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  1. Re:Tabs on top helps usability... on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is that you might have other functions for the edge on top of the title bar. The default behaviour in many systems would be to resize the window if grabbed by the edge and both OS X and GNOME have menus there. Not everyone use their browsers as full-screen applications.

  2. Re:Screwy laws... on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 1

    Naw, a judge has already ruled that a hacker from across state lines could break into your computer, so even possession gives the Feds jurisdiction. Thus, mere possession == distribution across state lines.

    If this is true it should mean that a person storing work related information on his/her computer at work is distributing said information (possibly trade secrets or confidential information) across state lines. Who knows what kind of confidential information is stored on the judge's computer?

  3. Re:Real programmers on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    Actually, real programmers use butterflies.

  4. Re:Serious issue! on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    Excelent. Finally someone who can tell me just what the bloody hell this sign is: That's my shift+4. Google doesn't even seem to know what the hell it is. It looks a little bit like a bomb as seen from behind - main fusulage in the middle and four fins, but surely you aren't suggesting we bomb the manufacturers?

    I can't see the symbol, but I think you're referring to a currency sign.

  5. Re:This is a very good thing on Canadian Firms Get Behind OpenMoko/FreeRunner · · Score: 1

    Most digital SLR's cant take a photo 1 second from power on, and that's with it already in your hands.. (the fault of having to focus, etc...)

    If your camera has a fixed focus, you could as well compare it to setting manual focus and a small aperture on a D-SLR beforehand. If you do that, most major brands of D-SLRs include models that allow image capture in less than one second:

    Even with focusing, some SLRs with near-instant power on times coupled with fast focusing lenses should be able to get the first shot within one second of powering on given good conditions.

  6. Re:Why banned on airplanes? on Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts · · Score: 1

    What % of people who fly on planes intent on hijacking them to fly them into buildings? Can't be that high, but airports/etc still try stopping would be hijackers from being able to board planes tho.

    That would be the equivalent of checking all the batteries before they are allowed to board the planes and disallowing the ones that are faulty. For the comparison to work, you would have to compare banning batteries on flights to banning people from flying entirely because a small fraction of people might hijack airplanes.

  7. Re:Everything old is new again. on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    In fact I would hope that future image formats would maintain an internal undo history, where the original photo-data remains.

    It's actually quite possible today with non-destructive editing where the edits are saved in a separate place from the original image, such as a sidecar file or in a database, and only really applied to the image when you export it.

    I've personally used both Bibble and Lightroom to achieve this, and I'm sure that other applications suppport it as well.

  8. Re:Yeah... on reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts · · Score: 1

    It's quite possible that they are just harvesting the reCAPTCHA results to spam other sites that are using it for spam protection though.

  9. Re:Whistler? on 2008 Mozilla Summit Affected By Rock Slide · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you're saying they repeated the same mistake they did with ME?

  10. Re:Good luck... on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    TrueCrypt has a feature where you use what they call keyfiles that does something like that. It's limited to the first 1 MB of a file though.

  11. People with laptops on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    Some people might want to dual boot on a laptop with a single internal hard drive. Another possibility is that someone only uses one hard drive for different reasons. Either he/she only owns one drive for the computer or has a case that is too small to accomodate for more than one drive comfortably.