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  1. Re:User-transparent on Asus Promises 12-Hour Battery Life In New High-End Laptop · · Score: 1

    Its not meant for us ;) Think of the typical person who knows NOTHING about computers or the differences between the GeForce and Intel graphics... they're not going to make the best choice as to which card should be active. On the other hand as the computer knows what its trying to do it can.

  2. Build an idiot proof device... on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    and they'll just build a better class of idiot.

    Not that the journalist is an idiot but its the same principle. Make something indestructible and they'll just come up with a new way of destroying it.

  3. Shouldn't matter about the domain portion on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    It's the user part I'd pay more attention to than the domain...

    I tend to use two; one uses my usual online handle@googlemail.com the other is firstname.surname@.com - If I'm doing something professional I'll use my 'proper' address not for the domain part but as it just looks better having an email from a real name rather than a nickname.

  4. Re:Intel and Microsoft's Greatest Fear on $199 Freescale Tablet Design Runs Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    Especially as for a long time MS didn't have a reliable tcp/ip stack - you had to use third party stacks.

    Also recall a certain Mr Gates knocking the internet and basically saying it will never take off ;) Kind of like his 640k is enough for anyone comment - proof that even successful people frequently place their foot in their mouths.

  5. Re:Robin's Hood is back on France Considers 'Pirate Tax' For Online Ads · · Score: 1

    The death of creative arts has little to do with piracy on the whole and ALOT to do with shows like X-Factor et al and the forumlaic crap that passes itself off as music these days.

  6. Re:Massive overreatctions on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 2, Funny

    Currently doing a few hundred rpm in his grave, just need to hook him up to a generator and our electric problem is solved :)

  7. Re:And more reliable than the LHC! on Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor · · Score: 1

    No... but if you had said Meccano we might have believed you.

  8. Re:$750 million for 200 MW? on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 1

    Just stick giant fans in the roof of the Senate/Congress... or as I'm UK based and our lot are just as bad above the chambers in the House of Commons/Lords. Enough hot air generated in these great institutions to power several large cities.

    (Either that or to cut down on global warming and waste gas emissions we should just shoot the lot)

  9. Re:WTF on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    I'm lucky enough to avoid our corporate directors - I just hide in my lab playing with the routers - occasionally to tell managers that no I can not make a VHF radio offer Gigabit ethernet like performance - least not without rewriting some laws of physics.

  10. WTF on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    My company has spent the last year developing a framework for creating games on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter.

    Isn't twitter limited to around 140 characters? If so what games can you play? TLA-Scrabble?

  11. Re:Does he think comments are pseudocode? on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    Depends, if you are using doxygen style comments and change the function header then the comment changes...

  12. Re:In related news... on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Rocket Propelled Grenades aren't too effective vs people... make alot of mess

    Now a good sized boxset of DnD or WoW collectors edition carefully aimed will take the shoplifter out without too much collateral damage so assume you mean the later use of RPG ;)

  13. Re:Already Done on Religion in Video Games · · Score: 1

    Given the current state of society it is quite possible that the rapture came and went without having any noticable effect.

  14. Re:Christmas Shopping now? Um... No. on BlackBerry Outages Across North America · · Score: 1

    Or a BB engineer who gets a nice load of cash for being on call and an even nicer load of cash if they have to do anything... :)

  15. Re:It is obvious she is biased on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    Err...

    Nope. Blowing up lost property is one thing... and usually involves more than 3 bullet holes. If the laptop had been a supicious device they'd have taken means to safely detonate it not just randomly shoot holes in it which could have unknown effects if it had, infact, been a bomb.

    Any bomb squad who operated on the principle, oh I don't like the look of that, lets shoot it abit and see what happens is likely to either a) need new members pretty regularly, or b) several large bags of ammo.

    (I know the remote robots used the UK have shotguns but they're more regularly used for gaining access to cars so the robot can stick its camera in better, and for destroying objects a shotgun works alot better than bullets).

  16. Re:This is such an easy answer. on Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? · · Score: 1

    That assumes you believe in that particular diety and that particular religious book.

    Plenty of other dieties out there lay claim to being responsible for the world. Which kind of makes it awkward to sue them for the mess its in... and for the obvious and fundamental design flaws of humans.

  17. Re:Google: turning shit into gold on How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't... least not to all of us...

    I'll stick with my current grouping of my local dns cache, my isp and opendns.

    Though the 8.8.8.8 address will be handy if I need a dns somewhere and I don't know the 'correct' one to pick for a given location - least it will let me get online to find the correct info I need ;)

  18. Re:hm... linux next? on Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I would also think, to be honest, Checkpoint, Cisco et al probably have some very good examples of prior art...

  19. hm... linux next? on Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Wonder how this could potentially impact on iptables and its state matching/helpers... a broad reading could infer that ipt is also in breach.

  20. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Arrington's CrunchPad Dies · · Score: 1

    and the FBI/CIA/NSA/MI-5/MI-6/KGB/FSB/

  21. Re:I'm surprised I'm the first to ask.... on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    No it isn't.

    The police asked him to try to help stop the situation degenerating even further - he refused and got arrested.

    And can't help wondering how many other people are in jail for refusing to sing like a bird ;)

  22. Re:This makes sense on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 1

    Not quite everyone... I didn't for one.

    Though in a console environment typing sudo (assuming your in the sudoers file) is easier than a popup in a gui...

    And vista does have one issue: run command as a normal user and there is no equiv to sudo ipconfig /flushdns - you need to know you are going to run admin commands before you open the command prompt and run it as an admin user. Which is one thing I don't like about it...

  23. Re:This makes sense on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, its a fail. Any OS vendor / Linux distro which thinks this is a good idea needs whacking hard with a two-by-four till they get the message that this a fail whoever does it.

  24. Re:The EU system won't get used on "Pathfinders" Take Shape For Galileo, Europe's GPS · · Score: 1

    Doubt civi airliners use the L2 gps as the US are very sensitive about who gets to use SAAS modules let alone who gets hold of the keys...

    (SAAS = Selective availability / Anti-Spoofing, the bit for the L2 PY code signal)

  25. Re:The EU system won't get used on "Pathfinders" Take Shape For Galileo, Europe's GPS · · Score: 1

    Think I must have hit the wrong key as I did put a line about it not being subject to SA... Ok, SA is currently at 0 but the capability to degrade the L1 / CA position is still there...