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  1. Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook · · Score: 2, Informative

    totally agree. I really hate it when someone inserts a carriage return in the middle of a sentence just because that's where he hit the end of his text box. it makes for a very uncomfortable read, because my mind initially thinks it's the end of a sentence, and i have to reread it to figure out what's going on.

    it's the end users's (application's) job to decide where to wrap the line, not the author's.

  2. Re:Could it be useful? on Testing Quantum Behavior — From Earth to the ISS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they actually are both H and V polarized at the same time. you can think of them as just being "unknown" for the sake understanding why you cant use it to communicate faster than light, but it isnt what's actually going on.

    we know this because in a quantum superposition, different possibilities in the superposition can interfere with other possibilities, making certain results more or less likely. this is shown by the double-slit experiment. shooting photons at a screen through two slits produced not two stripes like you'd expect, but several stripes. this is because each photon went through 2 waves of possibilities, one through each slit, and the waves then collided with each other, making certain ares of the screen more likely to be hit than others.

  3. Re:Year of the Linux of Desktop on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    i believe there's 2 because Add/Remove is supposed to be the user-friendly, simple and easy one, and Synaptics is the one that gives you all the gory details. Add/Remove generally only has GUI based, desktop-oriented stuff. You wont find libraries in there, and you probably wont find anything server related, like Apache.

  4. Re:Year of the Linux of Desktop on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    well how bout that, it works! thanks.

  5. Re:Year of the Linux of Desktop on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its slower
    that's completely dependent on how you use it.

    for example, i just had to add a mime type into IIS. it took about a minute, because i had to remote login through RDP. waiting for that to connect, then waiting for a usable desktop, then clicking through the drill downs, then switching to the right tab, then clicking some buttons took about 99% of that time.

    if there was a text config file i could easily open it in notepad from my own desktop (because i would have it's drive mapped), ctrl-f for "mime" or something, and that would be it.

    speed is actually one of the biggest advantages of command lines and text config files, once you're familiar with them. with a GUI, there's an absolute minimum amount of time a change will take. with command lines and config files, it's almost entirely dependent on how fast you can type.
  6. Re:Adverts? on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    i think it would be the website owners, not the advertisers, that have issue with this. the advertisers know how many hits they get from a given website, and they pay the website accordingly (on a contract basis, not a $$-per-view basis). if the advertisers get fewer hits, the contracts get smaller, and the website gets less money.

  7. Re:Sounds Like... on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    a cookie? how would that work? the cookie would only be sent to the website that created it. how would they see the cookie when someone goes to a different site? are they still injecting something into web pages that points to their own site, to check for the cookie? that's still bad, bad, bad.

  8. Re:ZFS next to be open sourced? on MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source · · Score: 5, Informative

    ZFS is open source, using Sun's CDDL license. the problem is that the CDDL isnt compatible with the GPL.

  9. Re:impossible w/o outlawing encryption on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    not necessarily. encryption will prevent them from packet sniffing, but they could still just pretend to be another filesharer: join the same network you're on, search for files, and see who's sharing them. unless, of course, you're using some kind of darknet, with only people you trust.

  10. Re:Forums? on Google Crawls The Deep Web · · Score: 2, Informative

    as TFA states, it's only GET requests, not POSTs. so it would mostly be search queries.

  11. Re:Oh no you didn't! on UK Banking Law Blames Customers For Insecure OS · · Score: 1

    if the URL was HTTPS and the browser was configured to reject any certificate not fully authenticated, DNS poisoning couldnt do anything except denial of service.

  12. Re:Black Holes are like buses... on Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Found In Omega Centauri · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    here you go, the web developer extension. enjoy.

  13. Re:Ubuntu on A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    if you have an nvidia card (and are willing to use the closed source driver), you can use the nvidia-settings program. it's great for managing resolution and multiple monitors.

  14. Re:Thank God on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 1

    i know you're joking, but actually scraping the text data wouldnt be hard at all. about as hard as a properly formatted XHTML file, the same with ODF. the text is stored in a fairly easy to understand XML document. it's the styling stuff that's screwy.

  15. Re:Wouldn't breeding licenses be more effective? on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 3, Insightful

    wow

    you dont allow people to procreate any more than you allow them to feel emotion. procreation is not a privilege you grant, it's a fundamental aspect of life. not civilized life, not even human life, but life, period.

    a society that would regulate it horrifies me.

  16. Re:? Questions.?? on Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why does it require my images to be uploaded to be edited?
    because Flash doesnt have access to your filesystem. if it did, it would be quite a security issue.
  17. Re:Bandwidth Limits/Costs? on Amazon EC2 Now More Ready for Application Hosting · · Score: 2, Informative

    pricing and bandwidth is oulined here about halfway down the page. and a nifty pricing calculator here.

    looks pretty reasonable to me, but i dont really have anything to compare it to. no minimum fee. it's completely based on bandwidth, resources, and usage.

  18. all bittorrent traffic, or just BitTorrent, Inc? on Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    well now the question is: does this refer to all bittorrent (the protocol) traffic, or just torrents approved by BitTorrent, Inc. (the company)?

  19. Re:Fishy on NVIDIA Quad SLI Disappoints · · Score: 1

    huh? perhaps i misread, but it sounds like you're saying a console has better performance than the top of the line gaming rig. quite dubious. you're gonna need some stats to back that up.

  20. Re:throttling from bell and rogers on Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents · · Score: 1

    and how are they supposed to know what is and isnt encrypted? are they looking for authentication handshakes? or are they just assuming all non-plaintext traffic is encrypted?

  21. Re:No on Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    the PCs are always locked down and have a demo running on it
    no, they're not. i've seen a couple like that, but it's rare.

    not commenting on pc/mac security, just pointing out your argument is blatantly false.
  22. Re:NVidia chipset? I would think twice on NVIDIA 790i Chipset and GeForce 9800 GX2 Launched · · Score: 1

    i have the same mobo, the chipset fan is set at 50%, and i dont even notice the noise. but, yes, you definitely should plug the fan it. it probably shouldve been hooked up by default.

  23. Re:Where does it stop? on Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure if you've actually seen television in the last decade, but it's already a cesspool, pandering to the lowest common denominator of human emotion. with the exception of PBC, broadcast networks are the worst offenders, with their reality shows and infotainment "news". we're not talking about swearing at the opera, we're talking about jerry springer. you're not protecting anything. if you want culture, you're looking in the wrong direction.

  24. Re:Where does it stop? on Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case · · Score: 1

    Say anything you want in public, to our dismay. Say them on the public airwaves and I have problems with that.
    and how are they any different?

    if you want to filter what you hear, that's your choice. you can walk away from someone who swears; you can turn off the television. but you have no right to decide what words others are allowed to use.
  25. Re:Where does it stop? on Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case · · Score: 1

    and why exactly? protection from what? these are words. they mean nothing. it's only the context they're used in which holds any meaning, and replacing them with other socially "appropriate" words changes nothing.

    you have emotional baggage tied to arbitrary words. that's your problem, not ours, and it gives you no right to control what can and cannot be said in public.