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  1. Best way to avoid this on Online Document Search Reveals Secrets · · Score: 1

    The absolute best way to avoid this happening.

    Copy your final text from your working draft into a brand new document. Yep good ol' copy and paste. You will only copy the selected text. All the auto-save data and edit history will not be copied into the new document. If your document has charts/graphs/placed images, etc. You will need to do a select all to be sure you got it.

    If you always do this for final drafts you won't ever have a problem again. If in doubt of whether your current copy is clean.. just do it again, then delete the old copy.

    Try it out. If you need to confirm... go ahead save as plain text, or whatever. It works as advertised.

  2. Re:Pulse jets on Pulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation · · Score: 1

    If you had actually read the article before posting you would have discovered that Pulse Jets and Pulse Detonation Engines PDEs are not the same thing... they mention the V-1 Buzz bombs specifically, saying that the Germans never achieved Pulse Detonation... just Pulse Jet.

    Sorry, you lose this round of trivia pursuit.

  3. Re:When will they learn? on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1

    "Linux, Solaris, *BSD"

    dude you forgot Mac OS X... runs Office... ;-p no virus.... save your antivirus tax and invest in Virtual PC.

  4. Re:Yep. Another new 'standard' on Cheap Wireless for Accessories · · Score: 1

    Batteries in these would last 6 to 9 months...

    I guess that would be a pain though, having to stop playing EQ or StarWars just to replace the damn batteries, it's bad enough having to get up to empty out the urine bladder once a month, thank god for grocery delivery though... I'd have died long ago.

  5. Re:Isn't Free Software Vunerale as Well? on Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent · · Score: 1

    Up until recently Mozilla as browser, mail, chat, etc. was explicitly stated to be a w3c compliance test suite, using the Gecko rendering engine, which necessarily had to function in order to perform it's role.... not sure what they are saying about it now that they have Firebird, etc. in the pipeline.

    Now if it is still just a test suite then it's non-commercial and of course Mozilla is in fact a non-profit at this stage (conveniently having been rolled out of AOL and friends, JIT?).

    IANAL but you're hypothesis looks good... it's just a big experiment in w3c compliance (even though they have their own test browser...).

  6. Re:Dark Energy on The Future of Science Revealed! · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to recycling? Everyone wants to have the shiny NEW thingamabob...

  7. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Quote on The Future of Science Revealed! · · Score: 1

    There is a 'song' based on that episode or cumulation of episodes by Aphex Twin... hilarious... donut, donut, donut.... all I want is a donut.

  8. Re:Its called socialism. on Free Software as a Public Good · · Score: 1

    SO to ramificate ;-p Socialism for ideas (best exemplified by the 'digital world' you speak of) and Capitalism for the materials (ie: physical world).

    Makes sense to me, seeing as how you really can't own ideas anyways...

  9. Re:Stanislaw Lem... on Networking Technology At Work In Rural India · · Score: 1

    Silly Rabbit, don't arrest the kid cutting the line... arrest the company buying the copper!

  10. Re:Better than food is... on Networking Technology At Work In Rural India · · Score: 1

    Truly an American POV. I'd suspect that it's not as pandemic as you assume.

  11. Re:That's great and all on Networking Technology At Work In Rural India · · Score: 1

    Your example is a great 'example' of 'communication' which is part of the 'basic infrastructure' you speak of. Hmmmm so this technology somehow provides enhanced communication.... maybe it could be used for all kinds of 'communications'?

    Like say people wanting to communicate about water supply, hospitals, electricity and sanitation?

    Yeah makes you think, huh?

  12. Re:supply and demand on Cringely Tries Snapster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Yep, exactly.... which is why Communism never worked!

  13. Re:What about when they do both? on Youth Spend More Time on Web Than TV · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what ever happened to multi-tasking. Internet is visual only info for the most part, while TV's big advantage is audio.... especially things like comedy or news... do you really need to see the talking heads to get the joke?

    I personally have my TV going all the time while I'm uDon't have a radio in my house - just in my car, which is where I listen to the radio almost exclusively... talk radio that is.

