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  1. Re:nitty gritty on KDE Publishes a Book For Beginner Developers · · Score: 1

    The dead tree listing indicated it was as 89.

  2. What qualifications ... on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 3, Insightful

    does DHS have for doing this? Despite flushing billions of our tax dollars paying Hamburger University dropouts for irradiating and/or groping the American public with not a single no-so-scarist being caught. As effective as the crystal my dotty Aunt wears around her neck to keep them away and far cheaper. The U.S. gov cant event get their own house in order IT security-wise as department after department fail their audits and fail to meet their mandates, How effective can they be trying to remotely administrate the IT infrastructure of independent businesses/institutions? There is absolutely no evidence that the have the expertise or management skills to perform this function.

  3. Re:Physical keyboard? on Halliburton To Dump Blackberry For iOS · · Score: 2

    I type less each day.

    Doesn't typing the same word every day get a little boring?

  4. Re:Full GNOME Ubuntu? on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    How do I get Ubuntu with the original Desktop?

    Linux Mint

  5. nitty gritty on KDE Publishes a Book For Beginner Developers · · Score: 4, Informative

    89 Pages $10, seems a bit pricey. Heres the PDF URL: http://en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/kde-guide/kde-guide.pdf

  6. Re:thanks.. dont have to get it now on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 1

    All those shakesperian fantasies seem the same to me.

  7. Re:thanks.. dont have to get it now on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 1

    "Forbidden Planet" was good enough for me.

  8. Re:Project Codename: Sieve on Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox · · Score: 2

    I cant imagine any of these "features" would have any possible positive aspect for me when using a browser.
    At best they are trivial convenience stuff to assist the marketdroids to present the sheeple with their "vision".
    I DONT want marketing dweebs running poorly concieved and even more poorly implemented code on my machine, no matter how well sandboxed.
    NoScript and Adblock FTW.

  9. Re:We are not all members of your religion. on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    And the invokation of the holy sacrament is "Bibo ergo sum"

    I'm a hobbit and therefor exist?

  10. I read Crap robot .... on Crab Robot Helps Remove Stomach Cancer · · Score: 1, Informative

    and thought "Great, yet another shiny Apple iDevice"

  11. Re:not to mention... on Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation · · Score: 1

    I elongate and sharpen MY lives you insensitive clod.

  12. I am sure ... on EFF Seeking Information of Legal Users of Megaupload · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will be contacted by all six of them.

  13. executives and officials on Ongoing Attacks Target Defense, Aerospace Industries · · Score: 1

    That would be the ones that use 12345 or "password" for their authentication.
    Why do such places allow their users to see anything but plain text from outside sources? Since they are vulnable to these exploits, one has to assumme they have a MS infrastructure. Set the outlook group policy to disable preview and display only the plain text portion of a message.

  14. Re:Control signals- NOT Data on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    If DoCoMo (sounds like a Beach Boys song) thinks this is an issue, let them dedicate some of THEIR resources to provide an open source solution, whether it be kernel changes or an ECMA API spec that would that would allow tuning the communications flow that they find so disruptive. Make a positive contribution instead of having your suits whinging about how bad it is. I have no doubt that mutiple apps are sending keep alives and other such stuff which could be consolidated. I am sure DoCOMo will have no objection to volunteer server resources to centralize the notifications.

  15. Re:I don't get it. on Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing · · Score: 1

    They have an Android phone, but you can't use it with pay as you go.

    Actually I have a Moto I1 (Android v1.6, Motos most recent ver for it) on my PAYG. There is a world of difference between $7.month ($20/90 days) and $45.. While the T-Mo is a tad more expensive ($8.50/month = 1250min/$100/12 months) its a far cry from your $45. As noted I am in WiFi Access Point reach most of the day for internet and do not see a need to pay exorbitant amounts to any carrier for internet access that I already have. Internet while I am out and about is not that valuable.

  16. Re:I don't get it. on Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing · · Score: 1

    Interesting point, I will have to make sure I accommodate that on any Android app I develop.

  17. Re:I don't get it. on Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing · · Score: 1

    I don't have web access on my phone. I "pay as you go" on boost for about $7/month for talk & text assuming I don't burn thru a $20/90day minutes card in the period. Next month I plan to pop $450 to move to the Galaxy Nexus on T-mobile for $100/125min/year, still no internet. Yes, between work/home I am WiFi accessible 90% time, but off-net when mobile. Which makes me prefer a standalone app instead of a website for utilities.

  18. Re:not the answer but the problem is still there on Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games · · Score: 1

    when at least half of your target audience will wait a few weeks/months to buy your game used

    If your marketdroids havent learned to factor this into their projections, you are paying them WAY too much money.

  19. Re:What about Schindler's list? on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2

    Ripped off from the scene in "The Matrix".

  20. On the gripping hand on MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car · · Score: 1

    I wonder if MIT is harboring motie engineers.

  21. The right balance on Corporate Boardrooms Open To Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    being, of course, that which is no QA cost to the vendor.

  22. Re:That figures... on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1

    Ruh. Roh.
    Oh .... ASTRAL projection ... never mind.

  23. Re:what a name on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    Thank you Eye-gor.
    Werewolf.
    There wolf.
    Frau Bucher
    [Horses Whinny]

  24. Re:Is it an interesting question... on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    If a company management is stupid enough to buy into the "backup to the cloud" paradigm espoused by a salesdroid, they are stupid enough fail applying real backup "best practices". These are not "simple" for a computer illiterate PHB who uses 4-color brochures as a source for decision making.

  25. Re:Groan on Google Accused of Interfering With South Korean FTC Investigation · · Score: 1

    Google also owns AdMob

    That's some nice marketing you got there, be a shame if something were to happen to it.