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  1. Sounds familiar on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    How is this different from certain phones allowing the CPU to run on full power only when a benchmark is detected to be running? Are they going to be recalled as well?

  2. Re:Box art? on Microsoft Launches the Zune · · Score: 4, Informative

    This video also came to my mind and I was very suprised when I have seen how Zune's box will look like. I thought "man, Microsoft finally learned something". The box looks very stylish to me.

  3. Re:Mirror? on Is Horse the New Mouse? · · Score: 1, Informative

    try the coralized links: the article and the picture

  4. Re:Direct link to SWF and a download? on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://images.amazon.com/media/imdb/01/ads/hhgttg4 2/AmazonFilms.swf

  5. Re:What new features in 1.1? on Mozilla Roadmap Update · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the Unofficial Firefox 1.1 changelog:
    New features
    * 245392 - Installer options for where to put start menu / desktop / quick launch shortcut icons.
    * 231062 - Provide Firefox MSI package.

    Major improvements

    * 124561 - Anonymous ftp login failure should prompt for username/password.
    * 98564 - Caret overlaps the last character in textfield (if positioned after the last char).
    * 151375 - Focus outline should be drawn outside of element.
    * 133165 - Focus outline should include larger descendants of inline elements.
    * 65917 - :active neither hierarchical nor picky about what can be activated.
    * 175893 - Make XUL 's focusable.
    * 20022 - :hover state not set until mouse move.
    * 276588 - Rework toolkit command-line handling. You can now open local files easily from the command-line (e.g. firefox.exe README.txt), and command-line switches should do the same thing whether Firefox is running or not.
    * 95227 - Make it possible to set different default font type (serif vs sans serif) for different languages.
    * 16940 - [Windows] IME is now disabled for password fields.
    * 151249 - [Mac] Middle click on link does nothing on Mac OS X (should open link in new tab).
    * 242845 - [Mac] Firefox disk image should use .dmg internal zlib-compression, not .dmg.gz.
    * 238854 - [GTK2] Changing GNOME2 theme doesn't apply until restarting Mozilla.

    And yes, they are also targeting the famous Slashdot rendering bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2175 27). Copy&paste the link to your browser since diredt linking to bugzilla from slashdot doesn't work.

  6. Re:Not just "virtually" on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it tag .wav files? If so, and the program says they're infringing files, which leads someone to delete them, Windows might not be too happy about that...

    It indeed does tag all wav files found in Windows directory as possibly illegal files. Maybe the guys at MPAA figured out that Microsoft used a cracked version of SoundForge to create those files :)

  7. Re:Where is the license? on Sun Grants Access to 1,600+ Patents · · Score: 3, Informative

    A quick google search shows that CDDL is available here.

  8. Re:eXeem lite... on Exeem Open Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Right now (Jan 21, 10pm GMT) the eXeem Lite site only allows to download a lite version of the eXeem Lite Beta Tester 0.18 version, i.e. the version intended for private testing only. If you install it, it will ask for the betatester's code.

    But according to this post we can expect a "lite" version of the recently released eXeem 0.20 to be available within a day. At least that is what the authors claim.

  9. original Google Groups on Google Flips Back to Groups Beta (Again) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately, as of December 5th, Google Groups Beta is back and you can't get to the original (wonderful) Google Groups anymore. just visit any regional Google Groups, like groups.google.ch and you can still use the old interface.

  10. Re:Eliza anyone? on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    there indeed are couple of IRC bots implementing Eliza talking engine, my favourite one is the cybersex bot (make sure to read couple of it's logs. there also exists an eliza extension for eggdrop.

  11. Re:Hrm. can't access the site... on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    direct link to the mirrordot cache

  12. Re:Coral Cache Link on The Ultimate MacDate · · Score: 1

    the mirrodot cache is even faster than the coral link.

  13. Re:Sounds like a slashdotting... on Mambo Users Threatened · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean the google cache or the coral cache?

  14. Re:I call fraud on SCO's website on Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, I am using ALT tags on my web page too. Applying SCO's "substantial similarity of source-codes" argument to this case, SCO is infriging my copyright!

  15. Re:Yes on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is, it's called pskill which is a part of the great pstools package.

  16. Re:Well... on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    These guys use Java for real-time applications and there are for sure more.

  17. Re:Be Fair on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    m2html -- a GPL HTML documentation system for Matlab can generate TODO lists out of keywords found in source files for years as well. It can also run in "real time" - just put it to cron. Can Microsoft patent something which is out there for years?