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  1. Re:Problem is on OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany · · Score: 1

    Most normal people actually find the ribbon much easier to use because they (and I as well)

    Overgeneralization - assumption that you are like most of people.

    Most of Office users used older Office versions. They are used to menus. Ribbon wastes screen space. It might provide shortcuts for people, who use 10% of office features, but the moment people start using other 90%, they are confronted f###ing ribbon trying to hide features from them and preventing efficient use of those features.

  2. cracking is illegal in any civilized country on A Look Into the Chinese Hacker Underworld · · Score: 3, Insightful

    cracking is illegal in any civilized country. I am pretty sure that if he spends nights hacking, Chinese authorities won't put him in jail unless he tries to hack something in order to circumvent their controls.

  3. Re:Speaking as a morbidly obese male on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    I can stand in that thing and jiggle my lard around like the dancing baby from Ally McBeal and make whoever is watching them image lose their lunch.

    After losing their lunch they can do rectal exam on you.

  4. Re:You've raised $130 out of $7500 on FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? · · Score: 1

    How do so many geeks manage that?

    One geek putting interesting content on inadequate hardware or network connection.

    Summary must be interesting enough to attract site viewers.

  5. How about Norway on China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In order to win race you must finish first. I don't think that China can do that when Norway is already 100% green. Or maybe "green energy" does not include hydro power.

  6. Re:Everyone should do this on Google To End Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    The fact that IE7 and IE8 were "recommended" updates on Windows Update might also give a hint.

    They are not listed recommended updates. They are listed as security updates. Such way of updating does not give hints. It raises questions why company abuses system update functions to push new major versions.

  7. Re:Everyone should do this on Google To End Support For IE6 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    After all, it's not as if there aren't any [microsoft.com] alternatives [mozilla.com] available [google.com]...

    Your "any" link is broken. It does not list alternative. Only other version of same piece of sh*t that calls itself a browser.

  8. Re:No wonder we're losing the battle on child porn on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    no, they wouldn't. not if they mounted the drive read-only.

    And then defense attorney will ask you to prove that you mounted that drive read-only and haven't put incriminating evidence there.

    I am not CSI specialist, but I am pretty sure that there are procedures that must be followed in order to protect people who must be treated as innocent until proven guilty.

  9. Re:Awesome, Ubuntu is such a community player. on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 1

    Yep, they sure are, making money off of someone elses work ... thats the true spirit of OSS.

    Nope. That's a spirit of capitalist bastards doing business on OSS.

  10. Re:No wonder we're losing the battle on child porn on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    So, it took officers a year to mount the hard drive in another system, and take a look in the recycle bin.

    If they just connect drive to other system, they would corrupt evidence.

  11. Re:IPv6 will make this obsolete on Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Once we get IPv6 everywhere, most ISPs will simply assign each user a fixed subnet, since that is so much easier and more efficient than keeping track of dynamic assignements. Same for large networks that currently use NAT.

    Not more efficient that my ISP does now. They track users by MAC and always assign same IP address. Technically my IP is dynamic, practically it changed only when I switched to other plan.

  12. Re:Doesn't matter on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 1

    It only takes a couple of clicks to change it to a different engine.

    It takes two additional clicks. That's another 30 seconds of system setup time or n hours of maintaining own firefox packages with correct defaults. They are wasting admin's time by pushing unwanted changes.

  13. Re:Is it just D&D ? on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    So...being forced to spend large amounts of time surrounded by sociopaths isn't punishment enough?

    Are you referring to prison guards or to prisoners? If prisoners are sociopaths, then the one who is being forced to spend large amounts of time is also sociopath. :)

  14. Re:Skylab Shreds on Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean? · · Score: 1

    The question is - why is there suddenly traffic suddenly appearing from every country in the world at the same time? and again a number of hours later? And again 5 or 6 times?

    googlebot, msnbot, slurp, insert your favorite web crawler here.

  15. Re:Slashdot did it first on Half of Google News Users Browse But Don't Click · · Score: 1

    Post your website URL, let's see if we'll read it :-D

    We'll read it only when we are curious. For example, summary should say something about some oily Natalie without clothes.

  16. Re:'Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.' on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    The corporation with the $271.6 billion market cap is the pawn in the battle between two corps with market caps around $190 billion. That makes sense.

    It makes sense when bigger part of 271 billion market cap comes from completely different market and 190 billion corps have higher market share in selected market.

  17. How to create exploit for IE7-8 on Microsoft To Ship Emergency IE Patch · · Score: 1

    Microsoft only has to say that IE6 is vulnerable and IE7-8 can't be exploited using same attack. The net will do the rest.

  18. Re:Is there a reason for Google to shaft Mozilla? on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only thing I can see is Google would use their leverage over Firefox to get Firefox to switch from the Gecko to WebKit. That would give Google a unified JavaScript/Web browser engine to run their applications against.

    1. using same rendering library in all browsers is dangerous. Bigger user base is vulnerable to same exploits.
    2. Presto, Trident, Tasman and other browsers. If you replace Gecko with Webkit, you won't get unified rendering engine.

  19. Re:Already possible on Blizzard Adds Timestamps To WoW Armory · · Score: 1

    This just makes it a little bit easier. One could easily write a LUA script

    Are you sure that WoW EULA does not have some conditions that prohibit scripting?

    There is a big difference between seeing opponents time habits and violating gaming rules in order to get them. Especially when such automation can be detected.

  20. Re:I blame the IE 'mentality' on France Tells Its Citizens To Abandon IE, Others Disagree · · Score: 1

    User might get suspicious when his favorite porn site tries to modify the 'gmail' cookie.

    You don't need user for that. Browser should freak out when some site tries to inject or modify cookie which belongs to other site.

  21. Re:When will we change programming practices? on Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    1. I'm not a programmer - do some of your own legwork, read the Wikipedia page on Buffer overrun exploits or just fucking Google it.

    Where have you learned to discuss things? You claim that tools exist, but you refuse to disclose them. Either you don't know those tools or you don't understand how they are used and what are their limitations. If you claim some facts, be prepared to prove them instead of redirecting your opponent to F thing.

  22. Re:When will we change programming practices? on Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Why haven't they changed to something better? From what I can see, better tools have been available for a long time and, quite frankly, the old "we've always done things this way and it would be too expensive to change" is real crap.

    1. "better tools are available" means nothing if you don't name those tools.
    2. Complete rewrite does not make thing secure. It adds new problems and can reintroduce old ones. older stuff works and needs few patches. New stuff would require a lot more patching and more coding hours. You won't call old stuff crap, if you know how it works and you are the one who has to redo same thing on new stuff.
  23. Re:WTB: Aircraft Carrier on Own Your Own Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    anybody got a slightly used aircraft carrier up for sale?

    Contact Chinese. They have Varyag, Minsk and Kiev.

  24. Re:Of course on Bing Gaining Market Share Faster · · Score: 1

    default in a large percent of Internet browsers,

    And only search option on sites related to Microsoft. Maybe those 10% of searches are people hopelessly trying to find stuff in Microsoft KB, download center and MSN.

  25. Re:Attacks targeted IE6 on IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack · · Score: 1

    why are people at these companies using IE6?

    1. unsigned executables display warning if executed from UNC shares.
    2. primary browser is Firefox
    3. person, who makes decision about installing ie7-8, does not trust company, which pushes spyware and new program versions as security updates.