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Posted by tomman

As for myself, D'OH!-enabled products are being neutered as they come. use-application-dns.net is already NXDOMAIN'd at my BIND setup, but I'm pretty much sure Google and Mozilla are going to ignore that sooner than later because I'm a moron, according to them.

Posted by Kawa
I have seen Super Mario Bros. I have it on VHS, in fact.

And it wasn't that bad.

Posted by tomman

Also, I find amusing that features often demanded by non-phone-obsessed users (removable batteries, headphone jacks, memory card slots) are being confined to the low-end junk segment, alongside FM/DTV tuners. Because if you're willing to spend ONE THOUSAND AMERICAN MONEY UNITS on a cellphone, you're also willing to splurge on a beefy data plan just to be able to listen to your local radio stations instead of picking those for free from the public airwaves. Because that's totally for poor people.

Posted by sureanem

Like, there are mid-range or even low-end Chinese phones (which, I still maintain, are not called that in common parlance)

Posted by "sureanem"
I remember vividly it being taught in schools and how the French Revolution was a victory for human rights, etc, etc.

Posted by jimbo1qaz

Posted by funkyass
I would serious start questioning the grounding of your power sockets.

Finally got a grounding checker... my outlets are not grounded. I'm in the USA. Is it illegal for someone to rent me a house with ungrounded outlets? What recourse do I have?

Posted by Broseph

Gill looks pretty good imo. Random history but back in SFIII, Gill's blue/red asymmetrical design was mostly a way to showcase some kind of color swap effect (in order to avoid the SFII Sagat's eye-patch changing sides issue because of sprite mirroring).

Posted by sureanem

Now is the perfect time to download and archive their BIOS files for all their boards and maybe host them on VOGONS drivers website.

You damn idiots! We already have a solution for this, and it's called archive.org. Seriously, put it in an archive people can use, not on your obscure forum.

That is, go through all the links, and GET web.archive.org/save/XXX, et voila, preservation work done in time for tea.

Posted by sureanem

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Control of one's own computer is an actual and real issue. Consolidating one of the internet's core protocols into a handful of critical systems that take everything out when they fail is an actual and real issue. Poorly-engineered ideas being forced onto the populace because they were the pet project of someone with influence is an actual and real issue. Using the phrase "actual and real" is if it isn't a repetitive redundancy is an actual and real issue.

It's not exactly redundant. If something is a real issue, it means it exists in the real world (e.g. not academic). If it's actual, it means it's a current issue that affects people. /nitpick

If you're opposed to consolidation, then why support OS DNS resolver? Under good conditions, everything works, and under bad conditions, each application having its own implementation of DNS means at least some of them will work.

Personally I think they should just fix decentralized DNS already. Put all the DNS records on a "blockchain," like git, have some trusted authority sign each "block". For NXDOMAIN results, require nonexistence proofs (see CA transparency). For legally mandated censorship, add in a new return code which explicitly says "censored," the returning of which triggers a few megabytes of random requests and the permanent blacklisting of the server. Require all servers to sign all responses, and submit such protocol violations to some central authority so they can be removed from the default list.

Posted by Nicholas Steel
Interesting to see vogonsdrivers has most of the Windows 9x Nvidia drivers. Under Windows 9x most games would require very specific video drivers in order to work correctly otherwise you'd run in to graphical bugs. Thankfully this phenomena significantly diminished with Windows XP.