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  1. Re:The Answer on Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty · · Score: 1

    Except that they don't really work that well. The character set is undefined, so you end up with different interpretations of non ASCII characters in different apps. And not all necessary fields are available or get recognized in every app. Nope, I'd really like QR code to work for this, but they don't.

  2. Re:What's Java? on New Version of Flashback Trojan Targets Mac Users · · Score: 1

    It's the Minecraft runtime.

  3. Re:QR codes don't all have destinations on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 1
    That's the second time today I read about it, but there's no preferences option in this App. Do I have to tripple tap it with four fingers?

    Scan is the first QR code scanner I installed on my iPad and later on my iPhone. There is nothing to change any options.

    I look again: There's just the History

    ARGHL! THERE IT IS! The settings are hidden on the history page!? WTF?

  4. Re:QR codes don't all have destinations on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 1
    I bought my iPhone this December and the high rated Apps (even searched the web for lists of QR scanners) never ask. Maybe they were first, but finding anything via the iPhone is tedious. It's better on the iPad, but I can't try 10 or 20 Apps for just one feature.

    As for RedLaser: I think I've avoided it because of the company name "eBay Inc."

  5. Re:QR codes don't all have destinations on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 1

    I've searched for some time until I found a QR code scanner for iOS that does show me the URL first. There aren't many of them, I'll tell you. :-( The 6th was the right one, after I asked on Twitter, Reddit, a mobile phone newsgroup, and a Mac newsgroup. Qrafter is the name.

  6. Re:idiocy? Incompetence? on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    Because people still insist in using their old and silly date format everywhere. dd.mm.yy, dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy.

    There's an international format called ISO 8601, which is accepted in almost every country around the world. yyyy-mm-dd with 4 digits for the year.

    If such a date format would be common, nobody would even think about using only 2 digits (or less) to save a date. And no, 2010 wouldn't be interpreted as 2016. It would be wrong from the very beginning if somebody wants to interpret a BCD number as a hex number.

    Implementation of the ISO 8601 Standard Around The World, including Europe, Germany, USA.

  7. Naive on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linus is naive and ignoring Microsoft's history.

  8. There's more to it on Pirate Party Coming To Canada · · Score: 1

    You are oversimplifying the goals. There's more to it. Or you just repeat what the MSM is reporting about the Pirate Party. But the MSM is in fear right now because they have the most to lose from a success of the Pirate Parties. Here's the program of the German Piratenpartei: http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundestagswahlprogramm_Kernthemen

  9. Re:What about a ban... on German Interior Ministers Seek Ban On Violent Games · · Score: 1

    What's a Hasselhoff?

  10. Re:Don't be so sure on HTML 5 As a Viable Alternative To Flash? · · Score: 1

    You couldn't view a web page with a gopher client. Times change. If you can't view a current page and all current browsers are capable of it, then you have to install the required software. The software is free and available for all platforms. And can be installed in parallel to old browsers like IE8, if you are on Windows. This has nothing to do with the "Best viewed in XYZ" we saw the last century. It's not a fight between to companies. We have open standards and all organizations support them, except one.

  11. Re:Someday maybe. on HTML 5 As a Viable Alternative To Flash? · · Score: 1

    HTML5 is supported in all browsers but one. And it's OK to install a HTML5-capable browser parallel to the broken one, if you really need it.

  12. Stupid 3D sickness! :-( on Open Source Shooter Nexuiz 2.5 Released · · Score: 1

    I can't even stand the video on http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ :-(

  13. Re:I'll keep my docs offline thanks on Google Solves Sharing Bug In Google Docs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People don't care. Really. There was a worm a few years ago that sent office documents to random e-mail addresses. I received an Excel price list from a bike shop. A co-worker some Word documents from a doctor. People don't care. They continue to use this kind of software and putting documents on Google's site isn't less secure than what they are doing right now.

  14. Less than Office Open XML on LHC Fully Documented Online · · Score: 1

    The specification for Office Open XML has 6000 pages. And is missing some important stuff.

  15. No non-PHP alternatives? on Building Powerful and Robust Websites With Drupal 6 · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is: I don't like PHP. Many other programmers don't like PHP as well. But there's no CMS out there that comes near to some of the PHP CMS like MODx or Drupal. WTF? Is everybody else writing yet another hand-made CMS on his own, over and over again?

  16. Doubleclick gets filtered for years now on Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    What stranglehold? Doubleclick gets filtered for years now. There's not a single PC magazine without at least one article to explain how to get rid of Doubleclick ads and other privacy related problems.

  17. Whacking RPG on Darwin Awards 2006 · · Score: 3, Funny

    On my AS/400 job I wanted to whack RPG with a hammer, too.

  18. Rest in Peace, lilo on Rob Levin, lilo of FreeNode, Passes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a really sad day for freenode. He provided such a good service to all of us. :-(

  19. Re:Digitizers? on IBM Announces Wii Chips In Nintendo Hands · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But using something like iTheatre (portable video glasses) could be a bit difficult, am I right?

  20. Re:I don't want another PHP book on Beginning PHP and MySQL 5.0 · · Score: 1

    The factual errors in the "PHP Cookbook" are really depressing.

  21. respectable /. user and Trillian? on Google Unveils The Google Pack · · Score: 1

    Is there a Linux/Unix version of Trillian I haven't heard of?

  22. Re:Fixing security holes should be the first prior on Firefox Commercial Contest · · Score: 1
  23. Fixing security holes should be the first priority on Firefox Commercial Contest · · Score: 1

    I'm checking for updates the last weeks but there still is no fix for the latest JavaScript bugs. What should I do? There are more and more so called Web 2.0 sites. I can't disable JavaScript.

  24. No newspaper today on Internet is Killing the Newspaper · · Score: 1
    I don't have any newpaper today. I had to read my news online and watch TV. And there is really serious stuff going on in German politics these days.

    You can even get newspapers on sundays. But not on today's holiday "Allerheiligen".

  25. Re:How many country codes are needed? on World Standards Day 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative
    The date formats annoy me quite often e.g. 13/4/2005 compared to 4/13/2005. Please use 2005-4-13 as it is less confusing.

    I'd prefer the date format according to ISO 8601 instead of your own format. :-)