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  1. Re:Four years on PuTTY 0.61 Released · · Score: 1

    1.0 is when the architect (-slash-developer) thinks it does everything he originally set out for the application to do. Increments are fixes and minor features. Major version increment is when the architect thinks it does everything he set out for that version.

    THAT is how version numbers work, not "oooh, the competition is already up to 9.0 and we're still 3.6, let's bump it up with a few bugfix releases".

    0.x does not mean it's going to be obsolete or even unstable, just that it doesn't do everything it was meant to, yet.

  2. Re:100 meters on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1

    Assuming Windows Phone is vulnerable, it could spread pretty fast all over the place.

  3. Re:Confusing on Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs · · Score: 1

    So, basically, something that should be called bttables ?

  4. Re:Good for Pop-Cap on EA Buys Bejeweled-Maker PopCap In Deal Worth Up To $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    And fourth is a mystery? :-)

  5. Re:It's ALWAYS about child pornography on Law Enforcement Still Wants Mandatory ISP Log Retention · · Score: 1

    It's a shame the child pornographers aren't engaging the US in a space race like the communists did.

  6. Re:The rise of indie on RIAA Math: Sell 1 Million Albums, Still Owe $500k · · Score: 1

    How about giving the name of that virtuoso? Always good to find new things to listen to.

  7. Re:Oh, cool! on Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk · · Score: 1

    Yes, ignorant ranting does tend to be disgusting. SGML.

  8. Re:Not for the disorganised on Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk · · Score: 1

    typing in an instant (sorry, realtime) messenger - you need the http prefix for it to transform it magically into a link.

  9. Re:No problem. on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 1

    I have vague memories of on-the-fly GPG encryption tools, couldn't those be used instead ?

  10. Re:No problem. on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 1

    Yes, because allowing simple passwords makes people think simple passwords are good enough.

    It really doesn't matter if you allow your kid to pull the wings off a few files, except that it also instills the belief that torturing living things can be ok.

  11. Re:Dont know why we dont like foreign call centers on The View From the Ground At an Indian Call Center · · Score: 1

    Difficult to communicate with? If you hang up the phone as soon as they say "Hello, my name is Pradesh", you haven't got a clue as to how they communicate. You're simply hanging up based off the simple fact that his name is Pradesh. Racist bullshit, the lot of it.

  12. Re:Bringing the jobs back on The View From the Ground At an Indian Call Center · · Score: 1

    "True market value", now there's an interesting term. You probably mean "american wage scales", which is distinctly different - they *are* paid "market value" for the market over there. Just like everywhere, the market is changing, however, and that means that their wages will be going up with that change.

  13. Re:Evolution on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 2

    Evolution does support MAPI, but Exchange 2010 broke it, and apparently nobody's fixing it.

  14. Re:Consciously opt out? on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    Requires you to be logged in, ironically.

  15. Re:Uh, yeah, America would come out on top. on How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back · · Score: 1

    Oh, come now. This whole "outside of the USA" thing has gone far enough. it's only a myth, a fairytale for children not to feel frightened and all alone, just like religion and santa claus.

  16. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Patriot Act vs. the EU's Data Protection Directive · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good idea on paper, but the corporations will just buy a new load of politicos. You'll get no more than a decade or two out of it.

  17. Re:Honestly - why do business in the U.S. on Patriot Act vs. the EU's Data Protection Directive · · Score: 1

    Sealand. Not sure if they've fully recovered from the fire, though.

  18. Re:Down with the patriot act! on Patriot Act vs. the EU's Data Protection Directive · · Score: 2

    It's citizens are it's enemy? I guess that does explain a lot.

  19. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    How they work is simple enough: it's a circular, single direction priority road. You yield when you get on the priority road, and you get off where you need to. There is nothing particularly complex or special about it, except that people seem to get confused because it's circular.

    Apply common sense and it just works; if you don't know what to do, just go around again.

    Then again, given the average intelligence of drivers, I can imagine people being stuck on there for months.

  20. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    > In either case, you can't get in because everyone is bumper-to-bumper.

    That might be true in a world where all drivers keep pace. Experience says this isn't so - or you'd never manage to squeeze in on a busy freeway, either. Unless you're coming out of a one-way street, people are also going to get off the roundabout right where you're trying to get in, creating holes.

    Additionally, and I don't know if this idea has already swum the oceans, you can (and should!) do multi-lane roundabouts, especially if there's four or five streets connected. If you need to get past several exits before yours, use the center lane so other people can get on.

    Of course, this requires driver cooperation and some common sense; traits which seem to be less and less common everywhere.

  21. Re:a 'gotcha,' when it was misreported to begin wi on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    No, it refers to a number of OEM's fucktard tendency to give people a 'recovery CD' that reimages the system as it was when they bought it, instead of proper OS install disks.

  22. Re:Edit this shit timothy! on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Try:
    1. Several researchers agree with Microsoft
    2. A noted botnet expert is not so sure
    3. Another, Dell, botnet expert is entirely sure that he disagrees

  23. Re:Pictures on Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So why would we believe you?

    In the name of safety for everyone's mind, I courageously checked the link. He is right, it isn't Goatse.

    Well, not exactly - it's someone who's just seen Goatse.

  24. Re:Animal torture on Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So where do you draw the line?

  25. Re:Goatse Security? on iPad Account Hacker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    No, and neither is this.