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  1. Re:I suggest the Free Software Foundation on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did Apple say the current version of Windows? No, they didnt.

  2. Re:How to report a brickified iMac to Apple on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, lets advocate fraud. Good one.

  3. Re:I am a liar. on Gmail Mis.delivered? · · Score: 1

    Whoopy Do, so it works for you. It doesnt work for me, so how am I wrong? Just because some people can do it doesnt mean everyone can - Google has often rolled out features to some gmail users and withheld it from others, so how would this be any different?

  4. Re:I am a liar. on Gmail Mis.delivered? · · Score: 1

    Sorry Anonymous Coward, it is you who is wrong. The period thing only works if the origional email address has periods in it, all other variations are forwarded to one without periods in. If the origional doesnt have periods in, this is not setup and you only have the one email address.

    No email to richard.price@gmail.com comes to me, but I pity the person who just had a barrage of testing emails sent to him.

    If this acts differently for some people, perhaps its something google initiated only for certain groups or at certain signup stages, so not everyone got it.

  5. Re:I am a liar. on Gmail Mis.delivered? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It only works one way round tho, if you register 'richard.price' then 'richardprice' will forward mail to you as well if it isnt already registered, but if you register 'richardprice' you DONT get 'richard.price' to use. I tried this ages ago when this was first mentioned.

  6. I wonder... on Gmail Mis.delivered? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All this week I have been receiving mail from a nice young lady in Naples about rental accomodation there. This wasnt spam, not in the slightest, it was most definately proper email about a rental enquiry made to her.

    So after I got a few, I emailed her back and informed her I had no idea who she was, what these rentals were for and where did she get my information.

    It turns out that she IS talking to another 'Richard Price', who had given her this email address and she was most confused. She was talking to this guy via his cell phone, had sent to and received physical mail from a mailing address fine but all his emails were coming to me.

    I wonder if this was why.

  7. Re:Oh, please on Slashback: GPLv3, Firefly, iTunes · · Score: 1

    So is your privacy invaded when your nextdoor neighbour or a passerby can hear what you are playing?

  8. Re:Every version since 3.0? on Microsoft Responds to WMF Vulnerability · · Score: 1, Troll

    The OpenBSD security audit only pertains to stuff in the base system, which misses a huge chunk of functionality.

    On the other hand, if this bug features in WINE, why wasnt it flagged as a potential issue when the developer implemented the feature? Surely it should have been as blatant as anything at that point, and shouldnt have ever made it to this point.

  9. Re:How much more that we don't know about? on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While not plagarism, I read both Slashdot and BBC News daily and its often very surprising the number of BBC News articles that pop up on subjects right after the same story is covered on Slashdot, often with a similiar slant to it. I keep thinking that their tech editor is a slashdotter.

  10. Re:IBM ineptitude on Get Fired. Delete Colleague's Account. Go To Jail. · · Score: 1

    And:

    3. 50 days while someone that is working on that isnt working on something else.

  11. Re:Google Video Beta on Google Video Not Ready for Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Why does it have to remain in beta until then? Thinking up ways of making money off something bears no relation to its readyness to be released, and thats when something comes out of beta.

    Google can quite easily bring it out of beta and nothing would change, its as simple as changing the icon. Why dont they?

  12. Re:Kudos to WINE on WINE Still Vulnerable to WMF Exploit · · Score: 1

    So essentially you are rejecting all definitions that fail to meet your own requirements. Nice.

  13. Re:Kudos to WINE on WINE Still Vulnerable to WMF Exploit · · Score: 1
    Some definitions of 'emulation':

    • Dictionary.com:
      1 Effort or ambition to equal or surpass another. 2 Imitation of another.

    • Oxford Dictionary:
      verb try to equal or surpass, typically by imitation.

    • Cambridbge Dictionary:
      to copy something achieved by someone else and try to do it as well as they have

    • Merriam-Webster:
      3 a : IMITATION b : the use of or technique of using an emulator
      • and for 'emulator':
        1 : one that emulates 2 : hardware or software that permits programs written for one computer to be run on another usually newer computer


    Personally, WINE trys to equal or surpass Win32, especially by imitation. WINE copies something achieved by someone else and trys to do it as well as they have. WINE is software that permits programs written for one computer to be run on another computer.

