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  1. Re:For those who wonder what Gnome Shell is ... on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    I thought they meant the current Gnome interface, with the panels and menus and stuff. For some reason, my panel (I only use one) always seems to forget the positions of the tools I put in there upon a reboot, which is very annoying.

  2. Re:Greed on Google Patent Proposes $2 Fee To Skip Commercials · · Score: 1

    On the spy show Alias, a few years back, the villains from the K Directorate used KDE. Makes sense...

  3. Re:Stop it, please! on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 1

    I think the lag is caused by having a large render distance. If you set it lower, the game will run smoother.

    The thing that irks me is that even if you're facing an opaque wall, if the render distance isn't low, you'll still get a choppy game, which means that it's actually considering drawing blocks that it could've discarded immediately, because they're being obscured by the wall you're facing...

  4. Re:Meh. Dwarf Fortress did it first. on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's why he should build up and down instead. It'll also lower the distance between components, and the bus length, and thus reduce lag.

  5. Re:I'm all for it on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    On second thought, maybe the "performs the upgrade" step does involve looking up the CPU's serial number, and querying the Intel server for its unique unlock code...

  6. Re:I'm all for it on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    The FAQ gives me the impression you can buy scratch-off cards with a unique code. It says nothing about the card being tied to a particular chip, just that it's only good for one upgrade. This makes me suspect the upgrade program reads the code, contacts Intel to check if it's valid and not used yet, and if it gets the okay from the Intel server, performs the upgrade. If true, that would make it easy to crack.

  7. Re:Interesting tool on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and they should also halt all archaeological digs. Who knows what they'll find one day? Ancient Mesopotamian weapons of mass destruction!

    Oh, wait, they've already been looking for those ;-)

  8. Re:Anti-advertising... on Retargeting Ads Stalk You For Weeks After You Shop · · Score: 1

    You were but a pawn to the Marketing Minds.

  9. Re:You might as well just burn it. on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 1

    Let's burn it and say we threw it in the Mariana Trench!

  10. Re:How to lose while being correct Re:how come on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The rules in TFS wouldn't affect you: they'd notice you don't put out the bins for those goods, inspect your regular trash can, find no recyclable goods, and so can't fine you for throwing them in with the rest of the trash.

  11. Re:In short, bullshit on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 1

    So you're saying the RIAA member companies are anti free market? Communists! (Does that word still work?)

  12. Re:Why is this being blurted out? on Getting Around Web Censors With Flickr · · Score: 1

    So you're one of those people who can't figure out how to send an email attachment? :-P

  13. Re:Information théory on Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically · · Score: 1

    Yes, but say it halves the errors it attempts to reduce, while doubling all other errors. If the motion blur is a way bigger error source than other defects, you might still come out ahead by halving it and doubling the other errors.

  14. Re:They certainly don't know science. on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    This test you're talking about, and falsification, are the same thing.

  15. Re:They certainly don't know science. on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Then again, we don't know for sure that the relativistic model is correct at all speeds. There sure are some cosmological observations that require weird stuff like dark matter and dark energy to exist, if we assume the relativistic model is correct.

  16. Re:It's also nonscience because it leads nowhere on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    If you would find a rabbit fossil in a layer with precambrian fossils, that would contradict evolution's tenets.

  17. Re:Just go to a religious school already on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Wow, you are educated stupid :-)

  18. Re:Wrong law to try and apply on Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation · · Score: 1

    It's all Greek to them :-)

  19. Re:Wrong law to try and apply on Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation · · Score: 1

    Then how does it become authorized? Why do EULAs exist?

  20. Re:Wrong law to try and apply on Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation · · Score: 1

    They made a copy of the software from disk to ram to run it. At least, that's the reason you need a licence to use software. Srsly.

  21. Re:Text Recovery? on AU Government Censors Document On Planned Web Snooping · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just make up whatever you want it to say. What, are they going to deny that that's what it said? Didn't think so.

  22. Re:I don't buy it. on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 2, Informative

    FTFS:

    This is why even if Thesis hadn't copy-and-pasted large swathes of code from WordPress (and GPL plugins) its PHP would still need to be under the GPL.

  23. Re:More important on Obama Won't Intervene Over British Hacker McKinnon · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he watched too much Stargate, if that is possible.

  24. Re:US wants to lock him up for point out our passw on Obama Won't Intervene Over British Hacker McKinnon · · Score: 1

    <extraordinary claims>, but he was so excited and stoned that he forgot to save them to his computer.

    <least favorite religious claim>, but he can't actually prove it, so you must have faith, or else.

  25. Re:Asperger's on Obama Won't Intervene Over British Hacker McKinnon · · Score: 1

    I find it funny that everybody seems to have forgotten that he was searching for UFO related material, and that he found some.

    No, he said he found some, but he didn't save anything or take screenshots. This means that either he's lying or delusional, and there wasn't anything, or there was evidence, but he was stupid or autistic enough to forget that he needed to save evidence to convince others.

    In conclusion, there aren't any conclusions to come to. There could be UFOs, or not. He could be asperger, or he could be lying, or stupid.

    From what I read about this case, it really seems like the sysadmins should have had a clue about computer security. Empty passwords on sensitive systems connected to the internet? WTF?