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  1. Re:This is an unsurprising move on Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality · · Score: 1

    If microsoft if really serious about getting this in a standard, we need legal documents saying their software will remove the features, then the features removed from the standard, not getting them removed from the standard.

  2. Re:Bikes are not a solution. on MIT Offers City Car for the Masses · · Score: 1

    I have winter half of the year, and apparently, so do you...
    I doubt it applies to the target market in this case.

  3. I just wonder... on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Why game companies can never seem to trust whatever forums they have about this...
    No "I'd buy this game if you had platform X"
    No "My friends would want to play but..."
    Ever seems to make it

  4. Re:Confusing The Issue on Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered which criteria made(like violent crimes or not) meant how much more of the original sentence had been served before parole. Anyone know?

  5. Re:First on Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support? · · Score: 1

    Except to person A, when he is volunteering...
    Of course, that's exactly WHY he has the time to volunteer.

    Printers are a lot more time-intensive, customer-intensive and problem prone than scsi hard disks.

    Notice which one is in the kernel...

  6. Re:Still outsold all Linuxes combined on Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter · · Score: 1

    They care, because if you uninstall vista, and someone tries to seel you something that requires vista, you have to say no deal, or go back to vista(and if you used the new oem program to get xp back from vista, your license to vista got expired)

    Windows STILL got a monopoly people, they will until some alternative to office starts seeing numbers like office, AND people who try to send you office documents get "could you send me that in this other format? Office's standard format is so bad, I can't work with it" for a response.

  7. Re:Not the enhancement people really want on XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year · · Score: 1

    They are also replacing units with apparently un-fixed or unsufficiently fixed(this was less than two months ago) refurbished.
    If the problem was as clear-cut as you say, I'd hope their warranty service would supply fixed units on repair...

  8. Re:One thing I don't get on Evidence of Steganography in Real Criminal Cases · · Score: 1

    the amount of data...
    Ideally, sending a message should be long enough it's something too big to be memorized

    Same thing with an envelope, if you're in the context of industrial espionage, like the Schneier comment earlier, you'd want to send code or cad drawings, as in something too complicated for somone to memorize, and difficult to impossible for someone to replicate independantly. Stego is used in that context to prevent email logging from proving who sent it... at least, that's the theory.

    As for virtually untraceable envelope, again, sending one page is no problem, anyone who sees you mailing 2000 pages of source code to someone might get a bit suspicious though.en

  9. Re:looks like something doesn't work properly on Evidence of Steganography in Real Criminal Cases · · Score: 1

    Or again, they could have gotten the software on a usbkey

    Denying access to the software used to hide it would also work.

  10. Re:Makes me wonder on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    It's not 6000$ less, it's "we say we cut 6000 on the price, but it will only work with..."

    You can't buy it from an independant source though...

  11. Re:Makes me wonder on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Isn't think like buying a modem AND a landline, but not being able to purchase them seperately?

  12. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 1

    That would be... at the same acceleration

    The hard drive is much easier to accelerate...

  13. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Encryption's been classified as munitions, so wouldn't a hard drive be classifiable too?

  14. Re:Seriously on ICANN Mulling Multilingual URLs · · Score: 1

    That's for when we get multiline domain names, in 2020
    For now, one line works fine for everyone.

  15. Re:Pre-installed OS on Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS · · Score: 1

    Larger orders for pre-installed server can get you asked you for the kickstart file, it can really save you a lot of time.

  16. Re:"Adult" and "Mature" labeling on Defending Games For Adults on National Television · · Score: 1

    I always thought the labels meant "only adults can approve this material" not "only adults can enjoy" this material.

    That means that adults MUST review the material before exposing younger minds to it. Not that it means it can be interesting to you by itself.

  17. Re:pros and cons on Banked Blood May Not Be As Effective As Hoped · · Score: 1

    He didn't read the summary, it was in there with the comment about Nitrox and the article having potential for bias.

  18. Re:Could be worse on Open.NET — .NET Libraries Go "Open Source" · · Score: 1

    giving a "won't fix" answer to a bug is still considered 'responsive' in some circles.
    Would this be an acceptable response if you have a problem?

  19. Re:So What? on Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    If the people don't understand the issue, they won't vote with their wallets either...
    So it can be made illegal, or not, but the market is taken out of play until they understand the issue.

  20. Re:Boilerplate on Vivendi Calls iTunes Contract Terms "Indecent" · · Score: 1

    It's news when he attacks Apple for doing exactly that, yet calls it indecent...

  21. Re:Windows in China on Microsoft Seeks Another OS-Level Adware Patent · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they patent this in, I don't know, China for that matter?
    I mean with international treaties, do they need to patent in the us for a technology they don't plan to use there?

  22. Re:I don't agree... on EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unintended consequence would be to ban historical research on genocide. After all, if you search for a word, it must be on how to commit one, not about those that already happened, after all, and not how to prevent them from occuring again.

    I want to thank the EU for reminding me again how censorship of ideas doesn't work, unless you actually have a human read the content, and even then...

  23. Re:I don't quite get it.. on Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" · · Score: 1

    From working in that area, that'd be a crime, it's not like there's much parking to be had there in the first place. When I read "remove the parking meters" I assumed making them into free parking, just because removing three parking spots in such a crowded parking district would probably cost more than 35k in road rage, although some would be balanced up with new parking tickets, which the city traditionally does not frown upon.

  24. Re:Then don't go to the godammned site on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 1

    Just because the website owner wants me to enter into a contract with them(advertisements, of unknown but probably negative value to me in exchange for content, of potentially positive but still unknown value to me) doesn't mean they can force me to.

    If they really want me to enter into a contract with them, they need to move to a subscription based model. That way at least, I get to see the contract, first.

  25. Re:BSD: providing unencumbered software for 30 yea on Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    Anything can be more "free" "only for certain values of free".