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  1. Re:Fail on Son of CueCat? Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    You don't want that manual scan step in there. The RFID tag should just be read by your cellphone, looked up and the information that you need spoken directly to your bluetooth headset.

  2. Re:Expectation of privacy on Software Describes Surveillance Footage In AI-Generated Text · · Score: 1

    Not too long ago, people would have branded you a kook had you suggested there would one day be devices that can look under your clothes to capture an image of your skin, genitals, and anything you might be carrying on your person.

    So we will soon know the truth about Lady GaGa?

  3. Re:Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankin on Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity · · Score: 1

    No. Older than that. It's an SROM.

  4. Re:Don't waste your time on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    That's not true. There's a simple diagram which explains everything.

  5. cirrhosis on Metrics Mania and the Countless Counting Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't die of cirrhosis by drinking heavily for a short time. You may die of alcohol poisoning.

  6. Re:The main danger is on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 4, Informative

    Umm. Because the people screening the passengers as they got on were in England maybe?

  7. Re:Hypochondria? on Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to have H. Ross Perot coming into my house and showing me pie charts on outsourcing. You're right, it's very painful.

    Oh, wait. You're talking about some other EDS.

  8. Re:Mostly cultural, not technical on US Needs Secure Coding Office · · Score: 1

    Correct. It needs to be on the bottom of your keyboard or stuck to the side of your monitor, not left out carelessly.

  9. Re:But... on Mandriva Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm...no he's thinking of Mandrake at a time when Red Hat Linux, the desktop distro, as opposed to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the enterprise server distro, was still around.

    I don't think so. Mandrake was the first Linux I installed on a PC. I don't remember what year it was, but you got a shell account with your ISP then. I had the Sparc version of Red Hat on a Sun box at the same time. They were always different. When I switched to Red Hat on the PC the directory layout was different from Mandrake. Also, I instantly got a worm (the Ramen worm) when I installed Red Hat. They didn't lock down services by default. It was pretty annoying.

  10. Re:Not really on Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What it does show is that the average target price for a game seems to be 1.80$USD.

    I don't think people think that way - dividing the total by the number of games. I think that they averaged spending $9 and some would have done it for one game or three games. The fact that there were five in the bundle just meant that more people were willing to participate.

  11. Re:But... on Mandriva Up For Sale · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're thinking of CentOS. Mandriva is a separately maintained distro. It takes a lot of work to test and package a distro.

  12. Re:From the same guys... on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and Greece stopped them with only 300 men.

  13. Re:Wow... on Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale · · Score: 1

    I sure hope those "IT Dept" folks have emails archived indicating the request to do this.

    The "We were only following orders" defense didn't work out so well for the last guys that used it. It doesn't matter who told you to do it when you're breaking the law and you know it.

  14. Took long enough on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    The font designers couldn't work with web technologies until recently. New AMD processors are finally hot enough to melt lead.

  15. Re:Copyright weirdness on Supreme Court To Consider First Sale of Imports · · Score: 1

    What this case about isn't copying at all: it's about buying a legitimate item from the publisher (through its distributor and retailer), then taking it somewhere else and reselling it as second-hand.

    Not true. If Costco was calling the watches second-hand I don't think Omega would have a problem with it. They're selling brand new watches. So the question is: Does copyright law allow control of sale and distribution? (yes) and is Costco violating that? (hmmm)

    Maybe Costco should claim that all watches are second-hand (also hour and minute-hand).

  16. Re:Obvious solution on The Mystery of the Missing Methane · · Score: 1

    A factor of 7000 is not too much different than a slightly different Earth might look. Our actual mix of 387 ppmv CO2 vs. 1.79 ppmv CH4 is partly due to the afore-mentioned cow population. Maybe it's a similar planet that never evolved Ray Kroc.

  17. Re:This weekend, or two weeks ago? on Massive Number of GoDaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked · · Score: 1

    There is also this article from March 2 about a Wordpress vulnerability.

  18. Re:And is reportedly satisfied with the results on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    He'll just have to face up to it.

  19. Re:Clearly Google is to blame! on Blippy Exposes Credit Card Numbers Through Simple Google Search · · Score: 1

    Normal logic? You mean "shoot the messenger"?

  20. Re:This isn't a new issue... on After DNA Misuse, Researchers Banished From Havasupai Reservation · · Score: 1

    What's really troubling about Moore v. Regents is the undisclosed conflict of interest. It was in the physicians' interests to remove his spleen and draw samples because they kept and profited from the cells. If Moore had gone to a different doctor who was just providing him with treatment and not doing research would he have received the same care?

  21. Re:For a program so hard to turn off on McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, did anyone at McAfee even bother to test this dat on a Windows XP machine?

    If proofreading is any indication, testing their work is not McAfee's strong point. From the link:

    "The affected systems will enter a reboot loop and loose all network access."

  22. Re:Yield... on Hidden Cores On Phenom CPUs Can Be Unlocked · · Score: 1

    Depends on the cost of making and maintaining multiple designs. It isn't just a mask set, it's a whole new design/simulate/layout cycle. And since I/O and shared cache takes a lot of chip area, the benefit is not linear with the number of cores. My guess is that it's cheaper to disable than to redesign.

    That said, the disabled cores are very likely not tested, so there is no guarantee that you won't start getting some weird errors if you enable them.

  23. Re:The first thing I will watch via Quantum Video? on Quantum Cryptography Now Fast Enough For Video · · Score: 1

    In the Quantum Star Wars, Han shot first and second.

  24. Re:In five years... on What Will the Browser Look Like In Five Years? · · Score: 1

    It'll be so dumbed down that everything we love about it will be dead and it'll be just another appliance for Joe Sixpack. Don't you love average users?

    Clearly, you never used Mosaic.

  25. Re:What's the point? on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Serves him right for being an idiot. He should get fired, if for no other reason than it might discourage these kinds
    of people from leaving data devices lying around. Would you still feel the same way if it was a laptop containing
    200,000 SSNs or a few million credit card records?

    More likely he was showing it off in the bar and someone stole it.