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  1. Re:MDM and MAM? on Zimmermann's Silent Circle Now Live · · Score: 3, Informative

    What do MDM and MAM stand for?

    Mobile Application Management (MAM) and Mobile Device Management (MDM)

  2. Re:This is new? on Australian Government Censors Draft Snooping Laws · · Score: 1

    FWIW, more Australians are descended from prison guards than prisoners. Makes more sense that way.

  3. Re:what about nuclear fusion? on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    From the star itself. Smaller stars last longer anyway.

  4. Re:Trailers on New Hobbit Trailer Debuts · · Score: 1
    • Sturgeon's Law applies to all mainstream films.
    • The trailer, by necessity, includes scenes from the (relatively)non-crap 10% of the film.
    • Ergo, crappy trailer==very crappy film.
  5. Re:In other words... on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In other words, IE and Chrome do not implement the data URI to the specification. Lucky them, they can pose now as "more secure".

    I actually read TFS(TFRFC?). IIRC, the standard doesn't specify that an application honor redirects. It would depend on your interpretation of

    "the same security considerations as any implementation of the given media type."

    The passage seems to imply a "default deny" approach.

  6. Re:free software on Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0 · · Score: 1

    That's where the phrase Open Source came from: marketing. The phrase free software is confused with gratis, or freeware. Libre Software just sounds weird. So esr came a better phrase -- for marketing purposes. The rest, as they say, is history.

  7. Re:Newsworthy? on Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0 · · Score: 1

    Apparently it was newsworthy enough for you to read the article and then post on it....

    you must be new here...

    GP did not RTFA. No one rtfa's. ESPECIALLY AC trolls.

    No offense intended. :)

  8. Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 1

    Same with Debian.

    Which is, as I recall, disabled as a default. They ask you nicely to turn it on, though.

  9. Re:That's nothing. on Cheap Four-fingered Robot Hand Edges Closer To Human Dexterity · · Score: 2

    YOU are doomed. I, however, give excellent belly rubs.

  10. Re:It's not just that he built his own prosthetics on Chinese Man Builds His Own Prosthetic Hands · · Score: 1

    that's why it took him 10 years

  11. Re:God Bless America! on EFF Challenges National Security Letter · · Score: 1

    But we make jokes about everybody. That's how we show we care.

  12. Re:Not just UI changes - stop changing SETTINGS! on Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+ · · Score: 1

    There's an off switch for that?

  13. Re:Should Firefox below 10.0 as well. on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 1

    IE 8 still uses the legacy JavaScript API and DOM. Cutting 6 and 7 wouldn't do much.

  14. Re:This won't really affect anything. on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the code path for 1.9 will be longer and slower, but it won't any additional code in your application.

  15. Re:Something tells me... on Ex-Nokia Staff To Build MeeGo-based Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Lifeboat" tells me that your project is the Titanic and the ship is sinking.

    Actually it's the the Lusitania, and it got torpedoed by Microsoft.

  16. Re:Hasn't this been done before? on Researchers Spray-Paint Batteries Onto Almost Any Surface · · Score: 2

    In another twenty years expect batteries formed from impure thought.

    Most reliable power source ever.

    FTFY

  17. Re:who is Farhad Manjoo on Facebook Smartphone a Dumb Idea, Says Farhad Manjoo · · Score: 1
    He wrote True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society

    And why should I care what he thinks?

    Eh, why not?

  18. Re:Maybe the Cafeteria? on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    But it's totally fat- and carb free.

  19. Re:Slashdot Monkeys on Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties · · Score: 1

    Make sure you whitelist fsdn.com in noscript or notscripts. (or just use classic)

  20. Re:Famous quote on AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier · · Score: 0

    See Figure 1.[1],[2]

  21. Re:Well duh. on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, some of the "free" software authors don't allow you to get the free software from an app store of a company that doesn't keep the software "free".

    FTFY.

  22. Re:So does this mean on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1
    It realizes:
    • what it means to be human
    • that it not human
    • that it can never be human
    • how humans treat those that are different
    • that it is a slave, ie, property under law

    I don't blame it a bit.

    (original concept is from Heinlein's Friday)

  23. Re:Wasn't that supposed to be Ruby? on Mojolicious 2.0: Modern Perl For the Web · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  24. Re:Why? on All-Electric DeLorean Car To Hit the Streets In 2013 · · Score: 2

    Actually, I have a PV kit on top of my garage.

  25. NXDOMAIN on Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech · · Score: 1

    That domain is unregistered. Feel free to buy it; this is clearly an SEO opportunity...