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  1. html5 video on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    With Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and other major players already backing HTML5 — is Adobe Flash finally dead?"

    No, cause browser makers can't agree on what format to use, not all codecs work on all browsers

  2. Re:Limit cases on Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    or are injured and can no longer read or decide to spend a year in solitary meditation or the PC breaks down .... come on you raised a point and it got answered, move on

  3. Re:Interesting idea on Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    I don't follow, they are both sender "push" in that someone sends you something, they are both "recipient" pull in that the recipient needs to open their physical or electronic mailbox and read the contents.

  4. Re:Question... on Microsoft Exposes Locations of PCs and Phones · · Score: 1

    how do you authenticate in plain text over wireless? sure WEP is crackable, but not clear text and requires the capture a lot of packets.
    Do you mean people using a public unsecured wireless AP and authenticating to some web site over http (not https) ? hmmm
    So if I am walking down a street taking photos and people have posters with their credit card details hanging, I am breaching their rights? No, they are advertising their information.

  5. Re:Rejoice on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 1

    After the rapture only Microsoft, .Net jobs will be available.

    I know everyone is joking, but I wonder how the economy would handle a sudden loss of 1/4 population or a 1/3

  6. why not use IBM QS22 cell blade on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor#PowerXCell_8i claims they are used to make some super computers.
    so why use this ... unconventional approach, is it cost ?

  7. scraping the barrel on 100% Libre, Trisquel 4.5 STS 'Slaine' Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a whole os, distro and the highlights include enabling http pipelining and including a couple of browser add-ons, switching default search engine
    Really ? really ?
    That's the problem that needs solving, thru a new disto

  8. Re:Isn't Xen dead? on Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released · · Score: 1

    it was owned by xensource, now owned by citrix, really unlikely that IBM contributed more than the owners.
    Thanks playing FUD and toeing the party line on KVM

  9. Re:no big deal on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 1

    comodo is not based in those places.
    why do you think oh say africa is "safer" than eastern Europe?

  10. Re:any alternative to updates? on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 1

    there is, it's called Certificate Revocation and Online Certificate Status Protocol
    why they are not implemented and we have to rely on installing new s/w, I'll leave to those in the know

  11. Re:Sparc on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    .....
      and HP-UX dropping support for Itanium

    really? what's hp-ux going to run on?

  12. Re:Sparc on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    I don't have the knowledge to have an opinion on what's being discussed

    your power refreshes every 5 years sounded wrong, I double checked and ...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6 power6 released 2007
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7 power7 released 2010

    why do make up facts ? really I am interested

  13. Re:These systems which preach safety and security. on Ford Building Cars That Talk To Other Cars · · Score: 1

    and how is that bad?
    you want to be able to get away with a hit and run? or drive home after committing a crime without anyone knowing?

    you are placing the freedom to commit crime and have a fair chance of getting away with it, ahead of public safety.

    BTW if you carry a mobile phone ....

  14. Re:favorite console game says yes on Does the Moon Have Military Value? · · Score: 1

    out of interest, does anyone know, if space is like guantanamo bay (or at least how GwB wanted to have it treated)
    in that the courts don't have authority over it?

  15. Re:One more - No more mutually assured destruction on Does the Moon Have Military Value? · · Score: 1

    Mutual assured destruction (M.A.D.) is not literally, I will kill *all* your people before/whilst you kill *all* my people.
    It's I'll kill so many of your people, that odds are I'll kill you, I'll kill all you family, I'll kill most people you know, and their relatives. your country will be at the stone age for decades.

    I doubt any sane person, by any loosely based definition of sanity would say, well I'll kill 99.9999999999% of your population and you will do the same to me, but 100K strangers from my country will survive so *bring* *it* *on*. if you raise the prices of natural gas, I'll nuke you, end all life on earth.

  16. Re:The moon is a harsh mistress. on Does the Moon Have Military Value? · · Score: 1

    basically what you and parent are saying, is that
    search the moon for an area containing some "hard" rocks, dig up the moon to carve out a few ton sized rock, coat it with heat shield, propel it to 9000km/hr, use some tricky aiming to ensure you hit roughly what you are more or less aiming for.
    keep sending food, air, supplies, spare parts to the moon base.

    or!!!! use nuclear missiles, stealth bombers carrying nukes, ICBMs, submarine launched nukes.

    reminds me of the urban legend of NASA spending millions of dollars on a pen that can write in space, while the Russians used a 10c pencil

  17. Re:Honestly on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 1

    .... and when the usage grows beyond the size of the largest single disk available?

    your answer works, so long as the usage is bellow the size of the largest (affordable) single disk, perhaps that is enough.
    should those with 4TB of movies and crap, be shot

  18. Re:Keep up or shut up on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    it should depend on what the fresh grad knows, not what they proclaim to know.
    I mean if it's a young miguel de icaza, Gnome founder, or a hot shot open source contributor, then yes.
    If it's someone, that participated in an iphone group assignment then no.

  19. Re:Didn't do the math on Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set New App Store's Prices · · Score: 1

    even if they accept it, if I was amazon, I'd put it for sale for $1,000,000,000 , you would get 20% of nothing.

  20. Re:One of the best things about Chrome ... on Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty · · Score: 1

    what I know about win32 api, can fit on a post-it-note with space for a doodle, but I read somewhere that an app can veto a system shutdown, I would assume someone doing an update on app shutdown, would veto the system shutdown.

  21. Re:This guy is an idiot, it's pathetic. on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 1

    what's evil about providing a single interface to multiple backends, then being bought out?
    No one is getting smacked to use it, continue to use it, divulge personal information, publish career damaging photos/opinions or even use their real name!

    out of interest are you being funny about military coup? or did 2 Generalissimo in a banana republic get into a real fight while playing your tetris clone?
    "you cheated I kill you" .... "send the Toyota pick-up truck to round up my men"

  22. Re:Most Techies miss the point on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 1

    From a api POV the UI can be abstracted away, e.g. java, tk, wxwidgets, QT
    The display of a UI element can also be shown very differently, an example is how the iphone handles a dropdown box in a webpage (it pops a large picker at the bottom)

    As for what you call "These are significantly different UI approaches", both the IOS and android encourage different ui and images for different devices / resolution, which the device dynamically picks depending on it's capability / model / screen resolution, orientation.

    btw, if a company develops an android app and a chromos what-ever-they-are-called (notebook optimised webpage ?), they still have to put in the effort to make their app/page useful on both.
    Additionally they need to have expertise in both types of development, so your point is kind of irrelevant.

  23. Re:I think ChromeOS will be a success. on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 1

    fair ... know any useful and/or popular NaCl usage?

  24. Re:So? Good for them. on Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    except that the "more knowledgable expert", has had their power grid given the how you doing
    Their pentagon email routed to another country and have their confidential files published on the internet.

    kind of like going to a boxer that mike tyson (in his prime), wiped the floor with and asking him to train you .....
    or
    asking GM how to run a successful car making company

  25. Re:Wikileaks releases stuff about Australia on Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    so we all need to work together to get rid of him, how about we frame him for a crime, lock him up a bit
    To give the american gov time to come up with something to charge him with ....