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  1. Re:Those Who Ship Win on The Abdication of the HTML Standard · · Score: 1

    Sure. The browser vendors can code to the latest beta release of HMTL 6 if them want, but as a web developer, I want to be able to pick on an HTML version and code to it. There's nothing to stop them having a new point release every other week if they want, I just want to be able to define where I stand.

  2. Re:And for phones? on Android 3.0 Platform Preview and SDK Is Here · · Score: 3, Informative

    Honeycomb is for Tablets only. Ice cream will be the next phone OS.

  3. Re:A DDoS is not helpful on Police Arrest Five Over Anonymous Attacks · · Score: 1

    And that entire country is the size of a parish council in most parts of the world.

  4. Re:A modest proposal on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 1

    The social security department collects money, lends it to the government, which the government then spends on various things. It exists now only in that it is part of the $14tn national debt that the federal government has to pay back.

  5. Re:One Outrage I agree on... on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 1

    How about "You are 72000 times more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the airport than you are to die on a plane"

  6. Re:Another problem with 3D on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    You are talking about camera focus, which is yet another problem with 3D. This article is about eye focus, in that where the stereoscopic image suggests the object is eg 5 meters in front of the screen, you have to focus on the screen itself, not where the object is supposed to be.

  7. Re:Convergence and Focus on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    Convergence and focus are not linked. If they were, then one-eyed people would be unable to focus.

    They are linked in that they are two of the three cues our brain uses to render the 3d images. The other is perspective. A one eyed person has only two of these cues, and they manage reasonably well most of the time with that.

  8. Re:I have another option on BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website · · Score: 1

    Write them a letter telling them it's up to them to prove you are guilty, not up to you to prove you are innocent; you do not have to co-operate with their enquiries and don't intend to; you are revoking their implied right of access to your doorstep and that any future communication from them will be treated as harassment.

    If you do that, and make sure you get the wording right as above, then they do stop.

  9. Re:Duh on How Facebook Responded To Tunisian Hacks · · Score: 1

    The conncection from home computer to ISP proxy server is by http. The connction from ISP proxy server to Facebook is by https. The proxy server can then modify the page before sending it unsecured to the home computer.

  10. Re:Duh on How Facebook Responded To Tunisian Hacks · · Score: 1

    If you RTFA, they required people to identify pictures of their friends to prove they were the real account holder.

  11. Re:It should make stuff legal... on UK Authorities Accused of Inciting Illegal Protest · · Score: 1

    Four MPs and one Lord. Two MPs have been found guilty and are in prison. The Lord is being tried now, and the trials of the other two MPs are pending.

  12. Re:We are the super-wealthy on IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs · · Score: 1

    68p is 80 euro cents, which is quite a bit less than €1.20.

  13. Re:We are the super-wealthy on IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs · · Score: 1

    But apparently it costs €1.20 for a kg of sugar there compared with 68p in England, so not everything is cheaper.

  14. Re:Off Topic Rant on IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs · · Score: 2

    Look at paragraph 4 of your second citation
    "In the United States the approximate equivalent [of the Chartered Accountant] is the certified public accountant."

    In other words, a CA is someone who qualified as an accountant in Scotland and is likely familiar with British tax laws. A CPA is someone who qualified in the US and is likely to be more familiar with American tax laws.

    Yes, the British tax code is the most complex in the world, so maybe you do need to be smarter to understand it, but that doesn't mean you know any more than the very basic stuff relating to American tax law.

  15. Re:Every generation... on UK Cosmetic Retailer Lush Targeted By Hackers · · Score: 3, Informative

    They were doing it to steal credit card details. There are reports in the comments sections of various newspapers that they were using the cards to buy Telefonica O2 pay as you go credits. Presumably they then use these to phone premium rate numbers and cash out that way.

  16. Re:Vacation? on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 1

    150 snaps is not a lot. I take lots of pics and choose the best ones. If it is a scene where there is lots of movement, I put it on continuous autoshoot and hold it for a few seconds to give me the best chance of getting things in the right place. You can end up with 20 or 30 snaps quite quickly.

  17. Re:Great logic there Lou on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 1

    I already have a static IP address, and if I want to talk to individual devices within my house, I use a VPN connection, so what benefit does IPv6 have for me? Nobody else is using it, so there is no network effect.

  18. Re:As goes Yahoo, so goes.... someone? on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 2

    Yahoo Finance is much better than the competition. Yahoo Mail is still the market leader, just slightly ahead of Hotmail, possibly because they were one of the first. Flickr is quite popular as well.

  19. Re:You see? They *are* changing their business mod on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 1

    The venue needs a PPL licence. The DJ needs a MCPS licence costing between about £100 and £400 per year depending on the number of tracks he wishes to copy.

  20. It's a government IT project on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    It's a government IT project, of course it is going to be botched.

  21. Re:Not too late! on Crunch Time For WebOS, BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    I'd say it is about as likely as Outlook 2010 replacing Outlook 2003. Exchange's remote management features are getting better all the time, and Android's support for them is getting better all the time.

  22. Re:Not too late! on Crunch Time For WebOS, BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    I don't think Nokia are the no 1 manufacturer of smart phones. They are certainly the No 1 manufacturer of £10 pay as you go budget phones, but that leaves them competing with Chinese manufacturers such as ZTE and INQ.

  23. Re:Android for the masses on ARM Powered OLPC XO-1.75 Laptop Is Faster Than X86 · · Score: 1

    If it ends up being anything like this
    http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/03/review_netbook_toshiba_ac100/
    then no.

  24. Re:Census data? on Dating Site Creates Profiles From Public Records · · Score: 1

    Does the public census data give that level of detail?

    In England, the data is grouped by council ward. A ward is an area represented by one or three councillors on the city, district or borough council. For example, in the ward I live in, it says there are 8228 residents, of which 72.2% are English, 2.6% Scottish, 2.2% Pakistani and so on.

  25. Re:It's good Tim is getting more exposure on Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence · · Score: 1

    The Fujitsu is a laptop with no keyboard. The SmartQ7 is trying to be a laptop with no keyboard. Until Steve Jobs came along, people didn't realise that tablets should be giant sized mobile phones rather than miniature laptops with no keyboards, and that's why they weren't very successful. Now people realise you should put Android on your tablet rather than Windows 7 or some Linux distro with a desktop/server heritage.