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  1. Re:So how do you install a new hard drive? on Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive · · Score: 0

    I presume you're referring to the new magic hardware DRM that Apple uses for their HDDs? They got tired of people replacing iMac HDDs themselves and made a HDD version of their patented screw. I can't wait until only Apple Mice and Keyboards will have drivers.

  2. Re:BFT on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That suggests they have some stringent standards, especially considering the number of people who have been using Thunderbird for years without issue.

    What really happened is they noticed the number of people who removed evolution and installed thunderbird every time they installed a new version of Ubuntu. Eventually, numbers mean something.

  3. Re:Jobs killer on IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they can all get shovel-ready infrastructure jobs.

    And Watson can manage them.

  4. Re:Jobs killer on IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers · · Score: 1

    If you are in the US you must speak as though you are in the middle of the country. These things do not work on an American accent, only on one from a specific part of the country.

    North Midland Dialect, specifically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_American_English#.28North.29_Midland

    There is no "American" accent, but television personalities usually adopt a north midland accent, so that's what foreigners hear often.

  5. Re:Hence the walled garden on Banks Faulted For Fake Antivirus Scourge · · Score: 1

    Seems like they'd be able to run a compiler, but not test-run the compiled executable (they'd have to copy it to a test machine).

  6. Re:Pah on Banks Faulted For Fake Antivirus Scourge · · Score: 1

    I want to know how they can still, at the very least, poison their own profile.

    Because they can write to their own profile? Because they can write to their own registry hive (Windows\currentversion\Run)? Because they can set up their own scheduled tasks? There are tons of ways that trojan malware can auto-start on a machine. And before you mention anything about Linux: ~/, .bashrc/.tcshrc, cron. Sure, you can put /home on another partition and mount it noexec, but not a lot of home users are going to do that, and of course Windows has Software Restriction Policies

  7. Repulsorlift? on Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here · · Score: 1

    I bet it's just a hovercraft. I remember DIY personal hovercraft with 2-stroke engines.

  8. Re:Biggest gains in... on Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US · · Score: 1

    And while dams will eventually need to be replaced (I believe they can last about 50-100 years), there's no reason that you can't use the same reservoir for a new dam.

    Over a loooong period of time, you'll have the reservoir fill with sediment.

  9. Re:That's really ironic on Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US · · Score: 3, Funny

    chemicals used in the manufacture of solar cells

    Not only are they chemicals, but I hear that the chemicals are made up of protons and neutrons (also known as Alpha particle radiation) wrapped in electrons (aka Beta particle radiation). So these chemical laden solar cells house two types of radiation, and a third type (electromagnetic radiation) is used to excite the stored radiations to make them unstable (the Beta particles move). Just imagine if there were a tsunami! DiHydrogen Monoxide Everywhere!

  10. Re:One Day Late on How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back · · Score: 1

    This is Amer'ca, son. Proselytizing's what we do. Hell, we have a native born religion, Mormonism, that says when Jesus was done going where God wanted Him to go, He came to America because America's that awesome. 'course we also have a native born religion that says we're all monkeys possessed by the ghosts of space aliens that were transported here in spaceworthy DC-10's.

  11. Mojo? on How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back · · Score: 1

    Take it back from the guy who steals action figures^W^Wdisplay statuettes from other people's cubicles. I had my X-Men all arranged with a battle against Mojo, Magneto, and Apocolypse, and Mojo is clearly missing. He doesn't seem to belong with Neo, Emperor Palpatine, and Winnie the Pooh. %*&$ing Clepto, stealing bees' honey.

  12. Re:Horribly Summary on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anglophones really hate using "it" to refer to people, thus you end up with "he/she needs to eat his/her food", instead of "it needs to eat its food"

    Most Americans use "they" instead of he/she, since he-she is sometimes used to refer to a transvestite. It's odd when you stop to think about using a plural for a singular pronoun of indeterminant gender, but it's better than it or he/she.

