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  1. Re:Have you read this? on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    I think that is to do with evidence.

    The only way they could catch you downloading something is if you downloaded it from them, and if you downloaded it from them you could argue that you received it from an authorised agent of the copyright holder.

  2. Re:What timing [PDF stinks] on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    Both, on different computers

  3. Re:Just remember the first rule of RAID 0 on RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? · · Score: 1

    What you are looking at is the probability data loss happening in a particular period - the critical window. If you have a single drive that is the probability of that drive failing. If you have RAID-1 storage, then it is the probability of both drives failing at the same time.

    The probability of one drive failing is pF. If the correlation is 1 then the probability of both drives failing is also pF. If there is no correlation, then the probability of both drives failing is pF^2, where pF is expressed as a fraction. If there is some correlation, then the probability of both drives failing is somewhere between the two extremes.

    I think we understand that software, viruses, stupid users etc see the RAID as a single c: drive or whatever, and any damage they cause will be caused to both drives.

  4. Re:Just remember the first rule of RAID 0 on RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? · · Score: 1

    Where do you get the 1/2 failure rate from?

    Supposing the drive has a 10% probability of failure. Assuming no correlation, the probability of both drives failing would be 1%.

  5. Re:Right-hand drive? on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 1

    It Britain you can drive a left hand drive car, but it is probably going to be more expensive to insure it. Insurance companies ask if it is a right hand drive car. I'm not sure what happens if you say it isn't.

  6. Re:The article says 80% charge in under 10 minutes on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 1

    I guess you would fill it up at a gas station, just like you do with your existing car.

  7. Re:Ricdic was banned... on Massive Bank Fraud In EVE Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And of course, people always tell the truth on web registration forms

  8. Re:Tamiflu is a joke on Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web" · · Score: 1

    It reduces the severity of the symptoms during the period of the illness, and in some cases that could make the difference between you dying from it and surviving.

  9. Re:OSS also not a big player in cheeseburger marke on Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance · · Score: 1

    Google Mail or MS Office Live / Hotmail is a cloud computing solution. Hosting your own exchange server isn't. I suppose your ISP or hosting provider's POP3 server would come under the cloud computing category as well.

  10. Re:XHTML merged on XHTML 2 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    But when people put <a hrefhttp://www.goatse.cx> in the comments, you can end up with the rest of the page being a hyperlink to some horrible picture. That's not a good thing, and you need to do some checking to stop that from happening.

  11. Re:What timing [PDF stinks] on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    Version 9

  12. Re:Do we really need GPS to track mileage ? on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    If it is anything like the British plan, they want to charge more for driving on busy roads and at peak times.

  13. Re:What timing on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The common reason I find for people emailing word documents is when they are negotiating contracts. Then you see .docs being emailed between the parties and their advisers, with people suggesting various changes to the document. The final version will generally be distributed in pdf, but the discussion drafts need to be in word format so people can make changes to it.

  14. Re:What timing [PDF stinks] on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can fix the blurry text as follows:

    Right click on the document, and click "Page Display Preferences", then click on "Page Display" in the side menu, and in the "Rendering" section, select Smooth Text: "For Laptop/LCD screens".

    Adobe uses its own font rendering system rather than the one in Windows, and clear-type is not the default setting.

    If you are using the Mac, the same procedure applies except that you may have to ctrl-click if you only have one mouse button.

  15. Re:They need to find the money now on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most of the $65bn never existed in the first place. The rest would have been handed out to customers who had withdrawn money in the past.

    The $65bn is what his clients thought they had in their accounts with him, but a lot of that can be attributed to fictitious gains that he reported on their accounts.

  16. Re:I call BS on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not the writing style of an average 13 year old, but the average 13 year old, or even average much older person doesn't get to write articles for the BBC.

  17. Re:My first walkman still works on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 1

    I think they will still have rechargeable batteries. If it was possible to have a reasonable sized battery that could hold 2-4 years charge, most manufacturers would prefer for various reasons to have a smaller, lighter batter with a smaller charge capacity.

    Indeed, if you had an ipod shuffle sized device inside a walkman sized case, you could have a lot of battery, but I don't think it would sell too well.

  18. Re:But could he... on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 1

    Can you even set up a rig to try one out these days? I don't think modern exchanges support pulse dialing these days, and I remember my parents' old phone was hard-wired into the wall (this is in Scotland), so plugging it into a modern phone socket wouldn't be easy either.

  19. Re:Old Standard to Prevent All Attacks on New Firefox Standard Aims to Combat Cross-Site Scripting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't depend on user-generated content, since it's shit. If your site can't provide it's own content, at least properly filter incoming user content down to plain ol' text.

    I suggest you resign from Slashdot as soon as possible then ...

  20. Re:Use a file? on New Firefox Standard Aims to Combat Cross-Site Scripting · · Score: 1

    And can you be sure you have all the legitimate user agents?

    Certainly ie, mozilla, safari, chrome and opera will cover most of the desktop / laptop user agents, but what about all the obscure browsers used on phones and other mobile devices?

  21. Re:I wonder on Google Mistook Jackson Searches For Net Attack · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the reason a lot of people searched Google News is because they heard about it and weren't sure if it was true or not. If someone wanted to spread an untrue rumour about something, this is the sort of subject they would choose.

    I searched Google News for that reason, and when I saw it was reported on news sources that are usually reliable for that type of news, like BBC and Sky News, I then believed it was true.

    Also, like a million or so other people, I have tickets for his show in London next month, so it does impact me.

  22. Re:No need on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Command Key was used for those sorts of things long before Windows 95 introduced the windows key.
    Also, it is in the same position as the Alt key on a PC keyboard.

  23. Re:No need on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    You don't usually control a KVM from a laptop keyboard.

  24. Re:Start FreeWindows7 emulator now on FreeDOS Turns 15 Years Old Today · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can find such a project here: http://www.reactos.org/

    As far as I can see, Microsoft's track record at supporting legacy software is better than most.

  25. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections · · Score: 1

    Because Canada covers the second largest land area after Russia with a relatively tiny population.