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  1. Re:duh on US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    A lot of set-top boxes and ISP modems/routers actually re-download the entire firmware and re-flash themselves at each boot. This is to A) Keep them updated B) Make the "please reboot your modem" statement actually useful C) prevent people from "modding" them for what-ever purposes.

  2. Re:Try to get the license changed to GPL on Ask Slashdot: Spreading the Word About At-Risk Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    Just use 2 licenses. It's called dual-licensing and is done all the time (QT does a similar thing). The only time you run into issues is with code others have submitted to the project, since those authors technically own those patches, you need to make sure they release it under both licenses as well.

  3. Re:Just a matter of price... on BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012 · · Score: 1

    Slashdot needs a "-1 I hate you" mod. We pay almost the same for 7/0.5Mbit. Oh, and a 200GB limit that charges $2.00/GB overages.

  4. Re:So don't cover it with tape on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, take the picture with your (or friend's) kid in the driver's seat.

  5. Re:This is really about revenue generation on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    If that's the case, everyone should just create new PSN account for every game they buy. Then when you sell the game, include the username/password of the account. Maybe Sony will smarten up when their servers suddenly have 10X the PSN accounts but no extra sales/consoles to account for it.

  6. Re:This is really about revenue generation on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    I regularly do LAN parties where 1 person will bring a PS3 and 3 or 4 will bring games. This will require that everyone that has a game at home will need to bring their own PS3 with them as well. This fucks up a lot more than re-selling of games.

  7. Re:Welcome to Canada? on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    The queen has VERY little power at all in Canada. It's a "formality" more than anything.

  8. Re:Virtualization on Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:I find it irritating that sites aren't universa on Ask Slashdot: Websites Friendly To eReader Browsers? · · Score: 1

    Let me know when I can delete the hidden cookies it sets, access browser keyboard shortcuts without having to click outside the video (try hitting ctrl+tab after clicking inside a youtube video, i DARE you!) or keep using other flash sites when ONE of them decides it no longer enjoys life.

  10. Re:WTF??! on Nokia Preps Linux OS For Low-End Smartphones · · Score: 1

    There's more to linux and microsoft than desktops. Microsoft has been desperately trying to get a proper hold on the server market for over a decade.

  11. Re:Scam Alert! on Airline Offering Plane Crash Survival Course to Frequent Flyers · · Score: 2

    That alone would make it worth paying for!

  12. Re:How is this different than Google News? on Canadian Court Finds Website Scraping Infringes Copyright · · Score: 1

    Google news add functionality by allowing you to search through articles, it then LINKS to every article it "scraped". Google news is closer to a search engine than a scraper.

  13. Re:Virtualization on Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere? · · Score: 1

    And with ram costing about $5/GB, that's not a huge issue anymore.

  14. Re:file type on ODF 1.2 Is Approved · · Score: 1

    Those "rebels" unfortunately make up about 20-40% of MSOffice users now.

  15. Re:I find it irritating that sites aren't universa on Ask Slashdot: Websites Friendly To eReader Browsers? · · Score: 2

    Thanks apple for actually doing something DECENT for once. Right, let's just keep wasting CPU cycles, preventing keyboard shortcuts from working, banish users that require e-readers and high-contrast browsers due to disabilities and put the entire internet in the hands of ONE company (Adobe). Why don't you learn to use the standards that have been and are currently developed and refined by multiple industry leading organizations (W3C, etc) and do your fucking job PROPERLY.

  16. Re:SbO: lame on Security By Obscurity — a New Theory · · Score: 1

    =Anything server-side is never truly "open" in the sense that you can't truly know that it has your open software.

    It is if YOU put the software there.

  17. Re:non-sequitor on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    Flying cars will never happen until either
    A) The average person becomes competent enough to drive one safely. Currently LAND vehicles are too much for most people...
    B) We develop AI advanced enough to make up for A)

  18. Re:WTF??! on Nokia Preps Linux OS For Low-End Smartphones · · Score: 2

    So they are finally embracing linux. I wonder when they'll get around to steps 2 and 3.

  19. Re:Virus scanner flags something that is not a vir on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Microsoft puts most updates out once a week. Most users that actually update their software and run A/V tests do it at least once a week, so it only needs to be "wrong" for that one week.

  20. Re:Microsoft to Google... on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Only every parent, aunt, uncle, grand-parent and 2nd cousin of anyone that knows anything about security. How did you THINK firefox's and chrome's market share went up so fast? Sadly, those geeks weren't there to notice that Chrome just disappeared.

  21. Re:Very nice on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    With a little more work, this thing could probably enter a house, go up a flight of stairs and deliver life-saving medical supplies to soldiers that are pinned down. It can also (as shown in this and previous videos) climb over large logs, jump over stuff (or the lack of stuff such as a crevasse) and handle very rough terrain such as a pile of broken cinder blocks.

  22. Re:non-sequitor on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how much military-funding-created stuff is now available to the public? Who do you think paid for the development of GPS, Jeeps, jet engines, the INTERNET? The way a lot of high-tech stuff is built is that the military pays for it, has exclusive access to it for a while (5-10 years for instance), then makes it available to the public. The military is also one HELL of a QA department!

  23. Re:Opera? on Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech · · Score: 1

    Nice trolling. Trying to up your youtube view counter there?

  24. Re:what about business? who may not want windows 8 on Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Really? Because right now Microsoft is trying VERY hard to get people OFF Windows XP.

  25. Re:Only affects OEM stuff? on Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Yet...