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  1. Re:The Charging is fine... on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 1
    Partially quoting 3a might make it look like you are right, however the whole clause is:

    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    Providing a link to download the source is a customarily used medium for software interchange, and thus perfectly fine,].

  2. Re:Suggestion. on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1
    I never use the login pop up, I always use the login fields on the right side of the page. I agree that when using the pop up it will be much less of an issue.

    Also instead of not changing focus when the username is filled, I would prefer only setting focus when nothing else has focus (if this is even possible).

    I agree 100% on the 'require a mouseclick is evil'

  3. Re:Suggestion. on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    since the current default is for none of the fields to have focus your not entering you data anywhere.

    You click on the username and enter your username, press tab and start entering your password. (while checking that the password field has focus)

    When you log on you have to enter your user name first so why would you start typing in your password before it loads?

    Because some pages takes ages to load for example.

    And isn't typing in your password blind the actual security risk?

    No, because I checked the password field had focus when I started typing. However the 'feature' you suggested stole the focus and put it to username field. Any manipulation of the focus is *evil*.

  4. Re:Suggestion. on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    This is incredibly annoying behavior. I often already start typing the password before the page has fully loaded. The switching focus when loading has completed is annoying at best and a security risk at worst.

  5. Re:Ahh Vista 2.0! A new thread for me to complain on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Make that Ctrl-Shift-Esc

  6. Re:Ahh Vista 2.0! A new thread for me to complain on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    And Ctrl-Alt-Esc will open task manager directly.

  7. Re:Actually one on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 1

    Let's count again. I have two phones (two HTC devices) and an external harddrive. They all use miniUSB. How many cables do I need? 1 I change one of my HTC devices to an iPhone. How many cables do I need? 2 Standards really work best when used for more than one device.

  8. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX on IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    And Firefox does the same thing. If I don't have Shockwave installed and I navigate to a website that contains Flash content I will be presented with a little yellow information bar telling me that there is content on the page that requires a plug-in and asks me if I want to install that plug-in. Is there any browser that doesn't do this by default?

    There's still a difference. In Firefox, if you click "yes", it will send you to Adobe's download page for Flash; but you still need to initiate the download manually, and then run the downloaded installer. In IE, if you click "yes", it immediately downloads the ActiveX binary and executes it, all by itself.

    This is a flaw in how IE handles ActiveX downloads , not an inherent flaw in ActiveX. It would be easily imaginable for Firefox to do the same. Also firefox does install XPIs after clicking yes so the whole point is more specific to how both browsers handle flash than any inherent difference in their plugin architectures.

  9. In other news, security hole in sudo on Security Hole In Windows 7 UAC · · Score: 1
    Setting sudo settings to NOPASSWD for a user will result in an exploitable security issue. proof of concept:

    sudo rm -Rf /

    Big deal, just use Vista where you'll get a UAC dialog for everything by default. That will 'fix' this issue.

  10. Re:This just in.. on As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" · · Score: 1

    Getting screwed out of it can be a really big hit for some of us.

    You aren't getting screwed out of anything, they call it a bonus for a reason. Assuming the bonus will be a certain amount is just bad bookkeeping.

  11. Re:About time! on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 1

    On that note... What evidence did Einstein have when he originally presented his theories? "Thought experiments", aka, imagination.

    Not quite, Einstein did have access to previous work by Maxwell, Poincare, Lorentz and others who derived the transformations under which the Maxwell equations were invariant. The genius of Einstein was to state that the speed of light was a constant for all observers to explain these transformations (instead of trying to impose some kind of preferable reference frame). Together with the fact that the laws of physics should be the same for all observers this lead to general relativity.