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  1. Re:I bought a psjailbreak device to repair my ps3 on Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers · · Score: 1

    The malware-on-audio-CDs debacle was enough for me. I had no intention of ever buying a PS3 knowing the sort of people behind it.

  2. Re:Not dead on my desktop on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Hand-editing wpa_supp files because you didn't even glance at the package manager? That's not laziness, that's stupidity and ignorance.

    OS X's padded cell walls are a perfect fit for you, since you seem hell-bent on ignoring the solutions everyone else on a given OS uses and heading straight for the most retarded action possible. Either that or you're incredibly gullible and believe every piece of FUD you read.

  3. Re:Accept reality on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    It is frustrating that currently, every major Linux-based project seems to be working hard to dumb itself down and remove more features and configurability with every new version, in the name of "being easy for Grandma". Then Grandma carries on using Windows, and the developers say "oh dear, it must still be too complicated", and the cycle continues.

    I'm all for that cycle of dumbing down into extinction, as long as it's quarantined to the one distribution. The others will come out stronger from the experience.

  4. Re:wrong OS? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Have you been to a store lately? I see them all the time now. I bought a D-Link wifi USB stick over a year ago because it had exactly what you describe on the box.

  5. Re:At Last! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 1

    Is that the DRM I can turn on and off at will in Okular using a checkbox in the options window?

  6. Re:It will never happen on Duke Nukem 3D On Unreal Engine 3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    How did you get here, Youtube commenter?

  7. Re:Patches have been available for a long time on A Tidal Wave of Java Flaw Exploitation · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Windows isn't ready for the desktop.

  8. Re:Enemies of open standards... on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your software will never become a standard.

  9. Tugging the guilt strings... on Tablets Are Game-Changers For Special Needs Kids · · Score: 0

    ...just so the teacher has an excuse to get one for themselves on someone else's dime.

  10. Would it kill you to just put Unicode in TFS? on ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin) · · Score: 1

    Seriously. The 1990s ended over a decade ago, yet we're still stuck with 7-bit ASCII on /.

  11. Re:Patch due in "Late November" on Square Enix Attempting Final Fantasy XIV Damage Control · · Score: 1

    Yeah, once they've got rid of everyone on the current 30 day thing they can restart as if nothing happened!

  12. Re:2004 on Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was using a GPU to encode video (to S-Video format) using a GPU long before that.

  13. Shotwell? on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will that one be able to open a folder of ~50-60 average JPEGs without choking on swap on a 2GB RAM machine?

  14. Re:Old School on the New School on Word Processors — One Writer's Further Retreat · · Score: 1

    Wow, $25 for a program that does nothing more than running nano in a fullscreen terminal? It's amazing what suckers will pay for these days.

  15. Re:Wow on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 1

    Oddly, my knowledge of technical stuff is almost entirely programming and I could understand that just fine.

    And yeah, fuck the loudness war.

  16. Re:His first line from TFA sums it on 'The Laws Are Written By Lobbyists,' Says Google's Schmidt · · Score: 1

    I would've thought typing "morons" into Youtube's search will simply return a list of every comment thread on the site.

  17. Does it mention... on Retro Gaming Technologies Released Before Their Time · · Score: 1

    The Sega Activator?

    It did everything Kinect does, worked about as reliably, was 20 years earlier and didn't cost $200.

  18. Re:It's amazing anyone employs him on Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads · · Score: 1

    I don't think he's interested in being hired for his social skills.

  19. Re:Not Justifying The Actions ... on US Copyright Group — Lawsuits, DDoS, and Bomb Threats · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fighting terrorism with terrorism only seems fair.

  20. Re:Why, oh why? on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    So really, what is the freaking point?

    You apparently missed the first three letters of the format's name.

    No, you do not need 16bpc, 20000px^2 images on a goddamn web page.

  21. Re:Not another image format on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    When I setup a media management system the number of different formats I need to accommodate already makes my head hurt.

    GIF, JPEG, PNG. MPEG4, Theora, WebM.

    Yeah, that sounds really complicated.

  22. Re:Why? on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    IE is still the number one browser in the world.

    IE is only the number one Windows desktop browser, and only when you add the figures from places like South Korea where the entire banking infrastructure is an ActiveX clusterfuck. It's already becoming a minority in several countries.

    On top of that, content negotiation and the <object> tag have been around far longer than the version of IE everyone's using. Stop using it as an excuse to be a shitty sysadmin.

  23. Re:About time... on AMD One-Ups Intel With Cheap Desktop Chips · · Score: 1

    FWIW my mobo (an AM2+) supports the AM3 X6 chips, which didn't exist when I bought it. An X8 would probably work in it too.

  24. Re:It's amazing anyone employs him on Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy. You're telling people they should be spineless insubordinates in preference to being rude and direct.

  25. Re:why don't they on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or computer systems certified for safety-critical installations, instead of Windows which flat out says not to use it for that in the EULA?