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  1. That doesn't follow on Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    She's in charge of the organization. Anything that it produces reflects on her. Her job does include all the donations and budgeting and whatever you described, but it certainly also includes making sure the product is decent. If she can't do it herself, it's up to her to find somebody who is capable of managing the development team to produce a decent product. The parent's saying she's not capable of that.

  2. You're wrong on Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation · · Score: 1

    Sorry to be so blunt, but you did ask to be told. :-)

    There aren't any particular limits on IMAP, and it's not really designed to "sync" mail. It's a way for mail (however many folders, subfolders, or whatever) to live on a central server, while your client downloads a list of them and then asks to see whichever one you click on.

    Most clients also have an offline mode, where it copies everything locally, but there is exactly one master mail store. And you can change clients 10 times in a day with no grief.

  3. Re:Unfair to business on BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have a relationship with Microsoft, and they have a relationship with Microsoft. You're giving them your money, so it's up to them what they want to do with it. If that's to invest it in software to be given away to somebody else, that's their business. Sounds to me like you've got a case of lying down with dogs and waking up with fleas.

  4. Re:Okay... on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I'll basically agree with that. Whew, glad we got all that sorted out! :-)

  5. Re:Okay... on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right. But it doesn't have anything to do with relative URLs. Relative URLs are relative to everything that comes before, including the protocol (http vs https). It's not the https protocol remembering that everything you're doing should be secure.

  6. Okay... on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    But that's what Gmail is doing, according to the earlier poster: redirecting him to the non-encrypted site. If you look up at your address bar and don't see "https://", then you are not in secure mode, regardless of how you logged in or what else you've done on the site.

  7. Re:I'm drowning in page hits! on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    Okay, I'll revise my earlier statement to replace "infinite" with "all that you have".

  8. Re:I'm drowning in page hits! on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's no karma for a funny up-mod. Which creates a big hole, because if you post something that some people think is funny but some think is stupid, you can lose an infinite amount of karma.

  9. Re:Frames on Tool Detects "In-Flight" Webpage Alterations · · Score: 1

    While I'm not sure why frames are any different from whatever other kind of content modification, you're right that the ISP could modify the hash, so GP's idea apparently won't help. SSL would...

  10. So why... on NVIDIA On Their Role in PC Games Development · · Score: 1

    So why are games being written for Direct3D? Why would a developer voluntarily chain himself to a single vendor, any vendor, let alone Microsoft.

    What would they be giving up by writing to OpenGL? It runs on Windows, right?

  11. Re:I think you're confused on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1

    The extensions aren't retroactive; you can't take something out of public domain once it's there. What they can do (and did) is prevent works from entering public domain. You're right about Mickey Mouse, but that's something like 1935; this record is from 1906 or so.

  12. Re:I think you're confused on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1

    That would be the case if it were produced now, but not back in 1900. It's long out of copyright.

  13. Not really... on TiVo Says It Could Suffer Under GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Note the word "verbatim". The ability to make modifications is a pretty big part of BSD.

  14. No it doesn't on MLB Says Slingbox Illegal, CEA Thinks Otherwise · · Score: 2, Informative

    MLB.tv is just as blacked out as regular TV. One thing MLB.tv lets them do is black people out unilaterally.

  15. That's _interstate_ commerce on Appeals Court Denies Safe Harbor for Roommates.com · · Score: 1

    Fixed that for you.

  16. Re:Very bad ruling on Appeals Court Denies Safe Harbor for Roommates.com · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd just like to point out how the word "discrimination" has been hijacked. Discrimination is a good, useful, and necessary thing. Whenever you make a choice about something being better than something else, that's discrimination. You want and need to discriminate.

    For particular reasons, discrimination based on certain factors (race, color, religion, sex, and national origin) for certain purposes (housing, voting, employment, and public services) has been made illegal. Any other kind is perfectly legal.

    Here, you've assumed that any kind of discrimination is bad. You're talking about illegal discrimination.

  17. Governments? on $100 Laptop Repriced at $175 · · Score: 1

    If there's really a market for these things, and if this is really the right price, why do they need these governments to sign on? Can't they just, you know, sell them to people? Why force them (via their governments) to buy one?

  18. Re:Abuse of states' rights? on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aside from the fact that your example is purely speculative, you are also free to move to a state which lines up with your personal preferences.

    If we truly had states' rights, the several states would each adopt a particular point on the economic and moral continuua, and people can choose where they like to live.

  19. Hear, hear on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    I'm actually agreeing with drinkypoo! Perhaps if just one of the law-abiding citizens involved had been armed, much of this would have been avoided...

    But of course for some reason, this always has the effect of strengthening the very policies which failed.

  20. Vorbis? FLAC? on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are plenty of free codecs out there that do a fine job. Why would a music store gravitate towards a non-free codec?

  21. Re:No ordinary terrestrial windmills here. on Harvesting Energy in the Sky · · Score: 4, Funny

    I will not buy this windfarm, it is scratched.

  22. Dr Korby? on Hardware Implants Mimic Brain Cells · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Hmmm. on Russian School Teacher 'Pirate' Case Re-Opened · · Score: 1

    Um, I think that's because you happen to be running an FTP server, and not a Web server.

  24. Sundog on Tatooine's Double-Sunset a Common Sight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Neat picture! Doesn't have anything to do with latitude, though; it's the ice crystals in the clouds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundog

  25. Translated link (beta, of course) on Russian School Teacher 'Pirate' Case Re-Opened · · Score: 1