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  1. in Soviet Russia.. on Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, folkloric heritage disputes YOU!!

  2. half way there on Facebook's Server Room, Penthouse Cooling Caught On Video · · Score: 1

    now if only their software and application stack could run as efficiently as their data center to not require so many servers.

  3. Because of Sony on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    After all the recent effort Sony has put into recently to increase the 'user experience' of playstation (shutting down anyone who does legitimate hacking). I don't want to one day be sued for connecting my blue ray player to a non sony-approved television, which is likely not too far fetched by their standards.

  4. I can't wait to have an AMY like in red planet mov on Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human · · Score: 1

    That 2000 film with Val Kilmer, where that robotic cat like thing AMY went all mustang and started murdering everyone. Efficiently.

  5. we should just make a bot to generate these on MPAA Sues Hotfile for 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement · · Score: 0

    /etc/cron.weekly:
    y=`tail -1 file_containing_every_existing_company_or_service_or_individual` ;
    for x in RI MP; do
    echo "${x}AA sues ${y} for `/dev/random` stupid reason.";
    done;

  6. Someone should make a timeline site on New PS3 Firmware Contains Backdoor · · Score: 1

    With interactive chart of events over time, from both sides where something was done and later undone by the community. This kind of opera needs to be charted for the muses of future generations.

  7. Re:Sad... on Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber · · Score: 1

    Right. How come her husband gets off easy by being put in jail. That only temporarily prevents him from doing this again, which most likely will when he gets out. If only he could just be executed.

  8. what's next? on Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    slashdot - the movie ?

  9. who needs sso on Will Facebook Become the Net's SSO? · · Score: 1

    Dont' most users just choose the same username and passwords for all their accounts anyway. ?
    And would it be a true SSO, that manages the "you are logged in now" state, or that every site would just ask you to login using your credentials every time.

  10. epic win for use case to outsource? on Hidden Backdoor Discovered On HP MSA2000 Arrays · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this would have been done by anyone inside HP?

  11. To Quote "1984" on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..." - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5

  12. So is this going to be ads on ads on YouTube Launches Ads You Can Skip · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to see if the usual "Ads by google..." widget overlaid on the bottom of every youtube video now is also applied to these ads.

  13. but where do you get this ? on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    Couldn't see a link to actually download it after going thru to the actual original source page.

  14. so, other* == porn? on Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites · · Score: 1

    Im sure they were trying to be family friendly with their questions, but realistically, there has to be (more than none at all), and it would be interesting to see if it was above or below the gambling use.

  15. Sure, until they find a new way. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    When they no longer are able to transform the commercial audio track to be noticeably "louder", won't they then just start having annoying stroke inducing strobelight-like video effects?

  16. Consistent on The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel · · Score: 1

    Don't a lot of Oracle products just have Oracle stickers on top of some other product line they acquired anyway.

  17. who wants to make an adapter cradle. on Boxee Box Pre-Orders Start At $229 · · Score: 1

    like a plastic stand for the boxee box, that completes the missing corner, so it at least sits up like a regular cube looking thing..
    or is that their plan to finish the box with the the eventual external USB or e-SATA drive attachment to store more content like a PVR.?

  18. Re:IMAP with DBMail on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    I agree, IMAP is the way to go. the dbmail.org project has an implementation of an imap service that uses a database as the back end. This allows you to, in theory, create a custom application to do full text search over the mail contents (that are stored into database tables). the default schema already does a good job to normalize mail headers and recipient email addreses on the mail, so as to help to filter searches using those. This kind of searching and indexing is of course a custom thing to have to build. I currently have not gotten around to doing this yet (after several years of running dbmail now), but I found that having the mail contents stored in a database does provide slightly better perfomance over time than having the many many individual files when a mailbox is backed by MailDir or Mailbox file system based storages. The only hitch is yes, you need to have to interoperate with windows, such as if you use windows only, its inconvenient compared to using PST files I guess. I have envisioned creating a virtual machine that runs a linux operating system loaded just with the dbmail and database stack, effectively creating a macro PST file type of thing, a service / appliance / single virtual machine image file I boot up to be my easy to search through mail storage repository.

  19. The Emperor's New Clothes on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of that children's story book. As long as you believe something is better because someone said it was better, and you have payed more for it.

  20. isn't this everywhere though on Samsung, Toshiba, Others Accused of LCD Price-Fixing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    such as any telco company, VOIP termination provider, or even gasoline?

  21. and then what on Kepler Investigator Says 'Galaxy Is Rich In Earth-Like Planets' · · Score: 1

    They are likely how many dozens of thousands of light years away ?
    I guess we can now spend more attention observing spectra coming from these planets. But I am skeptical of chances of first contact from one of them (within our lifetimes).

  22. so a new rule for email filtering? on Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains · · Score: 4, Interesting

    in addition to a commonly accepted practice of doing a reverse domain name lookup on who is sending you email, where by rejecting email from bogus domains, no domain, to now also have the mail server also do a whois lookup, and arbitrarily reject email from a domain that has been registered less than a few days ago?

  23. The sites that will be busy next.. on iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store · · Score: 1

    Those companies that offer mobile device insurance to subscribers on a multi-year contract, would all of a sudden be dealing with a rash of reports where iPhone 3 customers 'accidentally' 'lost' their devices.

  24. a petabyte class cluster file system ? on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 2, Informative

    how about a cluster file system like http://www.moosefs.com/ , where it works well on commodity or even end of life by current standards of hardware. Redundancy is achieved through several chunk server nodes in the system. Performance and size can be dynamically scaled over time by adding more nodes or disks to the system.
    Their project is GPL licensed, requires very little effort to set up, and likely much less effort over time to maintain and administer than a RAID or Tape system likely would, with the benefit of being able to choose what data is online or offline (by its presence on chunk servers being connected at the time).

  25. Hell yea! on GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI · · Score: 1

    Where is the 'like' button...