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  1. Re:Why not make keyboards quieter? on Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature · · Score: 1

    Yes there is - same reason keyboard keys make a noise, and why touchpads have the option of key tones.

  2. Re:All Clear! on GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands · · Score: 1

    Or a band name.

  3. Re:Already Exists on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    No, you can't OD on weed

    You can, just like you can OD on water or oxygen. You'd need a monstrous amount though.

  4. Re:Asinine Quote on Stop Listening and Start Watching If You Want To Understand User Needs · · Score: 1

    They did make Model Ts in other colours. In fact, for the first five years of production, you couldn't get a black one, even if you wanted it! Though they were all black from 1914 onwards.

  5. Re:Dickish move... on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    Racism isn't limited to skin colour.

  6. Re:Arrrrgh! We're all going to die! on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    And be forced to listen to the garbage that passes for 'pop' music these days? No thanks :)

  7. Re:Is anyone giving money to Sony? on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 1

    It was only starting with the slim models that you had to buy the bracket too.

    Or reuse the bracket attached to the old drive.

  8. Re:Or, of course extensions that google doesn't li on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    I have literally just this second installed AdBlock Plus in Chrome from Google's Chrome Web Store (the very link the GP posted).

  9. Re:LastPass on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    LastPass provides an all-in-one installer though, so you can add it to all your browsers in one go. Then again, it may just launch Chrome directly to the relevant Extensions page; can't remember, as it's been ages since I last installed it.

  10. Re:You do have to engage in anticompetitive behavi on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1

    Then show what antitrust behaviour Google is involved in.

  11. Re:Elop needs to broker a deal with Apple on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 1

    And... you're obviously trolling.

  12. Re:Elop needs to broker a deal with Apple on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Elop needs to broker a deal with Apple on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 3, Funny

    This would be the same Apple that uses Windows Azure?

  14. Re:Already there on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    Yes, MS could have had better security from day 1. But it's also true that most of the blame lays with lazy developers who did the quick-and-dirty, instead of actually understanding the system they were developing for. Which of course MS has to support in later versions of Windows, in order to keep their customer base.

  15. Re:Already there on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    And what's to stop someone writing code injection for x64/ARM/MIPS/PPC/68k/others? What's to prevent implementing the x86 stack behaviour on x64/ARM/MIPS/PPC/68k/others?

  16. Re:Already there on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    It's hard to be secure when the user is opening the airtight hatchway.

  17. Re:sensational headline on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I'm going on what's been reported - that's all the info I have to go on.

  18. Re:Taiwan does it too on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    You don't need an app for Twitter or Farcebook, but they still have dedicated apps.

  19. Re:Taiwan does it too on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about visiting a website?

  20. Re:0.37% of India's total budget on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 2

    Hypothetically :-)

  21. Re:0.37% of India's total budget on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Conveniently forgetting taxes that could be invested in critical infrastructure and social programs are you?

  22. Re:0.37% of India's total budget on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 5, Insightful

    PR stunt that leads to being paid to launch commercial satellites at cheaper rates than the US/EU/Russian alternatives. As their market share grows, the profit increases, and that can be invested in the country itself, either directly or via tax on employees' wages.

    That's one possibility anyway.

  23. Re:Weak Sauce on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Depends on exactly what you mean by 'tailing': you could track someone's every action, or just keep a rough itinerary of their general movements e.g. ''1pm - had lunch with PM at Nandos, 2pm - went to cinema'. Anyway, who's to say a diplomat isn't an intelligence officer? I bet someone's tried it.

  24. Re:ActiveX controls on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 2

    Metro IE doesn't even support Silverlight, let alone ActiveX (which MS have been trying to kill for the last decade).

  25. Re:Taiwan does it too on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    They do if the bank releases an app for it. Though obviously that sidesteps the whole ActiveX issue entirely.