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Why DRM Should Be Kicked To The Curb

Comment in News (3 diggs, 3 replies) - on 10/02/2008
What if you invented a new kind of hard drive. However it does not making any improvements on any other hard drive on the market today. All you did was put your own proprietary socket on the back. Then, you said to those who bought your hard drive, the … (see comment)
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Why DRM Should Be Kicked To The Curb

Comment in News (10 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/02/2008
A mp3 file is different to a CD. A CD is a physical medium and requires physical piece of hardware to use it. A mp3 file is not constrained to physical mediums and so it should technically work on any computer or device that supports the mp3 encoding. … (see comment)
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Never Installed a Firewall on Ubuntu? Try Firestarter.

Comment in News (6 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/28/2008
fail2ban is recommended to install if you have ssh open to the world. It will ban people after so many failed logins. It would take a while to crack a password if they are getting their ip's banned. (see comment)
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The 14 best Linux Distros

Comment in News (10 diggs, 3 replies) - on 09/28/2008
If you think Ubuntu is good you probably haven't used GNU/Linux for very long. (see comment)
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Anatomy of a Hit: 'The Dark Knight'

Comment in News (-3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/28/2008
Don't you mean you will make this post disappear? (see comment)
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Vista's security rendered completely useless by new exploit.

Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 08/09/2008
If everyone used Firefox and NoScript then there probably less botnets around. >_> (see comment)
4689

Honest Desktop

Comment in Images (14 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/02/2008
It's more likely than you think! (see comment)
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FCC to Rule Comcast Can't Block Web Videos

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 07/28/2008
...and what happens when you reach the limit, they throttle you. (see comment)
662

Convert Filenames to Lowercase

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/27/2008
you can find documentation in sed manpage man sed (see comment)
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It happened...

Comment in Images (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 07/26/2008
paint.net! it like paint but even more awesome! (see comment)
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Timer & Timers

Comment in News (5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/11/2008
You might want a timer with a higher tick rate. (see comment)
2087

Spore System Requirements Revealed

Comment in News (22 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/11/2008
That was not a reply, that is a comment. (see comment)
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True Life: I Live Another Life on the Web [full episode]

Comment in Videos (5 diggs, 4 replies) - on 06/09/2008
Don't work in UK (see comment)
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Scientology believes education is a bad thing!

Comment in Videos (2 diggs, 1 reply) - on 06/05/2008
Having a belief requires evidence to support that it. I believe in gravity and wind, even though I cannot see it, but I see it effects. So I have evidence to support my belief. I don't see much evidence to support Scientology's beliefs. (see comment)
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Internet celebrates 2 years of futility battling Pirate Bay

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 06/03/2008
I don't think adobe and microsoft are having much trouble with piracy. You know, everyone downloading and learning their software instead of using alternatives. Oh, when they get a job they might tell their employers to buy microsoft or adobe products b … (see comment)
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15 Awesomely Stupid Wedding Gifts for Guys Getting Hitched

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/29/2008
OMG 1 PAGE PER PIC!!!!!!!1ONEBURIED (see comment)
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Music Catch: An extremely soothing music game

Comment in News (24 diggs, 4 replies) - on 05/25/2008
This would be even better if a custom song could be used and it created the balls like a visualization automaticly. ** time to start programming ** (see comment)
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Amarok 2: Visual Changelog

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/25/2008
From what I see, they look like drivers. You would still need to write the queries for mysql, postgresql and sqlite. They can be slightly different in structure. A common interface would be needed so a query from amarok would be converted automatically … (see comment)
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National Sex Offender Website

Comment in News (-1 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/25/2008
I'm sure you could put yourself on there with a simple sql injection hack? (see comment)
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Amarok 2: Visual Changelog

Comment in News (19 diggs, 2 replies) - on 05/25/2008
I hope I can still use an external database. I currently using mysql database on a remote server. It handy to use as I can point amarok from all my machines to the database so they will all be in sync. I didn't see any problem with this when it takes a … (see comment)
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