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  1. Re:Total surveillance will stop crime on German Railways To Test Anti-Graffiti Drones · · Score: 1

    I only read your second link. Page 129, it identified that CCTV showed there was a reduction of crime in CCTV areas compared with non-CCTV areas. That doesn't fit with your argument for "not doing squat for reducing crime rates". It has identified that it reduced the crime rates in CCTV areas in New Castle.

  2. Re:Total surveillance will stop crime on German Railways To Test Anti-Graffiti Drones · · Score: 1

    Well I suppose one could you take a look at the UK and their surveillance everywhere idea and how it's not doing squat for reducing crime rates.

    Care to share your source that proves it does squat regarding crime rates, for any single area in the United Kingdom?

  3. Re:If you have to ask /. on Ask slashdot: Which 100+ User Virtualization Solution Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    Clippy, is that you? Vigor has been missing you deeply.

  4. Re:They blew a golden opportunity on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    They were slow to get it out and early versions were hard to use.

    I wouldn't know, seemed easy.

  5. Re:Make metal ilegal too... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 1

    You agree by pointing out that he is wrong? You two are prime examples of gun-banners having no reasoning skills.

    Whooooooooooooooooooooooosh

  6. Re:Make metal ilegal too... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 5, Funny

    guns dont kill pepole is nonsense and anyone who believes it is a victim of gun lobby PR.

    I agree completely, It's bullets that kill people.

  7. Re:They blew a golden opportunity on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    But geocities was originally free

    And then they improved it with some paid services.

    Geocities could have morphed into something similar to blogspot, maybe with ads for Yahoo revenue.

    Why would they do that when they have Yahoo! Blog?

  8. Re:a feature, not a bug on Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters · · Score: 1

    It serves as an example as to why one should not bother.

  9. Re:They blew a golden opportunity on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Let me reword it: "They didn't significantly improve it".

    The paid editions were actually improved often (and as a whole, I think they were significantly improved) and are now part of smallbusiness.yahoo.com.

  10. Re:Flashblock on Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads · · Score: 1

    Can you show the patent?

  11. Re:Stop being cheap. on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 1

    Way back in the early '80s when I got my degree the thing that was placed into our heads was to spend 90% of the time designing, 5% coding, and 5% testing.

    Waterfall development methodology pale compared to Agile in my opinion.

    These days we seem to dive into coding way too early.

    Better to have something done than nothing at all in my opinion.

  12. Re:They blew a golden opportunity on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    but they didn't improve the products, such as making them more click-to-build etc. so users didn't have to learn HTML.

    They did actually. Please stop lying.

  13. Re:Flashblock on Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads · · Score: 1

    The sad this is that this was a feature originally first provided in IE4, just had to change a registry key. I'm happy to see it as an option inside FF and Chrome now.

  14. Re:oh i see on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    But for gaming I prefer the convenience of the console, being able to fit it in my TV cabinet, and the knowledge that I can buy a game and it will just work.

    My experience with consoles hasn't been that great actually. I have had games (like the latest Resident Evil) on the original PS3 (HD screen) perform like utter crap (literally, some scenes went down to something like 7fps). I have seen similar issues on the xbox 360 in GTA4 too. Sorry, but I don't buy your argument. At least on the PC if I encounter a game being crap, I can find a workaround, but not on consoles!

  15. Re:please stop calling it piracy on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    Then try to prove its existence to us, without losing all and every control forever.

    I am not the original poster, but your argument interests me.

    With very little thought on the matter, I quickly came up with conclusion that reality is a combination of chemical reactions and electric impulses in the brain. As reality is perceived through these reactions, all existence can be considered just 'thoughts' on another level. I think it's very possible to control your thoughts and therefore entirely possible that someone could view they have control over a sentence they create in reality.

  16. Re:Article is confused about purpose on Patenting Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I stopped using the GPL

    Whoever you are, you didn't seem to make an impact since I can't think of any well known opensource products that stopped using GPL because of a single individual. I'm guessing you just wrote a XML parser or something else done a thousand times.

  17. Re:It is a shame that OpenOffice gets the nice nam on Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year · · Score: 1

    Note: I am not the grand parent.

    I would suggest differentiating the brand from just being an 'OpenOffice.org fork'. Give it a more unique name, points for:

    • Name rolls off the tongue
    • Is easily pronounceable in most languages
    • Advertising - Full page ads in magazines (and being an opensource project, you might get a special deal)
    • Affiliate linking programs similar to the earlier days of Firefox, where users could compete with each other based on how many people they referred uniquely.
    • A distinctive large icon in the UI that notable, so potential users can recognize the use of this program in multiple places.
  18. Re:Marketing on Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year · · Score: 1

    "Open Office" is trademarked by another office suite.

  19. Re:I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    So what is Microsoft using on the xbox 360 for youtube?

  20. Re:No. .Just No. on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 1

    Because I need tools that any home and SMB user can use easily and SanboxIE ain't that tool, it just ain't.

    Why not? I thought you were meant to be an experienced IT person, doing something like System Center Configuration Management should be trivial for you.

    And why would i want to go to the trouble of downloading some other program just to make up for the fact that the FF devs are shitty when it comes to security, when I can give them any Chromium based browser instead and just be done with it?

    Because you're relying on just the security provided through the browser, when you could limit the browser's capability from effecting the entire OS.

    I also don't see why you'd think SandboxIE would be more secure than Low Rights mode

    Why do you keep capitalizing IE in sandboxie? It's nothing to do with IE.

    Say some escalation exploit is used, the exploit code has direct access registry, files on the system. Sandboxie avoids that entirely because the environment is virtualized too. It also does not suffer vulnerability issue where a plugin can effect the entire system (like the Java applet exploits that effect Chrome too).

    So far, from your response, I don't think you researched the software at all.

    frankly I haven't seen a single infection on any customer's PCs that use it

    Says the experienced IT guy that doesn't know how to use "System Center Configuration Management" trivially. Yeah, I don't think I'll trust your 'security' audits, I actually doubt you do them.

    Oh and FYI but if you just absolutely positively have to run FF for some reason

    I don't care what browser is being used, I find it ridiculous to be concerned about browser security and then to not actually implement something like sandboxie, considering the attack vectors are still completely capable via commonly used plugins, especially when you're bringing in users that you imply through your use of the words 'any home and SMB user' are not technically literate and therefore likely to click 'yes' to various security prompts despite the dangers.

  21. Re:Too little, too late? on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    Go on strike?

  22. Re:Still no support for TLS 1.1 / 1.2 on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 1

    How is it broken?

  23. Re:it gets worse.... on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 1

    The extensions that keep breaking for you were likely built using the old way, which didn't make use of the stable API abstraction functions that the FF devs keep 'working' between versions.

  24. Re: on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 1

    I suggest you go back to IE6. It's more the type of browser your kind like.

  25. Re:Oookkkaaayyy.... on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 1

    Does it really matter if its name is 20.1 or 21?

    It does, because 20.1 was the previous version, naming it an identical version would break things and confuse people.