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"LOL, better than a REAL SECURITY FIRM, I guess? Because that is where I got my source" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @10:51AM (#31706372)

No, YOUR INFO. IS 2 VERSIONS OF OPERA OLD #1, & #2? Your link above (I went thru your posts here in this exchange) & it was from OPERA, here: http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/865/ when you posted it, here in this exchange -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31582488

(Man, YOU CAN'T EVEN GET THAT MUCH RIGHT... lol!)

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"Nice try, apk, really nice try... APF is more like it though, because you really are an APril Fool (all year long! ROFL)." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @10:51AM (#31706372)

Better than yours, so again: CAN YOU TELL US THE TOPIC OF THIS ARTICLE? Clue - IT'S ABOUT GERMANY WARNING ITS PEOPLES NOT TO USE FIREFOX as they did about IE also

SO - once more: Can you show me where German government EVER SAID NOT TO USE OPERA? No, you cannot... even though you said they did (b.s., & this below ALL proves that much easily, with your OWN LYING WORDS no less, easily ("too, Too, TOO EASY" in fact!)).

(1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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You'll never find that the germans said "stay away from Opera", EVEN THOUGH YOU SAY GERMAN GOV'T. DID ABOVE (pure b.s. OR a mistake on your part, take your pick) - they have never done so, afaik @ least!

(You're either "thick" in the head, an incorrigible TROLL (this is the case imo), or just well... "less than a 10 below plantlife IQ" bearing individual (& please - listen to Alice in Chains & take their advice and "CHECK YOUR BRAIN", or @ least your inability to read... thank you!))... apk

APK

P.S.=> Your information is also SO STALE (considering you posted a very old bug from OPERA 9.23) & OPERA IS CURRENTLY AT VERSION 10.52.3344 as of today, here -> http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ ... so, so much for "your information being current" (far, Far, FAR FROM IT in fact - what you posted is YEARS OLD on a guess/iirc)... apk

"OOOOh yeah, the Germans are experts on computer security. Not." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:09AM (#31704434)

They're more adept @ it than you are (iirc, they have a branch of gov't. & an agency (STASI, iirc?) for it, as most governments do)... especially since you said that Germany said to steer clear of Opera (& they NEVER have, though they did for BOTH IE &/or FF though, & what's in my p.s. below proves that...)

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"Enjoy your shitty advice from German politicians who know nothing about computers and OLD, OLD news about Firefox bugs that were already patched. LOL." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:09AM (#31704434)

Not @ the post time of this article... care to tell us what this article's title & premise + conclusion were? Let me refresh your memory, with what's in my p.s. below...

APK

P.S.=> Now, back up your b.s., which I requoted now below, & find where THE GERMAN GOV'T. SAID "Don't use Opera", as they did with IE & FF... see here below (and this very article of course also):

"They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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You'll never find that the germans said "stay away from Opera" - they have never done so, afaik @ least!

(You're either "thick" in the head, an incorrigible TROLL (this is the case imo), or just well... "less than a 10 below plantlife IQ" bearing individual (& please - listen to Alice in Chains & take their advice and "CHECK YOUR BRAIN", or @ least your inability to read... thank you!))... apk

"Um, yes, that's OLD NEWS, and updated in the new version... so no, not "CURRENT". Nice try, apk!" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @07:19PM (#31703508)

What was this article on /. here about? Let me "refresh your memory": IT WAS ABOUT THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT SAYING "STEER CLEAR OF FIREFOX" (just as they did of IE before that - but, never about Opera, though YOU state they did & I quote that, again, below no less in my p.s.)...

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"It does make me laugh though to think how many mod points will be wasted modding down all of your offtopic, trolling posts replying to all of my posts." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @07:19PM (#31703508)

That's ok "CLOWN" (lol, change your name here to CLOWN instead of CLONE in other words, lol) - you can use all your mod points from your own alternate logon accounts for that... it's "ok by me" lmao!

(You're the one continuing this, with b.s. you cannot back up, in trolling myself in all my posts in this article's threads... NOT the other way around. If someone is trolling you, you probably did the same to they and they are only pointing it out to others... especially how you screwed up here, which I requote below next no less in my p.s. below)

APK

P.S.=>

"They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

B.S. - again, find where THE GERMAN GOV'T. SAID "Don't use Opera", as they did with IE & FF... see here below (and this very article of course also):

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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You'll never find that the germans said "stay away from Opera" - they have never done so, afaik @ least!

