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  1. Re:Why More Difficult Than Desktop Apps? on Devs Grapple With 100+ Versions of Android · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows is more internally standardized?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

  2. Re:NOOOOOOO on Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Works fine for me on XP. Heck, I have a Windows 2000 VM with IPv6.

  3. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    4) It's Just Not Fair. Why should Ford, Apple, and HP be forced to give their /8s back when Level 3 and AT&T get to keep and resell theirs?

  4. Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is, but it's encoded in UTF-35, not ASCII.

  5. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    What if my mechanic is in the Texas state board of education?

  6. Re:severe government restrictions and censorship? on Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
    PART III Article 12 Paragraph 3.
    The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order (ordre public), public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others, and are consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant.

    If you don't like your HOA then don't buy in that neighborhood.

  7. Re:most hated part of ipv6 on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 1

    I just copy and paste. Even when I have to type in a new v6 address I paste in the prefix.

  8. Re:Paging Dr. IPv6 on Five Billionth Device About To Plug Into Internet · · Score: 1

    Because the 2.6 kernel doesn't support the Broadcom 802.11 adapter in my home router. I have to run 2.4, which has crappy IPv6 support.

    If I don't get IPv6 then no one does. That's what's holding everything up.

  9. Re:Is it worth the effort? on Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    "lsof -o" and SIGINFO come to mind.

  10. Re:False on Nexus One a Failed Experiment In Online Sales · · Score: 1

    Not if you wanted a family plan. I bought Nexus Ones for my wife and I earlier this year. We love the phones, but getting them up and running on a T-Mobile family plan involved a lot of hoop-jumping.

  11. Re:Snort's not dead... on Is Open Source SNORT Dead? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I went to linux.com and for the life of me I can't find any Linux source code. You're right. These people are losers.

  12. My phone's in jeopardy on Microsoft Kills the Kin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Baby. Wooooooooo.

  13. Re:Success? on New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personally I like my toolchain to have some heritage and age, so at the moment GNU is a safe choice for me.

    I need a good static analyzer, which is nonexistent in the GNU toolchain.

  14. Easy! on The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Go to the head of the Office business group.
    2. Make sure they drop support for XP in the next version of Office.

    IE 6 won't die until XP dies. XP won't die until Office won't run on it.

  15. Re:I think I speak for us all when I say... on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 1

    The borg icon is ok for Microsoft.

    Is it? As iconic as he is, Bill Gates isn't really the face of Microsoft any more.

  16. As a former news server admin... on Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server · · Score: 1

    ...all I have to say is "Great! Can all of the SMTP servers start fading away too?"

  17. Re:We have it. It's called the World Wide Web. on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who controls the data you enter into an OpenID account?

    I do. I'm not sure OpenID works they way you think it does.

  18. Re:How? on Metasploit As Case Study In Selling a FOSS Project · · Score: 1

    Do you just buy the name?

    You make it sound like the name is inconsequential. Depending on the project, trademarks and domain names can be as important as copyrights and licenses.

  19. Re:ATTN: MAC USERS on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If your computer doesn't run UNIX and Word natively, GTFO.

  20. Cool! on Microsoft's Touted iPad Rival Courier Becomes Less Than Vapor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can they kill Comic Sans too?

  21. Re:not just online services on Bing Loses More Money As Microsoft Chases Google · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...until Office drops support for XP, that is.

  22. Re:So now the question is... on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Trying? I'm done.

  23. Re:Auction? on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are a few. See figure 5 of Geoff Huston's IPv4 Address Report.

  24. Call me crazy, but... on Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable · · Score: 1

    ...if the web sites for OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, and other Oracle-supported projects had links pointing to things that Oracle sells they might generate revenue.

  25. Re:The comparison to the Apple II era again... on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 1

    Hence the "Apple showed nearly no support for it"?