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  1. Re:At least... on Apple's Unlikely Security Mentor: Microsoft · · Score: -1

    You are fundamentally blind.

  2. Re:would somebody tell me on The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology · · Score: -1

    Should be Whites.

    If they were Muslims this whole thing would be called a Terrorist action.

  3. Re:Java, truley an American icon on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: -1

    Where do you live? On mars?

  4. Re:little pricey on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: -1

    You don't even understand that the hardware is not being sold by MS. Any company can produce and sell the hardware. The software is open and free.

    Furthermore If someone produces a new TV, it does not mean he wants to kill the other TVs.

  5. Re:congratulations, now pay me. on Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java's Use In Android · · Score: -1

    Could you tell us then why Google approached sun to obtain license (and received a $100 million quote)?

  6. Re:Won't stop Oracle on Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java's Use In Android · · Score: 0

    Not that right away. Only after having breakfast with the so called raper (and telling how wonderful the rape was?!)

    Besides Sun CEO can say whatever he want's. As long as he (and others who need to sign in order to make a deal official) has not signed an official letter, it does not count.

  7. Re:Opportunity on Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company · · Score: -1

    Or google may also end up being hated more than before. Google+ may become a privacy nightmare for google.

  8. Re:OK Fanboys on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: -1

    You mean Google does not use Linux, as in it's Android? When we are counting linux usage , android is a linux, when counting contribution it is not?

  9. Re:Too bad on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: -1

    and goes with flush

  10. Re:Competition is good. on China Launching First Space Station Module In September · · Score: -1

    In the film TopGun they did a good job in the fight:D

  11. Re:Oracle vs Facebook? on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: -1

    and what is that Magical so called Cloud which is going to solve Facebook's database expansion problem?

  12. Re:Never underestimate on Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities · · Score: -1

    In business marketing whatever cost you spend (including your time, internet fee, software etc.) is considered cost. You have paid to buy a PC and you use for facebook. Your time is spend on facebook to get a benefit. If the cost-benefit is not good then you are losing.

  13. Re:Couldn't be worse on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: -1

    And I left when even all of my own groups (one of them with 60000 members) were taken by Indian spammers. Some of the groups would receive hundreds of Indian Job placement, coupon sales, company advertisement and other types of spam.

    Orkut's communities were their top offering and it was basically killed by spam (they could have removed all posts by members with high rate of spam reports).

    Same as you I do not have anything against Indians, Brazilians or Chinese. But their huge numbers (and by the same ratio, spammers among them) and sometimes their insistence of using their own language could starve any resource if they are directed to it.

  14. Re:Think of it as 4.0.2 on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: -1

    Google toolbar did not work for me (at least in the first days) until I manually edited its installation manifest file.

  15. Re:BS Article on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: -1

    No, that's because the installation manifest file has mentioned the maxVersion to be 4.0, that's not hard coded into plugin code and can be manually edited. However because users don't know that, they will need to download an updated plugin.

  16. Re:One way trip into space for a heavy capsule. IC on Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space · · Score: -1

    Who said to you they don't like to recover it? The exact test is to see whether they can recover the monkey live. They are planning to send humans to space by 2020-2025 and they are working on different space ship systems like recovery and life support.

  17. Re:Anyone can send a monkey up on Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space · · Score: -1

    Exactly. The whole tests are for that same reason. Iran has announced that they want to send humans to space by 2020-2025. They need to build and test reliable space ship life support systems.

  18. Re:Problem of perception? on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: -1

    You are holding it incorrectly :)

    Mine goes into swapping at the evening (I start my win7 PC at the morning).

  19. Re:And? on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: -1

    If the database gets hacked (including hash encrypted passwords) it can be used to find real passwords.

    Sony for example would not be any safer even if the information was encrypted.

  20. Re:No good? on Novell Completes Sale · · Score: -1

    Novell 3.1 was mostly a file server. TCP/IP was later introduced for it and then later MySQL and Apache became available on 4.XX. So people were using 3.11 as a network file server only and not for server side applications.

    I used to develop tcp/ip NLM modules for novel netware 3.12 and 4.XX and we used to do it using Watcom C. The ide we were using was borland C++ (as a C language editor). I had created batch and shell files which used to compile different versions for Netware 3.12, 4.11 and also SCO Unix, Linux, AIX etc. However extending and maintaining a 300,000 lines of code software was not easy.

  21. Re:Ribbons? on Another Windows 8 Pre-Beta Surfaces · · Score: -1

    Ribbons are a combination of Tabs and Toolbars. Both of them are well accepted. In my opinion ribbons are faster to use (if you get used to them) than deep menu options.

  22. Re:new user-interface is a bad idea and may slow d on Another Windows 8 Pre-Beta Surfaces · · Score: -1

    You cannot just stop there for 30 years because users may not be comfortable with changes. I have had very big websites (with over 1 million users) and 20%-30% people would become angry whenever an updated version come out. However after a few months everyone would be happy.

    Ribbons are a combination of Tabs and Toolbars. Both of them are well accepted. In my opinion ribbons are faster to use (if you get used to them) than deep menu options.

  23. Re:Anecdotal on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: -1

    Your wife, your housemate, your coworkers and the person who has stolen your phone did not have access to phone service provider's records.

    But they potentially do to your iphone or iTune synced data on your PC.

  24. Re:What, people measure scientific output? on China To Overtake US In Science In Two Years · · Score: 0

    Scientific output normally refers to cited papers (even though it could be seen wider).

    http://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php?area=0&category=0&region=all&year=2009&order=it&min=0&min_type=it

    Narrow down to the last year. Also interestingly Iran has the highest growth rate in all countries (11 times he average of the World) and Asia is the future scientific growth region.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18546-iran-showing-fastest-scientific-growth-of-any-country.html

  25. Re:The Point? on MS Removes HTTPS From Hotmail For Troubled Nations · · Score: 1, Informative

    Microsoft says this has been a bug which has been corrected today:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/26/microsoft_https_hotmail_syria/

    The whole thread is mislead.