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  1. Re:The status quo on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    They yell at you? The just disconnect me once or twice a week while I'm at work.

  2. Re:The status quo on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    This begs the question, "Just how hard is to learn Swedish?"

  3. Re:Alcohol fuel is unsuitable for present engine t on Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Good. When the gas engine dies maybe that SUV will be replaced with a vehicle that doesn't suck.

  4. Mattress folder on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I use a mattress folder for all of my links to porn. Under the mattress. Get it. cough. But in all seriousness, the "see your bookmarks while you type in the URL field" functionality annoys me only because it seems to be sucking down memory like there is no tomorrow going through the list. I have thousands of bookmarks. Most of them are probably to specific pages in a documentation site on my NAS at home. What? I'm old. Computers are here to make up for my loss of memory! Anyway, the whole thing doesn't really get to me much. I see it as something they put in because the majority of people probably like it. What does bother me to the point of anger is the "+" sign to open a new tab and no "X" on the first tab. If I wanted IE dysfunctionality I would still use the OS it works on. If anyone knows how to disable this new "feature" please let me know. I'm too lazy to move to chrome.

  5. Re:SOCIALISM! on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    Dont stop. That is my favorite song!

    DooM dooM DooM d00m...

    6 days later

    DooM dooM DooM d00m...

  6. Re:Slashkos on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since someone has already posted about the children of the disadvantaged I won't add that to my post.

    You don't understand the issue. You, and too many people, assume everyone is the same as you. Your intelligent, healthy, and probably from a fortunate middle class family. You, and most people, judge other people using yourself as the measure. This is completely normal. However, it is not an accurate measure. Your not aware that people have limitations. Seemingly normal people have disorders that effect their futures, and they are usually oblivious to them. This will probably shock you; but, there are people that leave high school because their mental capacity has been reached. They might have a learning disorder that keeps them from grasping higher math, like ADD. They might not be able to put together long paragraphs of text for advanced literature classes because of dyslexia. They might not be able to comprehend complex descriptions like you find in test in reading comprehension, because of short-term phonological, visuo spatial, episodic or even long term semantic memory issues. *Your probably snikering about phonological memory issues; but, people that move their mouths when they read remember things phonologically* Anyway, these are all genetically passed traits. And no, you do not have to look like you have down syndrome to have these issues. You probably regard them as white trash, trailer park, nigger... The people in their family do poorly, they do poorly, and they do their best to avoid being tested. You need to understand that this is not "people being lazy". If you see someone shy away from doing something that benefits them it is rarely because the don't see the benefit. I will give you 9:1 odds it is a fear of failing a task. The fear of failing is the most prominent "disease" in human beings. Ironically, being good at trying is truthfully the only thing a person actually must be good at. People with these disadvantages get so beat up with failure because their lives are filled with it. They just stop trying. If people close to you failed, you failed, and your constantly being looked down on by people with a boat load more advantages, then you would better understand this issue.

  7. Re:Thank goodness on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 1

    That was my only complaint. The new Starbuck didn't objectify women.

  8. Re:The era of the silicon chip is gone. on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 1

    Buy your book or smoke your weed? If that later produces that output I'm buy'n!

  9. Re:is this for desktop or server ? on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 1

    It better extend it more than 3 times, even at that price!

  10. Re:problematic for some: on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 1

    drive? myself? Oh it was supposed to be a +1 funny post. Sorry.

  11. Re:My Computer ... on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! I was thinking grilled cheese sandwiches but that is WAY better.

  12. Re:Great on AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    A large company without a "FU, we can make changes any time we want" clause in a contract? Maybe if you signed it in 1950.

  13. Not a surprise on College Credits For Trolling the Web? · · Score: 1

    Students of religious schools have been the majority of people involved in "make changes" to things from tv shows to government issues for years. Anyone that has picked up a customer complaint phone for a media company can verify this. They call several times; and, each time they give you a different name. I knew they were prompted to do it but I had no idea it was part of a curriculum.

  14. Monitors can not be used this way. on Playing a First-Person Shooter Using Real Guns · · Score: 1

    I've tried. They just stop showing the pretty pictures.

  15. Re:Won't hold up on Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents · · Score: 1

    Or the Patent process involves "gifts".

  16. Painful on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    I think it would be very painful for the human and would probably make the chip too wet to work properly. But if someone REALLY wanted to I guess there is nothing stopping them.

  17. Re:Some Answers to the questions asked here... on How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    2. The Linksys is re-secured - but I hadn't thought of that being owned - so I have to now do a firmware upgrade on that - Thanks for the suggestion.

    You really should look into putting ntop and tcpdump on the router. (I'm assuming it is running Linux obviously) These tools are indescribably helpful when diagnosing intrusions.

    http://www.ntop.org/news.html
    http://openmaniak.com/tcpdump.php

    If your router isn't running Linux, and you can afford the extra electricity costs, put together a Linux or BSD firewall for him.

  18. Three things to look for. on How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are seeing netbios over tcp (port 445) traffic and he is not uploading/downloading files via the "My Network Places" interface he is most likely infected with a trojan.

    If your seeing random high port to random high port traffic (ports 1024 - 65535 connecting to another ports 1024-65535) and he isn't doing P2P then he most likely is infected and the infection is trying to set up the machine as part of a bot net and trying to infect others.

    If you are seeing UDP traffic on a consistent port on his machine to random high ports (1024-65535) on the outside, his machine is an active server in a bot net.

  19. It is the bios not the drivers on Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced 99.9% of issues people have with sound hardware are due to the bios. Linux has always supported my.... Let me start over. I have always purchased Linux compatible hardware for the device I'm making. I've had laptops with compatible hardware that did not have sound. Everytime that happened it turned out to be a bios issue.

  20. idiocrocy on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, all of the references seem to be based around an alpha-male jock and a submissive cheerleader-style wife.

    Unfortunately, the reproductive process of these to variants are successful. I suggest getting in touch with your inner dumbass (her as well) and make kids that are competent enough to turn the idiocrocy tide, instead of reading up on it. Sometimes it is good to put down the book.

  21. Re:Think of the Monkeys! on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1

    doh! monkey.

  22. Think of the Monkeys! on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1

    Why do people have to constantly fsck with the money?

  23. Micro Open on Microsoft Redefines "Open Standards" · · Score: 1

    They should give it their own name. I prefer Micro Open. That way they can sue people that use names like Pico Open, Barely Open, and Totally not hardly even close to Open.

  24. Re:Spam eradication on Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server · · Score: 1

    Wave. A MIMEXML, XMPP/SMTP hybrid type thing. http://wave.google.com/

  25. A better "THE" fix already exists on Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server · · Score: 1

    Although it is not 100% effective, having a spam filter in front of the email server is the best solution IMHO. Solutions like this let traffic hit the mail server before stopping it as spam. Other than it being annoying to users, the big issue with spam is lots of small connections slowing down the system. Letting a EHLO for each of the spam hits despite filtering it away before completion is not helpful. But then, it might depend on if your an end user that hates getting spam or an admin that hates what spam actually does to your mail server.