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  1. Yes, but will it run on Linux? on Microsoft to Replace Blackberry? · · Score: 1

    For Linux/Domino or Groupwise shops this doesn't seem to offer very much.

    Blackberry allows Domino apps on Blackberry and Blackberry Messenger to Sametime connection from v4.1 (real soon now :)

    Exchange gives you mail and contacts by the looks of it. How very 20th century :)

  2. Google already censors for China... on India Forms Expert Group on Google Earth Images · · Score: 1

    so why shouldn't it do the same for India?

  3. moderation on Apple Adds New TV Shows To iTunes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there isn't a -1 Whiny option.

  4. Free wifi but no money for a cop shop on Free Wi-fi Prompts BellSouth to Withdraw Donation · · Score: 1

    Seems like BellSouth told NO that if they had money for wifi they obviously had enough money to have a police station - taking their building and their market is kinda double dipping.

    Have to say that on a priorities basis and given the dubious state of the NOPD right now, I think (though it may not be the /. convention) they might have a point. Bread first, circuses later.

  5. Re:Terry Nation on The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 1 · · Score: 1

    but not the music, special effects, stunts and costumes I presume? :D

    B7 did have some slight arcing but god did the BBC ever pinch pennies making it.

  6. Globe and Mail Toronto has commented stories on A Recipe for Newspaper Survival in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    on globeandmail.com - they call it "join the conversation".

    Rego required though :D

    Example: today's most commented on story -
    http://tinyurl.com/dee93

  7. Google+Firefox beats firewall - coincidence? on Unblock Google Cache in China · · Score: 1

    Do we know for sure the Firefox devs working for google had nothing to do with this extension? It would be nice to think google is making the PRC heavies think they are doing their bidding while secretly helping each restriction be worked around...

  8. Warranty? on Sony Profits Low, Halts CRT Production · · Score: 1

    Seems odd the warranty wasn't still good on the Sony - I remember crappy ADI monitors and the like offering three years...

  9. BINGO! Obligatory on Why Have PDAs Failed In The iPod Era? · · Score: 1

    In Korea only old people play BINGO.
    In Soviet Russia BINGO plays you!

  10. Class Action Lawsuit? on Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there potential to sue the printer mfgs (esp. outside the US) because the printer is not doing its best to produce a faithful printout (i.e. adding extra information to the page not intended by the user, irrespective of the fact that it's hard to make out). I mean, people who wear blue Beatles specs must be driven nuts :)

    That being said, if all the printer problems I had were a few yellow dots I'd be doing well...

  11. No Office 2K3 Prof? Now who's talking nonsense? on Interview With Gary Edwards of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the quote you actually use, he doesn't say "Office XP Professional 2003", he says "Office Professional 2003" which does exist.

    http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/ professional.mspx

    Due to the similarity in file formats and program functionality it's not completely unfair to use "XP/2003" as nomenclature but Mad Penguin's punctuation is not Gary Edwards fault.

    Finally, he says you need Exchange 2003/Sharepoint/Project Server etc. to use Office 2003 to the fullest - which is true because MS uses proprietary means for information sharing, whereas with open standards it wouldn't matter which server people use. "Using Office right" involves data interchange if we are to believe Microsoft (with those stupid dinosaur ads). You fail to address this point.

  12. Why not GPS - so the US can't turn it off on Wireless Positioning · · Score: 1

    At present, the US can degrade the quality of GPS or turn it off for military reasons. This was one motivation behind the EU and Russia wanting their own systems, so they weren't depending on American whims. A distributed series of wireless points, especially on a device supporting 802.11 and wireless like the Blackberry 7270, removes the dependence on satellites but does introduce uncertainty as to the accuracy of the mapping of the access points - trying to trace the physical location of an IP address largely depends on trusting the admins who are entering the location of the routers along the way.

  13. already happening - Canadian example on FEC Deciding Future of Political Blogs · · Score: 1

    Evidence at the Canadian Gomery inquiry into Liberal corruption was posted on a US website (Captain's Quarters). Canadian websites were unable to do so due to a publication ban. US political blogs can be just as easily hosted on Canadian or other overseas servers.

  14. The marketing droids on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 1

    I thought MS said they had all been put to the sword with XPSP2 and security was now the priority.

    Uh-huh. Nice try MS.

  15. Re:It's all about....Indymedia on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 1

    Not on Bush/GOP Christmas card list.

  16. Well obviously... on Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 · · Score: 1

    "Yet the courts ruled that gas had special rights."

    What else was Iraq about :)

  17. that's the problem on Fly To Mars In A Plastic Ship · · Score: 1

    the NASA research was actually for something useful, rather than something that subsidises corn or timber or some other lobby group.

  18. Outsourcing and rural tech on Small Town USA Competing With India · · Score: 1

    Having tech companies and telecom-heavy businesses is one way of getting optical fibre laid/lit in rural districts. You can be sure those companies won't go unless the pipe is there, so the state/county has to get it done. Good for the locals (unless of course they like their lifestyle without DSL and lattes).

  19. Re:Get it in PDF first. on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    You can set up a PDF Printer which emails you results using Samba 2+ (which is what we use) or download the Acrobat 7 Trial if you want to see what extra features can get you :)

  20. WordPad - just the job. on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    When copying/pasting any Word stuff to a HTML editor (like FrontPage) an intermediate paste to WordPad preserves most formatting.

    WordPad is also useful for opening bit-rotted Word documents which cause Word to freeze, allowing content to be copied/pasted into "fresh" .DOCs.

  21. According to TFA, MM is NOT XP compatible on Review of Apple's "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    If you can't access the full function of the mouse without the Apple drivers, and the review says there are no MM drivers supplied for XP beyond the basic HID ones from XP itself, then that doesn't make it compatible in my opinion.

    Bad enough that it isn't wireless but to remove the features that differentiate it from far cheaper and fully supported competition is just a joke.

  22. When ISS took pictures of Discovery... on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    did Discovery return the favour? I imagine the outside of the ISS looks a lot worse!

  23. Where IBM learned to screw their partners - OS/2 on Apple Switch to Intel Not a Big Loss for IBM · · Score: 1

    Read "Showstopper", the book on the development of NT which details how OS/2 was deprioritised by MS leading to their eventually ditching it.

    (That said you'd think they'd have learned after DOS and all)

    It's a pretty entertaining book in any case.

  24. Royal Marines? Not likely. on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    This is not like the SAS storming of the Embassy where there was a siege situation and there would have been time to get military units in place. It is far more likely that police tactical units were involved, if this even happened, as the Met would have to arrange co-operation with the military.

  25. My top peeve about the FBI warning on Java to Appear in Next-Gen DVD players · · Score: 1

    is that the FBI have no jurisdiction in the country I bought the DVD in/live in (Canada).