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  1. Re:God forbid... on Black Hat Presentation Highlights SSL Encryption Flaws · · Score: 1

    "Their" is like "her": "They took their ball home", "She took her ball home".

    "There" is like "here": "They went there", "They came here".

    "They're" is short for "they are": "They're hoping to find their friends there", "She is hoping to find her friends here".

  2. Re:trail of innocent people on Pirate Bay Founder Begs For Hacker Ceasefire · · Score: 1

    Hang on, I'm confused. Was the shit about some shit more shit than the other shit, or was the first shit's shit the most shit?

  3. Re:First post! on Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat · · Score: 1

    Google aren't abusing their monopoly position to restrict Yahoo and MS's competitiveness.

    They're using their superior technology.

    There's a big difference.

  4. Re:what if? on Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone? · · Score: 1

    I never claimed that teenagers had never used a real camera. Ready my original post again.

  5. Re:what if? on Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone? · · Score: 1

    Surly pre-teen, eh?

  6. Re:what if? on Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone? · · Score: 1

    When you say "plenty", do you mean "the majority of"?

  7. Re:what if? on Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Quite. Not to mention that if you ask a teenager to mime "taking a picture", they'll probably mime holding an object in portrait orientation and pressing a button on the side nearest them. Whereas twenty/thirtysomethings will probably mime pressing a button on the top of something in landscape orientation, and forty-and-up-somethings will probably mime holding something up to their eye.

  8. Re:Joy on Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone? · · Score: 1

    Ditto. Although I'd rather have a status setting that would cause the OS only to signal a change in orientation after a "shakedown" in the new direction (like a sort of directional shake, such as you would make if you were trying to get wet sand to collect at the bottom of a glass).

  9. Re:Call me crazy on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    This is probably a much better defence. But again, it's probably better to cut out the middleman and just tell the judge that you mean to hit "cancel" and missed, and ended up installing the software.

  10. Re:Call me crazy on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    You're crazy. And it's not me typing this, it's my gloves. Pay no attention to the hands inside them.

  11. Re:Apple on Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl · · Score: 1

    Flamebait? Get a sense of humour (and perspective).

  12. Re:Power struggle. on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I do, because stealing something doesn't change ownership.

    If, however, I employ you to keep my car keys from me when I'm drunk, and you give them to me anyway, on the basis that I asked you to and I'm your employer, are you doing your job?

    Now, of course, this analogy breaks down because they fired him, so it wasn't his job to withhold passwords from them any more. But the question remains, was it his legal obligation to provide them?

  13. Re:Oh, that's all right then on Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your laptop is broken, or at least your settings are. Change one or the other before you do something more serious than mis-moderating.

  14. Re:Jail on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Few judges would agree that a prisoner should attempt to break out of jail even if the prisoner was wrongfully convicted.

    For their own justice system, maybe. But would, for example, an American judge have thought badly of an American prisoner escaping a Japanese prisoner of war camp? And do you think that political asylum would necessarily be denied to anyone who had escaped jail in their own country?

  15. Re:Jail on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guarantee no judge has heard of this chroot jail business, and even upon hearing it, if both sides agree to the terminology, the judge will weigh heavily on Apple's side if this is permitted.

    There is but one contempt of court around here and it is this: that you think a judge would remain biased even in the face of a technical explanation.

  16. Re:Tag this FUD on Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown · · Score: 1

    That's the second rule. No, hang on, that's a mistake. The second rule is... no smoking.

  17. Re:Apple has a problem with this...... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    There's plenty that Apple could do that developers are having to do instead. This isn't just about the money -- it's about the control.

  18. Re:Apple has a problem with this...... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Do you take Apple for fools? You can charge anything up to $999 on the App Store.

  19. Re:Jail on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 4, Informative

    The term "jailbreaking" comes from the term "chroot jail". It's not just pejorative nonsense like "piracy".

  20. Re:2048x1080? on UK Cinemas Get 3D Projection Rollout · · Score: 1

    The third dimension is time. 3D movies have to deliver frames twice as fast because they're sending different ones to each eye.

  21. Re:So basically on UK University Making Universal Game Emulator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get over yourself. He never said that government ought to mandate anything. Designing websites for accessibility gives you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

  22. Re:Article ignores NeXTstep's place on BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith · · Score: 1

    And I for one am glad Apple chose NeXT -- otherwise I may never have discovered how much better Objective-C is than C++.

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

    Hey, Terminal.app isn't in the Dock by default, and isn't even in /Applications. What do you want, blood?

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

    Where on earth do you get the idea that a scheduler which doesn't necessarily give an equal slice to every process must be co-operative?

    See "man nice" sometime, for a start...

  25. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that according to your scripture, God created Satan, and so must bear responsibility for evil.