    0.02

  14. Re:Is this the way? on Overture To A Patent War? · · Score: 1

    I thought corporate takeovers and merger/acquisition were the American way of doing business... when did silly things like laws and patents sneak into the act?

  15. Re:Yet... on Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices · · Score: 1

    Ah but you forgot to link to the redemption page:

    goodstuff
    warning this page requires 'flash' (virus?worm?entertainment?)

  16. Re:Yeah that's it on WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wasn't that the plot of that movie Hackers?

  17. FInally a good use for SPAM� on Mojib Ribbon Game Promises Musical Spam · · Score: 1

    So they finally figured out what to do with spam emails...

    they need to instantly file for a Business Process Patent on this one!

    Watch out, Microshaft is watching and they might get one in before you have a chance then monopolize it via a new browser plugin using DirectX that only works with Passport in conjunction with a Hotmail account and Internet Explorer.... or maybe Apple will append one of their many patents to show that THEY invented it in the 90s as part of the Sosumi project in response to Apple Music's lawsuit regarding never going into the music business... ;-p Just another reason Office will continue to ship for Mac. Look for the SoundTrack export plugin soon...

  18. I heard a rumor on Vice City To Xbox, Not GTA? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That Microsoft was also planning to use this sort of loophole to circumvent the DOJ anti-trust issues around Windows by simply repackaging it with a new name.

    Anyone hear similar rumors?

  19. Re:Universities and such on Are You Using 802.1X? · · Score: 0

    Hey I said I was sorry. I misread the post... thought the guy was saying something, instead he was stating an example.

    Again sorry already, this is /. you can't take back a post you can only apologize... well I guess it was a troll anyways, or flamebait at least.

    mod on wit' ya bad self...

  20. Re:Universities and such on Are You Using 802.1X? · · Score: 1

    huh, sorry, mis-read your post.

    Anyways, their solution doesn't sound that problematic. i haven't come across a VPN solution supports every platform equally. It's the state of the tech.

  21. Re:Universities and such on Are You Using 802.1X? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    SO you're saying that Universities should simply MANDATE what platform their students can use to get access to their network?

    What a dumb@ss! Yeah that promotes diversity and learning.... why don't they just institute a UNIFORM policy while they're at it... wouldn't want anyone wearing incompatible clothes or anything.

  22. Re:Who am I? on USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification · · Score: 1

    PDF doesn't refer to the ID it refers to the document being linked to.... doh! Go check and see... the link goes to a PDF.

  23. Re:Not true. on Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead · · Score: 1

    Again, why doesn't Windows or Linux have a good system wide gesture tool? Why isn't the Opera implementation programmable just like your other input devices?

    I use Cocoa Gestures in OS X and the biggest difference is that it is supported in ANY Cocoa application AND it is app programmable, ie: you add a new gesture in a recording window.. (click and hold the middle button then do any combination of up, left, down and right in any order) then select which menu command you want associated with it, even commands which don't have traditional keyboard shortcuts ;-p Each app can be different if you want and it takes all of 3 minutes to set the app up to use it... just enable, then edit the defaults.

    The only thing missing is the ability to set up your own global defaults.

    Hopefully the Finder in Panther will finally be Cocoa...

  24. Re:Innovation on Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use mouse gestures in nearly all of the applications I use, not just the browser. It's kinda sad that Windows and Linux don't have a nice system wide and application configurable gesture input device like us OS X peops do.

    It's called Cocoa Gestures, it's been out for nearly two years and hasn't been updated in nearly that long but it works so amazingly well. If only the rest of the apps for OS X were also Cocoa based... man is it sweet though.

  25. humpback whale found nearby on Deep Sea Monster Baffles Scientists · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The Chilean Navy first spotted the mystery specimen along with another large mass, but the other dead animal turned out to be a dead humpback whale."

    I thought it was well known that humpback whales and giant squid were mortal enemies... I'd say these two had an all out battle and both died as a result.

    Well that's my theory, I'm stickin' to it.