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  1. Re:Well now on Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft's Disputed Android Patents · · Score: 2

    They don't have any patents for cross-licensing, do they? The others can make a deal.

  2. Re:Terms of Service on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Actually, it appears common sense broke out and that one got overturned.

  3. Re:Terms of Service on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    This lets the lawyers go fishing. It should have been given to their own lawyer and the lawyers troll through their accounts together.

  4. Re:Terms of Service on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Because this case made it worth a year in prison.

  5. Re:In other news..... on Kindle Fire Will Be Hotter Than iPad This Holiday · · Score: 1

    iPod owners who are going to buy something else and won't automatically exclude the Zune. 58% sounds low.

  6. Re:This can only make the work place more awkward. on DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection · · Score: 3, Funny

    Email doesn't worry me. ATMs do, especially if there's a line.

  7. Re:Get smart on Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    Department of Internal Control. A bunch of DICs.

  8. Re:Not many people want you to support consumer te on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Not at all. Supporting whatever crap you bring to the office isn't in my job description.

  9. Re:Consumer Innovation on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    IT should identify the need, and start ordering Commercial Versions of these products. Too bad they aren't so there isn't much choice.

    If they build it, we will come. If we'd had any decent alternative to the iPad as a 'document reader / viewer' (yeah right) we would have been able to stop management from buying a bunch of shiny toys.

  10. Re:flawed logic on The Software Patent Debate Is Incorrectly Framed · · Score: 1

    It makes some sense, as long as the test for being novel and non-obvious is still applied. If you build something new and unique in software, you should benefit. If you implement rot13, in hardware or software, you can tell your story walking.

  11. Re:Broader definition? on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    How does Unix ship metadata within an arbitrary file type?

  12. Re:In short.. on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    I'd like to not have the problem of creation date being later than modified date. Happens a lot when people move files around.

  13. Re:Auto deleting files... on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    When you get to that level you use document management systems that have security and features like retention and disposal schedules. As for cruft, we end up not being allowed to delete files because nobody can tell us who owns it or can make a decision.

  14. Re:Auto deleting files... on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 2

    Lots of people have 'temp' files that don't live in %TEMP^%. I had to move *important* data for one of our units a couple of months ago and saw a file 'To do December 2002' or some such. Things like that should have expiry dates.

  15. CHOGM on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    We have a lot of Commonwealth politicians in Perth right now. Perth is the most isolated capital in the world. Last I heard, we've got 17 foreign heads of government who are booked on QANTAS. Add in the imported police and various protestors who can't get home and work's going to suck on Monday.

  16. Re:lock on on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there may be adverse side effects.

  17. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    But Jehovah is implicitly integer therefore not real.

  18. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but they make it easy to bang on the % key in vi to find the other end of a big block of code.

  19. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    OK, MS Word it is then.

  20. Active Directory / Group Policy on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft did this and made a corporate friendly version, we'd be all over it. Give us something like FrontMotion and a lot of people would be happy. This is just the Bing crew paying Mozilla to produce a Bing enabled version.

  21. Re:No longer a monopoly on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 1

    They could have easily moved the common code into a required DLL and made IE / Explorer UI code that talks to it. There's no need to graft 'IE' into the system. They own both so they can just refactor some of it into Windows and leave IE alone.

    In other news, has anyone here removed IE8 from Windows 7?

  22. Re:Emergency Broadcast System on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    Georgia was the same but I haven't lived in the US since '85.

  23. Re:cell phones on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    You mean with the SMS infrastructure that collapses under high load? New years texts come in anywhere up to a week later.

  24. Re:Nationwide? What nation? on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    and which Exchange Servers?

  25. Re:This is a test... on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    I haven't lived in the US for 25 years and I can still remember the EBS tests.