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  1. Re:Admins to blame? on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1

    The only (and I mean only) case where it should ever be used is if a deleted article is restored without agreement. You clearly haven't been to New pages much. Take, for example this current gem from that page, and give me one good reason why the article (this is the entire content of the article, other than the speedy deletion tag) shouldn't be speedily deleted:

    Brian is a ninja. He can read your mind. Lock up your kids lol.
  2. Re:An issue of ethics not value on GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was on Voyager, and the episode was Nothing Human.

  3. Re:Certainly does on GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you're thinking that the places where they have the radar with the sign that shows you your speed is the same place where they have the cameras. I haven't noticed that. In Honolulu, when they had speed cameras for a short time (due to public outcry, they were removed), they were in minivans that would park on the shoulder of the freeway.

    My objection to speed limits comes from the position that a safe speed isn't some fixed number, but a variable one determined by the current conditions.

  4. Re:You are not old enough on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Only the MD-80s were switched to the leisure destinations. They were configured with the usual MD-80 5-across seating configuration and marketed as Saver Service, while the 717s kept the 4-across seating and flew to more business oriented destinations, marketed as Signature Service. You are correct though that the plan now is to convert both types to a two-class configuration, with both 4-across and 5-across seating on every aircraft.

  5. Re:You are not old enough on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Midwest will not be bought by AirTran. AirTran tried, but lost out to a private equity group led by TPG Capital and Northwest Airlines.

  6. Re:merge into MacOS? Leopard? on Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK · · Score: 1

    Seems to me like a Multi-touch GUI wouldn't make much sense until they do a tablet Mac.

  7. Re:Answers on iTunes DRM-Free Tracks Now Same Price As DRM Tracks · · Score: 1

    AAC support on media players isn't as rare as you make it out to be. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Products_that_support_AAC is a nice list, which includes devices like the Zune, Creative Zen Portable, Sony PSP, and recent BlackBerries.

  8. Re:I can't believe I read the whole thing on Rob Malda Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    He's just gotten used to articles that are spread out over a dozen pages, three paragraphs to a page. ;)

  9. Re:Glad you stayed. on Rob Malda Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Actually, the founder is still there. I do have to say though, I'm not sure whether or not Johan plans to stay with the site long term though like Rob has here.

  10. Re:Archer was the first recorded to captain on Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Demora Sulu as captain of the Enterprise-B isn't canon.

    NX-01 was a pre-Federation Starfleet vessel. In "These Are the Voyages..." the ship was heading to Earth for both the retirement of the vessel as well as the founding of the Federation. As such, XCV 330 would also be pre-Federation.

  11. Re:Shatner is out? on Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk · · Score: 2, Informative

    From everything I'm hearing, the consensus seems to be that the movie will actually be before the original series, not after it. You're correct about New Voyages though, it's essentially "Season 4".

  12. Re:As a Gentoo user... on OpenOffice 2.3 Released · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand, the -bin packages of OpenOffice, Firefox, etc are the binary releases from the upstream developers. So if you want Gentoo to have an openoffice-bin for PowerPC, you'll have to pester OO.o to provide it.

  13. Re:There you go on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    No Safari and no Visual Voicemail on the Treo. Oh, and I want my music-less iPhone to work on Verizon's CDMA 2000-1X/EV-DO network (and Verizon to have comparable plans to AT&T). Of course, with the price cut, there's not so much incentive to leave the iPod out of the iPhone.

  14. Re:RC is the new pre-alpha? on Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I trust no one is going to claim that "one feature missing" = RC. Microsoft did exactly that with the Vista release candidates. As I recall, Vista RC1 was released with the disclaimer that it wasn't feature complete, either.

    Not that I'd accept "Microsoft did it" as an excuse.
  15. Re:That wiki makes my head hurt on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 1

    That sounds about right; the Linux.com article seemed to explain it a bit better. Many of the Eudora features are implemented in the Penelope extension. But some features can't be done in an extension and instead required changes to Thunderbird itself. So they took Thunderbird, made the necessary changes to implement those features, added the Penelope extension to get the rest, and released it as Eudora.

  16. Re:There you go on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    All those people (you know who you are) who kept saying "I'd buy an iPhone without the phone", you better step up. What about those of us who want an iPhone without the iPod?
  17. Re:Customer service on Lenovo to Sell, Support Linux on ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    My X60 just worked with Intel wireless on Fedora 7. I discovered it by accident since I use Ethernet most of the time with the wireless switched off with the little switch on the front of the notebook, and I think I must have not installed the software that actually lets me select a network, but it does work and I got on one it selected for me, unlike when I was actually trying to get it working on Fedora Core 5 (this was when they were pretty new and they didn't have the firmware for it yet).

  18. Re:telemarketers on First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released · · Score: 1

    cat /etc/eula.txt | say
    might be fun.
  19. Re:and as I ask on every IPv6 story on Proposed IPv6 Cutover By 2011-01-01 · · Score: 1

    TCP and UDP are layer 4 (transport) protocols, and are thus exactly the same under IPv4 and IPv6. The difference is in layer 3 (network), where IPv4 and IPv6 have different packet formats.

    So while you can map an IPv4 address into IPv6 address space, that's still not enough to allow IPv4 and IPv6 to communicate. A device that only understands IPv4 is going to drop an IPv6 packet after reading the first four bytes of the IP header (the version field), regardless of whether or not the source and/or destination addresses are IPv4 mapped addresses or not.

  20. Re:Why this is significant (but not earth-shatteri on Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix · · Score: 1

    Now Apple needs to work through the FIPS/Common Criteria certifications for IA. They've done it once before, so it might happen again. Mac OS X 10.3.6 was certified EAL3 in January 2005. The report is on commoncriteriaportal.org if you desire to read it.
  21. Re:42-point certification vs portage on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    I haven't let a Microsoft or Apple program dirty up my personal computer in about 5 years I don't suppose you have CUPS installed, do you? ;)
  22. Re:Still ways to go... on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 2, Informative

    3. Route via streets only - no highways. Some competitors allow this. I just noticed that Google Maps has this now. For example, here's a highway-less map with directions from Orange County Airport to Burbank Airport (note that Pacific Coast Highway isn't a highway in the sense of an access-controlled freeway, which is what you're probably trying to avoid).

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&sad dr=SNA&daddr=BUR&mra=cc&dirflg=h&sll=33.94289,-118 .091775&sspn=1.069757,1.160431&ie=UTF8&z=10&om=1
  23. Re:That's not entirely true. on Red Hat Boosts SELinux With RHEL 5 · · Score: 1

    There are only SELinux rulesets for less than two dozen server applications

    Less than two dozen = over 200? Must be that funky new math...
  24. Re:It's all about AIM in the end... AIM and spywar on Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted · · Score: 1

    In a way, they already have. AIM and ICQ run on the same protocol now, and users with relatively recent clients can talk to users of the other service that also have new enough clients.

  25. Re:Too late for April fools! on Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    TO fix this bombay engineerd have developed a new spoken and written language based on a 13 letter alphabet.

    Actually, there's already a language out there with a 13 letter alphabet: Hawaiian.