(You're either "thick" in the head, an incorrigible TROLL (this is the case imo), or just well... "less than a 10 below plantlife IQ" bearing individual (& please - listen to Alice in Chains & take their advice and "CHECK YOUR BRAIN", or @ least your inability to read... thank you!)... apk

See subject-line above, lmao, & quit avoiding what you said quoted in my p.s. below (and back it up with proof):

"I already said I don't give half a worm-eaten turd what the German government said.:" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:07AM (#31704426)

Sure you don't (sarcasm): Look @ your "frothing @ the mouth" profane reaction... THAT "tells the real tale" here, lol!

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"I quoted a LEGITIMATE SECURITY COMPANY." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:07AM (#31704426)

Again: Oh really? Where was that?? I did so using SECUNIA.COM's data (they're widely known & respected as a site for obtaining security vulnerability data reports)...

So - where exactly did you find some the german gov't. saying "steer clear of Opera" (which has NO KNOWN SECURITY VULNERABILITIES currently per SECUNIA.COM, and also was shown to be FASTER THAN IE &/or FIREFOX numerous times in reports & tests of that I posted here, repeatedly no less)... as well as my putting up proofs of the GERMAN GOV'T. STATING "STEER CLEAR OF IE or FF" twice?

Where did you quote some "security company" saying so? I did not see that (I know I did though, in SECUNIA.COM, in this very exhange no less!)

Funny you can't find the German Gov't. stating that about Opera - even though YOU said they did, & they clearly did not and your lack of proof of the germans saying "steer clear of Opera" doesn't exist even though you said so (though the Germans did about both FF &/or IE!).

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"Enjoy your shitty advice from the wannabe security people in the German government, loser." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:07AM (#31704426)

Yea, lol: Governments don't have security experts (not)... give us a break: They either have their own agencies for this (is it STASI for germans? I can't recall this anymore) OR, they contract to those that are to do so, like many governments do for many tasks/things!

(By the way: Your name tossing & profnanity aren't helping you "back up your b.s." which I requoted in my p.s. below for YOU TO NOW PROVE, because you said it!)

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"I'll be over here quoting real security analysts." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:07AM (#31704426)

Where did you do that, ever, here in this very exchange? Either I missed it, or you are FULL OF IT (I used SECUNIA.COM by the by, which shows Opera with NO KNOWN VULNERABILITIES).

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"You're such a failure at trolling that it's really sad." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Friday April 02, @12:07AM (#31704426)

Funny - I back up my points with quotes & articles from respected sources (see my p.s. below & my initial + subsequent posts all throough this exchange)... you, by the same token/by way of comparison, do not.

P.S.=> Back up your b.s. here then, which I will now requote (Quit AVOIDING my questions troll: Prove what YOU stated, which I quote you in below next):

"They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

B.S. - again, find where THE GERMAN GOV'T. SAID "Don't use Opera", as they did with IE & FF... see here below (and this very article of course also):

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/germ

"Who gives a flying shit what the German idiots said about Opera?" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @07:17PM (#31703500)

You evidently do, because you OPENED YOUR BIG MOUTH, in your trolling me... lol, and now? Now you can't back up your b.s. (especially when you stated the Germans said to "stay away from Opera" & you cannot produce proof of where they did so - however, I did, as regards Germans stating that about FireFox &/or Internet Explorer).

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"I quoted a LEGITIMATE SECURITY COMPANY. You fail, but that was really a nice try." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @07:17PM (#31703500)

Uhm, first of all: WHERE WAS THAT? I did so, using reports from SECUNIA.COM (a totally legit & respected site for security vulnerabilities on programs & OS', etc./et al) - I didn't see YOU using any such thing at any point here... show me where you did in THIS exchange/debate you & I are having... ok? Thanks.

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"Trolling all my posts is a nice touch, too. LOL, the last act of a desperate child!" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @07:17PM (#31703500)

LOL, what are you talking about? You came into 2 of my posts, in this thread about GERMANY STATING TO ITS PEOPLES TO "STEER CLEAR OF FIREFOX", and YOU? YOU did that, albeit, to me... talk about the "pot calling the kettle black".

Your profane reaction & name tossing only serves to show you don't like having done to you, what YOU DO TO OTHERS (first on your part no less)... what's the matter? You go and "tick someone off" & they exposed you for some screwup your big mouth made happen?? Well, that's what you get when your big mouth writes checks your dull brain doesn't have the know-how to back up & ca$h!

