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  1. Re:Factual train times on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 1

    That, and a longer time spent in the station during normal conditions. This is also very convenient for people transferring from other trains. In fact this lets people transfer both ways instead of just one way.

  2. Re:And yet on Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws · · Score: 1

    So you don't like the Awesome Bar because your kids will see your porn? Ever heard of profiles?! Your kids are extremely likely to stumble on a url with the old-fashioned auto-complete, too. And you're too lazy to turn the Awesome Bar off using a 10 second config tweak? What a whiner. Also, a Nazi comparison? Really?!

  3. Re:what's the difference? on German Court Bans E-Voting As Currently Employed · · Score: 1

    Using a computer to wipe my butt is a) more expensive, and b) detrimental to my health. (However, both methods offer a paper trail.) Solution 1: I wipe my butt the old fashioned way. Solution 2: I spend money to come up with a better computer.

    You're opting for solution 2. I apologise for the crass example.

    The success of online banking mostly just proves that many people, myself included, are willing to live the with apparent downsides of online banking (much lower cost to the banks; lower security, though offline banking isn't necessarily secure to start with) for the huge gain in comfort. The stakes are much higher with voting, and since we're not electing our representatives once a week, gains like lower cost and higher comfort aren't a big deal.

  4. Re:Why not look at java? on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 1

    Tons of useful and well debugged code is written in Java. If there's any general task, chances are very good there's a free Java library to do it. I doubt C/C++ comes anywhere close. I agree with some and disagree with some other of your statements, but I'm not gonna bite, why start a flamewar.

  5. Re:Eversion; subvert expectations. on Making a Horror Game Scary · · Score: 1

    Slashdotted or something, at least for me. Anybody got a mirror?

  6. Re:Furthermore... on London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs · · Score: 1

    ... I know the misleading summary helps with the old /. "ZOMG BRITAIN IS A POLICE STATE" propaganda, but if you actually *read* the article (an unpopular idea, I know) you'll see that the police were swiftly kicked into touch over it. I believe the actual phrase used was "Not now, not ever."

    And we all now that phrase means "Not now, maybe later." At best. At worst, it means: "Now, but we're calling it by a different name."

  7. Re:Furthermore... on London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs · · Score: 1

    On a slightly off-topic note here: It's amazing how different news television is in the US compared to what I'm used to here. I don't think they'd show that kind of footage in anything but odd "tabloid TV" program, certainly not in a respectable TV newscast. Not that it's prohibited or anything, it's just not done, as far as I know. Too explicit, or too personal or something. (Note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong in showing it; I'm not judging. Well, I think it doesn't really qualify as news, but that's beside the point.)

  8. Re:You get what you pay for. on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 1

    Um I think that's the point. He says that if you're going to criticize them, do it for OpenOffice.

  9. Re:Recompile please on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: 1

    One more reason to run the AMD64 version of your distribution, then.

  10. Re:legal, schmegal ... on New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files · · Score: 1

    Hmm. White list known-good traffic instead of blacklisting P2P? At least that'd be an interesting new countermeasure to get around. They could start by banning HTTPS and other encrypted connections unless the server host is whitelisted (big banking instituion or whatever). Drop the other connections if their entropy is too high.

  11. Re:Completely Biased and Worthless on New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files · · Score: 1

    Hey, he didn't say xor.

  12. Re:The data that was just written on Euro Parliament Wants "Red Button" For Shutting Down Games · · Score: 1

    Losing a large file that can trivially be downloaded again is far from a grim scenario. Losing bookmarks is worse, but not by a whole lot.

  13. Re:BeOS: still my favorite UI on BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith · · Score: 1

    (the best part was that the CPU monitor allowed you to turn off both CPUs, instantly locking the computer)

    Wow. Talk about damning praise.

  14. Re:How to loose money on ebooks, one easy step on Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal · · Score: 1

    If you're out of audio books, have you looked at The Teaching Company's audio lectures? They're excellent.

  15. Re:Do not use OpenDNS on OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm · · Score: 1

    What makes me think that is that a casual Google search will give you howtos my mother could follow to disable such a filter. And I never said or implied in what way you should monitor your kids usage, that's really none of my business.

  16. Re:Do not use OpenDNS on OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're relying on OpenDNS for content filtering? Cute. That might work in a home for the elderly, but I doubt it'll stop any teenager, much less one who is technologically inclined. Would have stopped me for all of 45 seconds. But if it gives you peace of mind, that's something I guess.

  17. Re:A more meaningful number on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 1

    Seems like a good idea. Generate clean energy and at the same time give people an incentive for using it more efficiently.

  18. Re:What a waste! on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't bet on it, but maybe an ounce of printer ink has an environmental backpack larger than the amount of biodiesel you can get from the same amount of grounds.

  19. Per capita on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So that comes down to 300W of solar power per capita in Germany, 83.3W of solar power in the US and 20.2W of solar power per capita worldwide. Just about enough to drive a netbook. ;)

  20. Re:naming on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    The twist is that those are the hostnames of your four iPhones.

  21. Re:Google Earth 5 available on Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor · · Score: 1

    Yep, that worked. Thanks!

  22. Re:Google Earth 5 available on Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor · · Score: 1

    Doesn't start up for me (Ubuntu Intrepid).

    Anybody know how to fix this: ./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib32/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

  23. Re:Yeah, I see their point on Moblin 2 First Impressions · · Score: 1

    Fast booting minimal distros aren't a feature of netbooks; for instance, I don't think any of the EEEs has one, in fact I don't think any of the netbooks released in 2008 does. (Note that some of those come with a full-fledged Linux distribution. This is different from having a secondary "fast-boot" OS.) A few of the upcoming netbooks do. But they're really more of a feature of some high end desktop mainboards and, I think, a couple of normal consumer laptops.

  24. Re:This seems abrupt on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to know much about Linux deployment. These days you install from USB. (Insert a number of sentences without line breaks here.)

  25. Re:Outcome not hard to predict... on OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots · · Score: 1

    I knew he was a robot!