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  1. Re:To be fair on Microsoft Fights Apple Trademark On 'App Store' · · Score: 1

    podcast is a pretty stupid word itself. I'm not sure what a "downloabable broadcast" is at all (sounds like an oxymoron but I may be wrong.)

    A podcast is simply and audio file download as far as I can tell...

  2. Re:Pretty soon... on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    Is there any technological reason at all that pressing the video "full screen" button cannot trigger the browser's full-screen mode?

    I don't think there is...

  3. Re:too little for too much on Google TV Suffers Setback · · Score: 1

    Have you investigate net-top form-factor PCs at all? The Acer Aspire Revo has caught my eye recently and sounds promising and good enough to play High Definition media.

    Not much storage, but external HDDs are cheap and plentiful and easy to hide away--alternative a NAS box could be nice in a cupboard somewhere!

  4. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 1

    There will not be a likely shortage of IPv6 addresses in any of our lifetimes.

    Unless we perfect nanotechnology and each little gizmo needs its own address ;D

  5. Re:Devil's Advocate on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    What real wars have you fought since then?

  6. Re:News Flash! Water is wet! on Stallman Worried About Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    Facebook allows you to download almost all of the content from your profile, including messages and photos so this is less of a problem now.

  7. Re:Crome still disappoints me... on Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go to about:flags and enable the Print Preview option.

  8. Re:Horrendous security model on Open-Source Social Network Diaspora Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Just choose to host your data on your own server then? That's your choice as far as I can tell.

  9. Re:Google's "nightmare scenario"... on Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? · · Score: 1

    Considering that Google doesn't even let Facebook import contacts anymore, there is nothing stopping them blocking IMAP access from facebook.com.

  10. Re:Real bug: changing the time on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    That's only really relevant in countries that have air conditioning common-place (I assume hot places?).

    I live in the UK and I don't know anyone (domestic residence) that has air-con.

  11. Re:A sure-fire way to make me HATE your product on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm pretty sure the parent is implying that Disney movies are simply a mechanism to get people to buy Disney merchandise such as toys, T-Shirts, holidays to Disney Land etc.--essentially the movie is an advertisement.

  12. Simpsons on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 1

    But is it monkey navigated?!

  13. Re:pay as you go on HTC Launches HD Phones and Updated Sense UI · · Score: 1

    This seems like a uniquely American problem, over here (i.e. UK) you can buy any phone and put any old SIM card into it--be it PAYG or contract.

  14. Re:Okay somebody tell me on Dept. of Homeland Security To Test Iris Scanners · · Score: 1

    How many people have close-up photos & videos of themselves scattered across facebook, flickr, youtube, etc?

  15. Re:hookup central on Facebook Launches Location Based Product · · Score: 1

    GPS-Based hook-up mobile apps already exist for this purpose! Google for Grindr if you're into a little random man-on-man action.

  16. Re:The problem with rail... on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Are the airlines entitled to exist? If they become irrelevant then they just fail and collapse, or am I understanding you wrong? (I don't live in the USA so things are different there maybe?)

  17. Re:Don't target cars on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I live in the UK and our rail network has been attacked several times, nothing has changed at all concerning security and we walk on and off trains quite freely as long as we have a ticket. Apparently we don't scare so easily.

  18. Re:Perhaps a "key escrow" feature? on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    Sure, your folks are going to be able to look at your pr0n collection after yer dead, but at least they will have a list of your bank accounts and such.

    Just encrypt your porn onto a separate data store and don't give anyone the password to that if you're worried?

  19. Re:Choices on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The UK is pre-dominantly ADSL too (on very very old copper wires from the BT days) and the speeds are pretty good. This does depend on your distance from the exchange but it's nowhere near as low as the reported speeds over the pond.

  20. Re:It's no worse than Update Manager on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    My reaction to your reaction would be: why doesn't Ubuntu Update already do this?

  21. Re:False assumption on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    There is only a limited list of those types of words though, and you'd rarely end a sentence with Mr or Prof or Rev. (except in the previous sentence!)

  22. Re:Buzz next? on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    That'll probably get turned into Google Me when it comes out..

  23. Forced Browser Choice on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could this be highly related to the fact that in Europe, as part of an anti-trust settlement, when you first log into a new Windows machine you are presented with a choice of internet browsers and no longer default to MSIE?

  24. Re:Don't be evil? on Using XSS & Google To Find Physical Location · · Score: 1

    Can't you just stop your router broadcasting its SSID?

    That would prevent Google from picking your router up at all.

  25. Re:Emulation is no longer possible on Our Video Game Heritage Is Rotting Away · · Score: 1

    Call of Duty Modern Warfare doesn't need to be emulated, as it's already on the PC.

    As console hardware becomes more and more similar to that of a desktop computer, where would the difficulty be in porting the game itself--rather than emulating the hardware it runs on--actually lie?

    I understand it would rely on the source being released, or the owner of the game porting it themselves.