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  1. Re:Again? on Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One of. If you have it installed on IE, it installs it on firefox, even if you didn't have the firefox one. Even if you don't even have firefox installed.

  2. Re:It is just an update to an existing toolbar on Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. From TFA:

    On one of our Windows systems, we had the Windows Live Toolbar installed for Internet Explorer but not for Firefox. Nevertheless, installing this update added the add-on/extension to both browsers without telling us that it would do so. On our second system, we had the Bing Bar installed for Internet Explorer, but it was disabled. Firefox was not installed. This system already had the update in question, so we decided to install Firefox. Not only was the Bing Bar extension present upon Firefox's first launch, but so was the Search Helper Extension.

  3. Re:Dont know on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 0

    This is an accounting office. An ERP just doesn't cut it.

  4. Re:Dont know on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 0

    Finance is a a big one, especially with the prevalence of people worried about SOX.

  5. Re:Dont know on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 0

    Do me a favor and find open source SOX compliant acounting and auditing software. I'm not talking about a quickbooks alternative, I mean something that will help get real accounting and auditing work done. A vast majority of accounting applications rely heavily on MS Office macros tied together with fugly shit GUI developed in Visual Studio, often tying it all together with an instance of MS SQL server. Applications like this are coded for windows because that's what offices use. I have a hard time imagining other industries being too terribly different.

  6. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 0

    Kind of like operating systems and processors nowadays, and competing consoles in recent and modern history. Tech is moving forward, and all the people making it don't agree. That's no reason to count it out and cling to old shit. If nothing else, wait it out and see which is VCR and which is Betamax.

  7. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 0

    DOS is great...10 years ago. The rest of the tech world is moving on, sorry you can't bring yourself to come with us.

  8. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 0

    and deeper DRM bypassing

  9. Re:Rights... on China Explains Internet Situation In Whitepaper · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Better than the worst" != "Acceptable Transgressions"

  10. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 0

    My first post was meant to be sarcastic, but the more I read up on this, the more I like it.

  11. Re:Security on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1, Informative

    Oh, yes. There will be blood.

  12. A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    Absolutely brilliant! Why didn't I think of it?

  13. Re:The "carrot of financial reward" on Human Gene Patent Challenged In Australian Court · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm gonna patent opposable thumbs.

  14. Re:May be missing the point of the patent system on Human Gene Patent Challenged In Australian Court · · Score: 0

    Yes, and anyone who interacts with it is infringing on my patent. Please refrain from jumping, walking, moving in any way, shape or form, and from being attracted to large bodies, earth included, by such means.

  15. Re:May be missing the point of the patent system on Human Gene Patent Challenged In Australian Court · · Score: 0, Insightful

    That's fucking sick.

  16. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    But the fact remains that the probability of increased wages leading to an eventual increase in the cost of living is just this side of 1. The increase in cash supply in the local economy is enough to make it happen.

  17. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    The reason that I assumed complete deregulation in my post was to acknowledge the fact that there are confounding factors.

  18. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    My BS in accounting with economics minor is useless because some random fucktard on slashdot pointed out to me that my apples are bad because my orange juice tastes funny. For shame.

  19. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    Nobody's praying to anything. Cost of living DOES increase with wages. When workers are paid more, the cost of their wages is passed onto the consumers, the workers being consumers. I'm not arguing for enhanced deregulation. Nothing you've said contradicts what I've said. Lay off the coffee.

  20. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure what your point is here, but it doesn't change anything I said.

  21. Re:In another hell-hole of a country? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    mod this guy up

  22. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    We'll be outsourcing to Africa decades before the global market reaches a state such that American manufacturing is an option, at which point domestic manufacturing will likely be almost entirely automated. In order for American manufacturing to be a realistic alternative, there cannot be anywhere in the world that would be cheaper to manufacture in and import from.

  23. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    Also, standard of living is a function of wage.

  24. Re:No different than the food supplements in Ameri on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 0

    No, troll, flamebait and offtopic are for things you disagree with.

  25. Re:Less outsourcing? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 0

    Cost of living increases with labor rates to equilibrium, even on a global scale, given unrestricted trade.