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  1. Re:To make money. on Why Don't PDAs and Cellphones Use USB? · · Score: 1

    Nokia have phased out IrDA on their phones
    The 6600 was the last model to have it.
    It's Bluetooth all the way, sadly.

  2. Re:I cant wait on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    RMS doesn't believe in passwords

  3. Re:Remember when viruses were cool? on Mabir.A Virus Targets Symbian Phones · · Score: 0

    *cough* trojan *cough*

  4. Re:virus on Mabir.A Virus Targets Symbian Phones · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of premium rate numbers and premium rate text message services ?

  5. Re:Has anybody RTFA? on Mabir.A Virus Targets Symbian Phones · · Score: 1

    Before infection you get multiple warnings before you install the malware.

    When infection is attempted one is presented with this :

    Install Cabir ?
    Yes . . . . . No

  6. Re:contract work on $1000 Bounty For Podcasting on the Neuros · · Score: 1

    Looks better on the CV than "I enjoy posting to Slashdot"

  7. Re:Advantages? on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Not in the standard lib but : Quixote is the one I use.

  8. Re:What a load... on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 1

    I'd be all for a total ban on animal based foods. It is a filthy business and one not fit for civilized people.

  9. Re:Have to say . . . on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 2, Interesting
  10. Re:What a load... on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is about the government making a decision for people it has no place making..

    it is *exactly* these sort of decisions that govt. is for

  11. Re:Will it effect PS3? on PlayStation Sales Halted? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think removing a motor with a bit of lead attached will break any games

    I can't think of a title where the vibration is necessary for the gameplay.

  12. Re:Well.... on PlayStation Sales Halted? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I sure hope your not a guy.

    why the fuck not ?

    take your prudish nonsense somewhere else

  13. Re:And the point is? on Web Browsing on Your PSP · · Score: 1

    because the PSP is 802.11 equipped

  14. Re:This will be viewd as a great idea.. on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 1

    note for non-pedant

    bank's, pedant, customer's

    Incidentally, the could configure it to firewall itself and prevent access to anywhere but approved DNS Entries / IPs.

  15. Re:The SDK on Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the filtering is done server side, the SDK is just used to get the files and display them, a bit like a web browser but a dedicated Symbian app, using a URI to build the menus from a text file

    here's an example

  16. Re:The SDK on Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet? · · Score: 1

    well, of course

    I just run it through some sed/awk stuff to strip the HTML

    each site needs a hand coded filter that is brittle to design change

    but each in and of itself isn't that complex

  17. I wrote a portal on Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just wrote a text only portal to the information I need using Nokia's Python SDK for Symbian 60.

    It screen scrapes the sites I'm interested in and just returns the stuff I *want* to know : local cinema showings, a few RSS feeds, my current bank balance - that sort of stuff

    More work than most people will do but makes me happy :)

  18. Olds again on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 1

    Jon patched it to work again already

    The arms race continues, Apple oblivious to the poor LUsers.

  19. Re:The Secret of .NET on Miguel de Icaza Explains How To "Get" Mono · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Miguel tried to ge a job at MS, failed, and moved his WinAPI fandom to Gnome.

    You can see the way the thinking dribbles through much of Gnome.

    Too bad.

  20. Re:It'll never work on Miguel de Icaza Explains How To "Get" Mono · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you did, wow, you're life is a movie

    You know that's almost exactly what happened in National Lampoon's Animal Madhouse

  21. Re:This should be top priority on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 1

    I meant in a wider context

  22. Re:This should be top priority on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    how about this excuse :

    where on earth are you ?

    This is the internet, the IP connecting to the VOIP service isn't even necessarily in the same country as the handset.

    Enterprising emergency service providers should start a low cost subscription service to hook up a batphone direct to the 911 center for you.

  23. Re:Bah on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 0

    agggh my arms, I cant dial

    here visiting friend, dial 911 for me

    oh damn, er

    file .. settings .. aliases .. emergency services .. 911

    ow ow ow my hands

    now enter 555 COPS

    ok, back, back, back, back, back

    911 select ...

    about ten minutes, great thanks

  24. Re:Any idea what this actually means? on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 2, Informative

    close but 100% wrong

    try reading the SMTP RFC's sometime,

    the *only* part one can trust is the IP of the machine sending the message

  25. Re:Cold War .. on Microsoft's European License Dissected · · Score: 1

    that sounds more like National Socialism to me