    Then why is the front page of Wikileaks just about the war logs release. Why can't I easily get to any of the other documents released over the last few years any more?

  8. Re:Paywalled on Cellphone Carriers Try To Control Signal Boosters · · Score: 1

    Odd behavior here, I have a unpaid registration with NY Times and it got me to the article like they have done in the past with some of their articles.

    Doesn't seem like a paywall.

  9. Re:Worried? on 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges · · Score: 2, Informative

    They patented how the blocks would interlock and work together. Google link to the patent. http://www.google.com/patents?id=dNtXAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=3005282#v=onepage&q&f=false

  10. Re:Worried? on 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the patent on the Lego block has expired, which is why you can buy buckets of plain blocks from other manufacturers that interlock with Lego lego. And is also why Lego has been whoring itself to every movie/tv franchise possible. If I cannot be the only kid on the block with blocks, I'll be the only one with Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean.

    So yes, you can make Legos blocks by 3D printer, or by injection mold, and sell them and Lego GMBH can do nothing. But don't do Hermione or Captain Jack :)

    If I'm wrong about the patent, flame me please.

  11. Re:Sonic Screwdriver on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    He is The Doctor, not Doctor Who.

  12. Re:It's tougher than you think... on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 1

    FYI MS Office 2003 has Tools -> Letters and Mailings -> Mail Merge that can read from several data sources including ODBC connections. Just tested now against a MySQL connection and it can read tables from there.

  13. Re:The Plaintiff? on In Court? Be Careful What You Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    That line is from the poster, not the judge. The judge said what in the quotes.

  14. Re:It's back now on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, they just took down the site to copy it to the NSA.

  15. Re:Sigh on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could just try Blizzard's online store which still has it for sale.

  16. Re:Irony on The Story of Dealing With 33 Attorneys General · · Score: 1

    The sense I got from the news articles was of without payment, there was no service at all. Whether that was reality or perception by the users, I don't know.

  17. Re:Irony on The Story of Dealing With 33 Attorneys General · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dunno about the legality of it, but not being able to remove comments would prevent a slippery slope of editing the public record.

    All forums but one I belong to don't allow originators or commentators to remove posts because they would break the flow of the conversation. Admittedly that's about seventeen of however many millions there are.

    Consider a meat-space equivalent. Some white guy shouts something nasty at a crowd of blacks in Detroit. The news crews have filmed the incident from the start to the riot where the hospital is burned to the ground. Now the white guy goes and asks the film crews to cut his words out so that it looks like he was just standing there when the crowd went wild by itself.

  18. Re:Irony on The Story of Dealing With 33 Attorneys General · · Score: 4, Informative

    This ain't about free speech, this is a method of extortion they took down.

    "Oh, somebody posted something nasty about you. Pay $20 to take it down." Like that isn't ripe for abuse by the site admins. "Hmm, BillG1020 lives in a wealthy neighbourhood. Clickety-clickety. Let's see how long he takes."

    It's a real pity the AG's didn't go further and block removal of comments at all. That's why Slashdot works so well, nasty crud gets modded down most times, but it's still there for the dirty minded buggers to read if they want. You're free to say it and I'm free to ignore it.

  19. Re:Too simplistic a model on Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics · · Score: 1

    The latest thinking on the tributes is that they aren't gifts for the alpha cat. Some big cats and a lot of the smaller ones are storage predators, they haul the carcass somewhere safe to eat. Leopards pull them up trees, cougars often take them back to dens etc. Fluffy is just taking his mouse to a safe territory where no other cat can get it. Nice to think they think your house is safe.

  20. Re:Open? on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 1

    There's a collapsible section at the end of a Wikipedia page. Hmm, new thing learned for today. Check.

  21. Re:Just Goldstone is Being Worked On? on NASA Revamps Historic 4-Million-kg Mars Antenna · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe only this one is experiencing the problems with the bearing surface at this point.

    I agree we need more antennae for this work, especially with the increase in probes that NASA is supposed to be making.

  22. Re:Prohibition? on Don't Stop File-Sharing, Says Former Pink Floyd Manager · · Score: 1

    Consider ASCAP's recent attack on the EFF and Creative Commons. If they get some heavily restrictive law passed, you'll find people who wanted to publish using CC not bothering because CC is illegal and they don't want the protected shite that ASCAP pushes.

  23. Re:security holes of releasing source code on Microsoft Opens Source Code To KGB's Successor Agency · · Score: 1

    Careful there, the FSB just happened to have the right number of warm bodies spying for America/et-al hanging around behind bars to do the swap immediately after the debacle started.

    Keystone kops or ready to extract 10 spies whose job is done and are ready to come home? Just a thought

  24. Re:It's not "trade" on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Utter bull. Your right to life for example. Without a government willing to protect it by enforcing punishments, pleading "I have a right to live" to the chap with a gun is utterly meaningless.

    Your famed right to free speech. Again, without a government to protect it, you'll probably end up dead because you dared to speak out about somebody with a weapon lording it over you.

    Your rights are there and protected because a group of people representing society decided it is better that way and society agreed with that decision. Whether that group is a small number of people or an corrupt, massive, money-wasting bureaucracy, it is still government.

  25. Re:We All Wish on Climategate's Final Days · · Score: 1

    And even if it was linear, if the temperature difference between 0% and 95% CO2 is 100 degrees, then 5% is an extra 5 degrees. For a lot of places, that's the difference between life and death in the short term.