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  1. Re:Oracle = Predictable? on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what surprises me more. That OpenOffice doesnt fully support rtf files or your wife uses rtf files.

    I thought rtf was a horrible yet very simple format.
    I also thought it was dead very soon after it was created.

  2. Re:But asbestos is fine! on Plastic Chemical BPA Declared Toxic In Canada · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And how much glass is broken on any given day?
    If glass was carcinogenic when broken, it too would be illegal to use.

  3. Re:Extra Extra! on Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding · · Score: 1

    Oh and look! Intel is integrating them in to the CPU!

    Who wudda thunk that?

  4. Re:Websites are responsible too on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    Someone beating you up and taking your card is *completely* different to someone going through the dictionary on someone on the other side of the world's facebook account.

  5. Re:what? on Google To Shut Down 411 Service · · Score: 1

    No, Google blew a lot of money on it to gather lots of real voice samples.

    They've got them now, so now they have other plans.

  6. Re:Crazy Idea! on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You dont need to fear scratching plastic if it is 'textured'.

    The base of the N900 is fully plastic (the screen half is actually metal) but its not polished smooth. Its impossible to scratch with anything short of a knife.

    As for the screen, it is plastic, but I'd rather that over glass. I can drop it quite badly and it will not break.
    Its very difficult to scratch but a covering of Clear Coat makes it impossible. And yes I hate screen protectors too - Clear Coat is different.

  7. Re:Nice changes on Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta For Android, Maemo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Technically yes, but thats 768 megs of accessible ram that most Android devices dont have.

    It does actually work exceptionally well. I've had 16 browser windows and a few chat windows open at the same time and its incredibly smooth.

  8. Re:Nice changes on Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta For Android, Maemo · · Score: 1

    Kind of ironic in a article about Firefox 4 beta coming to Maemo.

    The N900 has a gig of ram after all. 50mb ram isnt so much even for (some) mobile devices.

  9. Re:/etc/resolv.conf on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 4, Informative

    Usually there will be resolv.conf.head and resolv.conf.tail files somewhere which get stuck at the beginning and end of the generated resolv.conf.
    That way you get a semi-dynamic and semi-static config.

  10. Re:Better test! on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    Erm.....and doing it manually with a GUI is better than that how?

    At least you can correct the problem and run the script again to fix it.

  11. Re:New blacktop for the road to hell on Giving the Blind Better Web Access · · Score: 1

    And why wont someone think of the blind homosexuals?

  12. Re:America, pull your head out of your arse. on Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes we do....relatively speaking of course.

  13. Re:New custom chipset...with no drivers? on Arduino Project Upgrades With 2 New Boards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yup they say in TFA that Windows needs a .inf

    That must be what they are using.

  14. Re:"Partition"? Build separate infrastructure inst on NSA Chief Wants Internet Partitioned For Government, 'Critical' Industries · · Score: 1

    Whats wrong with a government and critical infrastructure VPN?

  15. Re:Remember? on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    Stuff like email, forums and so on?

    Some of us still use desktops in trustworthy environments (e.g. my house) so not having to log in for every single little thing is convenient.

  16. Re:Reboot after installing updates on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    Or say when your using your computer in your locked house, do you really need to enter your password in to read your email every single time?

  17. Re:Remember, folks: on Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy · · Score: 1

    Yup. They are restricted to 80 different types of fart apps.

  18. Re:And now... on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but the people who do the tracking dont care about you.
    They want everyone else who doesnt try to evade tracking, which is a lot more people.

  19. Re:Remember? on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    why do any of them need to persist and be public to other sites?

    so I'm ignorant on this subject.

    Erm they arent public to other sites?

    HTTP has no 'state' information. Two hits from one user could very easily be two separate hits from two separate users.
    There is no way to know without cookies. You dont exactly want the guy next to you getting logged in to your Twitter account.

    Persistent cookies (that stay when you close your browser) are needed for stuff like 'Keep me logged in'.
    Again, no other possible way to do it without cookies.

  20. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd think so, but the US Military has bigger guns and bigger idiots, so revolt could never occur.

  21. Re:ZoneAlarm still exists? on ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Use this Microsoft software and then your Windows computer will be secure."

    Yes I know they work reasonably well, but man does that make me cringe. :p

  22. Re:What the? on On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking · · Score: 1

    Google Analytics is kept separate from everything else Google does including search. And the Adwords cookie is something completely different.

    They *could* link it all together, but they do not.

  23. Re:I'm a Little Confused on Return To Castle Wolfenstein Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm a FPS based at the Emmy Awards? That could become a best seller.

  24. Re:40%! on Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Cells · · Score: 1

    Oh sorry I forgot to include it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
    That article goes in to quite a bit of detail.

  25. Re:What the? on On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking · · Score: 1

    It is impossible for Google to see what sites you log in to. The only inkling Google can get is if you happen to Google for 'slashdot' and click on the result to get to the page.

    If you sign in your Google Account both at work and at home then that is how it transferred your behaviour over.

    And even then, Google has not extracted any personal information from your behaviour, which was my original point. Behaviour yes but not your birth date or anything like that.