  13. Re:CFO's glad they didn't take the next step on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    Just read this, and you'll at least note how many mathematical operations are simplified with a constant that means "a whole turn through a circle": http://tauday.com/ Tau = 2*Pi, just a single constant value off, so the math isn't much more difficult to do, but the meaning of what you're doing can be masked by that constant.

    Tau as a symbol is already used in math related to pi (pi/2, not 2pi). We need to start using futhark runes or something.

  14. Re:Why so skeptical? on RightHaven Lawyer Says Browser Ate His Homework · · Score: 1

    So - what, exactly, do you do to "take care of our hard drives"?

    I like to come home with my hard drive's favorite flowers every night. It's the little things that show it I still love it after all these years together.

  15. Re:False dichotomy on Time To Close the Security Theater · · Score: 1

    Security theatre that has the same effects but without the abusive excesses of the TSA would have exactly the same benefits. For example, walk passengers though a big plastic Stargate, or wave a magic wand at them. Every so often, have a plain clothes security employee go through, set off a klaxon, and drag them behind a screen to give them a "Freedom probe" (screams optional). If you're going to do security theatre, you might as well make it entertaining, without inconveniencing your paying passengers.

    I vote for the Stargate. With lasers. If you're going to do it, do it big and flashy.

  16. Re:Sex vs. Carnage.... on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    The AC was a troll and not an American. I've never heard an American abuse English thusly: "You [...] were existed hundreds of years before us."

  17. Re:For those too lazy to read more than the summar on Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper · · Score: 1

    Thats a cultural bias that you are expressing. It could just as easily be the other way around.

    Yes, I know. The Communist cultural bias is that portrayals of government actions or photos depicting actual reality should be works of art, molded for best propaganda, but fashion is a worthless endeavor and everyone should wear gray and red. That doesn't mean that my cultural bias isn't a better cultural bias though.

  18. Re:For those too lazy to read more than the summar on Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper · · Score: 1

    A fashion photo is intended to be a work of art, not an accurate record of government officials' actions (even actions as boring as admiring a road while levitating).

  19. Re:For those too lazy to read more than the summar on Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper · · Score: 1

    I'd say an honest mistake would be something like using redeye reduction and removing all red in the photo. This was an attempt to create a new scene where they admired the road while showing off their godly powers of levitation.

  20. Re:screw that on Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper · · Score: 2

    Look on the bright side: no Rick-rolling.

  21. MUDs were never that much fun either on Current Social Games Aren't Fun, Says MUD Co-Creator · · Score: 2

    It was mostly a lot of tintin clients running around attacking mobs below their level and never interacting. Until I discovered a item cloning bug (related to what I believe was a really slow sync on a HDD) on my favorite dikumud, I never had enough time to to do anything except gather gold for the "rent". The infinite diamonds allowed me to just sit around the inn and role-play, which was actually fun if a real person stopped by.

  22. Re:When in doubt... on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Disable pagefile or set it to a static size. So many "slow" XP machines are the result of a dynamically sized pagefile that has fragmented into 16,000 places on the drive (and it won't defrag since it's a system file, so the only ways to defrag it are to defrag in another machine, or disable the pagefile, reboot, delete it, defrag, defrag again, recreate the pagefile).

  23. Re:RIAA, another reason for not buying music, peri on LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA · · Score: 1

    I exchange a hard drive with a group of friends, a few times a year. There is music on that drive. Let's see you stop THAT, RIAA

    They'll just push for a $0.0X per MB tax on all data storage (even embedded flash RAM).

  24. Re:It was inevitable.. on LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA · · Score: 1

    Annon attacks et al have been going on forever. Its the media hype that is just what they needed to push this crap.

    And where did the media companies get the media hype? It's the biggest fortuitous coincidence in history!

  25. Re:Only with keyboard support? on Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop · · Score: 1

    better than what? your statement is missing something... something kinda critical for it to have meaning

    "these new tablets". GP had the context you were looking for.