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  1. Re:Does it matter? on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    Better yet, the minimal install. CLI-only comes with the desktop kernel instead of the server one.

  2. Re:I *Hate* The Elder Scrolls on The Elder Scrolls Return With Skyrim · · Score: 1

    +1 Interesting if I could.

    I agree about New Vegas, but the brown eventually wore me down. Cavemen had paints, why hasn't anyone in this massive city mixed up a spot of colour?

  3. Re:It was part of his job on Tech Site Sues Ex-Employee, Claiming Rights To His Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    used company's name as part of his handle and it definitely was something directly linked to Phonedog

    But when he left, he changed the handle's name. So why should they still have a claim to it? Why can't he just create a brand new handle called @PhoneDog_Noah and give _that_ to them?

    Because that new account will have 0 followers and 0 exposure, and no links to the company (except for PhoneDog in the name). The account he used to promote the stories was (presumably) followed by people interested in the stories. It's the followers the company is interested in getting.

    This seems to me to be a pretty legitimate case (but IANAL, nor have I RTFA). Noah's last tweet when he left PhoneDog should have been along the lines of "I'm no longer employed by PhoneDog, but my new account is @noahkravits. Expect more insightful tech stories to be posted on there.".

  4. Re:I *Hate* The Elder Scrolls on The Elder Scrolls Return With Skyrim · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. You hate The Elder Scrolls, but like it's formula, and played through Fallout 3, which is "The Elder Scrolls with guns", twice.

    Is this a masochism thing?

  5. Re:Jailbreak == Piracy on iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Really troll much? No it's about being able to do with my phone what I want not what SJ wants including saving and moving files, FTP /SSH access, access to other video players (formats)... etc etc.

    Prompt is a pretty good SSH client, available on the App Store. Unless of course you're talking about running an SSH server on your phone. To what practical end? So you can SMS someone through CLI?

    I don't see a need for an FTP client on my iPhone, but a quick google brings up http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ftp-on-the-go/id286479936?mt=8. Are you actively using your iPhone as an FTP server? Is that a workaround for using it as file storage or what? If you need to FTP in to transfer files, why not host an FTP server at home and just login to that instead?

    AirVideoServer will transcode and stream pretty much every video format to the iPhone, if it's needed. Are you having trouble ripping your DVDs/BluRay's to a video format iTunes/iPhone can play?

  6. Re:Subscribers on Google Reader's Social Features Merging With Google+ · · Score: 1

    Presumably you want anyone to have access to your RSS feed, so surely just using "Public" would meet the requirement. All people have to do is add you to their circles.

  7. Re:I don't care who just died on Australian Court Blocks Sales of Samsung Galaxy Tablet · · Score: 1

    All I hear from fanboys/girls is "omg why won't it work".

    Android fanboys/fangirls? Doesn't sound like fanboy talk.

    My mate's constantly having to close applications when he's done with them on his Galaxy S (stock, not modded) because leaving them running just kills the responsiveness on his phone. Doesn't matter what app it is.

    iOS resource management is miles ahead of Android's. And that translates to "it just works".

  8. Re:GNUSTEP on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    Why would defaulting to zsh be a drawback?

    Which shell do you normally use?

  9. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    Huh, never occured to me that you'd have those problems with Unity and a touch screen. +1

    So much for the Unity interface being for tablets.

  10. Re:umm... on iOS 5 Update Available · · Score: 1

    No, according to those stats, more people bought Android than iPhone. Personal preference wasn't measured.

  11. Re:It's Lonely Here on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    I assumed the Darinbob was talking more about calendar invites - like in Google Calendar.

    I imagine Google sees Calendar as already covering the "events" thing; I mean it's not difficult to set up a calendar that you and all your friends have admin access to, or just use Calendar to set up an event in your own calendar and email out invites to whoever you want if it's meant to be private. It lets you let invitees invite others too if you want.

    Nicer G+ integration with it would be good (but I guess the top bar will take you to the Calendar if you need it). Maybe an option to post event invites to your circles (and thereby make them "public")?

