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  1. Re:Demand for the video phone? on Skype 2.0 Adds Video · · Score: 1

    Most people? Noone I know in Japan has a videophone (except for the occasional cellphone, but none of them ever use it for a videophone, just for shooting videos). They have been around since the late eighties though, I remember going into an NTT office in 1988 and seeing one on every desk.

  2. Re:Old technology, how about something newer? on Next Generation of MP3 Glasses · · Score: 1
    I figured I'd snag a bluetooth mouse.

    I saw a slew of mice touting "2.4ghz" RF .... considering that I'm already having interference problems with my 2.4ghz WiFi router 2.4ghz phone, 2.4 ghz game controllers, etc... why would I want a 2.4ghz mouse?

    So whats this new non-2.4GHz bluetooth of which you speak?

  3. Re:So.. kill X-Windows through obsolesence? on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1
    And I'm sorry that I still find it a complicated hassle trying to edit multiple Linux .rc files by hand - in 2005. You haven't had to do that for over 10 years on Windows. I don't miss not playing the game of "guess which copy of xf86config the system is actually using".

    I'd much rather use Emacs to edit my config files than regedit. And I'd much rather the rest of my system kept working if some program decided to crash while writing its config file. And why do you have multiple copies of xf86config anyway? You should have one copy of XF86Config with symlinks pointing to it from the other locations that older pre-LSB programs might expect to find it.

  4. Re:He hits the nail on the head on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1
    If it bothers you that much, send in patches.

    No need. In the current CVS version of Emacs, it's a case of going to the Options menu and selecting C-x/C-c/Cv Cut and Paste (CUA). In released versions, Kim Storm's CUA mode is a simple add-on.

  5. Re:Pop ups. on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1
    b. I run ads on my own sites from there, so I really can't ban the site.

    Then probably the best way of dealing with these annoyances is to switch to a different advertising host, and tell them why you don't want to use them any more.

  6. Re:Pop ups. on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a sneaky Javascipt trick (which I won't go into in case it gives someone else ideas), and seems to be coming only from a.tribalfusion.com for me, so blackhole that in your /etc/hosts file and the annoying popups and pop-unders will disappear completely.

  7. Yawn on ICANN Considers Single Letter Domains · · Score: 1

    How Web 2.0 of ICANN. Now we can have URLs like d.e.l.i.c.i.o.us, m.a.g.n.o.l.ia, and grandfather of all Web 2.0 tossers, g.o.a.t.s.e.cx

  8. Re:Talliwhacker Tuesday! on Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist · · Score: 5, Funny
    Alas, I cannot participate, as I suffer from severe impotency.

    Please contact me urgently about a large number of emails intended for you that have ended up in my inbox.

  9. Re:Regardless of which..... on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 5, Informative
    The spec only says "it must be in ASCII". Fine. I feed it UTF

    In both cases you did something wrong, and the browsers either did something to try and salvage things, or followed the spec and gave you garbage. If anything, I'd expect non-ASCII text in headers to be encoded as per RFC-2047, but I doubt any browsers implement that.

    What's not explicitly forbidden is allowed, right?

    Non-ASCII text in headers is explicitly forbidden.

  10. Re:Shooting?? I thought the UK had strict gun cont on CCTV Network Tracks Getaway Car · · Score: 4, Insightful
    i suspect that there's a very small portion of the us population which accounts for an overwhelming majority of the gun related incidents. factoring that portion out, the us and uk end up being on much more even ground.

    Ummm, yeah. By eliminating data you don't like, you can make statistics say whatever you like. Congratulations.

  11. Re:Not yet it hasn't on BART Outfitted With Wireless · · Score: 1

    Not in London (yet), though the tunnels are all wired for the drivers radios, so its just a matter of LUL letting the phone companies put their carriers on the same wire (ie it will never happen for "safety" reasons, and attempts to make it happen will be the cause of at least half a dozen strikes over the next few years.)

  12. Re:What if... on Requiem for Usenet · · Score: 1
    Right, but I'm not from New York, and I know all the districts in Manhattan, from SoHo to Tribeca to Harlem.

    You must be fun at parties.

  13. Re:There's probably no mention of subsidizing on Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 · · Score: 1

    Slightly more than US$50, but in the ballpark. Of course, this one will not work with whatever system the US is switching to, but it does show that the price is realistic.

  14. Re:I don't get it on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that IGMP, the 224/4 IPv4 address range and RFCs 1112 and 2588 do not exist?

  15. Re:I don't get it on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    IPv4 supports multicasting too, its just blocked by too many routers to be useful.

  16. Re:Don't dress too nicely on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    It helps if you take a long lunch, turn up late or leave early as well. Then casually bring up that annual salary review you haven't had for two and a half years as your boss walks past the watercooler.

  17. Re:Comments on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps most important is to comment what 456 means (or better - use a named constant). It looks like some magic number, why was it chosen?

  18. Re:Summary is a wee bit off.... on RetroCoder Threatens Security Vendors · · Score: 3, Insightful
    In order to install the software you have to make a copy of it (either copy from the cd to hard drive, or copy from internet page to hard drive) but before you can copy you need a copyright license. What gives you that license if not the EULA?

    The doctine of fair use. If, in order to use a product which you've purchased you need to make a temporary or permanent copy of it, then that use must by definition be fair.

  19. Re:Complaining about the options on Blog Software Smackdown · · Score: 1

    Roller works well with PostgreSQL, and includes scripts for initializing the databases on MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQLDB. It is a Java web app, so once the database is initialized, any database with decent JDBC drivers should work equally well. IIRC from the mailing lists, there are even some users using Oracle and MS SQL Server.

  20. Re:Incoming data on Why Microsoft and Google are Cleaning Up With AJAX · · Score: 1

    Applets can call Javascript within the browser using netscape.javascript.JSObject (don't be fooled by the name, the class is included in MS JVM and Sun plugins as well). Javascript can call back in to the applet if you include the MAYSCRIPT attribute in the applet tag.

  21. Re:Why Java doesn't work on Write Portable Code · · Score: 1

    Which platforms is Java not cross-platform enough to run rich GUI clients on? I'm interested because my company makes a rich GUI client based on Java, and we have yet to find a sensible workstation or PDA platform it does not work on.

  22. Re:One Guys Take on How MS Kicks Ass on Leaked Memo Gives Microsoft New Direction? · · Score: 1

    It may be difficult to undercut free, but search engines aren't free, they're supported by advertising revenue. If Microsoft drives down the rates for online advertising, and they certainly have the online "real estate" to do that, then they could easily drive some players out of business.

  23. Re:interesting... on Pirates Thwarted by Sonic Weapon · · Score: 1
    Pirates are a major concern from the horn of Africa to SE Asia.

    More like South America to SE Asia via Africa.

  24. Re:Eclipse Is The Most Import Software Product on Business Objects to Join Eclipse Foundation · · Score: 1

    Why on earth are the defaults set to such an unusable amount? If they have their own executable, surely they can ensure that the VM is started with sufficient heap size.

  25. Re:Area 51 on Mars too? on Mars Polar Lander Lost Again · · Score: 0

    Damn! I hate it when a freudien slip ruins an otherwise perfectly serious comment.