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  1. Re:Hype! on The Safari Reader Arms Race · · Score: 1

    Not much work at all, it already doesn't work with slashdot. I doubt that was a conscious effort to break, just the web design doesn't work in it. I like it personally.

    Posted from Safari 5 on Windows 7....

  2. so... on Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .. how does it handle identical twins?

  3. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    So we have the word of an ex-right-hand man of Saddam (who may well have been paid or threatened with torture to say whatever words were put into his mouth) vs no actual evidence of existing WMDs.

    If you believe what your government/media tell you that easily (simply on good faith), then its little wonder that "democracy" and "freedom" in the US is something that is rapidly deteriorating, if not already gone.

    You patriots really should actually read the US constitution, and in particular focus on the bits that have recently been effectively voided - and ask why - and how the hell does this help US citizens.

    Your country is currently well on its way to becoming a dictatorship, and unfortunately nowhere near enough of you over there can currently see it. Compare recent legal changes to what happened in AXIS countries pre-WW2, and see for yourself.

  4. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find the US dollar goes down first.

  5. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    Bush and the US military industrial complex are not interested in preventing war or american casualties. The US defence industry has been without a cold war to justify expenditure on R&D and production of weapon systems for some time.

    What better war, than one to go and obtain influence over some of the largest oil fields in the world?

    Military (and surveillance) hardware is big business, but it needs a reason to be produced. The war on terror is currently that reason.

    The "threat" of military action does not sell anywhere near as many consumables (rockets, bombs, bullets, spares, etc) as actual military action.

  6. Re:sendmail on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1

    thats why you write it sendmail.mc and then compile into sendmail.cf...

  7. soo... on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    ... they reckon they'd singlehandedly be able to pay back 10% of the US foreign debt with their settlement?

  8. Re:OhNo! on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    If you don't want idiots in the EFI / BIOS then set a config password on it. Whether or not it is EFI or BIOS is irrelevant, as we all know, relying on security through obscurity is pretty weak.

  9. Re:iAds on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    This won't happen (otherwise no one will buy the app), but if it does, it would have happened without iAd anyway. Except instead of a well tested framework, you'd have a myriad of shitty, harder to firewall, insecure coded ads out there.

  10. Re:No charge on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because with the 2006 military commission act, there is ZERO need to charge him. The US government, since 2006, can now arrest any US citizen, without charge, on the president (or his agent's) order simply by saying that you are an unlawful enemy combatant (or similar). You have no right to trial, no right to a lawyer, and can expect to be tortured.

    This is the government you are currently living with.

    It's time to wake up.

  11. Re:This guy deserves a medal on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Or so your founding fathers used to say. Since then, bush has obliterated the constitution however... When shit is WRONG, you are supposed to speak up and challenge the dictatorial assholes in charge of the place. Or have you lot forgotten how your country came about?

  12. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    I vote for "all of the above" please.

  13. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anti-war folks like to blame the administration for not knowing facts that came to light months or years after the decision to go to war was made.

    Uh. There NEVER was any intel that iraq had WMDs in 2002/2003. That they didn't have them wasn't "new evidence that came to light years later". It was simply knowledge that was confirmed after it was too fuckin' late to not go to war and destroy the country.

    But, we stopped them selling oil in Euros at least (which is one thing Iraq WAS trying to do in 2003, along with Iran now... oh look they're terrorists too now), thus propping up the ailing US dollar.

  14. Re:Chrome on Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard · · Score: 1

    Or would've which sounds similar. But isn't the same.

  15. missing the point on Blizzard vs. Glider Battle Resumes Next Week · · Score: 1

    Whether you own the software or not, you're still bound by the terms of service to connect to their network and use their servers.

  16. test results are largely irrelevant anyway on Clashing Scores In the HTML5 Compatibility Test Wars · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like IE8, IE7 and IE6 before them, windows users will be forced to upgrade to 9 sooner or later anyway. You can bet it is likely part of Windows 7 SP1 or SP2.

  17. Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    putting "critical infrastructure" on the internet is a fucking retarded idea in the first place.

  18. Re:I don't know how things work in the UK on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it would appear that companies in the US deem it necessary to have lawyers on the payroll on a permanent basis.

  19. Re:That's just what Microsoft did to Spyglass on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    Also ie4 and 5 were pretty much required for windows update to work anyway. There was No gain by installing Netscape after ie4 more so version 5. Other browser? Sure. But not Netscape. Navigator peaked in v2 or 3.

  20. Re:That's just what Microsoft did to Spyglass on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    Netscape did the majority of the destruction themselves. Anyone who used Netscape since day dot can agree that their product degenerated into a buggy unstable pile of shit. Ms screwing spyglass was simply a nail in the coffin. I remember when I stopped installing Netscape on windows boxes back in the ie4 days. It was nothing to do with ie being great - Netscape simply got worse from an end user experience with newer versions.

  21. Re:You won't like the answer. on Benchmark Software For Windows 7 Rollout? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 7 processes is awesome when you have 8 cores on your box.

  22. Re:Yeah on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 1

    Clearly, he's an idiot. Thats why his company has been responsible for some of the most popular games on PC in recent history, and he's making millions of dollars with STEAM.

  23. Re:I see the Windows fanboi mods are out in force on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 1

    zeroconf was opened (bonjour), openCL, and as you mention, CLANG.

  24. Re:Yeah on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 1

    Given that most GNU zealots hate the Aqua UI with a passion (despite trying to reimplement the look of it in KDE and gnome on a regular basis with shitty themes), why care about that?

    All i hear from the anti-mac crowd is how limiting and annoying the UI is, so why do you care?

  25. Re:You have a strange definition of open on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 1

    Apple hardware isn't even expensive. Compare a macbook pro 13" to a Dell latitude 13.