Comment Re:what about abandonware that is not for sale? (Score 1) 421
Why wouldn't used copies count?
There's no plentiful supply of them.
Comment Re:Neighbor (Score 1) 284
Be a good Samaritan and explain to him what the consequences are for not having locked down WIFI. I've secured friends networks for free (60 minute jobs) and not always been paid, but I usually get referrals to other people to do paid jobs or I get goodies (baked goods, beer, etc.) in return.
Comment Re:RTFA? (Score 2) 113
A spectacularly worthless summary.
And even in TFA you have to click through three different links just to download the white paper.
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 608
I was just telling my friend the other day - a giant picture of Jimmy or 'random blogger' is pretty much the same as an advertisment.
If they put ads, they should do them themselves (no giving it out to other companies who will track me) - and they should instead sell spaces in articles. So you look up "mopping" and you get an ad of a mopping company.
What's funny is that I e-mailed Jimmy Wales about this on Monday night. I said pretty much what you just said -- I just hope he reads it and that it might do something.
SomethingAwful.com has their own advertising internally and they approve of the banner ads. Wikipedia could do something similar only more targeted based on the content of the page with keywords.
Comment Re:Unreadable CD/DVD (Score 1) 208
Even if this was years ago, why would you keep something so important on a CD? Don't you have a network?
Comment Re:Comcast is blocking access to wikileaks (Score 1) 715
Comcast is blocking access to any websites reporting wikileaks related stories.
This is exactly what I would suspect they would do.
What can you expect from a big corporate interest?
This is a pretty outrageous claim without any proof. I'm a work so I can't verify this, so can you give some?
Comment Re:Social games (Score 1) 344
The difference is that Civ III is a game. Farmville is a drug. Zynga employs full-time psychologists and their "games" serve one purpose: Make you return and return and return.
And WoW isn't?
Comment Re:Location (Score 1) 560
If it's anywhere near Chernobyl, bears & wolves won't be much problem. The trees, though...
Yeah, the Red Forest can be rather treacherous with that whole radioactivity thing.
Interestingly enough, there is a lot of wildlife that is repopulating around the accident site, I'm not sure of how close they wander to the sarcophagus though. If it's anything like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you want to stay far away though unless you have a good supply of bolts to check for anomalies.
Comment Re:A fool and his money... (Score 1) 827
The only reason I buy the monster cables or other high end ones for my guitar is the lifetime warranty. I can abuse the hell out of these cables and bring them in to Guitar Center where I got them and swap them out, no receipt or box needed.
At most I'd spend $50 on one cable, any more is overkill.
Comment "how-many-fingers-is-that dept. " (Score 0) 162
Taco,
That would be 5 billion fingers.
Sincerely,
Spazztastic
Comment Re:Train Wreck (Score 1) 230
The linked page of former HP CEOs is one of the most pathetic web pages I've ever seen from a company of the stature of HP. The horrible, unflattering thumbnail-sized photos. The description of their careers, which basically amounts to "this person lived for a period of time and worked for HP." What the hell kind of company puts this material on their website?
If you click on them, you get some details on their tenure at HP. Interestingly, Hurd's is a 404.
Comment Re:Shared Experience. (Score 1) 294
It was pretty much the same as when I went to a recording of the original American version - The Jerry Springer Show.
Or when you see Steve Balmer do a speech...
Comment Re:Easiest way to black facebook (Score 1) 179
I always see that claim that a hosts file works on every OS and every browser. People always seem to forget that if you are using a proxy server (for example at work), the hosts file is ignored. The proxy server controls what the address is. So the hosts file thing works perfectly (and I use it) at home where I don't have to go through a proxy. But it is useless at work (and yes, there are things I would like to block there too - and random facebook and twitter buttons on pages are indeed some of them).
Use NoScript and block Facebook/Twitter.
Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! 225
An anonymous reader writes "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based."
Comment Re:Snitch (Score 0, Troll) 457
> What about camp or daycare? The elementary schools in the district also have daycare and summer classes. They also have classes for the mentally handicapped over the summer.
OK, can we just say that I know my local area better than you? I know, this might stretch things very far as this is
You're getting very defensive when all I am doing is being inquisitive in a non-malicious manner. I'm merely trying to make sure that you realize the implications of speeding in a school zone when there may or may not be kids present. Rule of thumb should be as long as that sign is flashing you should slow down.
Don't chance the life of another just because you are in a hurry. It's irresponsible.
