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  1. Re:17,000 mph sounds like it's fast on Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is more like changing the car battery.. while driving.

  2. Re:How about actually getting the mac version out? on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 1

    It's sad when usually-well informed people don't seem to know about this common practice in the business world. Why are they working on feature X instead of feature Y? Because X and Y are two different teams.

  3. Re:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 1

    He just said he was using Debian, not Gentoo!

  4. Re:Hardware Virtualization needed. on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 1

    True, but in my case, I had built the computer requiring a IDE card that didn't have 64-bit drivers. Despite the fact I got new SATA hard drives for it a week later, Windows was already installed, and I wasn't reformatting. I finally moved it over to 64-bit last month and haven't had a driver problem with my current hardware.

  5. Re:Difficult? on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 1

    Well, why does it require the hardware extensions? Prior versions of Virtual PC, and VMware, certainly don't require it. I can only assume it's safer to the host, and faster, but it's certainly not mandatory in the operational sense.

  6. Re:Hardware Virtualization needed. on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It surprised the heck out of me when I found I could run 64-bit guests on a (32-bit host OS, 64-bit hardware) with hardware virtualization, at least on my AMD.

  7. Re:Publicity on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a bunch of people that know they shouldn't go to the school.

  8. Re:Doubly Strange on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Ssh, just let him have his fun.

  9. Re:Is physical destruction even possible? on When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    My Radeon will get up to 200C before it manages to hard-reboot my computer.

  10. Re:All Versions of Windows affected on When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    And another set of commands on the same disk can be just as distructive! (see rm -rf / and dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda)

  11. Re:All Versions of Windows affected on When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Why can't we just have a CMOS setting that sets the BIOS flash read-only, and can only be changed from the boot menu?

  12. Re:Remember... on When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it is indeed a good deal, both B&N and FYE (not a bookstore, but they offer a card) have good cards, but I only buy something from either store twice a year, so it's not worth having to deal with it.

  13. Re:Portal on Storytelling In Games and the Use of Narration · · Score: 1

    If you look deep into it, Portal is amazing for the fact that so little story is 'told', yet there are so many questions raised about what's really going on and who Chell is/may be.

  14. Re:My items to be fixed on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    fast-cgi, I believe, supports per-directory php.ini's.

  15. Re:So, when will PHP 6 be released? on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't care, as long as they fix all these inconsistencies and everything everyone else complains about, then they can take their time.

  16. Re:I read that comic about cubism on The Best American Comics 2008 · · Score: 1

    +/-1 groaaan

  17. Re:Dear Linda Sanchez on Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon · · Score: 1

    Ooh, can we just criminalize feeling insulted by something you read on the internet, instead?

  18. Re:Sounds like an inside job. on Virginia Health Database Held For Ransom · · Score: 1

    If he's smart enough to steal the database, he's probably smart enough to proxy when creating/using that account.

  19. Re:#1 Reason for Sun's Demise... on Employee (Almost) Chronicles Sun's Top Ten Failures · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would dentists be against soda pop? Without it, they'd be out of a job!

  20. Re:Sigh. on Hospital Equipment Infected With Conficker · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Apparently you can't even read what you quoted.

    but the LAN was connected to one with direct Internet access.

    Internet enabled machine got infected, and bridged over to the closed-off network. Why SMB was enabled on the embedded systems is a better question.

  21. Re:freezing desktops are virtual on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 1

    Only AOL users ... will fall for this.

    Ironically they're probably the only ones that'll see this 'freezing'. Maybe no more than usual, though..

  22. Re:why would a computer "jitter and freeze" on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 1

    At this rate, the ISPs'll be charging us as much per megabyte as SMSes cost!

  23. Re:The explicitly avoided topic... on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    I think you meant Charter, they had the same problem where there was some sort of limit on upstream, but they wouldn't tell anyone what it actually was.

  24. Re:RIA's need more than HTML5/CSS/JavaScript on Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Besides, JavaFX has distinct advantages over Flash and Silverlight. It integrates seamlessly with server-side Java code.

    So does Silverlight with ASP.NET code, doesn't it?

  25. Re:Encryption on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they're telling the truth, and not monitoring the data itself, just the endpoints.. then what good does encrypting do?