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  1. Re:How it works on Google Voice Now Works WIth Existing Mobile Numbers · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure Google's business model on this is obvious, and not terribly suspicious. Perform speech recognition on voicemail, convert to text, insert contextual ads. Allow outgoing calls @ a fee for additional revenue.

    but seriously, that tinfoil hat looks good on you.

  2. Re:marketshare on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 1

    Doesnt that depend on whether things like SELinux or AppArmor are set up? It was my understanding that those were designed to prevent even userland programs from accessing resources that they were not explicitly granted access to-- like firefox being denied access to wine directories or from opening listening ports, etc.

  3. Re:Just adds more noise.. on Google Partners With Twitter For Search · · Score: 1

    forum posts arent really noise if youre looking to the answer to a question. A lot of the info i look for is found in forum posts (ie, "Why does XX in symantec endpoint not work")

  4. Re:The radio makes senes, but not the singer on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    I'm a songwriter and a member of a PRS. The money I make a year on songwriting could maybe buy a nice dinner. Without someone looking out for my interests, I'd make nothing.

    Sounds like a fantastic deal you have going there. And you say theyre looking out for your interests?

  5. Re:The radio makes senes, but not the singer on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    I think legally you were better off doing the radio-- as has been pointed out, you can at least argue there that the public has already "paid" for that thru advertising / radio station paying the labels. CDs make the situation worse I think.

  6. Re:The radio makes senes, but not the singer on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    I was unaware that listening to the radio in a cubicle was taxable. I was under the impression advertising paid for the radio, and the stations already paid for a license to broadcast.

  7. Re:Hoax on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    Im not clear on how this would work-- they take you to court and explain you are legally obligated to pay them....how? Would you even need a lawyer for that case?

    Why cant you just ignore them? Just because they claim they have legal recourse doesnt make it true.

  8. Re:Go censorship! on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    im fairly certain the phones know what cell towers theyre connecting to, where theyre located, and who the provider is.

  9. Re:Until... on Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop · · Score: 1

    Anytime the words "paradigm shift" appear in an article (like the one you linked) alarm bells start going off.

  10. Re:The important question... on Hands-On Look At the BlackBerry Storm 2 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just because BES doesnt support your environment doesnt make it a piece of crap. BIS isnt really meant to be a real solution for businesses anyways. Stop using the wrong product for the wrong thing. Get an exchange / domino / groupwise server and BES, or stop complaining that they dont work properly.

  11. Re:Blackberry would be more compelling on Hands-On Look At the BlackBerry Storm 2 · · Score: 1

    Generally, the entire point of a blackberry is going to be the BES or BIS. Why on earth would you get one if you arent using those? It doesnt support activesync, even!

  12. Re:Stephen Fry on In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech · · Score: 1

    Its a strange idea to americans, we were raised with the understanding that none of our documents gave us any of these rights-- theyre simply understood to be ours by nature.

  13. Re:Another overlooked e-mail strength on Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death · · Score: 2, Informative

    How is this different from Wave? Google may have put together the standard, but anyone can create their own Wave server with 0 ties to google. Its designed to be a replacement for SMTP in every way, including its non-reliance on a central authority.

  14. Re:The trouble with... on Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death · · Score: 1

    pretty sure they have this. Send an email over a cell network-- congrats, you just did smtp over "twitter".

  15. Re:Of course, I didn't RTFA on Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW · · Score: 1

    Yes, because there will be no false positives whatsoever. And because all the rules are fair and deserve to be followed. And because with LAN play you can always choose to use an alternate way of networking for SC2.

    Nope, I'll just be making a new SC2 only account.

    Their game, their servers, so yes, by definition the rules are fair since they define fair. Also, false positives are very very rare-- false negatives are far more common. Remember, each false positive costs blizzard $180 a year.

  16. Re:You knob on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    If doctors were corporate shills I doubt generics would be as widely prescribed as they are.

  17. Re:Don't forget: on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your doctor?

  18. Re:Why is that legal? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    Nintendo isnt exactly obligated to provide updates that play ball with modifications, tho, are they?

  19. Re:Important point on Mozilla Slams Chrome Frame As "Browser Soup" · · Score: 1

    Wont CF result in LESS fragmentation? Its not a new rendering engine, after all, its just allowing IE6 to use a better, currently existing engine.

  20. Re:IE on Mozilla Slams Chrome Frame As "Browser Soup" · · Score: 1

    In this case, since firefox and chrome are a little more standards compliant, it would be the correct move. Not being a web developer, Im not positive, but wouldnt it be the wrong move to tweak the chrome / firefox / opera compliant site to work with IE rather than just suggesting chromeframe?

  21. Re:Rootkit Detection on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 1

    If you're rootkitted on windows, youll know. Every 2 hours it will pop up to tell you that you need to pay $50 for the pro version of Advanced Antivirus 2009, or remind you that registry editing is now verboten on your computer.

    The point of rootkits isnt to go undetected as much as it is to be unremovable and to support the actual malware resting on top of it.

  22. Re:Pot, meet Kettle! on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 1

    Ive heard theyre getting better, to be fair.

    Doesnt mean ill be using norton for many years until the memories fade, tho, and SEP hasnt really helped their track record.

  23. Re:Symantec is a bunch of crap on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 1

    Im considering recommending ditching for-pay AV for some of my smaller clients. Id much rather deal with removing a virus (30 minutes, worst case, using a linux liveboot to rip out the infected files) than deal with the bull that Symantec Endpoint brings to the table.

  24. Re:It's working great for me on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 1

    4.5PB archive compressed to 42kb sounds an awful lot like a decompression bomb. Why exactly shouldnt antivirus mark it as such?

  25. Re:Oh! on OnLive CEO Provides Details On Cloud Gaming · · Score: 1

    TCP

    Hell yea, ICMP is the wave of the future