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  1. Re:DOH! on Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online · · Score: 1

    You guys DO realize there's a drop-down with the choice to download 480p, 720p, 1080p, and iPhone/iPod (whatever that means), right?

  2. Re:Are yellows in Denver really short? on Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    ...then don't do that. What are you trying to say here?

  3. Re:The real goal on IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate · · Score: 1

    It's an obscure thing to search for, so good on Bing for helping you find it... but I'm impressed you found anything with that query.

    japanese farmers photos vegetables china "quality control" supermarket

    I had no idea what you were searching for with that, so I'm impressed either made any sense of it. You were searching for an article based on one attribute tangentially related to the topic, which comprised like two sentences. I wish I could see in aggregate what kinds of searches people make on Bing and Google, it certainly seems like they expect different kinds of queries. That said, I tried your query on Bing, and it didn't find your article until the third page.

    For what it's worth, japan food quality control farmer picture on Google gives your article as the third link on the first page. japanese produce packaging picture of farmer gives multiple results that indicate this is indeed fairly common.

  4. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    Do other browsers work differently?

    All you're telling it to do is open a file; it looks to the system to figure out what to open it with. Maybe the download bar just doesn't have as much information to be as intuitive as download boxes?

  5. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    Can't you just tell your system to always open PDF files with your viewer of choice, and next time you download a PDF, instead of opening it, on the download bar hit the dropdown and select "always open this type of file" or whatever it says? Works for other file types, at least.

  6. Re:Dumb argument on Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. There's no "percentage" required to convict, nor any such way to quantify that. And even as an approximation, 51% doesn't match what happens (at least, what's supposed to happen). The game isn't whether or not they "probably" did it, for which 51% would be the minimum (but not at all meaningful); it's that they did it "beyond a reasonable doubt," i.e., assuming reasonable circumstances and given the evidence, it should be very likely that they did it.

    51% is idiotic. It's not meaningfully different than just flipping a coin and getting rid of courts and judges and jurors. 51% means maybe they did it maybe they didn't, but most of all, we have no clue whether they did it or not.

  7. Re:Carriers don't have access? on Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information · · Score: 1

    This is actually an interesting question.

    My initial reaction was "that's like asking how your ISP can possibly deliver you a webpage over an encrypted connection if they can't decrypt the webpage themselves?" But I'm not so sure this is a good analogy... unless there's a certificate system, or something built into the cell standards, or key negotiations between phones for every SMS sent... How is this secured? Is it secured at all?

    Maybe I'm just wholly ignorant on the subject...

  8. Re:"Reduce the Intensity" on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1

    Acceleration would the (the rate of (the rate of (production))); if intensity is the rate of the production (what a stupid thing to call it, intensity), then what China claims is more significant.

    Which makes it extremely unlikely, so I'm guessing "intensity" is the acceleration and you misspoke?

  9. Re:Switching to Chrome on Linux? on Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security · · Score: 1

    He was a douche about it, but that doesn't mean he's wrong about Iron. I don't agree with his actions either, but that doesn't invalidate his point.

    Chromium is open source and distributing your version of the same software with a few changes is not a "rip-off", it's part of the freedom that the open source programmers enjoy.

    I think you and the guy who wrote that page are talking about fundamentally different things. SRware touts Iron as "the browser of the future," "based on the free Sourcecode 'Chromium' - without any problems at privacy and security." It's pretty clear they're overselling themselves, and being dishonest. Most of the things they claim make them special compared to Chrome, well, most of those things aren't in vanilla Chromium to begin with, but they don't acknowledge that. It's not even clear to me if all of the offenses of Chrome they list are relevant anymore.

    But after some consideration, what's lost in all this is that Chromium, as far as I can tell, is not very approachable from the Windows side of things. After some brief searching, I find instructions to build Chromium for Windows - not okay for most users - and a place to download what appear to roughly be nightlies - again, not okay for most users. The Chromium website is totally unhelpful. Googling for Chromium or 'Chromium for Windows' mostly gets you threads about people asking how to install Chromium for Windows because they don't understand the build instructions. Read through enough of them, and you'll find that there are releases posted to sites like Softpedia and Tucows, but these didn't appear in any initial searches. 'download chromium browser for windows' finally brings up something useful. This is terrible work by the Chromium folks. Meanwhile, I put 'iron' into Google, and second link is for the browser, and that page has a big 'Download' button.

    There's also the question of age. The link that the AC posted is talking about Chromium 4 and 5. Yes, the version numbers rise quickly with Chromium, but that still dates the link back what, a couple of years? Maybe Iron has extended itself since then. Maybe not, as the AC below claims they've stopped releasing source code, which is a red flag for an open source derivative that claims to be better for security and privacy.

  10. Re:Knew it on Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate · · Score: 2

    I used to say that. Then I got a smartphone.

