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  1. Re:Irrelevant statistic... on RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am a huge ruby fan, but I must agree. Much more relevant would be a graph with module count and factoring in development activity. In reality, a huge number of the gems are orphans, or come never out of alpha.

  2. Re:Irrelevant statistic... on RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's · · Score: 1

    ++ for your comment. monkey patching sounds good, but it's a real hassle.

  3. Re:Once again proving my theory on H.R. Giger Returns To the Alien Franchise · · Score: 1

    May I recommend Scott Pilgrim? One of the unique and underrated movies of the year.

  4. Re:Syncing home network on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Yea, they say it's not under active development, but the changelogs tell a different story. I think they just mean to say it is not a top priority for them.

  5. Re:Syncing home network on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 2

    Oh no, that was obviously the wrong link I just posted. Here is the correct one: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

  6. Re:Syncing home network on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at unison? It has a couple of quirks (the way it sometimes does dot fail properly on aborted ssh connections for example), but works reliably overall. http://www.unison.org.uk/

  7. How does Dropbox hanle conflicts? on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I have looked at their site, but could not find an answer to this question: how does Dropbox handle file conflicts? I.e. two remote users change a file at the same time. Do files get locked? Does the owner of the share get to decide manually which file to keep?

  8. Re:What is it? on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Comments like yours are not helpful. And they don't detract from the GPs point, that the summary is terribly written.

  9. Re:Hmm... on Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked · · Score: 1

    Night cubs are a terrible place to meet women even if you don't spout geekness out of your ears. There are much better places that actually allow for real communication. Clubs are for one night stands.

  10. Re:a bit stupid on 'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous · · Score: 1

    The risk is probably in the neighbourhood of getting caught for using p2p for copyrighted materials. They probably have your ip in logs somewhere, but since you are one of very many who used the tool, the chances of the going after your particular ip is rather low I would think.

  11. Of course LOIC can be traced on 'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous · · Score: 1

    To consider the fact that LOIC can be traced a revelation is just laughable. It even states that on the download page of the tool itself.

  12. Re:Using TOR? on 'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Actually he correct way would be to use 127.0.0.1 as a proxy as TOR is a LEA honeypot.

  13. Re:Horrible Timing... on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 1

    Yes I know the arguments and I also agree that the structure of Openleaks looks to be much more sound and transparent, being more of a broker of documents. In either case I still think it will be interesting to see how much force and polemic will be applied by governments to surpress any publication of "leaks" in the future.

  14. Re:Horrible Timing... on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree, I think it is the perfect time for another institution like Wikileaks. The best defense is attack. Already the U.S. and other governments are starting to show their true face concerning free speech. This is starting to look like a real litmus test. Whatever is in the leaked documents is secondary at this point. Much more important is to see how far governments are willing to surpress anyone that they see as a potential danger to their power structures. And this war is fought pretty much in the open, for everyone to see. Maybe this is going to play out without much drama, maybe not. Interesting times nevertheless.

  15. Re:there's only one bear that needs feeding on Download Firefox, Feed a Red Panda · · Score: 1

    My friend, look at the wikipedia article on the group, do a google search or spend more than 5 seconds on their website and it will be very obvious to you. This is a white power movement and nothing else.

  16. Re:requirement... on Nvidia Adds GeForce GTX 570 To Graphics Lineup · · Score: 1

    "In Russia" ...wait...

  17. Re:Profit! on The Odd Variations On 3G Per-Megabyte Pricing · · Score: 2

    In Germany a government body regulates the peering rates which recently moved from around 7c to around 3,4c a minute. Supposdly the rest of the E.U. charges similar rates. Does anything like that exist in the U.S.?

  18. Re:Less Popular on Google To Block Piracy-Related Terms From Autocomplete · · Score: 2

    Just adding to your post...AltaVista was pretty much the search engine to use. Then it started becoming one of those portal sites that everyone loved back then, the actualy seach text field becoming buried between animated gifs adn tons of ads. Then thankfully Google came along and cleaned house with it's clean and minimal interface and smarter search engine. AltaVistas answer was raging.com, which actually until not too long ago was a google-like clean interface to AltaVista search. It did not save them from becoming insignificant however. This was actually one major accomplishment by Google. It turned things around and made clean interfaces popular again and many other sites started reconsidering their UIs as well.

  19. Re:And then... on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    Now we just need a decent cancer treatment and hello overpopulation!

  20. Re:Quality, not quantity on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's your superpower! Embrace it ;)

  21. Re:Anonymous Coward on Rights Groups Slam UK Government for RIPA changes · · Score: 1

    These are civil rights groups that will try and fight a policy change. When was it the last time you saw them be sourced for advice on policy drafting? If they were, that would be awesome and I would love to see an example.

  22. Re:Anonymous Coward on Rights Groups Slam UK Government for RIPA changes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree. When did you last see a citizens rights group (a real one, not a shill group for a corporation) partake in a major policy decision anywhere (i am german)? I thought so.

  23. Re:Could be a problem on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 2, Informative

    A modern form of using wind for propulsion is using kites. They develop them in my home town, but I have yet to see them in action: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7205217.stm

  24. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? on Swedish Man Fined For Posting Links To Online Video Feeds · · Score: 1

    I pity the fool who gets off on chicks in uniform. I hope you were trolling.

  25. Re:I thought that was firewire on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    And in the bottom image, is it not a snake wrapped around and guarding the window to eden? And does the ad not ask us to circle 42, to imprison the meaning of live, too keep us away from knowledge and wisdom?