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  1. Re:well super on Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.6 RC, Nears Final · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should take the Microsoft approach and just ignore bugs for a couple months and hope they go away..

  2. Re:Absurd? on Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing · · Score: 1

    What? No one can fix problems with the iPhone because it doesn't have any. The iPhone was created perfect, if you think there's a problem, the problem is with you!

  3. Re:Example of competition gone wrong on Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges" · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the reason you can't use multiple resident scanners is that just one will bring your system to a crawl.
    I wrote: and not just the resident portion

    And I wrote that I used AVG and Clamwin at the same time. I bet I could've run scans with others, I just didn't see the need.

  4. Re:Hang on... on Here We Go Again — Video Standards War 2010 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what I was thinking. It's not two sides, it's three. Whatever is happening between the media companies, their real war is against their customers.

  5. Re:Example of competition gone wrong on Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Photoshop, Illustrator, certain games..

    It's not that they can't run on Linux, it's that they don't.

  6. Re:Power? on New Color E-Reader Tech To Challenge E-Ink Dominance · · Score: 1

    You could use an ARM processor have it draw very little power. Sure, you can't run Windows, but if you're gaming you probably don't care so much about power usage.

  7. Re:Example of competition gone wrong on Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm guessing the reason you can't use multiple resident scanners is that just one will bring your system to a crawl. I don't even want to touch a computer with Norton + McAfee. Back when I used Windows my solution was to have adblock, spybot, AVG and Clamwin and then just scan any programs I downloaded (along with not downloading seedy looking programs). It worked pretty well. If I did have any viruses, none of them were noticable (and my monthly+ scans never picked anything up). I think the need for constantly running virus scanners is seriously overstated, at least for people who know not to run HorseSex.exe.

  8. Re:Uh huh. on Google Applies To Become Energy Marketer · · Score: 1

    Then, presumably you are not their target audience.

  9. Re:EVE Online. on EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say "slow them down". You can easily destroy a battleship with a cheap frigate. With a large number of frigates you could destroy a titan. I stopped playing around when Titans can out so I don't know exactly how many, but I do know it's unlikely that a titan would get a single hit in against a swarm of frigates.

  10. Re:EVE Online. on EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't play anymore, but I think you're wrong about your first point. One of the reasons the Goonswarm is so powerful is that they recruit noobs in frigates and cruisers and then swarm the enemy. It's not like other games where a level 70 player could stand around being hit by a lower level character all day. You can destroy a titan using frigates (and the titan likely wouldn't even be able to fight back, it's only options would be to call for help or run away). If you think you need to have a big ship to do anything fun or "be useful", you're missing the point.

  11. Re:Heh on NASA Mars Rover Spirit May Move Forward By Spinning Its Wheels · · Score: 1

    So in other words, the Martians have significantly more effective missile defense systems than us?

  12. Re:Successfully broken before anybody was using it on Quantum Encryption Implementation Broken · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too bad this has nothing to do with antivirus software or firewalls..

  13. Re:complete whats new and opinions on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem with Mozilla was the absurdly long startup times because it was so bloated. Opera starts up faster than Firefox does for me (with Adblock and Firegestures installed), so I fail to see what the problem is.

  14. Re:Why do I get on Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But in this case they will have a monopoly simply because no one else has bothered to do what they're planning to do. Why should they be punished for being the only ones who want to digitize everything? I read constantly about how horrible it will be that Google will be the only ones doing this, but if people actually thought competition would help, there would already be a competitor.

  15. Re:Pun-ters on EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Well I'm personally waiting for an EPIC win!

  16. Re:Easy money to be made? on FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    What's so hard about 6 graphics cards and 4 power supplies? It's not like you have to hook them up differently. The only hard part would be finding a case they fit in.

  17. Re:So let's change the algorithm. on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the problem is the authentication system, not the gravatar service. I bet you could crack 90% of these by just trying [username]@gmail.com, yahoo.com and hotmail.com.

  18. Re:So let's change the algorithm. on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    But they already have that. They know that korin43 likes computers (and using other websites they could find my name). Now they try every combination of korin43 + common domain name and check md5's to see if it's the right one, but why would they bother? They could skip the md5 step and just send emails. Worst case scenario: They send [number of domains - 1] extra emails (basically free so who cares).

  19. Re:Hurray! on EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise · · Score: 1

    At my old job, the intranet site worked fine in Firefox, but our IT people were morons and insisted that it didn't.

  20. Re:So let's change the algorithm. on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I'm wondering is why this matters at all. A spammer would just send emails [your username]@[every common email domain]. Why would they bother to check if it's the correct address or not?

  21. Re:And what did Monty do? on Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands · · Score: 1

    No, it's the super-saiyan fusion of Hippocrates and Crito.

  22. Re:5 million? on Mediterranean Might Have Filled In Months · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's more like taking dates in a fanfic as canon. If the movie or an official book says something happened in 12 BBY, then it makes sense "in-universe". If some fanfic says the death star was built in 5 billion BBY, no one would take it seriously, but when a Bible fanfic says the world was created in 4004 BC, everyone believes that it's not only canonical, but it's true in real life.

  23. Re:Remind me what that "G" in GNOME stands for aga on GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project · · Score: 1

    Then acronym doesn't make sense anymore, so they could just change the name to "Gnome".

  24. Re:Cool on Robot Can Read Human Body Language · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you read the summary? It can understand body language. This robot is obviously female.

  25. Re:Oh no on The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded informative?? Where's "-1 what has been seen cannot be unseen" when you need it?