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  1. Re:A Ha on Stuxnet Virus Now Biggest Threat To Industry · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Had to reinstall Ubuntu yesterday... on Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 Home appears to have the same capability...

  3. Re:Order of Magnitude on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it did a lot of good cheating on one test. They're still far behind and nobody has found any other tests they've "cheated" on yet even though this was first posted long ago.

  4. Re:Bluetooth... on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Well, they must be using the typical western depictions of a long haired pasty white guy rather than looking like someone that many of his followers would be nervous about flying on an airplane with.

  5. Re:Or... on Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams · · Score: 1

    If ads on legitimate sites weren't offering up these kinds of "tools", I'd be more inclined to agree the users that get infected are somehow stupid. I remember having my antivirus going off on a regular basis when browsing completely legit sites because an ad embedded in it was attempting an exploit.

  6. Re:GoogleTV has Netflix. GoogleTV is Android on Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android · · Score: 1

    Native app with x86 assembly maybe?

  7. Re:About hardware, not operating systems on Windows Cluster Hits a Petaflop, But Linux Retains Top-5 Spot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They didn't run the Windows benchmark with all available nodes. I'd assume they didn't have licenses for every node but the researchers made it sound like they had some sort of nerdgasm because the machine could benchmark running Windows on par with Linux (only a 5% margin on a smaller cluster).

  8. Re:Sounds more like... on Windows Phone Permanently Modifies MicroSD Cards, Warns Samsung · · Score: 1

    It's nothing more than expansion of the internal storage. Anything you'd find written to the internal storage can be written to the SD card once the internal storage is filled. The SD card installed into a WP7 device is intended to be in the phone for either the life of the card or the life of the phone, whichever comes first.

  9. Re:Plan B after WinPhone 7 bombed? on The Return of the Microsoft Kin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a supply shortage. None of the manufacturers shipped enough devices to meet demand. It's a good thing it was a Monday launch instead of Friday or Saturday. People might have actually been lined up just to get super pissed they couldn't buy a phone.

  10. Re:Try Amazon on Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US? · · Score: 1

    It's ALL AT&T phones at Amazon:

    All AT&T Phones on Sale This Thursday, November 11, through Monday, November 15 only, all AT&T phones are on sale starting at a penny with a new service contract.

  11. Re:If You're Late to the Party on Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sockets are supposed to come in an OS update which will come from MS without carrier or hardware vendor involvement so we can be pretty sure every phone will get it. I'd assume it'll end up rolled in with either the copy and paste update (early 2011) or the multi-tasking update. I'm pretty sure it was a security policy issue preventing use of sockets on the WP7 .NET runtime.

  12. Re:Article was ridiculously bad on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    It's because Windows NT was started as a replacement for OS/2 with full OS/2 compatibility (a new operating system though). When Windows and its API were a somewhat unexpected success, they flipped IBM the finger, and decided to make the Windows API the primary API of the system and made it Windows NT.

  13. Re:Sun monetized Java too on Oracle To Monetize Java VM · · Score: 1

    I think they were offering a random toolbar. I'm pretty sure I'd seen everything from MSN, Yahoo, Google and Bing over the years installing Java....

  14. Re:And so what? on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    Yes, Microsoft has been quite adept at losing billions of dollars annually trying to break into new markets and soaking up the loss with Windows and Office profits under Ballmer.

  15. Re:Why is this odd? on Apple To Discontinue Xserve · · Score: 1

    If they're only real server product is nothing but a workstation with OS X Server installed (which is what a Mac Pro "Server" is), I wouldn't expect their server OS to be around much longer.

  16. Re:What irritates me the most on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    I bet those Android app writers used to write applications for Windows XP too.

    "What's this permission bullshit? My app needs access to everything!!"

  17. Re:I never knew... on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    A request for quote is precisely what you use when you want someone to quote you a price for a specific thing you want.

    They probably want to just go with BOPS so they can just sync their existing Active Directory and Exchange system with it and put some people on the new system and keep people who send and receive stuff they really really don't want in the cloud on their on-premises e-mail system.

  18. Re:Ok, stop. on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1

    The optional BOM in UTF-8 was the doing of Unicode. Even though UTF-8 only has one possible byte ordering, they allowed an optional BOM.

  19. Re:60fps on a phone? Why? on John Carmack On RAGE For iOS/Android · · Score: 1

    It's because unlike with movies, TV etc video games do not produce a perfect distribution of frames at the refresh rate of the monitor. Sometimes a new frame just hasn't been rendered yet when the monitor refreshes leaving it stuck with a stale frame for that refresh. When the next refresh comes up there's new frames and it uses one causing a sometimes noticable (depending on what is going on) jerk as it goes from the stale frame to a fresh one.

  20. Re:Plenty of heads up. on Apple Deprecates Their JVM · · Score: 1

    You mean the Oracle JDK / JRE for Macs that we're pretty sure doesn't exist because Apple has been doing that work all along?

  21. Re:Absurd idea to begin with on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    The default choice is to launch and wipe out humanity or MAD no longer applies and your enemies can nuke you at will.

  22. Re:awesome on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    I believe it was Nixon drunk with his finger on the button.

  23. Re:What does this mean for Android? on IBM and Oracle To Collaborate On OpenJDK · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The patents are for the inner workins of a VM for Java like programs. They apply to the JVM (obviously), MS CLR (which is probably more or less their old JVM with modified instruction set) and probably Dalvik. Oracle probably had the analysis done long before they launched their lawsuit. I think Google will have to go for the jugular and get the patents completely thrown out if they want to avoid having to pay the same kind of money Microsoft pays for .NET.

  24. Re:But if he doesn't patent it... on Why Geim Never Patented Graphene · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure nobody could get away with patenting something someone already published and won the Nobel Prize for.

  25. Re:AT&T and Blackberry Maps on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    She owns it, she's just required to stay with AT&T for the duration of a contract or pay an early termination fee. It's like a loan where the payments are built into the monthly payments for service.