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  1. Re:IE the bady!!! on Opera Tells EU That Microsoft's IE Hurts the Web · · Score: 1

    Get IE7 on all your machines, I'm fed up coding for the 30% of users in their offices still on IE6!!!
    Sorry. We don't need prompts every time user starts the program from UNC share.
  2. Re:Fine on Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    But also require ... Redhat to unbundle Firefox from Fedora

    Default browser for Gnome is Galeon. Removal of Firefox does not affect end users, because they will continue to use Gecko. Fedora users are free to use any browser they want and remove bundled browser. Windows users are forced to have that browser installed. That pitiful excuse of a browser is still included in Microsoft updates and company can (hello IE7) hijack user preferences by forcing upgrades to newer browser versions.

  3. Top 20 on Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make top20. Then you can have 20 pages full of ads instead of just 10.

  4. Re:Is an old version of Linux better than the late on Microsoft Disses Windows to Sell More Windows · · Score: 1

    Linux may be a great OS, but I'd take a 2.6 kernel over a 2.2 kernel any day for my desktop computing needs. 2.2 is buggy, slow, insecure, and sucks compared to the latest kernel. If you were in charge of upselling users to 2.6, you'd say as much, I hope.

    Buggy - maybe.
    Slow - maybe.
    Insecure - prove it. Then try proving same thing for WinXP.

    Don't confuse security issues with Microsoft marketing of their new product. There are four types of lies. Lies, big lies, statistics and marketing

  5. Re:Well, DUH! on Fighting Spam Through Regulation and Economics · · Score: 1

    It is obvious. If companies don't/can't make money from spammers, they won't pay spammers.

    It removes only one type of spam. Online payment restrictions can block legal online businesses.

    Instead of viagra spam you will get more 419 and other scams.

  6. Re:these problems are the reason we need ISS on Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    This is the 2nd space station... compare that to the 2nd airplane.

    Something wrong with your math.

    • Salyut space stations (7 working + 2 failures) - 1971-1986
    • Skylab - 1973-1979
    • Mir - 1986-2001
    • IIS - 1998-current
  7. Re:Due dilligence and move on on How to Deal With Stolen Code? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If there is no copyright claim by the original author then I don't see what the problem is.

    TRIPS.

    • ...
    • Copyright must be granted automatically, and not based upon any "formality", such as registrations or systems of renewal.
    • Computer programs must be regarded as "literary works" under copyright law and receive the same terms of protection.
  8. Re:Huh?? What violation?? on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 1
  9. Other side of story on Everyday Copyright Violations · · Score: 1, Troll

    Talk about copyrights when your copyrights are violated and copyright law is the only protection that your work has.

  10. Re:iPhone graphic on Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing · · Score: 1

    "Happy Christmas, here's an iPhone ... and here's the contract"

    "Happy Christmas, kid. Here's an iPhone ..."

    Guess who pays for the contract.

  11. Unique name on Online Nicknames Google better than Real? · · Score: 1

    Or your name is more unique than your nick handle.

    Name + Surname or just Surname = first on google
    Nickname = 15th and only due to higher ranking caused by third party.

    Google search is based on keywords. Better keyword wins.

  12. Re:I thought viruses were illegal? on FSF Releases AGPL License For Web Services · · Score: 1

    It's bad enough that a 2 million line program written from scratch would suddenly be infected by the GPL by including a 1 line file,
    GPL gives you more rights than copyright laws. If there is no GPL, you wouldn't have the right to use one line written by third party in your proprietary software. If your code is not GPLed, don't use third party GPLed code.

    If you are going to write free code and give it away, then stop worrying about how other people are going to use it.

    When I write code, I write it for the world. Not for some commercial software producer that likes to abuse its userbase. That's why I choose GPL and not BSD or MIT. Your license is free, but I don't want to give that kind of freedom to other software developers. GPL allows me to make sure that others follow my rules and my software remains free.

    I would never choose AGPL because it is way to aggressive. I also would never code under BSD or MIT because some schmuck will take that code and sell it as own one.

  13. Re:good! on Court Order Against German T-Mobile iPhone Sales · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, even though the iPhone is technically tied to a contract, you buy it without signing any contract. In effect, it's a contract-bound phone where you don't sign any contract to purchase it.

    How good is a phone if you can't make a phone call.

