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  1. What is this story about ? on Xybernaut Patents Collar Computer · · Score: 1, Informative

    Please help encourage this company to stop wasting taxpayer's money and encourage innovation instead of preventing it.

    This comes with a link to Xybernaut.
    Now, I still do not understand how this company is evil and wasting public money if the submitter cannot even qualify their product better than "vague".

    What is it ?
    A wearable computer which is being patented.
    We know that patents are evil but why is this one even more evil ?

  2. Re:If the EU so orders... on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are to kind of persons : the physical persons (you and me) and the moral persons (Microsoft, Apple and any other company).
    You cannot put a company in jail as there'll always remain a part of the executive staff which triggered the original decision which costed them a law suit, especially if the mentioned executive lives abroad...

  3. Re:The version will contain a poison pill on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, and some will then install Quicktime and iTunes for Windows and finally go for a shiny G5 iMac.

  4. Crippleware on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The term crippleware usually applies for software which has voluntarily been cut-off in order to force the buyers to upgrade for more functionalities.
    This is, of course, only if Microsoft actually intends to offer an upgrade scheme (they could just force the Windows Lite purchasers to acquire a full XP license at full cost)...
    Now, after this annoucement, it becomes obvious that Microsoft is entering a new era in which they will be forced to lighten their products under the hostile eyes of the trade police...
    What willfollow ?
    Well, they'll have to cut costs in order to remain competitive in this regard.
    I guess, something just broke in Microsoft and it's time for the new Norton-likes to come back and propose better add-ons than the ones that were forcibly integrated into Windows...

  5. Re:WLAN and Bluetooth ? on PDA Designed for the Great Outdoors · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not mandatory for an outdoor-ready device to be fall-proof, otherwise there'd be very few outdoor photographies made...

  6. WLAN and Bluetooth ? on PDA Designed for the Great Outdoors · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth and WiFi come as standard
    Have they improved their range *that much* ?

    Pretty impressive stuff otherwise but I am personally looking for a Tuzngsten C which has both the autonomy and the WLAN.

  7. Re:The quote is..... on Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? · · Score: 1

    The sanctions in Iraq were nobody's fault but Saddam's. He was told what he needed to do to end them and refused to do it.

    If the threat was obviously directed against his people, he was right to call it blackmail because it 's what it is called.

    Being the 1st military nation doesn't make the USA right.

  8. Re:another reason ... on Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam · · Score: 1

    the only reason I use them is because I can log in conveniently from Outlook Express
    Wait a minute...
    Is your problem hotmail related or Outlook related ?
    If you kept using Hotmail despite the spam and the low storage space, I then doubt you should change...

  9. Most secure XP yet ? on Microsoft To Sell Win XP Starter Edition In Russia · · Score: 3, Funny

    This release of Windows is aimed at markets in developing nations, and is known for not allowing more than three aplications to run at the same time and not being networking capable.

    So, with XP's kernel, Microsoft's spyware and a user's app, the user might not have enough resources to launch a virus !

    (BTW, with no network, one wonders where he'd get one from)

  10. Re:What is the point? on Planning Phase Complete For Indian Moon Mission · · Score: 1

    I guess the Moon itself only consists of the icing on the cake : India want to enter the space market and it sure will change many aspects of it once they (and they will) get to the Moon for such a low price.
    Who will still go to the NASA or the ESA to send a satellite, after this ?

  11. Ideal for Star Wars 50th edition on 1 Terabyte Optical Storage Disks · · Score: 2, Funny

    During the last discussion about Star Wars DVD set sombody mentioned that the original featured a 15000 line resolution, I guess, the final edition which will consist the "shoot before Greedo FPS" will barely occupy one of these discs...

  12. Insurance cost ? on Virgin Atlantic Licensing SpaceShipOne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How will be the insurance cost calculated ?
    I mean, there are stats which help defining the cost of a plane travel insurance but there ain't such stats concerning commercial flights...

  13. Re:What about... on MovieLink 2004's Top Film Download Service, So Far · · Score: 1

    Are the legally downloadable movies edited versions or are these the ones the director created (including any rated scenes) ?
    I heard that in the USA, if you rent a movie a little carelessly, you might end with an intensively cut down (a.k.a. family-aware) version...

  14. Re:Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1

    Thanks, this is the nicest thing one has ever told me about GNUArt.
    God bless you.

  15. Simple solution on Broken Links No More? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ErrorDocument 404 script.pl
    Where script.pl parse the wanted URL and ask an indexing engin to find the most relevant page associated with the query...

  16. Re:Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1

    I know, I once lived there...
    Go and ride on a Dam between the polder and the North Sea :)

  17. Re:Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1

    A physical way of hacking your perceptions by saturating your body sensors with the rawest possible oxygen.

  18. Credit card ? on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In most countries, credit card authentication was used to ensure one had reached the legal age...
    In which situations wasn't it enough, besides the goatse ?

  19. Re:Magnifique! on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1

    It took me 9 hour to get there and back :)

  20. Re:Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    What you saw were only 2MPixel shots.
    What I got was a 4pi steradian immersion as well as the ultimate oxygen fix :)

  21. Re:Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I personally ride my bike to work : 20km per day + fitness.
    Your brain needs oxygen to work a more efficient way.
    Your bloodstream carries oxygen to your brain.
    Your heart manage your bloodstream.
    Sport improve your heart pumping.
    Do the math.

    (BTW, exercising everyday turned me in some endorphin junkie but it still costs me less than when I was still smoking)

  22. Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is ratehr when I go hiking in the Swiss Mountains, I suddenly feel empowered...
    I guess they should not just disconnect these "users" but rather offer them to practise some intensive sport activities instead.

    Hiking in the mountains is a good candidate because it is also rewarding : you get to see some magnificent landscape when you reach the top.

  23. XP only ? on Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What do they mean ?
    No update for Win2000 which is still used by my 50000-employees company ?
    Or do they mean they will not update IE/Solaris and IE/OS[9X] ???

  24. Re:Almost... on Public Exploit For Windows JPEG Bug · · Score: 1

    I am an integrator for a huge Swiss company and I am currently facing trhe problem here where Sso only works on MSIE and not Firefox v~1 so how do you get Firefox to just acknowledge the need to connect to the AD Domain, if possible, without asking the user for credentials ?

  25. Re:teletext on Ceefax Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    So dso they mention the Acorn computers which have always had a teletext video mode ?
    France 2 (formerly known as antenne 2, 2nd French TV Channel) had purchased many of these computers to equip their mounting service.