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  1. Re:Hahahah on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    The question is, who would he lose them to? Not Obama anyway. Are they going to vote for the third candidate?

  2. Re:Requiring NDA is changing the rules of the game on Lenovo Requires NDA For Windows License Refund · · Score: 1

    I think the main point is that they are trying to impose additional T&C on you after you purchased and paid for the product. If they didn't give you the chance of a refund, they couldn't impose these additional T&C.

  3. Re:Simple on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 1

    Depends what kind of files you use. Linking to a series of .svg files is most likely fine. .ttf files with all the hinting information could be a problem. You can make your own though with some font creation software and the existing font, and there is nothing they can do about it.

  4. Re:Simple on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 1

    Who cares what font designers say. US copyright law says they have no choice in the matter. Font designs are not copyrightable.

  5. Re:Yay! on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing is that font designs aren't actually copyrightable in the US. Microsoft etc get round that by copyrighting the "font software", ie they argue that the .ttf file is actually a computer program that displays the font, and that computer program as distinct from the font design it dispays is copyrightable.

  6. Re:Oh, I'd like a version on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Back in the days when ie mac was around, it probably wouldn't have worked on your payroll website anyway, as it didn't support vbscript or activex (and had better support for html4 than the windows version).

  7. Re:Shows what competion can do. on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    You find German speakers in Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, and not many other places. You find Spanish speakers in Spain and most of Latin America.

  8. Re:Plaintext passwords? on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't have it displayed to them. They should type it in when the customer tells them it and the computer should tell them if it is the right password.

  9. Re:Confusion on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    All the hotels I've been to in the UK do allow port 22 access. They also allow port 1723, which I think is pretty essential for most business travellers.

  10. Re:Confusion on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    HP didn't claim that my computer can access the entire internet.

  11. Re:What example? on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    You need to learn not to take the symbolism literally. That's where the anti-christians and christian fundamentalists get it wrong.

  12. Re:Should have used Harry Potter... on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    It can't always be reproduced, even if you do offer to pay royalties. The copyright holder is allowed to say no.

  13. Re:Should have used Harry Potter... on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    But I think the point of this is to preserve languages for future generations rather than literature per se. The Bible is probably the book that is most likely to survive in future languages, so people in the future will be able to compare their version to the versions in the languages we speak today. The Old Testament has survived more than 3000 years so far, and is likely to survive a bit longer.

  14. Re:So much for the seeds of .... on Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair · · Score: 1

    I suggest you don't take a car to any of the new towns in Britain then (East Kilbride, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Basingstoke, etc) where pretty much every junction has a roundabout.

    Swindon has a particularly interesting example where one of the roundabouts has lanes to go round it in both directions, and mini roundabouts at each of the entrances to the roundabout. It is fascinating watching five lanes of very busy traffic flow through the roundabout without any delay even at peak times, but a bit confusing when you have to navigate it for the first time.

  15. Re:Groklaw is an example of the power of open sour on Grokking SCO's Demise · · Score: 1

    Most people who shorted the stock will have lost money. When you take a short position, you have a very small window for the stock to go down before you have to buy it back.

    This is very different from taking a long position, were you can hold out for years until the stock comes good.

  16. Re:Gambling problem on Grokking SCO's Demise · · Score: 1

    SCO has far more to lose from Linux than Microsoft does. There are two operating systems that are increasing market share in the server space - Windows, and Linux. The losers are people like SCO and Novell Netware.

    From my very unscientific survey of people I know, it seems that people using Windows Server are mostly ex Netware customers, and people using Linux are most ex Unix customers. Maybe if Linux wasn't there, they might switch to Windows Server instead, or maybe they might stick with SCO. It is difficult to make the case either way.

  17. Re:I did not even notice it... on Outages Leave Google Apps Admins In the Hotseat · · Score: 1

    If cables get cut, you won't be able to access GMail or Google Apps either.

    You still have that problem, and in addition, you have to add the reliability problems at Google's end.

  18. Re:Hmm on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's a nice theory, but in practice, I have seen a huge increase in spam recently. Mostly CNN and MSNBC News Alerts that require me to download an updated version of Adobe Flash Player.

  19. Re:Embossing on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    And Apple's USB plugs have the symbol printed rather than embossed, so you can't feel it.

  20. Re:what email address did he register? on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 1

    That's no longer the case. Anything stored in a "structured filing system" is protected now. It certainly includes video tapes, and a lot of paper files.

  21. Re:Only a small part looked simulated on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    It was happening, but what you saw was a computer generated version of what was happening on the ground, not the actual live recording.

    The final footsteps, I understand, were real.

  22. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Does it say that in the original Hebrew or New Testament Greek? And what does it actually mean. Is it just a commonly (at that time) used expression for "everwhere", or does it really literally mean the corners of a four sided polygon?

  23. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    The illustrations aren't part of God's word.

    Nevertheless, any differences between the story in the Bible and what science tells us can be explained by the fact that they answers to completely different questions.

    In any case, is the big bang theory really that incompatible with the idea that "God said, 'let there be light', and there was light"?

    The science books say that the universe started with a big nuclear explosion. We know from other nuclear explosions since then that they generate lots of light. The science books don't say who set off the bomb, so it is perfectly possible that God did it.

  24. Re:Ryanair are awful, though on Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third-Party Systems · · Score: 1

    If you want to fly from Ayr to Cambridge, then the RyanAir flight from "Glasgow Prestwick" to "London Stanstead" is ideal. But why pretend the flight is going from Scotland's largest city to England's largest city when it doesn't go anywhere near either of them.

  25. Re:Well, if that's the way they want it on Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third-Party Systems · · Score: 1

    Try http://www.stenaline.co.uk/ferry/

    You can drive onto the ferry, wait while it takes you across the Irish Sea, and drive off again in Wales / Scotland.