APK

P.S.=> Back up your b.s. here then, which I will now requote (Quit AVOIDING my questions troll: Prove what YOU stated, which I quote you in below next):

"They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

B.S. - again, find where THE GERMAN GOV'T. SAID "Don't use Opera", as they did with IE & FF... see here below (and this very article of course also):

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html [independent.ie]

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181 [techradar.com]

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You'll never find that the germans said "stay away from Opera", though you said they did, quoted above no less - & yet, the Germans have never done so, afaik @ least!

(You're either "thick" in the head, an incorrigible TROLL (this is the case imo), or just well... "less than a 10 below plantlife IQ" bearing individual (& please - listen to Alice in Chains & take their advice and "CHECK YOUR BRAIN", or @ least your inability to read... thank you!))... apk

Quit AVOIDING my questions troll: Prove what YOU stated, which I quote you in below next:

"They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

B.S. - again, find where THE GERMAN GOV'T. SAID "Don't use Opera", as they did with IE & FF... see here below (and this very article of course also):

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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(You'll never find that the germans said "stay away from Opera" - they have never done so, afaik @ least!)

APK

P.S.=> You're either "thick" in the head, an incorrigible TROLL (this is the case imo), or just well... "less than a 10 below plantlife IQ" bearing individual (& please - listen to Alice in Chains & take their advice and "CHECK YOUR BRAIN", or @ least your inability to read... thank you!)... apk

"Show me an article from a legitimate and reputable website that states that about Firefox CURRENTLY." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @03:36PM (#31702336)

What? At the start date of this article I certainly could, & did!

Here they are, once more:

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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BY WAY OF COMPARISON/By the same token, on YOUR part however? You NEVER could put up one that backs what you said (which I requote below), & that was that Germany said the same of Opera, as it did of FF & IE (which was, "stay away", in essence).

(Clue - check the date of those URL's I put up in my last post, that clearly state that Germany's gov't. said "steer clear" of FF + IE, & then? THEN, check the start date of this thread start date... "m'kay"?)

They were URL's noted above in my last post no less that match the date of THIS article on /. here...

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So, once more - prove what YOU stated, which I will once again post for you troll:

"They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378) Journal

B.S. - again, find where THE GERMAN GOV'T. SAID "Don't use Opera", as they did with IE & FF...

(You'll never find it - they have never done so, afaik @ least!)

APK

P.S.=> You're either "think" in the head, an incorrigible TROLL (this is the case imo), or just well... "less than a 10 below plantlife IQ" bearing individual (& please - listen to Alice in Chains & take their advice and "CHECK YOUR BRAIN"... thank you!)... apk

"Certainly: "They never came for Opera". They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378)

Show us an article from a legitimate and reputable website that states that currently please. There's no reason for them to currently anyhow, lol! Why? Well... that's simply because Opera has NO KNOWN SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN IT PRESENTLY either, by the way (see here):

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/26745/

Now - I do know that Germany said to stay away from both IE &/or FireFox, with proofs no less of that much rencently:

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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However, I have yet to see that said of Opera by the German government.

So, that "all said & aside"? Well, per your quote above: Please produce your evidence of that quoted statement of yours above, and of any known security vulnerabilities in Opera.

(Thank you).

The reason I ask this, is simple: The German government even ADVISED THAT FOLKS SWITCH TO OPERA (doubtless because of its not having any known security vulnerabilities presently, per my SECUNIA.COM evidence thereof, above, no less)... see here:

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"The German government is thus advising its citizens to use alternative browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Opera."

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

FireFox had a bug in 3.6 though, & Chrome bore multiple KNOWN vulnerabilities recently (now patched though) & it's not nearly as fast as Opera is (none of them are, especially on the most used OS platform there is, in Windows), BUT, Apple's Safari currently does -> http://secunia.com/advisories/product/25519/ ...

Guess that leaves Opera then, eh? Lmao... Ah, man - "too, Too, TOO EASY!". Just too easy...

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Oh, also: Not "too clever" of you trying to laughingly "get that last word on me" - I won't allow it, lol! You're going to have to wake up a LOT earlier in the a.m., to even THINK I would let the "likes of you" (lol) even TRY to "get the better of", me.

APK

P.S.=> By the way, Clone (or, shall I say Sprocket, lol (your "alter ego" here no doubt)): Do you like the band, Alice in Chains??

