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Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 1) 747

by yabba-dabba-do on Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:28PM (#34504204) Attached to: Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All?

Thank you. I wish I had Mod Points. Also, scientific consensus used to be that the world was flat. Those who questioned that suffered significant consequences. Now we look back and laugh at those who thought the world was flat. How will this science be judged 400 years from now?

Comment Re:why mastercard? (Score 1) 715

by yabba-dabba-do on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @01:51PM (#34489652) Attached to: MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks

Except that if they decline to do business with Wikileaks because of this type of action, they are in for it as well. All Wikileaks does is say Company X declined to handle our payment processing. Soon, the DDoS targets them. You are correct that it is a no win situation for the processing company. The only way around it is to not randomly discriminate against any one customer. Just process payments and no one gets hurt.

Comment In Other News (Score 1) 295

by yabba-dabba-do on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @06:02PM (#33728866) Attached to: Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098

Monkeys might fly out my butt!

Comment Re:African or European? (Score 3, Funny) 298

by yabba-dabba-do on Thursday September 16, 2010 @04:27PM (#33604064) Attached to: Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband

As someone who has been the Man In The Middle of a pigeon's dropped packet, I can tell you it is not a pleasant experience.

Building a $200 Linux PC 300

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 25, 2010 @10:46AM from the cost-of-a-cheap-tux dept.

WesternActor writes "Computers are getting cheaper to buy every year, but there are still sometimes advantages to building them yourself. ExtremeTech has a story about how they sought out the parts for a $200 computer that (of course) runs Linux as a way of breaking the budget barrier. They even test it against a commercially available eMachines nettop to see how it compares in terms of performance. This probably isn't something everyone will want to do, but it's an interesting example of something you can do on the cheap if you put your mind to it."

Comment Re:Simple? (Score 1) 763

by yabba-dabba-do on Thursday May 06, 2010 @07:39PM (#32119538) Attached to: How Do You Handle Your Keys?

Or just get the existing locks re-keyed to be the same key. When I bought my house I was given 4 keys for the 4 doors with locks on them. I took the locks off (while my wife stayed home) and took them to the local locksmith. An hour later we had one key for all the locks. Total cost, $35.00.

Comment Re:Computers? Big Deal... (Score 1) 874

by yabba-dabba-do on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @11:34AM (#32085914) Attached to: Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do

But first you must realize the truth... There is no bullet!

Comment Re:Digital Restrictions Management (Score 1) 376

by yabba-dabba-do on Friday April 30, 2010 @05:51PM (#32050316) Attached to: <em>Avatar</em> Blu-Ray DRM Issues

I've been asking people that for years. It is ironic if you are a weather forcaster. Otherwise it is just tragic.

Comment HSX... Starting in April... (Score 1) 100

by yabba-dabba-do on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @05:38PM (#31264980) Attached to: Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April

To me this sounds like someone is yanking our chains early. HSX is awefully close to HOAX, and we all know what April 1st is...

Comment iBachelor (Score 1) 1713

by yabba-dabba-do on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:16PM (#30923506) Attached to: Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open

The iPad sounds like a place an iBachelor would live. He might even try bring his iDates back to his iPad...

Comment Global Internet (Score 1) 355

by yabba-dabba-do on Friday February 06, 2009 @02:20PM (#26755417) Attached to: ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay

While moves like this will definately have a huge impact on the US Internet, in many ways the rest of the world is unaffected. I live in Canada and have no way of accessing ESPN360 content. While I have no desire to access their content, I'm sure there are others up here who would like to. They are cutting themselves off from the rest of the world.

This may be a sign of the way things go. In the future, there may be a US Internet, and an Internet for the rest of the world. I just hope Canada doesn't follow the lead of the US, the way we normally do.

Comment Quickest solution (Score 3, Interesting) 137

by yabba-dabba-do on Saturday January 17, 2009 @02:07AM (#26494217) Attached to: Firm Seeks To Ban Mobile Companies' Imports To US

Is for RIM to disable Obama's phone. "Sorry, when the patent mess is cleaned up, we'll turn it back on."

Finnish Appeals Court Rules Breaking CSS Illegal 165

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 26, 2008 @11:25AM from the well-thank-god-nobody-knows-how-to-do-that dept.

Thomas Nybergh writes "Due to an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, breaking the not-very-effective CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs is now a criminal act in Finland (robo translated). The verdict is contrary to what a district court thought of the same case last year when two local electronic rights activists were declared not guilty after having framed themselves by spreading information on how to break CSS. Back then, it was to the activists' benefit has CSS been badly broken and inneffective ever since DeCSS came out."

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