DesgarTadema - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I just live here. I don't know these people. (Score 1) 512

by DesgarTadema on Friday March 06, 2009 @10:12PM (#27101291) Attached to: Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet

I also disavow any responsibility. I'm too preoccupied with this chronic pain called a recession.

Dammit, we voters can sure pick 'em, can't we?

Comment Re:Why only B? (Score 1) 87

by DesgarTadema on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @01:14PM (#26983481) Attached to: New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered

It's like with the USS Enterprise: there are a lot of letters left in the alphabet.

Comment ISPs worry email may be outlawed under these bills (Score 1) 857

by DesgarTadema on Saturday February 21, 2009 @10:54AM (#26940709) Attached to: Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs

From Cnet:

For Internet firms, the quandary is this: The mere provision of e-mail, electronic storage, cloud-computing services, and social-networking sites could be viewed as an act that "facilitates access to" illegal content, especially if the provider knows that some users in the past have been less than law-abiding. (And the threat of arrest, indictment, and imprisonment makes them unwilling to hope prosecutors interpret the language conservatively.)

Comment Re:god i love slashdot... (Score 1) 407

by DesgarTadema on Saturday January 31, 2009 @06:44PM (#26680373) Attached to: Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful

thank god i decided to hit /. to see if anyone else was getting this, i figured if it was google wide, someone here would post it. saved me lots of scanning and wondering wtf is wrong with my pc.

That's what I should have done in the first place, but I got paranoid (this is what happens when your computer gets bombed with a backdoor virus).

I was doing a search on "virtual drives" when I noticed it. After trying a couple more searches that had the same flagging, I closed the browser.

(I'm certain now this was coincidental: my taskbar icon for Norton disappeared and I thought a trojan or whatever got through and mucked up Google. It seems to not be the case. Everything is fine now, but I'm still paranoid nonetheless.)

Comment Re:Maybe I should stay away from Gaming ? (Score 1) 598

by DesgarTadema on Friday January 30, 2009 @05:53PM (#26671857) Attached to: DRM Shuts Down PC Version of <em>Gears of War</em>

I'm going one step further: once my finances are in order I'm going to buy a cheap gaming PC for the games I already own. I'm done getting new stuff thanks to this DRM mess. Unless I know for certain a game is DRM-free, it's not getting on this laptop I'm using right now.

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