If so, please - DO go to a doctor, & ask him to "Check My Brain"...

(Your brain that is, lol, & for its actual existence inside your cranium, because I believe that your brain, like your inability to produce a statement of the German's explicitly stating that their peoples stay away from Opera (as they had for both IE &/or FF above), or that Opera has known security issues currently, doesn't exist (lmao))... apk

"Certainly: "They never came for Opera". They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378)

Show us an article from a legitimate and reputable website that states that currently please. There's no reason for them to currently anyhow, lol! Why? Well... that's simply because Opera has NO KNOWN SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN IT PRESENTLY either, by the way (see here):

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/26745/

Now - I do know that Germany said to stay away from both IE &/or FireFox, with proofs no less of that much rencently:

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German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

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However, I have yet to see that said of Opera by the German government.

So, that "all said & aside"? Well, per your quote above: Please produce your evidence of that quoted statement of yours above, and of any known security vulnerabilities in Opera.

(Thank you).

The reason I ask this, is simple: The German government even ADVISED THAT FOLKS SWITCH TO OPERA (doubtless because of its not having any known security vulnerabilities presently, per my SECUNIA.COM evidence thereof, above, no less)... see here:

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"The German government is thus advising its citizens to use alternative browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Opera."

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

FireFox had a bug in 3.6 though, & Chrome bore multiple KNOWN vulnerabilities recently (now patched though) & it's not nearly as fast as Opera is (none of them are, especially on the most used OS platform there is, in Windows), BUT, Apple's Safari currently does -> http://secunia.com/advisories/product/25519/ ...

Guess that leaves Opera then, eh? Lmao... Ah, man - "too, Too, TOO EASY!". Just too easy...

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Oh, also: Not "too clever" of you trying to laughingly "get that last word on me" - I won't allow it, lol! You're going to have to wake up a LOT earlier in the a.m., to even THINK I would let the "likes of you" (lol) even TRY to "get the better of", me.

APK

P.S.=> By the way, Clone (or, shall I say Sprocket, lol (your "alter ego" here no doubt)): Do you like the band, Alice in Chains??

If so, please - DO go to a doctor, & ask him to "Check My Brain"...

(Your brain that is, lol, & for its actual existence inside your cranium, because I believe that your brain, like your inability to produce a statement of the German's explicitly stating that their peoples stay away from Opera (as they had for both IE &/or FF above), or that Opera has known security issues currently, doesn't exist (lmao))... apk

"Certainly: "They never came for Opera". They did come for Opera; they recommended that people stop using it until this latest version patched the security flaw they found." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Thursday April 01, @08:29AM (#31699378)

Show us an article from a legitimate and reputable website that states that currently please. There's no reason for them to currently anyhow, lol! Why? Well... that's simply because Opera has NO KNOWN SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN IT PRESENTLY either, by the way (see here):

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/26745/

Now - I do know that Germany said to stay away from both IE &/or FireFox, with proofs no less of that much rencently:

German government in Firefox warning -> http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/german-government-in-firefox-warning-2107853.html

and

German government warns citizens off IE -> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/german-government-warns-citizens-off-ie-664181

However, I have yet to see that said of Opera by the German government.

Please produce your evidence of that quoted statement of yours above, and of any known security vulnerabilities in Opera.

(Thank you).

Oh, also: Not "too clever" of you trying to laughingly "get that last word on me" - I won't allow it, lol!

APK

P.S.=> By the way, Clone (or, shall I say Sprocket, lol (your "alter ego" here no doubt)): Do you like the band, Alice in Chains??

If so, please - DO go to a doctor, & ask him to "Check My Brain"...

(Your brain that is, lol, & for its actual existence inside your cranium, because I believe that your brain, like your inability to produce a statement of the German's explicitly stating that their peoples stay away from Opera (as they had for both IE &/or FF above), or that Opera has known security issues currently, doesn't exist (lmao))... apk

They announced a few months ago, that all Virgin media's customers will have new boxes with software provided by TiVo, from 2010. That's currently around 4 million customers.

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/virgin-media-bringing-tivo-back-to-uk-653858

Not sure how this ties up with Virgin's general plans, to roll out faster fiber nationwide. I can't see the point of a PVR when you have enough bandwidth to stream anything on demand.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-i7500-getting-android-2-1-in-q2-668322

I'm surprised the Navy hasn't picked up on this more.

They have. And even with fuel cells. And helicopters, too.

