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  1. It's open as in goatse on Australia Mandates Microsoft's Office Open XML · · Score: 1

    en tee

  2. Time constraints on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    Was it more important to have a really amazing virus, or was it more important to get something "good enough" out the door in time?

    I think Stuxnet did pretty well at its intended purpose.

  3. Re:The Huffington Post on Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic · · Score: 1

    I'll grant you that, but do you happen to be a Fox News viewer?

  4. Re:Good for everybody but the IT guy? on Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. Why aren't they just getting Wyse terminals or summat?

  5. Re:Why does Congress make engineering decisions? on NASA Pitches Heavy Lift Vehicle To Congress · · Score: 2

    The usual reason: money and power.

  6. Re:And this is just the first step on AMBER Alert Partners With Facebook · · Score: 1

    Also a game for rescuing abducted children.

  7. Re:spam dry spell on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    It seems like the spamfilter at work is sending me somewhat fewer digests detailing the spam it's blocking.

    Maybe the botnets are damaged.

  8. Re:News for nerds, stuff that mattered... on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    There's a big spam campaign going on for almost two weeks now, after a fairly long dry spell.

  9. Re:News for nerds, stuff that mattered... on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    Maybe that would explain all the Usenet spam coming from Google Groups lately.

  10. Re:"Search King" on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    More like the submitter doesn't like Google and used it pejoratively.

  11. Re:Yes, and it's bad on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    O RLY? What's your definition of "usable engine size"? Mine's got an 85 hp 1.3L paired with a 13 hp electric motor. It's perfectly usable as a commuter car, which is its intended purpose, and is capable of passing on the highway as long as you're not an impatient idiot.

  12. Fark should have a California tag as well on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 0

    Time to share the Florida love.

  13. In other news, SCO is down to $0.02 per share on Apple Passes $300B Market Cap, 2nd In the World · · Score: 1

    and their market cap is down to a little under $500,000.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOXQ.PK

  14. Re:How is this any different than my alarm clock? on Using Technology To Enforce Good Behavior · · Score: 0

    *whooosh*

  15. Re:in-equity on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    An hour's a pretty long time, these days. I could see once a minute, or once every five minutes.

  16. Re:More Likely... on PS3 Root Key Found · · Score: 1

    A flight of B-17s bombarding Redmond with air-dropped lawyers.

  17. Re:Translated to Headline du Jour on Hungarian Officials Can Now Censor the Media · · Score: 1

    Not since the overreaction to that skyscraper business, yep.

  18. Re:Morons on Ubisoft's Draconian DRM Patched? · · Score: 1

    No, they should fire the management involved in that decision.

  19. Re:Does only motorola do that then? on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    The Droid is made by Motorola.

  20. Re:I hope they standardize driver-less charging on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    I don't seem to have that problem with my work Droid.

  21. Our current kit is standardized on micro-USB on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    Both our personal phones, my work phone, and the Kindle all use the same port, so chargers and data cables are interchangeable.

    The only thing we've got that isn't is the Kodak camera, which may be mini-USB, but that's only for data transfer.

  22. Re:Clumsy connector (or maybe just me) on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    It's not just you. I expect it's hard to design a connector with size and polarity restrictions, and which is keyed so that you can only insert it one way to avoid damage.

  23. Re:Samsung Captivate on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's a customer-control tactic on the part of his particular telecom.

  24. Re:US on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    More like other considerations trump it, for whatever reasons.

    For that matter, how many phone-store salesweasels will point out what kind of charger it takes, and what Joe Sixpack is going to know that there's a nascent standard for phone chargers after getting shafted for so many years by the lack of a standard?

  25. Re:Here's a crazy idea. on Do Sleepy Surgeons Have a Right To Operate? · · Score: 1

    I don't see it getting truly better without a great deal of pain for everyone. First thing is that we've got to get enough doctors to treat every patient without doctors having to stand crazy shifts.

    But how do we do that? We sure don't want to dumb-down med school so that more people can pass and get their MD.