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  1. Re:Let the complaints begin . . . on iPhone 3.0 Software Announced · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clever post, I enjoyed it the first time you posted it.

  2. AndNav2 for Android on Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Android has AndNav2 which now also provides audible turn-by-turn directions using OpenStreetMap data. And you can report bugs in the map data too. http://www.andnav.org/

  3. Stone tablets on Long-Term Personal Data Storage? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very durable. Write speed is a bit slow though...

  4. One ups Yahoo & Hadoop on Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It looks like Google saw Yahoo crowing about winning the 1 TB sort contest using Hadoop and decided to one up them!

    Let's see if Yahoo responds!

  5. Laptop Found on "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO · · Score: 1

    They found the missing laptop in the room where it was supposed to be:

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/05/financial/f102608D05.DTL&tsp=1

  6. Bad inference on Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot · · Score: 1

    From your description it sounds like the Judge ruled that the statute did not apply because the email was personal (not commercial), not because the subject line was true. Regardless of whether the judge was correct that it was personal, the judge did not rule that you own Slashdot.

  7. Please use Text Messages on A Technology Report From A San Diego Fire Shelter · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I think one important thing that was hinted at by the summary, and mentioned more explicitly in the article is this:

    Is everything working as it should? Any glitches?

    ...The one message local media could have been better communicating is for evacuees to use cell phones only when they are necessary and then to try and limit the use to texting.

    If you're in an emergency area, please minimize your voice use, and try to use text messages instead as they are much more lightweight on the cell networks. And pass the message on to those around you.
  8. Re:is webmail to blame on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Run mailtraq (or some other local POP3 Server).
    Import your old mail into a mailtraq mailbox.
    Tell Gmail to download mail from another email account(i.e. your localhost)

    Everything should be preserved.

  9. Re:wayback machine on Companies That Clean Up Bad Online Reputations · · Score: 1

    I followed your suggestion and went to look. However, it seems to say this:

    "How can I remove my site's pages from the Wayback Machine?

    The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection. By placing a simple robots.txt file on your Web server, you can exclude your site from being crawled as well as exclude any historical pages from the Wayback Machine."

    and further down it says:

    "Sometimes a web site owner will contact us directly and ask us to stop crawling or archiving a site, and we endevor to comply with these requests. When you come accross a 'blocked site error' message, that means that a siteowner has made such a request and it has been honored."

    http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#The_Wayback_ Machine

  10. Re:22/7 on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    Really? Doesn't look right to me, seeing as how it is less than 3.

  11. Re:I tried it. on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 4, Informative

    5) At then end you can mouse over the images, and it shows you "what the other idiot suggested"

  12. Re:IANAL, but... on New Dismissal Motion in File Sharing Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it is a criminal offense evidence must be "beyond a shadow of a doubt"

    Make that "beyond a reasonable doubt". There's very often a shadow of a doubt. It's just not always reasonable.

  13. Re:Log everything... on How Do You Store and Reconcile Email Archives? · · Score: 1

    lol

  14. Re:Shocked, shocked I am on Mathematics of the Social Security "Crisis" · · Score: 1

    I did read the article, which was quite good. I think you've mistaken some claims and exaggerated others, so I wanted to clear it up a bit.

    According to the article, the actuaries make three forecasts, an optimisitic, an intermediate, and a pessimistic one. It is in the intermediate scenario that benefits are cut to 70%, while in the optimistic scenario there is 100% solvency. They did not give details about the pessimistic scenario.

    I agree the currect deficit is a much bigger issue.

  15. Consistent? on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else puzzled at why "britney spears" is the #1 overall query but also appears as #4 on the public figures list? If she is a public figure and the largest query, then why isn't she #1 there too? Do they have some method or classifying "britney spears" queries in to those that are public figure queries and those that are not?

  16. Changes from Release Candidate? on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does anyone know if there are any changes between this and the release candidate, and what they are?

  17. Re:I didn't RTFA, but on Transmeta To Add 'NX' Antivirus Feature To Chips · · Score: 1

    Looking at Google for "shell code" shows that it is used both ways.

  18. Re:I didn't RTFA, but on Transmeta To Add 'NX' Antivirus Feature To Chips · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. I guess the phrase is used both ways.

  19. Re:I didn't RTFA, but on Transmeta To Add 'NX' Antivirus Feature To Chips · · Score: 1

    I don't think this will help with shell code, because that is interpreted at a higher level than the machine anyway, hence it is read as data not executed as machine code. If you replace shell code with machine code, then I think it's a good example.

    So this is definitely not gonna solve all buffer overflows, but hopefully will help with some.

  20. Let the silly guesses begin.. on Cryptic Code Stumps Experts · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do Orcas Under Oceans Swim Very Acrobatically Via Virtuous Movement?

  21. Re:Duh on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 2, Funny

    However in city traffic jam traffic, it shines big time... Unfortunately most of our time on the road isn't in these conditions in the USA.

    You and I either have a different definition of "unfortunate", or we differ about liking to drive in traffic jams.

  22. Re:10 per day? on Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn · · Score: 1

    So, they're applying for 10 a day, and receiving 10 a week. That's quite a lot, but I don't see any contradictions.

  23. Amen on How Should One Review a Distribution? · · Score: 1

    It also seems like most sources of information are not updated, or don't give actual recommendations or comparisons between distributions.

    Does anyone maintain a solid comparison of the top 5 or 10 most commonly used distributions along with criteria to for deciding which would best fit my needs?

  24. Re:Hmmm on U.S. Gov Agency Blunders With Keyword Blacklist · · Score: 5, Informative

    Aha, thanks.

    Here's the important info for anyone else who may be curious:

    For those who are found to be within Iran, the service is freely accessible through several domain names. As soon as the Iranian authorities block one of the service's domain names or IP addresses, new locations are announced to Iranians through Radio Farda and VOA Persian Radio broadcasts. (Some of these domain names are filtered by some ISPs in Iran and thus inaccessible to users, however even the filtered domains can be accessed by directly entering the IP address.)

  25. Hmmm on U.S. Gov Agency Blunders With Keyword Blacklist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, I may be missing something obvious here, but can someone tell me why China and Iran don't just block anonymizer.com?