Well, there's a Chinese distribution that I believe is made to look like whatever Windows look and feel you want right out of the box. I'm pretty sure it supports English so don't let the Chinese characters scare you away.

Vixta does a good job of looking like Vista.

Of course, these pale in comparison to the standard Ubuntu as far as support goes. Screw the Windows look and feel, that'd be my recommendation. Depending on how much time you want to sink into customizing this for them, there are tutorials for making Linux look like Windows 7.

Hope this helps. I also hope they don't need this distribution to do more than surf the web, get pictures off their camera and create documents ... hate to see them pick up a game or some funky peripheral/hardware that don't have drivers in Linux and then keep bugging you about why their GenCorp Brand Wal-Mart purchased Mickey Mouse USB LED Display toy doesn't have software to make it light up on their desk.

light source as reported here: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/3m-announces-autostereoscopic-3d-gaming-for-mobiles-641343 Perhaps the 3M Scotch Optical Lighting Film combined with a lenticular film? http://www.3m.com/product/information/Optical-Lighting-Film.html Unless the LED light source direction can be changed then the geometry is fixed and very sensitive to the viewing position and viewing distance.

Maemo and the N900 are on page four of TFA.

WinMo held less than 15% of the smartphone market last year. That's not "extremely popular". In tech-savvy Japan iPhone share has reached almost half. WiMo has negative growth. In fact one Gartner (we can trust Microsoft's friend Gartner not to skew the numbers away from Redmond, right?) analyst has WiMo share at a meek 7.9% in 3Q 2009, off 28% from a year before.

"From one side, the market is going open source," Cozza said. "We expect that, by 2012, around 62 percent of the whole smart phone market will be open source with Symbian, Android and other Linux flavours. On the other side, they have more closed environments like Apple and RIM. Microsoft is caught in the middle. They have to think hard what they can do."

"All their licensees - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson - are developing on Android," Cozza said, adding that previous licensees Palm and Motorola have both abandoned Windows Mobile.

I'll agree about the ringtones thing, though - they're idiots. The thing is, there are a lot of idiots. Ringtones made up $500M in sales last year. It's shrinking fast, but to most people half a billion dollars is still a lot of money.

An important thing to note is that two or three year contracts are the norm in cell phones, so if you lose 28% of customers year over year, that's essentially everybody who could ditch your product for free. I'll say it again: that's not popular.

Now show me how I can't back my shit up.

'The calculation of where to look for confirmation of an incoming missile requires knowledge of the system time, which is stored as the number of 0.1-second ticks since the system was started up. Unfortunately, 0.1 seconds cannot be expressed accurately as a binary number, so when it's shoehorned into a 24-bit register -- as used in the Patriot system -- it's out by a tiny amount.

But all these tiny amounts add up. At the time of the missile attack, the system had been running for about 100 hours, or 3,600,000 ticks to be more specific. Multiplying this count by the tiny error led to a total error of 0.3433 seconds, during which time the Scud missile would cover 687m'

Nonsense, it's perfectly possible to design a computer that can accurately tell the time. What caused Patriot to fail was that over an expended period, the clocks went out of sync, between the various dispersed sub-systems. As Patriot wasn't designed to be switched on for so long.

Regardless, what isn't possible is is to design a system that can accurately track and shoot down missiles in flight. As the Patriot defence system so patently demonstrated. As I recall, it succeeded less than 50 % of the time. Which begs the veracity of the starwars SDI project. Just another excuse to spend billions on the defence budget.

I can't wait until they try to ban the man with the camera in his eye.

I'm sure he doesn't welcome his new robotic eyeball's overlords.

What about when you can dump raw data passing through the optical nerve? Shouldn't be too long, if we can mimic the feed passing through it, we should already be able to read it. The question is: when will the quality of the dump is eye-def? Interesting stuff indeed.

I can't wait until they try to ban the man with the camera in his eye.

I'm sure he doesn't welcome his new robotic eyeball's overlords.

"We don't believe in coming to market like Apple - high margin, high quality, high price. We believe in high volume and low price." - Steve Ballmer speaking to TechRadar UK

Personally, I prefer the Apple way but if you want to be a cheapskate and be forced to sit through ads to use a device you bought like in some cyberpunk B-movie be my guest.

I read an article about Google starting to use the location data from Google Maps to analyze traffic patterns to determine where traffic was backed up, etc.