  12. Re:Not dubious at all on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    They are NOT police officers, though an obscene number of them are power-crazed wannabe-jackboots who THINK they have authority.

    The security guard STOLE the camera. Period.

    Yet from the summary:

    He also said that a police officer claimed, 'he was within in his rights to confiscate the mobile phone on which the photos were taken.

    I haven't RTFA, but the summary seems to indicate the phone wasn't taken, and the threat was made by the police, not the security guard.

  13. Re:That really depends on your client. on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    You could just Archive mail too. You won't be able to look for it via the Old label but search will work as normal.

    And yes, Outlook's search is horrendous.

  14. Re:Since when do PC makers care on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    So I guess thats a Windows CD they shipped you? Oh wait.. they don't.. they ship you a "recovery partition", and on that partition is shovelware...

    The evidence seems to contradict your claims.

    Actually, I don't ever recall being stopped from removing the shovelware post-install. I think the evidence only shows that they want to ship the shovelware with their new PCs, not that they want users to use it.

    I'm pretty sure their contracts with McAfee et al. are only for distribution, not usage.

  15. Re:Oh, this ought to be awful on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    I already do this in Firefox (and you can too!). Search keywords have been in since forever and are managed through the search engine management part of the UI. Once you've got the ones you need set up you can just remove the separate search bar from the UI.

  16. Re:Actually, unlimited systems "you own or control on Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion, Updates Air · · Score: 1

    I run SMAC on my Mac (hah!) using Wineskin. I'm running the GOG.com version.

    The only issue I have is with mouse support in the newer engines - try 1.3.12 or older to get around it.

  17. Re:I enjoyed it on Ars Technica Review Slams Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Games CAN be art, but they don't HAVE to be. They just need to be fun.

  18. Re:Article subjected to same testing as citi on How Citigroup Hackers Easily Gained Access · · Score: 1

    This would be the Data Breach Investigations Report.

    How is that a rise?

    Basic economics would dictate that with supply being signicantly lower in 2010 than in 2008 (less data available on the black market), the demand for said data has gone up.

  19. Re:Polish on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 1

    What I'd do for a mod point... Unity's shift towards searching for applications rather than navigating menus for them is it's biggest draw for me.

    I work a similar way in OSX, except it's the SUPER + Spacebar keys to bring up Spotlight.

  20. Re:False arrest story or Acquittal story next? on Three Arrested For Sony/Egypt Hacks · · Score: 1

    Yes, I too think this one suspect and his accomplice... no, two guys and their-- three men will be promptly released. Wait, I'm going to come in again.

  21. Re:So What?? on Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space · · Score: 2

    It doesn't have to be a race. We can put it off for a couple hundred years, maybe tool around here on Earth a while longer.

    But then when we decide we want to go up and the Chinese say "no I don't think so" while pointing their space lasers at us, it might be a bit hard to get there.

    Kennedy said it best at Rice - "Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. ... There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again."

    If we're to have a space overlord, I'd rather it be of the United States/Europe/Japan variety than the China variety.

  22. Re:I know you're just being smug on Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space · · Score: 1

    I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm pretty sure that while current rockets were based on Nazi rockets, they're not even comparable anymore. Original research based upon older research was done to come where we are today.

    It'd be a bit like saying all antibiotics should be stamped with the Scottish flag.

    I don't recall any solid rocket space launches in Chinese mythology/ancient history either. </smug>

  23. Re:Of all places.... on European Pirates Arrested in Massive Police Operation · · Score: 1

    Those who infringe on copyright (or what we call Intellectual Property these days) have been called pirates since the 1700's. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pirate

  24. Re:One-time pads on Court Rules Passwords+Secret Questions=Secure eBanking · · Score: 1

    You missed out where he says the code is for that specific transaction and not for any other transactions.

  25. Re:I sort of agree on Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms · · Score: 1

    For those into Games Workshop's universes, the Black Library's ebooks are DRM-free ePub format. The only restriction is the amount of times you can download them.