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  1. Windows Phone tablets branding breakdown on Dell Kills Streak 7, Bails On Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    They should be hoping so, as Windows Phone tablets is a total branding breakdown that's just out the door for a brand name that's a refresh of a brand name that's a refresh of a brand name.

  2. Re:MSFT? on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    You talk too much dude, cut down on the caffeine.

  3. MSFT? on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    Why do you insist on calling them MSFT? That's what their Nasdaq symbols is. The company's called Microsoft.

  4. Re:Banninate it. on UAE Police Claim BlackBerry Outage Made Roads Safer · · Score: 1

    You think the _US_ should be the one to be convincing _others_ of this? In the UK it's already illegal, it's the _US_ that needs to learn this from other countries.

  5. Re:This is slashdot? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    I love the whitespace, makes it really easy on the eye.

  6. Cops rubbing hands in glee after student protests on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    I bet the cops loved the fact they could use all the CCTV recognition from the recent student protests against cuts and austerity measures to boost their CCTV statistics.

  7. Debian did this with 4.0 'Etch' on Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream · · Score: 1

    This is what Debian did with 'Etch'n'Half', in the 4.0 'Etch' stable distribution, going from 2.6.18 to 2.6.24, which was alarming because, in their words:

            * "Debian does not guarantee that all hardware that is supported by the default etch 2.6.18 kernel is also supported by the 2.6.24 kernel, nor that all software included in etch will work correctly with the newer kernel.
            * Migrating from the 2.6.18 etch kernel to the 2.6.24 "etch-and-a-half" kernel will work in many cases, but is not guaranteed to succeed. Upgrades from both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 kernels to the kernel provided by the next stable release ("lenny") will be supported.
            * Not all features of the etch 2.6.18 kernel are available in the 2.6.24 images, this includes the Xen and linux virtual server flavors.
            * Out-of-tree kernel module source packages that were provided in etch are not guaranteed to function properly with the 2.6.24 kernel.
            * The current "etch-and-a-half" installation images based on Debian Installer Lenny RC1 use a newer kernel (2.6.26) than the version that was included in the "etch-and-a-half" release and is installed for the target system (2.6.24). In some cases this can mean that hardware which is supported during the installation does not work after the reboot into the installed system because support for it was added after the 2.6.24 version."
    http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf

    Pete Boyd

  8. An evolution not a revolution on UK Police Plan To Use Military-Style Spy Drones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    UK Police already have something similar to this in that they've had aeroplanes constantly circling over various cities for the past few years. For example: http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/asu.htm and http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/226/226142_spyplane_warning_over_eid_celebrations.html

  9. Robert M. Pirsig's advice on Music While Programming? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance said very clearly that seeing mechanics work with music in the background was the sound of a poor quality workshop. I've thought about this with regard to programming and I sway between needing total silence and needing music.

    Pete Boyd

  10. Britan already has this on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 1

    We already have this in Manchester, England:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/35164707@N07/3516169162/

    As do many British cities.

  11. Re:Let me get this straight... on Desktop As a Cellphone Extension? · · Score: 1

    And fry your balls?

  12. Re:Hyperbole on 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered · · Score: 1

    I was saying that the 'tombs' aren't there any more, so they haven't _found_ tombs. They've found where tombs used to be.

    I agree that I was wrong to read National Geographic's description as there being existing underground tombs.
    But you're wrong to say the bodies are underground. Though you'd be right to say the bodies are under some ground, but that's not the meaning of the word 'underground' in English. The barrows are made of stone and in this case wood and the bodies placed within them, where there are passageways and inlets, thus creating a tomb.
    Such remains still exist that you can crawl around inside. They're very much above ground.

