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  1. Re:Kdawson FUD on Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers In Gas Pumps · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hosers!

  2. Re:Nice Internet you have. Pity if it should break on An Interview With Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt · · Score: 1

    More like a dude because of his incompetence gets killed alongside his family.

    There's lots of names for russian mobsters, but I don't think that 'Czar' is a popular one, it could be used as a mediocre individual nickname, but not as a general term.

  3. Re:But the File Format Sucks. :) on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Quote from the link above:

    Having worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.

    OMG! I didn't know Carl Sagan was a programmer!

  4. Re:Is $COMPANY "$BUZZWORD"? on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    $FLOATING_GOOGLE_ADVERT

    Fixed that for ya
    -----

    Does it make me syntax nazi?

  5. Re:ha ha suckers!!! on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 1

    Well, if she's got Intel or ath9k card, I don't see a problem.

  6. What about plasma-widget-networkmanager ? on KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign · · Score: 1

    Was that thing finally rewritten, because knetworkmanager is kind of pathetic -- it doesn't even show type of encryption of available networks, and I know I could get that information from /sbin/iwlist, but the whole purpose of that program is to be convenient, and it fails at that. What happened to network manager plasmoid, where did it go in 4.2, is it coming back and why in gnome everything is working. (netbook-remix is sweet, BTW).

  7. Re:Really? on Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned · · Score: 1

    I expect you to die Mr. Bond.

  8. Re:IE8 has the flaw but is immune... on Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    However, it would have been Mozilla's fault if Firefox 1.5 had rendered HTML and Java script the way IE6 does, and had a bunch of Firefox 1.5-only extensions that wouldn't be rendered properly in any other browser, furthermore, Mozilla sold Firefox 1.5-only server side solution which would only work with Firefox 1.5 and would be pain to upgrade. Am I forgetting anything?

    Can I haz car analogy?

  9. Re:The way to go is up on World's Tallest Building To Open Monday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Trucks carrying around sewage from septic tanks really baffle me.
    I tried googling it, but haven't found a single reason why centralized sewage system was never built, are there specific regional/geographic factors, like the lack of water, or it's all due to stupidity of the local government?

  10. Re:Innovation! on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    Lots and lots of beemers are inline. Inlines are better balanced out which means smoother ride, with a trade-off for a bigger package than V-6, lots of people would want that.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_6#Balance_and_smoothness

    There was always problem with wankel engine fuel economy, there's sort of free reign in that sense, and wankel's going the same way as big block V-8's.

  11. Re:Microsoft's done itself a lot of damage lately on Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe this is nitpicking but both of his points are valid.

    Windows 2000 had an awful process scheduler, which I'm guessing caused the problems GP referring to. By the way never attempt to run vmware-server on Windows 2000 box. Also Windows 2000 didn't have plug-and-play whereas Windows 98 did.

    XP was okay until Microsoft silently added genuine advantage in it, incidentally that was one of the big reasons for me switching to Linux. Now it's been 3+ years using Debian. I'd rather live with flunky wireless card than a computer that holds me in contempt.

  12. Re:hit by lowest-bidder disasters on First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track · · Score: 1

    Military has no-bidder disasters.

  13. Re:You cannot use viruses/bugs as an example of co on The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't get it, what prevents the attacker to try every recent vulnerability on that host, and he even guess some information about operating environment based on server replies it's not like this hasn't been done before. I suppose your criticism is valid but, if the attacker is serious about breaking into a system running apache he's probably got some exploits for more common operating system anyway, so this makes things a little bit difficult, but not by much.

  14. the dumb simple solution on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    How about creating SHA1 checksum and then transferring data using netcat? You could split files in pieces then run them though sha1 and finally send over netcat using udp and retransmit at will. Or if files don't change too much you could try rsync.

    This is all unix-centric solutions, so you'd have to install cygwin, unless there exists a python library that does all that.

  15. Re:Why no diesel-electric cars? on Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S · · Score: 1

    Actually the efficiency of a diesel engine has more to do with the greater compression ratio rather than density of diesel fuel

  16. Re:Mein Herr! on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 1

    Then vote for the wrong lizard.

  17. Re:Google should be scared on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    I did, and the search returned a Jimmy Kemel clip. Biggest. Letdown. Ever.

  18. Re:The Ugly Side of Truth on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    My dear neocon friend, please, stop. Ends never justify the means, of course the side which perpetrates a crime, will always justify, that it's doing it for the greater good, be that Soviets, Nazi Germany, Vietcong, Jonson or Bush administration. Isn't what the torture debate is really about: everyone is equal under the law vs. we're doing it for the greater good? So please, stop that.

  19. Re:The Ugly Side of Truth on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In ideal world maybe - but let's not forget that it was Eisenhower administration and the brits that conspired and overthrew democratically elected government of Iran in the fifties, after the said government was determined to nationalize oil industry of Iran, which sounds too familiar to what's going on in the Middle East today.

    Then Iran had endured twenty or so year of brutal dictatorship imposed by the west, until every extremist and not so extremist group was up in arms against it, finally, when the revolution was over religious fundies managed to marginalize everyone else and thus we have Iran of today.

    So you're saying that West has nothing to do with it is kind of self-serving, dumb and naive.

    Oh don't tell me about genuine democracy in eastern Europe after the fall of Soviet Union, what they had for about a decade was a truly free market, and please don't confuse any kind of democracy especially genuine democracy with free market. For your reference: democracy - Switzerland, free market - Somalia.

    Also, please google "1953 Iranian coup d'état" and "Iranian revolution of 1979" so the people around here would stop getting impression as if you're talking out of your ass.

  20. Re:Maybe Jeff can explain this on Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council · · Score: 1

    f(0); Lameness filter is lame.

  21. Re:5,013? on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 2, Funny

    The problem with Pinzgauer, is that it doesn't have cup holders. Why would anyone want military hardware if it doesn't have cup holders?

  22. Re:Some Quotes to Reflect Upon on Canada Gov't Censors Parliament Hearings On YouTube · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    As much as I dislike conservatives I still think it's a bit too extreme to overthrow the government. So please keep your libertarian gun slinging nuisance for other occasions.

  23. Re:Windows 7 vs. XP on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I ran Windows 7 in Xen but then I removed it from disk, because I never used it since I've got two perfectly good Windows Xp instances running on the same machine just fine. So why bother with it?

  24. Re:Parmageddon or Aporkalypse on H1N1 Appears To Be Transmittable From Human To Pig · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Why does it matter? on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    To quote Andrew Tanenbaum - "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes hurling down the highway"