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  1. Re:Ignore the research, it's only research on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1

    Not a perfect solution, but here's a contextual menu for the menubar. Have it anywhere.

    http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.htm l

  2. Re:Silly? on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're just trolling, maybe you're just ignorant. But you can easily turn off access to the music store.

    defaults write com.apple.secure.plist.com disableMusicStore 1

    or edit the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.secure.plist.com and set the disableMusicStore key to true.

    Spotlight runs SQLite and indexes the hard drive, go recompile your own version.

    There are some valid areas that you can't access. AFPserver is one area I'd like to have more hands on, but your examples are poor at best.

  3. Re:How can we get some free press? on Linux Lupper.Worm In the WIld · · Score: 1

    Last I knew IE hadn't been updated in several years.

    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5888

    It's seriously out of date with regards to web standards and security patches. Hence, I wouldn't mention it as a crossplatform option.

  4. Re:Having fun with Mr. Ballmer on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    And how it got modded offtopic AND redundant, I'm really not sure.

    Microsoft, in thus Mr. Ballmer, said some stupid things about the market in SK. That URL makes Ballmer say other stupid, and funny, things.

    So, for those of you who don't read at -1, here it is again!

    http://www.axisofstevil.com/djballmerfresh.swf

  5. Having fun with Mr. Ballmer on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure you could get Steve Ballmer to say a few more stupid comments:

    http://www.axisofstevil.com/djballmerfresh.swf

  6. Re:Kettle = black; on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    Why? That's business.

    They should be held responsible for polution caused by their factories. I think a requirement should be that all CEOs must live downstream/wind from their factories.

  7. Re:"Greed is Good" on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 1

    Prison. But, then, maybe that was your point...

  8. Re:As a sophisticated veteran Windows user... on Tier One ISPs Dying · · Score: 1

    Maybe Dvorak can consult for you.

    Just don't ask any Mac users!

  9. Re:Not working on Windows Vista Build 5231 Review · · Score: 1

    I repeat:

    -uncheck snap to grid

    Then move the icons closer together.

    Get fancy and add show item info and it gives you a count of how many files are in the folders on your desktop.

  10. Re:Line of sight still, though.. on The Future of Wireless Connectivity · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wimax doesn't require line of sight.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax

    In fact, aside from IR, I don't recall any standard wireless communication that was only limited to line of sight. Obviously, density and EM radiation attenuation properties of the objects between sending and receiving antenna will affect the range and signal strength. But that doesn't mean it won't go through walls.

  11. Re:But.... on Windows Vista Build 5231 Review · · Score: 1

    Let's seee. Files that iPods play:

    AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF

    http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html

    It's also rumored that the hardware can play WMA/V files, but obviously Apple doesn't feel like supporting their competitors.

  12. Re:Not working on Windows Vista Build 5231 Review · · Score: 3, Informative

    WTF, did you even try?

    Go to the desktop, View>Show View Options,

    You can:
    -change the icon size
    -change the text size
    -uncheck snap to grid

  13. Re:Of course... on Are Media Writers Biased Towards Apple? · · Score: 1

    But most NON-tech journalists use Macs to write/edit/layout their stories, i.e. CNN, most newspapers, most magazines, etc.
    Whether it be Final Cut Pro on a laptop or Quark/InDesign/Word on a desktop, it's just easier to get your work done if you aren't tech savvy. And guess what, there's a crapload more non-tech journalists than tech-journalists.

  14. Re:Loving the Dual Core Hype on Apple Unveils New Pro Products · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. Re:Aperture prerequisites on Apple Unveils New Pro Products · · Score: 3, Funny

    While your name follows logically, a better name would be Pinhole.

  16. Re:Waste on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    If you want to bet who has more computers, HP or Africa, I'm taking HP.

  17. Re:Let me be the first to say on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    No, most people would LOGICALLY conclude that common link is the temerature that both need to survive, at least when baseball started.

    Now, can you provide a logical underlying cause for both of my 'facts'? I doubt it.

  18. Re:Vista with new Sieve Security Technology on Windows Vista Leaks ... Again! · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty shitty QA process. And it shows.

  19. Re:Let me be the first to say on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    Sure, but since variations and rates of changes are in the tenths of degrees, I doubt that exact changes could be measured. Kind of like trying to exactly measure the amount of rainfall from tree rings. Not an exact science because of all the possible external factors.

  20. Re:Let me be the first to say on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    Just one question...

    How have they recorded variations in temperature over the last millenium?

    That, and the strawman arguments they have for several of the myths make me call bullshit.

    Here's a fact: The global temperature has been increasing more rapidly since the start of the industrial revolution.

    Here's another fact: The 40%, by effect, of greenhouse gases have increased signficantly since this time - some more than 100%.

    http://www.espere.net/Unitedkingdom/water/uk_dimen sions.html

    Now, given fact one and fact two, most reasonable people would logically arrive at the conclusion that the temperature is going up because of the extra gases that are now being put into the atmosphere from industrial processes.

    Can we prove it? No, the atmoshpere is extremely complex. We can't even make highly accurate weather forecasts 12-24 hours in the future. But a reasonable person would stop putting so much excess greenhouse gas in the atmosphere to slow down the temperature changes.

  21. Re:FrontRow Question on iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You · · Score: 1
  22. Re:rating vulnerabilities? Describing is better. on Mac Users Blast Symantec ... Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Detailed is NOT what I'd call the kbase articles. These are the briefest of descriptions on what is actually wrong and being fixed.

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302 413

  23. Re:Speaking of bloated crud. on Mac Users Blast Symantec ... Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, Acrobat is more feature rich than the OS.

    But please explain why it need to have the admin password to install it. Is there anything in Acrobat that is system wide, moreso than something like Office would provide? I really don't think so, but would love to be enlightened.

    More likely, it's Adobe being lazy with programming and making things easier on themselves rather than proper and secure programming techniques. Remember, if there's a bug in their application at a system level, it could represent a real security hole because of the way the installer works.

  24. Re:Optimisim sells... on Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" · · Score: 1

    In the past 50 years was plenty of time.

    I bet Abraham Lincoln didn't think so.

  25. Re:How is this novel? on Outspoken Group Releases Album as Free Download · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but 10GBP is like $18.75 US, and then the fractions start to become a little ridiculous...