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  1. Re:Flexibility and freedom are its raison d'Ã on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apart from XP Embedded, where you can choose which parts of the OS are installed. It's not designed for home-use, but I've used it to make a 140MB version of XP that is blazingly fast. It can play media, has internet access, games, everything I need.

  2. Re:Tire Tech on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    They use solid metal wheels, with no tires. As you mention, anything short of that will simply disintegrate.

  3. Re:hah this is too little too late on Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability · · Score: 1

    It's nowhere near as easy to set up as AD, though.

  4. Re:Periods and Commas on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    It's quite a frequent occurrence in non-English-speaking countries. It annoys the heck out of me, and is clearly illogical, but hey - it happens.

  5. Re:Warning: religious comment. Proceed with cautio on Old Materials Resurface For "Prebiotic Soup" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Umm... there is no evidence for creationism. None at all. But nice try!

  6. Re:Boo effing Hoo on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 1

    All fine except one point: FireWire is not a "pro" option. It's entry-level. It *was* a pro option about 9 years ago, but not today.

  7. Re:PDF on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Try to make sense next time you attempt to deliver a pithy one-liner. You might actually succeed.

  8. Re:PDF on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. How can you work in anything other than a dark room, reading braille, if a flash advert (which isn't even on the page once you scroll down a couple of inches) distracts you so much you can't read? I'd love to believe your story, but it just sounds like a bullshit excuse for your stealing bandwidth from a site you spend considerable time reading.

  9. Re:PDF on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Get that sand out of your vagina, and allow the ads to be served. It's pathetic how some people get all angry with an animated banner. You seem to understand that adverts are a massive source of income for many websites, yet don't seem to have a problem with using an ad-blocker on those very websites. That's fucked up.

  10. Re:Free open source software on Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September · · Score: 1

    AD has a lot more to it than single-sign-on. Policies, updates, etc. I've been down the Linux route, but that is one thing that is slightly better on Windows. And yes, most likely because the inertia Windows has, but that's not a good enough reason for most managers to leave that camp.

  11. Well... on Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide · · Score: 1

    Spammers want to reach as many people as they can, and if they think Obama is ahead in the polls (whether he is or not), then they'll pick his name for the subject.

  12. Re:Would that be more like... on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 1

    It's all of those in a wobbly/flashy thing that sits on or under the bottom of your screen.

  13. Re:Free open source software on Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are missing one important factor - the equality of the software. It might be that open source software allows some workers to be more productive, or it might be the other way round. Also, there's the fact that we're talking about software use in a company - like it or not, Active Directory makes managing massive networks trivial - changing from windows to *nix on the desktop will mean a required change in IT management of said computers. That, too, is a one-off cost, but it might make managers baulk.

  14. Re:automatic login? on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1

    Nope - computrace uses the Host Protected Area portion of a hard drive to store its software, and that persists even after a format, or even partition juggling.

  15. Re:Not all reformats help on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 2, Informative

    It uses the hard drive's Host Protected Area to store the software, so you need special software to remove it.

  16. Re:If they want to remove CO2... on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    What happens to those crops once they're destroyed? How do the crops get to wherever the market for them is?

  17. Re:That's what you get in Kahnawake... on "Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find it's more important to them to hang on to the last shreds of their cultural identity than co-operate with non-aboriginal law enforcement. Which seems fair enough to me. Of course, you're probably a non-Indian fella in Canada, so you won't understand. Your culture is everywhere.

  18. Re:Computer systems need security audits. on CSRF Flaws Found On Major Websites, Including a Bank · · Score: 1

    It's the Location: header, and it works exactly that way. I don't know why sites don't use it more often - it completely makes POSTing a non-issue for everyone concerned.

  19. Re:Generous Companies on Managing Personal Electronics and Software In the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Well, if you use Sophos AV, it's included in the price. Or it used to be, at least. Every desktop user of their software in the corporate setting would be allowed to use it at home.

  20. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Because DVDs never took off, either, due to their DRM :) Most normal folks don't care about DRM. They go to the store, buy a disc, and put it in their machine when they want to watch it. The DRM in DVDs and Blu-Ray doesn't interfere with that.

    Yes, DRM is far from ideal, but if it's a choice between DRM'd content and no content, most consumers will take the DRM'd content.

  21. Re:Again with the lasers on US Congress Funds Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    That's why these lasers are not allowed under the Geneva convention. But hey.

  22. Re:microsoft innovates? yeah right. on Microsoft Innovates Tent Data Centers · · Score: 1

    These are not military-spec servers, and not many concerts last 7 months. But nice try.

  23. Re:Title on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately 'theory', outside of science, means the same as 'hypothesis' within science. So yeah, creationism/ID is a theory, it's just not a scientific theory. It's a scientific hypothesis based on imagination.

  24. Re:Wha? on Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook · · Score: 1

    Because then the F/OSS guys can't jack themselves into a coma :)

  25. Re:What would happen on Hacking Esquire's E-ink Cover · · Score: 1

    It isn't??? I've made a huge mistake.