Randomly-found article using, what else?, google: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/google-uses-your-mobile-to-end-traffic-jams-629554

Anyway, just another example where we know the data is being collected, but somehow it feels less comfortable when the data gets used.

Won't stop me from using it if I get to a city where there might be enough cars to actually use the data.

So this will bring back the text and reduce the size of the icons.

You've either never read my comment or are incredibly stupid.

The complete lack of text on the task bar means I have to learn what each icon represents and then have to mouse over it or open the item to figure out what it actually is. In XP or Vista I can just look at the task bar and figure out which server's I've RDP's and SSH'd into, what page my browser is on, any IM's demanding my attention and who they are from. I'm going to lose a crap load of productivity from this alone and probably some hair as well. There are good reasons we favour text based language over a pictogram or hieroglyphic language, complex text is far easier to read.

There are your words exactly as you typed them. You mention the lack of text and when I point out your incompetence, you try to sneak in the icon size bit in your response. Nice try, but you lose.

You really didnt read my comment. I have no idea how you reached this conclusion. This is something the OS does not need my interaction for. Secondly those are two different idea's, one the OS is not following my commands (deciding for itself how I want my network set up) the second is an unnecessary interruption (annoyance).

Then I suggest that you learn to use English correctly. Paragraphs are used to combine like ideas and information. If they were supposed to be two completely separate ideas, then you should have written it differently.

In addition, it's "ideas" not "idea's" because it is not being used as a possessive in your statement.

Because that's a really unbiased sample there.

The vast majority of people do not care about altering the Windows start up sound. They are quiet happy with right clicking a picture and selecting "make this picture my background". You don't work with regular end users do you, most do not even care about the background hence the default rolling hills XP picture is so prevalent.

All samples are going to be biased and I can only speak from my experience if I am to remain honest. I do, however, like how you magically have this unbiased insight into the minds of "the vast majority of people" so that you are able to know exactly what they want and are able to speak for them all.

Like most AC's you lack a clue. Both of these statements are not true.

Translation: You have no real argument so you attack the credibility of the statement based solely upon the name it was posted under.

So tell me, is mjwx your true birth name? Or perhaps you had it legally changed to that? Wait, what's that? Your alias is makes you just as anonymous as I am? Well there is a revelation!

By the way, you might want to take a look at this and this. So where is that supreme lead on gaming performance that you said XP had?

Microsoft could just implement it properly, like Sudo under Ubuntu. There is no reason that any program ever should pop up in front of what I am doing, let alone dim the whole screen to completely kill my train of thought. UAC should wait in the background until dealt with, it can draw attention to itself in the task bar, in the same way an MSN chat window would.

Sorry but no. If I am doing something that warrants a UAC popup, then I am going to fully expect it and it is not annoying. If something else is doing something to trigger a UAC then it's a possible security breach and I WANT an annoying popup that will get my attention no matter what I am doing.

Because upgrading the upstream pipe from 14.4Kbps to 33.6Kbps would require the Yemenis ISP to take out a small loan at a 'very' high interest rape from the WTO...

But in reality, all ISP's would like to censor traffic as 'Less load + more consumers = Greater Profit'. If ISP's had their way we would all have the old netzero type ad bar on our screens while every mistyped web domain would take you to their sponsors web site all the while making sure you never exceed 1GB a month on your 100Mbit/100Mbit connection.

As far as the 'free market' 'you have a choice' idea goes... We know that just isn't true anymore... Large corporations collude with each other to insure your SOL and they rarely get caught. Even when they do it doesn't drive them out of business.. Flamebait? Damn Dirty Lies? Hey why not check out the quick 30 seconds of research below.

07-14-2009: EU issues charges in global LCD price fixing crackdown
06-16-2009: AT&T and Verizon deny price-fixing accusations
03-10-2009: Hitachi pleads guilty to LCD price fixing
11-12-2008: LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing
03-03-2004: EU probes memory price-fixing charge
09-30-2002: States settle CD price-fixing case

This is why 'fanboys & girls' really need to be 're-educated' and not by their TV's, iPhones or PS3s... ;-|

No, Bing links to a Yahoo answers page in which the actually text of the article contains the search terms several times("Windows" once, "Mac" once, "expensive" once, and Microsoft" twice). The article google returns, while having the same title, is a techradar.com article that doesn't mention windows. The Google results article and the Bing results article. YMMV

Lots of key sites (eg. youtube) are dropping IE6 support. Use rates on most top sites have dropped below 10%. The web is not useable with IE6. Most sites in development now are not supporting it, except by accident. IE6 is dead. Hooray!!

