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  1. Re:I would stonewall on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    But the request was hardly properly formatted, if it's not indicating the violations.

  2. Re:Offsite backups on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know the Dick story, but Sean Williams and Shane Dix wrote their Orphans of Earth trilogy about a similar concept.

  3. Re:What Google should really be responsible for... on Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites · · Score: 1

    In fact I've yet to see a good argument for why there even is such a thing as a referrer header or what benefit it's supposed to provide. I can definitely see why advertisers like it, but from the point of view of a user it's useless or nearly useless; if I thought Webmasters needed to know the site I went to before I visited theirs, I would send them an e-mail to tell them.

    It's useful for bandwidth control; if some other site is leeching content, you can block/redirect requests from that referrer.

    The only real alternative at present (that I'm aware of) is to replace any images or files with something that's harder to inline into another site's content like a Flash gallery. We've already gone too far that way; no need to give sites another excuse.

  4. Re:Why would Microsoft respond with a Windows 7 po on Ubuntu Ports To ARM · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried using any advanced features in CrossOver, because frankly using basic features was enough of a pain. But Office 2008 dropped macro support, as well as a bunch of Excel add-ins. (And 2004's versions were still behind their Office 2003 counterparts.)

  5. Re:Uh...No. on How Long Should an Open Source Project Support Users? · · Score: 1

    ID Software, Epic Games, and Blizzard Entertainment also support their games for several years beyond release. I think that Valve may still hold the record, but the last StarCraft patch was in September, a good decade after the game's release.

  6. Re:SMS is not a replacement on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    Then you need a better phone—both of my Samsungs have offered continual message notification.

  7. Re:Doesn't make sense on StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack · · Score: 0

    Google Pack is free-as-in-beer, not free-as-in-virus.

  8. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Couldn't the recipients, who will generate the new bone marrow, then be used as donors?

  9. Re:Well...How about on Which Computer Books For Prisoners? · · Score: 1

    Someone doesn't necessarily "elect to live in America". It's harder to emigrate than you think.

  10. Re:First or second time... on Which Computer Books For Prisoners? · · Score: 1

    Cruel and Unusual? Sure. But so is child porn.

    That depends on how literal you're being with the term "child" there. Other countries (yes, I know, not the US) feel that someone is mature enough to choose their sexual partners at 16 or 17. If they're mature enough to do that, surely they're mature enough to choose whether or not they want to be photographed in the act?

  11. Re:The troll, the legend on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 1

    Since you went from 2000 to XP Home, you weren't upgrading, you had to reinstall from scratch. If you're doing that, you're beyond warning notes anyways.

  12. Re:In other news... on Doctorow On Copyright Reform & Culture · · Score: 1

    A market with no innovation is hardly "healthy".

  13. Re:I highly recommend using Archival Grade Media on How To Verify CD-R Data Retention Over Time? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Burned" CDs aren't physically carved; their dye layers can change depending on how they're made and the conditions that they're subjected to.

  14. Re:Summary on Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Benchmarks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firefox 3 works fine if profiles are on the local machine under OS X, but has issues if they're on a remote machine.

  15. Re:it's not simply the OS, it's the distro on Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Apple is shipping Java 6, but only for 64-bit Intel Macs. PowerPC Macs and 32-bit-only Macs (like all Mac Minis before the Mid-2007 model—I don't have the exact date of release handy) are stuck with Java 5.

  16. Re:"andnothingofvaluewaslost" tag on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Nope, frog. Specifically because some species are hermaphroditic, and he needed a way for the dinosaurs to reproduce. Introducing this as a "feature" in pure dinosaurs would've come across as a cheat, although having the current-day frogs to point at an an example would help mitigate that.

  17. Re:Because it's fun? on Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate · · Score: 1

    I can certainly agree with that last. :)

  18. Re:Because it's fun? on Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate · · Score: 1

    He may have a mental illness. But if he was competent enough to commit the fraud, I have a hard time believing he wasn't competent enough for his allocution to hold.

  19. Re:MS and proprietary OS on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see, but I can understand why they don't want to pay someone to audit the source code for such a release.

  20. Re:Foolish Linux idealogues on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x · · Score: 1

    What does windows 3.1 make of a 30gb hard drive?

    About 15 partitions.

  21. Re:ATM machines on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x · · Score: 1

    In 13 years I have yet to think of a reason why that could possibly be useful or helpful, but many, many reasons why it would cause confusion, frustration and problems.

    Easier to hide it than to teach lusers not to remove it.

  22. Re:Sony on LittleBigPlanet Creations Raising Copyright Questions · · Score: 1

    The PSN terms of service are what TFA linked to and discussed; I'd actually be surprised if the game had its own TOS. That's atypical for consoles.

  23. Re:They have their work cut out on Steam Cloud Launches This Week · · Score: 1

    That sounds like enough of a pain where a reinstall is probably easier...

  24. Re:They have their work cut out on Steam Cloud Launches This Week · · Score: 1

    Most drives you can also change via Computer Management in the Admin Tools. Not sure if you can do that with the boot drive, though.

  25. Re:Sony on LittleBigPlanet Creations Raising Copyright Questions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you read Sony's TOS yourself? (The section in question is #10.) I see no claim of ownership there; in fact, they explicitly deny ownership.

    EA's license does not let you do whatever else you want with it; you grant them exclusive rights to it. Sony will still allow you to use your work non-commercially (and implies that commercial use can be negotiated, unlike the EA license.)