    They're extremely useful in all kinds of situations; for example, I needed to buy an odd-sized battery recently, and couldn't find anything that matched the markings at the store. Pulled out the phone, Googled it quick, found out exactly what the lettering and numbering means, and could choose a battery. I don't game on mine, other than cards occasionally. And it functions better as a phone than any dumbphone I've had.

    Back when the first iPhones came out, I really didn't like the idea of an all-touchscreen phone, and while the phone was impressive, in many ways I didn't think it was good enough at anything to make it worth it. I ended up getting an original Droid, the slide-out keyboard helped ease me into smartphone land, and I've never looked back.

    In short - spend some time seriously using one, and your view might change.

  11. Re:Android Mkt Hits 10 Billion DLs, Spyware Domina on Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate · · Score: 1

    I guess for certain, atypical definitions of "spyware," and vague definitions of "dominates." I mean, you could define most free Android apps as spyware if you take the broad view that anything that calls home or displays targeted ads is "spyware." I personally have trouble buying that definition when using the app is strictly opt-in and you're told what the app can do when you opt in.

    What exactly do you mean and have you the evidence to support it? Sorry, my impression is that you're just trolling/flamebaiting here.

  12. Re:$100 of HW times how many copies? on Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the you're wasting the consumer's resources, not yours. In other words, profit! :)

  13. Re:Release dates?? on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes.

    The attack can be stopped using their Protected Mode. Versions that ship with the protected mode will not be addressed to specifically mitigate this attack until later, with Adobe recommending everyone turn on protected mode to protect them in the mean time.

    Whether or not that's a reasonable reaction is a whole different question.

  14. Re:Listed mitigation: Adobe Reader X Protected Mod on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Informative

    In my experience it can (or used to) break things when interacting with other programs.

    It broke my LaTeX editor. Couldn't compile a document and automatically have it open in Reader. After some fighting, I think I got it to open, but if you make some edits and recompile... it quickly errors out if you don't manually and completely exit out of Reader first. It's really annoying. Spent far too long reading up on how Reader is supposed to interact with other software and setting my editor to try different commands invoking Reader. No dice, and it looked like the documentation wasn't up to date for all the changes in X yet. But turn off protected mode, and it worked just fine.

    Granted, they might have fixed that in the mean time, I've not used it in a couple months, and don't even have Reader installed any more...

  15. Re:Not Thieves on Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the same as the little slips of paper-cotton blend and the hunks of worthless metal that represent their physical counterparts.

  16. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully Comodo's "Secure" DNS is more secure than the CA side of the business.

  17. Re:Contradiction? on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    If Firefox did die, it would also be hard to call it a failing of a free market anyway, as their entire business model is based around free handouts from a competitor.

  18. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    You make the mistake of assuming s/he wants something positive to come out of this discussion.

    When dealing with angry and/or irrational people.... don't.

  19. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 2

    More and more analogues for those Firefox extensions are appearing in Chrome/Chromium. Of course, they're not exactly equivalent; nor should they be expected to be, as the Firefox extensions have had much longer to progress on a more stable platform.

    But Chrome has become more mature, APIs to implement some of these things better are being worked on...

    And there's also the browser-agnostic approach, a la Privoxy.

  20. Re:Not so great on Twitter Buys Moxie Marlinspike's Crypto Startup · · Score: 1

    Please, explain how this is a moral issue, or how his actions are amoral. I'm genuinely curious to understand where you're coming from with that.

  21. Re:Remember Solyndra on China Probes US Renewable Energy Policy · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's a drastic oversimplification of the thing, from what I've read, so much so that it's hardly a fact. The loan was neither approved nor approved of during the Bush administration.

    Yes, the loan program that Solyndra was approved under was started during the Bush administration. Yes, Solyndra was selected as a possible loanee during the Bush administration. No, the loan was not approved during the Bush administration. The loan went up for review before Obama took office and was denied. (Note that that doesn't mean the Bush administration was necessarily opposed to the loan.) During the Obama administration it was revived and revised. It was pushed forward more quickly than some were comfortable with, with groundbreaking ceremonies being planned and scheduled while review of the loan was still pending. Communications show the worry that officials had that the groundbreaking would be leaked just before the OMB might recommend against the loan.

    I'm not trying to take a side either way here, just fill in some details. Maybe it will help prevent the "partisan pissing content" and flamewars you seem to want to provoke.

  22. Re:This actually makes sense on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 0

    Agh, posting to undo moderation, wrong post.

  23. Re:Future of education on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 1

    Haha, oops.

    We mean the same thing. I meant that I wouldn't want that person to just have a high school diploma or GED, that I would prefer a university as well.

    Too much implicit there. My bad.

  24. Re:free on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 2

    That, or McJobs will start requiring degrees.

  25. Re:Future of education on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 2

    Personally, I wouldn't want someone with a high school diploma or GED designing the buildings I live and work in.

    But with concern to many things... yes, a degree should not be a requirement, and I have no idea what these people thought they were going to do with their lives and their loan debt.