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  1. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, everyone knows that, as a simulation in some meta-universe, our world will most likely end in a segfault.

  2. Virtual Terminal on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Switch to a VT and tell them that only paying customers can use X.

  3. Re:Security Through Obscurity is not security on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 1

    The give-away would probably be where these "fiber optic conduits" are running. If there is a line marked going from the Whitehouse to some old "abandoned" military bases somewhere, people would probably figure out pretty quick it's not just an ordinary cable.

  4. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you on drugs? Really.

  5. Re:What a rip off! on On the Expectation of Value From Inexpensive Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah but all of Verizon's phones suck!

  6. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 2, Informative

    MAC spoofing is not useful in concealing your identity online. It's generally just used to bypass filtering by MAC addresses on local networks (think wifi).

  7. Re:About Fucking Time on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    I used similar towels when I was a swimmer in highschool. They are pretty slick for drying off fast but I could never imagine using one to clean shit up.

  8. Re:Ohloh's programming language chart is nice... on SourceForge To Acquire Development Portal Ohloh.net · · Score: 1

    You programming skills going the way of Cobol could be a blessing in disguise. Have you seen how much old Colbol guys get paid these days!?

  9. Re:Like Digging Through People's Trash on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Why on Earth would you ever find this alarming, or unforgivable?

    I find closed source software in general to be alarming and unforgivable. Why? Because I damn'd well want too.

  10. Re:Future products... on Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Some laptops already have tilt, albiet in a hackish fashion. I can tilt my thinkpad around, using the accelerameter in the harddrive as a joystick.

  11. Re:ID what? on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    So in short, as I said, you just don't know how to use Vim....

  12. Re:ID what? on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Holy shit man, are you serious? Notepad++ is perfectly fine but nano is outright masochism. For the love of all that is good go find a text editor that at least has syntax highlighting and regex search/replace.

  13. Re:ID what? on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Trust me, if it's an "editing feature" then Vim supports it. ;)

  14. Re:ID what? on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    vim has issues with multiple files, even with tabs

    Bullshit, the issue is you just don't know how to use Vim. (not that this isn't to be expected, but don't blame your incompetence on Vim...)

    Build happens so often, it MUST be one keystroke. Rebuild happens less often, it could be something like ctrl+f5. Clean, the same. Search, replace, open, save are self explanatory.

    So map them to something. It's pretty trivial to do, in fact, that's what I did.

  15. Re:ID what? on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    "Idiot gimmicks like incremental search" You mean so I can type ctrl-i, three characters and be *instantly* where I want to be instead of having to bring up a full search and hit enter, then backspace because I mispelled the word, then enter again?

    :set incsearch

    Just sayin...

  16. Polish up on your Vim-fu on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    map <F9> :make

    Bam, 1 keypress to build.

    Add this to the increase efficiency gained by editing your text with a real text editor and there is no way in hell an IDE is more efficient.

  17. Re:freedom with restraint is no freedom at all.... on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    restrain - keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"

    However, like everything in this world it's entirely relative.

  18. Re:freedom with restraint is no freedom at all.... on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    That's a mighty fine strawman you've got there.

    Being free without restraint does not equate to legalizing murder in any sane interpretation of the phrase. In the United States we have what is generally considered a relatively "restraint free" freedom of speech. Now of course there are still laws against slander and libel, similar to how there are already laws protecting intellectual property.

    Now, if we were to enact "guardrails on freedom of speech" to prevent "politically unstabling speech" then we could then reasonably consider that "freedom with restraint" to be no freedom at all.

  19. Re:And the Swiss sue back! on Red Hat Challenges Swiss Government Over Microsoft Monopoly · · Score: 2, Informative

    Responding to a troll perhaps, but I've never had a scanner that doesn't work with linux. Xsane is pretty solid.

  20. Re:seeding on Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump · · Score: 1

    I would never endorse getting precompiled binaries from sources like that.

  21. Re:False sense of security on Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook · · Score: 1

    No shit Sherlock. But $100 says that virus was a virus that was already in the wild and, through distribution mechanisms built into it, out of chance managed to infect those systems. The likelyhood of that happening with linux systems is extremely small in absense of certain OS "features" such as autorun.

  22. Re:My Bad... on Judge Says Boston Student's Laptop Was Seized Illegally · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I'm sure the actual police officers that executed the warrent were just acting on orders..... oh wait.

  23. Re:False sense of security on Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main difference is the vast difference in security practices between the two platforms. The only reason malware on ipods and photo frames is dangerous is because windows by default thinks that it's clever to auto-execute code off of external devices.

  24. Re:False sense of security on Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook · · Score: 1

    I'm very sceptical that these infections are intentional. Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

  25. seeding on Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump · · Score: 2

    59KB is kind of absurdly small to justify a torrent, but what the hell, I'll seed it.