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  1. Re:They might lose on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple don't need to support the use of their product for a purpose it isn't sold for. If you try to install OSX on a playstation, it isn't going to work, and nobody would expect it to. If you try to install it on a PC with a hacked EFI emulator, it might work, but you can't really complain if it doesn't work very well.

  2. Re:How is this news for nerds??? on Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning · · Score: 1

    This is just a modern day local newspaper. The idea that the media can bring down corrupt local or national officials is nothing new.

  3. Re:GPSes are dirt cheap, you make money w/ maps on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1

    They have had a Windows Mobile version for at least two years now. Maybe this new version is better in some way?

  4. Re:No on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1

    It makes them less able to do a rights issue to finance future investment. It also makes it more likely that another company will launch a takeover bid.

  5. Re:No on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1

    I bought TomTom for my cellphone. The maps are installed on a memory card, so they work without the need for a cellphone signal. I can download updates for satellite positions which helps it fix a location a bit quicker.

    I also have Google maps for my cellphone, which works with GPS, so this isn't a new thing by any means. It is good for searching google local ads, so it will tell me the nearest whatever to where I'm standing at the moment and direct me there. TomTom allows you to download point of interest files which perform a similar task, and that works sometimes, but it isn't as good as Google in that department, unless I'm in the Scottish Highlands with no cellphone signal and I need to find a petrol station urgently.

    So my cellphone lets me have the best of both worlds. If either Google or TomTom could let me have the best of both worlds at the same time from the same application, that would be even better.

  6. Re:Do more about spam on jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups · · Score: 1

    Do you think they are as tight about these things in Nigeria as they are in the US or EU?

  7. Re:Do more about spam on jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups · · Score: 1

    The mule who responds to a "money processor" job ad lives near the said Western Union branch. You know who he is because you followed him there.

    From there you only know which country the money went to. Russia and Nigeria are big places. Some tactical nukes in Nigeria might work, but I wouldn't risk trying it in Russia. In any case it could be WU'd to another mule who immidiately WUs it to another country.

    If you knew which branch the money is picked up from, you could follow the spammer back home. I have 49 Western Union branches within a 10km radius of me, so you probably wouldn't have to follow them for anything like that sort of distance.

  8. Re:Do more about spam on jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is that the trail of money ends at a Western Union or Moneygram branch.

  9. Re:Slashvertisement! on AbiCollab Takes On Google Docs and Zoho Writer · · Score: 0

    So it is like Office Live Toolbar?

  10. Re:Are they buying a full valid license of OSX? on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 1

    That is an upgrade DVD. It does work fine on a blank hard drive, when I upgraded, I put a new 500GB hard drive in my MacBook and did a clean install on that, but you are supposed to have an earlier copy of MaxOSX somewhere.

  11. Re:Or, if we are about the open source, on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 1

    The EULA on my copy of Snow Leopard says I should only install it on an "Apple labled computer". They do helpfully supply two apple lables in the box for you to use.

  12. Re:I Don't Have a .PST on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 1

    That means you are talking to an exchange server. Evolution and other programs can get stuff off the exchange server without too much trouble.

  13. Re:Oh no... on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 1

    Outlook uses .ost format files for storing exchange accounts.

  14. Re:Good grief.. on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 1

    I don't have any left overs on my table because I only cook what I can actually eat.

  15. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    I would look in backports. I generally find what I'm looking for in there.

  16. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    Except that you usually have to download and install a ton of dependencies to make it work. apt-get and similar make this easy for you.

  17. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    jonathan@keisha:~> su
    Password:
    keisha:/home/jonathan # aptitude install firefox
    bash: aptitude: command not found
    keisha:/home/jonathan # zypper install firefox
    Loading repository data...
    Reading installed packages...
    'MozillaFirefox' providing 'firefox' is already installed.
    Resolving package dependencies...
    Nothing to do.
    keisha:/home/jonathan #

  18. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is great for software supplied by your distro's repository, and most distros have lots of software available in their "contrib" or equivalent repository. Firefox of course usually comes installed out of the box, so it isn't an issue.

    Where this could be beneficial is for software that isn't popular enough for the distros to package. At the moment, you have to publish different packages for each distro and for each architecture, and you probably won't bother about much beyond i386 and amd64.

  19. Re:BUSTED! on Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended · · Score: 1, Informative

    I do indeed

    60% of doctors plan to refuse it.

    Citation is
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/24/doctors-refuse-swine-flu-vaccine

  20. Re:BUSTED! on Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Britain, apparently a large number of doctors and nurses are refusing to take the H1N1 vaccine. I don't understand the arguments for and against, but if the people who know about these things don't want it, why should I take it?

  21. Re:Performance != Observance on Music Rights Holders Sue YouTube Again · · Score: 1

    Because on computers, everything is a copy.

  22. Re:I sure hope they get this patent on Apple Seeks Patent On Operating System Advertising · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure there is some prior art from the dot.com era when someone tried to introduce an ad supported free pc.

  23. Re:Yes on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I don't know about NT4. I switched from Windows 98, where I could count the number of hours of uptime between blue screens in one hand.

  24. Re:not afraid on Dutch Gov't Has No Idea How To Delete Tapped Calls · · Score: 1

    It's not as simple as that.

    The phone call is never going to appear in court. What could happen is that the police listen to the call and then have a better idea where to look to find evidence that will help them with their case. This evidence will be presented to court, will be solid evidence that proves the accused guilt, and there is no way you could prove it was obtained as a result of tapping a privilidged phone call.

  25. Re:Forgive me if I'm wrong but on Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing · · Score: 1

    In the context of licence changes, which is what this is about, fsf can change the emacs licence without worrying about what the openoffice.org developers think. However if you want to change the licence of linux, you need to ask lots of individual developers. Some of them have died since making their contributions, so you have to find who inherited their copyright and ask them. Others will have used a screen name, and if their email address is dead, there is no way of contacting them.