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  1. It's a question of policy on San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Frisco's policy in this case is: "Punish what you can't understand".

  2. Re:Business as usual on Microsoft's Ad Team Trumps IE Developers' Privacy Aims · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You mean like the "-private" command line switch in IE (http://www.windowsvalley.com/internet-explorer-8-useful-command-line-arguments/)? Looks the same to me...

  3. Business as usual on Microsoft's Ad Team Trumps IE Developers' Privacy Aims · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.

    And how exactly is this different than what Chrome or Firefox does? Last time I checked, you had to actively enable the privacy feature for each session in all browsers...

  4. Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    Well, I live in Europe, so I don't have a States Vehicle Code. Not yet, anyway, but for now traffic law mostly remains in the hands of each member state.

    So, if you'd like to visit someday and dive around a little, please keep in mnd that hitting a pedestrian always results in full responsibility on your part, even if said pedestrian is drunk out of his mind and throws himself on your vehicle. We have that thing in our Code that says "the driver MUST remain in control of his vehicle AT ALL TIMES", and they really mean it.

    That may sound stupid, but it's not, actually. We also have 30 km/h (<20 mph) speed limits around most residential areas. That helps a lot.

  5. Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    Not where I live. Here, the old lady may be walking, jaywalking, dancing, tumbling or crawling, be it inside or outside of crossing sections, if you hit her, you're fully responsible.

    Makes sense, actually. What about young children? Is it also their responsibility to yield where you live?

  6. Re:So? on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    Of course they did. And I did not kill this man, I just failed to keep him alive.

  7. Re:News for nerds. on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Timothy.

  8. Re:Realtime typing? on Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy · · Score: 1

    $ which talk
    which: no talk in (/usr/lib/colorgcc/bin:/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/games/bin)

    I guess a replacement was needed.

  9. Re:Fine print on FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week · · Score: 1

    Anybody know how to confine the mouse cursor movement to a window (ie like VirtualBox) in Ubuntu 9.04?

    Xlib has XGrabPointer(). GTK+ has gdk_pointer_grab(). SDL has SDL_WM_GrabInput(). Don't know about QT.

  10. Fourth reason on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fourth reason:

    The BSA does not sue you for millions of dollars if you're infringing.

  11. Re:Worth the wait. on StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010 · · Score: 1

    Completely agree with parent. The game is done, now they just need more time to implement corporate requirements like anti-piracy-does-not-work software and "dynamic ads" engines. Or something. Anyway, to me, no LAN, no buy.

  12. Re:This is how it always goes down on Wipeout HD Loading Ads Scrapped After Uproar · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. The ad worked perfectly. It managed to catch your eye and intrigue you during a boss battle (which in itself is no small feat) and had you get back to the level to figure it out. Rogers is now forever associated with this game in your mind, and probably also in the mind of a fraction of readers of your post.

    Ads are social engineering. Ads work. It was money well-spent by Rogers. You're proof.

  13. Re:So sad... on Firefox To Get Multi-Process Browsing · · Score: 1

    You do not have to use multiple threads in order to wait for the network without locking your UI. select(2) has existed since the dawn of time, and there are other ways now to achieve the same thing. Multithreading only spans better to multiple cores and is a little easier to write.

  14. Re:*now* you pull the trigger on the story.. on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 1

    They did not want to add the Slashdot effect to the Jackson effect...

  15. Re:Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: 1

    And the countries in question would extradite someone because she downloaded some music? Seriously?

  16. Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why kill yourself when you can flee the country? It's not like she's in jail or something. Talk about keeping things in perspective...

  17. This was a non-feature to begin with... on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Read the original link. In the end, they figured out that users were not trained to expect a floppy to spin immediately upon insertion, and would suspect they unleashed a virus or something even nastier.

    Their decision was a good one, for once.

  18. Re:Whatcouldpossiblygowrong on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    The filter was busy awarding "obfuscated code" achievements.

  19. Re:Obama '08 on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Change you can believe in...

    Actually, the first draft of this slogan was "Change you will believe in, sucker".

  20. Terminal Window on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    But experienced Linux users can always fire up a terminal window by hitting Alt+F2 and entering 'gnome-terminal.'

    Not really. "Experienced Linux users" probably have a shortcut key bound to gnome-terminal (and three or four instances always available on spare workspaces). I don't understand why the shortcut key to launch a terminal still does not have a default value in GNOME (at least on my distro). It would simplify things:

    But everyone can always fire up a terminal window by hitting Ctrl+Alt+T

    Then again, that's a simple thing to contribute. Maybe I should shut up and submit something ;)

  21. Re:ZFS!! on On the State of Linux File Systems · · Score: 1

    The children didn't get to choose. That may be what the GP finds sickening. As do I.

  22. Re:Bavarian police invading privacy!?! on Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since the US government is already tapping your landlines, I would not be very surprised either.

  23. Re:Don't drink and download. on 5 Years of RIAA Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see your prohibition, and raise you two streisand effects.

  24. Actually... on 5 Years of RIAA Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some are wondering if the campaign has shaped up as an utter failure.

    And many are not wondering anymore. The ultimate failure of DRM was predicted a few years ago on these very forums. Thanks for playing anyway.

  25. As usual... on Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack · · Score: 3, Informative

    Change your keys regularly, and revoke the key as soon as you have the slightest doubt it's been compromised.