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Gabor Laszlo
Trollface

Re: Minimammoths? Minmoths?

Minmoth is already in use:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/donate/donation_views/fanciers.jpg

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Gabor Laszlo
Facepalm

Re: Re: Why not migrate over an OS developed by a UK company Ubuntu/Canonical

[prices are from Munich, Germany]

1. Office spec PC without Windows :300€

Same box with Windows7 Home Premium: 380€

Time to slap a Linux onto said PC and set it up: about 1h, or an average of 20min if done in bulk, counted at 30€/h: 10-30€

(*) That's like saying that without McD we'd have all starved

2. If you're deploying in an organization you'll settle on one distro/dm and stick with it. And if your IT guy is not braindead he'll pick one that's easy to maintain/patch/support (I'm partial to Mint myself, but that's a matter of taste)

Gabor Laszlo
Stop

Opt for the patdown

when enough people start doing it and the line grows out of control, the outrage will draw enough publicity to change policy.

Gabor Laszlo
Trollface

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I just wanted to find the size limit on the Title field :)

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It's the internal SOP guidelines of the CC companies (search for '3D Secure liability shift').

If you get phished, you're likely stuck with the charges, unless you can afford to appeal to Visa's own Court in London (they charge for lodging a complaint, and go from there).

Gabor Laszlo

No, that's the point: burden of proof is shifted to the customer.

Gabor Laszlo
Trollface

That's actually a good point: who's footing the bill?

Tokamaks are run by universities and research labs, they are fascinating physics experiments one can endlessly fiddle with, and assure the funding of their department for decades.

Polywell is funded by the US Navy, interested in a compact, failsafe power source.

Gabor Laszlo
Trollface

Ah, you think a Tokamak will ever break even? I'm betting on Polywell :D

Gabor Laszlo
Unhappy

3D Secure

is a new 'feature' on many cards: basically a few marginally effective security measures, but if a card is enrolled in the program (many banks enroll new cards by default, and some sites force customers to enroll in order to buy), the bank can brush off responsibility for any fraudulent transactions onto the customer.

Gabor Laszlo
Facepalm

The plasma in a fusion reactor is at militorr range pressures, a breach would result in a slight WHOOSH sound of air being SUCKED INTO the reaction chamber, followed immediately by the reaction grinding to a halt as the fusion materials nuclei get scattered off air molecules.

Gabor Laszlo
Meh

it's still pocket change to them. Most electronics are sold at over 200% markup*.

(*) figure based on a discussion I had with a taiwanese sales rep at an expo some years back.

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I would prefer a live feed of my food rotating, I usually guestimate the cooking time and turn the oven off by hand a split second before the food would combust.

Gabor Laszlo
Happy

http://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper

You can block at tag level.

Gabor Laszlo
Facepalm

Yea, I heard that about a dozen times by now (thanks, LFMF), but nobody bothers to post the spanish word for 'embarassed', 'avergonzado'

Gabor Laszlo
Stop

proof

this is not. one of the possible alternative explanations has been invalidated, probably. Others remain.

Gabor Laszlo
Devil

"We fetch your mail, we route your packets, we guard you while you surf.

Don't fuck with us!"

Gabor Laszlo
Megaphone

For the real thing, check this out: http://www.power-laces.com/about

it’s a project by Blake Bevin to produce and market practical PowerLaces (aimed at people with Parkinson’s and other disabilities, but BTTF fans are not excluded:)

Gabor Laszlo
FAIL

Direct Democracy FTW

the Swiss are doing it the sanest way I know of

Gabor Laszlo

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Gabor Laszlo
Linux

JITSI

jitsi.org

Gabor Laszlo
FAIL

root

one time (and never again) I let myself be persuaded to give root to a developer on a solaris 8. next thing you know, really weird fails: you can ssh in but a lot of the system commands throw errors or just fail outright, not all though. some digging revealed that everything under /usr/lib was gone. Solaris 8 system utils were mostly dynamically linked (which is a design fail in itself - try to fschk /usr after a power fail and you'll see why).

Gabor Laszlo
Coffee/keyboard

C|N>K

that is all.

Gabor Laszlo
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RepRap

Look it up and weep

Gabor Laszlo
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If only

Microsoft would do the same thing for IE (but a giant blinky on Google for users of old versions I mean).

