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  1. Re:Where on Bushfire Threatens Major Telescope · · Score: 1

    Most people should know that London is the capital city of England, I wouldn't expect most people to know that New South Wales is a state in Australia.

  2. Re:The good part on Bushfire Threatens Major Telescope · · Score: 1

    The government funded local fire brigades usually aren't the ones fighting bushfires that's the job of the rfs which is a volunteer organization.

  3. Re:What about the server side? on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 1

    More importantly what recent succesfull apps have been developed purley with any of those three as the primary languge, most websites will use at least PHP and the big market at the moment is phone apps wich tend to use some derivative of java.

  4. Re:HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 0

    HTML, CSS and Javascript isn't program it is web design, your not going to be developing much of anything with those anyway.

  5. Re:Hyperspace travel for less? on This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For · · Score: 1

    The number is based on the ammount of steel required to build a ship of that size, the reply has a link to some obscure university blog site where some economics students apparently worked it out.

  6. Re:Don't you read the news? on Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither? · · Score: 1

    About the browser plugin yeah, but it sounds like you only read the headlines.
    That "0-day" only applies to java applets running in browser plugins (and in my experience are generally slow and buggy), not to jave programs especially ones running vertified code on servers.

  7. Re:Unless it's it writing elsewhere.... on Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither? · · Score: 1

    Depends if he did whilst he was "on the clock" or using his employers equipment, if he didn't then he would definatly retain ownership as it would be like someone writing a book, there employer dosen't get ownership. If he was doing it in his employers time or using their equipment it becomes murkey and if he was getting paid to do it then the copyright probably belongs to the employer.

  8. Re:Unless it's it writing elsewhere.... on Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither? · · Score: 1

    Only if he was working on it in his employers time or on his employers equipment, what he does in his personal time is his own private property. E.g. if I write a book whilst being employed by employer dosen't own the book.

  9. Re:Problem solved quickly.... on How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works · · Score: 1

    Alternately you could do that so that you don't see the video, presumably it only plays once for each strike, that way they could also not prove you acknowledged it.

  10. Re:The problem never seems to be the guns.... on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1

    Whilst your point might be valid in a few corner cases, there is strong evidence that restricting gun ownership decreases such mass killings, one such example of this is Australia where since gun laws where tightened during the Howard government there have been no mass killings, whilst there was prior to the introduction of these laws (there was an interesting article on the Sydney Morning Herald website a few months ago if you want more info).

  11. Re:Is there a way to use this to install Linux? on Windows RT Jailbroken To Run Third-Party Desktop Apps · · Score: 1

    From my understanding of Secure boot, I don't think wubi would work because I think it modifies the part of the bootloader that is signed. It is also probably only designed for x86 systems and as Windows RT runs on ARM, it might not be compatible. (It at least partially acts like a boot loader which is quite architecture specific)

  12. Re:Someone explain to me... on Why "We The People" Should Use Random Sample Voting · · Score: 1

    You don't even have to be in the US to vote its great! Personally I am going to start a petition for the US to give all of its military technology to Iran* ;)


    Disclaimer: I didn't actually vote or anything I just went far enough to see if it was possible, all you need is to make up a zip code.

  13. Re:wrong-headed approach on Why "We The People" Should Use Random Sample Voting · · Score: 1

    They could start by limiting responses to people who live in the US? It's not that hard to enter a random zip code...

  14. Re:Skype doesn't work on Android on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    As someone who uses skype on Windows, Linux and Android the linux version is by far the best as it only does chat and video none of the other stuff I don't need, and it has the smallest memory and cpu footprint relative to what the system can handle.

  15. Re:Force Field (Magnetic) on Trip To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains · · Score: 1

    The only problem I could see with this is that wouldn't such a field also block radio transmissions?
    That could quite a significant problem on long journeys, although with our current technology it seems the most likely method.

  16. Re:It's called LinkedIn on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    Actually it is better to have some "good" images set to public on your facebook page, because if you use your real name (and don't set your privacy settings to hide) it is almost guaranteed to come up on the first page and you can use it to make yourself look good. Setting up an empty Google+ account designed to make you look good is also useful as no one uses it, but it usually appears on the first page of goolge.
    That is far more effective in the OP's case because it was someone else with the same name that was making her look bad and so your suggestion wasn't an option.

  17. On the twelfth day of Christmas.. on Christmas Tree Rocketry · · Score: 1

    It`s after Christmas,...

    Um, no it's not there are twelve days of Christmas, it ends on the 5th of January!

  18. Re:nvidia-settings on New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups · · Score: 1

    Some things you can change without a reboot, but when configuring external monitors, you do (E.g. making the OS use them, changing between xcinerama and dual screen, and changing relative position of the monitors) requires you to reboot (or at least restart x, which amounts to the same thing because you have to close all your running programs)

  19. Re:nvidia-settings on New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups · · Score: 1

    changing screen position, switching between dual screens and xcinerama, and most importantly changing the number of screens connected.

  20. Re:nvidia-settings on New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups · · Score: 1

    To change those settings using nvidia-settings, you have to reboot I though that the point of this was that you didn't? If that is the case then that is absolutely brilliant as that has been one of the major flaws of linux. (I regularly use a kde multi-monitor setup)

  21. Re:Yes, this is amazing on New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is one of the features that I constantly have to wrestle with on Linux (which I use as my main OS), there is currently no real multi-screen support in a major distro and what support there is breaks regularly during updates. (This includes things like full screen flash, changing settings without rebooting, etc). I hope this will work with nvidia drivers, but from past experience I doubt it.

  22. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they finally worked out how they can make AMD viable again so that they don't have to worry about anti-trust?

  23. Re:Just like other browsers on Google Chrome Introduces Do Not Track · · Score: 1

    No, its not great for users. No one has any reason to follow this standard if it is on all the time because they make money off tracking people - it akin to telling all the ad networks that the new standard is to not track anyone at all, are they going to lose money and do that? No, they are not.

  24. Re:On no on Google Chrome Introduces Do Not Track · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, actually they are following industry standards, as much as I hate to say it. IE turns it on automatically which is against industry standards (and basically makes it useless because buissness will only follow it if a minority of users are using it, they can't afford to do otherwise).

  25. Re:Is this different from sport? on Is Non-Prescription ADHD Medication Use Ever Ethical? · · Score: 1

    That wasn't my argument at all, my argument is that if such drugs do have negative side effects (ie. strongly detrimental effects on a persons health) they should not be pressured into taking them in order to compete as this would result in the majority of people having to commit what amounts to self harm (and when it is the majority it is detrimental to society)