• "How the net saved live music"
• "British music industry is in rude health"
• "UK music economist says music industry revenue up 4-7"

These reports all say the same thing: concert ticket sales growth more than makes up for the decline in recorded music sales.

Heh.. the Russians might just be out for revenge.

Interesting article about how the CIA took advantage of the fact that the USSR had given up on domestic computer systems development, and had taken to cloning IBM and Dec gear.
From examples spiked with malware....
Excerpt:
 
 

In the early 1980s, the Russians were constructing a trans-Siberian oil pipeline, and needed an automated system to properly manage it. Softening attitudes allowed them to legitimately purchase older models of computers on the open market. They then approached the American authorities for permission to buy the necessary software. When the US refused, the KGB stole the application.

However, the software they stole had been doctored to go haywire after a while. It would open valves unexpectedly and set pressures too high for the pipeline's welds. When the explosion came, US seismologists measured the blast at three kilotons.

I do not agree that the Space Shuttle's heading to the space station qualifies to be on Slashdot's front page and here's why:

This news is so much like yesterday...move on.

We've had decades of shuttle launches, that this is now routine.

When Russians send their Soyuz craft to space, there's hardly any mention of it in the Russian or American media. To the Russians, it's second nature similar to taking a flight. It should be the same for us when it comes to the Shuttle.

What have we gotten from all the experiments done in space since the sixties anyway? Do these expenses justify the cost?

Why not cover "real news" like How the smartphone rivals are building their communities, referring to Android and iPhone platforms?

Apple indicates while it won't drop its connector, it will enable adaptors to be made:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/apple-won-t-drop-dock-connector-for-micro-usb-612103

Considering that it already connects to USB sockets, then all that is needed is a USB - micro-USB adaptor.

The only question is whether USB power plugs will be made 'smarter', since there are still some that won't charge certain telephones for what ever reason.

I know exactly what all that data was...poor scientist trying to do research on MMO's get busted http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/sociologists-using-mmorpgs-to-conduct-research-556582

Lets look at this:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/july-sales-figures-show-iphone-fourth-in-japan-458742

So Apple is selling 4% of the overall market.

That is 4 out of 100 Japanese people buying a phone, chose to buy an Apple phone. Hardly earth shattering success if you ask me.

Keeping in mind Apple exclusivity deals, we can be pretty certain about these numbers, keeping in mind that Apple partnered with the 3rd biggest company in Japan, who holds around 15% of the market at most, not all of them are iPods of course.

At this point, after looking at the hard facts, I can almost see the replies using the characteristic market speak Apple fans are so fond of ( you know, "paradigm shifting phone", "intuitive", "elegant", etc, etc, etc, all soft words devised to remove our attention from the real issues and faults of the gadget, in spite of the numbers which are telling us the iPhone is nothing but an expensive niche product which most people, sensibly, chose to steer clear from)

Supports Quicktime out of the box, so you won't need the carppy Quicktime player anymore.

I wonder how KDE 4.2 stacks up against Windows 7's interface. There is what appears to be an impressive review of KDE 4.2 over here at Techradar.com.

OS X has yet to be owned remotely. Correct me if I'm wrong here, I'd like to heat about it.

You are wrong.

The original jailbreaking of the iPhone was based on a tiff handling vulnerability in the Safari browser - this could be exploited remotely until the hole was fixed, simply by visiting a website.

http://www.iphone-hacks.com/2007/10/10/iphone-111-jailbroken-again-using-tiff-exploit/

I would be surprised if there are not more holes in the Safari browser which ships with the iPhone (and its desktop equivalent), indeed I've read about a few more since (can't be bothered to look them all up just now) and expect to see the iPhone compromised.

Here's another more recent which could be costly by calling unknown numbers :

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10113

Or another, allowing access to data :

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/iphone-macs-vulnerable-to-safari-hack-attack-154585

Now OS X has been less vulnerable to worms spreading automatically compared to Windows historically (not so much compared to Vistia), has some good security policies in place like the lack of services on by default, firewall and a sane use of password dialogs, but that doesn't make it immune. Apple has not been as vigilant or communicative in this area as they should be.

Searching that exact quote with ""

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-7-versions-officially-announced-518185

No, not the article.

The editor.

First off, Sony denied this already -- yesterday . So this isn't news, and it's already-rejected news.