    If you have to apply some third party hack in order to unlock the phone, you lose all warranties and can end up with 400 USD brick, if you accidentally upgrade to unsupported firmware.

  14. Re:do you think just maybe it's not all bad news on Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just mesh the IMEI number with location data provided by the GPS and/or AT&T to give you weather information based on where you are located at the time.
    Where is your tinfoil hat? Third party gets information about where you are with precision of 15 meters in order to provide weather reports. Is it really needed? Do they have weather reports with less than 1 km precision?
  15. Re:Vista isn't Stable? on 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista · · Score: 1

    Vista killed a lot of backward compatibility by making things more secure.

    What security issue is removed with Contacts box in Windows Mail?

  16. Re:The other side... on In The US, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    Nevermind. I've assumed that you already have Athlon 2600+ that is fanless. Confused real XP 2600+ with wanted X2 2600+. Multicore Athlons are called AMD Athlon 64 X2.

  17. Re:The other side... on In The US, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1, Informative

    Athlon XP 2600+ used 20 watts because it was fanless and it was running closer to 1000+.

    Only underclocked Athlons XP and Athlons XP-M use less than 25W.

  18. Re:M$ need to move corporate keys back to XP syste on Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses · · Score: 1

    M$ need to move corporate keys back to XP system. Businesses do not like the idea that there vista system must call in to M$ to check there key from time to time or go in to limited functionality mode or use a key sever that calls in to M$ and systems can also go in to limited functionality mode if the sever / network goes down.
    Windows 2008 server can run local activation service.
  19. Re:First off... on Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan · · Score: 1

    Anyone who doesn't wipe a new drive first off is just begging for this sort of thing.
    you have to connect drive to your pc and load some OS in order to wipe it. Some OSes with very big market share don't provide any controls that can disable execution of autorun.inf without breaking some non autorun.inf related functions.
  20. Re:vurdalak.com article on Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found · · Score: 1

    In that place the seven rich Dzhenkoul brothers in those days pastured a reindeer herd of 600-700 head. The brothers were rich.
    1) how is the brothers' wealth relevant to this story in any way?
    2) how rich were they?

    "a reindeer herd of 600-700 head." Main type of business in pre-Soviet Tunguska

    500 - 1700 USD * 600-700 reindeers = 0.3 - 1 mln USD of movable estate in current prices.

    Each was worth 10-15 golden rubles in 1905. I think 1 ruble was close to 2/3 USD before World War I.

  21. Re:Could someone clarify... on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 1

    How will you then login to your bank page without https?
    http over ssl is not on tcp/80. It is on tcp/443.
  22. Re:Could someone clarify... on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 1

    Really this seems to be a case of "the more you tighten your grip, the more will slip through your fingers". The excessive amount of filtering first made sure that about everything learned to talk over port 80. Now they'll add encryption over that, so that ultimately a large percentage of traffic will be completely opaque and going through port 80, making it pretty much impossible to filter.
    I suspect you can filter it on tcp/80. Just block any traffic that is not http.
  23. Re:Some information... on Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously...who has SEVEN CHILDREN? On PURPOSE?
    One drove too fast and they are six
    One went to wrong place and they are five
    One learned to fly a plane (almost) and they are four
    One was a brave astronaut until shuttle crashed
    One slept with wrong wife and they are two
    One used wrong crack and there is only one
    Last boy is a nerd. End of your genealogy tree.
  24. Re:One of the most widely used ??? on Qmail At 10 Years — Reflections On Security · · Score: 1

    So... qmail is like the 'dark matter' of the internet - people postulate it's there but we can't directly detect it ;)
    You can detect it. Standard Qmail has very distinctive "relaying denied" and "max message size" error messages.
  25. Re:I just love qmail on Qmail At 10 Years — Reflections On Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    > 1. How do you start / stop your MTA? /etc/init.d/... or delete a file and recreate it to restart.

    http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svc.html

    svc -d /service/qmail - stops
    svc -u /service/qmail - starts
    svc -t /service/qmail - terminates the service and daemontools restart it.

    > 2. How do you configure software? Config files or adding and removing files from a magic directory?

    http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/qmail-control.html

    > 3. How do you kick the mail queue? Buggered if I can remember.

    send ALRM to qmail-send process.

    kill -s ALRM `pidof qmail-send`