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Comment Re:Long live to SUSE??? (Score 0, Redundant) 131

by alanebro on Thursday August 19, 2010 @06:49PM (#33308462) Attached to: Root Privileges Through Linux Kernel Bug

You didn't even read the summary, let alone the article. Good work.

From the article: 'As the linked article notes: "SUSE itself has the fix and SUSE Linux Enterprise 9, 10 and 11 as well as openSUSE 11.1 through 11.3 do not exhibit this vulnerability."'

Comment Re:dota (Score 1) 141

by alanebro on Thursday August 12, 2010 @01:04PM (#33229820) Attached to: Valve Trademarks 'DOTA'

I found the same problem, by the way. I got a friend to try it, and he did ok as a few heroes. However, his problem was that he couldn't ever tell what an enemy was going to do to him. He ended up getting frustrated after a few games and never touched it again.

Comment Re:So serious (Score 1) 284

by alanebro on Thursday August 12, 2010 @12:49PM (#33229620) Attached to: Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead?

Recover your password.

Comment Clean on close (Score 1) 198

by alanebro on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @04:06PM (#33208364) Attached to: Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All

I use Firefox and have it set to clean up all history/cookies every time I close it. I wonder how much is left behind for me.

Comment Re:What the hell happened inside Google? (Score 1) 410

by alanebro on Thursday August 05, 2010 @02:56PM (#33153284) Attached to: Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated)

That is awesome. Thanks for the lunch-break read.

Comment Hoping (Score 1, Insightful) 483

by alanebro on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @04:22PM (#33142984) Attached to: Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading

It's probably someone programmed it to spam with lowball offers in hopes that some actually succeed. It wouldn't take very many successes for the buyer to make a profit.

Comment Ridiculous (Score 0) 1

by alanebro on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @03:35PM (#33142230) Attached to: No Kindle for university students

This is ridiculous. Blind people can't use books without special font (braille). They can't use computers without screen readers. Granted, I don't know of a screen reader for a kindle, but this still seems like something that the Justice Department shouldn't be involved with.

Comment Re:Ridiculous. (Score 0) 422

by alanebro on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @05:19PM (#33130470) Attached to: Is <em>StarCraft II</em> Killing Graphics Cards?

Well, they didn't eliminate the people, just the work they had to do. So I was actually popular!

Comment Re:Ridiculous. (Score 0) 422

by alanebro on Monday August 02, 2010 @01:04PM (#33112146) Attached to: Is <em>StarCraft II</em> Killing Graphics Cards?

I worked at Sprint (the phone company) Headquarters as an intern. My team consisted of about 7-8 Spreadsheet engineers. I actually eliminated the need for 2 employees with a macro that took me 3 hours to write.

Comment Re:Atari vs. Commodore (Score 0, Flamebait) 655

by alanebro on Friday July 30, 2010 @04:30PM (#33088738) Attached to: Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth

Mod up mod up!

Comment Re:Remember kids (Score 5, Funny) 396

by alanebro on Thursday July 29, 2010 @03:46PM (#33074754) Attached to: HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion

I worked at Best Buy in highschool. We had an ongoing competition of: -Whenever someone was interested in a ps2, try to get them to buy an XBox. -Whenever someone was interested in an XBox, try to get them to buy a ps2. Good times.

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