Secondly, what kind of idiot links to the Inquirer as a source? Remember, they're the ones who posted the article claiming the PS3 was "slow and broken" because they didn't understand a memory bandwidth chart.

Which is precisely why I think this story is bullshit.

This helps too: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/sony-shoots-down-intel-gpu-in-ps4-rumours-525563

I know Slashdot isn't known for its high standards of editorial oversight, but do you really have to waste our time parroting Inquirer bullshit?

Note that the only media source claiming that Intel is designing the PS4 GPU is The Inquirer, which is wrong more often than they're right. And Sony has explicitly denied the rumors.

Intel might end up designing the PS4 GPU, who knows. This story doesn't give us any more information than we had before either way, and the headline is certainly wrong in concluding otherwise.

It's not just MSI

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/buyers-give-thumbs-down-to-linux-netbooks-484642?src=rss&attr=all
Carphone Warehouse is to stop selling one of their Linux netbooks after the return rates went through the roof. The Elonex Webbook, which ships with Ubuntu, was taken back to the shop by 20 per cent of purchasers. Contrary to some reports, the laptops are not being 'recalled.'

It seems the main problem is customer expectation; people expect a netbook to work just like a normal laptop and are surprised when it doesn't. Behind that would seem to be a lack of willingness to acquiesce to the charm of Ubuntu. Around 60,000 of the netbooks were shipped; mostly with a broadband bundle.

It's not the first time we've heard about high return rates for these reasons. TechRadar has previously investigated strong rumours of high netbook return rates to DSG stores (PC World, Dixons, Currys.digital) but was rebuffed.

And it seems that high return rates aren't only a problem this side of the pond. In an interview with Laptop Mag in the US, MSI's Director of US Sales Andy Tung admitted that people just weren't used to Linux. "Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux," he said.

'Not what they are used to'

"People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don't know what they get until they open the box. They start playing around with Linux and start realising that it's not what they are used to."

"They don't want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store. The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks."

Consumers may be realising that you do actually get what you pay for - and that cheap netbooks don't actually come with the ability to edit video or work just like Windows. At the launch of a big-name netbook in the summer, TechRadar spoke to a product manager who admitted the big problem with netbooks was letting consumers know what they were buying.

We spoke to Ben Russell, a recent Eee PC purchaser. "I find the OS a little bit confusing coming from a PC background - and to be honest I still prefer my Windows laptop. However it is light, cheap and fine for a bit of word processing, email, etc. The biggest bugbear is getting Mobile Broadband to work. It took a long time to get up and it's still not stable or doesn't work every time. It's a real downside."

Some guy used RFID for his gun safe... Not sure if that's a good idea :).

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/guy-injects-rfid-into-his-hand-475871

Guns throughout the house might be a bit worrisome if you have "impulsive" relatives or children about.

> WGA is not malware, it's totally retarded to even suggest it.

http://politech.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/microsofts-wga-malware-in-sheeps-clothing/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/03/wga_worm/
http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2007/05/11/malware-posing-as-windows-product-activation.aspx

> And give me one example of a copy of windows from a ms genuine partner that contained real malware

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/10/08/new-asus-eee-box-pcs-loaded-with-virus/
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/asus-ships-new-eee-pcs-with-live-virus-474622

> i can think of 2 - 3 examples of OSS repositories being infected with virus code in the last couple of years, most notably debian.

You had better tell this person then ... who was unable to find any Debian viruses at all.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080926175039AAANYlO

Seriously ... a Debian virus? Are you nuts?

Debian servers have been "hacked" a couple of times ... meaning that someone guessed a password and managed to log on. The servers maintainers watched what they were doing for a few minutes to see if there really was an exploit in use ... but they cut the connection as soon as it became clear that it was a simple case of a guessed password, and the hacker was vainly trying a few well-out-of-date methods to try to elevate privileges. No files were modified.

You really need to try to find out what a computer virus is, and while you are researching it, you might think how immensely improbable it is to be able to put a virus into open source code.

that today they sue their fans and anybody who gives a negative review of their games

oh how the mighty has fallen

it's pretty much all over the web:

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/radiohead-embrace-open-source-426545

They're all quoting some radiohead press release that I've yet to find, until then apologies are in order.

So, sorry for jumping the gun and not checking the press release first, but I just can't find the thing. I expect when - if - I do find it that we'll find that all those news articles that are out there will quote the press release word for word.