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consent

buried on page 12 of the site's T&C, in 6p print.

Gabor Laszlo
Boffin

Filtering and the way around it

Use OpenDNS, and you can have it employ a variety of filters - that you select. Or use JAP (http://anonymous-proxy-servers.net) and forget about being filtered forcefully.

Gabor Laszlo
Megaphone

Still with the opt out?

Double opt in FTW!

Gabor Laszlo
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I was just

thinking the same thing :) I'll go check their blog to be sure !

Gabor Laszlo
Happy

Phantom Edit 3D

I will wait for.

Gabor Laszlo
Boffin

Easy:

for all your mTAN needs, use a mobile just smart enough to receive SMS and no smarter.

Or use NoScript so you don't get XSpwned. Oh and don't give your mobile number to crooks?

Gabor Laszlo
Boffin

such as

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ssd

Gabor Laszlo
Happy

Dezionized

There is a fanedit out there called The Matrix Dezionized (what it says on the tin) thatmolds 2 and 3 into a tense and enjoyable whole. The sex scene was also cut.

Gabor Laszlo

Headline

Should be Windows Mobile 7...

Gabor Laszlo
Linux

Linux Mint Debian Edition

my rolling desktop distro since Sept.

Gabor Laszlo
Badgers

Misleading headline

How many of you read it and thought "Geocities 2.0"?

I'm showing my age ...

Gabor Laszlo
Boffin

Sgroogle.org

'nuff said

Gabor Laszlo
Linux

When you said old PC..

I thought you mean the 5-10 years old PCs and laptops I see every day (I offer PC service as a side business). They get upgraded to the max RAM their little motherboards can carry and reinstalled with Linux Mint (or Puppy, for the _really_ old ones).

Gabor Laszlo
Pirate

Zactly

It's like being forced to pay alimony on the grounds of having a reproductive apparatus. And then getting castrated if you're caught actually using it.

Gabor Laszlo
Gates Horns

"The CPU then executes it."

On what braindamaged OS/architecture does the CPU just execute stuff you write to memory? Oh, wait... Never mind.

Gabor Laszlo
Troll

1.80, more like

Also, use very long exposition times, over 1s, so the faces of people walking my and moving cars would be blurred. That would mean the cars have to stop to take pictures. I would also add a requirement to signal (honk?) before taking a photo, so people have the chance to turn their backs (or moon the camera).

Gabor Laszlo
Terminator

upgrades

1. plunger - 1$

2. laser pointer - 5$

3. voice synth - 10$

4. EX-TER-MI-NATE!!! - priceless :D

Gabor Laszlo
Boffin

Out of band

My bank uses an SMS to send me the TANs (along with the transaction details), I've yet to see even a theoretical attack against this (short of rooting the bank server itself and/or the HLR). Why is this not SOP?

Gabor Laszlo
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It used to be called Faviconize Tab

quite handy to save some space on tabs that are always open (gmail, netvibes, whatever). That + setting them Protected so you can't accidentaly close them (e.g. with TabMixPlus, which also allows to open anything not pointing inside the current site in new tabs) and Robert's your uncle.

Gabor Laszlo
Flame

Phishers/script kiddies/pond scum

Please replace any instance of the word 'hackers' in the article with any of the above. These guys don't hack, they just exploit the stupidity of others.

Gabor Laszlo
WTF?

Fujitsu Lifebook T4220

Look it up. I've been using it for years, and this acer still loses to it by any criteria meaningful to my use pattern.

Gabor Laszlo
WTF?

Easy

Just build a stub that puts a bookmark on their homescreen, and put THAT in the store!

Sorry, no "Durrrr'phhhbt" Icon

Gabor Laszlo
Boffin

Alternatives

JonDonym/JAP: http://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/

TOR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29

Both with the advantage of keeping your IP out of _every_ server log

Gabor Laszlo
Happy

ORIC-1

and my cousins ZX-Spectrum. I still have the ORIC in a drawer somewhere. Best keyboard I've seen on any comp its class. Ahh, fond memories of hacking

Gabor Laszlo
Pirate

I never ever see adverts..

thanks to TVTorrents.com

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