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  1. Re:United States of Google on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    Once you start using an email address it is with you forever unless you're willing to dump all of your contacts.

    Gmail has supported forwarding mail and exporting contacts for as long as I can remember.

  2. Re:Parent is troll on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if you are accused of something if the accusation is not credible.

    So you don't think there are any missing emails, despite the millions found after Bush and Co. said there were no missing emails?

  3. Re:Kind of a side note... on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    Now, for a little puzzle, ask yourself how long it would normally take to create hundreds of email accounts in a secured system?

    If the system wasn't designed by chimps, about as long as it takes to create and upload a csv.

  4. Re:Now unveiling... on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 1

    $80 isn't much until you compare the price to OpenOffice, then it's freaking ridiculous.

  5. Re:Now unveiling... on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 1

    Get Komodo 4.0 with the keygen. I haven't tried it (I wanted 5.0), but I doubt that keygen is safe.

  6. Re:Uninstall what you don't want from Windows too on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 1

    Using different kio slaves....

  7. Re:leave steve alone! on Apple Disclosures About Jobs To Face SEC Review · · Score: 1

    The problem is if Apple execs were unaware the effect the perception of Jobs' heath had on the stock price, then they are not fit to run the company. If they're cleared of wrong doing, I'd sell my Apple shares. If they are not cleared, I'd sell my Apple shares.

  8. Re:No on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 1

    Apple paid Xerox for right to use their ideas.

    So? I paod Amazon for a copy of an mp3. It's still a copy.

  9. Re:leave steve alone! on Apple Disclosures About Jobs To Face SEC Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ding, ding ding. We have a winner. Thread over.

  10. Re:leave steve alone! on Apple Disclosures About Jobs To Face SEC Review · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While Jobs's efforts have saved the company from a downward spiral, that doesn't mean that it's all on him.

    The parent never claimed it did. He said Apple's stock price is tied to Jobs' health. And it is. Go to Google Finance, look at the news links on Apple's stock charts. You'll see a price drop after any negative story about Jobs' health. Whether Apple would be fine without him or not is completely irrelevant.

  11. Re:leave steve alone! on Apple Disclosures About Jobs To Face SEC Review · · Score: 1

    How can his health issues be any more important than those of head of tupperware or American Toyota, who's name you don't know.

    Because when THEY get sick, their company's' stock price doesn't plummet.

  12. Re:No on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 5, Funny

    like when they pioneered a UI based OS by copying Apple.

    You misspelled Xerox.

  13. Re:Only to some on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 1

    Considering Microsoft makes a fortune licensing their DRM, I wouldn't hold my breath. If anything, they'd just remove support for externally developed DRM, giving them a de facto monopoly on PC DRM.

  14. Re:Perception and reality are two different things on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although, compared to several years ago, I do find at more and more websites people fanboying for Microsoft. Which I find perplexing

    Microsoft has been caught astroturfing on many, many occasions, across many product lines. It's not that perplexing.

  15. Re:Duh on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the Linux distributions are "bloated" compared with what we had several years ago.

    But we can uninstall the bloat.

  16. Re:The US hacked itself? on Details Emerge On the 2006 Hacking of Congress · · Score: 2

    Nixon had nothing on Bush. Nixon kept COINTELPRO hidden, and denied it's existence. Bush not only admitted to it, he defended it. We have secret agents infiltrating Code Pink for Christ's sake. Even Hoover wasn't that paranoid.

  17. Re:McNealy? on Obama Looking At Open Source? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sun's business didn't tank because of software, it tanked because of hardware.

  18. Re:Eh. It was about time on Obama Looking At Open Source? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone will get it right but the US will screw it up?

  19. Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or, just get the ODF plugin for Office. If you're keeping it around, that's probably the easiest solution, and I think it's maintained by Microsoft due to governments that require open formats (MS's OOXML isn't compliant), so it probably works pretty well. I've only used if a few times, but it did the trick for basic docs.

  20. Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 3, Funny

    That describes Office docs pretty well.

  21. Re:What a country we live in... on The Web Braces For Inauguration Traffic · · Score: 1

    Yes, drunk driving accidents are traffic accidents. Thus drunk driving fatalities are traffic fatalities.

  22. Re:What a country we live in... on The Web Braces For Inauguration Traffic · · Score: 1

    And where else does the cause of said fatality get to become Senator and have the investigation swept under the rug?

    So your definition of being swept under the rug is being talked about openly and incessantly for four decades? God help poor Teddy if this were out in the open, then.

  23. Re:Mailmerge / Labels on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Or not on Watch the Obama Inauguration With Moonlight · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer that as well, but it's not like Microsoft has released anything for Linux, so again, the comparison is unfair. Not to mention Adobe already has an open spec.

  25. Re:Or not on Watch the Obama Inauguration With Moonlight · · Score: 1

    No, the main reason the free flash implementations are lagging, is that they have been reverse engineering the format, unlike the Moonlight people, who have specs to work from.

    The specs for Silverlight haven't been out all that much longer than the specs for Flash, and it did have about a decade to reverse engineer before that. The only possible reason they aren't further along is lack of developer interest. What else can that be attributed to but the availability of Flash on Linux?