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  1. Torrent Magnet Link to the Documents on DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  2. Re:SI units, please on Synthetic Materials Set New World Record For Greatest Amount of Surface Area · · Score: 1

    The point is to convey scale, and for the vast majority of people, salt, desktop, gram and football field do a better job of that than 1x10-4 m^3, 1 m^2, gram and 5000 m^2.

  3. news for nerds? on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    With all the shit talking that goes on about the bitcoin stories around here, where's the outrage over this story? This is barely idle-worthy.

  4. Re:Brevity, Brevity, Brevity!! on Book Review: 15 Minutes Including Q&A · · Score: 1

    "Nice guys finish fast"

    I guess that's why nice guys never get the girl.

  5. Re:I think people really need to understand this on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    When you make something illegal that isn't a real crime, you still create criminals and everything that comes with that. Now what I mean by "not a real crime," is something that doesn't cause harm to others. Nobody in their right mind is going to say murder shouldn't be a crime. By its very nature it is a crime, because it hurts someone. However other things, like drugs, are not. There is on inherent harm to anyone other than the user.

    In law, these are known as malum prohibitum and malum in se, fyi.

  6. Re:Other Geek options on A Geek Funeral · · Score: 2, Funny

    They can give my brain to some motorcycle rider.

    Are you a really good motorcycle rider or something?

  7. Re:Nothing gets fixed until it breaks on ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4 · · Score: 1

    Get over it and get your IPv6 on.

    I'm ready, but what isp will give me ipv6 connectivity now? My isp doesn't (and I thought that if any isp would offer ipv6 services, it would be Speakeasy).

  8. Hope you've got 140 gigs free... on Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 · · Score: 1
  9. Re:No thanks on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I used to like and use NoScript. Then I realized that in order to make many websites usable at all, you have to enable Javascript anyway. I think NoScript is still fine for people who don't care how broken the web is (if a site doesn't work, just find another one right?), but I've found that for me, the potential of NoScript to increase security is limited, and it's just not worth the hastle.

    I use NoScript on my old laptop because some sites basically turn my computer into a brick for ten seconds while the page decides to, oh, I don't know, sort comments or some such other nonesense. As a matter of fact, /. of all sites was my impetus for installing NoScript because at some point in the past few months the home page runs some script that takes so long it brings up FF's "stop this runaway script" option (and I run the minimalist version). As for it being a "hastle", I haven't gotten tired of clicking "allow this page temporarily" on the rare page that is unviewable without javascript.

    Plus, it was really annoying when they recently started releasing a new minor version every other day or so. Amongst all the computers I use at work, school, home, whatever, it seemed like I was upgrading NoScript constantly. AdBlock Plus is all I really need nowadays, and BugMeNot is useful sometimes.

    You're obviously speaking in hyperbole by saying there are new releases every other day, but even if it were once a week, how many clicks does it take to update a Firefox plugin? Two? Three if you count having to click to reset the browser?

  10. Re:Wait, who had 480i streaming video? on Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet · · Score: 1

    OT: Why do the US media sites rank the medal table different from everyone else?

    There are plenty of ways to slice it depending on who you want to show up on top.

  11. Re:Pathetic on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 1

    We desperately need some judges in this country that have an understanding of technology...

    We desperately need some techies on this site who have an understanding of law.

  12. Re:hopelessly outgunned... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Armies show a reluctance to kill their brothers and countrymen, especially when thousands and thousands of them congregate, united in a common cause against a tyrannical government.

    This is the key. The tactics change when the citizenry is armed. Imagine a military occupation in a town with no guns. They simply come in and tell you what to do. You can resist with your hands, but a few knocks on the head from the butt of an M16 (more realistically today you'd just be herded with some type of microwave pain weapon) and you realize that you better do what you're told. Put a rifle in in everyone's hands and now they are forced to either leave or make the streets run red with the blood of American citizens, a prospect unappealing to even the most hardened soldier.

  13. Gratuitous family guy quote. on Smart Bees Continue to Draw Interest · · Score: 4, Funny

    And coming up next, can bees think? A new study confirms that, no, no they cannot.

  14. "Obscenely Rich"? on Gaming Gifts For the Obscenely Rich · · Score: 2, Funny

    How rich does someone have to be to be "obscenely" rich? Better yet, where is the cutoff? At what point does the amount someone makes start to offend your sensibilities?

  15. Re:No surprise on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hiring geeks? How do you know it's not geeks themselves doing the spamming? Just because someone is smart and has networking/programming know how doesn't mean that they are immune to the draw of easy money.

  16. send from multiple hosts? on Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users · · Score: 1

    no problem...

    yourdomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 +all"

  17. how do you tell you're reading /.? on Oracle To Add R&D Centers In China · · Score: 1, Funny

    The term "Big O" is used in the article description but instead of referring to an orgasm, it refers to a software company.

  18. unique custom solution? on Opinions on Alternatives to Cisco Routers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your problem seems paradoxical. If your company isn't that big, I don't see how you would need any customization beyond what anyone off the street could get from Cisco. On the flip side, if you are that big, Cisco (as well as other companies) will do quite a bit to make sure you're happy.

  19. email problem? on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your problem is not with email, it's with your administrator. If they can't give you an answer as to why it's happening then you need to find someone else because they don't know what they're doing. If you are outsourcing your email (ie someone not in your company is controlling the box) then the company better be able to give you a straight answer. I deal with servers that deliver mail in the tens of thousands a day, and if only 1/1000 were going through slowly (let alone not at all!) there would be major flak to be had.

  20. break out the tin foil hats. on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They aren't tracking YOU, they are tracking the beer. Unless I'm missing something, they have no way of connecting any one person with any one beer.

  21. Re:All a geek really needs.... on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 5, Funny

    All THIS geek really needs is this.

  22. not surprising. on California Makes Recording in Cinema a Crime · · Score: 1

    If this was going to happen anywhere it makes sense that california would be first. It's the same reason that cheating a casino is a felony in NV, I mean it's where they get most of their revenue. Even though it may not be CA's main source of revenue, it is the movie capitol of the world.

  23. of course! on MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    What did you think they meant by "buy out?"

  24. not quite a BSOD. on Public BSOD Sightings? · · Score: 1

    but still rendered the kiosk unusable:

    Pic 1
    Pic 2

    This is a "big blue bus" kiosk in Santa Monica, CA.

  25. What's the big deal? on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At first I was kind of pissed about what they did, but what is it really hurting? Anything that relies on a dns failure could easily be changed to accept a failure or a response involving that ip.

    Although I know they will never release any stats on the kind of hits they are getting to that ip, it would be an interesting study. I would be interested to find out what the most misspelled domain is.