    By saying "THESE ARE...!", you're repeating what I said. I was saying just that, that this article is about Neolithic barrows. And only the vague remains of them at that. And that there are plenty of fully standing remains already around there. (I've explored many of them, all over Britain)

    Pete Boyd

  13. Hyperbole on 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is hyperbole from National Geographic. Calling the structures 'tombs' in the title implies it's an underground complex, which it wasn't. This is the remains of Neolithic barrows, which the countryside around Stonehenge is completely covered in. These barrows that have just been discovered are only the remains too, where-as there are innumerable surviving barrows all over that area of countryside, and in many many places all over Britain.

    Pete Boyd

  14. Re:One proposal on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1

    You know more about computer hardware than who? than me? how can you say that, you know so little about me. I've been tinkering with computers since 1978; I run my own IT support company dealing with hardware and software at all levels for servers, firewalls and workstations. We have a difference of opinion is all, and you're acting like a teenager. And you _boast_ about running _Windows_? That says a lot, even if you can't see it.

    You should read up on the advantages of a 'legacy free' system. PS/2 isn't safely hot-pluggable, so I wouldn't recommend it in the hands of the end users I support, having seen them 'borrow' the keyboard off the server too many times.

    Even if I had a computer that had PS/2 ports, I'd still choose the BIOS option for 'legacy free' so that a whole host of old tech was ignored by the OS.

  15. Re:One proposal on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1

    Well, for the computer systems we provide our clients, we standardised on USB keyboards and mice many years ago as USB ismuch more friendly for people than PS/2.
    And a couple of years ago we standardised on 'legacy free' computers (that means they have no PS/2).
    Not even our firewalls have PS/2 keyboards. You, sir, must be living in the past.

  16. Re:ClamWin on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you'll notice "an incredible speed boost" because it's not actually running most of the time, it doesn't check every file that moves, which is what "Symantec and McAfee" and every other anti-virus program for Windows does and needs to do.

  17. Re:One proposal on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you disable USB ports, how do you attach a keyboard and mouse!?

  18. Re:duh, don't answer the question! on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of a web form where you're asked whether or not you want to answer a secret question, to which I choose 'no'.

    Pete Boyd

  19. duh, don't answer the question! on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    I don't get this. I don't fill out secret question answers if I don't have to, prefering to just have the regular password, but if I do fill them out, for-gods-sake my answer wouldn't be the answer to the actual question, it would be something random like the password!

    Answering the actual question is obviously flawed security.

    Pete Boyd

  20. Who still uses it? on R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 · · Score: 1

    "Over the years"...yeah? not over all twenty eight of them, surely! When did you last use debug? I probably haven't used it since 1989 for hacking command names in command.com in MS-DOS 3.3.

  21. Re:illegal file-sharing? on EU Rejects Law To Cut Pirates Off From Their ISP · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As I understand it in the UK, though I could be wrong, breaching criminal law is called illegal, where as breaching civil law is called unlawful.

  22. Re:Compression on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    It's common for the default setting to be 'high', but then there be a higher quality (less JPEG compression?) option in the in-camera menu called something like 'high (fine)' that will likely double the file size.

    Pete Boyd

  23. Re:New screen resolution a few days before release on Agora Android Phone Delayed By Glitches · · Score: 1

    I meant that Lightning was unusable, Lightning in Thunderbird.

  24. Re:New screen resolution a few days before release on Agora Android Phone Delayed By Glitches · · Score: 1

    Heck, people run Linux/Gnome on EEEPC 700s!

    Yeah but not everything works. Thunderbird & Lightning is unusable.

    Pete Boyd

  25. people are used to buying things on Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    If you were recommended OpenOfffice without a long-winded explanation of its free-ness and then went away and searched on 'buy openoffice' you might get what you're looking for.
    Google's response to this query is pretty compelling to not buy OpenOffice but download it, but if you were determined you wanted to buy it you might get past that. This is especially likely given that spammers bombard people with offers of illegal copies of Microsoft Office at discounted prices, that people might have trained themselves to ignore, the opposite might be true if searching to buy OpenOffice and they ignore the results which offer it as a free download.

    Pete Boyd