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  1. Re:Why all that fuss? on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    22+10+10 = 42!

  2. Re:Are you serious? on Will Ballmer Be Replaced As Microsoft CEO? · · Score: 1

    The market grew faster then their growth!

  3. Re:Surprise on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty similar to multi-tier software development, where business logic is developed separately from the user interface. I'm doing the latter and guess who gets all the bug reports?

  4. Tag chip on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One step closer to the inevitable, mandatory tag chip for everyone. And future people will not have problems with it. Things like this watch will make children get used to these sort of things.

  5. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    I was driving in France last week aswell, and I wonder... Why do the french insist on driving the middle lane in a 3 lane speedway, even when the right lane is completelly free. At one point I drove on the right lane, well within the speed limit, for at least 4 KM, passing cars that drove bumper to bumper on the middle and left lane.

  6. Re:Web-based admin night be nice on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    And on top of that, this application server could implement cloud computing transparently to the user.

  7. Re:Web-based admin night be nice on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    Why stop with system administration through a web interface. Basically all types of applications, like their own office suite, could run through the web interface. Through a specialized local webserver, named application server, local and remote applications could run transparently for the user, Google could choose to store the most basic software units of their office suite at the clients computer for basic off-line usage (don't know if that is already a provided functionality). Think of a window manager with browser capabilities embedded.

  8. Smart decision on XHTML 2 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it is good to have various standards within the same area, because of conflicting interests, etc. But when new or modified standards resolve these conflicts, the best this would be to merge with or adapted the new standard. It would be nice if this could happen with more standards (and licences for that matter), just to keep things a bit clean.

  9. Re:This is why there are closed source "solutions" on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 1

    "Getting "everyone" to agree on a single standard often times proves to be next to impossible. What ends up happening is that a large player in the market *coughMICROSOFTcough* ends up doing things their way."

    If all the others, including apple, implements ogg and youtube announces the conversion to ogg, Microsoft can't stay behind.

  10. What if??? on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    What if every does:

    * login in their youtube account
    * click the Quicklist link on the top right of the page.
    * Click Viewing history
    * Click Clear viewing history

    Off course it is possible to just set a deletion flag to the history records, but I'm guessing it really removes the entries.

  11. Re:Define:tool on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 1

    But that is for tools just the same. We're still talking about the same thing here, imho.

  12. Re:Wow! on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It will be in 2017.

  13. Not right! on Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Admittedly it was not smart of the guy to leave the tape in the car. But changing procedures concerning handling these kind of data, is like saying something was wrong with the system from the beginning. Why not take a weeks vacation from the guy who is responsible for the procedures?

  14. Re:Why would you ever..... on More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched · · Score: 1

    Slashdot actually managed to spin a highly positive analysis of Vista into something that suggests Vista is not only worse than XP, but Microsoft is somehow going out of its way *not* to fix it.

    Yeah, Microsoft would never spin facts around into their own advantage!

  15. Re:The next "One major danger"... on GPLv2 Vs. GPLv3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Freedom is a limited resource, because one man's freedom is another man's restriction.

    Very correct!

    So one should see the freedom thing into the right perspective. Freedom in GPL is clearly targeted to the end-user of the software, and therefor restricting the developer/publisher of the software. On the other hand, freedom in BSD is targeted to the developer/publisher of the software in question and therefor can expose restrictions to the end-user.

    So both might be equally free, but just for a different audience. Tivo's lil' trick takes away the freedom from the audience GPL is meant for, hence V.3

  16. Re:Oh noes on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    I just tried the site with konqueror. It does give the dialog with the text; 'The Right Mouse Button Is Disabled!', but after clicking OK, I get the context menu nevertheless. And this is default behaviour.

  17. Re:The size will be the limiting factor not DRM. on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Bilbo's take:

    It costs half the drives half as cheap as I would like; and I like less than half of the movies as much as bandwidth serves

  18. Re:Is it just me... on Best Sitting Posture Is Not Straight Up · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Whoa. yes, I indeed did. Until I saw your post and rofl'd

  19. Re:The real point: keep OS designers honest on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    And working code will prevent you in most cases from ever revsiting the design.

    And why should you? If it ain't broken, don't fix it!

  20. Upgrade in process..... on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Upgrade in process.....

    hahaha... That's one way to handle a slashdotting :p

  21. Makes konqueror crash on MSN Virtual Earth Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Visiting the site makes my konqueror crash. Fair enough, googles version also doesn't work for konqueror, but at least it doesn't make it crash.

  22. Opening on Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can imagine, depending on how many games are played and the available memory space, that it will develop to have a decent opening. But nothing more then that.

  23. Re:Denial. Brilliant! on SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    "Re:Denial. Brilliant!"

    Ah.. that's what the commercial of IBM was all about.

    "You're in denial"
    "No, I'm not"

  24. Re:Compiler + host platform + target platform comb on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    But how many people build stuff on Amd64 with an Intel compiler ?

    What's wrong with that? On my Mac, running VmWare to be able to run Win XP, so I can use CygWin in which I frequently crosscompile the latest Linux kernel optimized for AMD64 with an Intel compiler.

  25. Re:US Race Fans Widely Dissapointed on Three Planets Racing this Weekend · · Score: 1

    Actually 4 planets. Earth is part of the alignment also. So we are into the race ourselfs. No GP can beat that, eh?