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  1. Use at work and home, eh? on Ballmer Says Microsoft Is 'Hardcore' About Tablets · · Score: 1

    "Microsoft’s pitch will be that these slates will be sanctioned by corporate IT departments, enabling customers to use them at work and at home."

    The gaping corporate security hole you just opened, let me show you what can be done with it.

  2. Which Americans? on The Creativity Crisis · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say my creativity isn't declining. Are we talking about the new generation of snowflakes in school?

  3. Re:Evidence on Google Chrome Extension Steals Login Details · · Score: 1

    "Evidence exists that browser plugins and extensions are providing a lot of leaks and possibilities for intrusions."

    *coughFLASHcoughJAVASCRIPTcoughACTIVEXcough*

  4. Re:Have I missed any? on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    "Since this is technical discussion site would you care to flesh your post out with any details of why this happened"

    Our security for timeouts was linked to that timing in Firefox. Firefox changed it to fix Facebook, broke our timing-based security.

    That's about as in-depth as I can go without beginning to reveal details about our infrastructure, which is against NDA.

  5. Re:Let them eat laptops! on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 1

    "a Windows fanfoi no doubt"

    Most likely. AC is just a fool, as most ACs are.

  6. Re:Here's why they did it.. on Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums · · Score: 1

    I've got a *LOT* more pull than you'd suspect.

    Especially when I'm still on the phone with their lawyers right now discussing how I obtained these details to avoid a lawsuit from them.

    Not my fault some of their shareholders are stupid enough to use sites that transmit CC in plaintext.

  7. Re:Sounds good... on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 1

    You can't get smallpox because most of us have contracted chickenpox.

    Back then, smallpox immunization was common. Nowdays, we just get chickenpox and that's it.

  8. Goddammit Dungeon Seige!! on Fan-Developed Ultima VI Remake Released · · Score: 1

    Hey, can we get a remake that DOESN'T require DS to play? We've got plenty of game engines out there for free that are probably good enough to handle this sort of thing.

    Hell, I'm *STILL* playing the ORIGINAL Ultima V through DOSBox. I've got a cloth world map of Brittannia autographed by Richard Garriott himself, using the Lord British moniker.

    REMAKE IT WITH A DIFFERENT ENGINE, PLEASE!!!

  9. Re:Dungeon Siege on Fan-Developed Ultima VI Remake Released · · Score: 1

    I was about to say. I hated having to wait for sunrise to buy myself a damned frigate, or waiting for 1Am/PM for guard rotation so I could get me a magic carpet and sandalwood box.

  10. Here's why they did it.. on Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums · · Score: 0, Troll

    I found a couple of shareholder credit card and security code numbers, and fired off an e-mail with them enclosed, with the clear phrase "Implement RealID, this is what is up at stake, bare minimum."

    I'm brutal, but that's the *ONLY* way you're going to get them to listen. Threaten their money directly, and they'll back the fuck off.

    *waves to Electronic Arts*

  11. Re:Paging Dr. Superbrain on The Proton Just Got Smaller · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I just found a new diversion.

  12. Re:Lets hear it for glass displays on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 1

    "from what I have heard... glass is not a very durable material"

    If it wasn't durable, I doubt they'd use it in cars, airplanes, HUGE buildings.

  13. Re:Let them eat laptops! on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 1

    3 heartbeats without actual heart beating. :D

  14. Re:Let them eat laptops! on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's your definition of a "REAL COMPUTER?"

    Shit that's outdated compared to today's watches put our ass into space.

    It's still a real computer.

  15. Re:Have I missed any? on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Since you can't understand, I'll explain.

    That timing thing they 'fixed' to make farmville work, stopped everything that *WAS* working properly with our test rollout of firefox across our corporate network.

    That very move just got Mozilla blacklisted and banned from our corporate networks, and I had to spend five hours rolling back every bench to IE.

    FUCK MOZILLA.

    Posting using Chrome, now. I removed Firefox from my system because that change makes me unable to work from home.

  16. Re:Sure... on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    FireFox, IceWeasel, ThunderBird, Breezy Badger, Snow Leopard.

    Just accept the entire technology industry is run by furries.

  17. Re:Have I missed any? on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ::grumble grumble:: fixing a fucking FACEBOOK flaw instead of focusing on security.

  18. Re:World is changing on Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ · · Score: 1

    I guess that's why I get modded troll quite often for explaining facts. Low IQ of the masses versus high IQ of the explainer.

    Plus I *AM* an arrogant douchebag, and I really make no qualms about it, either.

  19. Re:And I say on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    "Taste is not a major consideration."

    This is dead wrong. In fact, most of your nutritional value can easily be determined by the taste of the product. The tastier ones ALWAYS have higher nutritional content, from apples to tomatoes.

    GM Mr Stripey for larger fruits - TASTELESS and nutritionally deficient.

    Heirloom Mr. Stripey - smaller tomatoes, 50% additional nutritional value despite the smaller size.

    Our food has been losing quality for the past 50 years, and the USDA isn't too happy about it.

  20. Re:Maybe something everybody can use? on No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British · · Score: 1

    Most people don't bother, and keep driving on the doughnut. They are idiots, doing 90+ on a poorly-secured spare tire meant to handle speeds of 55MPH.

    That is how a LOT of accidents happen in LA.

  21. Re:Alternatives? on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: 1

    All morons in the recycling industry.

    And induction recycling is used for metal removal. You use EMI to heat certain metals and alloys to their melting points along the way, separating them out. It's somewhat like fractional distillation except much more high-tech and with loads of EM radiation. We use it to recover roughly 98% of the materials used in our LED panels. I think we're the only company that uses such technology for their reduce/reuse/recycle program, the rest of the time, induction is used in refining ores.

  22. Re:Already Done on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    "No sane console gamers would buy an A/V card every year,"

    Shit, in the cases of some portables, it doesn't even take NEXT YEAR for the new model to come out and fanbois panties get wet.

  23. Re:Maybe something everybody can use? on No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British · · Score: 1

    'It's certainly not relevant to safe driving."

    Sure, you keep saying that the next time you ask some fool to properly tighten your lug nuts.

    Assuming they can even align the rim to the rotor and not leave it BARELY off-angle so the thing wobbles like mad, and eventually falls off.

  24. Re:Of course we haven't ratified... on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: 1

    "The invisible hand is colour blind."

    No it isn't, we just can't it see in it's chosen EM spectrum, while it sees us across all.

    Equal-opportunity strife.

  25. Re:Alternatives? on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Fiberglass, for instance, is nearly worthless, what could anyone possibly do with the fiberglass from an old circuit board?"

    Shred it and make a new circuit board after de-bonding and a re-deposit in the 'hot' oven.

    "This fiberglass is mixed with small but significant amounts of lead, how would you remove the lead before sending the fiberglass to a landfill?"

    Hi, my name is electromagnetic induction, and today I'll be slowly increasing your temperature to make different materials leach out of you in different steps, so as to cause as little contamination as possible of what is being recycled and reclaimed from you.

    Oh, and it's *REALLY CHEAP* to do, the morons just don't want to build the facilities to make it work.