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  1. Re:Two words on How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil · · Score: 1

    What i would like, is the ability to right click an ad and 'open in /null'. Basically cost the advertiser a click, without me having to close the opened tab.
    The more clicks they have to pay for, the less crap we might see.

  2. Re:It is Canada's fault! on Krebs on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails and Blaming Canada · · Score: 1

    Modded Informative?

    This guy is informative: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/con...

    You'll note that "The law also includes a three-year transition period that ensures that as long as an organization already has implied consent, it has until 2017 to upgrade to an express consent"

  3. Re:Source... on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 1

    I still have it on my iPad - but I thought it was the developers themselves that pulled it from the store, not Apple.

  4. Re:The Devil we Know... on Google Warns Against UN Net Conference · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it? RFC1591 says it's supposed to be international. Only GOV and MIL are US only.

  5. BBC has some video on Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Not just Windows on TiVo Desktop Plus 2.6 Now Released · · Score: 1

    Hmm, were you not affected by the Fall update which apparently broke this completely?

    There's a thread over at tivocomunity about Toast being broken by that update, and no apparent resolution 6 months later.

    I tried TDM just recently, and although the files can be played happily by MPlayer, I have yet to find the right mechanism for re-encoding without audio sync problems. The scripts in TDM for converting to MPEG-4 did not seem to work.

  7. Re:I ponder on Flying Humans · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could have just given him Low Morale

  9. Re:Bloat++ on Compiz Gets Thumbs-Up for Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

    seemed to fix it for me

  10. And now... on Internet Radio May Stream North to Canada · · Score: 1
  11. Make your own on Combined Hovercraft and Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Courtesy of MAKE magazine.

  12. Re:I want more. on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 1

    But since the University of New Brunswick is in Canada - we should be talking beaver.

  13. Re:Like the GPL? on Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No · · Score: 1

    It takes away the freedom to use somebody else's code in your proprietary, for profit, application.

    WTF? It's Copyright law says you have no freedom to use somebody else's code in your proprietary, for profit, application. The GPL grants you the freedom, as long as you respect the wishes of the author.

  14. Re:"funny" but true on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Actually you need to reboot twice.

  15. Re:All for terrorism! on Blue Crab Nanosensor to Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    And here's where you get it.... http://www.hsarpasbir.com/

  16. Re:I like that window selection thing on Windows Vista Build 5231 Review · · Score: 1

    My first impression of that screenshot was (despite the Media player title on the main screenshots page) that it is a view of a folder containing pictures - which in this case happen to be mostly screenshots.
    I might be wrong though.

  17. Craters? on Google Moon Debuts · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or do all the craters look like bumps.
    I've tried rotating my head to find a lighting direction which works - but can't - they are still just bumps.

  18. Re:USDOJ N379P on 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers · · Score: 1

    They might persuade them to go for a scenic jet ride

  19. Re:Okay... on Second Life Virtual World to Get Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or even better, a real life client application that runs inside the embedded Firefox browser. Then you could escape your humdrun SecondLife by escaping into a new (and possibly different) real life.

  20. Re:Just to compare on U.S. Offers $50 Download · · Score: 1

    And the Aussie ones.

  21. Re:SP2 is a security hole in itself. on How Secure is Windows Firewall? · · Score: 1
    Hmm, I wonder exactly how it determines this.

    My machine is part of a domain, but I did see this dialog.

  22. Re:Quality on Skype 1.0 For Windows Released, Updated Linux Beta · · Score: 1

    Canada is one of their global calling countries (can't remember the exact term, and their site is a little slow right now) - you can call out to a regular phone number in these countries for the cost of a local call.

  23. Re:Quality on Skype 1.0 For Windows Released, Updated Linux Beta · · Score: 1
    I would agree - the quality is excellent.

    However on one (and only one) occasion there was a time delay of a few seconds which really had us confused.

  24. Re:Bush alaska on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 1

    Think lake - not island.

  25. Re:Been there, done that on BBC to Try TV On Demand · · Score: 1

    Then there's the Australian ABC - which is more like the BBC than CBC, and nothing like the US ABC.