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  1. Re:You are dumb on Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web · · Score: 1

    You want him to purchase a certificate for his own firewall for internal users?!?! So you're saying his users shouldn't trust their internal firewall until a commercial license is made with the outside world.

    This is where I have to agree with other people on here that for some people, SSL is only about encryption and this "trust" scenario you believe in is horse poo poo. Nor is it valid in this scenario therefore the problem is the browser, not the cert.

  2. How about we cut both? on GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding · · Score: 1

    problem solved

  3. Re:oh yeah? on Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity · · Score: 1

    I love you Dr Sbaitso.

  4. WMD search yields nothing! on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Darn, and when I searched for "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" I thought the truth was finally out there when no results were found.

    Only to discover the "no results" searches appear to be some side effect of being overly busy :(

  5. Re:Blew me away on Wall-E Supervising Animator Tells His Story · · Score: 1

    I never bothered to listen to the soundtrack, it's easy to overlook a soundtrack when it's instrumental backing to a movie but I previewed it, it's great, especially the two songs you mentioned. I bought it up on Amazon's MP3 site ($9 for 256kbit MP3s), check it out guys.

    http://www.amazon.com/Wall-E/dp/B001B0C48E

    there's mixed bag "inspired by" tracks at
    http://www.amazon.com/Wall-E-And-Eve/dp/B001BNG9XC

  6. Re:Different skill sets needed on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    >> If syntax errors made computers explode into shrapnel, it would be more even.

    So what would copy protection on your games do?

  7. Let me summarize the video for you on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Does anybody else feel this reeks of "guilty until proven innocent".

    And won't just a little tinfoil covering the bracelet render it useless? Tin foil hat people: terrorists want you to recycle your old hats.

  8. Re:What other areas does this apply to? on Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them · · Score: 1

    Such thoughts, despite being shockingly correct, when spoken out loud may cause the universe to collapse. So please keep them to yourself.

    Welcome to enlightenment my friend.

  9. Re:Oh, please on RFID Tags Can Interfere With Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for the day when microwaves have an RFID detector and microwave popcorn bags have an RFID. Then these idiots at the office won't stick a bag in there for 10mins and walk away, stinking up the place and nearly setting the building on fire. It seems to happen every job I've been at, about once every 6 months or so.

  10. Re:Tag: nophotos on Pimp My Datacenter · · Score: 1

    I thought the same exact thing, I want to see pictures, not some guy with his arms crossed for 15mins.

  11. Keep your Symantec web, I'll take ESET anyday on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 2, Funny

    Symantec Web technology??

    Eww no, I don't want my coffee brewing at half speed and then notifying me every time it brews a new cup with "Hey look at me, I did my job, I updated my filter, aren't I a good boy."

    Perhaps ESET makes a coffee pot?

  12. Re:Actual Release Notes on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1

    You guys need to read the f'ing link you paste, those release notes are general FF3 notes, not RC1->RC2 items.

    Perhaps if you read his question you'd know that's wasn't what he asked.

    PS: Normally you can get such info from the developer forum but I don't see it
    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23

  13. Re:Heh, pirates ahoy! on The One-Use, Self-Destructing DVD Returns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well as soon as you show me the contract I signed, I'll abide to it. Until that point, I haven't agreed to anything, neither verbal nor with my signature.

  14. Re:It's like watching ugly people kiss on Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    In moron logic, if two wrongs make a right, then two failures make success.

  15. Re:Article Worthless FUD on GPLv3's Implications Hitting Home For Lawyers · · Score: 1

    >> Reading the rest of the article
    We don't like your kind around here *loading shotgun*

  16. Wrong, Yahoo is not realtime on Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes · · Score: 1

    If you go to Yahoo's stock page and view a stock, yes you'll see it stream updates to the page every 1-7 secs (depends on how fast the stock changes) but this is not realtime, it's a stream of the data that's 15mins old.

  17. Re:Personally... on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: 1

    It's definitely a nominee for best tag of 2008

  18. Re:Really, what's the use? on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    >> CDs and DVDs are virtually invincable, compared to VHS and cassette that they replace.

    You obviously don't have children

  19. Re:What Happened When HD-DVD Gave Up on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    >> Microsoft claimed it wouldn't impact them when HD-DVD failed, I suspect it's going to cost them dearly

    >> And the Wii, which can't even play DVD, is outselling both of them

    Which only goes to prove video game console sales are about video games. Since when did it's movie playing abilities really matter?

    Hey ergo98, how is Sony's health plan?

  20. Perhaps UAC wasn't such a bad thing after all on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    >> completely untrusted and there's no 'permit/allow' ability if you are even the system owner - you MUST accept whatever damage the BD software wants to do to your system.

    Perhaps UAC wasn't such a bad thing after all

  21. Re:Finally we may get some variety ... on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: 1

    I live in New York, the weather is unsuitable for crops to grow for like 6 months of the year, what are we suppose to harvest locally, icicles??!?!

    I applaud your cause for "support local farmers" but you can support them for 4-6 months a year and still morally purchase your fruit at Walmart the rest of the year.

    Sorry, but I don't want to survive on salted meats, we don't live in the 1800s anymore.

  22. Re:Cue Apple's lawyers on VIA Introduces the Nano Processor · · Score: 1

    When I read the title, and considering SlashDot nerdy roots, I expected this article to be about a CPU that worked on the atomic level "in the lab". I didn't expect it to be about VIA's naming their poor selling CPU after a popular MP3 player. Either the marketing guys are pure idiots or... no wait they're just pure idiots.

  23. Re:The "un-success" of a language on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Define success? If we're talking about pure headcount then... I'd have to say ease of use and accessibility are the two only factors, because elegance, quality of implementation nor raw speed are factors in PHP nor classic ASP, both of which are/were very popular. All the glory seems to be in web development, people seem to forget that 95% of the developers at Microsoft are still writing C++ and rewrite 15yr old code bases to .NET isn't something MS is considering.

  24. Re:A crack-high moment. on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    I think your confusion comes from the fact that when you started Win 3.1x I recal it mentioning about using the 386 Protected Mode and you might have assumed this was required, it wasn't as the 286 had it's own protected mode also. I ran Win3.1x on my 386SX-16mhz for years, I don't recall it being slow, like most GUIs, the bottleneck is usually ram limits than cpu limits and I had 4mb of ram which was a lot back then.

  25. It's Sony, so what about the DRM roomkits? on New Agreement May End the Cable Box · · Score: 1

    Let's be serious here guys, Sony is hardly on the side of the consumer now-a-days and if they're proposing any standard, I shake in fear of the evil DRM aspects going in there. You know Sony would love to shove the broadcast flag down our throat. How ironic the company that invented time shifting ~32yrs ago might become the biggest opponent to it.