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  1. List of Apps on 30+ Infected Apps Pulled From Android Market · · Score: 4, Informative
  2. Wish-It-Was Two-Factor on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 2

    Isn't this technically "Wish-It-Was Two-Factor"

    Reminds me of this:
    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/WishItWas-TwoFactor-.aspx

  3. Prompting the question... on Law Firm Sues Taco Bell Over Lack Of Beef In "Beef" · · Score: 1

    What's the other 64%? Sawdust?

  4. Re:now about that only on T-Mobile thing... on Google Launches Nexus S Phone In UK and US · · Score: 2

    No AT&T 3G, though.

  5. Profit for Bars! on Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This should also increase profits for bars, since people will have to drink more while they're there to stay good and plastered.

  6. Re:Craigslist Mars on Spirit Stuck In Soft Soil On Mars · · Score: 1

    Do you need the explosive or non-explosive model?

  7. Missing the point? on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't the point of something like "Semester at Sea" to immerse yourself in the program, and become involved deeply in the studies and the people you're traveling with?

    What you're wanting to do is like ordering escargot in a French restaurant and smothering them in ketchup.

  8. Re:Not necessarily on New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures · · Score: 1

    And if I do, I won't ask you to help me. See how nice moral consistency is?

  9. Re:Not necessarily on New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok. So, you lost the genetic lottery. That really sucks for you, I'll admit. You have my sympathy.

    Still, please explain why just because you got unlucky in life, I (or anyone else) should be forced to pay to take care of you? I know that sounds cold, but the nature of reality is that life is not fair and you only deserve what you can earn by the sweat of your brow.

    Authoritarians did not invent Crohns disease. If you cannot get the drugs in this country, move to one where you can. If you cannot afford the drugs, either work harder or ask the people who know and care about you to help pay for them.

    Ultimately only you are responsible for your own health and happiness. If you're not willing to do whatever it takes to secure those things for yourself, do not blame others. It's your choice not to act.

  10. Milk Crates on RIAA 'Elektra V. Barker' Case Is Settled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The funny thing is that the milk crates were almost certainly stolen and illegal for them to have as well.

  11. Common Error on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1

    See, here's the problem. With QoS on these routers, you only have actual REAL control over what you transmit, not what you receive, and since you're receiving data across the internet, all the QoS bits on your inbound traffic from Vonage are thrown away as soon as they hit a backbone router.

    So, yeah, you can control how much bandwidth on your outbound you allocate to VOIP traffic, but your bottleneck is not on outbound (if Bittorrent is what is causing your problems), but on traffic coming in. The best you can do is have your router drop non-voip packets inbound, and trust that the sender will slow their rate and retransmit. But, if they do, your BT client might try to compensate by the reduced flow by trying to connect to more peers. And, even if it doesn't, you're still having to receive the connections, determine whether they're VOIP traffic or not, and either pass or drop them. Your pipe is hammered and filled before your router ever gets a chance to do any QoS.

    Basically, unless you control both endpoints and all the links in between, you cannot have real, hard QoS. You can "hope for the best", which is what you've got now.

  12. Really short periods on Trio of Super-Earths Discovered · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why is it that most of the planets discovered have extremely short orbital periods compared to our own? Is it because those are the easiest types to detect, or is it because we are a cosmic oddity with our slow orbit around our star?

    Also, I wonder if one were on one of these planetary speedsters, would you be able to tell you were whizzing around your star so fast.

  13. Re:ssh on Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup · · Score: 4, Funny

    What does ssh have to do with April Fools Day?

  14. Re:OT, but... AstroBIOLOGY Magazine? on Aftermath of Distant Planetary Collision? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be astrobotanist in that case.

  15. Next-Next-Gen on Hints at the Future of the Xbox 360 Emerge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please tell me we aren't going to start using the term "next-next-gen".

    Can't we just start calling the current consoles "current gen"?

  16. Breathless Hyperbole. on WordPress 2.3 Does Not Spy On Users [UPDATED] · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the thread. This isn't a developer admitting to spying on users. This is debate over a new feature written to help you keep from getting your blog haxored. They are collecting server and plugin data to help you to keep your software up to date.

    Matt Mullenweg is being very reasonable and reasoned in dealing with a small but vocal groups paranoia. In the same breath that he mentioned forking Wordpress, he also mentioned that another option is using a plugin that disables this behavior.

    The submitter should be ashamed.

  17. Sensationalist Headline on Share a News Story With Coworkers, Pay a Fine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This settlement is not about sharing a news story with a coworker. This is about a company building internal procedures around photocopying news articles, putting together a news packet, and distributing these packets around as form of employee education.

    So, everybody who's yelling about getting in trouble for reading over a coworker's shoulder, or not being allowed to email links just needs to calm down and read the fine article.

  18. Just stop it already. on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 0, Troll

    The iPhone shuffle jokes. They aren't funny.

  19. Re:Amazing... on Review of Stardock's TweakVista · · Score: 1

    How much would you charge someone else for a few hours of programming? How much did that RDC Menu program cost?

    Sure, if you're doing it for funzies, coding it up yourself makes sense. If you just want something to get the job done, and you've got actual productive work you can be doing, it makes more sense to spend the $24.95. Honestly though, in the case of RDC Menu, I'd rather just use rdesktop from the command line.

  20. Re:Of course not on Will AT&T Start Filtering Your Connection? · · Score: 1

    You've hit the nail on the head.

  21. GrandCentral.com on A Whitelist for Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    Check out GrandCentral.com. They allow you to blacklist, whitelist, set up different voicemail greetings for different people, and whatnot.

    My favorite feature is that you can transfer calls between any of your phones. So, if I'm on my cell and the battery is about to die, I just hit * and all my other phones (home, work, etc) start ringing. I pick up whatever phone is closest and I'm back to talking.

  22. Re:Does the ethnicity matter? on ISS Computer Failure · · Score: 3, Funny

    American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

  23. Act like you do. on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    At most places, if you act like you've got tenure, it's almost as good.

  24. Re:Unconscionable on MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site · · Score: 3, Funny

    5. True: Boolean value for whether or not I am pissed-off.
    6. Very Much: The level of item 5, above's, value.
    Where did you learn the meaning of the word boolean?
  25. Re:Free is still free for me on "Free Wi-Fi" Scam In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Braggart.