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  1. Re:NOOOOOO!! on Making Facebook Self Healing · · Score: 1

    Head shot. It's the only way to be sure.

  2. Re:Optimise the damn emulator. on Intel, Google Team To Optimize Android For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a Java app?

  3. Re:Which Linux on Intel, Google Team To Optimize Android For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    LFS.

  4. Re:Wintel no longer cutting it? on Intel, Google Team To Optimize Android For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Desktops against Smartphones. It's like your comparing Apples and Oranges.

  5. Re:Best part about the new interface, on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview · · Score: 1

    It's worked so well for Open Office.

  6. Re:More parking lots need to use a grid system on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 1

    Most of them aren't well organised to begin with so labeling is a problem. Throw in a couple of extensions to add more shops and an additonal deck or two and you get the nightmare we have now. I'd love to see a nice labelled map but I doubt it will happen.

  7. Re:Slippery slope? on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 1

    Come to Western Australia where public servants got busted selling licensing data to a parking operator. Then again, our police got caught random breath testing / license checking empty cars at shopping centres.

  8. Re:configuration options exist on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    Mark Zuckerberg or Shawn Fanning or Bill Gates

    An interesting selection for this discussion. None of them have ever been accused of taking the work of others.

  9. Re:Interesting on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    It skipped the desktop and went straight for the pocket.

  10. Re:Good PR for Linux in the tech world... on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    Get the Facts, Microsoft have been there for a while. It's Apple that are having problems now and they're already getting market share numbers for Android v. iPhone.

  11. Re:Pointless... on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    The competition. Don't look at desktops. Look at smart phones.

  12. Re:Interesting. on Aussie Blogger Hit With DDoS Death Threats · · Score: 1

    They're been looking at cyber-crime and roleplaying supplements for a long time now.

  13. Re:Security theater a little on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 1

    You can do it with the right group memberships on the later versions. OK, so we need the administrators password unencrypted in the LDAP.

  14. Re:Security theater a little on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 1

    It would be an interesting training exercise to figure out how you'd make all of that true. You'd most likely have to extend the schema with an 'unencrypted password' field and a direct link to web mail.

  15. Re:Security theater a little on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 1

    To be charitable, we're not all incompetent. We're just under-staffed and under-budget. We then get the Boss With Ideas telling us how to run deployments and requiring easy access for the important / loud / connected users.

  16. Re:Server problem on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 1

    It's just like the security problem with Samba when it let you look at parent directories and Windows servers honored the request. Apple will learn just like Microsoft did.

  17. Re:web.? on A Talk With Syllable OS Lead Developer Kaj de Vos · · Score: 1

    99.9% of the web. Repeat after me, "The web is only part of the Internet."

  18. Re:web.? on A Talk With Syllable OS Lead Developer Kaj de Vos · · Score: 1

    I had this conversation with a dev yesterday. He has to have separate virtual hosts for everything and then has to have a www. version of each. Add in that he'd set up a bunch of them as A records rather than CNAMEs and I have a lot to clean up.

  19. Re:Why fix it? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Feel free to indicate what's broken before replacing something that's at the heart of pretty much everything we do.

  20. Re:Is this even a real question? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I don't know. This thing should be an easy change. The only roadblock I can see is making everyone change their fundamental view of how time operates.

  21. Re:Is this even a real question? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Even Outlook/Exchange can do it as long as the politicians don't play with DST on short notice. Come to Western Australia. No DST for over a decade then five days notice. People in the same city couldn't get their meeting times right.

  22. Re:"So why aren't we doing it?" on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    No, the article is flame-bait. The first post is a rickroll. Both would be good for ad revenue except this crowd has probably been blocking ads for as long as there's been ads.

  23. Re:"So why aren't we doing it?" on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It's conservation of complexity. You've moved the time adjustment logic away from changing the clocks to changing people's internal scheduling. A watch or clock is a machine that can handle drudge work for us. This is us taking work back from the machine that's been doing the job well enough for several centuries.

  24. Re:"So why aren't we doing it?" on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 2

    UCNT? I don't get it. I'm sure many other Slashdotters don't either.

  25. Re:Obligatory on Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent · · Score: 1

    And now we have one more competing post pointing to that XKCD strip.