    WINE fits all of those criteria, and can be called an emulator.
  14. Re:The BBC and Microsoft on BBC Presents An Open News Archive · · Score: 1

    All that section says is that a private recording of a televised broadcast for the purposes of viewing it later doesnt infringe copyright.

    Nowhere does it require the copright owner or broadcaster to explicitly allow timeshifting. Absolutely nowhere. And you cant even intereprete that section as a requirement to allow.

    THe BBC is under no obligations to allow you to do it, but if you can and do do it then you arent infringing.

  15. Re:The BBC and Microsoft on BBC Presents An Open News Archive · · Score: 1

    Please show me which law they are breaking. Because they arent. Thus it isnt illegal.

  16. Re:Congrats on the +5 insightful, on 10 Failed Technology Trends of 2005 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CD sales havent plummetted? They havent? Really?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4566186.s tm

    And to all those who say that the Music Industry needs a new business model - why should they get one? THe old one works fine when people ACTUALLY PAY for the product rather than infringing copyright and getting it off someone else. Just because people want their product for free doesnt mean their business model is broken, it simply means people will get for free whatever they can.

    As a consumer, you have two choices - buy it or go without. There is no justification to the third option that people on here assume - take it anyway.

  17. Re:The fix was released months ago on Exploit Released for Unpatched Windows Flaw · · Score: 1

    Problem is, that patch breaks more of my programs and utilities I like to use than Windows XP SP2 did. How can I fix this? Someone told me I needed Wine, but I fail to see how getting drunk will solve anything!

  18. Re:Run for its money.. on Intel Launches Pentium Extreme Edition 955 · · Score: 1

    The chip comes out as part of a batch, usually designated by being on the same silicon wafer origionally. Tests are carried out on some examples from that batch, and when a level is reached where all the tests are passed, the entire batch is marked as that speed/performance level. This means that some chips in that batch can be safely run at a higher performance level than marked.

  19. Re:Prediction on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1

    China isnt, and they are a large player in the Galileo project.

  20. Re:Prediction on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats exactly the change made that I meant when I referred to a 'kill switch'. During negotiations with the US it was determined and agreed that a change of frequency was required to allow the US to block Galileo without blocking GPS. This change was made specifically in response to US concerns. Tell me thats not a concession to a party unrelated to the project?

    You forget that GPS has had recent changes making it near impossible to jam military receivers, while Galileo does not have these modifications. Thus Galileo could be jammed totally while GPS remains usable to the military with compatable receivers.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,110 2126,00.html

  21. Re:Prediction on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Galileo is not a new development, its been under development for a few years and both the Russians and the Chinese are involved. The US demanded, and got, a kill switch for it in the event they need to disable it during military action against someone. Great eh?

  22. Love it on Steve Jobs thinks Objective C is Perfect? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sure, Xcode could do with a little bit of work to add features missing, but I truely find Cocoa a dream to work with. One year ago I only developed for the web, then I bought a Mac and was introduced to Cocoa by a friend. I havent looked back since, and have produced several 'scratch the itch' applications that otherwise wouldnt have been made.

  23. Re:They each have thier own issues to deal with... on Blockbuster's Offensive Against Netflix Flops · · Score: 1

    Im in the UK, so I dont have Netflix. What I do have is Lovefilm.com! Pretty much the same as Netflix, rental queue, DVDs in post, keep as long as you want etc.

    Except in the past month theyve added downloadable movies as an extra cost service. Pick what you want from the selection available, pay £1.99 UKP and download it, watch it for up to seven days and then it stops working (WMV based DRM).

    So some are already thinking of the next step.

  24. Re:CLINTONIAN SEX on NSA Data Mining Much Larger Than Reported · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually HE DIDNT LIE IN COURT. When asked if he had had sexual relations, he asked the judge to define sexual relations. The judges definition excluded nonpenetrative sex, so Clinton could quite merrily reply in court under oath that he didnt have sexual relations. Its a huge play on words, but thats what lawyers and courts revolve around and in this case it fell in the defendants favour.

  25. Re:Just curious on Scientists Find Preserved Dodo Bird Bones · · Score: 1

    No idea, but it wasnt an accidental fire. The head of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford decided that their stuffed example of the Dodo was becoming too dirty and fleabitten to be kept, and ordered it to be tossed onto a bonfire. This was the last known complete example.