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  1. Re:Serious issues found with X on Windows 7 Can Create Rogue Wi-Fi Access Point · · Score: 1

    Doesn't anyone feel sad about this?

    IT is not something you do on the side or just start off without getting real training.

    IT is serious. If the sector does not 'grow up', business people will have justified nightmares about IT costing too much money and bringing not enough value.

    Shake the tree!

  2. Re:Microsoft is just isolating itself on Microsoft Locking Out Anti-Virus Makers? · · Score: 1

    Not allowing kernel-level calls is an attempt to make the OS more stable. If MS allows vendors to create possible blue screens, MS will get the bad rep, not the vendors. It's their good right to protect their name...

  3. Re:Two words: on P2P and TV · · Score: 1

    Viral ok, but marketing?
    What if the content wasn't as good? Then it wouldn't be viral anyway. So this viral marketing only works for products that sell themselves?

  4. Calibration on 13.1 Surround Sound Coming to a Home near you? · · Score: 1

    Why don't they instead come up with a decent calibration scheme? Most home setups are not ideal, so why not measure where the couch is with a mic?

  5. Re:Why run OS X on generic PCs, anyways? on First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs · · Score: 1
    "there's going to be zero measurable demand to defeat Apple's tying and install OS X on a generic PC"
    Maybe Apple will release the tying themselves. Selling OS-es is a push market. Think OEM...
  6. Re:Changed since 2000? on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or actually, just that it should not be another enter key... sorry

  7. Changed since 2000? on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    In 2000 we decided it should stay...

  8. Pirating? on Instant Concert CDs? · · Score: 1

    This is not really pirating if you ask me... I mean, you are even probably on the recording as a part of the audience AND you payed for it. As I understand it, the CD's would only be sold to the attending audience.

    Anyway, cool idea, must have

  9. Stick to the standards on Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not use the standards that are available. IEEE 802.11 uses frequency hopping to eliminate this problem. I thought most of the wireless ethernet cards used this protocol anyway. Oh, well, I don't care. We don't even have Starbucks, we have to make our own coffee.

  10. Palm emulator for Zaurus? on MSNBC Reviews the Sharp Zaurus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would buy a Zaurus immediately if I could run PalmOS programs on it, because all my friends run PalmOS. Since it runs Linux, I recon it shouldn't be too hard to program a Palm emulator, should it?

  11. G's -> risk -> adrenaline -> love it! on Coasters to Face G-Force Limits? · · Score: 1

    What is this? Maybe a warning here and there would be a good thing, but personally I would then only ride the coasters with a serious death warning. I want the thrill, I want to check how far I can take it. For me, that's the sport in coasters. Don't understand me wrong, it doesn't all have to be lethal, but risk pumps adrenaline and I just love that feeling.
    But hey, who am I to say anything. I don't even live in the USA, I'm not even a US citizen.

    Yeah to self-induced drugs!

  12. Re:Others working on this. on Searchable Audio/Video Technology · · Score: 1

    I saw an interesting demo on a similar subject at Tsinghua university and as I remember correctly, they were working together with PacketVideo. According to a Wired article a few months ago, PacketVideo is working on mobile MPEG, but the research that was being done, is easily applied to media searching technology. For example, they were able to search for similar kinds of movements, like the scores in a basketball game. And also for general camera movements, like pan and zoom actions.

    Very interesting!

  13. Re:Secret?? on Barnes & Noble Challenges Amazon 1-Click Patent (UPDATED) · · Score: 1

    The purpose of a patent is making things public....and protecting the inventor