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  1. Re:Family on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 1

    We already have a family. I usually listen to Big Brother most of all.

  2. Re:Our first order of business... on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 1

    What better way to start an open source company than with Word-designed webpages?

  3. Re:No way on Does the NSA Need More Electricity? · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should be able to do everything with pencils and papers.

  4. Re:Coming soon... on Defcon 14 Full of Amazing Hardware Hacks · · Score: 1

    Haha well in that case, we would need defcon to actually wire a NIC into a human, that way we could control the diaphragm. The ping of death would have a whole new meaning I guess...

  5. Coming soon... on Defcon 14 Full of Amazing Hardware Hacks · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is an Internet startup like Last.fm. Instead of one that uploads your most recently played tracks, it uploads your most recently eaten food. You'll have to build sensors within the refrigerator that automatically grab the barcode of the product whenever it's removed from the refrigerator, and queried against a database.

    Anyone got pliers?

  6. Re:already happened on U.S. Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1

    Was that supposed to be sarcastic? Because if not, a visit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City/ will help.

  7. Oh no! on RIAA Goes after LimeWire · · Score: 1

    ..Not LimeWire!! What are we going to do now that the one, single, all-encompassing source of illegal contraband is going to be sued and possibly shutdown??? MP3's are going to be eliminated forever!!!!!!

    So developers of the world, have you thought of a name for that new file-sharing device that you're creating?

  8. Re:No real black hats interested on Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista · · Score: 1

    Yes, and in an ideal world, there would be no guns or violence. But customers have got 10+ years of experience with these types of products, and they've come to know better.

  9. Re:'You need to touch it, feel it,' on Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista · · Score: 1

    Remember, the victim defines sexual harassment. definition sex_harassment = new definition(true);

  10. Re:No real black hats interested on Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what's the point of a zero-day exploit on Vista? Consumers should be expecting bugs already on the day it comes out. People in their right minds won't put anything sensitive onto the 'puters at least for a few weeks after they've started using it. Hacking it on the day it comes out will be pretty useless.

  11. Re:Even Better on Easy Fix for Scratched CDs · · Score: 1

    Hasn't DEET been shown to cause cancer in babies or something?

    Oh oh, I get it. Fishing a few EEKS ago.

  12. Re:Bad advice on Fun Things To Do With Your Honeypot System · · Score: 1

    The key word there was simulate. I'm sure if you really had the time to devise a system like that, you'd find legal mp3z and faked or otherwise declassified business documents. Ha.

  13. Re:Hollywood is out of ideas on Why Have Movies Been So Bad Lately? · · Score: 1

    Irish-Americans form a great percentage of the northeast's police force. Don't know much about him or the movie he's in, but just wanted to through that stereotype out.

  14. Re:Prior Art on Microsoft Patent Envisions Free Computing · · Score: 1

    I used PeoplePC. ISP was free with the purchase of a computer for a certain number of years. After that number of years, it was $10 a month for dial-up. Strangely, we still have that dial-up account here in the house. It's useful for when the cable goes out :)

  15. Re:42 on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I can't define violence, but I can tell when it has reached 64%"
    --Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

    Oh wait, that was about pornography.

  16. Re:pre-loaded linux surprisingly absent on Linux Laptop from R Cubed Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have a very similar model, and I was very happy with what I got. Everything worked flawlessly out of the box. Hardware support was 100%, as far as I can remember. Sleeping, function keys, laptop closing, booting up - nothing's a problem.

  17. Re:pre-loaded linux surprisingly absent on Linux Laptop from R Cubed Reviewed · · Score: 1
  18. Re:pre-loaded linux surprisingly absent on Linux Laptop from R Cubed Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is precisely why. I went to buy myself a linux-loaded laptop in early June. I found 4 serious vendors, and 3 of them only had a couple models each, and none were customizable. R-Cubed had a bunch of models and you could pick and choose your components, much like Dell does. The price was expensive, I'll admit, but my grandparents paid the bill because it was a high school graduation gift. I got a nice laptop, not the one in the article though. It has the NVIDIA, a 2.0 processor, gig of ram, 120 GB total space (2 drives), and came with Fedora Core 5.

    I think if I had to pay myself, I would have cut down on the processing speed and saved some money. But overall it's a great system, it looks nice, and it runs fast. I've had no problems with it, and linux integration with the hardware is nearly flawless.

  19. Re:Plugged in? on Dell's Exploding Laptop Autopsy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Based on this picture http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/dell%20 banger2.jpg It doesn't appear to be plugged in, although I can't tell for sure.

  20. Re:If the job... on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    Why can't internships be Top secret? There are plenty of government agencies that offer internships but only to students who would be able to obtain a top secret clearance.

  21. IPod Killer... on Microsoft To Release 'iPod Killer' at Christmas? · · Score: 1

    I never thought the first Ipod killer would be in the form of a virus.

    But no fear, Microsoft's Anti-Ipod-mal-ad-spy-ware Remover will remove it. Just make sure you have a monthly virus subscription to boot.

  22. Re:"Review Pictures" job would get old really fast on The Man Behind MySpace · · Score: 1

    Not really. If you just put 100 pictures on a single page, side by side (not dissimilar to what Google's image search has), you'd be able to detect porn and drug pictures and whatever else really quickly. You could probably do 5 per sec.

  23. Re:Huh? on IBM using Napoleon Dynamite Quote to Encrypt Data · · Score: 1

    No, it does not.

    Believe it or not, this is a psychological disadvantage. If you had semi-sensitive information, and you encrypted it, you'd feel semi-safe, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, most people would encrypt that (in a weak algorithm), and say, "great, that's done". It gives them a false sense of security. It affects you psychologically into thinking your data is safe, or even semi-safe. But do you really distinguish the difference between safe and semi-safe? I know I can't...

    What about if there is no encryption? It's probably better than weak encryption. If you know it is not safe, you will be careful what you do with it. You'll make certain that wherever you take your data (or send it), it won't get into the wrong hands. You know it's not safe, so you protect it. If I know the source code to my secret project is unencrypted, I'll make sure nobody can access it. I'll treat it as if I can't let it be stolen, not as if it's okay to be stolen and not read.

    If it's sort of safe, you think it's safe and therefore you let your guard down. Worse idea.
    It's better to have no encryption than very weak encryption.

  24. Speaking of.... on NASA Holds Competition to Develop Space Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Where's George Lucas when you need him?

  25. Re:I don't know what's worse... on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    Which is why I consider myself a "conservative libertarian". Wait, does that make sense?