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  1. Re:It cuts both ways on US Activists Oppose US Govt Calls To Weaken EU Privacy Rules · · Score: 3, Informative

    This concept is dealing with the right to be forgotten by computerized systems, not forgotten by humans.

  2. Re:WAAAAAAAAAY too little, too late. on PayPal Preparing To Address Frozen Funds Policy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You sound like you've never worked with the PayPal "dispute resolution" process.

  3. Re:Swiss Bank Accounts on Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives · · Score: 1

    The old MU didn't have any search functionality. None of the filehosts do. That's the reason 3rd part search sites which scraped the 'Net for filehost links appeared. RapidSearch, dealing with RS links, was the first I recall seeing.

  4. Re:Any one else with registration problems? on Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives · · Score: 1

    I can't even get the homepage to load.

    Slashdotted, I'm sure... :P

  5. Re:Like I said... on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1

    To believe that Microsoft Security Essentials is any good at what it is ostensibly meant to do is to believe that Microsoft is good at detecting and clearing viruses from users' systems, but to believe this is to hold a contradiction to every observation made of various versions of the Windows operating system.

    To me it seems even more contradictory to have no trust in Microsoft's coding ability and yet continue to run Windows. If the people who know the most about Windows can't secure it, what makes you think some third-party can?

    If you don't trust MS, you shouldn't run Windows.

  6. Re:This is why on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1

    Security Essentials is bundled with Windows 8, but most users aren't using Windows 8 yet.

    If MSE is on any of these other computers, it got there via user action.

  7. 50GB is all? on Kim Dotcom Reveals Mega Will Offer 50GB of Free Storage · · Score: 0

    Nothing good about that limit, I think it's actually quite stingy compared to the competition. Additionally, If there was a limit on the old MU, I never hit it... and I had a lot more than 50GB in there.

  8. Re:Bioshock? on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 1

    Once the telomeres have shortened too much, further cell division is going to result in DNA coded information being lost. That's likely to cause problems, I would guess.

    Plenty of people do develop some cells where the telomeres don't shorten with each generation. We call that cancer.

  9. Re:"Z" is only popular on Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes... the spelling differences. How about we all have a vote on it?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Geographical_distribution

    Oops, looks like we ought to be calling it the American language. :P

  10. Re:Are we sure this time? on Curiosity Finds Evidence of Ancient Surface Water · · Score: 1

    I personally think the most reliable reports about Mars come from our very own tackhead.

  11. Re:Can We Please Settle This? on Curiosity Finds Evidence of Ancient Surface Water · · Score: 2

    Should they discover large quantities of liquid water or ice still on the surface, that would be interesting. We know there use to be lots there, but not anymore.

    The presence of water ice is hardly interesting, numbnuts. In fact, I'd say we all know Mars has water ice.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_polar_ice_caps

  12. Re:Did they give him an anal probe? on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, he lost the second-to-last round playing the eventual tourney winner, during which the broadcast was shut off.

    He won the last round with no broadcast.

  13. Re:Simply put.. on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 1

    You should probably mention the 2296 number come from October 2004, not really current.

  14. Re:Simply put.. on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 4, Informative

    The penultimate round was also against the strongest opponent, the tournament winner. Ivanov won the final match, which had no Internet broadcast.

    We appear to need a more complex answer than "the cheating was done using the broadcast".

  15. Re:It's one thing for him to sell access on Facebook Testing $100 Fee To Mail Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    He is indeed the majority voting stock shareholder.

    Everyone who bought in knew up front they would have no effective voice in FB's direction.

  16. Re:There is a fix on No Patch On Tuesday For Internet Explorer Hole · · Score: 1

    The latest versions of every other browser run on Windows XP: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and so on.

    For the record, the latest version of Safari (6.02) does not run on XP or any other Windows. It is Lion/Mountain Lion only.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)

  17. Re:Did you all learn you lesson? on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While they provided the game for free, it did take some manpower to make..

    Not really. Zygna is all about copying other people's games in order to minimize the need to do any actual work.

    From the CEO himself: "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."

  18. Re:it's not like we didn't see this coming on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    ME came out after 2000 and before XP.

  19. Re:Not realistic on Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 2

    You are confusing Secure Boot with UEFI. UEFI is a necessary technical advancement, whereas Secure Boot is just vendor lock-in disguised as security.

  20. Re:well hopefully on In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run · · Score: 1

    The PS3 is also using memory from Rambus. (XDR)

  21. Re:Gotten better? I don't think so on New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups · · Score: 2

    So you have dual video cards and quad monitors, but you can't spare the resources for KDE? OK.

    In my experience the RAM usage difference between Gnome, XFCE and KDE isn't very big.

  22. Re:we should start terraforming Mars immediately on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    You'll be waiting longer than "a few decades".

    Much, much longer.

  23. Older calcs still available (at full price) on TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color · · Score: 1

    I was dragged into a Best Buy for Xmas shopping, and I happened to see the TI calc section. Interestingly, they had several of the older model calcs that have been out of production for years available new in the box.

    I couldn't help but chuckle seeing the same $160 price tag on both a TI-89 Titanium and a Nspire CAS color. I love my TI-89Ti, but there's a big difference in the hardware it and the new shiny, yet no price difference...

    Monopoly indeed.

  24. Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Are you a CEO, by chance? :P

  25. Re:Time? on Hubble Sees Tribe of Baby Galaxies 13+ Billion Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    This chart on Wikipedia has "first stars" at about 400M years after the Big Bang.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg

    This is probably a bit earlier than previously thought.