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  1. Re:Dish without commercials on Dish Network Announces Prime Time TV With No Ads · · Score: 1

    why is this modded down? So true ...

  2. Re:Imagine on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 2

    and when you go to adobe's site, you're sure it really is the site of adobe? Maybe some malware changed your dns ... make sure to use https for downloads!

  3. why does TFA say MacOS X on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 1

    when it means Safari?

  4. Re:ubuntu eh? on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    > Mate
    no real developer wants something gnomeish.

  5. Re:Resolution on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    1050 pixels in height is too little.

  6. Re:CSS is annoying on W3C Member Proposes "Fix" For CSS Prefix Problem · · Score: 1

    > vertically centering text
    because there is no vertical middle. your document is (potentially) endless in vertical dimensions. you want to center it in the window, but the window can become arbitrary large/small.

  7. compare them to an intact backup on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 0

    then you see which are changed. then check, if the file is much smaller or corrupted.

  8. Re:The beauty of Open Source. on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    but not because of compozer. to start the composer is just ONE key, when its not open the other keys for it are irrelevant.

  9. Re:finalized? on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    maybe, they want feedback?

  10. Re:Noooo... on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    maybe you would like opera. there you are much more free what to do with the toolbars.

  11. Re:The beauty of Open Source. on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    its only a little bit of diskspace. as long as you do not start the component, it does not hurt. not like the stuff put into firefox like webdev, personas, etc.

  12. i would like a shark with a fricking laser on it.

  13. Re:Linux has a golden oppurtunity it will miss. on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    > - Harmonize RPM and DEB. An RPM be it a Suse RPM, or a Mandriva, or Fedora RPM should generation-ally, be able to be installed on any RPM based system that uses RPM. Same for Deb, although Deb is better than that.
    this would require to have all the same library versions on each of these distros. and then you can start asking why there should be seperate distros, when they only difffer on themes/default installed programs and such stuff. then they could just be branches like fedora spins or ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu. But thats not the way the ecosystem works.

    another thing might be to be able to use softer dependencies, like not requiring the latest library version the current distro has, but only the version which is really needed, so the package can be installed on a distro with a much older version.

  14. Re:Demystification on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    nazis do it on the internet that way.

  15. Re:What the hell, Google? on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    in most countries you even cannot hand over your copyright.

  16. Re:No problem... on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    okay ... you know, publishing the result of a brute-force to your files is a derivative work as well? And do not worry, they have all the computing power, so no problem to brute-force your key.

  17. Re:Publishing HALF the facts = more fun. on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    still a proprietary client.

  18. Re:Indeed. on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    i think it sounds more like "we pick random photos from your photo-folder to put them onto the start page to show new users 'hey, look what people are using our service for, they can upload their photos and stuff'". Which might be rather bad, depending on the stuff on the photos. of course they will filter nudes and such stuff, but other photos might be private, too!

  19. Re:Google's motivation on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Focus Follows Mouse on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 1

    why aren't you using something like ion3 for a kiosk-type PC? Opera in one big frame, users won't know how to start other programs, and even this can be locked down further.

    or maybe running an x-server without WM at all ... i dunno if opera fullscreen works without WM, but when it does, then this would be the best option.

  21. Re:I've never sold a working harddrive in my life on Study Finds 1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data · · Score: 1

    you really trust the drive vendor not to fuck up / implement backdoors? They could just implement the wipe by storing in the controller firmware "return only 0s for blocks not written since 'secure erase'", so i.e. some TLA-Agency could still recover data by using another firmware.

  22. Re:Simple solution on Study Finds 1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data · · Score: 2

    this is not true.

    on a raid5, you can have the disks arranged like:
    disk1: data, AS IS
    disk2: more data, AS IS ...
    diskN: disk1 XOR disk2 XOR ... XOR diskN-1

    diskN is quite useless to get the data, but the other disks contain the data the way it is.

  23. Re:Simple solution on Study Finds 1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data · · Score: 1

    i think you do not understand statistics. MTBF does not mean, your drive will fail at the MTBF date.

  24. Re:So they can own and track ALL your files? on Google Set To Meld Google Drive With Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    retaining ownership does not (necessarily) mean, that you're not providing a license for unlimited using to google.

  25. Re: So they can own and track ALL your files? on Google Set To Meld Google Drive With Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    no, what counts is what they are allowed to do, because then they can do so. For their reasons they should limit it to "only the access needed to provide the service to you"