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  1. Re:Sparked a privacy debate in the US? on Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail · · Score: 1

    Not to mention I have a lot more control over who comes into my home and could therefore see what's on my coffee table than I do over who sees what at any given webmail provider.

  2. Re:Opera sucks. on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 1
    The two reasons I switched from Opera to Firefox after 3 years exclusively using Opera are 1) lack of customisable menu colours, which renders the menus unreadable in nearly any colour scheme in KDE, and 2) extensions. Opera definitely has better tab support (even after extension in FF) and their gestures are just so much smoother for being integrated (though I miss the little trail that I have in FF), but there are a number of extensions that I use regularly that there are no equivolent features for in Opera.

    I'd really like to see them get together with the Mozilla kids and either wholey integrate FF extensions into Opera or work out some system that would be cross-platform compatible. Firefox also has a much easier to use custom search engine setup than Opera.

  3. Re:hm on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 1
    Actually, Opera's primary market is in mobile devices. Their desktop revenues are just a tiny fraction of their yearly income. Even those who do use Opera on the desktop are usually using the ad-supported one anyway.

    You are also forgetting that Opera has been around for years in an IE-dominated environment, so I don't see how a switch to a Firefox-dominated environment would by itself do any harm to their business.

  4. Re:Free as in beer on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No one said they were making Opera "Free". It says they are offering "free" licenses to universities and such. It seems pretty obvious to me that "free" in this instance is referring to the pre-existing license that they usually charge for, that being the license to USE the software. This isn't even related to GPL as it's an end-user license to use the software. If you don't like it, by all means go ahead and don't use it. I don't think you qualify anyway since you aren't a university or higher eduction institution.

  5. I think the real question is... on Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Do these robot runs Linux?

  6. Re:Do tell on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1
    You're missing a lot of bloat.

    I'd personally like to see Mozilla 2.0 BE Firefox, but maybe with an optional integrated email client and all that other jazz. Also a button to clear the quick search box would be REALLY prime since it gets in the way of my middle click the way it works now.

  7. Re:Key word is "software" on Crackers Tune In to Windows Media Player · · Score: 1

    I'd hope you're being sarcastic. Since modding hardware isn't that much more difficult than modding software, it usually just requires a bit more physical work than cracking software.

  8. Re:Quite useful on Decentralize BitTorrent with Kenosis · · Score: 1

    Wow, BT can walk into a music or movie store and steal merchandise? I must have been using it the wrong way.

  9. Re:sorry, but on Lean Mean Grilling PC Mod · · Score: 1

    I don't know, still looks a lot better than an iMac to me.

  10. Re:It's like sun on your wedding day? on Crackers Tune In to Windows Media Player · · Score: 1

    I don't see how DRM installing spyware is ironic. That's exactly the sort of thing I expect from it...

  11. Re:Unneeded comment on 2004 Indie Games of the Year · · Score: 1

    So was the first Halo. Let's all move along and forget that they ever happened.

  12. Re:If I break in your car... on Security Researcher Faces Jail For Finding Bugs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you win. As far as we know he's only owned the one Ford. And you just admitted to owning TWO.

  13. Re:Sweet! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    You're lucky if you trust your employer. I trust mine almost as little as I trust republicans to run a toaster.

  14. Re:They have porn on DVDs now? on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 1

    If I had to watch either of those second movies again I'd kill myself. Doing it from multiple angles would probably cause me to do it more quickly though, so I guess it'd be better than the standard version...

  15. Re:Not even close. on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 1

    Which has pretty much nothing to do with going to jail for IP infringement. You guys are all offtopic and talking non-sense. Putting people in jail for violence is one of the GOOD reasons we put people in jail. Because most of us don't want to be killed or injured so we all agree not to kill and injure each other. Those who don't like it aren't allowed out around the rest of us. A 12yo downloading a Britney Spears's song hardly fits the bill.

  16. Re:You're basically right, but... on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1
    Actually it'd be more like criticizing Ford because their 1995 Mustang didn't have seatbelts. But point taken.

    Besides, why bother attacking MS Bob when there are so many more current MS products that can be attacked just as effectively.

  17. Re:Their called assets... on Wish Cancelled · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've got 5$ in my pocket. I'll trade them for their code.

  18. Re:Not a stock investor... on 2004 Digital Media Winners and Losers · · Score: 1

    Of course "normal" people know how to use WindowsUpdate. They have to run it like 12 times a day to keep their machines down to only getting owned 3 or 4 times a week.

  19. Re:Test site on Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    I tried it in WINE and it didn't work either. Is this a known issue with WINE, is my setup fubar, or should I be reporting this as non-working functionality to the developers?

  20. Re:Daft headline too... on Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    Critical means another day at the office if you're using micros~1 products. Extremely critical is more like every other day.

  21. Re:Deja vu on Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained · · Score: 1

    What multimedia hard do you have that doesn't run in Linux? An ATi card?

  22. Re:Direct3D on Linux? on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 1

    That's really too bad for iD, since in my experience UT2k4 runs MUCH better under Linux on the same hardware.

  23. Re:Deja vu on Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained · · Score: 1
    If they have a presentation with software that isn't presentable it is their own fault if people attack them for putting out crap. If this wasn't a semi-annual event for them (and a daily event for most of the users of their FINAL products) maybe people would let it slide a bit more.

    Just think of it in a similar way to how it is your fault your cdrom wouldn't work with redhat because you should have known better than to install it in the first place.

  24. Re:Been done before on Build Your Own Lego Computer Case · · Score: 1

    Or for that extra ghetto stylin' they should go with the Best-Lock. Bonus points if they use BTR, since as far as I know those are discontinued and they all seemed to be just a few regular blocks and a bunch of lame custom pieces in each set.

  25. Re:Direct3D on Linux? on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 1

    It'd be more productive and less work to upgrade GL in any areas it is lagging beyond D3D. How about the windows developers just start writing to OpenGL instead and save us all a lot of hassle?