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  1. Re:on an android tablet... on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    I'd love to know what that hardware is. I've been hard-pressed to find anything that doesn't work out of the box for me.

  2. Re:Maybe I should try this. on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    +1 for Okular and Kate. I'll also add Gwenview and Krita into that mix. I must say that some of the KDE apps are very polished these days.

  3. Re:is it still so laggy? on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    Correct - the videos were done using xrender - software based compositing. Once they get a workable 3D driver for the Tegra 3 then they'll be sweet.

  4. Re:Going to need some proof. on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    class it(){ // MOAR CODES } var happen = new it; if(!instanceOf("it", happen)){ print("PHALE"); }

  5. Re:Simple solution on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    Auto-dismount on idle timeout, I'd say. So many people will "lock" their laptop (read: CTRL-ALT-DEL+Enter) and leave themselves vulnerable.

  6. Re:Key theft != cracking encryption on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes - security through obscurity! Brilliant!

  7. Re:Good, but still for hobbyists on Blender 2.65 Released · · Score: 1

    To give this context - blender propogates many new point releases in a calendar year - every one packing major features.

  8. Re:Good, but still for hobbyists on Blender 2.65 Released · · Score: 1

    Complete Undo-redo support is coming within the next two point releases.

  9. Re:Good, but still for hobbyists on Blender 2.65 Released · · Score: 1

    Keyword: support contracts. The renderfarm may support .blend files - but I'm not sure that they're going to give you deep insights or support into some small glitch you're having with your render on their farm.

  10. Re:Good, but still for hobbyists on Blender 2.65 Released · · Score: 1

    What a load of absolute bollocks. No good way to handle security? I'm going to postulate that you're trolling. Care to give citations, examples or....well, anything?

  11. Re:Great Renderer, Lousy UI... on Blender 2.65 Released · · Score: 1

    The UI has not changed drastically since the 2.5 release.

  12. Get it right fella. All you need is a macbook of some description. From there you should be able to hack into any alien technology in a couple of keystrokes. May need someone to drop off the virus, though.

  13. Re:It is time. on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Way too soon.

  14. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    Firstly, an old white dude isn't even in the ball park. But also, you're incorrect in assuming that there is any more logic in your idea than a God.

  15. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    Amazing. Irrefutable.

  16. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    You've replaced religion's deity with your own: quantum rules that happened to exist forever.

  17. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    Quantum theory has virtual particles....Then there's Brane theory....

    The problem with the propositions that you've put forward is that they both require the rules of the measurable universe to work. Rules of mathematics/physics, quantum theory, super strings - they all work on the tangible tools and rules we have here. You in no way explain their sudden existence to support your theories. You've merely shifted the problem - answering nothing - and without anywhere to go you, like the religions you disagree with, say, "well, that particular part just always existed...".

  18. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    there are several consistent answers, and we can't yet choose between them.

    No, there are not. That's the point that is being made.

  19. Re:Cue stupid comments from non-Australians on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    I agree. But I'm sure the managerial meeting went something like this:

    Q: why not keep our sense of humor?
    A: humanity is stupid.

  20. Re:Cue stupid comments from non-Australians on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Well, if you put the destination into Google Maps, they'll direct you to the dock that the Spirit of Tasmania uses and then show you it's dotted-line route all the way to tassie where you disembark and continue on driving. Pretty handy - used it before.

  21. Re:Utter fools don't stop there on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 2

    Parent makes a very good point. Western society as a whole is dependent on technology. Cherry picking which activities we perform require careful planning and redundancy is a grey area.

  22. Re:had the same thing happen on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    It's obvious that his story is a fabrication. Keyword: "wife"

    ;)

  23. Re:Now... on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all about the FSB. The FSB and Kaspersky.

    You see, Kaspersky and McAfee have been the two top contenders for the anti-virus throne for nearly a decade now - big money has been made by both sides. What few people know is that McAfee and Kaspersky have been working together for a long time on manufacturing crippling viruses, dividing up clients evenly, infiltrating large organisations with 'update backdoors' - and this isn't even all the illegal activities they've been involved in.

    But in September of last year, McAfee stabbed their long-time cohorts in the back by making a move with Intel that manouvred McAfee into a market position that Kaspersky could no longer take - Ultrabooks. Anti-theft software you say? No, exclusive backdoors on a technology that they knew every manager across western society would procure. And McAfee had done this without Kaspersky. Why was this so important to Kaspersky? Because their greatest source of income/raison d'être was on-selling high-level root access to managerial and corporate systems across western society to the FSB (whom they work very closely with).

    Now what has this got to do with McAfee the man and his purported murder of his next door neighbour? Let me tell you. The company McAfee's greatest mistake was not rebranding when the founder moved on. McAfee's brand is built on the name of the man himself. Turn the man into public enemy #1 and a crazy schizophreniac and you have destroyed the company's reputation.

    This leads us back to the beginning: the FSB ordered and carried out the assasination of an innocent human to bring down a corporate empire so that McAfee would be forever distanced from the security industry and so that they would lose their foothold on the next big corporate purchase - ultrabooks. Kaspersky (FSB) badly wants their backdoors in the corporate west.

    You've heard it here first.

  24. Re:How to treat a loyal customer on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_software - Plenty of DICOM projects out there. Must say I haven't tried them, but you appear to be in the industry - have you?

  25. Re:How to treat a loyal customer on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees · · Score: 1