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  1. Yep on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    One site I worked at in South Korea, I needed to install an ubuntu package on my workstation. So I plugged into the office LAN, checked connectivity with a ping and ran apt-get. This failed for some reason so I asked around. Apparently you can only query http with IE because the external proxy installs a component in IE which checks for USB keys connected to the computer. To copy my package to a USB key we had to download it to a local file system, then copy to the removable device.

    This is called security, apparently.

  2. Re:Remind me on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 1

    A less profitable copy of linkedin.

  3. Hmm thats a sticky problem on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Some sort of RADAR device may be required for landers.

  4. Re:How about parsable output on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Nuts. I just want to display meaningful compilation results when I compile from within nedit.

  5. How about parsable output on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps in json?

  6. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 2

    I guess my bicycle is not for you either but there is no reason to be anxious about it. You pick the tools which fit your requirements.

  7. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    So don't be above a burning hydrogen fuelled car...

  8. Re:i always thought interleaf was cool on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 2

    We used it at one workplace. I am glad it is dead. You had to use to with the motif window manager, otherwise it would just not start. All the control symbols were in French, so you had to guess at their meaning. It wasn't good.

  9. Re: The are mortal after all on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 1

    In our case we were touring Europe in a Commer based camper van. The engine is right between the two front seats under a hatch which swings back. The carby had a press-on sheet metal cap. We had run out of fuel a few km before a border and would have had to cash another travellers cheque to buy fuel so we gambled on having enough and lost. This was in the 1970s, my dad was driving. So I grabbed the propane tank for my dad and he got the engine going. It was noisy, smelly (like, almost ready to explode) and thus quite dangerous but we know it works now.

  10. Re: The are mortal after all on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 2

    I once saw a car running on propane with the hose from the propane tank poked into the carburetor.

  11. Re:So .... on How LucasArts Fell Apart · · Score: 2

    I don't understand how they will continue to make money when its simply a corporation for doing business with other corporations.

    By doing eactly that. Why should it be a problem?

  12. Re:Missing Point on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    Dealers don't replace tyres, and nobody works on steering and suspension, unless a car is on its last legs.

  13. Hope Unity doesn't go the same way on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Because I would have to give up Unity and probably Ubuntu. That would be a shame. Two click copy and paste is convenient and fast.

  14. Re:What the hell is "left open"? on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    unless you gave them permission to get contacts from your accounts.

    The users probably did by not unchecking a checkbox somewhere.

  15. Re:Maybe they were accessing a cookie? on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    Or just tried the person's linkedin password for accessing the email.

  16. I have never given linkedin my email password on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    ...even though it continually nags me for it. I know several people who linkedin has connected to me online only because they let the system into their email.

  17. Re:Let's be clear on Ballmer Admits Microsoft Whiffed Big-Time On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Balmer should have said: okay, make me a better phone.

  18. Re:Let's be clear on Ballmer Admits Microsoft Whiffed Big-Time On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    A similar example for me is the way the Palm Pilot took th PDA market from Casio, Sanyo, etc. They rethought the user interface first, then the hardware. I think Apple owe a lot to Palm for doing that.

  19. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 1

    ...and where the police don't walk around all day expecting to be shot dead.

  20. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    Amateurs are also destroying the professional news reporting business. And then there is porn...

  21. Next up on Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point · · Score: 1
    • How to run ls on the Raspberry Pi
    • How to run grep on the Raspberry Pi
    • How to run egrep on the Raspberry Pi
    • How to run tcpdump on the Raspberry Pi
    • How to run ...
  22. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    But in English those things are symbolically different and used in different contexts. In Cantonese (in its data model, so to speak) lights, windows and mirrors are the same things.

  23. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 0

    It doesn't even have a written language. It doesn't have words for many modern concepts. It can't distinguish between "mirror" and "light" for example.

  24. Re:Nokia went to the dogs around the N95 on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 1

    My work phone is an E52 and after two weeks of fiddling with it I still can't work out how to send an SMS. The settings application was buried three levels down in a menu system and the thing played advertising from my carrier at me the whole time.

  25. Never listen to the users on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 1

    but all of our user testing pointed to the fact that no-one wanted touch phones.

    Thats the problem. Jobs didn't give a fuck about what the users said they wanted. Users don't know what they want. What they want is the next shiny thing you put in front of their face.