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  1. Re:Worst? on Facebook Denies Accessing Users' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    It is in Cyanogenmod 7. In my experience, apps do not handle have permissions removed gracefully, and often crash. If you need to use an app there are times when there is no option but to grant access.

  2. Re:Upwards? on NASA Considers Sending Telescope To the Outer Solar System · · Score: 2

    The orbit would require that the telescope go through the plane of the solar system twice each orbit, which if it is close to the sun would mean going through the dust.

    The only way to beat this is to go a far away, which as other posters have said, is easier slong the plane of the solar system.

  3. Re:The Cynical Take.. on Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service · · Score: 2

    Given that Spotify already caches most of the files you download I don't think they are particularly vunerable to changing the QOS for the account.

  4. Proxies are not going to help on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 1

    Using proxy services is not going to help as Google has access to your emails, which have a lot of data specific only to you.

    Also if you keep Gmail open all day, you are almost certainly logged into the search page with cookies which make the proxies useless.

    Your best bet is to use Google dashboard ( https://www.google.com/dashboard/ ) to delete your search history until you can find a better solution.

  5. Re:Why it makes sense... on Unlimited Legal Music Downloads for $3.95 a Month? · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is that soon all users will be using this method to pay for the tracks that they have and this would limit the amount of revenue that they could get. Someone could pay $5 for as many tracks as you can download or pay $10 for each album.

  6. Re:Makes sense.... on No Region Codes for HD-DVD? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most DVD players in the Uk (especially the cheap ones) do not ship region free, but there is normally a very easy way (if you can find it) to make it region free. My DVD player can be made region free (or any other region) by using a hidden menu which is accessed by pressing 7 when the tray is open.

    Lots of examples of how easy it is are available here http://www.dvdexploder.com/multihacks.htm

    Avtar

  7. Re:Current Speed? on New IrDA Spec Shoots for 100Mbit/s Data Rate · · Score: 5, Informative

    IrDa can manage serial port speed, 128Kb. Bluetooth V1 can transfer data at 1Mb and Bluetooth v2 can transfer data at 2Mb

  8. Re:That is nice, but . . . on BBC Views Content Piracy As Wake-Up Call · · Score: 1

    The BBC have peering agreements with most of the large UK ISPs which have been setup so that they don't get massive bandwidth bills. When the orginal news sreaming service was launched they used to limit users to spcific ISPs because of this.

  9. The most important question... on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 1

    What is the new testing going to be called?

  10. Re:Wikipedia on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    You are missing the fact that lots of people live on this Island and they would seriously object to having their hmoes blasted into the sea.

  11. For when the site gets slashdotted. on SpaceShipOne to Attempt Second Flight on Monday · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. Re:PDF on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even better, it was created on a Mac...