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  1. Re:Telstra are the distributers on Telstra Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    Ok. Bad wording aside, they aren't distributing - they are reselling.

  2. Re:Telstra are the distributers on Telstra Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    GPL is still a shrinkwrap license. It comes inside the box. You don't have to agree to any terms to resell something in a box. You didn't see Best Buy or PC World getting any complaints about GPL violations when Linksys routers were violating.
     
    The only thing that gives it any weight is that their logo might be on it. And if that's true, it could be construed to be subcontracted rather than simply a reseller situation.

  3. Re:Can you imagine the profit markup? on TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes · · Score: 2

    Have you bought an inkjet printer cartridge lately? They're already novelty sized.

  4. Re:My only question is... on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    Magnets? That's how everything else is being held and moved, anyway.

  5. Re:remote iPhone volume control on Fun With an Induction Cooktop? · · Score: 1

    When you cook packaged pasta in boiling water it will hydrate - let it cool and sit, and it will dry back into dry pasta again. Cooking just implies more ingredients than water - not necessarily just chemical changes.

  6. Re:Try whatever you got in the house. on Fun With an Induction Cooktop? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's hunting season?

  7. Re:Just you wait... on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Horton, is that you?

  8. Re:Sooo..... on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 4, Informative

    The output energy probably wouldn't have exceeded the input energy. No chain reaction or anything.

    I'd imagine a mass the size of two lead ions at a trillion degrees could only maybe bring a gallon of room temperature water up a degree or two. They are quite small.

  9. Re:You log in to RockMelt on Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not the first browser you log into. MSN Explorer was a piece of crap that required a log in too!

  10. Re:Flock? Chrome Extensions? on Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' · · Score: 1

    That OR because when it's so easy to make your own off of someone else's source code, the market gets pretty well saturated with mediocre half-done projects.

  11. Re:Windows 25th on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    It's working well for classic console games. I really agree with you. I would buy one.

  12. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1
  13. Those are some fast children on Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls · · Score: 1

    Catching a carnivorous wild animal on their own. Doesn't seem likely - even given that they're nocturnal.

  14. Jurrassic Park anyone? on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    If anyone's thinking about cloning any dinosaurs, may this be a warning.

  15. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    I still use Flash. I just use Flashblock in all cases where I don't want the Flash to load. That doesn't mean I don't still encounter problems now and then - it's just reached a sane level that is a little further below the radar.

  16. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    Wait...now you're saying Windows ME is reliable? What alternate universe do you come from?

  17. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    Not sure what's unfair. I said that this was my experience, and that it seems to be mac only. I never made a complaint - only filled you in on the details of my experience that you had asked about.

    I never said that there was a site that consistently and reliably causes the Flash player to run the CPU at 100%. I said that I've experienced it many times over, and that I've isolated it to Flash. Just because I haven't isolated a specific memory leak doesn't make it urban legend. I have never seen this on Windows, either.

  18. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    I still unblock flash when I need to use it. And occasionally that tab will sit unattended and still cause this problem - it's just a much rarer occurrence now. I believe this problem is specific to the Mac version of flash, but I couldn't say for sure.

  19. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    First question - are you on a Mac?

    I have been using Flashblock for well over 2 years now for my own sanity's sake. Because of that, I can't give a recent example that's certain to still exist.

    It doesn't appear to be 100% consistent, nor does it seem to matter WHAT the flash content is. Often, it was just a flash banner ad in a tab that's been open for a few days.
     
    Not that I can say for sure which tab caused the problem. I would usually restart the whole browser and restore the tabs than to close all my tabs one by one.

  20. Re:Flash *video* comes to iPhone on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    They would suddenly sympathize. As a quad-core Mac user, I'm well aware that any Flash at all on a page in Firefox can drive a single core to 100% for no real reason.

  21. Re:Awesome! on MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development · · Score: 0

    Didn't say it had to be a plugin - just arguing against this sort of thing being in application code.

  22. Re:Awesome! on MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's only partly true. For example - say you have "products" and "categories." When you delete a category, all products should either revert to a default category, no category, or move to an archive. That's a database question, not business logic. Why shouldn't the database handle the delete so that it handles the little details across multiple implementations.

  23. Re:energy density on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Is there any method of building hydrocarbons with base compounds and electricity? Maybe we just need synthetic gasoline powered by electricity. Solves nobody's problems, but it's an interesting idea to me.

  24. Re:Anybody remember if... on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    And I usually have roughly 30 tabs open for months on end.

  25. Re:Anybody remember if... on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry...I'll correct my post:

    How else will Firefox for Mac address more than 4GB of memory? What, your Firefox doesn't use that much memory?