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  1. 4 minutes ???? wtf ???? on Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System? · · Score: 1

    Windows XP 4 minutes until a uasable boot? WTF, my old Dell D800 running XP SP3 can get to a usable desktop in 60 seconds or less, and yes I have about 50 applications installed. The trick is to keep your start-up streamlined, and always keep malware off your system.

  2. Re:Good cracking utility? on New Attack Against Multiple Encryption Functions · · Score: 1

    Such a situation would be illegal in most countries, time for court. BTW, next time use ant-virus as I am aware that you have been infected by an encrypting virus and the writers want money to decrypt your data, you were just too embarrassed to tell the truth.

  3. BS on New Attack Against Multiple Encryption Functions · · Score: 1

    This is just more snake oil bunk that really shows no weakness in modern hash functions or algorithms either one.

  4. Re:disgusting fatbodies on New Attack Against Multiple Encryption Functions · · Score: 1

    WTF? He said he likes to mop, not mopeds, get your decryption right.

  5. YEAH!!!! on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Truecrypt rocks harder every release. I think it is now safe to say they have superseded Drivecrypt Plus Pack DCPP which costs hundreds of dollars. It is also probably safe to say they have in essence created the best encryption software available, commercial or free, and in an open source environment to top it off. LMAO @ rot13 "first post"

  6. After all this time...... on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 1

    .... the nuts with the tin foil hats no longer look so crazy anymore.

  7. Technically 28,140 years old...... on Youngest Galactic Supernova Found, But No Aliens · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uhhhh... wouldn't that be 28,140 years old, being as the light from a 140 year old supernova has traveled through space for 28,000 years to the point where Earthling Astronomers are observing it?

  8. Re:Mortality on Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90 · · Score: 1

    And so, the last of the Holy Trinity Of Science Fiction has shunned his mortal coil. We wish you the best on whatever journey awaits you Sir Arthur. "Will I dream?" http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/dream.wav

  9. Re:uh on Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent · · Score: 1

    Basically makes it possible for "the powers that be" to trace all photographs to the person who made them, scary when you think about it. Mostly useless for copyright since it would probably be possible to reverse engineer the system and alter/remove the watermark.

  10. Re:Oblig. Quote: on ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect · · Score: 1

    Interesting reference.

    Perhaps censorship should be considered damage on the internet?

    "The Internet" is a huge distributed computer system, almost an organism, damage the information that is present and the system (internet users) will route around the damage to make the information whole again, kinda like an immune system.

  11. Re:Forget exploding batteries, on New Dell Laptops Give Users a Literal Shock · · Score: 1

    In my current residence the ground side of the plugs are not connected to anything. Sucks, but the house is 70 years old and has cheap rent. I just have to make sure we never produce a condition of wet floor and bare feet around metal appliances. My ol'iron duke Dell Latitude D800 will shock a person if they touch (just right with the edge of your wrist) the edges of the metal LCD back cover. Kinda feels like a slight cigarette burn or something. This is not that uncommon when high voltages are involved such as used in the LCD backlight.

  12. Re:We will never have flying cars in the mainstrea on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    I can see a not-too-distant future where we don't manually drive vehicles anyway, would be safer, with new technology autopiloted flying cars will most likely one day exist.

  13. Re:But on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    At least it doesn't run Windows, or it would be crashed to bits already.

  14. Re:Poor Sky Captain on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    At $131,700 some chick who usually buys and sells shampoo and hair care products seems like an unlikely buyer. This hints of the $11 Million General Lee car a little while back, person claimed a hacked account and tried to hide under a name change.

  15. Re:Interesting configuration. on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    Horrendously inefficient, there would be no lift at all other than the fans. Why not build the same thing with ducted fans? I think modern electric motor and computer technology could do a better job, but still not quite a "Jetson car" like everybody wants.

  16. Re:hey guess what? on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    Anonymous racist cowards suck.

  17. Re:great news? on Startrek.com Shutting Down · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably end up with a cybersquatting fake search page on it like all the other premium domains that are abandoned. Or autoforward to the main CBS site.

  18. Flushed! on Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press · · Score: 1

    Well, thats it. One of the basic foundations of freedom in the USA is/has just been flushed down the toilet. Such protection for the president makes him/(future her) no more than a dictator(Hitler, Hussein etc...). We are becoming the enemy that we are trying to fight.

  19. Again??? on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    Ain't there always something that means that "the end times" are drawing near???? Seems like every time anything happens "its the end times"....

  20. Funny...... on Why Vista Won't Suck · · Score: 1

    LMAO..... funny but don't a lot of those "improvements" sound like things that Linux has offered for years ????????? hmmmmmmmm

  21. Re:GTA 4 wth ???? on Recovering From the Xbox 360's Big Mistakes · · Score: 1

    LMAO "Rockstar is not a company that values consistency above all else".....Oh well, at least their games kick ass!!!

  22. Re:Don't be so certain. on Recovering From the Xbox 360's Big Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it would be stupid to sell exclusive to M$.

  23. Re:GTA 4 wth ???? on Recovering From the Xbox 360's Big Mistakes · · Score: 1

    If that is the case then what is Liberty City Stories, GTA III or GTA IV ???

  24. Engine or Title on Recovering From the Xbox 360's Big Mistakes · · Score: 1

    So technically are we talking about game engines or actual titles, because it was NOT mentioned in the article that he was refering to a game engine, just names.

  25. Re:Don't be so certain. on Recovering From the Xbox 360's Big Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Quote: "I think you seem to have forgotten that San Adreas ran on Windows and Xbox." Yes, HOWEVER, Rockstar Games did not sell it EXCLUSIVELY for Windows and Xbox, thus they did not sell out to M$.