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  1. Re:Gumstix on MiniOn ARM Microcontroller Programming System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I understand correctly, Gumstix is a closed source (hardware and software) platform that costs in the low hundreds-of-dollars range, while MiniOn is open source (hardware and software) system that you are intended to build yourself.

    Your comment seems alot like replying to the "Slackware 12.1 Released" topic saying "How is this different from Windows Vista, which has..."

  2. Re:First Amendment covers ads? on Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction · · Score: 1

    Well, the US government doesn't get a fee every time someone sends an email. Thinks that generate revenue for the government get a little leeway :D.

  3. Re:You're wrong about this one on Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset · · Score: 1

    Point taken, thanks.

  4. I fail? Really? on Is Google Neglecting Blogger? · · Score: 1

    You can upload your own index.html, you just can't set it as the default page to serve. Big fucking deal, you have to make your users type in an extra couple characters to get to your page. That wasn't even the issue I was responding to, much less a serious issue for a FREE host that doesn't allow any of the features necessary for a decent webpage anyways.

  5. Re:Just like Google Page Creator on Is Google Neglecting Blogger? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I call bullshit, to parent and all the responses.

    Open page creator, look to the right at "uploaded stuff", click browse, select html file.
    http://noglorp.googlepages.com/firefox.htm
    - theres the firefox start page, saved and then uploaded to page creator. It looks all fucked because the image paths don't work, but the html itself it totally unmodified.

  6. Re:Why should this upset them? on Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset · · Score: 0

    Unlike Windows users, however, a virus can't transparently hide itself and make itself run at boot. At best it can make a file named ".totallynotavirus" and add itself to your login script, which isn't too hard to spot. A virus run by a user certainly can't corrupt your virus protection (after sneaking past).

    You don't end up with the problem of "I wonder if I have malware-x on my computer, time to boot a different OS from CD and browse my filesystem to check".

  7. Re:Mod Parent Redundant! on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 3, Funny

    I find repetition funny, that's why I watch Family Guy.

    *someone gets hurt*
    Aah... Aah...
    Aah... Aah...
    ...

  8. Or worse! on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 1

    Or worse, www.3musketeers.com

  9. Re:Is it wrong... on Google Announces Summer of Code 2008 Projects · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Parent is quite right in my opinion. The worst I've heard of from Google (in terms of privacy - Chinese relations are another issue) was analyzing emails and displaying apropos advertisements. Without logging them. To which I say, if you are embarrassed by computer programs reading your emails, talk to a psychiatrist. ~nog_lorp

  10. Re:How do I tell...? on Top Botnets Control Some 1 Million Hijacked Computers · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I keep hearing about these penicillin resistant bugs... and what will penicillin do about computer viruses?

  11. Re:To be fair, mathemeticians didn't know math eit on Psychologists Don't Know Math · · Score: 1

    Good method. Since the density of primes is higher than the density of squares, a number that is not divisible by anything less than its root will probably not have an integer root.

    Number of primes less than 1,000,000,000: (approximated with x/ln(x))
    48254942.433694647516792102101845
    Number of squares less than 1,000,000,000:
    31622.776601683793319988935444327

  12. Re:Real headline on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, it is free as in thought. They give you plans for it. There is a 'not-for-profit' store for kits, setup by reprap.org - http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/PartsSupplies

  13. Real headline on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 2, Informative

    The real news here is, "RepRap has reached it's goal of being self-replicating". I'd heard they were striving for that, but this is a cool achievement.

  14. A great game. on The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History · · Score: 1

    Zombies ate my neighbors was awesome.

  15. Re:On the fence on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    if you see a link to a file called 8yo_lolita_sucking_cowboyneal_dry.avi and you deliberately attempt to download that file from a forum with known cp issues well then what can you expect. Yeah, that video sucked.
  16. Re:There's no winning with some people on Verizon, Fiber Or Die? · · Score: 1

    And kiss their feet while you're at it!

  17. RIP on Obituary For the Sony Trinitron · · Score: 1

    Rest In Peace, Trinitron. I don't remember the last monitor I had the wasn't a Trinitron.

  18. From the front page on Ohloh Tracks Open Source Developers · · Score: 1
    Ohloh says

    Mozilla Firefox 89 contributors, written in JavaScript.
  19. Re:How about on Airport Security Prize Announced · · Score: 1

    That'd be more than 25 cents per passenger, no dice :D. Plus, you might want them to have rubber bullets!

  20. Eliminate it? on Airport Security Prize Announced · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary says nothing about maintaining security. Just abolish it, or limit it to the bare minimum and then have an air-marshal on every plain to stop people with box-cutters.

  21. Yes, but on Smart Rubber Promises Self-Mending Products · · Score: 1

    I think the remark was more about the fact that hydrogen bonds are weaker than the other types mentioned.

  22. Computer != Ford Rover on Antivirus Inventor Says Security Pros Are Wasting Time · · Score: 1
    This seems like "collection of bad analogies between computer security and car safety."

    About passwords, if you've enforced strong passwords, and used a non-shitty hashing algorithm, it doesn't matter if someone gets your password file. With the best passwords, it doesn't mean a cracker will "only get 2000 of the 5000", it means he will be lucky to get ONE in his LIFETIME.
    As for the "arrow in the sunroof" analogy, I'm sure this possibility would get plenty of attention if, say, you had an average of thousands of arrow-assassination attempts per day.

    "If a product can be cracked, it's sometimes thrown out and considered useless," he observed. "But automobile seatbelts only prevent fatalities about 50 percent of the time." If a product can be cracked, it will result in "security fatalities" 100% of the time. Given those odds, we wouldn't be using seat-belts.
  23. 32 gb for $499 on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with iPod Classic, 80gb for $250 or 160gb for $350, thanks.

  24. Who will challenge after the year... on Reform Could Kill EFF "Patent Busting Project" · · Score: 1

    If, after one year, noone has 'come to harm' anyways, it is likely there will be noone to challenge the patent. If this is the case, no responsible company would cause itself to come to harm in order to then challenge the patent.

  25. Re:I thought those things were already broken on Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked · · Score: 1

    In RuneScape "Botting", an application was developed where captcha's were typed reciprocally, sit and type captchas for 5 minutes and you'd get 50 captchas typed for you later. It was called "sleepwalker".