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  1. Re:Oh dear editors on Skype For iPhone Now Makes Video Calls · · Score: 1

    Is it bad I read this as "Sperm rates dropping, due to Skype update?" Then I remembered the previous article.

  2. Also obligatory on George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? · · Score: 1

    http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187269/look-out-indy I can only imagine what kind of awful plans for successful dead movie stars he has conjured up in his head.

  3. Re:Can you even buy a netbook without windows? on Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    If you were smart enough to know what Ubuntu was, I'm surprised you aren't smart enough to boot the LiveCD again and format the partition as NTFS.

  4. Re:Yes and no on Is RFID Really That Scary? · · Score: 1

    Amazon does this. I can't count the number of times I've done research and bought something, and then the next day received targeted advertising by Amazon to my email. Funny thing is it doesn't bother me terribly much since I am usually interested in hearing what Amazon recommends (when it is something I'm actually interested enough in to buy).

  5. Re:To appease the most visitors with ease on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Silverlight has absolutely abysmal support on Linux. Seems like the only Silverlight applications that are actually publicly use stuff not included in Moonlight. Flash may use what seems like an unnecessary amount of CPU, but at least it works. Booting a VM just to watch online video hardly seems worth it when there are other easier (less legal) alternatives.

  6. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

  7. I've experienced nothing of the sort on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    I don't have a particularly large mailbox (5,000 emails), but I do use IMAP, and noticed no slowdown whatsoever. I do have a Core i5 processor so CPU usage probably isn't as noticeable to me as it would be for someone running a P4, but as I post this Thunderbird has been open for a couple weeks straight, and CPU usage is right around 0%, peaking at 15% when I am actively opening emails and organizing stuff.

  8. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ssh -D is just a terminal away.

  9. Re:Using it since Alpha 1 on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: 1

    He mentioned Maximus and Window-Picker-Applet, and mentions it is on his MSI Wind. Netbooks really don't have the screen real-estate to *not* maximize everything (except maybe a buddy list).

  10. In other news... on Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In other news, said researchers are hairy geeks that need evidence to prove they are sexually attractive at the bar.

  11. Re:We've had them on UNIX for ages now! on The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that you have to do more than a block for block translate to make a bootable USB device from an ISO image.

    This is correct. With DD you have to start with an IMG file specifically for flash drive/non-cd use. Ubuntu does ship with a couple other tools (unetbootin and the USB startup disk creator come to mind) that will write from a CD-format .iso.

  12. Re:Activity on Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use blueproximity on ubuntu. Set the distance and it works pretty well to lock (and unlock) my computer when I am away. The unlock could, I'm sure, be easily spoofed, so if you were in a high-sensitivity location you might want to disable the second half of this software.

  13. Re:Why so complicated? on Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green Dam Censorware · · Score: 1

    I bet you can download ubuntu though. And burn it to a CD. If not ubuntu there are a significant number of lesser-known free operating systems.

  14. Re:for fat and ntfs on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1

    Hate to beat an already beaten horse (leave him alone already!) but testdisk/photorec works wonders. It's in the Ubuntu software repositories to boot!