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  1. Re:Simple, change your fruit. on Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos · · Score: 1

    It looks more like a green pepper to me.

  2. Re:$0 to click and download a file on Hidden Fees Discovered For "Free" Windows 7 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Downloading costs you £10 for 3GB? You must live in a really horrible place, because I've been complaining about my £60/mo ISP even though I could download that in under an hour...

  3. Re:I don't think IPv6 is really the future any mor on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 1

    IPv4 is a measurable finite resource. There are 2^32 of them. You can plot it on a graph fairly accurately.

  4. Re:I don't think IPv6 is really the future any mor on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except China. The latest figure I've heard is six levels of NAT in some places.

  5. Re:To give people an analogous situation on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Or to put it more bluntly, doing that at the compiler/chip level. THAT case *is* going to court.

  6. Re:netcraft didn't confirm but Perl is dying on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    too many better competitors with powerful features have sprung up

    Such as... what? A Visual Basic clone (Python), a rewrite of VB itself (.Net), a Java ripoff (C#), something that brings a website to its knees before it hits 20 simultaneous users (Ruby), or an absolutely appalling clusterfuck of a language that can't even use consistent function names within a single module (its name shall not be spoken).

  7. Re:The question was raised, not begged on ARM and Dual-Atom Processors in New Portables · · Score: 1

    And he forgot to post as AC and end it by signing as "Summer Glau".

  8. Re:Thanks OpenBSD on OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 · · Score: 1

    That would make the connection unencrypted during the authentication

    Er... no it doesn't. You don't know what you're talking about - until you do, stop trying to sound clever.

  9. Re:Thanks OpenBSD on OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 · · Score: 1

    apt-get install sshfs-fuse

  10. Re:What is stoppping me on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    Because quite simply, you aren't important enough.

    You don't have several million people impersonating you, for one.

  11. Re:Confirmed on Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones · · Score: 1

    The 90s? You mean the decade of cooperative multitasking, where holding down a mouse button could bring down an entire Mac network?

  12. Re:He never seems to learn... on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only if I had a spare one to drive through his heart.

  13. Re:Closing the Architecture on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenGL3 is the first time that companies are breaking away from windows.

    It seems like OpenAL was the first. Creative have been visibly pushing it now that Vista's forced-software-only sound API has made their sound cards pointless.

  14. Re:Conversions? on 100-Petabit Internet Backbone Coming Into View · · Score: 1

    So if you give everyone in Chicago a copy of the library of congress and they drive around at 1 mph, it'll have the same bandwidth.

    But you could also have one LoC travelling at 3 million mph.

    This begs the question! Why are we wasting billions on planning two-year Mars expeditions for half a dozen astronauts when we could pack 1000 people into the Library of Congress and get there in hours instead?

  15. Re:and yet on 100-Petabit Internet Backbone Coming Into View · · Score: 1

    What are these companies doing with these multiple Tbps backbones right now if consumers are being bottle-necked on purpose?

    Using them as justification to charge you $30/Mbps, of course.

  16. Re:Rent our botnet! on Company Offers Customizable Web Spidering · · Score: 1

    many sites have rate-limiters that kick in and will block me after a while. This would allow me to hit it from multiple machines.

    Many sites have rate limiters to prevent denial-of-service attacks. This would allow easy DDoS attacks.

    ftfy

  17. Re:How hot? on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    As you can see here, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing but it's a really small number

  18. Re:Laugh, but.... on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Destroying these is no different than destroying a normal hard disk or SSD securely. Burn them or grind them into dust.

  19. Re:awesome on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    In prototypes we've seen cell phones erase themselves when left in a closed up black car on a black dash with a black interior on a hot Phoenix AZ summer day.

    Did the rest of the phone survive?

  20. Re:And yet... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    The last time I saw a product launch that even came close to this was the PS3.

  21. Re:Quicktime Alternative on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 1

    I dunno about you, but I've always found mplayer more reliable than VLC for network streaming, but on the other hand ffmpeg will play things mplayer won't. And I thought all these FOSS players shared code...

  22. Re:There is a better site on StackOverflow For Any Topic · · Score: 1

    More illiterates too apparently, you can't even copy and paste the URL correctly.

  23. Re:Unhackable? I'll take that bet... on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps they meant "hack" in the original sense, i.e. you can't do anything useful with them.

  24. Re:AC on Console Makers Worry Over Apple's Growing Competition · · Score: 1

    Wow, the DSi has 3G now? Or are you being fecal in your wording by implying a $90 handheld that's normally used with wifi and mains power nearby is supposed to compete directly with a $600 phone on features?

  25. Re:5 Parsecs on New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph · · Score: 1

    Less space than a Nomad, too.