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  1. Re:Unfortunately on Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google · · Score: 2, Informative

    The window button movement has been justified as a mouse movement reducer - when the clickable elements of the menu bar are on the left and the window buttons are on the right, you have to move the mouse further to go from one to the other. Personally, I barely ever touch my mouse so it doesn't really concern me either way, but I can respect that decision as a genuine attempt to reduce the user's wasted interface time.

  2. Re:Tar Pitting on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    I assumed this was being done on a per-IP basis.
    Incidentally, I would quite like to know how this AC went about implementing this.

  3. Re:How difficult is it to remove Adobe Reader? on Adobe Security Chief Defends JavaScript Support · · Score: 1

    It's only Adobe's own pdf viewers that are broken in that way. Bizarrely (or not), everybody else's pdf readers boot in seconds, if that, and are stable once up.

  4. Re:Good indie music? on MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been trying my best to ignore that particular definition of "indie". It's difficult, so instead I use the word "independent" whenever possible.

  5. Re:Good indie music? on MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid · · Score: 1

    I think you are implying that "indie" is a permanent status, that good production makes musicianship better and that talent is always popularised.

  6. Re:Rob you blind on Copyright Industries Oppose Treaty For the Blind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I honestly don't understand how a disability should entitle you to free media.

  7. Re:Then is piracy really that big of a problem? on iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" · · Score: 1

    When there's some kind of internet-based back end to your app (be that for high scores or whatever), then pirated copies are a loss. Hell, I've heard of not reading TFA, but not even reading the summary? Jesus.

  8. Re:I don't see the stupidity here on "Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes · · Score: 1

    My site has a little skin selection list in the top corner that makes a cookie containing a single word (the name of the user's chosen skin). It is, however, not made clear that a cookie will be written so there is no implied consent. The cookie is processed entirely in javascript, though, and is never sent back to the server. Clearly, it's not a tracking cookie but it is certainly important to the user experience - without it, whenever the user changes page or refreshes the skin will revert to the default.
    Would a little "(writes cookie)" next to the list be good enough?
    I dunno, this is super vague, although as TFA points out, it is only a guideline, not yet a law. We shall see how this pans out.

  9. Re:Maybes its a good time for them to get on iTune on EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd be more tempted to correct that as "It's the only reason MP3 compression is possible", not least because both of your statements imply (with varying degrees of subtlety) doing something to the MP3 rather than the source that became the MP3.

  10. Re:Why does T-Mobile suck? There's a map for that. on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ringtones are not public performances. Here, have an article from an obviously biased but generally honest source: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/court-rules-phones-ringing-public-dont-infringe-co

  11. Re:Only useful for non-free applications on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you just use MacPorts? It'd get all the deps for you.

  12. Re:$10 per episode? on BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VoD Service · · Score: 1

    The problem is that most US shows get shit, samey or self-parodying after a couple of seasons. Short runtimes lead to this not happening. What happens instead is teams generally stay together and make something new.

  13. Re:Wow . . . on Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy · · Score: 1

    I watched Reservoir Dogs when I was 11. Does that count?

  14. Re:Wow . . . on Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy · · Score: 1

    Dunno, but pretty sure jumping sharks is usually done with waterskis rather than planes.

  15. Re:Useless on CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Wait hang on. ISPs are demolishing houses to lay down cables now?

  16. Re:Can't develop closed source code on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that's exactly what was meant. This is an area in which attention is needed.

  17. Re:A company like IBM doesn't need Microsoft on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    So other people's software is about your benefits and your own software is about your benefits? Hmm.

  18. Re:To be honest... on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    It terrifies me that so many people are replying to this as if it's a serious comment.
    Slashdot, I am disappointed.

  19. Re:To be honest... on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Develop it however the hell you like, pay people if necessary, just release the source code when you're done to prove you did it right.

  20. Re:West and Lexis/Nexis are going to love this. on Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't have to allow everyone to edit articles/commit code to be open.

  21. Re:Activity on Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence · · Score: 1

    Linux has the audio usergroup. You could, if you wanted to, remove yourself from the audio usergroup or manually mess with permissions on the audio device such that only root could access the mic so you would need to supply a password every time the mic was requested by a program.

  22. Re:Who requests on Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites · · Score: 1

    The notifications are opt-in. That's what I meant.
    And it's not like it's hard to set up. You should be thankful robots.txt is obeyed by most robots.

  23. Re:Who requests on Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's an opt-in notification system - nobody's forcing you to do anything. Also, robots.txt has been around since long before google.

  24. Re:*readies his version of IDA* on Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 · · Score: 1

    Both of them have the same initials, too.
    I think maybe somebody's random name generator has a broken seed.

  25. Re:The more crap you add... on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Define "average distro". Median? Mode? Mean? By installations or by simple existence? If mode installations, then yes, you're debatably right (although comparing dd, mount and umount with Nero is a bit of a stretch). The problem here is the vast difference in aims of Gentoo, Arch, etc. vs Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.