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  1. Re:The other side on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 1

    Android phones log nearby wifi hotspot MAC addresses and send them to Google along with GPS coordinates. Google's geolocation services can use this to triangulate your position using only surrounding wifi hotspots.

  2. RICA on Thieves in South Africa Hit Traffic Lights For SIM Cards · · Score: 1

    This is probably due to the new RICA legislation that requires one to provide ID and proof of residence in order to obtain a sim card. http://www.helkom.co.za/pages/rica-sim-card-registration.php

  3. Micro Four Thirds? on Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists · · Score: 1

    Micro Four Third cameras are very similar to DSLR's but lack the flip up mirror or optical viewfinder. Are these exempt too?

  4. They're tops at skiing on Japanese Researchers Create Skiing Robot · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of that Eddie Izzard clip: "Well... er.. i got some elephants" "Can they ski?!?!?" "Oh they're tops at Skiing! If you've never seen an elephant ski then you've never been on acid!"

  5. Re:hey Asus on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    The site does seem rather amateur. A link to the the site at http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1008HA/features.html points to Asus UK's involvement. There is however no such reference on the international version at http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product1008ha.html

  6. clusterssh on Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    allows you to ssh into multiple machines and execute the same command on all of them from one terminal window. So if you set up a shell script that detects a host's distro and then execute the relevant update command you should be sorted.

  7. Firefox Addon on What Filters Are Right For Kids? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Foxfilter is a password protected firefox content filter. So unless you have another browser installed it should do the job. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4351

  8. Err on MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser · · Score: 1, Troll

    This might be a good idea bit seeing that this is coming from microsoft, I'll just play it safe and avoid this technology at all cost.

  9. Mmm... on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there talk a while ago that M$ was giving away XP for free to netbook OEM's?

  10. Linux dock on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    Until I'm able at least dock songbird in linux I don't see myself using it. It's just one of those stupid little things that I simply cant live without.

  11. Re:Vido no longer available? on HTC Dream (Android) Video Emerges · · Score: 1

    You're not maybe from South Africa are you? We get that crap over here all the time. We're pretty much a bandwidth starved country so I wont be surprised if Telkom (monopoly telecoms and internet provider) has they're foot in the door. I find that most videos start to work after pressing F5 a number of times.

  12. Huh? on Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I though Midori was an open source web browser

  13. $1000 on $1,000 Spray Makes Gadgets Waterproof · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For $1,000 I could buy a new notebook, iPod, cell phone...

  14. Inflation on Cambridge N-Prize Team To Build Balloon-Assisted Rockets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if someone did it for just under £999.99 but then the price of say rocket fuel goes up?

  15. yes on More Skype Back Door Speculation · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are quite a number of alternatives based on the open SIP protocol. Have a look at the list: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Open+Source+VOIP+Software