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  1. Imagine on Vacation Photos That Inform Instead of Bore · · Score: 1

    GPS Data + compass information embedded in photos worldwide

  2. RTFA on Google Wins Nude Thumbnail Legal Battle · · Score: 5, Informative

    The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals undid a preliminary injunction, issued last year by a Los Angeles District Court, that had kept the Web search giant from displaying thumbnail-size photographs of images owned by Perfect 10 Inc. that other sites had improperly posted.

  3. Weak stack on Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes · · Score: 1

    This is what 14,000 post-it notes look like:

    Another day at the office?

  4. Re:Does anyone even use this OS? on CentOS 5 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.rocksclusters.org/

    ROCKS cluster at our university's department of economics.
    There is a couple of clusters registered on the site, too.

    Wikipedia says:
    "Rocks Cluster Distribution is a Linux distribution intended for computer clusters. Rocks is based on CentOS, but uses a modified anaconda installer that simplifies mass installation onto many computers."

  5. Re:20 minutes on How Long Does it Take You to Tweak a New Box? · · Score: 1

    To backup package cache and sources sudo tar cvf apt.tar /etc/apt/ /var/lib/apt/ /var/cache/apt/ To restore sudo tar xvf apt.tar -C /

  6. Re:Monoculture bad ... on US University Dumps Windows to go All Mac · · Score: 1

    heheh I was sure someone was going to say that.

  7. Re:Monoculture bad ... on US University Dumps Windows to go All Mac · · Score: 1

    Lay off the bold and caps! Stop being SO condescending!

    We can understand what you write, you don't need to EMPHASIZE every other word.

  8. Re:Profit? on ODF Threat to Microsoft in US Governments Grows · · Score: 1

    In the case of private companies, I hope shareholders will quickly kick the stubbornness out of them.

  9. Re:Anyone have the mirror? on MS Dirty Tricks Archive Trickles Back Online · · Score: 1

    These are not text, they are Scanned PDF for a total of a couple hundred MB.

  10. Re:Access to proprietary software and codecs on Canonical and Linspire Make a Deal · · Score: 1

    Forgot something. In my opinion the industry would adapt or die to such a situation; it would most likely adapt.

  11. Re:Access to proprietary software and codecs on Canonical and Linspire Make a Deal · · Score: 1

    Aaah but you'll need to give us some example industries to make your question legitimate. Before saying "Software industry", read this article about the gift economy which explains that most "followers of RMS" believe in one way or another in a viable worldwide software gift economy. Base further criticism on this.

  12. Re:Cold and MSHeartless. on Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online · · Score: 1

    not only profitable for their company, but for computing as a whole.

    From PX03096.pdf :

    "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software." This is the mission statement of Microsoft itself; it is the definition of the conditions under which Microsoft itself can declare overall victory. P.5 on the PDF

    "We're Just Here to Help Developers" is striked;
    "We Are Here to Help MICROSOFT" PP. 10-11

    ISVs are just pawns in the struggle P.13.

  13. Site down on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Just let it go on The Physics of Santa · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA, of course. Merry Christmas!

  15. Just let it go on The Physics of Santa · · Score: 1

    This guy really couldn't let go his childhood beliefs.

  16. Re:Here's my secret on Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't buy from such a site. Keyword spamming makes it look like a typical spam site. You can be ranked 1st in Google but it's the sales that count.

  17. mod parent up on Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? · · Score: 1

    for great justice

  18. Re:Numb3rs : Sacrifice on Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nota Bene : I still think this show sucks.

  19. Numb3rs : Sacrifice on Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of an episode of numb3rs (spoiler?) in which software which statistically analyzes the "potential" of an young individual is found (episode name: Sacrifice) way more than Minority Report.

  20. Re:Fair enough on Yahoo Pushing IE7 On Firefox Users · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google are hosting the official firefox homepage and are the default search engine. They are paying Mozilla for this.

  21. Re:How is this better than dodgeit.com? on Easy Throw-Away Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are now members with their real address.
    Indeed I never returned to a board I couldn't sign up on with dodgeit, but that doesn't mean I didn't want to join the board in the first place.

  22. Re:Incompetence on Birmingham Drops Open Source Initiative · · Score: 1

    We're talking here about not even looking at a possible alternative. Would you hire an IT manager who wouldn't even consider using Windows anywhere because of [whatever unreasonable reason]? Yeah that's what I thought.

  23. Re:Incompetence on Birmingham Drops Open Source Initiative · · Score: 1

    IT managers around the world take the decision not to look at Linux at all. Talk about a laaaaaame IT manager...

  24. Re:thawte offers free x.509 certificates . . . on PGP Is 15 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Why would the proxy have the valid cert of the other site? He could have a cert for itself, But he couldn't get a certificate for the domain name im requesting...

  25. Re:thawte offers free x.509 certificates . . . on PGP Is 15 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Your link doesn't say anything about an SSL man in the middle attack. It's just an SSL reverse Proxy for a Web server. You can set this up with properly configured apache modules.