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  1. Re:Security vs backwards compatibility on Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Apple hasn't sold a computer in 2 years that is capable of running OS9 apps.

  2. Re:So What? on Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model · · Score: 1

    I'm just trying to imagine a crime where a photo was taken by the perp and then sent to the cops.. and the make of the camera matters more than the delivery system used for the photo itself.

  3. Re:Reboot on Apple Quietly Releases Safari 3.2 · · Score: 1

    Could be worse, you could have to reboot your *server* because of a browser update. I hate that OSX server forces you to update iTunes and Safari and other crap just to get updates for other things.

  4. Re:Only sane conclusion on Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if only the developer knew how many they sold across all platforms.. oh wait, they do.

  5. Re:Debian was ok with Firefox on How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mozilla objected to Debian making a lot of changes to it and calling it Firefox.

    Considering how badly Debian screwed up OpenSSH, I don't blame Mozilla one bit. Debian should stop fucking with software they don't understand.

  6. Re:Exactly right. Look where the money is in PCs on Vital Parts of Games As DLC? · · Score: 1

    Man, that says a lot. The top selling PC game sold 2.25 million in all of 2007 (burning crusade came out jan 2007).

    Meanwhile, Gears of War 2 sold 2.1 million on launch day.

  7. Re:Why is there a browser in the music player? on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    That's what I'm saying.. the markup language that the itunes store uses is not compatible with html. You cannot possibly make an xslt that translates it to html unless you make every element on the page absolutely positioned and use javascript to control the layout.

    iTunes does not use html, doesn't use webkit to display the store, it uses its own proprietary layout engine.

  8. Re:At this moment... on Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine · · Score: -1, Troll

    McCain is still a senator... hooray ignorance from a 3 digit uid!

  9. Re:Microsoft can't win evidentially... on Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine · · Score: 1

    Aparently *you* were born recently.. MS saved us from the evil IBM.

  10. Re:Why is there a browser in the music player? on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. The iTunes store uses a layout that is decidedly non-html. HBoxes and VBoxes, fixed position containers, and gridboxes.

    You cannot translate that into html with xslt.

  11. Re:Tab on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/bash_completion/

    Bash's programmable completion. Can tab complete remote server files, Make targets, parameters to git/subversion etc.

  12. Re:Tab on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Actually, here's something I found out a couple of months ago that really did surprise the hell out of me.

    If you use passwordless keys in ssh, scp can do tab completion of the *remote* filesystem.

  13. Re:Oh really? on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    So why is it that they can say "frak you", or "fudge you" or any of the things that are quite literally nothing more than proxies for the word "fuck"?

  14. Re:Do They Still Advertise them as "Unlimited"? on AT&T Begins a Trial To Cap, Meter Internet Usage · · Score: 1

    It's not consumer fraud, it's misleading, but it's not fraud.

    Unlimited is a hold-over from the dial up days.. when you only had, say, 300 minutes a month.

    Think of it as a cellphone that has unlimited minutes, but a bandwidth cap.

  15. Re:Mac vs PC on Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users · · Score: 1

    are they both playing at the same quality?

    For all we know the PC is at work on a fat pipe and the mac is at home on dialup.

    Is the mac playing at 4-star quality?

  16. Re:Ok on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because around here that's all they use to form an opinion.

    Anytime MS does something good, the story gets tagged itsatrap.

  17. Re:yuck on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 1

    So use preg_replace_callback.

    Why would it need to be triple-escaped anyway? The replacement parameter isn't parsed as a regex.

  18. Re:What about Eval? on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'd have to do that anyway, because you used double quotes, "$instance" is going to get evaluated and your eval will fail anyway.

  19. Re:Article blows on Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand · · Score: 1

    . The ideal temperature, for most people, seems to be around 72 degrees or so if you are going to be indoors for a while or around 69 degrees if you constantly have people coming in from the hot outdoors (in the mall for example).

    Woah, that is way too cool for me. We keep our thermostat set to 77 year round. I guess it's relative though. It's 85 degrees outside right now.

  20. Re:Malda on 10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pestilence, Famine and War.

  21. Re:Linux does it right on Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC · · Score: 1

    Actually OSX had a security vulnerability that did exactly that.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395107/2005-04-03/2005-04-09/0

    application just waited until user ran sudo, then it was able to elevate itself.

  22. Re:Dumb on Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC · · Score: 1

    How about how Google updater on OSX isn't smart enough to figure out that I don't have write access to the applications folder by default. Instead of asking for the admin password, google updater just fails.. then two days later it tells me I need to upgrade again.

  23. Re:Other examples on The Blending of Music and Games · · Score: 1

    Braid: Simple, pleasant music-box style music, which would change in tempo and direction as you move back and forth in time. Really awesome.

    I was hoping someone would mention braid. Brilliant cello music.. and very trippy when you were going backwards in time, the music was playing backwards.

  24. Re:This isn't sustainable on TiVo PC Could Be a Game-Changer · · Score: 3, Informative

    you're paying for the delivery system, not the content.

    That's like saying there shouldn't be ads on the internet because you pay for broadband.

  25. Re:Product Placement on Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Embrace ignorance! It's what you do best.