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  1. They could go all ipv6 on In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own Internet · · Score: 0, Troll

    That would cut them off from the rest of the world nicely.

  2. mod parent up on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 1

    While MS-IE have disclosed a lot of information lately on their blogs, if they're going to discuss Sunspider results (as they did on 28 October with the IE9PP6 tests) then use of sleight of hand to sex them up is fair game for criticism.

  3. Need access to the backup machine too on BlackBerry's Encryption Hacked; Backups Now a Risk · · Score: 1

    But then access to a Wintel box is trivial these days, especially with Adobe helping out.

    I administer 130 blackberrys and there isn't an IPD file in the entire outfit - that's what BES and its backups are for.

  4. Why Blackberry still works on BlackBerry's Encryption Hacked; Backups Now a Risk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Remote Application Deployment from BES
    Application Policies
    Applications can be installed from PCs or BES, not just The Apps Steve Likes
    They sell an integrated keyboard, or a narrow-factor phone, not just The Touchscreen Steve Likes

  5. At Slashdot, experiments are still of value. on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 1

    Since people like FHWA and Penn State did experiments (omg with tax dollarz!!1!) and found it out that mixed type was easier and fonts like Clearview make a noticeable difference.

    But let's be all Tea Party and trust a random 37 year old maintenance guy instead.

  6. Sell the signs on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Wall Street signs alone, if auctioned, would probably pay for the whole project.

  7. Penny wise, dollar foolish. on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because who cares if an ageing driver population can quickly scan signs and return their eyes to the road in an urban area, right?

  8. You can have your fart apps on RIM Doesn't Want 200 Fart Apps · · Score: 1

    Just not through AppWorld, but by adding ALX/COD to desktop manager or a website.

    Try doing that with a Jesus Phone.

  9. Make focus point a moving sidewalk on Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray · · Score: 1

    If you're stupid enough to want to be there, you're going to have to put some effort into it.

  10. Not to mention Fiorina on Where Does Dell Go After Losing 3Par? · · Score: 1

    HP built the platform to put that idiot in the United States Senate, as if that body didn't have enough problems.

  11. Give the cash to Equallogic on Where Does Dell Go After Losing 3Par? · · Score: 1

    How about taking the $1,500,000,000 they were going to give 3Par shareholders (to get 3Par and 350m cash) and give it to Equallogic engineers instead to design a 3Par competitor. Maybe tout for a few Google hardware people and wait out their non-compete but keep Equallogic in its current arms-length form to prevent Dellification of the final product. Why not boost R&D in the US rather than giving venture capitalists a pay day.

    It's one thing when you don't have the cash or engineers to roll your own. Dell does.

    *Disclaimer - the shop I work for has an Equallogic since Dell's buyouts. They are very proactive with notifications of new firmware etc. We are happy.

  12. Blakes 7 - Pressure Point on The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located · · Score: 1

    I doubt Wikileaks "central control" is in that bunker any more than Federation Central Control "was"

    Is there a self-repairing energy grid protecting the complex? If so, look somewhere else.

  13. Back in Galileo's day on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 4, Funny

    They took citations and stamped "Bible needed".

  14. Re:Politics politics on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    If you RTFAed, you would know that there is already, um, material in the public domain.

  15. Re:Yes on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I have no doubt that a $200 falsification at a big.ugly.corp would have you marched out of the building with your box of trinkets. It does seem like a Capone-esque way of getting rid of him, and Gawker's story on the school possibly points to a far bigger, but allowed drain on shareholder funds via executive sense of entitlement than lying about expenses.

  16. Re:I Shouldn't Have to Jailbreak It in the 1st Pla on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Just like all the RIM phones"? What's your problem with a Java development environment which allows you to develop apps or to install those developed by RIM either through your desktop or BES, with RIM neither knowing nor caring?

  17. Re:$35 billion on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about Boeing, they are getting a nice big order for their Frankentankers to keep them busy.

  18. We'll see on Nielsen Ratings To Count Online TV Viewing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "We have freed ourselves from television, and we have advertisers' greed to thank for that. We don't miss TV one bit"

    When it comes to fiancehood, past performance is not an indicator of future returns.

  19. Diesel-hybrids vehicles? Sure there are on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    They are called buses (PDF)

  20. Wrong route - Vegas baby! on 220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona · · Score: 1

    Flagstaff and Tucson will get zero publicity but a HS line with an ending in Vegas will get the newspapermen slavering over the chance to ride the first train - for the good of their readership, obviously...

    More seriously, if it was planned as an extension of the SoCal-Vegas train maybe the idea might go somewhere (like the Phoenix Coyotes, real soon now)

  21. Re:Doesn't IBM use OOo as a product core? on Oracle Buy Renews Call To Spin Off OpenOffice.org · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lotus Symphony is based on OOo, and the various OOo programs are integrated into Lotus Notes 8 Standard as optional Productivity Tools.

  22. Oh, I bet he CAN disconnect you over the phone on Time Warner Shutting Off Austin Accounts For Heavy Usage · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Well I can't disconnect over the phone, you have to bring the equipment to your local office."

    Or you could just download 44 gigs and he'll figure it out.

  23. Re:Sell OpenOffice to IBM on Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions · · Score: 1

    My post was only intended for a scenario where Oracle was not committed to OOo.

    For me the best thing the SQL server team from a marketing point of view was develop MSDE. It seems free, but its limitations eventually suck you into migrating to full SQL.

    By contrast, it seems to me to have little to do with Office and still has nothing to do with Exchange (since 2010 is still using an evolution of the current Exchange store)

  24. Re:Sell OpenOffice to IBM on Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions · · Score: 1

    Notes 8.5 (including OOO/Symphony) and Sametime run on Linux. Is there a top tier ISV doing more for Linux as a credible corporate platform?

    Hell if RIM got off their ass and developed BES on Linux/mysql, we'd be able to junk a Win2K3 server.

  25. Re:Yeah God Forbid They Actually Have to COMPETE on Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem to worry RIM - they make scads of CDMA devices. President Obama's 8830 is a CDMA device (with a secondary SIM card), after all.