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  1. Re:Why Say "Indie"? on Indie Lineage 2 Servers Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Selling physical audio media you bought doesn't make you a criminal either. And if you're unfortunate enough to live somewhere where the law's insane enough to make it illegal, chances are it still won't make you a criminal because you'd already be one for a million other things.

  2. Hey on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 1

    I was poking around a few days ago trying to get a userContent.css file to use a local filesystem png file as a background, without having to resort to huge data: URIs.
    Eventually I'd thrown enough random ideas at the problem that I ended up finding out about this nightmare waiting to happen. Just for kicks I tried putting some code in the CSS to alert() all the (supposedly hidden) password values on the page. It worked.

  3. What's wrong with this definition? on Why the Word 'Planet' Will Never Be Defined · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Anything which is roughly spherical under its own gravity, in a more-or-less circular orbit around the sun, and its orbital path isn't shared with an object larger than itself."

  4. Re:some improvements for you on CSS Cookbook · · Score: 1

    You're missing the [if gte IE 8]!

  5. Re:the silent mac minority on Leopard Vs. Vista · · Score: 1

    How does one mount something with a proprietary data transfer method that can't be used as a block device?

  6. Re:the silent mac minority on Leopard Vs. Vista · · Score: 1

    You think that's bad?

    On Linux, I couldn't get my camera to work (other than as root) for over a year. The distro installed a fucked up default config and there was virtually zero documentation on how to fix it.

    I actually considered reinstalling windows (and the retarded 100MB of camera bloatware), just for this one thing.

  7. Re:Double Edged Blade on MPAA Sues Company For Selling Pre-Loaded iPods · · Score: 1

    Clearly, this news needs to be shown to as many people as possible then.

  8. Re:Why XML was successful on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 1

    People seem to have coped fine reading code without closing tags for the past 30 years.

  9. Why XML was successful on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Marketing to PHBs, mostly.

    However here on earth a lot of people still hand-code the stuff. IMO a C-like syntax using nested {}s would've been better.

  10. Re:Hitting two sacred cows at once... on Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project · · Score: 1

    These aren't exactly PS3s, they're just small laptops built using already-existing parts and bright green plastic. Making millions of them isn't going to be hard.

  11. Re:Herding the sheep on Launch Weekend Insanity · · Score: 1

    But... you're not thinking laterally.

    If you buy a PS3, your mountain bike's moving parts will probably stop moving for about 3-5 years.

  12. Re:Linux Drivers on The Outlook On AMD's Fusion Plans · · Score: 1

    I do 3D gaming just fine with a 9250 and the open driver. It's not noticeably worse than the FX5200 I had before it burned out.
    I'll be sticking with nVidia for the foreseeable future though; ATi is just not worth the risk on any OS.

  13. Yes but on The Outlook On AMD's Fusion Plans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will it run Linux less than half a year after it's obsoleted by the next version?

  14. Re:Spare us the uninformed babble, please on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    Agreed, datacentre admins don't need that sort of Big Brother crap on top of what they already have to do. Besides... anyone who wants power savings like that could just flip on the cpufreq switch in the linux kernel and push it out over the LAN.

  15. Re:Good lord! on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you pulled that 30 watts figure from, but a 5W CPU would do just fine for most stuff. I dunno, maybe you were counting the 25W of graphics card needed to make it look better than Vista.

  16. Re:A stupid billionaire vs 'the people' on Mark Cuban Declares War on GooTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lawyers.

  17. Re:April Fools! on Physicists Promise Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked a few weeks ago, it was still there. Can't check now, since the site's taking about 10 minutes to load each page.

  18. Re:Hitting two sacred cows at once... on Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project · · Score: 3, Informative

    10 computers? That's odd, I could've sworn they made a few more than that.

  19. Re:The days of the Nibble... on Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I do, because back then bloatware wasn't an option.

  20. Re:Sega CD? on The 10 Lamest Game Consoles Ever · · Score: 1

    Forget Night Trap, what about one of the best Sonic games ever made? Though, if you've never played the original PAL/JP version of it you might disagree.

  21. Works for me. on Taking a Crack At Recycling E-Waste · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a recycling site near here, and the best part is they don't mind people taking away stuff that's been left there (with the usual disclaimers). It's a bit depressing to find out some people will throw away perfectly fine (and often new) PCs just because the windows installed on it got spyware.

  22. Hey, I remember this. on Google Used To Diagnose Disease · · Score: 1

    It's what happened here, IIRC.

  23. Re:Yeah, Hot new Xmas Item... on Playstation 3 Sells Out At Japanese Launch · · Score: 1

    Artifical Scarcity might be more correct, but I think "Fraudulent Demand" conveys Sony's intention better.

  24. Re:Technical Issues Already on Playstation 3 Sells Out At Japanese Launch · · Score: 1

    You're a bit late on that idea. It happened at E3.

  25. Re:*sigh* on Nanorust Used To Purify Water · · Score: 1

    I suppose a better name for it would just be "rust ground up into molecules".