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  1. Re:You'd think Linux users above all would be awar on Windows 8 To Natively Support ISO and VHD Mounting · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't.

  2. Re:A monopoly? By what standard? on GameStop Opening Deus Ex Boxes, Removing Free Game Coupon · · Score: 1

    Yes, and then the B&M stores complain that the reason they're losing business to on-line vendors is "sales tax" and if the Amazons, Neweggs and Monoprices of the world had to collect sales tax, it would "level the field."

  3. Re:Stroking a blow! on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's exactly the opposite. I don't think it happens any more, but it used to be that (either by default or user setting, I don't know which) certain web servers would send files they didn't have a mime type for as text. Netscape, at the time, would display this text in the browser, which means not only were all the LFs changed to CRLF, but all the white space was compressed, so you couldn't just save it and uncook it unless you went back and used "right-click/Save As". IE on the other hand would go "*.doc? That's not text, that's a Word Document!" and present the "Save As" dialog.

    The servers and/or the browsers have gotten smarter since then, so I don't recall running into this for at least the last ten years.

  4. Re:Stroking a blow! on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Take off the tinfoil hat already. The files just got cooked^2 by the web server and IE popped up a save dialog anyway. The PDF files were probably all from ascii postscript and had nothing to get cooked.

    P.S. why the hell doesn't <sup> work?

  5. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    That's because you bought it out of the road-use pump. I don't know if you can actually get non-road gasoline, but I'm sure that farmers use non-road diesel. It has a different color dye, red I think, and you get fined if you use it in your road vehicles.

    In any event, if they do sell non-road gasoline, you probably can't buy less than 50 or 100 gallons at a time.

  6. Re:Taking a leaf out of the UK's book on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    Trivial to do the first. You don't even have to forget the pass-phrase. Just create it with a random keyfile and then shred the keyfile. There, I did it. The password is "password", but the keyfile has been destroyed.

  7. Re:Verizon won't roll them out to kiosks. . . on Windows Phones Getting Buried At Carriers' Stores · · Score: 1

    It is quite pleasant being untethered to a communications device and being able to be unavailable at will.

    You know, you can do that with a cell phone too. They all have this little button on them that, when you hold it for about 3 seconds, the phone turns off. Some of them even have something called "airplane mode" where you can still use the camera and music player, but nobody can call you.

  8. Re:Problem of perception? on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Really on The Insidious Creep of Latency Hell · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something, but who cares if the latency is due to sitting in the buffer for 1500 ms or retrying a dropped packet for 1500 ms?

  10. Re:Organic vs processed (toxic) sugar. on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    If your body metabolized table salt by turning it into metallic sodium and Cl2, you might have a point. When you eat sucrose, the first thing your body does with it is hydrolyze it into glucose and fructose. It's then a mixture.

  11. Re:Obviously on New Nintendo HD Console Rumors Abound · · Score: 1

    Resolution, not size. HDTV is 1920x1080. WVGA is 800x480 and not uncommon on phones. My brother's laptop is easily that old and has a 1600x1200 screen.

  12. Re:Note to Publishers: I'm Done with Paper on E-Book Sales Have Tripled In the Last Year · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. I have 342 epubs, and if I had a Nook, they would take up about 1/10th the space. So without even considering the micro-SD slot, you could fit 3000 books. Can we count the environmental costs of the shelving required for a library of that size, too?

  13. Re:One reason alone on GIMP 2.7.2 Released — Another Step Toward 2.8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The PhotoShop ones are "Palette Windows" (WS_EX_PALETTEWINDOW in Win32-land) and so go with the main window and the window manager knows not to give them separate entries on the task bar and alt-tab list. However, they added this as an option somewhere in the 2.6 series, as I have it set that way.

    Well, knowing Adobe, they're probably some owner-drawn hack instead.

    If you open more than one image, however, GIMP gets one window per image, while Photoshop still has a single entry in the window manager.

  14. Re:Surprised? on Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping · · Score: 1

    Line 35 on the IT-150 (NY State resident income tax short form). Look up your federal adjusted gross income (line 11) in the table on page 23 of the instructions, fill in the number. I'm not committing tax fraud, I filled it in.

  15. Re:Shooting from the hip on Mobile Phone May Rot Your Bones · · Score: 1

    Anyone who is concerned about how someone else carries his or her phone, bt headset, or pretty much anything else: doucher.

  16. Re:Not only graphics on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    I think you're looking for http://www.xpadder.com/

  17. Re:All about features, not stability on Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    windows 7 has moved backwards in this regard by making programs pinned to the task bar mix with and look nearly the same (sans buttony border) as open but minimized windows.

    Which you can fix of course by unpinning everything from the task bar and creating a new toolbar and call it perhaps "Quick Launch" and put all the applications there instead of pinning them.

  18. Re:Smart people on Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now · · Score: 1

    With neither the convenience and portability of the phone, or the utility of the netbook (this is a failing of all non-convertible tablets).

  19. Re:Really, Apple? on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 1

    No, Baen are the only ones who get it. No DRM and available in multiple formats, right down to RTF.

  20. Re:AGAIN, Sony? on New PS3 Firmware Contains Backdoor · · Score: 1

    If you can't see the difference between copying data and destroying it, there's no hope for you. Copying a song would be theft if you copied it from the masters and then destroyed them so that Sony (for example) had to re-record it. Sony deleted data (the "Other OS" feature.)

  21. Re:In a strange twist of fates on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1

    Thanks for clarifying that you are a groveling little lickspittle. How's the arse of your Operation payback overlords tasting today? The sweet smell of submission and obedience as always?

  22. Re:Windows XP and 3.1 run inside Windows 7 on Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland · · Score: 1

    Actually you have to download it from MS. Also you can use Virtual PC for free on Win 7 Home, you would just need an extra XP license and to install your own VM; then you can install the integration components and have the same experience. The problem is you have to dig to find the WVPC-only download.

    Dos 6.22/Win 3.11 will also work on Windows Virtual PC in Win 7. I just copied over my VPC 2007 VM and WVPC upgraded it as soon as I opened it.

  23. Re:Is this story for real? on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How do you get 9 hours of in-bed time when you've just gotten home from work, haven't eaten in 9 hours, and have to be up to get ready to go back to work in 5 hours? I mean, without breaking the laws of physics.

  24. Re:Nonsense.... on One Step Closer To Speedier, Bootless Computers · · Score: 1

    And not every month requires a reboot. I reboot mostly when a software update (Windows or running software) requires it, for hardware maintenance, or for switching operating systems.

    The servers at work (Server 2003) are rebooted only when WU says to.

    Then there's the "shitty drivers that crash or screw up" but that's not Microsoft's fault.

  25. Re:I love it and I hate it. What to do? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads solves your #1, or get Windows Ultimate.