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  1. Re:Ever? on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    would you like 129.241.132.156.187.194.143.167.192.149.193.145.164.164.183.193 better?

  2. And my plan is ruined on Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare · · Score: 1

    So much for my plan to make a real bomb in one of those toys...

  3. Re:Whiny bastards on Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare · · Score: 0

    If he were a WoW player, he would be. There's no holy resistance.

  4. Re:what does this have to do with tech? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's Stuff That Matters. I would presume that most of the people here to pay taxes, so I would presume they have a vested interest.

  5. Re:I've been patiently waiting for 35 years. on Flying Car Passes First Flight Test · · Score: 1

    Can your train add and remove arbitrary cars on the fly?

  6. Re:Vital instructions missing on Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE · · Score: 2, Informative

    What breaks includes the stated purpose in my post.

    However, doing so implies that you don't save to any binary file format like Excel or whatsoever, otherwise you risk loss of data

    Though apparently this is finally planned for 3.1.

  7. Re:It was over 40 years ago on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 3, Informative

    AFAICT, he's suing precisely for that reason. It said in the contract he would get paid royalties on any books based on his works, which happened 2 years ago with the crucible trilogy, and they're not interested in paying up.

  8. Re:Vital instructions missing on Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's the small issue with OO.o 3.0 doesn't allow more than 65,536 rows (It must store the row count in a uint16) in a spreadsheet, but excel '07 will allow that, so you can't use OO.o in that instance.

    Yes, if you're using that big a spreadsheet, you ought to use a database instead, but that's beside the point when I need to open that spreadsheet.

    Still, I do like OO.o and it works quite well for 99% of tasks.

  9. Re:Compulsory road simulator once in five years on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    This is possibly the best post here, though I would say do it yearly whenever you renew your license.

  10. Re:There is more to it. on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    If you're going to do that, first make a law requiring all speedometers to be accurate. I have not seen a single car EVER where the speedometer was not off by at least 5kph.

    Or we could do like the autobahn and toss the idea of having a fixed speed limit.

  11. Re:Self-correcting? on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    Or how about just a dashboard light that lights up when some algorith determines that there is too much slippage, or something?

    My parents van (2000-something Ford windstar) does that. Whenever the traction control activates, it turns on a light on the panel and also gives off a sound like a coffee grinder.

  12. Re:Don't hold your breath in the US... on World-First VDSL2 Demo Gets 500Mbps Data Transfers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not so spread out. Examine a map of population distribution. Note all the white and yellow around the middle and all the blue along the coasts and readjust your math.

    It's not as dense as Japan by any means, but upgrading infrastructure is plenty feasible, provided you can dislodge the incumbent interests.

  13. Re:good on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 1

    Utterly impossible. x86-64 (aka AMD64) is a superset of x86, so the same patents still apply.

  14. Re:Version Numbers on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Version Numbers on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    The versions are just the year.month of the release (8.04 is April, 2008). The animals are before they know the release date firm (it may slip due to a major bug being discovered at the last moment or something.), though I do like just "version letter", even though I still find the names silly.

  16. Re:Great on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might look at the tab mix plus extension. It allows for a multi-level tab bar, among other handy features, like duplicating tabs and breaking a tab off into its own window.

  17. Re:Tax digital downloads and amil order products? on Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales · · Score: 1

    1. No, speaking as another Canadian, their federal system is significantly different. There is a much stronger divide between state and federal law than there is between provincial and federal law.

    2. In terms of debt:GDP ratio, the US is roughly where we were at in the early 90s after the PCs got finished with things, and they're going into a recession, not coming out of one, so I really agree this is going to get ugly quickly.

  18. Re:So, are the retailers going to report these sal on Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that was soundly decided against in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota.

  19. Re:On the content being infinitely valuable... on Adobe's ADEPT DRM Broken · · Score: 1

    While it is true that the content is not infinitely valuable, the cost of having your DRM broken means the content becomes infinitely INvaluable. So DRM needs to be very strong because once it's broken, your product is worthless. As in, no one will be willing to pay money for it.

    Because no one buys DVDs now that CSS is trivial to bypass.

  20. Re:Why not lower prices? on New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian Law · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Offtopic, but your signature is awesome.

  21. Re:I have this really novel idea on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    A nuclear deterrent only needs to be large enough to completely and totally annihilate any country that may attack you.

    Not quite. You need enough that after being hit by a first strike, you still have enough to annihilate the country that attacked you.

  22. Re:Golly on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    I think parent was referring to "one" as "any nuclear device".

    And if one could get a suitable amount of enriched uranium or plutonium, a gun type nuclear bomb is fairly trivial to design.

  23. Re:"Real" Guitar on Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Guitar Rising may be what you are looking for.

  24. Re:Interesting on Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if he's got anything to do with Guitar Rising

  25. Re:5k fine, 1.8M in profits on UK Company Sold Workers' Secret Data · · Score: 1

    Much nicer idea would be 5k pounds times 3213 instances. That would handily disappear those profits almost 9-fold.