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  1. Re:Why is it red? on The Demographics of Web Search · · Score: 1

    Because you had the opportunity to have the first post, which you managed to get.

  2. Re:Correction: on The Demographics of Web Search · · Score: 2, Informative

    Richard Wagner is much more famous though.

  3. Re:Favorably? on What Nokia Must Do To Stay Relevant In Mobile · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Microsoft give the impression that they have completely lost the way with Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile 7 has all the disadvantages of the first generation iPhone, without any of the advantages. The 1st generation iPhone was a flop and that wass without a 3rd or 4th generation iPhone competing with it.

    Given that existing customers are going to be forced to make a switch whatever happens, I suspect a lot of them with switch to Android, and once they do that, they aren't going to switch back unless they have a very good reason to.

  4. Re:Did the author completely overlook,,, on What Nokia Must Do To Stay Relevant In Mobile · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Britain, they used to do it the US way, and still do to an extent, but you can now get much cheaper SIM only plans.

  5. Re:md5? on Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo · · Score: 1

    There is no theoretical limit, but you might come up against operating system limits depending on your setup. It is used for example to verify that DVD images haven't been corrupted in transit.

  6. Re:Still skeptical about all-electric cars on Company Builds Fast Charging Station For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been in an electric train?

    Electric motors can have much more torque than petrol engines, provided they are powerful enough. That isn't a problem for a train which can pick the power off the overhead line or the live rail, but for a car that has to carry its own fuel, it is a trade off between power and range.

  7. Re:Cold fusion on Company Builds Fast Charging Station For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Another thing to point out is that Electric cars are not new. They were invented about 100 years before Diesel cars were invented, and diesel, and later petrol cars replaced electric because of their much better range.

  8. Re:So? on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That works because one of the friends will have a credit card with an "admit 4" ticket associated with it.

  9. Re:Not statistically significant on Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books · · Score: 1

    He started learning the skills needed to write police reports when he started primary school.

  10. Re:Learning curve on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    There is an ancient version of ie:mac around somewhere. You don't really want to use it
    Alternatively, you can run the windows versio of it in wine. It works reasonably well
    Or you can run it in Parallels or VMWare Fusion.

    Leopard and Snow Leopard let you put an App folder in the Dock that puts up a menu with the contents of the folder, much like the Windows 2000 and earlier versions of the Start Menu.

    There is a task manager, but it only lets you kill programs. Try the Apple Menu at the top of the screen, or there is a shortcut key combination which I can't remember at the moment. Alternatively there is usual unix task management tools in the console.
    There was always a right button menu for people who replaced the hockey puck mouse with a superior Microsoft rodent. Alternatively Ctrl+Click did the same job.

  11. Re:For a day? on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    In Britian, manual cars are the norm. If you learn on an automatic, you only get a licence to drive automatics and you are not allowed to drive manuals.

  12. Re:Why? on ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Chinese is also spoken in Singapore which isn't quite as heavily censored as mainland China and in Hong Kong & Taiwan which aren't censored any more heavily than in a typical western country.

  13. Re:compromise idea to prevent regional isolation on ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Websites probably aren't so much of a problem because if you can't read the script the URL is written in, you probably can't read the rest of the site either. If they want an English language version of the site, they will probably put it on a site with a Roman URL.

    For example if you want to visit Cardiff City Council's website, you can visit either www.cardiff.gov.uk (english) or www.caerdydd.gov.uk (welsh).

  14. Re:We have to! on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 1

    Then he predicted that Germany would beat Argentina. I haven't seen is prediction for the next round yet.

  15. Re:We have to! on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 2, Informative

    Paul the Octopus did a better job of predicting the results than they did.

  16. Re:What Firewall? on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    The BBC itself blocks access to most of the video and audio content from outside the UK.

  17. Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real? on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 1

    It probably won't even come to that. Even if it is legal to host these servers within the parliament building, I don't think there is any obligation on anyone to provide a connection for them to the outside world, and that's where things could get difficult.

  18. Re:Review of said guide on Consumer Guide To Stem Cell Clinics · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, and these snake oil purveyors are just preying on these desperate people.

    There is a good chance that at some point in the future, stem cells will provide the answer, but we are not there yet.

  19. Re:Thats the least of their problems. on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    Think passphrase rather than password, then it gets a bit easier. The phrase has to mean something of course, not just a random collection of letters, numbers and symbols.

  20. Re:Stop raining on our OSS parade with your "facts on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 1

    And at the time my computer had a 1.2GB hard drive, so this was a big deal.

  21. Re:Many with family plans on Verizon are waiting . on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    Canada certainly has a CDMA network (or two). I believe South Korea does as well.

  22. Re:Yeah that sounds nice - but using what codec? on Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash · · Score: 1

    I know that, but there is no h.264 support. Most websites' attitude to Opera support is that they can use something else.

  23. Re:Not interesting on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    From the dimensions here
    http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/desktop-hard-drive/?intcmp=bac-en-us-home-h_hero1-goflexdesk-3tb#tTabContentSpecifications

    I don't think you could get two drives in there, but it could be a fat 3.5" drive similar to the 2.5" 1TB drives you get from various places.

  24. Re:Well? on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    It is more like 51% since there are slightly more boys born than girls. The girls live longer which is why the female population is higher, but that is at the old women end of the spectrum.

  25. Re:I left this comment there.. on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    As an example, if you go to https://www.lloydstsb.co.uk/ - they are one of the big 4 banks in the UK, you get an invalid SSL certificate. That is because you are supposed to go to https://secure.lloydstsb.co.uk/ . All the links point there and you only get to the invalid one if you type it yourself.